99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1987!
That year PLR welcomed R.E.M. to New Haven Coliseum. R.E.M. hit the road in 1987 to support their fifth studio album “Document,” which featured such hit songs as The One I Love, It’s The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) and Finest Worksong. Joining R.E.M. at the Coliseum were special guests 10,000 Maniacs.
R.E.M.
Tour: Work
Special Guest: 10,000 Maniacs
Saturday October 17, 1987
New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Ticket Price: $13.50
Band Lineup: Michael Stipe (vocals), Bill Berry (drums), Peter Buck (guitar), Mike Mills (bass)
Setlist*
- Finest Worksong
- These Days
- Welcome To The Occupation
- Pilgrimage
- Exhuming McCarthy
- Orange Crush
- Feeling Gravity Pulls
- King of Birds
- Sitting Still
- I Believe
- Drive 8
- Superman (The Clique cover)
- Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- Oddfellows Local 151
- It’s The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
- Begin The Begin
- Stranger (Wire cover) – Encore 1
- Cuyahoga – Encore 1
- Fall on Me – Encore 1
- The One I Love – Encore 1
- Wolves, Lower – Encore 2
- Crazy (Pylon cover) – Encore 2
- 1,000,000 – Encore 2
- Singing Cage (with Natalie Merchant) – Encore 3
- Harpers (Hugo Largo cover) – Encore 3
- So. Central Rain – Encore 3
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these live clips of R.E.M. in 1987