Automatic for the People is the eighth album by R.E.M., released in 1992. The album was a critical and commercial success, with three top 40 hits in the U.S. and UK.
The album was a big hit on both sides of the Atlantic. It was the band's first widespread popular album in the UK - placing at number 1 for 4 non-consecutive weeks (1992 and 1993) - and on the album charts for 179 weeks
In America it reached number 2 and remained on the album charts for 75 weeks. The album's extremely successful performance in Britain foreshadowed how the band would later become more popular in the UK than in America.
Track List (Click on song title to view its lyric):
The album was a big hit on both sides of the Atlantic. It was the band's first widespread popular album in the UK - placing at number 1 for 4 non-consecutive weeks (1992 and 1993) - and on the album charts for 179 weeks
In America it reached number 2 and remained on the album charts for 75 weeks. The album's extremely successful performance in Britain foreshadowed how the band would later become more popular in the UK than in America.
Track List (Click on song title to view its lyric):
All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe.
1. "Drive" – 4:31
2. "Try Not to Breathe" – 3:50
3. "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" – 4:06
4. "Everybody Hurts" – 5:17
5. "New Orleans Instrumental No. 1" – 2:13
6. "Sweetness Follows" – 4:19
7. "Monty Got a Raw Deal" – 3:17
8. "Ignoreland" – 4:24
9. "Star Me Kitten" – 3:15
10. "Man on the Moon" – 5:13
11. "Nightswimming" – 4:16
12. "Find the River" – 3:50
