Silver Apples (album)

Silver Apples
Studio album by Silver Apples
Released	June 1968
Genre	Experimental rock, psychedelic rock, electronic
Length	32:27
Label	Kapp
Producer	The Magical Theatre Partnership, Barry Bryant
Silver Apples chronology
Silver Apples (1968) Contact (1969)

Silver Apples is the self-titled debut studio album. It was released in 1968 by record label Kapp.

Release

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Crawdaddy!	very favorable[2]

Silver Apples was released in June 1968 by record label Kapp.^[3] It was the most successful original album by the band, reaching 193 on the Billboard 200.

The album was re-released in 1997 by MCA Records and was compiled with the band's second album, Contact.

Legacy

Adam Bunch of Crawdaddy! wrote in 2007: "Silver Apples is a record that reached far ahead of its time. It's not surprising then, in a year when the airwaves were still dominated by Motown and The Beatles (whose experimentation was tame by comparison), that it failed to garner much of an audience. Even now, nearly forty years later, the record sounds fresh and unconventional – in 1968 there simply wasn't anything else like it."^[2]

The track "Oscillations" placed at number 119 on Pitchfork's list "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s".^[4]

Track listing

Side A
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Oscillations"	Danny Taylor, Stanley Warren	2:48
2.	"Seagreen Serenades"	Simeon Coxe III, Warren	2:55
3.	"Lovefingers"	Simeon, Warren	4:11
4.	"Program"	Simeon, Warren	4:07
5.	"Velvet Cave"	Simeon, Warren	3:30

Side B
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Whirly-Bird"	Simeon, Warren	2:41
2.	"Dust"	Simeon, Warren	3:40
3.	"Dancing Gods"	Navajo Indian Ceremonial	5:57
4.	"Misty Mountain"	Eileen Lewellen, Simeon	2:47

Personnel

Silver Apples

• Dan Taylor – drums, percussion, vocals
• Simeon – oscillators, vocals

Technical

• Don Van Gorden – engineering
• Anonymous Arts – sleeve art
• Virginia Dwan – sleeve photography

Charts

Chart (1968)	Peak position
Billboard 200	193

References

1. Unterberger, Richie. "Silver Apples – Silver Apples | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved March 31, 2015. delete character in |title= at position 35 (help)
2. Bunch, Adam (May 16, 2007). "Shine On Silver Apples". Crawdaddy!. Archived from the original on August 23, 2007. Retrieved March 31, 2015.
3. "New Albums". Billboard 80 (25): 25. June 22, 1968.
4. Sherburne, Philip (August 15, 2006). "Staff Lists: The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s | Features | Pitchfork". Pitchfork. Retrieved March 31, 2015. delete character in |title= at position 50 (help)

External links

• Silver Apples at Discogs (list of releases)