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Appletree Theatre
Playback
Genres: Pop, Rock

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. ...in the Beginning
2. Hightower Square (The Start of It All)
3. Saturday Morning (About a Saturday Morning)
4. Nevertheless It Was Italy (A Deja Vu in a Pizza Parlor and a Bit of Mer
5. I Wonder If Liouise Is Home (A Bit of Tragic Relief)
6. Chez Louise
7. E-Train (The Jello Song)
8. Brother Speed (Vocal with Didactic Chorus)
9. You're the Biggest Thing in My Life (Being, As It Is, A Pause in the Pr
10. Don't Blame It on Your Wife (The Fellini Song: An Ode or an Elegy Depen
11. The Sorry State of Staying Awake (An Old Banjo Tune We Rearranged)
12. Barefoot Boy (A Bit of Johnny Appleseed)
13. Lotus Flower (Michael, John and Boone)
14. What a Way to Go (Yes)

CD Details

All Artists: Appletree Theatre
Title: Playback
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rev-Ola
Release Date: 10/20/2009
Album Type: Import
Genres: Pop, Rock
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 5013929458727

Synopsis

Album Description

2009 reissue, the first CD release of one of the most enigmatic Pop albums of the '60s: Playback by The Appletree Theatre. The project was set up by brothers Terry and John Boylan. Essentially a loosely-woven concept album, divided into three acts. It's an inventive Pop album with great songs, strange sound effects, comedy bits and trippy dialogue comprising a collage of interlaced vocal narratives, sound effects, and song fragments, recalling the Golden Age of radio, and prefiguring the antics of The Firesign Theatre, along with top quality Pop songs such as 'Hightower Square' and 'I Wonder If Louise Is Home', with its distorted megaphone vocals and soaring horns. Some of the tracks suggest the boys may have indulged in too many Psychedelic drugs. It's not for us to say. Rev-Ola.

CD Reviews

How I Fell In Love With A Record From The 50 cent Bargain Bi

Robert Hakim | San Francisco Bay Area | 03/23/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Actually that's probably a misleading title for my review as I really don't know how it happened

but I fell for this one quick. I've never heard the CD but I still have my vinyl and if my house

were on fire, this is one of the ten I'd grab.

I am finding it hard to describe the music so I will refer you to the excellent Product description

to be found on this page. What else would I grab? The two albums by producer and artist JOHN SIMON

who produced such greats as "CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN" by BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS and "MUSIC FROM BIG PINK"

from THE BAND. His albums are "JOHN SIMON'S ALBUM" and "JOURNEY" I'd take as much of THE KINKS as I could,

THE CLASH, "SANDINISTA", THE WHITE ALBUM and SARGENT PEPPERS and PINK FLOYD'S "THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN".

Now you know a little bit about where I'm coming from. A small bit of advice, don't let the first few moments

of the CD determine what you think is ahead. There is a moment in that beginning segment where suddenly the volume

goes from a whisper to very loud! Nothing like that opening segment happens again. As a matter of fact, the album

is ever changing. Get the CD and enjoy the trip.

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