Mar 17 2021
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I unashamedly love this album. A lot of folks point to Document as R.E.M.'s best album but I would argue that it was simply the album that brought them into the mainstream spotlight. THIS is the best R.E.M. album. The songwriting, production, and performances are all on point. Sharp, emotional, layered and complex, it's just a damn good album from every angle. Even on the slow jams, there's an ENERGY that pulses behind the music that is just compelling. Back when I was doing critical listening as part of my degree, this was one of our reference albums—basically, an album that was SO well recorded and mixed that you could listen to it on super high-end audiophile equipment and pick it apart to understand what was going on.
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Sep 15 2021
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"Find The River" is a song I want to be played at my funeral. And that's probably because "Try Not To Breathe" would be considered in bad taste by some (they'd be wrong, by the way). Although my close friends would understand and appreciate if I requested "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight" instead. For my money, "Find The River" is the definitive album closer. Especially for THIS album, with themes like mortality, suicide, aging, and Andy Kaufman. This is one of those albums that shaped me and got me through a few turbulent moments. I know every song like I do scenes from a favorite movie I've seen multiple times. It's Stipe, Berry, Buck and Mills at the peak of their powers. "Drive" is something of a response to the David Essex classic "Rock On" with incredible string arrangements by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones of all people. "Sidewinder" is a similar riff on "The Lion Sleeps Tonight. One of the most known songs," Everybody Hurts" is REM's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and destined to be covered endlessly for generations to come. Stipe's moments of clarity and levity flow together seamlessly. The Mike Mills backup vocals standout even more than usual here, again underlying REM's secret weapon. This is one of those Desert Island albums. It's timeless. But it can still take me back to the Fall of 1992, the spring of 1998, or most of 2017. And it's far and away my favorite album of the 117 I've listened to so far on this list.
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Apr 19 2022
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5
more like automatic five the people
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Jan 27 2021
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Not my cup of tea completely but happy to drink it anyway
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Sep 25 2020
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5
One of the best albums, all-time. And best closing 3 songs ever. Sweetness Follows is underrated.
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Jul 15 2021
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5
R.E.M.'s best, imho, and a formative album for me. My father had it and I hadn't listened to them before. Going thru his collection, I pulled it out while looking for something else (probably Pink Floyd or Van Halen or Depeche Mode (which, boy, that was a weird group for a conservative cop to listen to or Roger Water's solo stuff, you get the idea) and he told me I could have it. It was this album and, oddly enough, Chris Isaak's Heart Shaped World.
I asked my dad why he didn't want it and he said it was "faggoty shit". Now, at this point, I was young and still only vaguely aware that my orientation might be different than my peers.
Well I took it, only vaguely guessing as to what Faggoty Shit could refer to when he never made the same gestures at Elton John (who my mother loved).
What I think he meant by that was 'sensitive'.
Automatic For The People is a remarkably empathetic, deeply personal feeling album that doesn't get buried in itself and instead decides to thread those personal anxieties, loves and thoughts through a warm and lived in sonic space.
Nostalgia, politics, mortality, romance and sexuality all mesh together in a sweet sort of late summer dusk-to-autumn cycle of Queer Americana. As time would go one, I'd deeply appreciate how much I see myself in this record. The popculture-to-political focus of Man on the Moon. The intimacy, excitement and rush of Night Swimming. The strokes to find yourself in bigger pictures with haunted melancholic undertones of Find The River and Sweetness Follows. The interpersonal spaces of impossible to ignore politics by the way of Ignoreland. It's a chronicle. It's tragic and beautiful.
But sonically it's tight. A refinement of ideas explored in early R.E.M. records and represents a culmination of their sound before they'd experiment further.
This is their best album.
But that's what I love about R.E.M., their best is still equally good as other albums which could call their best (Document, Murmur, Reackoning, Monster, Hi-Fi, you could make a case for any of these).
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Jan 13 2021
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5
Drive is such a great track on this record. The strings add a lot to the feel of melancholy and sadness. One of my favorite REM albums.
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Sep 16 2020
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3
Boring!
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Jan 19 2021
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4
Classic roots rock. It sounds big, it really takes up space. And Michael Stipe has such an iconic voice. “I’m not scared, I’m out of here” is a great closing line for an album that spanned so far
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Sep 25 2021
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5
One of my favorite albums of all time. I somehow love it more each time I listen to it. Maybe not the most representative of R.E.M. as a whole, but goddamn, what a gorgeous emotional piece of work.
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Apr 16 2021
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5
I was already a giant R.E.M. fan when this came out... and this is clearly one of their best. A spectacular album.
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Apr 07 2021
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5
quality + nostalgia = 5 stars
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Apr 11 2021
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5
Wow, did not expect this but this is a masterpiece.
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Jan 27 2021
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5
The sound of my youth. Almost perfect album.
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Oct 06 2020
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5
Best album by one of the all time best bands.
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Feb 23 2023
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5
I already know it, I already loved it. This was part of the soundtrack of my early 20s, that weird hectic messy growing-pains time where I was newly graduated from college and heady with possibility - and giddy with relief that the Cold War had ended and I was NOT going to blow up at any moment without warning; but that just paved the way for finally looking at all the OTHER ills of the world and wanting to do something about them.
Of course I was doing so under the shadow of a whole horde of media looking at us and wondering "goodness what is Generation X going to do and what are they all about," and meanwhile the Boomers were hanging on to their own jobs and positions of power and not letting us actually do anything to explore what we COULD do or find what we WERE all about.
But a lot of us tried where we could in small ways.
Oh, and "Ignoreland" is still my favorite condemnation of the Reagan/Bush years. "TV tells a million lies, the paper's terrified to report anything that isn't handed on a presidential spoon, I'm just profoundly frustrated
by all this, so fuck you, man...."
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Jun 22 2021
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5
This album sounds huge. The strings and acoustic guitars are lush and warm, the electric guitars scream, the drums pop like they're in a cave and everything else (keys, organ/synths, horns) is produced incredibly. Coupled with the vocals, this album is a soundtrack to a revelation
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Jan 29 2021
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5
Forgot how amazing this was. Certified BANGER.
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May 17 2021
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5
in my top 20 of all time
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May 27 2021
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5
A work of genius and after 30 years I still listen to it regularly. My favourite track has changed several times over the years. Starting with Nightswimming, then moving on to Everybody Hurts (once described by Peter Buck as an example of Michael Stipe "polishing a turd") but lately it's been the amazing and still prescient Ignoreland. And John Paul Jones arranged the strings. This is up there with Graceland and Led Zep II (of what we've heard so far) with a serious claim to be in the top 10 of best albums ever recorded.
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Apr 28 2021
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5
For an embarrassingly long time, I thought I didn't like R.E.M. because Losing My Religion sucks. I was right about that song, but I've seen the error of my ways when it comes to the band. This album was a huge part of that. There's something to like about nearly every track. It's just a bunch of thoughtful, well executed jams. Best track: Man on the Moon
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Feb 06 2021
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Boring
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Apr 01 2022
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5
Love this album!
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Nov 30 2021
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5
Hi: Drive, Monty Got A Raw Deal, Ignoreland, Star Me Kitten
Lo: NONE
Thanks for eating my review, generator! Anyways, this is an important album, one of the best from '92 (a year that birthed ton of excellent music) and almost 30 years later still holds up. If you don't love this album, you're an idiot.
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Nov 19 2021
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5
The album that saw REM confirm their place as global megastars. An album packed full of melancholy and beauty.
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Oct 31 2021
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5
This is my favorite REM album. The lyrics, the acoustics, and Stipes' voice just speaks directly to my soul. It has a very special place in my heart.
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Oct 18 2021
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5
Awesome
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Aug 06 2021
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5
Why no 6 star option. Clearly one of the all time greatest albums.
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May 07 2021
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5
Classic!
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Mar 23 2021
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5
Love this album ❤️
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Jan 29 2021
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5
Loved it, best album we've listened to
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May 20 2021
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5
One of the best of all time. Mix of styles, pacing, and just all round greatness.
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May 20 2021
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5
Pretty much exactly what I expected, which isn't a bad thing.
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Feb 25 2021
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5
Just perfect in almost every way.
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Jan 13 2021
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5
Incredible- correlation between the America we are living in currently, my dad loves this band and I think I finally do too
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Oct 07 2024
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4
So good, the highs are extremely high, and the lows are fairly high too, to be honest.
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Sep 27 2024
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4
Being the first R.E.M album Ive listened to, seems like a high mark to me. Everyone hurts and Man on the moon! Being their eighth album im not entirely sure where that lands in their discography but it was a great standalone album.
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Sep 15 2023
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That’s me in the corner, thats’s me in the spot-light…trying to figure out why I love one era of REM, but loathe another.
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May 19 2025
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5
Automatic For The People
I was listening to a podcast about Euro 84 the other day, when France won and Platini scored 9 goals in 5 games. Apparently he was in one of those periods where everything he did and everything he touched turned to gold. If the squad were playing cards he won, if he saw a horse race on TV he picked the winner, if they played tennis or table tennis he won, and everything on the pitch went his way, he knew France would win the tournament, it was inevitable.
I kind of get that feeling from this album, one of those times where it feels like every decision, every string arrangement, every guitar figure, every drum pattern, every piano and keyboard note and every bass line is just right, when the artistry and artisanship meet perfectly. It also sounds fantastic, and nothing like much else from 1992, either in songwriting style or production, almost timeless, or out of time you might say.
For the most part it's all glacially paced, with only Sidewinder and Man on the Moon really recalling their earlier upbeat jangly sound. But it’s a compelling, stunning album, melodically rich and emotionally, melancholically resonant with some of their finest songs: Drive, Try Not to Breathe, Everybody Hurts, Sweetness Follows, Nightswimming and Find the River. And the remaining, perhaps lesser known songs like Monty Got A Raw Deal, Ignoreland and Star Me Kitten are excellent too.
I can see why some people might have been hesitant about it, compared to their slightly more rough-edged 80s albums. From those 80s albums I’ve listened to they have the exciting sense of the band pushing the outer edges of their talent, but this feels different, that they moved beyond what they had done previously, striking out into a stately, magisterial assuredness.
A fantastic album from start to end, there’s no weak tracks, and no weak moments - I kept wanting to give it just one more listen. A clear 5.
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Playlist submission: It could be all of them, but today it’s Sweetness Follows
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Feb 25 2025
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5
What a fuckin classic… Michael stipe ruminating on all his sad boi feelings
Top 3 songs: man on the moon, nightswimming, everybody hurts
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Jan 29 2025
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5
Incredicle
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Aug 30 2024
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5
The closing 1-2-3 of Man on the Moon, Nightswimming and Find the River are unmatched
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May 13 2024
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5
REM sells out and we all benefit.
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Sep 25 2023
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5
One of my favorite albums of all-time. I bought this album on tape (a yellow transparent tape) and absolutely wore it out. There's nothing that I dislike about this album, even the instrumental. The first four songs and last three songs are classics and help make this album as great at it is.
I was one of the people who was waiting for the REM rock album, but through this life-changing album I got the REM I really needed. The ruminations on loss, death, Dr. Suess (haha) and one angry screed about politics that has many of my favorite lines in it. What I love most about this album is the ruminations on death & loss are not trite and even the fast songs are tinged with a sense of longing and the feel of aging.
I don't like dreary albums as a whole, but this album is an exception. It should drag, but it doesn't. I thought I would feel as exhausted as Stipe sounds on "Sweetness Follows," but I feel energized by each song (even Star Me Kitten). I saw on Wikipedia there is criticism from the band and the public regarding some of the recording and vocals, but for me the lack of perfection only serves to reinforce why I like it.
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Dec 11 2021
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5
Takes me back to playing roller coaster tycoon
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Nov 11 2021
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5
What a great album! Up until now, I have only really listened to R.E.M when it appears in a party playlist. I think it's a much better listening experience in album form, i.e. not such a mood killer. This album is going on the replay list. 5/5
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Nov 10 2021
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5
Great songs
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Nov 09 2021
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5
Everybody Hurts
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Nov 01 2021
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5
I’d never describe myself as an R.E.M fan but this album is undeniable. Classic track after classic track, I don’t really see how anyone could give this less than 5
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Oct 22 2021
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5
Probably REM's best album (and that's saying a lot, given the "competition"). Made even better through John Paul Jones' arrangements on some of the songs, which renders them pure magic.
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Oct 08 2021
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5
Probably the pinnacle of their production. R.E.M. don't get better than this record, for me.
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Sep 24 2021
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5
awesome love it
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Sep 24 2021
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5
Seminal album for me.
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Sep 21 2021
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5
Love this album! Poignant lyrics, endearing ennui, wistful storytelling.
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Sep 20 2021
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5
Nightswimming, The River, Man On The Moon, EVERYBODY HURTS. What a list of tracks! R.E.M is just one of those artists that can get you feeling every type of emotion throughout their music, and it's a beautiful thing because so. Incredible vocals of the 80s/ 90s.
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Aug 19 2021
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5
Doesn't get much better than that!
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Aug 03 2021
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5
Clásico.
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Aug 01 2021
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5
Easy 5. Even the non singles are ace. Monty got a raw deal...
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May 04 2021
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5
Loved it, played it multiple tomes
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May 26 2021
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5
R.E.M. is an incredible band and this might be my favorite album of theirs. I'm usually quite reluctant to apply labels like "favorite" or "best," or to rank an artist's or group's output, so I use "favorite" here in lower-case letters or parenthetically, mostly to indicate how I gravitate towards it. I don't want to diminish my affection for their other work. All that being said, there's a depth and texture to this album that makes it stand out for me in R.E.M.'s impressive catalog. It's odd to say this, but I actually believe this band is underrated, as are the four individual members as musicians and songwriters. I am particularly fond of Peter Buck (my view: because he didn't rip massive solos, even though he was more than capable of it, he is not talked about as much as other rock/pop/alt guitarists, but he's fantastic) and Mike Mills (quiet and cerebral, so not a limelight guy, he's an amazing bassist, pianist, singer, and writer). What I learned from the Wiki entry that's linked to this album is the John Paul Jones (yes, as in Led Zeppelin's JPJ) contributed string arrangements to four tracks on this album. That is super-cool (JPJ is another way, way underrated musician).
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Apr 11 2021
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5
Phenomenal.
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Feb 26 2021
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5
The second repeat! Much more welcome than Kate Bush.
Going from R.E.M.'s debut to their 8th album is a huge jump. The band is more confident, more powerul, and more in the groove. This album has a bunch of hits on it, and the non-hit tracks still slap.
Very, very enjoyable. Hung out for a while listening to live cuts and demos.
I'm not sure if this deserves a straight 5, but it's miles ahead of Murmer, which I gave a 4.
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Nov 29 2024
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Fourth R.E.M. album that's come up on this thing, which seems like too many. Regardless, this was good, a lot less rocking and more of a crawling deliberate record with some great standout songs.
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Nov 29 2024
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4
I hated out of time and put off listening to REM for a long time after that. Shiny Happy People being possibly the worst song ever written.
This album is a different beast entirely.
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Nov 27 2024
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4
Michael Stipe has an iconic voice. I really like it, though sometimes I find he becomes a bit of an American Morrissey, just warbling and rambling out of time on certain tracks. 'Ignoreland' and 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite' is where it's most prominent, though both tracks are among the best on the album.
'Everybody Hurts' is still amazing. A bittersweet sound which is prominent on most of the album but nowhere moreso than on this track. I like the more happy sounding songs too, a fun jangly pop sound.
I enjoyed this a lot, but there was something missing. Just that extra piece of the puzzle that would have made it incredible, but I'm not sure what that is.
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Oct 09 2023
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this is probably the album that convinced christina to go to school in athens. thanks REM!
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Feb 04 2025
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OK, but needs a bit more jingle and a lot more jangle.
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Nov 21 2024
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Automatic for the people was actually a really solid album. The songs here definitely left quite the impression on me especially the last few songs which could be legitimate tearjerkers at times. The sound of this album isn't really anything too special, different or unique but for what it does sound like, it manages to sound pretty good. The songs here were a bit similar sounding to each other but i didn't find that a huge issue since the style was all still good. This album is one that doesn't break new grounds but still manages to be a solid listen.
Best Song: The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
Worst Song: Sweetness Follows
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Oct 29 2024
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As with Garbage, I realised that actually I know this album quite well, even though I probably wouldn’t have known it.
I just can’t get past Stipe’s voice. I hate it. It’s like broken glass. It’s just grindy and annoying and urgh. I suspect the songs might be ok - but I just can’t get past the vocal.
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Jun 26 2024
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Man, I am NOT an R.E.M. fan, so I'll get through this one, I guess... My old roommate's dad was in a bunch of Savannah bands back in the 70's and 80's, and he used to tell us that his band played in Athens one time, and they had to open for some shitty house band named REM. I guess they aren't so shitty, because they've sold a ton of albums. Good for them. Maybe Jeff's dad was just jealous. It just isn't for me. I'm actually upset, because now the Spotify algorithm will try and infuse this into my recommendations... There is a nostalgia to some of these tunes. I watched MTV a lot back when this came out, so I was inundated with the "hits." If I had to pick, I like the album before this one, and I like Orange Crush off of their 88 album Green. Favorite song on here, Man on the Moon.
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Jan 26 2024
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This one starts off a little slow and stays that way for really the whole album. It's not bad, just not what I would expect I guess. I also think it sounds a little thin, guitars in particular, but I feel like thin sounding guitars are kind of an R.E.M. signature. That's one of the problems I've always had with R.E.M. - I always feel like they need to fill out the sound spectrum a little. I felt myself kind of drifting out of attention throughout this whole record. Does that make it background music? I hate to use the word 'boring' but it kind of was. I was excited when this record came up for the day but left a little disappointed.
There are certainly songs I like on this record, Everyboy Hurts, Drive, Monty Got A Raw Deal, Man On The Moon. But I wouldn't play this whole album again. 2.5 stars
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Dec 04 2023
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Overall, a fairly boring album. Nothing about the song composition anywhere in this album is notable. The saving grace for this album (and band) is Michael Stipe's voice which is unique and memorable. I had heard "Everybody Hurts" and "Man on the Moon" before. None of the songs were notable. "Ignoreland" is a predictable, dull, angsty uninformed rant against Republicans, which is just so classically predictable for musicians and out of touch celebrities. This album isn't difficult to listen to necessarily. It's not Queen Latifah levels of bad. It's just dull and predictable.
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Apr 08 2023
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Fine music, but I don't really vibe with it. I think it's a little too mellowed out, and flat. It doesn't really do it for me.
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Jan 06 2024
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I hate REM
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Mar 16 2022
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I truly dislike everything about REM. Couldn’t finish.
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Jun 12 2025
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5
Fantastic album start to finish.
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Jun 10 2025
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5
I liked this way more than I thought I would. Was great
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Jun 08 2025
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5
One their best albums and contains my favorite song of their's, Nightswimming!
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Jun 07 2025
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5
I loved REM’s 1986 album that’s on this list and this one is even better. More poppy but almost every song on this is really great. Consider me a REM now.
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Jun 03 2025
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5
One of my top all-time albums.
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Jun 03 2025
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5
A bit biases for R.E.M.
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Jun 03 2025
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I do believe they put a man on the moon, whether Andy Kaufman did or not. I also believe that R.E.M. is an amazing band, and "Automatic for the People" is a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ album.
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Jun 03 2025
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This is an easy "Automatic" five stars. If I had to choose only one REM album, I would still prefer to listen to faster paced albums like Green but this is the album I go to when I want to feel things.
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Jun 02 2025
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5
An all time classic.
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Jun 01 2025
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5
Solid throughout, got some nice singles. Lead singer has a distinct voice that hits.
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Jun 01 2025
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5
Never heard this as a whole, just some songs, it really is a lovely album. Everybody hurts isn't even the best track on this. 5*
Highlights: man on the moon, everybody hurts, the sidewinder sleeps tonite
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May 31 2025
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5
I knew (and liked) some songs off this album already, but the album as a whole is absolutely awesome. Very catchy, yet with very sad and emotional lyrics.
Favourites: Drive, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, Everybody Hurts, Man On The Moon, Nightswimming, Find The River
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May 29 2025
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5
Masterpiece, was and will be.
Fav: Night Swimming
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May 27 2025
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5
Great record. No skips. The band sounds amazing & Michael Stipe moves easily between singing melodically and yelping ferociously.
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May 27 2025
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5
The first album I got where I knew it would be a 5 before I started.
Automatic For The People was my introduction to REM back in the 90s. I knew it was great, but a fresh listen makes me think it's probably the best REM album and maybe the best on this list. Drive to Everybody Hurts is the best start to an album I've heard in a while. Man on the Moon, Nightswimming, and Find the River may be the best ending to an album ever. The middle drags a bit, but it's relative. There isn't a bad track on the album. I get some of the lower ratings. You have to be in the right mood for this. It's slower, emotional, and somewhat depressing at times.
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May 25 2025
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5
I haven’t heard this one since I was a kid. I appreciate it more now. It’s a really great one!
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May 22 2025
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The Good: It’s automatic…
The Bad: What if we like to have things more manual?
The Ugly: Realizing that R.E.M. stands for Retard Eats Manure…
All kidding aside… what an album!
R.E.M. were royalty for a decade, and I would argue that this was their Opus Magnus.
It must be age that is making me really enjoy this album, because I recall that, when this album launched, I did not want to hear it at all. I guess my ears had been bludgeoned to death with R.E.M. on the air-waves, and I was not ready to listen to their sad stories…
Today, however, I think I’ve played the album 4 times and can’t get the song “Man on the Moon” out of my head… I blame Jim Carrey!
Truth be told, it might not just be melancholy that makes me appreciate this album more today than back in the ‘90s, it might very well have to do with the horrid state of affairs when it comes to modern music, and it all sucking balls…
So, here’s to R.E.M lulling us back to days when things were better!
5*
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May 21 2025
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5
My favorite R.E.M. record. Every song is good, no skips. A masterpiece.
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May 20 2025
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5
I LOVED THIS
Chill rock not too heavy and easy on the ears
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May 20 2025
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5
I scored the previous two R.E.M. albums 3 stars, but this one just hit much harder for me. Such a solid record, wonderful production, love his vocals, it's all good. Favourite tracks: Try Not To Breathe, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (turns out it's 'Call me when you try to wake her up', not 'calling Jamaica', sadly), Everybody Hurts, Ignoreland, Man On The Moon, Nightswimming.
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May 19 2025
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'Everybody Hurts', overplayed, full MTV and VH1 90s ubiquity, and the closest thing to sentimental balladry - but a genuinely comforting song when listened to after all these years. Other singles 'Sidewinder' and 'Man on the Moon' amongst the best ever written, atmospheric, moving, uplifting, melancholic, glorious.
Even 'Star Me Kitten' shows that he can basically read out the signage from Timpsons and still make it other-worldy and beautiful.
The anti anthem of 'Drive', the folk melancholia if 'Try Not to Breathe', the haunting 'Nightswimming', the majestic 'Find the River' one of my all time favourites.
The whole album feels like a concept, skirting around the inevitability of death, of sorrow but the beauty in life. Sure, it's just a fucking album, but that's what it does for me. Its an album rooted in folk, but still able to deliver brooding minor-key anthems. A soundtrack for life.
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May 17 2025
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I really needed an album I knew today after getting an absolutely horrific album yesterday, and I was so hyped when I saw this album.
It is such a STUNNING album omg I've always liked REM but finally listening to one of their albums is pretty cool! I like their style a lot, and this album is really good. Plus it has loads of songs I was already aware of so thats a bonus. It even has songs I didn't realise I knew like The Sidewiner Sleeps Tonite because I didn't know the title of it even though they always play it on the radio. Truly is banger after banger.
One of the first songs I ever learnt on the drums was Everybody Hurts when I was seven so that song is pretty important to me, and its really pretty, especially with the strings.
before even finishing, i know that this is overall: 5/5 I LOVE THIS
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May 16 2025
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Not my favourite REM album but full of atmospheric and lyrically thoughtful songs. I think my favourite track is Monty Got a Raw Deal. But it's REM.
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May 15 2025
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Einfach nur großartig!
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May 14 2025
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Ik heb al vaker gezegd dat ik dit album een 5 zou gaan geven, dus op dat vlak zullen er geen verrassingen zijn.
Een prettig album. Ook echt zo'n album album: De nummers zorgvuldig uitgekozen en in de juiste volgorde gezet.
Een band met een typisch geluid wat er in gaat als zoete koek. Voor de top 40 liefhebbers bevat dit album ook hun op 1 na grootste hit. Ik vind zelf Man On The Moon een leuker nummer, maargoed.
Dit zou ik regelmatig met plezier van voor naar achter aan kunnen zetten. En dat is uiteindelijk toch een beetje wat je wilde als je zo'n album op de kop tikte in 1992. Denk ik. Ik was toen 4 en hield van smurfenhouse en 2 Unlimited.
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