REM Automatic For The People

摘要

It is the connoisseur's REM album of choice and has shifted 10m copies around the world - not bad for a record preoccupied with such cheery themes as grieving, loss and death. Automatic For The People, released in October 1992, is widely regarded as the band's creative zenith, a masterfully mature work, largely sombre in mood, sometimes bleak, yet ultimately majestic and life-affirming. It was released hot on the heels of 1991's Out Of Time, hitherto REM's most successful and commercial album, which had pulled in legions of new fans on the strength of such timeless pop tracks as 'Losing My Religion', 'Shiny Happy People' and the hip hop-infused 'Radio Song'.