Which R.E.M. album features the song 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite'?

The R.E.M. album featuring “The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite” is Automatic for the People.

Released in 1992, Automatic for the People was R.E.M.'s eighth studio album and followed the enormous success of Out of Time. Its songs often explore mortality, grief, family, aging, and the passage of time, with orchestral arrangements that give the record a reflective atmosphere.

“The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite” provides one of the album's lighter, more playful moments. The song's opening refrain was influenced by “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” which R.E.M. also used as the B-side in the United States. The title and lyrics use wordplay around the image of a sidewinder, a desert rattlesnake.

The track is sometimes misremembered as a song from Out of Time because both albums belong to R.E.M.'s early-1990s peak. It was released as a single in 1993 and later appeared on the band's 2003 compilation In Time.