R.E.M. - Nightswimming (Official Music Video) [British Version]

R.E.M. is excited to announce the reissue of their landmark album Automatic For The People to commemorate the record's 25th Anniversary. Due November 10 via Craft Recordings, the remastered album will be available in a variety of formats, the most extensive of which is the Deluxe Anniversary Edition, which will feature the album in its entirety mixed in Dolby Atmos.

The album (plus bonus track “Photograph,” featuring Natalie Merchant) was remixed in Dolby Atmos by Automatic’s original producer, Scott Litt, and engineer, Clif Norrell. This technology delivers a leap forward from surround sound with expansive, flowing audio that immerses the listener far beyond what stereo can offer. It transports the listener inside the recording studio with multi-dimensional audio – evoking a time when listening to music was an active, transformative experience, and reigniting the emotion you felt when you first heard the album in 1992. R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People is the first album to be commercially released in this expressive, breathtaking format.
In addition, the 4-disc Deluxe Edition will offer a wealth of previously unreleased material. The band selected 20 never-before-heard demos from the LP’s sessions, including the fully-realized, unreleased track “Mike’s Pop Song” and the oft-mused about song, “Devil Rides Backwards.”

“Mike’s Pop Song” is available NOW as an instant grat track with preorder of the reissue.

[davidwags]

I was 22 years old when this came out, now I’m almost 50 . There are few things that can transport you to another time and place, this song is my time machine .

[kojirohyuga]

"Automatic for the People" is one of the best albums in the history of music.

[thelightattheotherside]

It was summer 2001. I was 19. A friend was a part-time park ranger at a local state park, and he would drop the chain over a back entrance so late at night, and our group of friends would sneak in and go skinny dipping in the lake. We'd lie in the grass and look at the stars and talk about life and nothing and the future, smoking some crappy w**d our friend's brother grew in his yard and drinking cheap beer...
That September, planes crashed into buildings and ended my youth forever. I enlisted in the military. When I hear this song, I remember the last summer of my youth, skinnydipping when I was young and beautiful and unflawed and wild and untamed, and that line... "September's coming soon"... still gives me chills.
This is the ode to my youth. To what freedom meant before 9/11, and how one moment in time changed all of us, forever. How quickly youth is gone and adulthood is upon us. How light the world was before, and how heavy it can be now. What I wouldn't give to sneak into that park and go nightswimming just one more time... free and wild, deep in the water, untethered by even gravity.... forever young and beautiful...

[ShaninOhio-uums]

This song transports me back to the 80's. My high school friends and I sneaking out during a sleepover and driving with the windows down and too many of us in the car on a beautiful August night. Listening to our favorite music and feeling like we were really getting away with something. It's impossible to recapture the feeling of being that young and care free. "These things they go away, replaced by everyday".

[bumble]

How I love this song and lyrics. At 61 years of age now, it came on my radio at work today, quite literally stopped me in my tracks. I found a quiet corner to listen and take it in. I can't tell you how it brought memories flooding back, so emotional. Oh well, it's what great music does for the soul.

[leatheredlife]

It was early 90s... I was a stupid teenager in his holidays. Not knowing, what my life would be. A head full of bullshit. It was 3 A.M. one hot summer night, i was watching TV. On one Channel this video started... this melody started, with these pictures, these lines, these words i never heard before. I still don't know, what it did to me. I started crying like a child, it gave me kind of a feeling that my youth will be over soon and a new chapter of life will start. I still remember sooo many years later, like it was yesterday. Now, today, when I go back to this moment nearly 30 years ago, all the words in this song make more sense then ever. Thank you R.E.M. for being with me all those years on my way from a child to a father...

[JamesRBentley]

I had just got my first weekend job cleaning tables in a department store restaurant. I would wake at 5 am on a Saturday, walk in the crisp air and wait for the bus. Once aboard, I hit play on my Walkman and heard this for the first time. Battling the tiredness that comes with rising at early light, my mind floated away as the world beyond the window melted into a blur. I was 16, and had a life changing crush on a girl that lived a road away from me. A few years later we became lovers, and then she broke my heart. And then many years later she introduced me to her friend, who became the love of my life, wife and mother to my son. When I think back all those years, images of places and people long gone flash by, just as the world did when I rode that bus listening to this song.

[DarrenKenyon]

I was 16 when this came out, im 47 now, i loved it then, but now the words have so much more meaning..as i listen to it now and im filled with nostalgia from when i was 16 and had my whole life ahead of me

[totonash]

As a Muslim from the Middle East, it is through the brilliantly crafted songs of R.E.M that I first became exposed to the greatness of Western culture. R.E.M songs remind me of the happy times of my childhood when optimism ruled the day. Things have changed for the worse since then, but I will always have R.E.M hits to fall back on.

Thank you Michael Stipe for brilliant works of art! I'll be forever grateful.

[donaldadams]

reminds me of my wife Kathy. we rented a cabin in northern michigan. we swam out in their pond and made love holding onto their pontoon. She passed on 9/28/21. i never heard this song till after she died. I have a mental picture of that. Awesome memory. thanks Michael Stipe!!

[jjaybizzy]

played at my uncles funeral now this song will always be in my heart

[b]

Walking to college listening to this on my portable CD player. Desperately trying to not let it jump by walking slowly.
She had blonde hair and I loved her, I drunk snakebite and black. I smoked hash and had my grandparents still. A time long gone but still frozen in time everytime I hear this song. I'm 50 next year and I'm happy....

[mmassoud]

This song brings back sweet memories from my youth days. The 90's were the best years of my life, they were like a "fairytale". Now life has became so cold and cruel 🥺

[bobkealing]

2025 and Forever. The last three songs in Automatic are stunning. This is one of them.

[timraines]

Many years ago, on October 7th, my wife and I danced to Nightswimming for our wedding song. Happy 25th Anniversary my

[loriparker]

I used to go night swimming in my parents swimming pool at night when they where out and I would listen to this song, and I loved this band and songs esp this one 👍🤎

[Befuggled]

I was 40 years old when "Automatic for the People" came out and captivated me. I was always intrigued by the lyrics :
"The photograph on the dashboard taken years ago,
turned around backwards so the windshield shows.
Every street light reveals a picture in reverse"
A few years later I started experimenting with a photo of old friends wedged between the windscreen
and dashboard, turned around so the people were looking forwards and upwards and went "Nightdriving". Every passing
street light revealed a transient flashing image of those dear to me.
It works and when I still occasionally do this it always reminds me of this great song and album.
(Less distracting than a mobile phone but I am not responsible for any erratic driving that might ensue.)

[emmafrye]

Instant chills. I’m 22 and I’m a sucker for the 90s. This band is so amazing

[Arupojonu]

It' s beyond me, how can anyone come up with these musical ideas. This band made art.

[Daisy-sdvd]

2024 and still love this at 53 years of age. Still remember the first time I heard it…..timeless.