Automatic for the People

Occupation

• Drums: Bill Berry
• Guitar: Peter Buck
• Bass: Mike Mills
• Vocals: Michael Stipe

Automatic for the People is the eighth studio album by the American alternative rock band REM and at the same time its most successful. It was released in 1992 when major label Warner.

The album

The album was released in October 1992, one year after the successful album Out of Time. It includes hits such as Drive, Everybody Hurts and Man on the Moon, all of which were a material part of the live repertoire.

Automatic for the People climbed to # 2 on the U.S. Billboard charts and has sold over 18 million copies to date.

The songs came from jam sessions the band in their hometown of Athens. For the recordings took R.E.M. a journey across the United States. In New Orleans they made in Kingsway Studio stop, in New York City in Bearsville Studio, and in the Criteria Recording Studios, Miami and the Bobby Brown Studios, Atlanta. Finally, everything was mixed in the bath Animal Studios in Seattle.

The album's title is also the motto of Weaver D' s Delicious Fine Foods in Clarke County, Georgia. In the text accompanying the album is a thank you for finding "Weaver D and its great store ."

The text of "The sidewinder sleeps tonight " seemed to be even difficult to understand for English speakers. So wrote in the summer of 2001, a music journalist in a Canadian newspaper that she believed in the line " Call me when you try to wake her up ," Michael Stipe would "call me Chet Baker " sing.

Tracklist

All songs by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe.

Persons involved

• Bill Berry - drums, guitar, piano, vocals
• Peter Buck - guitar, bouzouki
• Mike Mills - bass guitar, double bass, keyboards, guitar, vocals
• Michael Stipe - vocals, text
• Scott Litt - producer
• John Paul Jones - string arrangements
• Knox Chandler - Cello
• Jem Cohen - director of the video clips