9.0
Avg Score
4
Opinions
#769
All Time
26
Tracks
“R.E.M.’s most unstable album never quite arrives in any one sound for more than a track at a time. Born of a chaotic and stressful tour, it translated not only the energy of their shows but the transience and unreality of life on the road.”
“They say it’s always darkest before the dawn. For R.E.M., these have been dark days indeed. In 1992 the Athens, Ga., band released Automatic for the People, on which the singer and lyricist Michael Stipe reflected upon life’s rich ephemerality. Two years later, Stipe’s friend Kurt Cobain killed himself. R.E.M. responded on 1994’s Monster by […]”
