Track Listing
1. Drive
2. Try Not To Breathe
3. Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
4. Everybody Hurts
5. New Orleans Instrumental No 1
6. Sweetness Follows
7. Monty Got A Raw Deal
8. Ignoreland
9. Star Me Kitten
10. Man On The Moon
11. Nightswimming
12. Find The River
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | R.E.M., Scott Litt | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Cinram Logistics | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
R.E.M.: Mike Mills (vocals, keyboards, bass); Michael Stipe (vocals); Peter Buck (guitar, mandolin); Bill Berry (drums).Additional personnel: Lonnie Ottzen, Denise Berginson-Smith, Jody Taylor, Sou-Chun Su, Sandy Salzinger, Patti Gouvas (violin); Paul Murphy, Reid Harris, Heidi Nitche (viola); Elizabeth Proctor Murphy, Kathleen Kee, Knox Chandler, Daniel Laufer (cello); Deborah Workman (oboe); Scott Litt (harmonica, Clavinet); Bertis Downs (keyboards).Recorded at Bearsville Studio, Bearsville, New York; Criteria Recording Studios, Miami, Florida; John Keane Studio, Athens, Georgia; Kingsway Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana; Bosstown Recording Studios, Atlanta, Georgia.AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE was nominated for 1994 Grammy Awards for Album Of The Year and Best Alternative Music Album.A classic of modern rock. Released soon after Out Of Time it shows the band on a creative roll with no shortage of original ideas. Bold songs such as 'Drive' and 'Everybody Hurts' demonstrated that the band were not reluctant to experiment, while the Karl Denver opening on 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite' and Stipe's magnificent hair-lip Elvis on 'Man On The Moon' were as good as anything they have recorded. Even with the departure of Bill Berry R.E.M. are still very much alive, but it would be asking a lot to expect any future album to match this.
Editorial Reviews
Included in Q's list of the 50 Best Albums Of 1992.
Q (01/01/1993)
Included in Rolling Stone's Essential Recordings of the 90's.
Rolling Stone (05/13/1999)
Ranked #40 in Spin Magazine's 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.
Spin (09/01/1999)
Ranked #23 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.'
NME (10/02/1993)
Ranked #3 in the Village Voice's list of the 40 Best Albums Of 1992.
Village Voice (03/02/1993)
5 Stars - Classic - ...R.E.M. has never made music more gorgeous....shimmers with new, complex beauty....musically irresistible....finds the band gaining a startling emotional directness...
Rolling Stone (10/29/1992)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...a lively form of bliss is readily available from the sounds of AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE....Big emotions, big ideas....it's about life. Without embarrassment and via sundry dark metaphors, it enquires `What's it all about, if anything?'...
Q (11/01/1992)
...These quiet songs, so sure of their honesty that they are unafraid of risking musical corniness, can be heard as an indictment of the Republican era, a lament for the AIDS years, or simply a consideration of roads not taken...
Musician (10/01/1992)
10 - Classic - ...They've created an LP you can gain a lot from in times of trouble....In their hands, music is no longer wallpaper, but a living, breathing organism as old as the hills...
NME (10/03/1992)
...deeply moving and entirely idiosyncratic....[the songs] tend to be rich and subdued, full of lush strings and deep feeling....show[s] the band moving into more personal territory than ever before....the band's greatest triumph... - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (10/16/1992)
Included in Q Magazine's 90 Best Albums Of The 1990s.
Q (12/01/1999)
Ranked #11 in The NME Top 30 Heartbreak Albums
NME (08/12/2000)
Ranked #6 in Q's Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime
Q (10/01/2001)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...a lively form of bliss is readily available from the sounds of AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE....Big emotions, big ideas....it's about life. Without embarrassment and via sundry dark metaphors, it enquires `What's it all about, if anything?'...
Q (11/01/1992)
Included in Rolling Stone's Essential Recordings of the 90's.Spin (9/99, p.140) - Ranked #40 in Spin Magazine's 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.Q (12/99, p.74) - Included in Q Magazine's 90 Best Albums Of The 1990s.Q (10/01, p.102) - Ranked #6 in Q's Best 50 Albums of Q's LifetimeNME (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #23 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.'NME (8/12/00, p.28) - Ranked #11 in The NME Top 30 Heartbreak AlbumsVillage Voice (3/2/93, p.5) - Ranked #3 in the Village Voice's list of the 40 Best Albums Of 1992.Q (1/93, p.68) - Included in Q's list of the 50 Best Albums Of 1992.Rolling Stone (10/29/92, p.68) - 5 Stars - Classic - ...R.E.M. has never made music more gorgeous....shimmers with new, complex beauty....musically irresistible....finds the band gaining a startling emotional directness...Q (11/92, p.117) - 4 Stars - Excellent - ...a lively form of bliss is readily available from the sounds of AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE....Big emotions, big ideas....it's about life. Without embarrassment and via sundry dark metaphors, it enquires `What's it all about, if anything?'...Musician (10/92, p.102) - ...These quiet songs, so sure of their honesty that they are unafraid of risking musical corniness, can be heard as an indictment of the Republican era, a lament for the AIDS years, or simply a consideration of roads not taken...NME (10/3/92, p.36) - 10 - Classic - ...They've created an LP you can gain a lot from in times of trouble....In their hands, music is no longer wallpaper, but a living, breathing organism as old as the hills...Entertainment Weekly (10/16/92, p.74) - ...deeply moving and entirely idiosyncratic....[the songs] tend to be rich and subdued, full of lush strings and deep feeling....show[s] the band moving into more personal territory than ever before....the band's greatest triumph... - Rating: A
Rolling Stone (05/13/1999)
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