>Automatic For The People (Warner Bros, 1992) confirms a year later the crisis that was latent, taking inspiration from the weakest songs of the previous work, accentuating the orchestral arrangements and the elegiac mood. Given that the group has reached a very sophisticated level of "storytelling", the fact remains that many of these songs are no more original or no more ingenious than many pop ballads.
Considered by many to be R.E.M.'s masterpiece, Automatic is more than anything a senile and self-indulgent album, which is worth more as a work of sophisticated "pop" than as a work of innovative "rock".

>word words words
music sounds good = people like it
simple as.

>self indulgent
this pretentious wop pedophile is not in the position to call anything self indulgent

god this guy babbles a lot. no wonder he's a meme

>>126725376 (OP)
rem sucks dick

how the fuck is sweetness follows self indulgent

John Paul Jones was the real MVP of this album