TOTAL REQUEST LIVE: Saturday night I caught one of my favorite bands ever, R.E.M., for the first time, as they brought their tour to Madison Square Garden.
It was an all-around strong show, though I'm not sure any concert I go to will measure up to Bruce at Giants Stadium for quite a while. The band played all kinds of old stuff to go with three or four new songs, and a theme throughout the evening was "requests" that frontman Michael Stipe had taken from various friends. Stipe also did lots of dancing, and contributed a surprising acoustic cover of Interpol's "NYC."
I was also happy to see that "Find the River," for years my favorite song by the band, is appreciated by other people as well.