Sorry about two questions on a Sunday, let's count them as tomorrow and Tuesday's.
Anyway, Silver Apples - I know the FACTS about them (The Simeon's oscillator army, the 2 albums etc etc), but I've never HEARD them. I read a couple of articles on them today and I'm really intrigued. So, should I get their entire recorded works as soon as possible or avoid ike the plague? Where do they fit in? What do they sound like? I could just search for an MP3 and decide for myself, but I'm MUCH more interested in what YOU think!
― Dr. C, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I have the recent compilation job of both their albums, and I can
recommend it with the reservation that a few tracks over-indulge
themselves in a kind of proto-prog sense. Not everything they did is
great, but I can attach my affinity to "Oscillations", "Seagreen
Serenades", "Lovefingers", "Program", "I Have Known Love" and "A Pox
On You". And I might name others once I've played it again. It's
certainly better than a comparable Brit-made LP of the same period
which I've been playing this weekend, the White Noise's "Electric
Storm" which, while charming and very enjoyable, does make me yearn
for the discipline within which (the involved) Delia Derbyshire and
Brian Hodgson were *forced* to work in their dayjobs.
― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
i have the 2 albums on one cd thing as well. its ok, but i get the
feeling that it
should have been a lot better than it
actually was (didn't capture their sound, whatever... don't know how
true this is though)
strangely, my favourite record is when they reformed in about 96? and
put out a 7" on enraptured records (fractal flow and a rerecorded
version of, shit, um, lovefingers i think). that is a great single.
good cover too.
i read somewhere that silver apples played some festival in nyc in 69
to accompany the moon landing, and there was really heavy rain, and
simeon had all these electronics and then the mayor of nyc came on
stage at the end of the set and shook simeons hand and got
electrocuted in fron of, like, 20000 people. i don't know how true
this story is. can anyone confirm?
― gareth, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Don't know about the mayor being electrocuted, but I have to agree
that they SHOULD have been better than they were. Still, they're
interesting and a necessary step in the development of popular
electronic music. What Bruce Haack was doing in children's music at
the time (and shortly after with "Electric Lucifer") actually seems
more progressive--as well as more fun. Still, without "A Pox On You"
there might have been no Suicide.
― X. Y. Zedd, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link