written by caboodle on 16/10/2010
Automatic For The People is one of the greatest albums ever made. When this came out 1992 I had been a fan of REM for about 3 years and had bought everything they had made. Every song on this album was a classic. I was living in a student house when this came out with 14 other people and was the only REM fan. Within 6 months, 10 people in the house had bought this album. I'm still a fan and I still by every new album but this album will never be beaten. America was all about grunge in 1992 which left me cold but this album showed that only one US band really mattered.