Velocity of Sound: Apples in Stereo: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Please

2. Rainfall

3. That's Something I Do

4. Do You Understand?

5. Where We Meet

6. Yore Days

7. Better Days

8. I Want

9. Mystery

10. Baroque

11. North America (Bonus Track)

12. She's Telling Lies (Bryce's Mix)

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Japanese edition of the U.S. indie act's 2002 album includes different artwork than the U.S. & one bonus track, 'Other'. SpinART.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Man, This Sucks..., April 18 2004

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Paul H. "rmj84" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Velocity of Sound (Audio CD)

Dude, what is this man? It's like, all happy and stuff. That's crap man. I'll admit, these guys used to kinda catchy, but now they sound like the Beach Boys molested by the Jesus And Mary Chains' Psychocandy. I mean, those guitars! They don't even do anything except play some chords again and again. And it keeps going and going. I mean, alright, I guess if you danced to it would be kinda fun. But real music is about feeling. There aren't any feelings on this record. It makes me all smiley, and I really don't like being smiley. There's so much pain out there, how can you just ignore it? Velocity Of Sound? I don't get it. It's too simple, it's too jolly, the lyrics don't mean anything. Okay, I'm done. Now where's that Ramones record...

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1.0 out of 5 stars Rotten apples, Dec 12 2003

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foxcat42 (Santa Cruz, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Velocity of Sound (Audio CD)

Before we get started here, I have a guilty confession: I like pop music. The really bouncy kind, the kind that's so sugary it could rot teeth. Or, to use another metaphor, music that sounds like someone stuffing prozac in your ears.
As such, it was love at first listen the first time I heard the Apples in Stereo. On earlier albums, I pictured Robert Schneider (the lead singer and primary songwriter) as something like Brian Wilson's hyperactive kid brother, compensating for his lack of musical or lyical depth and his tendency toward repetition with a boundless energy and optimism. And while I'm not placing, say, "Tone Soul Evolution" up there next to "Pet Sounds", I loved it.
So like the mindless consumer I am, "Velocity of Sound" came out and I skipped all the way to the record store and slapped my $15 or so on the counter without hearing a single track, popped the CD in my CD player and cried all the way home.

Okay, that's an exaggeration. But not by much. I know they couldn't be shiny and happy forever, and it's good that they tried to climb out of the musical niche they had carved for themselves. But I've listened to it ten times, in good moods and bad, and I just can't force myself to like it. Change is good, but changing into a generic clone of The Strokes is bad, and that's what they did. They added a distorted guitar or so and tried to sing/shout over it (I'll admit here that the resulting vocals are occasionally less abrasive than the nasally ones we've come to know and tolerate), and decided that if they couldn't have good lyrics, they'd have lyrics that were harder to understand. In this confusion, they lost their melodies, which before were the selling point of their songs, leaving the bouncy listener humming it under her breath all day. What remains just sounds kind of tone-deaf.

Given the recent "returning to the roots of rock" movement (whatever the name for it is I'm sure it's equally stupid), I can't help but feel like the Apples are attempting to gain a bigger fan base by riding in the wake of The Stokes/Hives/Vines. The result is something that manages to completely miss both the original Apples sound and the sound of the bands they seek to imitate. Here's hoping the next time they try to expand their style, they do it in a way that's a little more true to them.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Welcome back Mitch!, Oct 22 2003

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Mark Gunter (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Velocity of Sound (Audio CD)

Well, we`ve waited 15 years for the next Let`s Active / Mitch Easter record---and here it is!! It was well worth the wait. FABULOUS!! Welcome back Mitch!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Guitar Takes Over
OK, I had finally come to accept that the Apples in Stereo were not going to get any better than they already were. Read more

Published on Sep 1 2003 by Paul J. Mazzoni

2.0 out of 5 stars All fuzz, but no bite
Oh man.

I have most of the Apples' albums and I like them. But with each album, I could only take about half of it in one sitting, before it started getting annoying. Read more

Published on May 13 2003

4.0 out of 5 stars awesome
Apples In Stereo are one of my favorite elephant 6 bands, and this album did not dissapoint me at all. Read more

Published on Mar 29 2003 by ***$$***

1.0 out of 5 stars Apples in Dookie
Yikes, I liked the record before this one, Tone whatever. And the singles they put on the Spinart samplers were amazing. Read more

Published on Mar 6 2003 by Bill Wolf

1.0 out of 5 stars rotten apples
I love 60's garage rock as well as the White Stripes, but (try as they might) the Apples in Stereo just can't pull it off. Read more

Published on Jan 11 2003

4.0 out of 5 stars apples go garage
While I can see what some apples fanatics are mad about-------getting away from the eclectic tendencies of previous stuff like brian wilson meets big star,i've gotta admit that... Read more

Published on Jan 5 2003 by rocco marino

5.0 out of 5 stars Great guitar pop!
I'd only heard one other Apples album and enjoyed the obsessive 60s-like approach of cool stuff like Brian Wilson and THE HOLLIES.Well,this album's quite different. Read more

Published on Dec 9 2002 by Bob Ashley

4.0 out of 5 stars Brill...and they knew what they were doing
Paul, the point is that for those who know and love the Apples for all they've done -- for all the territory they've covered -- they chose to do a pure powerpop album, because... Read more