R.E.M. Automatic For The People 1992 Sealed US LP MINT
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May 1, 2011
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R.E.M. / Automatic For the People - Warner Bros. Records 45055 (Stereo)(US)(1992) ...This auction is for an original issue, factory sealed Record on US vinyl. This record was made in the U.S. and was very limited.
Automatic for the People is a true classic release of rock from the 1990s. Released shortly after the successful Out of Time, it finds R.E.M. on a creative roll with no shortage of original ideas; yet it also shows the band embracing even further the darker aesthetic shadings hinted at on "Losing My Religion." Automatic for the People captures the group at a crossroads, as they moved from cult heroes to elder statesmen, and the album is a graceful transition into their new status.
Track listings and reviews include below:
Detailed item info:
Track listing(Drive Side)
1. Drive
2. Try Not to Breathe
3. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
4. Everybody Hurts
5. New Orleans Instrumental No. 1
6. Sweetness Follows
(Ride Side)
7. Monty Got a Raw Deal
8. Ignoreland
9. Star Me Kitten
10. Man on the Moon
11. Nightswimming
12. Find the River
Details Contributing artists: John Paul Jones Producer: R.E.M., Scott Litt Distributor: WEA (Distributor) Recording type: Studio 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.
AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE is a true classic of rock in the 1990s. Released shortly after the successful OUT OF TIME, it finds R.E.M. on a creative roll with no shortage of original ideas; yet it also shows the band embracing even further the darker aesthetic shadings hinted at on "Losing My Religion." Bold songs such as the ominous "Drive" and the empathetic "Everybody Hurts" demonstrated that the band were not reluctant to experiment, while "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" and the elegiac Andy Kaufman tribute "Man On The Moon" displayed all of the intelligent pop savvy on which the band's reputation was first built. However, it is on songs such as "Sweetness Follows," "Nightswimming," and "Find the River" that a haunting melancholy emerges that is unlike anything the band previously attained. The songs are sparse yet full of deep emotion and conjure a Southern gothic emotionality that one mind find in amidst the pages of Flannery O'Connor's most redemptive work. AUTOMATIC is not R.E.M.'s most upbeat record, but it is unquestionably one of its most rewarding.
Editorial reviews 5 stars out of 5 -- [T]heir dreamiest. Here, they pair melancholic folk-rock apparitions with hopeful strings.
Blender
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
Ranked #11 in The NME Top 30 Heartbreak Albums
NME
Ranked #23 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.'
NME
4 stars out of 5 - With '92's AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE, R.E.M. reached their creative peak.
Mojo
Ranked #3 in the Village Voice's list of the 40 Best Albums Of 1992.
Village Voice (19930302)
...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 (19921001)
5 stars out of 5 - [T]he album found R.E.M. concentrating on their mature strengths: dignity, mandolins, somber brown textures, unblinking seriousness of intent...
Uncut
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 (19921101)
Included in Q's list of the 50 Best Albums Of 1992.
Q (19930101)
Ranked #6 in Q's Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime
Q (20011001)
Included in Q Magazine's 90 Best Albums Of The 1990s.
Q (19991201)
...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 (19921016)
Ranked #40 in Spin Magazine's 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.
Spin (19990901)
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 (19921029)
Included in Rolling Stone's Essential Recordings of the 90's.
Rolling Stone
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