Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
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There’s a secret stigma, reaping wheel.
Diminish, a carnival of sorts.
Chronic town, poster torn, reaping wheel.
Stranger, stranger to these parts.
Gentlemen don’t get caught, cages under cage. Gentlemen don’t get caught,
Boxcars (are pulling) out of town. Boxcars (are pulling) out of town.
Boxcars (are pulling) out of town.
(repeat 1st verse and chorus)
Cages under, cages under, cages under cage.
Cages under, cages under, cages under cage.
(repeat chorus)
There’s a secret stigma, reaping wheel.
Stranger, stranger to these parts.
Chronic town, poster torn, reaping wheel.
Diminish, stranger.
(repeat chorus)
Copyright © R.E.M./Athens Ltd.
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Archival Footage (Bootleg LP)ARC-10
released: unknown
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
- 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)
Chronic Murmurings (Bootleg LP)TRW 1905
released: unknown
Recorded: Wuxtury demos (6/6/1980), IRS Demos (1981), Outtakes
- 1. Dangerous Times
Wuxtury demos - 2. All The Right Friends
Wuxtury demos - 3. A Different Girl
Wuxtury demos - 4. Narrator
Wuxtury demos - 5. Just A Touch
Wuxtury demos - 6. Baby I
Wuxtury demos - 7. Mystery To Me
Wuxtury demos - 8. Permanent Vacation
Wuxtury demos - 9. 1,000,000
IRS Demos - 10. Ages Of You
IRS Demos - 11. Gardening At Night
IRS Demos - 12. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
IRS Demos - 13. Stumble
IRS Demos - 14. Catapult
Chronic Town Outtakes - 15. Wolves, Lower
Chronic Town Outtakes - 16. Laughing
Chronic Town Outtakes - 17. Romance
Chronic Town Outtakes - 18. Shaking Through
Chronic Town Outtakes - 19. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
Chronic Town Outtakes - 20. Stumble
Chronic Town Outtakes - 21. Wolves, Lower
Chronic Town Outtakes - 22. 1,000,000
Chronic Town Outtakes - 23. Windout
Reckoning Outtakes - 24. Just A Touch
Reckoning Outtakes
Drive (Bootleg LP)released: unknown
Recorded: Demos from various studios and dates.
- 1. Radio Free Europe
Radio Dub - 2. Ages Of You
- 3. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 4. Shaking Through
- 5. Wolves, Lower
Fast Version - 6. Catapult
- 7. Laughing
- 8. Romance
- 9. That Beat
- 10. Burning Hell
- 11. The Lion Sleeps Tonight
- 12. Skank
- 13. Theme From Two Steps Onward
- 14. Just A Touch
- 15. Mystery To Me
- 16. Wait
- 17. Begin The Begin
- 18. Cuyahoga
- 19. I Believe
- 20. These Days
- 21. Bad Day
First Trip Overthere (Bootleg LP)?? | MC
released: unknown
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
20th Century Boys – Vol.2 (Bootleg CD Album)released: unknown
Recorded: tracks 1-7 were recorded live at Stichcraft in Athens on 9/30/83. Tracks 8-26 were recorded live at Tyrone\s Club, Athens, GA, October 4, 1980.
- 1. Rave On
- 2. 20th Century Boy
- 3. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 4. Crazy
- 5. That Beat
- 6. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 7. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 8. Just A Touch
- 9. A Girl Like You
- 10. Dangerous Times
- 11. There She Goes Again
- 12. All The Right Friends
- 13. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 14. Body Count
- 15. Hippy Hippy Shake
- 16. Action
- 17. Narrator
- 18. Pretty Girl (Hey, Hey Nadine)
- 19. Gardening At Night
- 20. Scheherazade
- 21. Lisa Says
- 22. Mystery To Me
- 23. (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone
- 24. Permanent Vacation
Boston 1984 (Bootleg CD Album)MM 9116
released: unknown
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)
Carnival Of Sorts (Bootleg CD Album)Italy – GDR CD 9020
released: unknown
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
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
- 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
Do The Strand (Bootleg CD Album)released: unknown
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
Early Movements (Bootleg CD Album)COP 010
released: unknown
Recorded: (Tracks 1-11) Chronic Town LP Early Studio Outtakes; (Tracks 12-19)1980 Wuxtury Demos; (Tracks 20-21) Remixes.
- 1. Catapult
- 2. Wolves, Lower
- 3. Laughing
- 4. Romance
- 5. Shaking Through
- 6. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 7. Stumble
- 8. Wolves, Lower
- 9. 1,000,000
- 10. Windout
- 11. Just A Touch
- 12. Dangerous Times
- 13. All The Right Friends
- 14. A Different Girl
- 15. Narrator
- 16. Just A Touch
- 17. Baby I
- 18. Mystery To Me
- 19. Permanent Vacation
- 20. Drive
Primary Remix - 21. Drive
Secondary Remix
File Under Kudzu (Bootleg CD Album)BPP-001
released: unknown
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
