REM – AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE LP – Nr MINT 1992 ORIGINAL  INDIE STIPE BUCK

REM – Automatic For The People
(Warner Bros Records  1992  WX488)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1

 Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe.

Automatic for the People is the eighth studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1992 on Warner Bros. Records. Upon release, it reached number two on the U.S. album charts and yielded six singles. The album has sold 18 million copies worldwide and is widely considered one of the best records released in the 1990s.

Track listing

All songs written by R.E.M.

Side one – “Drive side”

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

Side two – “Ride side”

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

Personnel

R.E.M.

• Michael Stipe – lead vocals
• Peter Buck – electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, bass guitar
• Mike Mills – bass guitar, piano, keyboards, backing vocals
• Bill Berry – drums, percussion, keyboards, bass guitar, backing vocals, melodica

Additional musicians

• Scott Litt – harmonica, clavinet

Strings and oboe on “Drive”, “The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight”, “Everybody Hurts”, and “Nightswimming”:

• John Paul Jones – orchestral arrangements
• George Hanson – conductor
• Denise Berginson-Smith, Lonnie Ottzen, Patti Gouvas, Sandy Salzinger, Sou-Chun Su, Jody Taylor – violin
• Knox Chandler, Kathleen Kee, Daniel Laufer, Elizabeth Proctor Murphy – cello
• Reid Harris, Paul Murphy, Heidi Nitchie – viola
• Deborah Workman – oboe

Production

• Scott Litt – producer, mixing engineer
• Ed Brooks – second engineer (Seattle)
• George Cowan – second engineer (Bearsville)
• John Keane – recording engineer (Athens)
• Mark Howard – second engineer (New Orleans)
• Tod Lemkuhl – second engineer (Seattle)
• Ted Malia – second engineer (Atlanta)
• Stephen Marcussen – mastering engineer (Precision Mastering)
• Clif Norrell – recording engineer, mixing engineer
• Andrew Roshberg – second engineer (Miami)