Although this album is indeed a departure from previous (and latter) R.E.M. takes, it is a very enjoyable listening experience. You may find reassurance, understanding, wisdom, and many other things in this album, but you probably won't hear anything to cheer you up in the traditional sense ... Read review
Feeling Gravitys Pull Maps and Legends Driver Life and How to Live It Old Man Kensey Can't ... more
Get There from Here Green Grow the Rushes Kohoutek Auctioneer (Another Engine) Good Advices Wendell Gee Crazy Burning Hell Bandwagon Driver[Live] Maps and Legend...
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Although this album is indeed a departure from previous (and latter) R.E.M. takes, it is a very enjoyable listening experience. You may find reassurance, understanding, wisdom, and many other things in this album, but you probably won't hear anything to cheer you up in the traditional sense of the word. Some of the most beautiful REM songs (in my opinion) are found on this album: Feeling Gravity's Pull, Maps and Legends (get the import edition for ... ...and Wendell Gee. It has been said that people either love this album or hate it. I appreciate this album for its vivid construction and imagery, and the overall cohesiveness (give or take Cant Get There From Here (an oddity)) of it. Because I love REM, I would naturally say you should buy this. However, it would probably be wise to start with Document, Out of Time, or Automatic for the People, if you don't own any REM already.
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Although this album is indeed a departure from previous (and latter) R.E.M. takes, it is a very enjoyable listening experience. You may find reassurance, understanding, wisdom, and many other things in this album, but you probably won't hear anything to cheer you up in the traditional sense of the word. Some of the most beautiful REM songs (in my opinion) are found on this album: Feeling Gravity's Pull, Maps and Legends (get the import edition for an accoustic version also), Green Grow the Rushes, Good Advices, and Wendell Gee. It has been said that people either love this album or hate it. I appreciate this album for its vivid construction and imagery, and the overall cohesiveness (give or take Cant Get There From Here (an oddity)) of it. Because I love REM, I would naturally say you should buy this. However, it would probably be wise to start with Document, Out of Time, or Automatic for the People, if you don't own any REM already.
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Product details
Title
Fables Of The Reconstruction [Remastered]
Performer
R.E.M.
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Alternative
Release Date
01/09/1997
Recomended Retail Price
8.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1985
Label / Distributor
EMI / EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics
Producer
Joe Boyd
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
77771316029
Catalogue Number
CTMCD 338
Additional notes
Album Notes
R.E.M.: Michael Stipe (vocals); Peter Buck (guitar); Mike Mills (bass, vocals); Bill Berry (drums). Additional personnel: Camilla Brunt, Phillipa Ibbotson (violin); David Newby (cello); Pete Thomas (tenor saxophone); David Bitelli (tenor & baritone saxophones); Jim Dvorak (trumpet). Engineers: Jerry Boys, Tony Harris, Barry Clempson. Recorded at Livingston Studios, London, England in March 1985. FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION finds R.E.M.'s star rising fast. With major label world domination still comfortably off in the future, the band was still experimenting; their jangly frenetic sound was deepening by fathoms, and Michael Stipe's formless rants were solidifying (his diction was improving, too, which only served to clarify his prodigious poetic gift). The album featured some of the group's most solid pop songcraft to date, as well as some pretty heady meandering ("Feeling Gravity's Pull"). FABLES produced some important hits for the group at this crucial juncture of its career. Radio staples like "Driver 8" kept them popular with the increasingly important college crowd (heretofore their bread and butter), while the crisp, jumpy and irresistibly catchy "Can't Get There From Here" brought them to a new level on the now-essential music video playlists. Diehard fans, however, were drawn to some quintessential R.E.M. moments--the overlapping vocals of "Maps And Legends" and the wistful, soaring "Wendel Gee," the album's real gem, a disarming, dreamy, instant classic.
Album Reviews
Alternative Press (7/95, p.88) - Ranked #88 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION follow[s] the also moody and sublime RECKONING with its dark, backwoods wanderlust and a labyrinth of lyrics woven through banjo, cello and violin....FABLES [is] like a dark cloud in the band's discography: Full of stormy rhythm, trademark guitar jangling and box-car philosophy..." NME (9/6/97, p.53) - "...FABLES... is both REM's most impenetrable and fulfilling release to date....FABLES... is...etched with paranoia, slooooowly-strangled guitars and...the sound of four young Athenians who were neither shiny nor happy.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Feeling Gravity's Pull
2.
Maps And Legends
3.
Driver 8
4.
Life And How To Live It
5.
Old Man Kensey
6.
Can't Get There From Here
7.
Green Grow The Rushes Oh
8.
Kohoutek
9.
Auctioneer (Another Engine)
10.
Good Advice
11.
Wendell Gee
12.
Crazy
13.
Burnin' Hell
14.
Bandwagon
15.
Driver 8 (live)
16.
Maps And Legends (live)
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