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Artist: Silver ApplesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-10-21
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
- Oscillations
- Seagreen Serenades
- Lovefingers
- Program
- Velvet Cave
- Whirly-Bird
- Dust
- Dancing Gods
- Misty Mountain
- You and I
- Water
- Ruby - Silver Apples, Creasy, Joy May
- Gypsy Love
- You're Not Foolin' Me
- I Have Known Love
- A Pox on You
- Confusion
- Fantasies
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Free Music Review: Just Cuz You're Ahead of Your Time Don't Make You Good
Hit: 2 Stars
the thing that people always say about this album - and many others - is that it's good/great because it was "ahead of it's time." the problem with that logic is that it throws quality and talent out the window in favor of chronology. just because someone does something way before others are into it hardly means it's any good. some guy somewhere was the first to point a gun at another person and kill them and he was way ahead of his time but that doesn't mean shooting people is "cool." same for art. just cuz these guys were monkeying around with synths and spacey lyrics before other people doesn't mean the result is worth listening to. and ahead of it's time????????? uh, let's take a look at this album's "time":
pink floyd's "piper at the gates of dawn" - 1967, at least a year earlier than S. Apples
frank zappa/mothers of invention - "freakout" 1966, earlier still
j. hendrix - 1967
and on it goes
it's a fun little slice of history but hardly required listening.
Silver Apples/Contact Poster
Oft-sampled electronic pop pioneers the Silver Apples released two exceptionally influential, off-kilter records in 1968 and '69, then apparently vanished. The group was formed in New York City in the psychedelic heyday of 1967 by drummer Danny Taylor and protosynth player Simeon, who quaintly named his hand-built instrument the Simeon. Taylor was a powerhouse of polyphony and his looping, loping playing is the engine that drives the Apples' experimental music, characterized by snippets of found sound, weird and warbly high-pitched singing, stray banjos, and--most importantly--the battering, buzzing, bleeping beauty of the Simeon synth. The two albums are a bizarre, sincere mixture of avant-garde sensibilities, pop melodies, folk-psyche song structures, overwrought poetry, and hefty percussion. It is difficult-to-describe, signature music that ranks high alongside the most forward-thinking avant-prog. The group got back together in the mid-'90s, spurred on by the enthusiasm that many acts showed for their music (the group has been name-checked and more by Spacemen 3, Low, and Stereolab). But as is often the case, the reunion records just don't quite cut it--this one CD has everything you need. Lazy electronic musicians are encouraged to sample the heck out of this band; you won't be the first. --Mike McGonigalAlternative Rock Music CDs
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