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Can You Feel It?

Started by tomwatson · 11 months ago

My friend Tyler introduced me to Apples in Stereo back in the late 90s. I found their jangly, sunny, hook-infested pop quite charming and inspired. If Daniel Johnston had never developed mental illness, he may have started a band like the Apples. After 2002’s disappointing R ... Continue reading »

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Viscount LaCarte
2 years ago

I'm lazy. Any place we can hear some samples?

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Tom Watson
2 years ago

Sometimes it's just how it makes you feel, the lyrics can skim on by. That said, really good writing - not just "lyric-writing," that ties the emotional curve of hte music to the words of the song can be a beautiful thing.

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Ralph
2 years ago

Yea, Viscount, click on that Apples In Stereo link to their MySpace page.

Well, I realized that I liked the way Schneider's lyrics SOUND, as opposed to what they're trying to say. My mistake was to hold all songwriters to my rigid standards. I was holding Schneider's lyrical style against him, and that's not really fair.

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Viscount LaCarte
2 years ago

Yea, Viscount, click on that Apples In Stereo link to their MySpace page.

er, duhhhh!

Read the review and for whatever reason, I missed the link.

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