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{{Infobox album
| name = The Automatic Box
| type = Box set
| artist = [[R.E.M.]]
| cover = R.E.M. - The Automatic Box.jpeg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1993|12}}
| recorded = May 1988{{nbsp}}– September 1993
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Alternative rock]]
| length = {{Duration|m=63|s=51}}
| label = [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]]
| producer = [[Scott Litt]] and R.E.M.
| prev_title = [[Automatic for the People]]
| prev_year = 1992
| next_title = [[Monster (R.E.M. album)|Monster]]
| next_year = 1994
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = R.E.M. compilations
| type = compilation
| prev_title = [[The Best of R.E.M.]]
| prev_year = 1991
| title = The Automatic Box
| year = 1993
| next_title = [[R.E.M.: Singles Collected]]
| next_year = 1994
}}
}}'''''The Automatic Box''''' is a four-disc box set by [[R.E.M.]], released in [[Germany]] in December 1993.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Platt |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2WEkAQAAMAAJ |title=The R.E.M. Companion |date=1998 |publisher=Schirmer Books |isbn=978-0-8256-7213-2 |pages=254 |language=en}}</ref> It was primarily a collection of B-sides from ''[[Automatic for the People]]'', though disc four contains B-sides from ''[[Green (R.E.M. album)|Green]]''-era singles (then collected on the 7" vinyl box set ''Singleactiongreen''). "It's a Free World Baby", "Fretless", "Mandolin Strum", and "Organ Song" were outtakes recorded during ''[[Out of Time (album)|Out of Time]]'' recording sessions. This is part of a Warner Bros. Records series that compiles rarities and b-sides from a specific record, also containing the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]' ''[[Live Rare Remix Box]]''.

==Track listing==
All tracks written by [[Bill Berry]], [[Peter Buck]], [[Mike Mills]] and [[Michael Stipe]] except as indicated.
;Disc 1 – Vocal tracks
# "It's a Free World Baby" – 5:11
# "Fretless" – 4:49
# "Chance (Dub)" – 2:32
# "Star Me Kitten" (demo) – 3:04

;Disc 2 – Instrumentals
# "Winged Mammal Theme" – 2:55
# "Organ Song" – 3:28
# "Mandolin Strum" – 3:45
# "Fruity Organ" – 3:26
# "New Orleans Instrumental No. 2" – 3:48

;Disc 3 – Covers
# "Arms of Love" ([[Robyn Hitchcock]]) – 3:35
# "[[Dark Globe]]" ([[Syd Barrett]]) – 1:51
# "[[The Lion Sleeps Tonight]]" ([[Luigi Creatore]], [[Hugo Peretti]], [[George David Weiss]]) – 2:41
# "[[First We Take Manhattan]]" ([[Leonard Cohen]]) – 6:06

;Disc 4 – B-sides from ''Singleactiongreen''
# "[[Ghost Rider (Suicide song)|Ghost Rider]]" ([[Martin Rev]], [[Alan Vega]]) – 3:44
# "[[Funtime (Iggy Pop song)|Funtime]]" ([[David Bowie]], [[Iggy Pop]]) – 2:14
# "Memphis Train Blues" – 1:38
# "[[Pop Song 89]]" (acoustic) – 3:03
# "[[Everybody Hurts]]" (live at the [[1993 MTV Video Music Awards|1993 MTV Awards]]) – 4:56

== References ==
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