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Fables Of The Reconstruction - R.E.M.

 

Description: Genre: Rock - Pop Rock / Artist: R.E.M. / Audio CD released 1997-09-01 at EMI Records / Disc #1 Tracklisting 1 Fe ... more
Fables Of The Reconstruction - R.E.M. ... 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 (2)
16 Maps And Legends (2)

Newest Review: ... and the first three Pink Floyd singles. The result is a brilliant rendition of old fairytales and modern fantasies. ... more

 ... “Time and distance are out of place here…” is a line from the album’s opening track, ‘Feeling Gravity’s Pull’, and that sense of displacement is present throughout. Songs like ‘Maps And Legends’ and ‘Old Man Kensey’ tell stories of strange old hermits and mythic lands, whilst ‘Driver 8’ and ‘Green Grow The Rushes’ seem set in Enid Blyton fairytales. REM being REM there are still ventures into out-and-out oddness with tracks lik...more

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Rumblefish
Premium Review Fables Of The Reconstruction - R.E.M.: One of their very best. (227 words)
by Rumblefish - written on 13/08/00 (Very useful, 55 readings)
Rating:

Actually an album with two titles, FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION and RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FABLES, this was the most obviously folk-influenced release from REM thus far. To give the record the right flavour, production duties were handed to Joe Boyd, whose credits in the ‘sixties had included Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, and the first three Pink Floyd singles. The result is a brilliant rendition of old fairytales and modern fantasies. “Time and distance are out of place here…” is a line from the album’s opening track, ‘Feeling Gravity’s Pull’, and that sense of displacement is present throughout. Songs like ...

davepridd
Premium Review Reconstruction of the fables (426 words)
by davepridd - written on 29/07/00 (Very useful, 75 readings)
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This is REM's third album, released in 1985, when their sales were better than most indie bands could expect, but they had not yet attained the worldwide recognition that they now have. However, I think that this is one of their finest albums, as there is not a single weak track on the album, and the music has a very unique feel to it. Although folk music has always been a major part of REM's sound, here it is the predominate feature with the album having a slightly edgy rural sound. The imagery is predominately of travel; both literally and metaphoricaly with songs about trains, the slave trade and maps. Although this can sometimes sound quite ...

 

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