REM- Automatic For The People Review

I accidentally skipped Nightswimming, sorry for that. A review of REM's 1992 album, Automatic For The People. A very somber, heavy record. THIS IS AN ICONIC ALBUM. Comment, Rate and Subscribe.

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Music

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• sirallaboutmusic
• REM
• Automatic For The People
• Everybody Hurts
• Man On the Moon
• Sweetness Follows
• New Orleans Instrumental No.1
• 1992
• Scott Litt
• Star Me Kitten
• end of the 80's

[deathspelloubega]

great review of a great album.

[SirAllAboutMusic]

Thanks man!

[MrNotbornyesterday]

You put your finger on the theme. Acceptance. To make an album so dark, so depressing, so melancholy, so inevitable and then to leave you at the end with such a feeling of hope for the 'now' is a difficult trick. Is there a better album out there? I havent heard many. Should I have left off the 'm' there? Bloody excellent review. Well done.

[SirAllAboutMusic]

Thanks a lot mate, I'm glad you liked the vid!

[danbit5]

end game intro:)

[SirAllAboutMusic]

Haha :D

[calzacool9]

FACT: kurt cobain killed himself listning to this.... true

[mruncommon1]

i think REM really lost their way after this album. document's my personal fave

[soursweettooth]

It's funny, I like this album a lot, but I like 'New Adventures in Hi-Fi', the record of theirs you hated most, a whole lot more. I've honestly never been able to take some of the songs on this one too seriously. 'Everybody Hurts' is just... too much, a little bit maudlin imo. I find New Adventures to be far more somber, genuine, and spiritual. But still, 'Find the River' and 'Montey got a Rotten Deal' are just beautiful tunes.

[20Divine20]

@calzacool9 I'm not surprised, i would kill myself too, if i had to listen to this...

[SALIMGUY]

This album is better than Out of Time, the first half is better than the second.

[citehman]

i must not have a soul because this album does nothing for me and it is one of my least listened rem albums. i'm sure i would respect it more if i were a musician but feeling somber is not what i want from music.

objectively speaking, none of the songs on this album would make my rem top 100. 

[CanadianChronic2121]

i wanna find this on vinyl =)

[somercet1]

Awesome review. I love that bit about the album shutting the door on the '80s.

[barnabypoet]

I had to watch this twice cos I realised that I didn't hear a single word you said when Sweetness Follows was playing lol

[00kippen]

Why you stop with the band? Your music is so good!

[codern]

what you said about find the river, couldnt be more perfect.