R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
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Artist: R.E.M.Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1992-08-06
Music Label: EMI Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Feeling Gravitys Pull
- Maps And Legends
- Driver 8
- Life And How To Live It
- Old Man Kensey
- Cant Get There From Here
- Green Grow The Rushes
- Kohoutek
- Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- Good Advices
- Wendell Gee
- Crazy
- Burning Hell
- Bandwagon
- Driver 8 (Live)
- Maps And Legends (Live)
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Free Music Review: Took a while to grow on me
Hit: 4 Stars
Having not heard this album until well after its release, I'd already become pretty familiar with REM through everything they'd released after Document in 1987. When I went back and bought their earlier albums this one kind of stuck out like a banged up thumb.
There's a progression to most REM albums, from Chronic Town all the way through the post-Bill Berry era, but this one is out of place. It doesn't seem to be a reasonable bridge from 1984's Reckoning to 1986's Life's Rich Pageant the way those albums are a step after Murmur and before Document, respectively.
The introduction to the album given on the early best-of Eponymous isn't much help, either. Driver 8 is still one of my favorite REM songs due to it's vocal melody, but 15 years after first hearing it I'm still not a fan of Can't Get There From Here. It's simply too busy-sounding.
But 15 years also does a lot to a person's perspective, and now I think Fables is easily one of REM's best efforts. The songwriting is brilliantly narrative though still somewhat cryptic in Stipe's early manner of lyricism. Almost every song is its own short story, and Feeling Gravity's Pull is one of the band's best "Side One Track One" tunes ever. It perfectly sets the tone for what follows.
This isn't the album to buy if you're looking to introduce yourself to REM other than what you've heard on the radio since 1991. It's easily their most challenging album, however, and if you're a person who takes enjoyment out of picking pieces out of songs for deeper understanding and you're willing to put the time in in order to let the music evolve in your brain to raise whatever consciousness you have, click "Add to cart" right now.
I'm not going to try writing an explanation of every song on it, because one of the best things about this record is how many different understandings I've been able to glean from listening to it over the years and through different parts of my life.
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Mid-priced reissue of the foreign edition of their 1985 top 30 album with five bonus tracks added, their cover of Pylon's 'Crazy', 'Burning Hell', 'Bandwagon', 'Driver 8' (Live) and 'Maps And Legends' (Live). 16 tracks total, also featuring the college radio staples 'Can't Get There From Here', 'Driver 8', 'Feeling Gravity's Pull' & 'Maps And Legends'. 1992 release.The Regular Album is Augmented with Crazy / Burning Hell / Bandwagon / Driver Eight (Live) / Maps and Legends (Live).
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