Empty Prayers - early demos remastered! (fanmade compilation / bootleg)

R.E.M. (1980-2011) Bootlegs
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R.E.M.
EMPTY PRAYERS: EARLY DEMOS 1980-1983

All remastered! The rehearsal studio demos are cleaned up by a pro. They sound better than ever before!

DISC 1:

N. JACKSON ST REHEARSAL STUDIO, ATHENS, GA, JULY 1980

1-01 - Dangerous Times
1-02 - All the Right Friends
1-03 - Different Girl
1-04 - Narrator
1-05 - Just A Touch
1-06 - Baby I
1-07 - Mystery to Me
1-08 - Permanent Vacation

DRIVE-IN STUDIO, WINSTON-SALEM, NC, APRIL 1981

1-09 - Sitting Still (polka version, partial)
1-10 - Sitting Still
1-11 - Radio Free Europe
1-12 - White Tornado
1-13 - White Tornado (take 2, abandoned)
1-14 - Radio Free Europe (dub mix)

RCA STUDIOS, NEW YORK, NY, FEBRUARY 1982

1-15 - Catapult
1-16 - Wolves, Lower
1-17 - Laughing
1-18 - Romance
1-19 - Shaking Through
1-20 - Carnival of Sorts
1-21 - Stumble

DISC 2:

RHYTHMIC RIVER STUDIOS, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, NOVEMBER 1983

2-01 - That Beat
2-02 - Walter’s Theme
2-03 - Cushy Tush
2-04 - Burning Down
2-05 - All the Right Friends
2-06 - Windout
2-07 - Femme Fatale (Velvet Underground cover)
2-08 - Burning Hell
2-09 - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Solomon Linda’s Original Evening Birds cover)
2-10 - Skank
2-11 - So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
2-12 - Letter Never Sent
2-13 - Little America
2-14 - Camera
2-15 - Second Guessing (take 1)
2-16 - Second Guessing (take 2)
2-17 - Harborcoat
2-18 - 7 Chinese Bros.
2-19 - Just a Touch
2-20 - Pretty Persuasion
2-21 - Pale Blue Eyes (Velvet Underground cover)
2-22 - Time After Time (Annelise)

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A group of us have listened to them all and compared…
They do NOT sound better than ever.

One of the early demo sets has been supposedly “cleaned” and “remastered”, or so they say, but honestly it didn’t work.

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Well, I worked hard on this. Sure digital tricks were used on said tracks. I tried my best, probably with new AI tools these tapes can even be better. Too bad you didn’t like it, it was never meant to replace original files but just a new approach to them. Hopefully someday it will be released officially, not even sure the band themselves have a better copy as master tape.