AUTOMATIC For The People, the one with Man On The Moon, Drive and Everybody Hurts, was REM's eighth studio album, a number one in Britain and number two in the United States in 1992.

A reflection on mortality and dying, it was the Georgians' "most cohesive record...the strongest from first to last", reckons Mike Mills, and he's right, but that's not the reason to acquire the 25th anniversary editions, either the two-disc version or the deluxe box set with companion Blu-Ray.

Both feature Live At The 40 Watt Club 19/11/1992, REM's only concert of that year, recorded in their home town of Athens for Greenpeace. It was solar powered, but REM were firing on all cylinders, introducing Everybody Hurts for the first time in all its beauty and covering Love Is All Around before Wet Wet Wet spent a year at number one with the Four Weddings favourite.

The four-disc box has 20 demos, most far from essential, save for Mike's Pop Song, Photograph and Devil Rides Backwards.