Automatic For The People - 1992 US Warner Bros label 12-track Limited Edition CD - Wooden Box

Scarce original 1992 US limited edition box set comprising full 12-track CD album - capturing Athens, Georgia, combo at their finest and featuring the singles "Drive", "Man on the Moon", "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite", "Everybody Hurts", "Nightswimming" and "Find the River".

"Automatic for the people" was labelled "musically irresistible" by Rolling Stones reviewer Paul Evans and Ann Powers wrote in her review in The New Times "... R.E.M. can't resist its own talent for creating beautiful and moving sounds.", "...Buck, Mills and Berry can still conjure melodies that fall like summer sunlight. And Stipe still possesses a gorgeous voice that cannot shake its own gift for meaning."

Disc is housed in a die cut picture sleeve - accompanied by 16 vellum photo cards - everything held in a 6" x 6" carved wooden slide-top box - still factory sealed with original front sticker

Tracklisting:

1 Drive 4:30
2 Try Not To Breathe 3:49
3 The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite 4:06
4 Everybody Hurts 5:17
5 New Orleans Instrumental No. 1 2:12
6 Sweetness Follows 4:19
7 Monty Got A Raw Deal 3:16
8 Ignoreland 4:24
9 Star Me Kitten 3:35
10 Man On The Moon 5:12
11 Nightswimming 4:16
12 Find The River 3:49

Recorded at Bearsville Studios, New York, USA
Recorded at Criteria Recording Studios, Miami, Florida
Recorded at John Keane Studios
Recorded at Kingsway Studios, New Orleans
Recorded at Bosstown Recording Studios, Atlanta, GA
Mixed at Bad Animals, Seattle, WA
Mastered at Precision Mastering, Hollywood, LA

Credits:

R.E.M.:
Bill Berry -drums, percussion, keyboards, bass guitar, backing vocals
Peter Buck -electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, bass guitar
Mike Mills --ass guitar, piano, keyboards, backing vocals
Michael Stipe -vocals

Additional musicians:
scott Litt -harmonica, clavinet

Strings and oboe on "Drive", "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight", "Everybody Hurts", and "Nightswimming":
John Paul Jones - orchestral arrangements
George Hanson - conductor
Denise Berginson-Smith, Lommie Ditzen, Patti Gouvas, Sandy Salzinger, Sou-Chun Su, Judy Taylor - violin
Knox Chandler, Kathleen Kee, Daniel Laufee, Elizabeth Murphy - cello
Reid Harris, Paul Murphy, Heidi Nitchie - viola
Deborah Workman - boe

Technical credits:
Scott Litt - production, mixing engineer
Ed Brooks - second engineer (Seattle)
George Cowan - second engineer (Bearsville)
John Keane - recording engineer (Athens)
Mark Howard - second engineer (New Orleans)
Tod Lemkuhl - second engineer (Seattle)
Ted Malia - second engineer (Atlanta)
Stephen Marcussen - mastering engineer (Precision Mastering)
Clif Norrell - recording engineer, mixing engineer
Andrew Roshberg - second engineer (Miami)

Artwork:
Michael Stipe, Tom Recchion - Art Direction, Design
Fredrick Nilsen - Photography