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Artist:	R.E.M.	Release Date:	Jan 27, 1998
Format:	CD	Record Label:	IRS
UPC:	724349347922	Genre:	Rock
Duration:	Album or EP	Sub-Genre:	--
Condition:	Brand new	Special Attributes:	--

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Track listing
1. Feeling Gravitys 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 8. Kohoutek 9. Auctioneer (Another Engine) 10. Good Advices 11. Wendell Gee
Details
Playing time:	39 min.
Producer:	Joe Boyd
Distributor:	EMI Music Distribution
Recording type:	Studio
Recording mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

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.
Editorial reviews
...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. NME (09/06/1997) 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... Alternative Press (07/01/1995) Ranked #4 in CMJ's Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1985 CMJ (01/05/2004)

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Product Category : Music
UPC : 724349347922
Title : Fables of the Reconstruction
EAN : 0724349347922
Artist : R.E.M.
Format : Original recording reissued
Label : Capitol
Release Date : 1998-01-27
Discs : 1
Binding : Audio CD
List Price (MSRP) : 11.98
Height : 0.5400 inches
Width : 4.9700 inches
Length : 5.5500 inches
Weight : 0.2000 pounds
Keywords : General, American Alternative, Jangle Pop, Rock, Alternative Rock - American Alternative - General, Alternative Rock - Alternative Styles - Rock - General, $7.99 and Under, CD Album, Reissued, Original Recording Remastered, Main Album
Condition : New

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