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Automatic for the People
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Continuing to specialize in the art of curve-throwing, R.E.M. followed up its 1991 smash, Out of Time, with this fragile album of soft melodies and string arrangements. The sympathetic ballad "Everybody Hurts" must have prevented countless suicide attempts, while the Andy Kaufman tribute "Man on the Moon" (with Michael Stipe affecting an Elvis Presley imitation) and the rock-into-oblivion "Drive" are among the quartet's strongest hits. (The opening line, "Hey, kids, rock and roll," isn't so much a rallying cry as an expression of anxiety.) It takes a few listens for its charms to unfold, but Automatic is the gem between bigger hits Out of Time and Monster.
Tracklist
1
Drive
2
Try Not to Breathe
3
Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, The
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
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''Automatic for the People'' is the eighth album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1992 on Warner Bros. Records. While R.E.M. had intended to make a harder-rocking album after dealing primarily with acoustic based sounds on its previous record ''Out of Time'' (1991), the group eventually abandoned that goal and created an album that was musically subdued and dealt with mortality. ''Automatic for the People'' reached number two on the US album charts and yielded six singles. - Wikipedia
