9-9
Lyrics
Steady repetition is a compulsion mutually reenforced.
Now what does that mean?
Is there a just contradiction?
Nothing much.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord, hesitate.
Got to punch
Right on target
Twisting tongues
Gotta stripe down his back
all nine yards down her back
Give me a couple,
Don’t give me a couple of pointers,
Turn to lies and conversation fear
Got to punch
Right on target
Twisting tongues
Gotta stripe down his back
all nine yards down her back
Give me a couple,
Don’t give me a couple of pointers,
Turn to lies and conversation fear
What is in my mind?
What is in my mind?
Steady repetition is a compulsion mutually reenforced.
Now what does that mean?
Is there a just contradiction?
Nothing much.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake, oh come on, hesitate, hesitate.
Got to punch
Right on target
Twisting tongues
Gotta stripe down her back
all nine yards down his back
Give me a couple,
Don’t give me a couple of pointers,
Turn to lies and conversation fear
Conversation fear. Conversation fear. Conversation fear.
Copyright © R.E.M./Athens Ltd.
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Live In Chicago ()JUKE BOX RECORDS LONDON (XL2)
released: unknown
Recorded: 7/7/84 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL, 9/6/84 New Jersey
- 1. Femme Fatale
- 2. Radio Free Europe
- 3. Gardening At Night
- 4. Sitting Still
- 5. Pale Blue Eyes
- 6. So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
- 7. 9-9
- 8. Windout
- 9. Driver 8
- 10. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 11. Harborcoat
- 12. Hyena
- 13. Pretty Persuasion
(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville (12” Single)Netherlands – A12-4734
released: 1984-06-00
Label:
Red sleeve.
Has the LP version of (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville.
- 1. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 2. Wolves, Lower
- 3. 9-9
Live
live recorded at: 1984-04-20 in Paris - 4. Gardening At Night
Live
live recorded at: 1984-04-20 in Paris
(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville (12” Single)Netherlands – A12-4734
released: 1984-06-00
Label:
Blue sleeve.
Has an edited version of (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville.
- 1. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 2. Wolves, Lower
- 3. 9-9
Live
live recorded at: 1984-04-20 in Paris - 4. Gardening At Night
Live
live recorded at: 1984-04-20 in Paris
(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville (12” Single)UK – IRSX 107
released: 1984-06-00
Label:
- 1. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 2. Wolves, Lower
- 3. 9-9
Live
live recorded at: 1984-04-20 in Paris - 4. Gardening At Night
Live
live recorded at: 1984-04-20 in Paris
(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville (12” Single)Spain – ILSA-12.4734
released: 1984-06-00
Label:
- 1. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 2. Wolves, Lower
- 3. 9-9
Live
live recorded at: 1984-04-20 in Paris - 4. Gardening At Night
Live
live recorded at: 1984-04-20 in Paris
Murmur (CD Album)Netherlands – 0777 7 13158 24
released: unknown
Label:
Re-Issue
- 1. Radio Free Europe
- 2. Pilgrimage
- 3. Laughing
- 4. Moral Kiosk
- 5. Perfect Circle
- 6. Catapult
- 7. Sitting Still
- 8. 9-9
- 9. Shaking Through
- 10. We Walk
- 11. West Of The Fields
Murmur / Reckoning (Cassette)UK –
released: unknown
Label:
- 1. Radio Free Europe
- 2. Pilgrimage
- 3. Laughing
- 4. Moral Kiosk
- 5. Perfect Circle
- 6. Catapult
- 7. Sitting Still
- 8. 9-9
- 9. Shaking Through
- 10. We Walk
- 11. West Of The Fields
- 12. Harborcoat
- 13. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 14. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 15. Pretty Persuasion
- 16. Time After Time (Annelise)
- 17. Letter Never Sent
- 18. Second Guessing
- 19. Camera
- 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 21. Little America
Archival Footage (Bootleg LP)ARC-10
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded 1982-89, various locations.
- 1. Unknown
- 2. Unknown
- 3. Unknown
- 4. Unknown
- 5. Gardening At Night
- 6. King Of Birds
- 7. Summertime
- 8. Feeling Gravitys Pull
- 9. Dark Globe
- 10. 9-9
- 11. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
Blue (Bootleg LP)SPLIFF001
released: unknown
Label:
- 1. Moral Kiosk
- 2. Driver 8
- 3. Hyena
- 4. Camera
- 5. Pilgrimage
- 6. Talk About The Passion
- 7. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 8. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 9. Pretty Persuasion
- 10. Gardening At Night
- 11. 9-9
- 12. Windout
- 13. Old Man Kensey
- 14. Radio Free Europe
- 15. Little America
- 16. Burning Down
- 17. Pale Blue Eyes
- 18. 1,000,000
- 19. So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
- 20. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
First Trip Overthere (Bootleg LP)?? | MC
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded: Dingwall\s London 1983.
- 1. Pretty Persuasion
- 2. Gardening At Night
- 3. 9-9
- 4. Windout
- 5. Old Man Kensey
- 6. Radio Free Europe
- 7. Little America
- 8. Burning Down
- 9. Pale Blue Eyes
- 10. 1,000,000
- 11. So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
- 12. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 13. Photograph
L.I.V.E. (Bootleg LP)BANDIDO (LTD B006)
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded: 4/8/83, University of Rochester, New York NY. First known R.E.M. Boot to be released.
- 1. Moral Kiosk
- 2. Catapult
- 3. Pilgrimage
- 4. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 5. Wolves, Lower
- 6. Talk About The Passion
- 7. Gardening At Night
- 8. 9-9
- 9. West Of The Fields
- 10. Radio Free Europe
Mada Mada (Bootleg LP)TRW (1906)
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded: (1) 7/9/83 – Larry\s Hideaway, (2) Reflection Studios Outtakes, (3) Trenton NJ 10/2/82
- 1. Laughing
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 2. Pilgrimage
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 3. There She Goes Again
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 4. Seven Chinese Bros.
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 5. Talk About The Passion
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 6. Sitting Still
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 7. Harborcoat
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 8. Catapult
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 9. Gardening At Night
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 10. 9-9
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 11. Just A Touch
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 12. West Of The Fields
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 13. Radio Free Europe
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 14. We Walk
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 15. 1,000,000
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 16. There She Goes Again
Reflection Studios Outtakes - 17. Tighten Up
Reflection Studios Outtakes - 18. All The Right Friends
Reflection Studios Outtakes - 19. Romance
live recorded at: 1982-10-02 in Trenton - 20. 1,000,000
live recorded at: 1982-10-02 in Trenton - 21. Pretty Persuasion
live recorded at: 1982-10-02 in Trenton - 22. Ages Of You
live recorded at: 1982-10-02 in Trenton - 23. Pilgrimage
live recorded at: 1982-10-02 in Trenton - 24. Wolves, Lower
live recorded at: 1982-10-02 in Trenton
Mumble (Bootleg LP)PSA-101
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded: Various Locations(1986 Demos, 1984 BBC Broadcast)
- 1. Underneath The Bunker
LRP Demo - 2. Gardening At Night
live recorded at: 1984-11-21 in Nottingham - 3. 9-9
live recorded at: 1984-11-21 in Nottingham - 4. Windout
live recorded at: 1984-11-21 in Nottingham - 5. White Tornado
- 6. Pretty Persuasion
live recorded at: 1984-11-21 in Nottingham - 7. Bad Day
LRP Demo - 8. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 9. Swan Swan H
- 10. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
live recorded at: 1984-11-21 in Nottingham - 11. West Of The Fields
live recorded at: 1984-11-21 in Nottingham - 12. Cuyahoga
LRP Demo
20th Century Boys – Vol.1 (Bootleg CD Album)released: unknown
Label:
Recorded live at Stichcraft in Athens on 9/30/83
- 1. I Got You Babe
- 2. Second Guessing
- 3. Harborcoat
- 4. Pretty Persuasion
- 5. Pills
- 6. 1,000,000
- 7. Camera
- 8. Talk About The Passion
- 9. Little America
- 10. All The Right Friends
- 11. Letter Never Sent
- 12. Just A Touch
- 13. Secret Agent Man
- 14. Hootenanny
- 15. Route 66
- 16. Windout
- 17. 9-9
- 18. Six Stock Answers
- 19. My Roof, Your Roof
- 20. Pale Blue Eyes
- 21. Tainted Obligation
- 22. Sweet Jane
Back To Rockville (Bootleg CD Album)FLASHBACK 01-95-0247
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded at Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL 7/784, Arsenio Hall – 10/17/89, MTV Awards 9/2/93
- 1. Femme Fatale
- 2. Radio Free Europe
- 3. Gardening At Night
- 4. 9-9
- 5. Windout
- 6. Letter Never Sent
- 7. Sitting Still
- 8. Driver 8
- 9. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 10. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 11. Voice of Harold
- 12. Harborcoat
- 13. Hyena
- 14. Pretty Persuasion
- 15. Second Guessing
- 16. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 17. Stand
live recorded at: 1989-10-17 in Hollywood - 18. Everybody Hurts
MTV Awards - 19. Drive
MTV Awards
Ballroom Dancing (Bootleg CD Album)released: unknown
Label:
Recorded at Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL 7/7/84, SNL 1994.
- 1. Femme Fatale
- 2. Radio Free Europe
- 3. Gardening At Night
- 4. 9-9
- 5. Windout
- 6. Letter Never Sent
- 7. Sitting Still
- 8. Driver 8
- 9. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 10. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 11. Voice of Harold
- 12. Harborcoat
- 13. Hyena
- 14. Pretty Persuasion
- 15. Second Guessing
- 16. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 17. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
live recorded at: 1994-11-12 in New York - 18. Bang And Blame
live recorded at: 1994-11-12 in New York - 19. I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
live recorded at: 1994-11-12 in New York - 20. Hello In There
Boston 1984 (Bootleg CD Album)MM 9116
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded 6/27/84, Seattle, WA
- 1. Moral Kiosk
- 2. Driver 8
- 3. Hyena
- 4. Camera
- 5. Pilgrimage
- 6. Talk About The Passion
- 7. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 8. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 9. Pretty Persuasion
- 10. Gardening At Night
- 11. 9-9
- 12. Windout
- 13. Old Man Kensey
- 14. Radio Free Europe
- 15. Little America
- 16. Burning Down
- 17. Pale Blue Eyes
- 18. 1,000,000
- 19. So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
- 20. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
Buy The Sky, Sell The Sky (Bootleg CD Album)DIRTY 13 VOL. 7
released: unknown
Label:
- 1. Gardening At Night
- 2. 9-9
- 3. Windout
- 4. Old Man Kensey
- 5. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- 6. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 7. Talk About The Passion
- 8. Harborcoat
- 9. Hyena
- 10. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 11. Sitting Still
- 12. Driver 8
- 13. Catapult
- 14. Chicken Train
- 15. Pretty Persuasion
- 16. Little America
- 17. Ghost Riders In The Sky
- 18. Radio Free Europe
- 19. Femme Fatale
Carnival Of Sorts (Bootleg CD Album)Italy – GDR CD 9020
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded: Merlins in Madison, WI, 4/24/82.
- 1. Gardening At Night
- 2. 9-9
- 3. Ages Of You
- 4. Shaking Through
- 5. Laughing
- 6. Romance
- 7. Sitting Still
- 8. Pretty Persuasion
- 9. That Beat
- 10. Catapult
- 11. Radio Free Europe
- 12. Wolves, Lower
- 13. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 14. White Tornado
- 15. West Of The Fields
- 16. Stumble
- 17. Skank
- 18. There She Goes Again
Carnival Of Sorts (Bootleg CD Album)JOK-017-B
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded: 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C., 3/12/83
- 1. Gardening At Night
- 2. 9-9
- 3. Catapult
- 4. Pilgrimage
- 5. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 6. Laughing
- 7. Wolves, Lower
- 8. Romance
- 9. Sitting Still
- 10. 1,000,000
- 11. West Of The Fields
- 12. Radio Free Europe
- 13. Last Date
- 14. Ages Of You
- 15. We Walk
- 16. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
Collection 2000 (Bootleg CD Album)released: unknown
Label:
- 1. Losing My Religion
- 2. It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
- 3. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 4. Bang And Blame
- 5. 9-9
- 6. White Tornado
- 7. At My Most Beautiful
- 8. Can’t Get There From Here
- 9. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 10. Gardening At Night
- 11. Everybody Hurts
- 12. Drive
- 13. Fall On Me
- 14. Perfect Circle
- 15. Pretty Persuasion
- 16. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 17. Strange Currencies
- 18. The Flowers Of Guatemala
- 19. Driver 8
- 20. Why Not Smile
DISTURBANCES (Bootleg CD Album)CA 784A
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded Live: Chicago 7/84.
- 1. Letter Never Sent
- 2. I Believe
- 3. Driver 8
- 4. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 5. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 6. Harborcoat
- 7. Hyena
- 8. Femme Fatale
- 9. Radio Free Europe
- 10. Gardening At Night
- 11. 9-9
- 12. Windout
- 13. Little America
- 14. Second Guessing
- 15. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
Do The Strand (Bootleg CD Album)released: unknown
Label:
Recorded: Strand Cabaret, Marietta, GA, July 2, 1982
- 1. West Of The Fields
- 2. Shaking Through
- 3. Pilgrimage
- 4. Romance
- 5. We Walk
- 6. Wolves, Lower
- 7. That Beat
- 8. Pretty Persuasion
- 9. Sitting Still
- 10. 1,000,000
- 11. Gardening At Night
- 12. 9-9
- 13. There She Goes Again
- 14. Catapult
- 15. Radio Free Europe
- 16. Perfect Circle
- 17. Laughing
- 18. Moral Kiosk
- 19. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 20. Crazy
File Under Kudzu (Bootleg CD Album)BPP-001
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded: January 1982, Fridays, Greensboro, NC + Bonus Tracks.
- 1. Gardening At Night
- 2. 9-9
- 3. Windout
- 4. New Song
- 5. There She Goes Again
- 6. Sitting Still
- 7. That Beat
- 8. Pretty Persuasion
- 9. Mystery To Me
- 10. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 11. Ages Of You
- 12. Catapult
- 13. Shaking Through
- 14. Laughing
- 15. Romance
- 16. Ghost Riders In The Sky
- 17. Permanent Vacation
- 18. 1,000,000
- 19. Wolves, Lower
- 20. Radio Free Europe
- 21. All The Right Friends
Bonus Track - 22. Wait
Bonus Track - 23. Body Count
Bonus Track
Godzilla vs. REM’s Monster (Bootleg CD Album)Germany – TR009
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded: 1-16: Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL 7 July 1984., 17-19: Saturday Night Live, 12 Nov. 94. , 20: Scotland w/Billy Bragg, Natalie Merchant
- 1. Femme Fatale
- 2. Radio Free Europe
- 3. Gardening At Night
- 4. 9-9
- 5. Windout
- 6. Letter Never Sent
- 7. Sitting Still
- 8. Driver 8
- 9. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 10. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 11. Harborcoat
- 12. Hyena
- 13. Pretty Persuasion
- 14. Little America
- 15. Second Guessing
- 16. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 17. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
- 18. Bang And Blame
- 19. I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
- 20. Hello In There
In The Wood (Bootleg CD Album)BGS004
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded: 11/21/84 Rock City, Nottingham, UK
- 1. Hyena
- 2. Talk About The Passion
- 3. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 4. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- 5. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 6. Sitting Still
- 7. Old Man Kensey
- 8. Gardening At Night
- 9. 9-9
- 10. Windout
- 11. Driver 8
- 12. Pretty Persuasion
- 13. Radio Free Europe
Listen Harder (Bootleg CD Album)??
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded: November 1982, Opera House. Lawrence, KS, Tracks (14 -19 ) Larry\s Hideaway 6/83.
- 1. Gardening At Night
- 2. 9-9
- 3. Moral Kiosk
- 4. Pilgrimage
- 5. Shaking Through
- 6. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 7. Wolves, Lower
- 8. Romance
- 9. Sitting Still
- 10. Pretty Persuasion
- 11. Catapult
- 12. 1,000,000
- 13. Radio Free Europe
- 14. Wolves, Lower
- 15. Moral Kiosk
- 16. Laughing
- 17. Pilgrimage
- 18. Moon River
- 19. There She Goes Again
Live At Yokohama (Bootleg CD Album)BZCD 009
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded: 11/10/84 Yokohama University
- 1. Gardening At Night
- 2. 9-9
- 3. Old Man Kensey
- 4. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 5. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- 6. Talk About The Passion
- 7. Harborcoat
- 8. Hyena
- 9. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 10. Sitting Still
- 11. Catapult
- 12. Chicken Train
- 13. Pretty Persuasion
- 14. Little America
- 15. Ghost Riders In The Sky
- 16. Second Guessing
- 17. Radio Free Europe
- 18. Femme Fatale
Monster Radio ’95 (Bootleg CD Album)PD 075/076
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded: 7/30/95, Milton Keynes: + 10 Early Tracks
- 1. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
- 2. Crush With Eyeliner
- 3. Drive
- 4. Turn You Inside Out
- 5. Try Not To Breathe
- 6. I Took Your Name
- 7. Undertow
- 8. Bang And Blame
- 9. I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
- 10. Strange Currencies
- 11. Revolution
- 12. Tongue
- 13. Man On The Moon
- 14. Country Feedback
- 15. Half A World Away
- 16. Losing My Religion
- 17. Pop Song 89
- 18. Finest Worksong
- 19. Get Up
- 20. Star 69
- 21. Let Me In
- 22. Everybody Hurts
- 23. Fall On Me
- 24. Departure
- 25. It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
- 26. West Of The Fields
- 27. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 28. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- 29. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 30. Sitting Still
- 31. Driver 8
- 32. 9-9
- 33. Windout
- 34. Pretty Persuasion
- 35. Radio Free Europe
Monument Valley (Bootleg CD Album)IBR2275
released: unknown
Label:
Recorded: 7/9/83 – Larry\s Hideaway FM Broadcast.
- 1. Laughing
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 2. Pilgrimage
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 3. There She Goes Again
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 4. Seven Chinese Bros.
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 5. Talk About The Passion
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 6. Sitting Still
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 7. Harborcoat
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 8. Catapult
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 9. Gardening At Night
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 10. 9-9
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 11. Just A Touch
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 12. West Of The Fields
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 13. Radio Free Europe
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 14. We Walk
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 15. 1,000,000
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto

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