QUESTION: What is on the cover of R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People album? R.E.M.’s 1992 album Automatic For The People is considered by many to be their best, featuring classic songs such as Nightswimming and Everybody Hurts. Its cover features a black-and-white photograph of a star-shaped Neo-Lectra neon sign that once hung above the Sinbad Motel in Miami, Florida, near Criteria Studios where most of the album was recorded. The Neo-Lectra signs were designed and manufactured in the 1960s by Jim Henry of Oklahoma Neon, in Tulsa. came from Athens, Georgia, and the enigmatic album title came from the motto of a restaurant called Weaver D’s Delicious Fine Foods.
