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Product Identifiers

ProducerR.E.M., Scott Litt

Record LabelWarner Bros.

UPC0093624505525

eBay Product ID (ePID)5050143517

Product Key Features

LanguageEnglish

Era1990s

Run Time2905 Sec

FormatCD

Release Year1992

FeaturesStudio Recording

GenrePop, Alternative, Rock

StyleAmerican Underground, Jangle Pop

TypeAlbum

ArtistR.E.M.

Release TitleAutomatic for the People

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

DistributionWea

Guest ArtistJohn Paul Jones

Number of Tracks12

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

GuitarPeter Buck

BassMike Mills

MixingEd Brooks, Clif Norrell, Scott Litt

Reviews5 stars out of 5 -- "Their dreamiest. Here, they pair melancholic folk-rock apparitions with hopeful strings.", Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's.", 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?'...", Ranked #11 in the Nme "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums", 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...", Included in Q's List of the 50 Best Albums of 1992., Ranked #6 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime", Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums of the 1990s.", Ranked #23 in Nme's List of the `Greatest Albums of All Time.', "...deeply moving and entirely idiosyncratic....the songs tend to be rich and subdued, full of lush strings and deep feeling....shows the band moving into more personal territory than ever before....the band's greatest triumph..." - Rating: A, "...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...", 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...", 5 stars out of 5 - "The album found R.E.M. concentrating on their mature strengths: dignity, mandolins, somber brown textures, unblinking seriousness of intent...", "Beyond all the beautiful sadness, there’s joyful nonsense, a noisy screed against the GOP and the most unabashedly erotic song R.E.M. had released up to that point...", Ranked #40 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.", Ranked #3 in the Village Voice's List of the 40 Best Albums of 1992., 4 Stars Out of 5-"With '92's Automatic for the People, R.E.M. Reached Their Creative Peak.", "The tone of AUTOMATIC is marked by doughy pressure and woozy beauty. The remastered version of the LP brings that to the fore as well as emphasizing the skin-tingling intimacy of Michael Stipe’s vocals throughout."

Additional InformationA dark, haunting, yet paramountly rewarding album; and though not the band's most representative work, arguably its best.

EngineerJohn Keane, Ed Brooks, Ted Malia, Clif Norrell, George Cowan, Mark Howard, Andrew Roshberg

VocalsMichael Stipe

Group MemberMichael Stipe, Peter Buck

DrumsBill Berry

Number of Audio ChannelsStereo