Listening Party #18 // R.E.M. - Automatic For The People // Weds 5th April, 8pm UK

Fuengi

Artist: R.E.M.
Album: Automatic For The People

Year: 1992

Side 1

1. Drive

2. Try Not To Breathe

3. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight

4. Everybody Hurts

5. New Orleans Instrumental No 1

6. Sweetness Follows

Side 2

7. Monty Got A Raw Deal

8. Ignoreland

9. Star Me Kitten

10. Man On The Moon

11. Nightswimming

12. Find The River

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/0BiNb8HYR4JvuxUa31Z58Q

Youtube -

 

Fuengi

And  tagging all those from previous threads

@BahHumbug ;;

@darthed1981

@Devil#20

@digitalkettle

@DiscoStu ;;

@Eri5ed ;;

@ewal ;;

@Fuengi ;;

@Hattigol ;;

@JezWynd

@JMS96

@JonHosker ;;

@LPManic

@MagicPigDetective ;;

@markv ;;

@merlin ;;

@mudslide73 ;;

@Philly_Q ;;

@Redlester ;;

@richardhomer ;;

@roberty ;;

@RocknRollDave ;;

@Springywheel ;;

@stickyfiddle ;;

@theimageofall

@thermionic

@tone1 ;;

@TTony ;;

@UnclePsychosis ;;

@victorludorum ;;

@Jonathangus

@Devil#20

stickyfiddle

YES!

dindude

Yes please, greatest album ever made in my humble opinion 

roberty

I can do this

Fuengi

Doing a little research into the recording of the album, I find out that the title is taken from a tagline from one of the bands favourite restaurants in Athens, Georgia - Weaver D's Fine Foods.

Fuengi

The star on the front cover was a decorative feature on the Sinbad Motel in Miami which was down the street from Criteria Recording Studios. The star was destroyed in a hurricane. 

Images from the Bon Aire Motel on Miami Beach also appear on the sleeve and inner.

TTony

An album I've had for donkeys', but haven't listened to in most of that time, so will be interesting to dust it off and let my brain work out what my ears hear nowadays

mudslide73

Fuengi said:

And  tagging all those from previous threads

@BahHumbug ;;;

@darthed1981

@Devil#20

@digitalkettle

@DiscoStu ;;;

@Eri5ed ;;;

@ewal ;;;

@Fuengi ;;;

@Hattigol ;;;

@JezWynd

@JMS96

@JonHosker ;;;

@LPManic

@MagicPigDetective ;;;

@markv ;;;

@merlin ;;;

@mudslide73 ;;;

@Philly_Q ;;;

@Redlester ;;;

@richardhomer ;;;

@roberty ;;;

@RocknRollDave ;;;

@Springywheel ;;;

@stickyfiddle ;;;

@theimageofall

@thermionic

@tone1 ;;;

@TTony ;;;

@UnclePsychosis ;;;

@victorludorum ;;;

@Jonathangus

@Devil#20

You forgot to @CherylBaker

Worth the price of admission for Nightswimming alone. 

thermionic

I went to a funeral a few months ago and the coffin was carried out to Find The River. Went to put it on after I got home but couldn’t find the album - vinyl, cd, cassette, not even in my iTunes library. Unbelievable, considering I was a massive early/mid period REM fan - but quickly rectified. I’ll try and make this one.

andyp

Can I be an idiot?

How does this work? Everyone sits down at the time agreed and listens to the album and posts their thoughts on this thread?

This is the first of these threads I’ve seen, sounds cool.

Andy

roberty

andyp said:

Can I be an idiot?

How does this work? Everyone sits down at the time agreed and listens to the album and posts their thoughts on this thread?

This is the first of these threads I’ve seen, sounds cool.

Andy

That's about it

andyp

Cheers. I’ll aim to take part.

MagicPigDetective

An incredible album, though I only listened to it all for the first time about 5 years ago, filling in the gaps between the familiar singles. I’m in. 

BlueStrat

Excellent choice! I saw REM several times live, this was always one of my favourite albums of theirs

guitargeek62

In - assuming my boyo behaves and goes to bed on time (and stays asleep!)

TTony

guitargeek62 said:

In - assuming my boyo behaves and goes to bed on time (and stays asleep!)

Let him listen too!

munckee

BlueStrat said:

Excellent choice! I saw REM several times live, this was always one of my favourite albums of theirs

Me too saw them at Milton Keynes bowl on the monster tour in 95 and again at Glastonbury, out of time was my favourite album through most of college. 

Automatic for the people remains one of the best albums ever and doesn’t seem to date.  

guitargeek62

TTony said:

guitargeek62 said:

In - assuming my boyo behaves and goes to bed on time (and stays asleep!)

Let him listen too!

Heh, he gets his music fix in the car during nursery runs. 3yo and he’s picking out instruments and always wanting me to “turn it up loud”… mostly so that he can enjoy the drums though  

LPManic

First song I properly learned on piano this year was Nightswimming. Only downhill from there.

LPManic

Looking forward to this. Spent a lonely summer in 2001 listening to this album late every night after coming back from work. Head full of plans and big ideas. It sounds to me like that type of mid-west middle-of-nowhere lonely type of album, but maybe I am projecting onto it. It is a classic album and still very early 90s. Nightswimming is one of the most gorgeous songs ever.