Tracklist

A Side - Fables Of The Reconstruction
A1	Feeling Gravitys Pull	4:48
A2	Maps And Legends	3:01
A3	Driver 8	3:18
A4	Life And How To Live It	4:20
A5	Old Man Kensey	4:10
Another Side - Reconstruction Of The Fables
B1	Can't Get There From Here	4:10
B2	Green Grow The Rushes	3:42
B3	Kohoutek	3:10
B4	Auctioneer (Another Engine)	2:41
B5	Good Advices	3:30
B6	Wendell Gee	2:56

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – I.R.S., Inc.
• Copyright (c) – International Record Syndicate, Inc.
• Manufactured By – MCA Records, Inc.
• Distributed By – MCA Records, Inc.
• Recorded At – Livingston Studios
• Mastered At – Sterling Sound
• Published By – Night Garden Music
• Published By – Unichappell Music, Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – International Record Syndicate, Inc.
• Pressed By – MCA Pressing Plant, Gloversville

Credits

• Cello – David Newby
• Cover, Sleeve, Layout [Layout And Mechanical] – M K Johnston
• Creative Director [Directors] – B E Downs*, W T Berry*, E M Hammond*, G P Trump*, W J Holt*, J M Stipe*, M E Mills*, S L Phipps*
• Directed By, Creative Director [Directors] – P L Buck*
• Engineer – Barry Clempson, Jerry Boys, Tony Harris
• Mastered By – Jack Skinner
• Producer – Joe Boyd
• Songwriter – Berry*, Ayers* (tracks: A5), Stipe*, Mills*, Buck*
• Tenor Saxophone – Peter Thomas
• Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – David Bitelli*
• Trumpet – Jim Dvořák*
• Violin – Camilla Brunt, Philippa Ibbotson
• Written-By – J. Ayers (RES)* (tracks: A5), R.E.M.

Notes

Variant Label. MCA Gloversville pressing
Gold label with I.R.S man located at the bottom of the label.

The way the sleeve is laid out, the cover is upside down if it is held the traditional way with the spine to the left and the opening is to the right.
Includes I.R.S. promotional inner sleeve.

© 1985 International Record Syndicate, Inc.

℗ 1985 I.R.S., Inc.

Recorded at Livingston Studios London N22 in March 1985
Mastered at Sterling Sound

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Published by Night Garden Music, administered in the real world by Unichappell Music, Inc. - BMI
℗ 1985 International Record Syndicate, Inc.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 0 76732-5592-1
• Matrix / Runout (Label, Side A): IRS 4535 SS1 STERLING 回-G-回 5
• Matrix / Runout (Label, Side B): IRS 4462 SS1 STERLING 回-G-回
• Rights Society: BMI

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
IRS-5592	R.E.M.	Fables Of The Reconstruction / Reconstruction Of The Fables ‎(LP, Album, (G))	I.R.S. Records	IRS-5592	US	1985
IRSC-5592	R.E.M.	Fables Of The Reconstruction ‎(Cass, Album)	I.R.S. Records	IRSC-5592	Canada	1985
IRSBD-5592	R.E.M.	Fables Of The Reconstruction ‎(CD, Album, RE)	I.R.S. Records	IRSBD-5592	Canada	Unknown
IRSMC 5592	R.E.M.	Fables Of The Reconstruction ‎(Cass, Album)	I.R.S. Records	IRSMC 5592	Canada	1985
IRSC-5592	R.E.M.	Fables Of The Reconstruction ‎(Cass, Album, Dol)	I.R.S. Records	IRSC-5592	US	1985