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Podcast: What the Riff Next Gen
Episode: 1993 - February: R.E.M. ”Automatic for the People”
Description: By the time that R.E.M. put out their eighth studio album, the band had been a major factor in alternative rock for a decade. Automatic for the People takes a step back from the faster paced music of earlier albums and creates a more pensive, mellow feel with themes of loss and nostalgia for times gone by. Guitarist Peter Buck, bass and keyboardist Mike Mills, drummer Bill Berry, and front man Michael Stipe present a more acoustic landscape with this critically and commercially successful album.
Many of the songs on this album originated during sessions fo...