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Lista de faixas
Drive | 4:30 | ||
Try Not To Breathe | 3:49 | ||
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite | 4:06 | ||
Everybody Hurts | 5:17 | ||
New Orleans Instrumental No. 1 | 2:12 | ||
Sweetness Follows | 4:19 | ||
Monty Got A Raw Deal | 3:16 | ||
Ignoreland | 4:24 | ||
Star Me Kitten | 3:15 | ||
Man On The Moon | 5:12 | ||
Nightswimming | 4:16 | ||
Find The River | 3:49 |
Créditos (41)
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Arranged By [Orchestrations]
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Art Direction, Design
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Art Direction, Design
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CGI Artist [Computer Imaging]
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Cello
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Cello
Notas
recorded between June 1991 and July 1992 and released by Warner Bros. Records on October 5, 1992 in the United Kingdom and Europe, and on the following day in the United States. R.E.M. began production on the album while their previous album, Out Of Time (1991), was still ascending top albums charts and achieving global success. Aided by string arrangements from John Paul Jones, Automatic For The People features ruminations on mortality, loss, mourning and nostalgia.Upon release, it received widespread acclaim from critics, reached number two on the US Billboard 200, and yielded six singles:
•Drive (September 21, 1992)
•Man On The Moon (November 9, 1992)
•The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (February 1, 1993)
•Everybody Hurts (April 5, 1993)
•Nightswimming (July 12, 1993)
•Find The River (November 29, 1993)
Related releases:
•Automatic For The People EPK, video press kit (October 1992)
•Ignoreland, promotional-only single (December 1992)
•The Automatic Box, 4CD box set collecting B-sides and rarities (December 1993)
•Automatic For The People Sampler, promotional-only sampler used to promote R.E.M. for the 1994 Grammy Awards (February 1994)
※ How to find the correct CD-release with catalogue number 9362-45055-2:
– First European GEMA/BIEM-version with WME in matrix and French price code ‘WE 852’ in yellow tray-jewel case and without SID-codes.
– Another yellow tray version from the same time period, no ‘WME’, but ‘MIS10’ and ‘SRC’ in matrix. French price code ‘WE 852’ without SID-codes.
– First WME-repress with WME in matrix and French price code ‘WE 852’ in standard grey tray-jewel case and without SID-codes.
– Second WME-repress, identical to the first repress, but with French price code ‘WE 833’ and sticker with reference to the first single releases. No SID-codes on this variant.
– Third WME-repress identical to the first repress, but with French price code ‘WE 833’ and mould SID-code. This repress is post-1993.
– 1999 repress with same matrix structure as on the other WME releases, but without mentioning ‘WME’. Matrix ends with ’06/99′, GEMA/BIEM version, French price code ‘WE 833’, both SID-codes present.
– 2000 repress with same matrix structure as on the other WME releases, but without mentioning ‘WME’. Matrix ends with ’05/00′, GEMA/BIEM version, French price code ‘WE 833’, both SID-codes present.
– 2001 repress. GEMA/BIEM version, French price code ‘WE 833’, both SID-codes present. Matrix number ends with ‘V01 MEQ’.
– 2011 reissue with similar matrix as the latter version, issued for Classic Album-series.
The same catalogue number or deviations of it appeared on the versions for Argentina, South Korea, Czechoslovakia and Australasia.