R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
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Artist: R.E.M.Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1998-01-27
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Feeling Gravity's Pull
- Maps and Legends
- Driver 8
- Life and How to Live It
- Old Man Kensey
- Can't Get There From Here
- Green Grow the Rushes
- Kohoutek
- Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- Good Advices
- Wendell Gee
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Music Review: Fables... is why
Rating: 5 Stars
I fell in love with REM back in the mid eighties in college and also why I struggled to stay with them as they forged their way artistically towards a new direction. Some would call it sucumbing to the pressure but this album alone makes it all OK. I still love REM. I am just no longer crazy about their music. This album will always remain an poetically brilliant piece of stand alone work by a band who perhaps had every odd stacked against them when they put out this impossible-to-top album.
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R.E.M.'s third full-length recording, Fables of the Reconstruction delivers the purest distillation of the band's early sound. With the exception of the horn-laden, radio-friendly "Can't Get There from Here," the songs form a connected soundscape. Nearly transparent production highlights the glittering guitar arpeggios, active bass, and the disciplined, patterned drum lines, with organ and spare string arrangements adding texture to several pieces. And then there are the vocals: dense harmonies of voices calling out to each other, a rich humming and howling around Michael Stipe's central mumble. A careful listener can discern most of the lyrics, though what exactly they signify remains unclear. The album is best contemplated in its entirety, and the songs reward careful, repeated listening. This is a seminal alternative album, its material evocative, its ultimate meanings elusive. If your CD collection has room for only a few R.E.M. albums, Fables should be one of them. --Albert Massa
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