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Reloaded [Vinyl]

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This is a fantastic album. I love all kinds of music but these guys are the best. From rockers like Los Vargos to acoustic rockers like Halloween. This is an album you can listen to over and over and still enjoy like you heard it for the first time. BUY THIS! You will love it.

This catchy and poppy album only requires that you listen to one song, then you're hooked and you won't be able to get that song out of your head, believe me, I know! Live, they play with so much energy and have fun on stage, causing you to want to jump on stage with them. Buy the CD(s) (this one is the best one they've put out, in my humble opinion) and see them live if at all possible!

Green Apple Quick Step had an unusually strong batch of songs on its debut, Wonderful Virus, injecting a Hawkwind-like love of science fiction and progressive-rock melodicism into its punk spirit. The result was one of the unsung beauties of '90s alternative rock.

Losing its record deal seems to have hurt the band, because Reloaded is a far weaker record, despite the involvement of Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam) as co-producer. The spritely "Dizzy", which appeared on the soundtrack to The Basketball Diaries, was a deserved radio hit, but "Los Vargos" seems very close to it melodically and only works because of the Ty Willman/Mari Ann Braeden vocal tag team. Braeden does a long-overdue lead vocal on "No Favors", but the song is basic punk nonsense: "I'm burned out on politics/Slimeball you make me sick/Deadhead get over it/I'm already gone"? This time around, there are fewer downright great rock anthems, and the band is most successful on poppier moments like "Dizzy", with its car-cruising chorus, and hidden track "Halloween", which sounds like an intimate acoustic-guitar jam with Braeden and Willman harmonizing quite beautifully.

The first album was better, hands down, thanks to a catchier batch of songs and heightened energy. If by some miracle you discover this band (and it deserves to be heard), Wonderful Virus is the place to start.

This is a really great album with the exception of 2 or 3 "okay" songs. Even on these songs the lyrics are deep and well thought out, rated "okay" only because the singer sounds as if he's reading his poetry notebook into the song with lack of a good melody. "Las Vargos" is by far the best song on the album as well as one of the best songs I have ever heard with it's rock-out quality, catchy words and melody. "Underwater" and "TV Girl" are deeply moving slower songs, the latter begining with the perfect guitar riff only to build up into a stronger and more beautiful rock ballad. Buy it.

I received my items super fast, and in excellent condition, even though the seller listed the item as acceptable, I couldn't find a flaw in it. As Far as G.A.Q.S. is concerned, you either love them, or hate them. Excellent musicianship, as anybody from the old Seattle scene would tell you, a bit hard to classify. Not grunge, not mainstream, very melodic, and very interesting lyrics.If you're looking for macho jock rock, these guys, and girl aren't for you. This is very catchy sounding, hard rocking, alternative rock, worth listing to.

Get past the first 3 tracks and this is a GOLDMINE. Yes, it is a turn from their first release but the maturation and the hamonies are wonderful. This is Seattle Sound, if you are a fan of the "era" then Green Apple Quick Step ownership is a must.

In other words, if you have Nirvana albums, AIC, Tad, Soundgarden - this is just one of the many bands you'll wanna hear to know who was playing with the big boys and should have been making big money. (Sweet Water, Tad, Melvins)