Apple O' by Deerhoof

By the time Deerhoof was ready to record the majority of this record live in one middle-of-the-night session in an otherwise fully booked studio, they had been playing these songs live in concert for several months, with their new lineup that included Chris Cohen on second guitar.

They say the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge was actually a pomegranate. But Pomegranate O’ did not sound as catchy. Of course, knowledge of what, exactly? Could be the serene and orderly discipline of music. Could be the ability to instantaneously destroy the entire species in an apocalyptic fireball.

This album is a love story. It is about Satomi’s mom being a Japanese girl when Truman got that ecstatic glint in his eye and blew up chunks of her country in a mushroom cloud, and next thing you know Satomi has moved to San Francisco and taken over an American noise-rock band. It is also about a different US president with an ecstatic glint in his eye, selling a criminal invasion with lies about weapons of mass destruction.

Tracklist

1.	Dummy Discards a Heart	2:39

2.	My Diamond Star Car	1:32

3.	Heart Failure	1:31

4.	Panda Panda Panda	2:41

5.	Apple Bomb	4:14

6.	Flower	1:51

7.	Sealed With A Kiss	3:31

8.	L'Amour Stories	2:43

9.	Hayley and Homer	1:12

10.	Dinner For Two	1:16

11.	The Forbidden Fruits	2:29

12.	Adam + Eve Connection	3:03

13.	Blue Cash	2:45

Credits

released March 18, 2003

WRITTEN, PLAYED AND PRODUCED BY SATOMI MATSUZAKI, JOHN DIETERICH, CHRIS COHEN AND GREG SAUNIER

RECORDED BY JAY PELLICCI AND DEERHOOF
ART BY ROB FISK

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