REM Fables Of The Reconstruction Vinyl LP1985 UK 1st press IRS MIRF1003 EX/VG+
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REM Fables Of The Reconstruction Vinyl LP1985 UK 1st press I.R.S. MIRF 1003 EX/VG+. Condition is "Used". Dispatched with Royal Mail 2nd Class.
Vinyl is in Excellent condition, I have cleaned and play-tested both sides of the record and it plays superbly well and still sounds great! I can't see any blemishes on it.
The Sleeve is Very Good Plus, the cover art is unaffected and looks great, but there are signs of wear on the dges and spine of the album, without splitting or tears.
PLEASE SEE PHOTOS AS PART OF DESCRIPTION.
This is a brilliant album from my favourite period of the band - early to mid-eighties - but I'm selling a lot of my vinyl and CD collection, because the kids are getting bigger and the house is getting smaller! Basically, it was either the kids or the records, sadly the coin came down tails...Thanks for looking!
ONLINE REVIEW:
Side One
Feeling Gravitys Pull
Maps And Legends
Driver 8
Life And How To Live It
Old Man Kensey
Side Two
Can’t Get There From Here
Green Grow The Rushes
Kohoutek
Auctioneer (Another Engine)
Good Advices
Wendell Gee
4 Star Review
A dark, moody rumination on American folk — not only the music, but its myths — Fables is creepy, rustic psychedelic folk, filled with eerie sonic textures. Some light breaks through occasionally, such as the ridiculous collegiate blue-eyed soul of “Can’t Get There From Here,” but the group’s trademark ringing guitars and cryptic lyrics have grown sinister, giving even sing-alongs like “Driver 8” an ominous edge.
Fables is more inconsistent than its two predecessors, but the group does demonstrate considerable musical growth, particularly in how perfectly it evokes the strange rural legends of the South. And many of the songs on the record — including “Feeling Gravitys Pull,” “Maps and Legends,” “Green Grow the Rushes,” “Auctioneer (Another Engine),” and the previously mentioned pair — rank among the group’s best.
What the best sides of Fables of the Reconstruction have to offer is not hard to hear:
- The biggest, most immediate staging in the largest acoustic space
- The most Tubey Magic, without which you have almost nothing. CDs give you clean and clear. Only the best vintage vinyl pressings offer the kind of Tubey Magic that was on the tapes in 1985
- Tight, note-like, rich, full-bodied bass, with the correct amount of weight down low
- Natural tonality in the midrange — with all the instruments having the correct timbre
- Transparency and resolution, critical to hearing into the three-dimensional space of the studio
No doubt there’s more but we hope that should do for now. Playing the record is the only way to hear all of the qualities we discuss above, and playing the best pressings against a pile of other copies under rigorously controlled conditions is the only way to find a pressing that sounds as good as this one does.
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