Automatic for the People (1992)

By R.E.M.

Slow, string-laced rock songs about mortality, memory and grief, recorded by Georgia band R.E.M. (Out of Time) as their eighth studio album. Released in 1992, it yielded six singles, reached number two on the US Billboard 200 and sold more than 18 million copies worldwide, with strings arranged by John Paul Jones. For fans of quiet, melancholy guitar records.