Re: REM - Automatic for the People, 1992.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:46 pm

This is like the quintessential REM track.

by Guest Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:46 pm

"Light Years to go"

killcomputer

by Nightjar Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:47 pm

I would class REM with Supertramp.

They are a band I simply don't like.

Supertramp are much much better though.

REM are like fingernails down a blackboard to me.

by Nightjar Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:47 pm

Melodica?

by Nightjar Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:48 pm

Stop whining, Stipe. oh no

by Nightjar Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:49 pm

He keeps going on about about plants and 'erbs.

by Guest Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:49 pm

It's well produced.

by Guest Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:50 pm

I liked the Ignoreland one. Or whatever it was called.

by Nightjar Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:50 pm

I genuinely liked nothing about that.

Still, I'd never give it one star.

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by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:50 pm

It is over.

I feel that isn't as good an album as it seemed at the time. In retrospect, it is quite inconsistent but has plenty of moments of quality.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it. Excited

by Nightjar Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:51 pm

My finger slipped.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:51 pm

I shall give it 4 stars, as 3 would be too low. Ideally, I'd give it 3.5 stars.

by Guest Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:52 pm

See the thing is, Stipe looks like an intelligent, interesting man

REM - Automatic for the People, 1992. - Page 8 F53bfe2356dda53a3aa3ef478aa3b871--michael-stipe-michael-okeefe

REM - Automatic for the People, 1992. - Page 8 F53bfe2356dda53a3aa3ef478aa3b871--michael-stipe-michael-okeefe

But he's really not. And he's not stupid enough to be interesting. sad yes

Some nice tunes, but it's just not for me…

by Guest Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:53 pm

I don't know what to give it.

by Nightjar Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:54 pm

You mean some other sinister lurker has voted again? scared

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:54 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:I shall give it 4 stars, as 3 would be too low. Ideally, I'd give it 3.5 stars.

Actually, I'd ideally give it 3.75 stars as I really like all but one track on Side 2, and I like a couple of tracks on Side 1.

by Guest Fri Apr 24, 2020 8:00 pm

Nightjar wrote:You mean some other sinister lurker has voted again?

by Butterfield Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:50 pm

I've just voted, 3 years later!

I've listened to this album for the first time in about 29 years tonight - and other than the singles I remembered none of it. I really like all the singles, but the other tracks really are quite bland and forgettable. I can see why it was popular at the time and I think of it as a seminal album. Even the yellow tray which holds the disc is on the epic side.

3/5

by Butterfield Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:54 pm

We all know that REM famously shunned Shiny Happy People, but I do wonder if they have ever been tempted to shun just about all of their singles in concerts - they're all either very poppy and jolly or pleasant ballads. Surely the typical earthy REM fan just wants to hear the obscure tracks, not the stuff that features on a NOW compilation.

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