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I was super unhappy at work, but had significant responsibilities for a huge event happening the day after the concert. I couldn&#8217;t turn off work mode until an hour or so before the first opening act took the stage. In the long run, the distraction probably helped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">I spent the show surrounded by strangers like I did for several other shows. My wife didn&#8217;t enjoy the band so I never really planned on having a concert buddy. I had bought two tickets and gave one to my niece, but her brother also had an extra ticket so she hung out with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t mind. While I will talk incessantly about the band, I sometimes just like to be alone with their music. I get so into the shows that I don&#8217;t need anyone I know around me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The set lists for this tour &#8211; I would obsessively follow what had happened on previous nights &#8211; gave me great hope for something special. They had dappled in Sitting Still, Pretty Persuasion and 1,000,0000 among the songs from Accelerate, plus songs that had become concert staples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My greatest dreams didn&#8217;t come true. The songs they dropped in were fine &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M5hNvrtkw8c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Little America<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tf0qGMOy4R0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rockville <\/a>(hilariously featuring Peter fucking it up massively) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WnIkZMg4kbo&amp;list=PLqbSKqnCtZB-TstD9NT2XwfCMWmFh3WAb&amp;index=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pop Song 89<\/a> &#8211; but didn&#8217;t meet the bar I had set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I left the show a little bummed even though I had a great time. It certainly didn&#8217;t meet the level of the 2003 show when my friend Dave Lifton and I walked out of the Patriot Center in a daze from that performance and screamed in joy. (James and Caroline were there too, but I distinctly remember Dave&#8217;s reaction after the show and forgot to mention them. James shamed me on Twitter so I have added this.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When they broke up three years later, I definitely looked at the show in a different light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of missing a song from Murmur, I remember the time I was singing along to the pre-chorus to These Days, and the guy in the seat in front of me turned around and double high-fived me since I knew all the words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of lamenting that Worksong was the opener for the second or third time I saw them, I marveled at the spring of Worksong\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vo1ZNz8pB5E&amp;list=PLqbSKqnCtZB-TstD9NT2XwfCMWmFh3WAb&amp;index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Living Well<\/a>\/Bad Day\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GxFRsrYVJPw&amp;list=PLqbSKqnCtZB-TstD9NT2XwfCMWmFh3WAb&amp;index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kenneth<\/a> in the first four songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember Mike shrugging as Peter apologized for messing up on Rockville &#8211; he skipped the pause during the &#8220;waste another year&#8221; part after the first chorus. The band caught up and made it work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember Peter seemingly telling Johnny Marr the chord changes when he joined the band for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=phDpz3S-ROU&amp;list=PLqbSKqnCtZB-TstD9NT2XwfCMWmFh3WAb&amp;index=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fall on Me<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sUN_o5fztRo&amp;list=PLqbSKqnCtZB-TstD9NT2XwfCMWmFh3WAb&amp;index=13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Man on the Moon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The show is definitely a favorite memory for me. In the end, I got to see R.E.M. live. All the rest is just gravy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">11 June 2008 - Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD\nsupport: The National, Modest Mouse\nset: Finest Worksong \/ Living Well Is The Best Revenge \/ Bad Day \/ What's The Frequency, Kenneth? \/ Drive \/ Ignoreland \/ Man-Sized Wreath \/ Little America \/ Hollow Man \/ Walk Unafraid \/ Houston \/ Electrolite \/ (Don't Go Back To) Rockville \/ Pop Song 89 \/ Horse To Water \/ The One I Love \/ Driver 8 \/ Until The Day Is Done \/ Let Me In \/ These Days \/ Orange Crush \/ I'm Gonna DJ\nencore: Supernatural Superserious \/ Losing My Religion \/ Mr. Richards \/ Fall On Me \/ Man On The Moon\nnotes: Johnny Marr guests on guitar on 'Fall On Me' &amp; 'Man On The Moon'.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I have probably written about this before, but I don&#8217;t care) When I was in my seat (or, more accurately, standing in front of it) at Merriweather Post Pavilion 13 years ago tonight, I had no idea it would be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-its-the-end-of-the-week-as-we-know-it","category-music","category-rem","wpcat-47-id","wpcat-11-id","wpcat-5-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/R.E.M.-1-600x463-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}