Runtagh, Jordan; Runtagh, Jordan (5. oktober 2017). «R.E.M.'s 'Automatic for the People': 10 Things You Didn't Know». Rolling Stone (på engelsk). Besøkt 9. mai 2020. «The result was 1992’s lush, melancholy and strikingly mature Automatic for the People. The eighth studio album by Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry plays almost like a quarter-life crisis born out in musical form, with songs like “Try Not to Breathe” and “Sweetness Follows” ruminating on aging and death, while “Nightswimming” and “Man on the Moon” turn nostalgia into something hazy and even surreal. While the band thought the LP lacked the same uptempo hit potential as some of their prior work, it reached Number Two on the Billboard charts, eventually going quadruple platinum in the U.S., and yielded some of the best-loved songs of their career.»
