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  • @jonrossum8647
    @jonrossum8647 8 місяців тому +51

    I hope Michael Stipe knows how much his artistry - honesty- and bravery had a lifetime effect on people - he is an amazing teacher

  • @DXP322
    @DXP322 3 роки тому +55

    What an incredible album, one masterpiece after the other

  • @barbelwalkerflytying4954
    @barbelwalkerflytying4954 3 роки тому +28

    My favorite album. Every time I listen to it even now almost 30 years on I hear something new. Find a River will be played at my funeral, a song that sums up the journey of my life perfectly.

    • @jonathanroselaw
      @jonathanroselaw 3 роки тому +3

      Just make sure it’s labeled Find The River....

    • @lucasoheyze4597
      @lucasoheyze4597 Рік тому +2

      If you really liked it that much you would probably know the title.

    • @firekind1980
      @firekind1980 4 місяці тому

      Christ! You know Cry me a river will be played.

  • @burmaunderground
    @burmaunderground 2 місяці тому +2

    "Dark times come, and dark times go, and then they come back again." You got that right, and it's now 2024.

  • @giventofly_0
    @giventofly_0 4 місяці тому +10

    There is an argument to be made that this may be the greatest of all American bands. Since I first heard Pearl Jam in the early 90s I have thought them to be the most important band for my generation. And I think I was wrong. Everything about REM screams class, talent, perfection in song writing and.....Integrity. After Out of Time, which sold approximately a billion records, they could so easily have Cut & Paste for the follow up record and sold 10 million without breaking a sweat. But they didn't do that. They wrote Automatic for the People. They tore REM apart and made the finest record of the 90s. Thank you Berry, Buck, Mills & Stipe

    • @andreacamattari
      @andreacamattari 4 місяці тому +1

      Also: one of the few bands who decided to call it a day at the right time, well aware of how pathetic it can get if you don't do that. Only love and respect for these majestic musicians.

    • @HALFSQUASHED
      @HALFSQUASHED Місяць тому +2

      I'd put REM alongside Springsteen and Neil Young as North Americas finest

    • @timmg3139
      @timmg3139 Місяць тому

      @@andreacamattarithey should’ve stopped releasing albums after Nee Adventures. Got very stale in the 2000s

  • @chauncemce8358
    @chauncemce8358 9 місяців тому +5

    Michael Stipe and Mike Mills two musical geniuses! Automatic For The People has so much depth, and meaning. It always hits home for me and has helped me through some dark phases I’ve had in life at times. It brings you up and is an encouraging! Every song on that album is amazing!

    • @jonrossum8647
      @jonrossum8647 8 місяців тому

      Isn’t that amazing - yes!! It’s one album I keep listening to - I’ve probably bought 5 copies over the last.. 30 years - wow -

  • @michaelbritton4119
    @michaelbritton4119 6 років тому +73

    This life that pass before my eyes...
    I am so grateful that I was around to grow up with R.E.M. Somehow, in some weird way, it made living with depression worthwhile. I could never quite put the intense feelings within me to words, but I had their records, and that always helped me get it out.
    I doubt they’ll ever see this, but I’ll say it anyways- billpetermikemichael... thanks, y’all

    • @sartainja
      @sartainja 4 роки тому +2

      Anony Amos Amen.

    • @jonrossum8647
      @jonrossum8647 8 місяців тому +1

      Wow - YES I feel like I understand that too - similar effect on me …❤

  • @iraklismoschonas5214
    @iraklismoschonas5214 3 роки тому +9

    That's the thing about great music: even after 30 years, those records sound incredible.

  • @dan-hazlehurst
    @dan-hazlehurst Рік тому +6

    Fasincating insight by two wonderfully articulate human beings. Michael Stipe is such a unique talent, as humble as he may be. Genius

  • @carmeldoherty
    @carmeldoherty 6 місяців тому +10

    Best Band ever I was so lucky to have saw them many years ago 👏👏👏

  • @orionfoote2890
    @orionfoote2890 2 роки тому +6

    Wow, this is a real gem - thrilled that the algorithm threw this up for me tonight.
    I still listen to their records all the time and what an amazing trajectory their career took.
    Thanks.

  • @tomislavklauski5060
    @tomislavklauski5060 5 років тому +14

    Drive is out of this world. So hounting

  • @ignacio.carral
    @ignacio.carral 6 років тому +109

    This guy is a great interviewer.

  • @therecordholder
    @therecordholder 3 роки тому +8

    i love this album so much, I dig how Michael doesn't like the lyrics to sidewinder sleeps tonight, I love the apartment with the payphone downstairs, it just feels so realized and yet Michael says that he wishes it was more realized, I don't know why but I just hang onto that feeling of isolation, of being hard to reach, and that the whole album could be experienced in that apartment, alone, it feels like it grounds the whole album to me.

  • @jean-baptiste6479
    @jean-baptiste6479 5 років тому +9

    I remember my brother purchased that album together with a best of album of Police. It was Christmas approaching in Paris, we also purchased the Christmas tree. We listened to in on an old cassette player.

  • @sorcerer1975
    @sorcerer1975 5 років тому +7

    I bought Automatic for the People when it first came out ... I fell in love with R.E.M. and became a life long fan ... AFTP will always be one of my all time favorite albums ...

  • @tinostabile3256
    @tinostabile3256 7 років тому +49

    Great interview and insight on a masterpiece of an album. Nice to see how congenial Michael Stipe and Mike Mills are and how well the interviewer let the composers describe each song on that classic album. Thank you, Radio X. Thank you REM for reissuing and revisiting an album that means so much to me.

  • @golden_eldorado
    @golden_eldorado 4 роки тому +8

    I've been listening to this record frequently since 1992, so to realize that I've been doing it for more than 25 years is shocking because "Automatic..." has never been my past, I never forgot the record, it's not one of those records you listen for a while at some point in your life and then move on. I've been listening to this record (among others) in my teenage years, my 20's, 30's and 40's. It's amazing and also scary.

  • @EPerez-kg8ch
    @EPerez-kg8ch 6 років тому +14

    My first R.E.M album, still my favourite.

  • @ChrisR-ne4kn
    @ChrisR-ne4kn 5 років тому +7

    They were my band back in high school and college and every new album was an event. Automatic was their peak, completely out of left field and absolutely stunning. So many memories listening to this album. This is a great interview delving into detail about each track on their masterpiece.

    • @curly_wyn
      @curly_wyn Рік тому

      It’s their second peak for me. Their best work is definitely Murmur!

  • @mimoochodom2684
    @mimoochodom2684 5 років тому +26

    Michael Stipe has such a beautiful, calm speaking voice. No wonder he was a chameleon front man.

  • @timjonesvideos
    @timjonesvideos 6 років тому +22

    Still a wonderful, warm, calming album. 'Find the River', 'Try not to Breathe' & 'Sweetness Follows' are my faves.

    • @jonrossum8647
      @jonrossum8647 8 місяців тому

      I love it that u pick those songs out
      I’ll listen to those with another added perspective.. wow

  • @DXP322
    @DXP322 3 роки тому +11

    Wow, the knowledge of this interviewer is pretty impressive, talking about coming to work well prepared!

    • @jonrossum8647
      @jonrossum8647 8 місяців тому +1

      No kidding- I wish every favorite album of mine had this much insight and depth to share with fans of amazing music that had such an impact on my life - wow

  • @mokuho
    @mokuho 7 років тому +18

    I know R.E.M. With drive and everybody hurts in american music award in 1991 and become my favorite group band for all the times...i ♥️ R.E.M

    • @beakaHD
      @beakaHD 5 років тому

      I didn’t have MTV so I stayed up at a friends house till about 4am and walked a hour to get home and get ready for to work just to watch them at that awards. I think they both on a find the river cd single.

  • @carmeldoherty
    @carmeldoherty 6 місяців тому +2

    Excellent Interview my Son always played REM after college in the afternoon I instantly was hooked on the amazing music and songs Michael Stipe is incredible such a lovely calm voice he has my favourite song is I've Been High I play that song every day 🎶🎶🎶

  • @delboy20091
    @delboy20091 7 років тому +130

    Best American Band Ever. Automatic re issue is ace.

  • @BryanCooperOfficial
    @BryanCooperOfficial Рік тому +4

    (4:13) Michael Stipe - "There was a big challenge for me, which was to write a song with more 'yeah's in it that any Nirvana song."
    John Kennedy (without a hint of irony) - "Yeah".

  • @bleep77
    @bleep77 7 років тому +48

    Automatic For The People is one of my all-time favorite rock albums! It's one of those albums where every track is amazing. My top favorite songs are Drive, Try Not To Breathe, Sweetness Follows, Nightswimming, and Find The River. Also, this is a great interview with lots of insight!

    • @ryandooner1440
      @ryandooner1440 5 років тому

      Bleep77 AFTP is also one of my favorites and the tracks you listed are my favorites as well 😀

    • @sstaners1234
      @sstaners1234 4 роки тому +1

      My favorites: Drive, Sweetness Follows, Man on the Moon, and Nightswimming.

    • @iwaitforher
      @iwaitforher 3 роки тому

      i love sweetness follows

    • @curly_wyn
      @curly_wyn Рік тому

      Try Not to Breathe, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, Everybody Hurts, Sweetness Follows, Star Me Kitten and Find the River most of all are my favorites!

  • @MaquiladoraIII
    @MaquiladoraIII 5 років тому +10

    Drive, Sweetness Follows & Nightswimming are an absolutely wonderful triumvirate.

  • @al1976-v7m
    @al1976-v7m Рік тому +2

    So cool and true what they say about the album as an art form.

  • @panaboy01
    @panaboy01 6 років тому +12

    best album in the history of music

    • @rmoalxa
      @rmoalxa 5 років тому +2

      No

    • @curly_wyn
      @curly_wyn Рік тому +3

      One of them, definitely!

  • @matthewt8214
    @matthewt8214 2 місяці тому

    There are at least two songs on this perfect album that have brought me to tears

  • @21innocentbystander
    @21innocentbystander 3 роки тому +5

    This is just intoxicating to watch.

  • @al1976-v7m
    @al1976-v7m Рік тому +1

    Fantastic album that i enjoyed in the 90s and had to get on Vinyl a few years ago. Sidewinder and Man on the Moon were the radio singles, but i ended up liking all the other songs a lot more. "Monty has a raw deal" was a real slowburner for me, i love that song.

  • @ethanellis2896
    @ethanellis2896 5 років тому +7

    The look of glee on mr.stipe's eyes when talking about the love for patti and fred Smith ❤😊

  • @SpontaneousWeasel
    @SpontaneousWeasel 7 років тому +3

    What a great interview! Fantastic album... was really moved as a child by everybody hurts, the music video in particular made a big impact on me.

  • @curtislv426
    @curtislv426 5 років тому +35

    17:28 Michael is watching you

  • @mimoochodom2684
    @mimoochodom2684 5 років тому +3

    What articulate, intelligent and humble people. You can only but succeed. Oh yeah, the songs came in pretty handy too.

  • @09nob
    @09nob 4 роки тому +3

    These are great but I'm greedy I want more REM albums covered mooorrrrreee, love it.

  • @SpaceCattttt
    @SpaceCattttt 7 років тому +5

    Wow, what an excellent interview! I of course knew that the R.E.M. boys always have something interesting to say,
    but I didn't expect such good questions and understanding from someone who was barely even born when
    Automatic came out.

  • @telegraph2581
    @telegraph2581 5 місяців тому

    Find the river is the song that has grown so deeply on me over the years

  • @annb1
    @annb1 6 років тому +3

    Excellent piece. Interviewer right on point.

  • @theamazingbrokenman
    @theamazingbrokenman 7 років тому +28

    "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" is one of the best tracks in the album. It fits perfectly. This one and "Man on the Moon" add other moods to an otherwise very somber record.

    • @paulargryopoulos1779
      @paulargryopoulos1779 7 років тому +3

      Find The River is truly amazing! Some of the best songwriting. It transports me back to when I was a kid.

    • @SpaceCattttt
      @SpaceCattttt 7 років тому

      Yes, I've always loved Sidewinder as well. I can't understand what the band has against it...

    • @BookClubDisaster
      @BookClubDisaster 6 років тому +1

      It was then they finally figured out how to write a good happy, slightly corny song. Shiny Happy People, Stand....................not nearly as good.

    • @dominicaaaaa5547
      @dominicaaaaa5547 6 років тому +1

      i like sidewinder too :0 not one of my favourite REM songs but i'm glad it's on the album

    • @TechNoir-wz5ic
      @TechNoir-wz5ic 5 років тому +3

      Yeah 100% agree remember hearing The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite way back in 1993 and it just caught my attention immediately its one of those songs once you hear it you never ever forget it its a timeless song..

  • @badgermaniac1
    @badgermaniac1 5 років тому +2

    Thank you @m_millsey for your comments about bands (and citizens in general) and politics around the 25:00 mark.

  • @charlesdjones1
    @charlesdjones1 5 років тому +5

    Paused right here.. John Paul Jones, it all makes sense now. My favorite band all time, my favorite bassist, some of Zeppelins best work in the background all belong to him, Automatic has his fingerprints.

    • @h20kie
      @h20kie 3 роки тому +2

      If you get a chance, search for John Paul Jones, Gillian Welch, Bonnaroo for a real trip into his talent!

  • @deadletteroffice-atributet3261
    @deadletteroffice-atributet3261 7 років тому +4

    Wonderful album. Especially on vinyl!

  • @jonrossum8647
    @jonrossum8647 8 місяців тому +1

    This is just so awesome

  • @talkingdonkey1817
    @talkingdonkey1817 2 роки тому

    Mike Mills inspired me to learn how to play guitar, bass, piano, etc. Big love and respect from New England. Cheers!

  • @michaelkimsal788
    @michaelkimsal788 5 років тому +4

    Some good memories of this album - friend introduced me around Document time period, and liked it all, but ... Murmur really resonated more than any other, and probably still does. Not sure why, but none of their other stuff has ever hit me as fully as that entire album. It's probably still in my top 10 faves (certainly top 20).

  • @greensombrero3641
    @greensombrero3641 5 місяців тому

    bravo REM all of you and your albums

  • @oktavarizanuarlis8308
    @oktavarizanuarlis8308 6 років тому +2

    I love them....one of legend....

  • @richardluevano8996
    @richardluevano8996 2 роки тому +2

    This album is a masterpiece.

  • @vivianesilveirapaiva5800
    @vivianesilveirapaiva5800 6 років тому +5

    I LOVE MICHAEL STIPE
    I LOVE R.E.M

  • @synthhero1347
    @synthhero1347 Рік тому +1

    This is just amazing ❤

  • @pgus-zv3cd
    @pgus-zv3cd 3 роки тому +5

    I wanna see this with every rem album

  • @robdepolo122
    @robdepolo122 5 років тому +1

    I enjoy artists talking about their work especially musicians (and writers) .

  • @alisonharte76
    @alisonharte76 6 років тому +3

    I like each album of theirs for different reasons. Realistically a band can't have longevity of they churn out same stuff! ☺

  • @krisscanlon4051
    @krisscanlon4051 6 місяців тому +1

    AFTP is the antidote to Grunge Rock and flaccid indie rock! Loved the lp and ideas...

  • @thatsentertainment5602
    @thatsentertainment5602 Рік тому +1

    A masterpiece of an album in terms of great songs, band performance, musical production and arrangements, audio engineering. Reveal and Around the Sun have that same sombre tone to Automatic for the People.

  • @noooooooammmmmm
    @noooooooammmmmm Рік тому

    Love those guys.

  • @matthewgrey6747
    @matthewgrey6747 3 роки тому +3

    The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite Is a very catchy song

  • @KowankoMusic
    @KowankoMusic 6 років тому +3

    I love this! And I love AFTP.

  • @jorgealan997
    @jorgealan997 4 роки тому +2

    My favorite album in life. I want a video of someone explaining why is this such a great album

  • @andersoncosta4770
    @andersoncosta4770 5 років тому +3

    I think that this Automatic For The People - track by track interview is better than the Monster - track by track they did, the interviewer seems more assertive here, he did his homework, Mike and Michael seem to be enjoying too.

  • @deathkampdrone
    @deathkampdrone 6 років тому +21

    The studio walls look like Red Medicine by Fugazi ;)

    • @Uncannyguitar
      @Uncannyguitar 6 років тому +2

      Deathkampdrone looks like a pasta strainer as well haha

    • @marcusshane8503
      @marcusshane8503 6 років тому +1

      Deathkampdrone 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @SlinkiestTortoise23
      @SlinkiestTortoise23 5 років тому

      Deathkampdrone Fugazi are the best band. Simple as that.

    • @sartainja
      @sartainja 4 роки тому

      Too much f-ing green for me. Gives me a headache. Too commercial.

    • @chrisfrantz2158
      @chrisfrantz2158 2 роки тому

      I thought the exact same thing

  • @doxakosmos5955
    @doxakosmos5955 2 роки тому

    El mejor album que escuche en toda mi vuda!los amo💗💗💗💗😘🇦🇷

  • @michae13james10
    @michae13james10 4 роки тому +1

    It’s been such a treat to hear this track by track
    Fascinating and so brilliant for fans who adore the album
    I hope there can be a ‘New adventures in hi-fi “ interview happening / happened?
    In fact I’d love to hear a “ green “ and “ out of time “ track by track interview too

  • @TheChadls
    @TheChadls 5 років тому +2

    My 1st cd

  • @mtetrick
    @mtetrick 5 років тому +9

    Please correct this error in the description:
    It says - "the band knew they would need to tour whatever they ended up with"
    It should say - "the band knew they would NOT need to tour whatever they ended up with"

  • @AK-wc9rl
    @AK-wc9rl 7 років тому +12

    Who else thinks UP is the most underrated album ever? I even prefer it to Automatic, it's that good.

    • @SpaceCattttt
      @SpaceCattttt 7 років тому +3

      It's underrated, but not even close to being the most underrated.
      Personally, my favourite is Monster, which seems to be their most hated album. And that's probably
      worse than being underrated. Or perhaps not? I mean, if something is hated, at least people are
      aware of it...

    • @hbhooooihbbgvv
      @hbhooooihbbgvv 6 років тому +2

      AK ,I agree "UP" is one of my favourite albums, "walk unafraid " and "falls to climb are some of my favourite tracks. I guess it's what each person gets from each album, or where you are in life when you listen to it, we attach to different aspects of them I guess. I've recently started listening to reveal again, and I think I stayed away from it because of what was happening in my life when it came out, it brought back some bad memories but great songs on it, listening to them from a different perspective now.

    • @hbhooooihbbgvv
      @hbhooooihbbgvv 6 років тому +2

      teppolundgren Whaaaa? Can't believe it's their most hated album, why? Let me in? Strange currencies? Tongue? It's the first REM album I ever heard , listening outside my brothers door, I was immediately a fan!

    • @BookClubDisaster
      @BookClubDisaster 6 років тому +4

      Up is very underrated. Also their last great album. I remember it was kind of the beginning of the end of their mass commercial appeal. It was just too weird for many people to latch on to. I also think it might deserve credit (or blame) for the Kid A and beyond Radiohead. Thom Yorke was a huge REM fan it seems more than coincidental that REM came out with a more electronic album in 1998 and Radiohead came out with a more electronic album in 2000.

    • @michaelbritton4119
      @michaelbritton4119 6 років тому +4

      UP is fucking brilliant. Play monster, new adventures and Up back to back. Listen to it as a single album. It’s quite a journey

  • @iewtcher6604
    @iewtcher6604 7 років тому +20

    REM was my favorite all time group, but I do like the old stuff the best, Chronic town, murmur etc.

    • @hbhooooihbbgvv
      @hbhooooihbbgvv 6 років тому +2

      Their early stuff is pretty cool alright, love murmur, catapult is an awesome track, and moral kiosk, but damn I can't understand what Michael is singing, and love playing them for other people, they get so confused, cause most people think REM started with "out of time"

    • @teodelfuego
      @teodelfuego 4 роки тому +1

      Roger Edgerton Chill out, man.

    • @joplet1
      @joplet1 4 роки тому

      WAS?

    • @davidmoseley4509
      @davidmoseley4509 4 роки тому +1

      @@joplet1 they broke up 10 years ago, I think that’s all he means

  • @ThiagodMoraes
    @ThiagodMoraes 6 років тому +2

    R.E.M are an amazing band,it breaks my heart but i do understand why they did break up.They worldwide recognized as a true rock n roll band despite being called pop bulshit for few!!!

  • @kristincappiello2598
    @kristincappiello2598 5 років тому +5

    Love REM, and this album is one of the very best for sure ✴

  • @bfarmer1647
    @bfarmer1647 3 місяці тому

    Stunning album, great interviewer, great interview. HOWEVER many times Michael mentions 'having worked with these guys', being lucky to be 'associated with these guys" instead of 'or band'. I found that very interesting as a study of the individual within the group. He mentions the darkness of growing up so I wonder whether this solidarity is basically part of his DNA ? This is my favourite album closely followed by The Joshua Tree and when they came to Melbourne, I was fortunate to see them although I am glad Michael dropped the blue eye paint.

  • @mattmcgovern6591
    @mattmcgovern6591 6 років тому +6

    21:51, just found that hilarious, like" Michael, WTF?!!!! hahahah

  • @vlmaguire81
    @vlmaguire81 7 років тому +2

    Good interview xxx

  • @briandowdall6495
    @briandowdall6495 6 місяців тому

    Slane castle Ireland. They came on as the headliners after Oasis. Best outdoor concert ever. Stipe is a genius. Rem can write lyrics, add great hooks, bring every song to a crescendo and make you think. Listen and take what you need from each song and use it as you see fit. One of the greatest bands of all time for sure. Please tour again guys and make one more statement for the world to listen to. Please

  • @randomizedred
    @randomizedred 3 роки тому +2

    I’ve listened to quite a few records in my life so far ..... I can say without hesitation that automatic for the people is my favourite. It may be surpassed at some point but honestly I doubt it.

  • @dougwirtanen200
    @dougwirtanen200 5 років тому +1

    I really relate to him talking about loops/a drone in a song.

  • @gregoryrogalsky6937
    @gregoryrogalsky6937 2 роки тому +2

    Maybe you could have gotten a bigger mikes that would have covered their whole face. ? I love this album..

  • @Fabi_W
    @Fabi_W 3 роки тому +2

    33:06 Nightswimming

  • @markrodeo420
    @markrodeo420 5 років тому +5

    stipe is a bald community superhero.

  • @Landofthefree937
    @Landofthefree937 6 місяців тому +1

    I love how Everybody Hurts channels Bowie’s Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide

  • @Cheri.Marie_
    @Cheri.Marie_ 6 років тому +38

    Great interview, but I do wish the giant microphones weren’t obscuring their faces so much. I like to see someone’s whole face when they speak.

    • @Ryuhza
      @Ryuhza 5 років тому +6

      I prefer to look at just the ears. You can infer a lot by a pair of ears.

    • @al1976-v7m
      @al1976-v7m Рік тому

      @@Ryuhza but even those are covered by earphones

  • @ivorbigonee
    @ivorbigonee 7 років тому +7

    anyone else keep going to tap that x in the top right corner?

  • @horheygrey
    @horheygrey 5 років тому +1

    I've seen concert footage of Peter wearing a shirt that looks exactly like the shirt Mike is wearing. Was there a big sale of Brown Microdot shirts in Athens one day?

    • @krisscanlon4051
      @krisscanlon4051 4 роки тому

      Great comment...Bob Dylan favored them in 1965

  • @ProfessorRiffs
    @ProfessorRiffs 5 років тому +4

    Michael staring the camera down at 17:28.

  • @alisonharte76
    @alisonharte76 6 років тому +5

    Love and miss a rem . Lucky to see them three times. But respect their decision.
    The music is there forever tho!

    • @Zontar82
      @Zontar82 5 років тому

      they have been the only band from the 80's to call it quit before becoming a parody of themselves, churning out albums just to make money, devoid of any sentiment, unlike their brethren U2, depeche mode etc instead keep on doing. mad props for their guts

  • @B41988
    @B41988 6 років тому +4

    "Square peg in a round hole," is just fine with us, Michael. Anything but "cookie cutter" -- #longlivetheunique {a}

  • @Picnicl
    @Picnicl 5 років тому +1

    Something perhaps little said about Automatic for the People is that it was, in a weird way, a pointer towards Monster. Automatic was originally envisioned to be a more 'rocking' album than the perhaps more funk meets country pop of Out of Time. Yet generally I think Automatic's regarded as a part sombre, part sentimental, album. In fact, it's much 'sexier', much more thinking outside the box than that. Look at the video for The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite. With its dark yet colourful alternative disco vibe, it's like a precursor to the What's the frequency Kenneth video. Star me Kitten says hi to the gloriously seedy Star 69. But a defining difference of Automatic is how deliberately postmodernist it is. Whilst Document referenced Senator McCarthy, Automatic is more largely than before about famous American 'stuff'. Dr Seuss, Andy Kauffman, Elvis Montgomery Clift, even the title of the album is consumer 'stuff' - it's a slogan from a diner. The title also has that democratic, yet autocratic, kind of 'Achtung Baby' sound about it. In an election year (like Green was) several song titles could, fittingly, be slogans/commands - Drive! Try not to breathe! Find the river! Automatic is a refined album that nevertheless shows a cheeky glimpse of something saucy (Nightswimming too), something 1950s yet something of every decade since too. Bono called it "the greatest country album never made" i.e. that it's kind of very country but it's also kind of very deliberately not - there's a Nighthawks Edward Hopper urban feel about the back cover art. Electric guitars appear in songs. It's testament to REM's greatness that you could also call Out of Time or New Adventures in Hi-Fi "the greatest country album never made".

    • @Zontar82
      @Zontar82 5 років тому +2

      Maybe i am a "lesser" REM fan,but i still think to this day that Monster is one of their best album

    • @Picnicl
      @Picnicl 5 років тому +1

      Why do you think you're a lesser REM fan? Monster is an amazing album and its subtexts are beyond most popular radio.

  • @adrianz5872
    @adrianz5872 6 років тому +1

    Fantastic businessmen.

  • @martinblumrich8296
    @martinblumrich8296 6 років тому +2

    Holy Over Compressed Audio Batman! They all sound like talking robots!

  • @jessestrobel2
    @jessestrobel2 5 місяців тому

    Error in the bio - they said they (didn't) need to tour the album, and were happy about that.
    Also, Stipe fumbles here: 2:16. Says "Reagan Sr." when he meant "Bush Sr."

  • @hinkel1980
    @hinkel1980 6 років тому +27

    glad that i grew op with R.E.M. and not with a Britney Spears, Back street boys,Puff Daddy,Lady Gaga,Justin Bieber,Miley Cyrus and all that bollocks!! thanks R.E.M. for my good youth!!!

    • @leob4403
      @leob4403 5 років тому +3

      Britney and BSB are fucking Mozart compared to Miley Cyrus, are you kidding me. They had great pop songs. It's the 2010's when popular music really started taking a turn down the shitter

    • @sartainja
      @sartainja 4 роки тому

      Amen, Hink.

    • @emptylikebox
      @emptylikebox 2 роки тому

      @@leob4403 agree

  • @paulsinob
    @paulsinob 5 місяців тому

    Masterpiece is an overused word these days but truly applies to Automatic for the People.

  • @damagedbug8848
    @damagedbug8848 6 років тому +6

    17:25 Michael?......Miichaelll?...nope hes gone again...

  • @stud2578
    @stud2578 8 днів тому

    I find it funny, how people take notice of REM albums starting from Out Of Time onward.
    Personally I think their best work was pre- Out Of Time.
    The IRS years plus Green, with Document being my personal favorite.

  • @natalieps2387
    @natalieps2387 5 років тому +2

    R.e.m. was such a great and interesting band. Over the entire 80s they never quite hit superstardom but always had such a loyal fan base very popular with college kids it was like a right of passage u entered a certain age and u got into r.e.m. green they got pretty popular but how many bands after 7 albums and 11 years together then hit super stardom ? So funny bc they toured every album then they dont tour for out of time and release a very unconventional hit single losing my religion. That song was very special it hit so big they were the it band on 1991 . Won 6 MTV awards when videos were actually played mostly 3 Grammys and sold 18 million albums worldwide. They were superstars and it was interesting I thought they were a newer band. Like nirvana hit big their second album pearl jam their first. It was a phenomenon and it is the 90s. I was 11 and I remember starting my little bit of coming of age with having friends I hung out with not just being home with family and thinking of boys etc and r.e.m. and 90210 at the same time hit it big I'll never forget that iconic scene where brenda and Dylan ( the late Luke perry) were breaking up on the beach with losing my religion playing. That scene and music captured the 90s perfectly. Then r.e.m. bridged the alternative scene into teen spirit which hit right as losing my religion kinda was at the end of its over and over run on radio as it had been out since Feb I heard teen spirit the first time in late November. It was such a great time for music. Interesting fact courtney love was obsessed with Michael stipe I watched some documentary about kurt and courtney and her ex boyfriend a singer who was locally popular but didnt really hit showed the guy filming her notes in the mid 80s and one was " meet Michael stipe " and the guy says and " courtney goes and does it u gotta love courtney... no you dont " lol. She got kurt into him and wierd that courtney had them move next door to Peter buck. Just wondering her obsession with Michael stipe she was always looking to snag a rock singer she dated Billy corgan right before kurt I bet she had the hots for stipe but sad for her he is gay which he hid very well. I had no clue and its nice without social media u could hide ur sexuality. I dont think he tried to hide it just felt it wasnt relevant to his music. I did start to get annoyed with their politics not to say I agree or disagree but I just dont care for famous people shoving their politics in my face and thank God r.e.m. didnt until the inauguration of bubba Clinton and they bash Reagan a lot but I miss the days I never knew their politics and could listen to the music . I guess I was too young too understand their political message I guess bush wacked is about George sr. I just want to love the music and hear about the music not politics. My opinion only.

  • @lucasoheyze4597
    @lucasoheyze4597 Рік тому +7

    Nobody holds Michael Stipe in higher regard than Michael Stipe does.

  • @lonestarbug
    @lonestarbug 6 місяців тому +3

    What are the “dark things” happening in America autumn 1992?

    • @greenatom
      @greenatom 6 місяців тому +3

      The really "dark thing" was Fauci being disastrously in charge of the AIDS response, but Stipe, being a political simpleton, only mentions Reagan.