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Automatic for the People - Definition

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Automatic for the People
Album cover
Album by R.E.M.
Released July 1992
Recorded ???
Genre Alternative rock
Length 48 min 25 sec
Record label Warner Brothers
Producer Scott Litt
Professional reviews
Allmusic.com 5 stars out of 5 link (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDMISS70406240853382769&sql=Asd1gtq3ztu48)
Entertainment Weekly Grade: A October 16, 1992 p.74 (http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=60144873&loc=109&PageFormat=7)
Nude as the News Extremely favorable link (http://www.nudeasthenews.com/reviews/640)
Q 4 stars out of 5 September 1992 (http://www.q4music.com/nav?page=q4music.review.redirect&fixture_review=121080&resource=121080&fixture_artist=144610)
Robert Christgau *** Honorable Mention link (http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1140&name=R.E.M.)
Rolling Stone 5 stars out of 5 October 29, 1992, p.68 (http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=60144873&loc=109&PageFormat=7)
R.E.M. Chronology
Out of Time
(1991)
Automatic for the People
(1992)
Monster
(1994)

Automatic for the People is an album released by R.E.M. in 1992, by Warner Brothers. It sold in excess of 15 million copies. It is their eighth studio album.

In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Automatic for the People the 3rd greatest album of all time.

Contents

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" (featured in the film of the same name)
  11. "Nightswimming"
  12. "Find the River"

Chart Action

Album

1992  Automatic for the People       The Billboard 200     No. 2

Singles

Year  Single                         Chart                 Peak   

1992  Drive                          Mainstream Rock Tracks        No. 2 
1992  Drive                          Modern Rock Tracks          No. 1 
1992  Drive                          The Billboard Hot 100       No. 28 
1992  Drive                          Top 40 Mainstream           No. 23 
1992  Ignoreland                     Mainstream Rock Tracks      No. 4 
1992  Ignoreland                     Modern Rock Tracks       No. 5 
1993  Everybody Hurts                Modern Rock Tracks       No. 21 
1993  Everybody Hurts                The Billboard Hot 100    No. 29 
1993  Everybody Hurts                Top 40 Mainstream        No. 13  
1993  Man on the Moon                Mainstream Rock Tracks   No. 4 
1993  Man on the Moon                Modern Rock Tracks       No. 2 
1993  Man on the Moon                The Billboard Hot 100    No. 30 
1993  Man on the Moon                Top 40 Mainstream        No. 9 
1993  The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite   Mainstream Rock Tracks   No. 28 
1993  The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite   Modern Rock Tracks       No. 24 
Band members: Michael Stipe | Peter Buck | Bill Berry | Mike Mills

Recordings: Chronic Town | Murmur | Reckoning | Fables of the Reconstruction | Lifes Rich Pageant | Document | Dead Letter Office | Eponymous | Green | Out of Time | Automatic for the People | Monster | New Adventures in Hi-Fi | Up | Reveal |&nbspIn Time - The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 | Around the Sun

Musical styles: Alternative rock | Jangle pop | College rock


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