R.E.M. have announced details on their latest catalogue title: an expansion of 1992's landmark album Automatic For The People.

Following the Athens quartet's commercial floodgates bursting open with the chart-topping Out of Time (1991) and Top 10 singles "Losing My Religion" and "Shiny Happy People," R.E.M. initially set out to make a more rock-oriented album but delivered something more intimate and emotionally intense. Part of the record was inspired by the band's advancing age (singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry were all in their early thirties) and adjustment to a world where many of their alternative contemporaries had split up. "The world that we'd been involved in had disappeared, the world of Hüsker Dü and The Replacements, all that had gone," Buck later said. "We were just in a different place and that worked its way out musically and lyrically."

Highlights on Automatic include the U.S. Top 30 rockers "Drive" and "Man On the Moon," the mournful ballad "Everybody Hurts" (a Top 10 U.K.. hit), and the elegiac, piano-driven "Nightswimming" (an all-time favorite of this author). The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, placed third in the Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critic's Poll and was nominated for four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.

The deluxe Automatic is packed with four discs worth of material and a king's ransom of rare and unreleased content. The remastered album is paired with two bonus CDs: one including a new remaster of the band's Greenpeace benefit set at The 40 Watt Club in their native Athens (the only show they did in the Automatic era), and another of 20 unreleased demos, including the fully-realized outtake "Mike's Pop Song." A Blu-ray features a new Dolby Atmos mix of the album (and compilation-only track "Photograph," a duet with Natalie Merchant) done by original album producer and engineer Scott Litt and Clif Norrell, plus seven music videos and a vintage EPK. The deluxe package, enclosed in a 12" x 12" lidded box, also features a 60-page book of unseen photos by Anton Corbijn and Melodie McDaniel, plus new liner notes by Scottish music journalist Tom Doyle, drawing from new interviews from the band.

A 2CD cutdown featuring the album and live show will be available, along with a new 180-gram vinyl pressing. Look for all versions November 10 on Craft Recordings. Full specs and pre-order links are below!

Automatic For The People: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Craft Recordings, 2017)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.
3CD/1 Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.
LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.

Disc 1: Original album (released as Warner Bros. Records 45055, 1992)

1. Drive
2. Try Not to Breathe
3. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
4. Everybody Hurts
5. New Orleans Instrumental No. 1
6. Sweetness Follows
7. Monty Got a Raw Deal
8. Ignoreland
9. Star Me Kitten
10. Man On the Moon
11. Nightswimming
12. Find the River

Disc 2: Live At The 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA - 11/19/1992

1. Drive
2. Monty Got a Raw Deal
3. Everybody Hurts
4. Man On the Moon
5. Losing My Religion
6. Country Feedback
7. Begin the Begin
8. Fall On Me
9. Me In Honey
10. Finest Worksong
11. Love Is All Around
12. Funtime
13. Radio Free Europe

Tracks 1 from Alternative NRG - Hollywood Records E2-61449, 1994
Tracks 2-4 from "What's the Frequency Kenneth?" CD single - Warner Bros. Records 41760, 1994
Tracks 5-7 from "Bang and Blame" CD single - Warner Bros. Records 41857, 1994
Tracks 8-10 from "Crush With Eyeliner" CD single - Warner Bros. Records 41904, 1995
Tracks 12-13 from "Strange Currencies" CD single - Warner Bros. Records 43513, 1995

Disc 3: Demos (previously unreleased)

1. Drive
2. Wake Her Up
3. Mike's Pop Song
4. C to D Slide 13
5. Cello Scud
6. 10K Minimal
7. Peter's New Song
8. Eastern 983111
9. Bill's Acoustic
10. Arabic Feedback
11. Howler Monkey
12. Pakiderm
13. Afterthought
14. Bazouki Song
15. Photograph
16. Michael's Organ
17. Pete's Acoustic Idea
18. 6-8 Passion & Voc
19. Hey Love (Mike Voc)
20. Devil Rides Backwards

Blu-ray

1. Original album and bonus track (Photograph) mixed in Dolby Atmos
2. Original album and bonus track (Photograph) mixed in Hi-Resolution Audio
3. Drive (music video)
4. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (music video)
5. Everybody Hurts (music video)
6. Man On the Moon (music video)
7. Nightswimming (music video: British version)
8. Find the River (music video)
9. Nightswimming (music video: R version)
10. Automatic Press Kit