Fables of the Reconstruction, også kendt som Reconstruction of the Fables, er det tredje studiealbum fra det amerikanske alternative rockband R.E.M., der blev udgivet i 1984 på I.R.S. Records. Joe Boyd producerede albummet, og blev som det eneste af gruppens albums indspillet uden for USA. Det er et konceptalbum med sydstatsgotik-temaer og karakterer.
Albummet blev godt modtaget af anmelderne.
Spor Alle sange er skrevet af Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills og Michael Stipe med mindre andet er noteret.
Side one – "A Side" "Feeling Pull" – 4:48 "Maps and Legends" – 3:10 "Driver 8" – 3:23 "Life and How to Live It" – 4:06 "Old Man Kensey" (Jerry Ayers, Berry, Buck, Mills, and Stipe) – 4:08
Side two – "Another Side" "Cant Get There from Here" – 3:39 "Green Grow the Rushes" – 3:46 "Kohoutek" – 3:18 "Auctioneer (Another Engine)" – 2:44 "Good Advices" – 3:30 "Wendell Gee" – 3:01
1992 IRS Vintage Years genudgivelse med bonus tracks "Crazy" (Randy Bewley, Vanessa Briscoe, Curtis Crowe, Michael Lachowski) B-side of "Driver 8" 7" single "Burning Hell" B-side of "Can't Get There From Here" 12" single "Bandwagon" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Lynda Stipe, Stipe) B-side of "Can't Get There From Here" 7" and 12" single "Driver 8" (Live) B-side of "Wendell Gee" 12" single "Maps and Legends" (Live) B-side of "The One I Love" 7" single
2010 25th Anniversary Edition genudgivelse med bonus tracks (The Athens Demos) "Auctioneer (Another Engine)" – 2:52 "Bandwagon" (Berry, Buck, Mills, Lynda Stipe, and Michael Stipe) – 2:24 "Cant Get There from Here" – 3:41 "Driver 8" – 3:31 "Feeling Gravitys Pull" – 4:36 "Good Advices" – 3:31 "Green Grow the Rushes" – 3:47 "Hyena" – 2:53 "Kohoutek" – 3:26 "Life and How to Live It" – 4:10 "Maps and Legends" – 3:12 "Old Man Kensey" (Ayers, Berry, Buck, Mills, and Stipe) – 4:07 "Throw Those Trolls Away" – 3:10 "Wendell Gee" – 3:07
Hitlister Album ÅrHitlistePlacering1985U.S. Billboard 20028 1985UK Albums Chart35
Singler ÅrSangHitlistePlacering1985"Cant Get There from Here"Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks14 1985"Driver 8"Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks22
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