Rem - Automatic for the People (CD & DVD Audio)
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Artist: RemEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2005-03-01
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
- Drive
- Try Not to Breathe
- The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
- Everybody Hurts
- New Orleans Instrumental, No. 1
- Sweetness Follows
- Monty Got a Raw Deal
- Ignoreland
- Star Me Kitten
- Man on the Moon
- Nightswimming
- Find the River
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Free Music Review: R.E.M.'s Days of Future Passed
Hit: 5 Stars
I rode with my family to a department store in 1992 with my cassette walkman in my coat pocket. I was 17 years old, and I'd heard "Drive" on the radio and decided to check out some more R.E.M. I bought Automatic For The People on tape, got to the van, opened the wrapper, popped in the cassette, and -- all hyperbole aside -- I finally understood what people meant when they said music can change you. This album would not let me go. I wore the tape out. I've since bought this album on vinyl once and twice on CD including this CD/DVD release. For me, this is R.E.M.'s best album, and maybe my favorite record all-time.
There is not a single bad song here -- not even a slight clunker. From the strings on "Drive" to the lyrics in "Nightswimming" to the coda of "Find the River," there's never been an album that celebrates life and death and all points in between with such aplomb. The band named the album after the slogan for Weaver D's restaurant in Athens, GA, but that's not just a clever slogan. The whole album contemplates the one thing we're guaranteed, automatically, in this life, and that is it will all end, and the photographs on the dashboards and the people we know will fade, and we'll be scattered to the wind or be consumed by the earth. This album simply notes that there is beauty and grace even in death.
This two-disc release contains a repackaged (not remastered) CD, a DVD with two 5.1 mixes (Dolby 5.1 and DTS) as well as a stereo sound mix. The packaging does not contain new art, but there is an essay from Anthony DeCurtis that was not released with the album originally. The DVD also includes a documentary, lyrics, a photo gallery, and a discography. The main reason you should consider buying this release is if you have a 5.1 system and want to hear how they split the channels. The 5.1 separation is not as pronounced as, say, GREEN, on which they went so far as to separate the crickets on "You Are The Everything," but you will hear some pretty cool separations on Automatic as well. I was pretty impressed with the separation of instruments on "Try Not To Breathe" as well as the ethereal effect of "Sweetness Follows."
This is R.E.M.'s Days of Future Passed (The Moody Blues' concept album that followed a day in the life of a man from dawn to dusk). Here, R.E.M. contemplate the daylight to darkness of our little lives, and hearing this 5.1 mix opens up the album in a way I've never heard. If you have a good 5.1 system and set the thing up properly (and if you love R.E.M.), then you owe yourself the opportunity to hear this album again.
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