![]() Live in 2005) to play five nights at the Olympia Theatre, where they test-drove new material live in front of a crowd for the first time, as well as hitting up old tracks. That year, they returned to Dublin (site of R.E.M. Live, may have seemed desperate, but it seemed to re-kick-start the band. ![]() The 2007 release of their first-ever live album, R.E.M. They’d even failed to get John Kerry elected President in 2004 with their ‘Rock For Change Tour’. Records like 1998’s Up, 2001’s Reveal, and 2004’s Around the Sun were justifiably ignored by many long-time fans, with only a few choice tracks on any of the albums, and certainly weren’t bringing in new fans, despite the post-Strokes rebirth of interest in modern rock. in 1988, but really had been since 1992’s Automatic For the People, or at least since the 1997 departure of drummer Bill Berry. The iconic alternative band may not have been declining since they signed to major label Warner Bros. ![]() As incredible as it may seem now, it was only a few years ago that R.E.M.
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