This is our first Weekly Album Club discussion thread! Last Wednesday I passed out our assignment. REM’s 1992 follow up to their mainstream breakthrough Out of Time, Automatic For The People

https://lemmy.world/post/4994392

One of the 1000s of band inspired by Velvet Underground that became a band that kicked off a 1000 alternative bands of their own (and is our community header). After taking college rock and literally kick starting the “authenticity” alternative music boom of the 90s, REM returned with this brooding dark album.

https://songwhip.com/rem/automatic-for-the-people1992

So you all had a week, what are your thoughts on AFTP, what it meant for REM, to music, to you? How does it feel in its place in time? And whatever else you want to talk about with it.

Let’s go!

  • @harsh3466English
    2•1 year ago

    Great album to kick off the album club!

    I have not listened to this album in a very long time, I listened to it several times this week and enjoyed it every time.

    I was never a deep R.E.M. fan. I came to them with Out of Time, and album that I love to this day, and because that was my first R.E.M. album all others are kind of secondary to it. (I also love the subversive nature of oot)

    So, for aftp, Drive is my favorite track. Such mood and atmosphere to this song. It always draws me in and makes me feel melancholy in a good way. It’s like the capstone to the entire mood and atmosphere of the album.

    This album as a whole just sucks me back to the 90s, hanging out with my first girlfriend and her friend listening to cds and just being dumb teenagers.

    • @harsh3466English
      1•1 year ago

      So I’m listening to aftp again right now and every song is a moody, atmospheric banger. It’s kinda hitting me in the feels. I’m an 80s/90s-genX-latchkey-kid, and right now this album is hitting me.