i am an early bird but the feathers are black / so the apples that i catch are usually all worms

oh and i would kick solinger's ass for that but i have nothing but cautious pity for a guy who fills mixtapes with u2 and acdc songs.

I think Fun Trick Noisemaker was marginally fun but generally slight; good for a listen or two.

I think Science Faire was even slighter but consequently more fun and therefore less slight, in a little-fuzzy-pop-band-from-down- the-street kind of way; good for a whole lot of pleased, loving listens, in the same sense that a Primitives record can be good for a whole lot of pleased, loving listens.

I think Tone Soul Evolution was very much not slight, sounded great, had some very charming, well-crafted songs on it, and deserves credit as a pretty great record; good for a whole lot of listening at the time, although it's one of those I don't dig out as often as I'd think I would.

I think Her Wallpaper Reverie was a promising continuation of Tone Soul Evolution, with probably better songwriting and stylistic dynamics, and if they'd released an album of that quality rather than an EP, I'd have thought them amazing.

I think the Look Away EP was the best and most solid and most promising they've ever done, which makes it sad that --

I think Discovery... was embarrassing, ill-written, silly, mediocre, dull, and just all-around not worth the five or six hours of my life I spent giving it a chance.

(I also think a certain other band who shall remain nameless is about 20 times better than the Apples.)

I should note that both times I've seen the band they've succeeded in boring the fuck out of me -- and the first time I was actually looking forward them quite a bit, only for them to be terribly dull power-pop.

I LOVE LOOK AWAY. i bought that single a few months before the album came out and i thought, dear god, this album is going to be fantastic. the song itself and the hilarie sidney song and the cover art and 'the friar's lament', wow. actually one of the few good things about discovery etc etc moone was the huge fold-out steve keene painting just like on the look away cover, i have taped up on my wall right now. oh to play nitsuh's album-by-album game, i would rate them as:

her wallpaper reverie > look away > tone soul evolution > science faire > fun trick noisemaker > that crap last one

i should note i probably like science faire more because i got it before fun trick noisemaker and so all my favorite songs on it (like glowworm) i consider to be from science faire and not ftn. but i still love it a lot.

More like "ONE trick noisemaker" if you ask me.

i just bought the j*** m***** solo disc (he of the band who shall remain nameless) and it is very fine indeed. (there is a creepy baby in the audience who cries at all these odd, dramatic moments.)

the apples...did they do that powerpuff girls song which i've seen one too many times on cartoon network? if so, then i would rather be stripped of my skin by a mongolian nomad and rolled in pretzle salt.

the apples started downhill around the time the neckbeard appeared.

if fred doesn't like apples in stereo, then i find myself in the unusual position of being in agreement with Fred.

Whaddabout Pyramid Landing, by The Marbles? He's more cut loose and experimental, wearing his influences much more broadly and distinctly on his sleeve. And Go Maralee is one of the grate pop songs ever.

the new marbles lp is going to be a collaboration with andy partridge. i think it is out soon?

The Apples In Stereo are indeed the best E6 band, after, (in no particular order) Olivia Tremor Control, Beulah, The Minders, Elf Power, N****** M*** H****, Summer Hymns, heck, that's about all the E6 bands I've heard, though supposedly there's some really crappy benchwarmers like the Gerbils.

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wow, was this where i actually got to agree with fred!!!

why would this embarrass trife, btw, hes always been into e6 etc. anyway, i think you'll find that trife is all about the rave these days, last time i heard, he was tooling up for an Underground Resistance bootcamp

Agent Trife: Underwater Georgian Bass Specialist.

Weapons: 909, 303, handclaps, sl1200s, amphibious assault niteflite m20. area 313 bus ticket...

aw this thread is cute!

I like the Apples new album actually. Totally new direction, but the singing... so, so, good.

What the fuck is wrong with AC/DC songs? (notice I didn't stick up for U2; I have my limits)

FOR YEARS TRIFE HAS KNOWN THAT ALL MORTALS RESPOND AT THEIR MOST PRIMAL LEVEL TO SUBSONIC ASSAULTS FROM THE UNDERGROUND. LONG HAS HE MADE FUN OF SO CALLED "SCIENTISTS" WHO SUGGEST OTHERWISE. AGENT TRIFE AIMS TO SMASH THE BOUNDARIES OF OVERGROUND HEGEMONY USING THE AURAL EQUIVALENT OF "THAT BONE FROM 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY". YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

(We love you really Underground Resistance mailing list man)

is this thread title a De La Soul reference?? it's driving me crazy not knowing

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