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Hello Hybrid Readers! We've got an exciting EXCLUSIVE
for you this fine summer of 2010. R.E.M. is releasing the
25th Anniversary edition of Fables Of The Reconstruction and Hybrid
is lucky enought to be chosen to give you a sneak peak with an exclusive
streaming track. For more information on the release read below,
but dig this music now!
Maps and Legends
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R.E.M.'s FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION Remastered
and expanded for 25th Anniversary Edition
R.E.M. has teamed with Capitol/I.R.S. for the July 13 release
of an expanded 25th Anniversary 2CD and digital edition of the band's
1985 album, Fables Of The Reconstruction. The new edition features
the digitally remastered original album, plus 14 previously unreleased
demo recordings, cut prior to the album's studio sessions, including
one long-sought track that has never been released. The commemorative
release also adds insightful new liner notes by R.E.M. guitarist Peter
Buck, with the 2CD package presented in a lift-top box with a
poster and four postcards. On the same date, the remastered original
album will be released on 180-gram vinyl.
Fables Of The Reconstruction, recorded during the winter of
1985 in London, England, distant in geography, weather and culture
from R.E.M.'s Athens, Georgia home, represented a musical step forward
for the band and its members, vocalist Michael Stipe, guitarist
Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and drummer Bill Berry.
Produced by Joe Boyd (also known for his work with British
folk and folk-rock musicians, including Nick Drake, Richard
Thompson, and Fairport Convention), Fables marked
the beginning of a more narrative, storytelling lyrical style in R.E.M.'s
songwriting, with its songs spinning vivid tales of everyday life
in the American South.
Before going to London to record, R.E.M. huddled in Jim Hawkins'
Athens, Georgia studio for a few weeks, woodshedding and building
new songs from fragments, including many which had emerged during
soundchecks along the band's 1984 tour.
In his liner notes, Peter Buck recalls, "The last day of rehearsal,
I think with Joe Boyd in attendance, Jim Hawkins recorded what we
had come up with. We spent about four hours recording all the new
songs live, with minimal overdubs. I hadn't listened to this stuff
since we recorded it, and I'm kind of stunned at how good it is. My
memory of the rehearsals is us scrambling to finish songs. The songs
on both Murmur and Reckoning had been performed for
months if not years by the time they were committed to tape. I remember
feeling dangerously unprepared when we flew to London, but on the
evidence of this recording we must have known what we were doing."
"The Athens Demos," as R.E.M. has dubbed them, comprise
the new edition's second disc of 14 previously unreleased recordings,
including drafts of Fables' 11 songs and three additional tracks that
didn't make the album. The three non-album demos include two early
versions of songs that were later revisited by the band and recorded
for other releases and one song, "Throw Those Trolls Away,"
making its release debut on this new edition.
"It's a personal favorite," writes Buck, "and I'm
really proud of how strange it is. Nobody but R.E.M. could have made
that record. It took our four twisted personalities and the legendary
Joe Boyd to make an album that character-filled and vibey."
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R.E.M. Fables Of The Reconstruction (25th Anniversary
Edition) (2CD, digital)
Disc One: digitally remastered original album
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
8. Kohoutek
9. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
10. Good Advices
11. Wendell Gee
Disc Two: "The Athens Demos"
1. Auctioneer (Another Engine) [demo version]
2. Bandwagon [demo version] [final version was B-side to "Can't
Get There From Here"]
3. Can't Get There From Here [demo version]
4. Driver 8 [demo version]
5. Feeling Gravity's Pull [demo version]
6. Good Advices [demo version]
7. Green Grow The Rushes [demo version]
8. Hyena [demo version] [album version appeared on Life's Rich Pageant]
9. Kohoutek [demo version]
10. Life and How To Live It [demo version]
11. Maps and Legends [demo version]
12. Old Man Kensey [demo version]
13. Throw Those Trolls Away [demo version] [previously unreleased]
14. Wendell Gee [demo version]
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