100 Word Album Review
R.E.M. — Automatic For The People — 1992
Album Review
R.E.M. — Automatic For The People — 1992
R.E.M. didn’t capture the zeitgeist for Generation X — they were the zeitgeist.
With 1992’s Automatic For The People, R.E.M. unleashed 12 eclectic songs. Of course, the linchpin being the Andy Kaufman led historical journey “Man on the Moon.”
AFTP is considered by many, including guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike Mills, to be “the finest album the band ever recorded.”
With this album R.E.M., inexplicably, bridged the chasm between 80s “college rock” and the burgeoning 90s grunge movement.
Automatic For The People may be of Generation X, and like all flawless albums before and since, it surpasses such reductive marginalization.