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Nov 16
1985
R.E.M. at Foellinger Auditorium in Urbana, IL, USA
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NOTE: Michael Stipe lectured the audience on the history of the ginkgo tree, an example of which was growing outside the auditorium on the quad. He concluded by saying the leaves “smelled like ... smegma.” He then scattered a large lawn bag full of ginkgo leaves around the stage in what he called “an interpretive dance to autumn.” The band played "Rawhide" while Stipe laid flat on his back in the middle of the stage. Letter Never Sent was introduced by stating that there's more than one Athens. The guitar only version of So. Central Rain was played at this show, while a gumby doll was on Mike's amp and a Budweiser tall boy was resting on Pete's.
Setlist:
  1. Feeling Gravitys Pull
  2. Harborcoat
  3. Pilgrimage
  4. Driver 8
  5. Can't Get There From Here
  6. Letter Never Sent
  7. Green Grow the Rushes
  8. Sitting Still
  9. So. Central Rain
  10. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
  11. Old Man Kensey
  12. Life and How to Live It
Encore
  1. Second Guessing
  2. See No Evil (Television Cover)
  3. Toys in the Attic (Aerosmith Cover)
  4. Pills (Bo Diddley Cover)
Encore 2
  1. (Don't Go Back to) Rockville
  2. Last Date (Floyd Cramer Cover)
  3. Bandwagon
source: setlist.fm