REM Automatic For The People Album Poster

“REM Automatic For The People Album Poster” – product model for passionate fans of the famous rock group “R.E.M”. If you love rock music or know this band, this is a unique gift for you as well as your relatives and friends.

Automatic For The People By REM Poster 

Having made their most successful record yet, R.E.M quickly began work on Automatic For The People, deciding against touring Out Of Time. Instead, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry convened at their West Clayton Street rehearsal room in Athens, Georgia for initial instrument-swapping writing sessions, with Stipe not present.

The intention had been to follow Out Of Time with a mainstream-friendly rock record, but when presented with the initial demos, Stipe called them “pretty fucking weird”. By the time the band had wrapped up work on their eighth album over a year later, they’d recorded in six different cities, delivering a majestic, affecting but often sombre portrait of the United States, with lyrics that delve deep into heartbreak, mortality and a fracturing society. It was written, says Stipe, in “Politically the darkest era America had ever seen”.

Originally planned as a heavier “rock” album in the wake of Out of Time‘s somewhat gentler sound, this approach was soon abandoned as demo tracks began to come together and Stipe’s lyrics took shape. Stipe’s lyrics are still as puzzling as ever, but the mumbling singing style he’d been known for in the band’s earlier days is all but gone, allowing fans to hear his unique, bracing voice clear and unfettered.

The more “rocking” songs on Automatic for the People are few and far between but work well within the context of the album and are nice palette cleansers between the album’s moodier tracks.

Due to the high quality of the initial album and its importance within R.E.M.’s discography, a 25th-anniversary single disc reissue would be adequate and perfectly excusable, but a number of additional extra recordings have been assembled for this edition, making it a true “deluxe” edition.

The second disc is a live recording from the legendary 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia, an old local stomping ground of the band’s early days, recorded November 19, 1992, about six weeks after the release of Automatic For the People. The band seem relaxed and confident, reveling not only in the adulation of the small town college crowd but energized by the new songs.

Looking back on the album a quarter-century later, Buck admits he was always surprised by the album’s success. “I didn’t expect it to be a huge hit”, he says. “It’s a strong record, but I’m a little confused with what we came up with”. Indeed, Automatic for the People is a bit baffling in that it doesn’t rely on any of the current sonic trends of the time. It possesses a magical, wholly independent aura. This is an album of elegant simplicity, full of grand, sweeping gestures. There would be much more to come, but this was their apex.

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Description

• 175 gsm fine art paper.
• Matte finish.
• For indoor use.
• NB! Due to the production process of these posters, please allow for slight size deviations with a tolerance of +/- 1/16″.
• Museum-grade paper is known to be archival, which means it can be stored for a long time without turning yellow.
• Bright and intense colors for your desired design that will not fade when exposed to sunlight regularly.
• If the poster does gather any dust, you may wipe it off gently with a clean, dry cloth.

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