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...short length and pull you into the music. Many of these tracks will stay in your head, leaving you humming the chorus on your way to class, annoying passers-by. So what's the problem? The problem is that there is no problem: Tone Soul Evolution is a fine CD, without any real weaknesses, but it lacks the spark, innovation and contrast that mark great albums from the simply decent. Chances are that years from now, more often than not, it will lose out to the White Album or Abbey Road...
...Apples In Stereo album, Tone Soul Evolution, in your CD player, and the first thing you hear is...Paul McCartney? Of course not, you silly. But it might as well be. The Apples' stock in trade is very, very Beatlesque pop, full of jangling guitars, buzzing George Harrison solos and carefully crafted vocal harmonies. Of course, Apples In Stereo isn't the first (or the last) band to worship shamelessly at the Beatles altar. Oasis, for one, has made a rather nice career by recycling classic Beatles melodies and lyrical themes. But Apples In Stereo takes the game one step...
...this summer with a whole bag of neat promotional items, which my editor had wrangled out of the advertising sales staff I gave my dad the magnetic paperweight with sculptable metal pieces in the shape of world currency, including yen and deutsche marks, but I kept the CD case for myself...
Capleton's I-Testament comes on forcefully from the start. On the Jamaican-born singer's previous CD, Prophecy, he performed alongside rapper Method Man of the American hardcore hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan. I-Testament also boasts street-wise, street-tough swagger. Capleton's vocals are a mix of slurred rap, chanting and Jamaican patois, supported by R.-and-B. backup singers. His songs are often built around samples; Original Man draws liberally from the bass groove of Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side. Capleton's talent lies in his ability to fuse gangsta-rap energy...
This is probably not what Bill Gates had in mind when he promised that computers would change the way we live, work and play. Cosmopolitan magazine's new Virtual Makeover CD-ROM ($39.99) may be geared to women looking for a quick, noncommittal way to experiment with their hair and makeup, but it's being sold by Sega Soft as a coed toy. And once America's protogeek sees what a good stylist can do to spruce up his look (those bangs! that pallor!), we're sure it will find a home on his hard drive...