Automatic For The People

Such a comfortable listen. This was certainly a big album during my formative music years. Fave tracks: Drive, Ignoreland, Nightswimming

I can offer no higher praise for this album than to state that about half the tracks here were absolutely ubiquitous for a chunk of my youth, and I never objected to hearing them one more time. I don't tend to put REM on of my own volition, but it's never a chore to listen to them when they come on. Fave tracks - "Everybody Hurts" and "Man on the Moon" from the well played tracks, "Sweetness Follows" from the others.

This is probably the first R.E.M. album I’ve really liked, pleasantly suprised! I guess sometimes a band gets better when they go pop

Helt åkå

this is so close to a 1 that you can come va

What a disappointment!

slayed. i see them.

After getting Murmur last week, this was very disappointing. Nothing in there other than the songs i already knew that interested me. Some actively disinterested me. Shame as I thought it was a band I could see myself getting into after Murmur.

This was alright. I feel like people are obsessed with R.E.M., which I don't really get. Maybe it's nostalgia. I will say though, I did not mind listening to this.

Epic. Brilliant. Awesome

still a favorite. now on an REM binge...

Beautiful album, maybe even their best (Green brilliant too). And after the extreme succesfullOut of Time album very courageous to release Drive as first single. No favorite song, all are equally amazing and it is a real album as in: not a collection of songs but it creates an atmosphere that makes it one experience. Like OK computer is.

Great alternative album, thought I would think its boring but has great melodies and is a good listen.

Great!

Very good album

Superb album

Very sad, but well produced. Great introduction to REM

Was ok. I could see why the songs that were singles made the singles - they were the highest and lowest points of the album emotionally. Found the rest a bit flat.

Bit dull

Bn tranquilo, bnos riffs e interesante, me sorprendió

I really dont like rem. But the album was better than i expected.

I liked Man on the Moon, but that was about it.

good album

A masterpiece, Nightswimming alone would make this one of my favorite R.E.M. albums but it’s hits front to back.

This album is R.E.M. just being timelessly great. I love it. Their music has more true emotion than other bands I've heard from this time despite the cryptic lyrics. It's such a vibe, as the kids say.

I could listen to Stipe's voice forever. This is one of the best albums of all time.

Other than the hits, this didn’t do it for me

The singles from this album are great, Nightswimming is an especially pretty song. I think I still need more listens for the rest of the album to sink in, but i don't think there were any bad songs at all. The production on this album is amazing too.

4/5

Has a lot of great songs like Everybody Hurts and Man on the Moon, but not enough to carry the album to a 5.

bland but sincere

Brilliant. I'm 50-50 on REM, loving some songs and finding others either twee or meandering, but this album was flawless. A few songs I knew well (Man on the Moon, Sidewinder) and others I didn't. Drive, in particular, is an incredible opener and totally sets the mood. Each track is unique emotionally and musically. Faultless.

AJ: I’ve never listened to an R.E.M album. Drive is dark and awesome. “Hey kids, rock & roll..” Is everybody hurts the saddest song of all time?

An absolute classic. there are Just so many hits on this record.

I've never warmed to this album to allow it to be ranked with their earlier albums. Maybe the timing wasn't right for me as I was an R.E.M fan from the outset...Murmer is still my favorite album. Maybe I resented it in some weird way because it was their commercial breakthrough and I'm thinking "Ha where have you all been for the last 10 years" Or maybe it's just a more difficult listen than their earlier works one that requires more time and effort to reveal its charms Well for whatever reason listening this time around after leaving it for a while allowed me to appreciate it more than I ever have previously. There's a melancholy intesity that I never quite appreciated previously. Sweetness Follows has just that feel and it's quite beautiful. Same for Monty got a Raw Deal - I never took the time to appreciate the deeper album cuts on this album, maybe because there are none that really rock out and the strong structures are not typical verse chorus verse. Anyway I'm thinking this album finally will get my attention, something it probably deserved long ago. 4 stars with a bullet

As they moved into the 90s, R.E.M starts producing a sound that I don't think is for me. It's the Everybody Hurts album. Standouts include Ignoreland, Monty Got A Raw Deal and New Orleans Instrumental No. 1.

Too mellow, but still legendary

Did not realize they did Everybody Hurts

Nightswimming is an all time favourite song but this whole album is full of amazing songs.

One of the best and one of their best.

The Sodewinder Sleeps Tonight Everybody Hurts Monty Got a Raw Deal Ignoreland

Pretty mid

A great album probably REM at their best.

Not my go to type of rock and I usually only listen to a few R.E.M. songs here and there. This was pretty great to be honest.

classic indie rock

Now THIS is a good R.E.M. album. Actual interest and movement, great listen.

Quite apart from the fact this has several hits the whole tone of the album sets up a mood of intelligent introspection. Simply one of the best.

Still not a rem fan, but but it was a nice reminder of "everybody hurts" , my respect for rem increased every so slightly

Pretty solid. Slower than what I’m used to for REM, but still good.

8/10

So. It's good, I'm even on with the sidewinder sleeps tonight these days. Was going to default to a 3 tho but then realised I was maybe going to do that with Dinosaur Junior and those 2 albums definitely not in the same league... It is also a lot better than the other REM albums I've had on here, so I guess 4.

Night swimming is still one of my favourite songs. This album is pleasant and if it wasn't burned into the fabric of my 90s life, I might find it a bit bland but instead, I love it.

Sonzao nask, tem o clássico everybody hurts

some vibes and sounds as matchbox twenty. dad music

Favorite track is Man on the Moon - other than that one - felt all the same.

I dont think Id listen to this album again but it was a good experience. I have to add it sounds AMAZING in dolby atmos… absolutely perfect mix and recording

This is a really good album, has hints of country rock and classic rock which i love. Have been meaning to listen to more R.E.M so this is a good starting point.

I love REM but admittedly, I had never listened to an actual album of theirs. Cheers to the list for finally making me! There are two absolute classics on this album that I would consider some of the best of the 90s.

The album as a whole says that live is not white or black. It can be both at the same time, as well as it can be colorful. It's a great listen.

not my fave

Smart lyrics and good music. Really good stuff.

4.75

One of REMs best. If not the best. Melancholy but enjoyable.

Oh look another REM album

Sometimes everything is wrong.

I'm a hit-or-miss, take 'em or leave 'em, R.E.M. fan. And I've always thought of Michael Stipe as a self-righteous, grumpy "old man" type. But this was a fantastic album from start to finish. I've always resisted calling myself a fan primarily because the few people that I've personally known, who were huge fans, were all pretentious a**holes. That has nothing to do with their music, but I just like having a forum to say it out loud. Kylie, Ed, Emily, Tall Ed, the jerk who sat behind me in geometry, and Liz Walker's d-bag brother: get over yourselves, you dicks.

maybe I was sleepy but yeah 3/5 fo sho.

Lekker album, erg van genoten. Geeft goede 90s vibes.

Paar bekende nummers, maar als nog echt heeel neutraal hier over?? En Emma’s vader is er fan van dus dat maakt het weer extra lastig

Ook weer een boomer band, maar kom hier best in komen. Sommige nummers hadden mooie teksten

This is a beautiful album of melancholic musings that are not indicative of defeat but rather reminders that love exists and life can be good. Is this album them selling out and going more mainstream? Who the fuck cares! This is a masterpiece of pop rock. I don’t give a shit about the band’s career arc and whatnot. I like their old stuff, and I like their stuff ten years on, as the band members matured and had different things to say. “Nightswimming” says everything you need to hear sometimes. The stars aligned in the making of this album.

I've always liked these guys, but this album when it came out was absolutely perfect for what they were trying to do. That three album spam from Out Of Time to Monster are just fantastic. Plus, get orchestrations from JPJ on this record, which is a massive bonus.

Some of them are good but the album ended being too similar

I'm not necessarily a huge R.E.M. fan but they made some really great songs during their career, several of which appear here. Everybody Hurts is just a moving song. I've been there and it's hard not to feel the emotions stir when this plays. I can't give it a 5, but there are several 5 star songs.

Inte lika vass som Green-plattan men det är ju jäkligt bra ändå. Hade skalan gått till 10 så hade Green fått 10 och denna 8 eller 9. Nu måste jag välja mellan 4 och 5.

Great album, happy to find it out by here

Nightswimming var overraskende

I really enjoyed this more than I expected. It’s a dark, introspective album.

An alt-rock classic. Yes, it's been overplayed but you can't fault the quality or the tunes, production, playing, singing and even the obtuse lyrics. Maybe their last great album? Best Tracks: Drive; The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite; Nightswimming

super masterpiece

An easy album on the ears, my favourite songs were The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, Everybody Hurts and Man On The Moon.

This is the first album on my list that I got and at the start I didn't like it because it was something new to me. As I got to the middle of it I started to like it more and it is good. Its not something I would listen to all of the time but if I need something different to listen to, I would turn this on. It will depend on what other albums I get.

Oh, we bought this album when it first came out I think. Pretty much Peak REM at that point. I don't think I've listened to the CD this century though and I was slightly wary of what it would be like. And actually it holds up pretty well. It's the bit of REM where there aren't as many jangly guitars and it's all a bit more downbeat, but the underlying style is still there. Enjoyable to listen to after all these years and I'll clearly have to go back and dig the old CDs up. Or download a few more of their albums. And Everybody Hurts happened to be mentioned on a TV programme we were watching the other night. Or maybe Night Fishing. Either would have worked. Half decent this.

It's easy to say this album isn't as good as some of the older REM albums but it is still a classic and has some cracking tracks on it. I bought it on the day it came out and it is still in heavy rotation

Certainly a unique band. The vocals are well written and the voice is easy to listen to. The music is creative and the hooks can hook. I have never been an REM fan and frankly I can’t say why. Good casual listening, though I’m not gonna add it to my collection.

Oh, the earth tones of a late-period masterpiece. Oh the refinement and depth and maturity and bittersweetness that yet retains its hope, hard-won though it feels. "Sidewinder" and "Man on the Moon" are as good as anything REM ever did (which is saying a lot) and all the other cuts work exceedingly well on their own terms. One entered adulthood, seemingly in exactly simultaneity with this fine record, which one pairs mentally with New Adventures in Hi-Fi (with the nonpareil "Electrolyte"). It still sounds great when one's long since past middle age. What a band this was.

-didn’t write a BL- AL: I really didn’t like this album. R.E.M. is a band my mum likes, but I’ve personally never felt any affinity for. I just thought this album was annoying and corny. The lyricism is very shallow (“everybody hurts”, my only reaction is that of a no shit!) some tracks were just downright annoying (the aforementioned “everybody hurts” and “the sidewinder sleeps tonite”. It’s just jangly American pseudo-country shite. This has to be truly the most milquetoast album I’ve ever witnessed. The production value is good but you know the saying about polishing a turd. I’d be happy if I never had to listen to R.E.M. ever again. FT: “Man on the Moon” was the only one I thought this is ok 1/5

This was one of the first five or 10 CDs I ever owned. So I have a very soft spot of nostalgia for this album.

Distinct sound, influential, and nice atmospheric sound on this album.

I already knew and liked a lot of these. Try Not to Breathe was a great new find

Great band, great album, lyrics nonsensical but feel right music is on point. Just brilliant psuedo cerebral American 90s guitar music.

Monopoly, 21, Checkers, and chess. This album saw R.E.M. continue with the acoustic elements they'd embraced on Out of Time, while also plugging in again and going darker, no longer such Shiny Happy People. Everybody Hurts, Man on the Moon, Nightswimming and Drive are particularly standout songs to me. I was always more a fan of Green, but this one is up there for me (Top 5: Green, Life's Rich Pageant, Document, Automatic for the People, Out of Time).

1991 - Out of Time, so many shiny happy people. The following year R.E.M. reverses course and still drops an amazing, almost perfect album. Everybody Hurts, Man on the Moon, Nightswimming and Sweetness Follows and more. Listening to it all the way through now at a much older age it feels like it understands moments and life much better than I do now.

R.E.M, for me, is vanilla, bland and boring. I don't get it.

Automatic Bore The People...wocka wocka wocka! I'll always like Nightswimming and Everybody Hurts but not much else I need to hear from there again.

Sound is surprisingly good. Has some classics. Not usually my jam but liked this one

Je kiffe le son des guitares, pas fan de la voix mais ça s'écoute bien. Pas un énorme coup de coeur mais ça fait le travail. MAIS C'EST PLATE

Gigantic.

average

Just a very good and solid rock album. Drive is an amazing introduction to the album. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite is honestly a banger. Everybody hurts is a beautiful ballad with a beautiful message for the people who feel they have nothing to live for. Tracks I enjoyed the most: every single track except Try Not To Breathe, didn’t really like that one

It was just fine. Everybody hurts was a great track but for the most part I was uninterested.

Everybody hurts....sometimes. This is R.E.M.'s dark album. Their sad album :( It makes me wonder what it would've sounded like if they did the fast and hard rock album they were planning on making. Ignoreland is probably the closest we would get to that, and that song kicks ass. I think the rest of it is still the standard quality R.E.M., just not as captivating as their preceding albums. Which is disappointing because people seem to really like this one! Like, this is heralded as R.E.M.'s best. I always feel a little bad when I give an album a listen and it doesn't stack up. I definitely don't think Automatic For The People is a bad album, just one that doesn't stick with me as much. Perhaps I should do a discography run? Check out more of their IRS era?

Maybe REM’s most famous album, but not my personal favourite. “The sidewinder sleeps tonite” is a great song. Overall though, I much prefer their earlier work and the balladry here doesnt appeal to me as much as it does to others. It’s a highly respectable album.

It’s good for a few tracks at first, then there’s a lull, then it picks up a little at the end. Manages to squeeze in fun and depression. 2.5

What album buries its two strongest tracks three-quarters of the way through the album? A group so confident in their game they can do whatever they like. (tracks in question Man on the Moon and Nightswimming).

I enjoy R.E.M. songs, but to some extent they do all sound the same to me. This is largely due to the vocalist being so distinct I think. It's a little fun and peppy for most of the album. 4.5

Incredible melodies and and moving lyrics, I loved the album!

4/5

Favorite song: “Man On The Moon”. I was a little disappointed by this one. It got a bit boring.

I liked it more as it went along. Not sure how often I would listen to this.

Nice songs. Nostalgia

Absolute gem of an album, some of REMs best lyric writing is right here. Everybody Hurts alone makes this album great, the rest is above par. No filler. 4.5/5

I mentioned in an earlier review that Green and Out of Time were my favorite R.E.M. albums from back in the day. Kind of strange that this one, coming right afterwards, never found its way into my collection. Maybe because I thought "Everybody Hurts" was a whiny dirge? But other than that, I had liked all the other singles from this album so who knows? In any case, I was quite happy to listen today, and I quite loved this music...even "Everybody Hurts."

Having let the R.E.M. fan-wagon pass my by, I can't say that I ever even listened to one of their albums if full before 1001. I did like this one, but I am not sure that I would have appreciated it so much back in the day. It has not compelled me to dig deeper into their library, but it was a good album.

Mournful and lovely. Hold on.

Like millions of others I became a fan of R.E.M. in college. This was the first R.E.M. release after I left college. I haven’t listened to it in a very long time and had sort of never considered how R.E.M.’s evolution in this release synced up so well with my own. Today I realize what a perfect reflection this album is of some of the reckonings I was just about to start wrestling with in my own life. I hadn’t noticed how much maturity and sadness were in this album at the time. I had forgotten - or maybe never realized - how wonderful this album is. I had no idea what emotions listening to it again would inspire in me today. Automatic for the People is a very special album.

It's nice, fun but not my favorite.

Wel aangename muziek. Niet mijn meest favoriete album of band

Not necessarily bad, just extremely boring.

Good

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.

After the world, was introduced to R.E.M. through Out Of Time (this album's predecessor - think Shiny, Happy People and Losing My Religion), Automatic For The People was the band's magnum opus. The album is mostly acoustic and melancholy. The music is phantastic, no song sounds like another, and Michael Stipes voice fits perfectly here. Everybody knows Everybody Hurts, Nightswimming and Man On The Moon. Drive and The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite have been very succesful singles in their own right. Find The River, however, is something else: the quintessential song that perfectly sums up and closes this album; this is one of R.E.M's best. But really, every song is at least "good" here, and the album as a whole is truly a masterpiece. 5/5

Great album

bof

There are a few of those albums on this planet that get picked apart by documentaries. Every song, every lyric, every sound, every riff on the album tells a story. Sgt. Peppers has that status, as well as Pet Sounds or Ziggy Stardust to name a few. This REM album should be in that illustrious list. An album to listen to again and again, sometimes with headphones, sometimes in your living room and sometimes load at a party. This will give you a new look on the album every time. As most albums in REM's repertoire this one stands on its own again, before REM went into a different direction. Absolute masterful

Vraiment bon, un genre grunge rock un peu epuré 4.90

3-4

Classic album, some great memories came flooding back

Solid Album, though it is funny when I can't tell that the album ended and some completely different band is playing.

I was sad and this album mad me sadder. Also this was a bad way to figure out that I don't like R.E.M.

Liked it.

Some solid tracks. Drive and Ignoreland stand out. Never liked Michael Stipe’s voice. Too much accordion and mandolin. Still a decent album.

Super good album. Much better than i expected

Solid soft rock from start to finish, pleasant, poetic snapshots of the human experience

Bello, ma triste. Poi migliora: 4 stelle, quasi 5.

I really find rem hard to listen to despite their hits in this album. I've mailed it down to the vocals but I could be wrong. There's something I find so draggy and annoying about their songs. I will vote a 3 as it's extremely neutral music for me

Probably not their best. This one is a downer. Good instrumentals brought down by modest production.

Carino, non lo riascolterei subito subito

I have never listened to the album in its entirety, having done so I have been totally surprised. As individual tracks that have made the charts this, for me, was REM at their best. When combined with the album tracks the whole album is a more finished, polished product. I really like this album, and it’s one that I will be listening to time and time again. 5/5 for me

not really my sound but man on the moon was cool

A nice change of pace

I really find rem hard to listen to despite their hits in this album. I've mailed it down to the vocals but I could be wrong. There's something I find so draggy and annoying about their songs. I will vote a 3 as it's extremely neutral music for me

Muy lindos temas Sidewinder sleeps tonite, everybody hurts, man on the moon, los demas temas acompañan muy bien, en ningún momento se hace pesado

Calm

Have listened to this before. It's pretty good.

Love this album. It's in my library.

Good, accessible and radio friendly. Five hugely popular and quality songs - notably Night Swimming and Everybody Hurts. Crossover between indie, rock, Americana and chart pop. Very accomplished.

I mean, it's R.E.M. It's pure sound. I figured if any album sold me it would be this one, but its not my thing.

Only heard Murmur by them before this, which I love. Good stuff, vulnerable. Faves: Drive, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, Monty Got a Raw Deal, Ignoreland, Man On The Moon, Nightswimming, Find The River; 4.5/5

Not for me, vocals are super grating, instrumentation just sounds like bland radio rock.

Fave songs I hadn’t heard: “Nightswimming” and “Find the River“

3/5

Great album, used to love it but had not listened for a very long time.

Glorious album!

Boring as fuck

Still one of my favorite REM records

27th feb. Monday. Rainy day. Back to work on Shakeeb’s farm.

It’s not bad ablumm

Had its moments for me

great album, better than I remembered. Well regarded with reason.

Très bien et geignard

One of my all time favourites. To me the whole is so much more than the sum of its parts. A masterpiece of ups and downs that came to me in a sea of grunge.

Incredible album. Michael Stipe has such an iconic voice. Only flaw that I had was that Nightswimming should have been the final track, because that and drive are perfect closing/opening tracks respectively. Real rating 4.5/5

Overall I enjoyed this but idk what was going on with "Star Me Kitten". Creepy af

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...."

Meh

CD

Have always loved this album so so much. Drive, Try Not to Breathe, The Sidewinder Sleeps, New Orleans Instrumental No. 1, Man on the Moon, Nightswimming all some of my favorite tracks ever. Can’t believe I’m giving yet another five this week.

I think I preferred Green to this, but there’s still a lot to like here. Excellent lyrics and the melodies are engaging.

Genres: Alternative Rock Formed: Athens, Georgia, in 1980 Run time: 12 songs, 48 min 36 sec Some great songs with impressive Spotify statistics: the least played song on this album has nearly 5 million plays, whilst the most popular has well over 300 million plays. I loved a third of the album and enjoyed most of the other songs. My favourite is “Man on the Moon” about the American entertainer (comedian), Andy Kaufman. The instrumental “New Orleans Instrumental No.1” is two minutes of pure relaxation. The album is great if you just want some pleasant background noise, and though provoking if you wany to listen to the lyrics.

I'm not super familiar with R.E.M.'s discography, but if this isn't their best album it's certainly close. "Everybody Hurts" and "Man on the Moon" are certainly familiar to anyone alive during the '90s (when R.E.M. was downright inescapable), but "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight" and "Drive" are "Best of..." material as well. This album's also got "Nightswimming," half of what I always think of as R.E.M.'s unofficial "Night & Day" combo (the other being "Daysleeper" from their album "Up"). I wasn't previously familiar with "New Orleans Instrumental No. 1," but it's a mellow bit of fun, too. Add all this to the fact that the rest of the album is no worse than "sure, I don't mind listening to this," I'd say this is a solid 4. Good stuff.

Solid album. Man on the Moon is one of my all-time favorites (love the ode to Andy Kaufman), and Everybody Hurts was a big hit at the time. The video was shot in my hometown & my high school friend is in the video. He recently told me the whole story & it's pretty fantastic. 4 stars.

So many incredible songs on this one. This was not my entry point to REM, but it as definitely one that is probably my favourite.

... like an enormous Star on the end of a Girder, you might miss it if you don't look up, and pause. music that moves every song rubs through your body like a soothing cord, and then some almost move you to tears, or to dance, or to shout in exultation of the beauty and exquisite pain and delicious richness and terrible precariousness of life and music that once in a while just gets it.... sometime hypnotic, calming, or evocative of the most painful moments and episodes. it's the comfoet of reapting a familiar chord and letting it out...healing. they are angels come to sing to us, while we toil fumble and stumble, they get us to look up and see the hand, or the fire, the point, or the star sticking out in the sky, and go on. or the whole album could just be about sex and loss, dear kitten. read the lyrics.

Es el disco de R.E.M. que mas me gusta

R.E.M. is great

Listened to this one before, but it has been several years. The three songs to ignite and close the album are equally strong, including "Drive" as a stellar, ominous opener. Of course, "Everybody Hurts" is an important one for compilations of unfortunate instances and for meme circles, as well as being a neat ballad outright. I will say that there is a drop in quality in the middle section of this album spanning from "Sweetness Follows" to "Star Kitten" even though the songs are passable. Perhaps you could argue that the aforementioned drop starts as early as "Everybody Hurts" depending on your stance, though I enjoy it myself. The highlights are shining stars. Totally understand of how this could be viewed as R.E.M.'s best.

Another classic album

Incredibly angering. Why was something this boring, this whining, this draining… so popular? If you ever have trouble sleeping, this is your cure.

I'm not an R.E.M. fan. I wouldn't pick up an R.E.M. album consciously to listen to but this album is a true classic - every song here has it's place, and some of the songs are stellar - mainstays of the 90s - and while some songs might have been spun a lot - none of them feel overplayed. It's subtle, it's warm, it's catchy and it's unique. Loved this one.

rock folk merece reescucha, suena bien y lo apreciaria mejor un par de temas muy conocidos, everybody hurts y man on the moon (sobre andy kaufman) empieza abajo y va subiendo

I feel like throughout my childhood, my favourite musical artist has been many things: GnR. Weird Al Yankovic. Queen. Tears for Fears. And R.E.M, circa 2008 or something (though it wasn't for any song on this album! Think "Stand", "Losing my Religion", "It's the End..."). FM radio almost burned me out of "Everybody Hurts" & "Man on the Moon", but as far as 90's hit albums go, this still ranks pretty high in my own preferences. Brooding can be beautiful HL: "Everybody Hurts", "The Sidewinder...", "Nightswimming", "Monty Got a Raw Deal", "Man on the Moon" January 26, 2023 (late)

Hella boring, depressing as fuck

omg same name as me hehe :p Fave track - Everybody Hurts

Very good. Not my style but excellent.

One of their greatest albums so many great songs

REM have some great records, but this one is boring. It has some of their most popular songs, which are exactly the ones I don't like. Drive, Man on the Moon, Night Swimming. Favorite song on the album: Ignoreland.

I don't know man; this album just doesn't really do it for me. Sure it's fine, but it never really seem to grasp my attention. Everybody Hurts and Man on the Moon are fine songs by themselves, but not especially interesting for me. Favorite song I think is Nightswimming.

A dang good 90's alternative album. "Drive" remains one of my favorite R.E.M. tracks, and is a great, dark way to enter this album. Exiting on the one-two punch of "Nightswimming" and "Find the River" is a beautiful, classy goodbye. Sure, some of the hits like "Everybody Hurts" and "Man on the Moon" have been played to hell over the past 30 years, but the rest of the album overshadows them. I always enjoy a listen of this one.

Some good bits, but there are better REM albums - eg Life's Rich Pageant

There are some big hitters in terms of songs on here. I love Sidewinder Sleeps, Nightswimming and Man on the Room. The new stuff washed over me a bit. It sounded quite of it's time and place.

REM are boss. Was going to give this a 4 but I gave The White Album a 4 and it’s not quite there. Man On The Moon, Night Swimming Everybody Hurts and Sweetness Follows my stand outs. High 3 - boss album

Feel harsh as I listened to two Beatles albums back to back before this. What it do though is solidify my score for the previous two. I always thought this was a decent album so I will give it a 3 here but its miles and miles behind what I have heard today. It also didn't help that Spotify chose to play 'Drugs Don't Work' by the Verve straight after which is a better song than anything on this album

Instant classic, smart, and we'll produced

Not necessarily my style, I've never found REM to be particularly compelling, but a beautiful and super strong album. Helps me see the hype a bit more

I didn't think this would be a 5 but it's brilliant.

I love this album. Always reminds me of my dad driving us to school as kids, especially “Man on the Moon.” Blast that from the ‘96 Civic all dayyy

Just all around a good album from start to finish. Love the lyrics and delivery by Michael Stipe.

This is the second REM album I have received. While containing more hits than “Murmor”, I didn’t enjoy this one as much. Still has REMs unique sound, but it’s hard to not find songs like “everybody hurts” cheesy. The brooding atmosphere comes across more authentically in some of the other tracks. Solid 3/5 for me.

at a time in music when every other band fell entranced by the novelty of grunge — parents everywhere constantly on edge that their sweet teen of yesterday would set a guitar ablaze and dye their mohawk green — with Nirvana hot on their success (and, even the Foo Fighters’ debut album reviewed a couple days ago soon to come), REM felt the weight of their adulthood creeping in ways most of the bands riding the wave of teen angst would be too late to capture. Automatic for the People, then, is thematically (and literally) an album of aging while everyone around you celebrates the infinite possibilities of youth. there’s a painful blow of reality that the record carries on its shoulders, sure, but it also wears a sheen of hope that’s comforting to the point of saccharine even. “Everybody Hurts,” a song i recognized as a Glee-era masterwork, is a cry to the youth to hold on, even in the midst of struggle. and “Find the River” is a sweeping bookend to an album that sees REM accept mortality, not as something to fear, but as something to cherish. there’s a nowness on the album that helps it transcend time itself — it’s not too focused on the future, and even its ruminations on the past are not melancholy. Automatic for the People suggests that the best time is now, but when tomorrow comes, it’ll be glorious.

A number of great songs, and one of the best ever written.

Mielestäni albumi on erittäin hieno, kitara säestää kivasti vaikkakin yksinkertaisesti ja kokonaisuudessaan albumi on kaunis ja musiikillisesti miellyttävä. <3 Kappaleissa on kiinnostavia bassolinjoja ja laulaja hoitaa hommansa hienosti. Albumilta löytyy myös muutama hieman pitkäveteisempi kappale, mutta se ei oikeastaan haittaa. Albumi oli oikein positiivinen yllätys! Vaikka ensimmäiset kappaleet ovat hieman energisempiä ja rennompia, ei albumi kuitenkaan ole täynnä vain iloa ja rentoutta. Muutaman ensimmäisen kappaleen jälkeen tuleekin melko alakuloinen kappale (Everybody Hurts), joka kääntää koko albumin melankolisempaan suuntaan. Vaikka kappale onkin jokseenkin tunteellinen, se tuo kokonaisuuteen mukavaa vaihtelua. Everybody Hurts on selkeästi tarkkaan mietitty ja huoliteltu, ja se toimii eräänlaisena käännekohtana kokonaisuudessa. Surumielisyydellä ja kaipuulla jatkavat kappaleet New Orleans Instrumental No. 1 sekä Sweetness Follows. Suosikkikappaleeni albumilta ovat varmaankin Drive, Sweetness Follows, Man On The Moon ja Nightswimming. Ehkä tähän albumiin voisi vielä myöhemmin palata hyvän musiikin vuoksi tai jos etsii esimerkiksi jotain soitettavaa kitaralle!

Exactly what I expected from an R.E.M. album...

Not bad

There are a couple of good tracks here, but much of it doesn’t really go anywhere. Not bad, but not enough to recommend it either.

These are really fun songs! The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight is not my favorite single by them but its fine. EVERYBODY HURTS!!!! The back half of the album is a little wishy washy for me. Man On The Moon and Night Swimming are both killer songs.

Great album by REM. A definite favourite.

Onpas tämä tylsä. (Akustinen) kitara ja äänimatto ja ilmeisesti sanoitusvetoista laulua. Kohokohdat puuttuu.

Kuinka paljon Everybody Hurtsista ja Man on the Moonista pitäisi tykätä, että jaksaisi kuunnella tätä levyä? Paljon enemmän kuin itse pidän. Mutta niiden hittipotentiaali oikeuttaa kahteen tähteen.

A superb album, REM's best in my opinion. Instantly memorable songs, great musicianship and singing. I've never been a huge REM fan but this is just outstanding

8/12, 67%

A couple of great standout songs, but a bit subdued, with some dour filler.

This was the first CD I ever bought (well, one of two - the other was Mary Jo’s What’s the 411). A tenner for both. My guess is that they’d fallen off the back of a lorry. AFTP was about one week old then. I’d heard ‘Drive’ and liked it, but I don’t think I would have bought this if not for my free trade fella on Wood Green High Street. Good on him. 30 years on, still an all time favourite. Some grumble that it is their sell out album. Maybe, but if so they did it in style.

Very listenable. But also very boring. Got some bangers; "Everybody Hurts" and "Man On The Moon" and "Nightswimming" 3.5

Boring shit stain of an album

REM has such a distinctive sound but still manages to have a variety among their songs. Great songwriting and melancholy vibe. I definitely appreciate them more than I did when my mom and dad would listen to them when I was a kid.

This was a pretty relaxing album to listen to. It faded into the background pretty quick for me but I did enjoy it. Wasn't enough to hold my full attention but still a good listen.

I just thoroughly enjoy REMs sound. They’re simple in melody but their lyrics are strong. I always forget what a heavy hitter Everybody Hurts is!

Great start and finish to the album. Most songs were really good and easy to listen to.

first listen some good stuff

79/100: I didn't think I liked R.E.M. until I listened to this album. Sure, I like "Losing My Religion" and have heard "Everybody Hurts" plenty of times, but I'd never explored the rest of their discography enough to be able to say whether I liked them as a group before. Listening to this album, I was definitely pleasantly surprised. There were plenty of songs I'd never heard before but really enjoyed listening to, which isn't always the case in situations like these. This is the type of experience that will definitely lead me to explore more R.E.M. albums in the future.

This is the sound of REM becoming adults. They spread out and bring in strings (arranged by JPJ!) and deal with some life issues. Find the River is beautiful, and Man on the Moon is a classic. Several other songs are really good here as well. Not a groundbreaking record, necessarily, but an excellent continuation of developing musicians and songwriters.

It was pretty good.

Can see it’s influence on emo

This album has been such a party of my life for such a long time that I don't think I can review it objectively. That said, it's still immortal.

R.E.M.'s eighth studio album is nothing to sneeze at, I can see why their appeal has lasted the test of time. Whilst there were some songs that were lacking, the majority were pretty good. Themes of mortality, loss, mourning, and nostalgia dig deep into the melancholy of Stipe's voice. Best: Everybody Hurts Worst: The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite

Highlight: Everybody Hurts

Very solid 90s rock. Well paired vocals and string work

4.5

I listened to this twice and still don't really remember anything about it. I think it was okay?

in general this is a very whiny album. everybody hurts what a classic. new orleans instrumental no. 1 is pretty beautiful i think more of the album should be in this vein. sweetness follows is nice star me kitten is vulgar and ew if u believe they put on a man on the moon... unclear if REM believes this or not frankly didnt finish

Very sad dad vibes

I didn't hate it.

This is a fantastic album, my favorite R.E.M. album, and one of my favorite albums ever. This is where their music got a bit sadder, a bit deeper, a bit more grown-up. Every song is good - there is no filler in sight here, and some of the best songs come at the very end. Poignant, crystaline, well-conceived song-writing, from beginning to end. I love the instrumentation, too, especially the strings - absolutely beautiful. Of course, I would remiss if I didn't mention that this album, along with several other R.E.M. albums, was the soundtrack of my life at a very formative time and was very personally significant to me. A great band at the peak of their talent. 5/5

It is okay, but quite repetative for me.

i heard this a lot growing up, so i expected to love it more than i did, but it's still pretty decent. good energy, weird lyrics that are fun to think about, and Nightswimming is just an alltimer ballad. 7/10

8/10. But close to a 9. I think this was my favorite REM album so far

This probably has my two favorite REM songs on it. 6/10

Just like listening to XRT

4/5. Not all songs are perfect but there are some bonafide classics like everything hurts, nightswimming, and man on the moon. Less songs would make this a perfect album.

And speaking of REM... weird. Not bad and probably not their only album on here so I won't say "that other album should be here". Oh wait, I just checked and I've reviewed them twice. Anyway, I still don't hate them but I'll never turn them on proactively.

An absolutely solid album. I love almost every song on here and did so when it came out but when people say Everybody Hurts is overplayed then I have to agree. I have to skip it because it has ridiculously strange connotations for me. Hospital DJs insist on playing it thinking it’s appropriate/poignant to play to people lying in the hospital beds I disagree it makes me hate hospital DJs and that song. The rest is blinding.

This seminal album of my youth has held up well over 30 years. It feels like 1992 all over again. Lots of great songs-well recorded and not many duds. Maybe that Monty song, that’s about it. Ignoreland, Drive and Sweetness Follows are gems.

5*

4.5 Love it

Meh

I really enjoyed most of it but the tracks that didn’t hit, dragged things down a bit. Opened really strong with Drive. Moody album, Stripe is a good frontman. 3.5 stars

Pretty awesome, I didn't know everybody hurts was from this album.

Late high school through early post college I listened to a ton of R.E.M., running a few years behind the actual releases - my interest peaked around Life’s Rich Pageant I think, and tailed off sharply thereafter. This is fine but not their best to my mind and is definitely in the era where my attention started to flag.

Sidewinder sleeps tonight - forgot this song. very good Everybody Hurts - still a gut punch of a song. Lots of history to it for me. Sweetness follows - great opening line. good song OK album over all. Some great classic songs, a couple new ones and ones that didn't do anything for me.

wonderful, full of gems

This is a very fine record, it was a pleasure listening to it for the first time in a while. When I live in Adelaide it was a car cd for our trips to Melbourne, Broken Hill et al as it is a classic open road record, great singalong tunes, strange and wonderful words and some time fine playing. The three players are a top shelf unit and I love any combo that does the instrument swap, it always leads to different sounds. Bill Berry is a standout here in terms of the songwriting, they drifted after he left. Michael is at his absolute best, he knows what to do with the tunes, even if Man on The Moon just reminds me that Andy Kaufman gave me the shits. As a late comer to this process this is the closest I've come to a truly great album.

Didn’t get much time with this classic album, but liked it and want to come back for more.

This is a really great record, and one of the first examples of an alternative band (from when alternative bands were really part of an alternative music industry) breaking huge into the mainstream. R.E.M. had been underground darlings for most of the 80s and had signed to a major and gone big with their Green album, which I personally find a bit patchy. And then this; an ambitious masterpiece which was still true to what they had always been, but with a major label size and sheen. Which is a bit weird, given how dark this album is. It is truly wonderfully recorded by Scott Litt, with clear and spacious basic tracks brought into a cinematic scale by the string arrangement of John Paul Jones. I am hard pressed to think of a rock record with better arrangements than this record; they are so sympathetic to the song, they know when to hold back, and when to add to the song. The strings really are amazing, notably on Drive. Michael Stipe’s vocals are mixed further to the front than on their earlier records, and you can hear the lyrics. Is that a good or a bad thing? I’m pretty sure it was Dave Lewis who said he thought Michael Stipe was a great lyricist until he could actually understand what he was saying. The lyrics are enigmatic and opaque. I suspect that this broadens the appeal of this record; the lyrics are clearly highly emotional, often sad, but the blurred meaning and ambiguity allows the listener to project their own sensibility onto them. The lack of specific and clear meaning makes them more universal. An exception to that rule: Everybody Hurts, which is almost clumsily blunt. I blame this song for “Party of Five” acting. This was an acting trope prevalent in the 1990s (but you still see today), where an actor -- usually young -- would stare silently, often though a rain-streaked window at night, while Everybody Hurts plays in order to indicate a profound melancholia. I checked, and this indeed was used in the pilot episode of Party of Five (starting at 25.40, for those playing at home), although without the rainy window. It was a quick and cheap way of conveying deep sadness if your actor wasn’t actually up to it. It became a cliché. There are some great tunes on this album, and it is clearly widely loved. REM never made an album half as good afterwards. I find the record a touch enigmatic, which means it doesn’t have quite the emotional traction for me to give it 5 stars, but I certainly think it is worth 4.

This album is quite bland to me. Even everybody hurts, a song I thought I liked, read as a little dry. I can see why people love REM, but this hasn’t aged well to me. Maybe the lyrics are good, but I kinda hate them? I think that the album conjures Neil Young vibes in an uncanny way. I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt with a 3 but to me it’s barely eking out a 2.6

apparently i’d entirely forgotten that this album was in the background for the majority of my childhood, so thanks mom! i’ll fully admit to bias here, but i just love this album a lot.

This is REM’s 90’s masterpiece. Great album so many great songs. REM are such a great band and very underrated in the U.K. in my opinion.

Doesn't sound like the cover. Pretty good though. 80s rem>>>

Anything after Green I associate with my Mom. I know people want to talk about Dad rock, but I'm here to lobby for Mom rock. I find this record as well as Out of Time to be among the best examples of this genre that she's founded through her casual and not too critical listening habits. Thanks Mom.

Honestly, compared to Document and Murmur... this was kinda mid. It wasn't terrible, but it just didn't have the oomph that those records did, and the sadness hanging over it didn't feel especially poignant to me. It still had some classic songs though, and enough goodies and cool arrangements to keep it from scoring too low.

I enjoyed the record, would have liked a little something more to elevate it as a whole, it felt like it relied on singles heavily.

I immediately saw the cover and thought everybody hurts, everybody know that one. I don’t think I really knew any other song but I did like this album. 7/10.

As a kid of the 80s REM was a band I was "supposed" to like but when my go-to acts were Van Halen and the like.... it was a big/strong/closed-minded NO from me, right on into college. It's the end of the world and guh this song sucks fk no no no no. So I can vividly recall where I was in Cambridge MA in 1992 when I heard "Ignoreland" on the radio without knowing the band until afterwards ("...that was REM? ....hmmm...") - having grown tired of my usual musical interests, I went to Newbury Comics that day and bought my first REM album not having heard a single cut from the rest of it - I took a shot. And loved it all immediately and still do to this day. OK I could honestly skip the treacly hit "Everybody Hurts" every time and never miss it but that just feels like a harmless outlier; that's the only semi-throwaway on the entire album. I'd initially considered "Drive" to be an odd opener; a slow-starter if you will - but I've since seen it as a feature rather than a bug. It preps the listener for so many songs that could be (and were) hit-worthy, and not even counting the gorgeous cuts like "Try Not to Breathe" "Sweetness Follows" and "Nightswimming" - all brilliant highlights. They'd largely moved on from their early days of mumble lyrics and jangly Rickenbacker chords (which only a decade late finally hit me in the right places) and it must have been the perfect time/place for me to embrace this one - while this album rarely if ever sounds huge* this is a lush sounding record driven largely by clear acoustic guitars, and perfectly accompanied by accordions, mandolins, intelligible vocals, and perfectly accessible yet memorable melodies. * the notable/cool exception is the brilliant and huge "Ignoreland" - is this REM channeling early-mid period Who? I mostly don't care much about lyrics but this one strikes a direct hit on the plague that Reagan brought to the US/world, etc. Read those lyrics today in 2022 and sadly/terrifyingly they apply even more. Long-belated thanks to WBCN radio in Boston for that fateful afternoon drive. Tremendous album. 9/10 5 stars.

It's a decent album. I listened to it a couple times and didn't feel too connected to it either time but it is still a decent album. My favorite songs are 'Man On The Moon' and 'River Song'. 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite' is a real catchy number which I enjoyed. 'Everybody Hurts', a song which everybody on earth has heard before, is also a highlight of this album. If you like alternative rock, you have probably already listened to this album, but if you haven't, listen to it! 3.25/5

Probably my least favorite of the 3 REM albums, but that’s more of a testament to how good the other ones are. “Man on the Moon” always bangs but I can’t listen to “Everybody Hurts” without laughing.

A few slaps and a few snoozes

This was fine. A few good songs, okay for background music while doing stuff. Maybe like a 3.5 or so

It's beautiful music. not a big fan of sad music though feels a little like wallowing in misery. Certainly has a place though.

Very unique sound and feel. I definitely enjoyed, but not something I’d relisten to often.

REM is another band that I've never really been into and I just knew the hits. I dunno why I've never gotten into them, but they have this sound that represents a certain era of time that I can't always grok. Also all my knowledge comes of this band comes from R U Talkin' REM RE: ME.

Not a huge REM fan but this was good

One of the best albums ever. Soul juice, it soothes.

Another one I bought (on the day of release?), 30 years ago now! Was never my favorite REM album, although stuff like Sidewinder and Everybody Hurts has aged fine and was loved at the time despite being viewed as a bit "commercial/embarrassing" in retrospect sometimes. This is all really excellent throughout. Didn't know how good we had it.

Gets better as it goes along. But the first song is pretty cringeworthy. Hey kids rock and roll. No denying that REM are a good band though

Man on the moon is a tune

Every wanted R.E.M. to be the next U2 but instead they gave us this. Diverse challenging, not as good as Green but still a solid album. Maybe a bit too much mandolin

Underappreciated gem of a record. Not the greatest REM album but solid -- every song is a great vibe. Late eighties/early nineties was overflowing with creativity.

I think it’s a nearly perfect album. What keeps it from being that for me is the instrumental. And that’s just nitpicking. Everybody Hurts is one of my favorite songs.

So yeah, I was an early adopter of R.E.M. Right out of the gate I discovered Murmur, I saw them on the Life's Rich Pageant tour (Spectrum Showcase!) and I bought Document. They were cool. Then I totally lost my appetite for the band. Marianne suggested that it has something to do with a misperception that they "sold out" or got too popular, but that's not it. I was fine with them getting popular. I just didn't like the music they were making anymore. I pin it on Michael Stipe, but it may be the whole package. The songs were just not appealing, Stipe, certainly, seemed to take himself way too seriously now that people were paying attention to him. Whatever it was, I stopped paying attention. So strangely, as familiar as I am with the band, I didn't know this album. Yes, I'd heard some of the songs, "Man On The Moon" most notably, but I had no idea what was on this album and I turned it on hoping that maybe I'd have an epiphany and realize I was being an asshole and the band was just awesome. Yeah... no. "The Sidewinder Sleeps" into "Everybody Hurts" made me want to punch my dog. I love my dog. I did not succumb. But the urge was there, and it was R.E.M.'s fault. For that, this album gets a 2. It's teetering on a 1. But I'm trying to be my most generous and kind self.

This was an interesting listen. I loved this album when it came out, but I haven't listened to it at all since then. I was surprised at how I still remembered most of the lyrics. I wondered if I'd be able to actually judge the album or would I be blinded by nostalgia. I still don't know. When it came out, I remember thinking this was a return to quality for the band. I hadn't really cared for Green or Out of Time. But this one appealed to me right away and it quickly became one of my favorites of theirs. In hindsight, I like it less. The opener gets things off on the wrong foot. Frankly, I never really loved it. Too dour and slow and it overstays its welcome. The next two songs are still great. Everybody Hurts . . . it's hard to hear that as an actual song and not the meme it's become. I don't love Stipe's singing on that tune. Also, I generally prefer Stipe when I don't fully understand what he's singing about. He often gets too earnest for my liking and that's especially true on Everybody Hurts and Ignoreland and a few others. But when it's great, it's great. Sweetness Follows still sounds great. And I really dug Nightswimming, earnestness notwithstanding. Anyway, for a band i was obsessed with but whom I have not listened to in 30 years, this was a cool chance to re-evaluate. But it didn't make me want to dive back into their catalog.

I liked it then and I like it now. R.E.M. is one of those bands that I always hear people say, "I like early R.E.M." and I'm always like "what are you talking about?!" Let's focus on Automatic for a moment...I just love that this album opens with Drive. It's a somber sound with phrases that make me feel nostalgic but I don't quite understand that nostalgia until The Sidewinder hits in and Michael references Dr Seuss. Side note: I just love the sub sub substantial stutter. Listening now with the perspective of time I find that R.E.M. does a really good job at encapsulating a 90s sound but with some nostalgic jingly jangly reminiscent of the 60s. I'm sure if you lived through the 90s that Everybody Hurts likely bugs you. It was overplayed and it's melodramatic. And for me...that's a winner! I found myself driving and listening to that song and all the past and present pain started flowing and then dissipated. I was always fond of Monty Got a Raw Deal and Nightswimming. Ending with Find the River feels like a shoutout to John Denver. Does anyone else hear that? After listening to this album, I went back to Murmur, Fables of the Reconstruction (maybe my favorite), Life's Rich Pageant, Green for a few songs. C'mon...R.E.M. has an R.E.M. sound and I think late and early albums are all equally good. In fact, in some ways I prefer later albums because I can understand what Michael is actually singing. As an album to listen to before you die...I'm just doing it > 4!

R.E.M yes bloody awesome I loved murmur so to have their most popular album now is cool… I’am not gonna talk about my personal life on here but i’am going through a little bit of shit and music like this really cheers me up so I guess 5/5.

Ah, so I always merely tolerated REM. But even I can see what an incredible - if melancholic album this is. The sheer importance of songs like Everybody Hurts is staggering, the quality of the album incredible. It's quite something

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Pretty damn good

R.E.M. is just super listenable to me, even when the record feels light on hits. I liked this one, though felt like a lot of the non-standout tracks kind of just get lost in the background for me. Still a solid album. Standout Tracks: Try Not to Breathe, Everybody Hurts, Man on the Moon, Nightswimming

I dunno maybe I should listen again. I thought REM would be better

I love this album. For me, Out of Time is the favourite but this is still incredible stuff.

Best Song: Man On The Moon. Nice chorus, lyrically interesting. If you believed... Worst Song: Everybody Hurts. Listen, I get that this is a big song. Iconic, recognizable. But it's aggressively whiny. Cloying. I actually kind of like the central lyrical theme of "everybody hurts", but then they don't go and do anything interesting with it. Is that good and unifying? Is it the tragic reality of life that everything, in the end, is pain? Give me more than just "everybody hurts". Overall: Tremendously okay. Fantastically alright. There are sounds on this album that can, undeniably, be categorized as music. Of all the albums in the world, this is one of them.

Absolute best song is "Drive."

3-4 stars

I don’t enjoy anything of theirs that came out after Document.

Super unique voice. I know it’s widely acclaimed. My first listen through I was not in love but I am going to give it another go and perhaps it’s one that’ll grow on me. Lyrics are sad but the instrumentals don’t match in my opinion.

Great REM album

Very complete album. Start to finish the whole thing felt very concise. The album did not drag even with lyrics that aren't entirely upbeat. The album has a slow pace but it works well with the composition. The lyrics are very good, the vocals are good but sound very similar track to track. The guitar work is very good, the drums are well done as well. There are some very incredible compositions on this record that made me genuinely read the lyrics and a couple songs I had to listen to multiple times. Favorite Track: Man on the Moon, Find the River Least Favorite Track: New Orleans Instrumental No.1

Really enjoyed this album a nice variety of songs and one I will return too in the future

Listens: 1 Enjoyed: no This just isn't for me

Decent, but nothing too bold or game changing

alright