R.E.M. - Automatic For The People (Music CD) available on October 18 2014 from Base for 3.99
Automatic for the People available on August 08 2014 from Amazon for 1.20
UPC bar code 093624505525 ξ1 registered February 14 2015
UPC bar code 093624505525 ξ2 registered September 27 2014
UPC bar code 093624505525 ξ3 registered August 08 2014
Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - Rock Audio
Manufacturered by Warner Bros.
Product weight is 0.2 lbs.
R. E. M. AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE Certified at 4 million units by the RIAA. (2/95) Continuing to specialize in the art of curve-throwing, R.E.M. followed up its 1991 smash, Out of Time, with this fragile album of soft melodies and string arrangements. The sympathetic ballad "Everybody Hurts" must have prevented countless suicide attempts, while the Andy Kaufman tribute "Man on the Moon" (with Michael Stipe affecting an Elvis Presley imitation) and the rock-into-oblivion "Drive" are among the quartet's strongest hits. (The opening line, "Hey, kids, rock and roll," isn't so much a rallying cry as an expression of anxiety.) It takes a few listens for its charms to unfold, but Automatic is the gem between bigger hits Out of Time and Monster. --Steve Knopper
