. - Automatic For The People Track-by-Track | X-Posure | Radio X

In 1992 . were on top of the world. They had hits, awards, and, most importantly, money rolling in. Going into the recording session for Automatic For The People, the band knew they would need to tour whatever they ended up with. That’s a pretty nice position to be in. Taking the logistics of live performance away from the session allowed Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, and Peter Buck to open their sound. The result was their most successful and critically acclaimed album to date. Automatic For The People hit the industry like a wrecking ball. Hits like Everybody Hurts, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight, Man On The Moon, and Nightswimming became staples of the landscape they now inhabited. But it was moments like Drive, Find The River, and, of course, New Orleans Instrumental No.1, that layered the album. It is, undoubtedly, a masterpiece. “There were dark times going on in our country“ Peter Buck told Radio X, “it was a weird confliction between the fact that we were in a pretty good pl