Against the World [Import]

against the world [import]

Track Listings

1. Against The World

2. My Destiny

3. Lightning Eyes

4. Time Stood Still

5. I Don't Know

6. Man With A Broken Heart

7. One Night

8. You Should Know Me

9. Don't Break My Pride

10. Change His Life

11. Any Other Way

12. Shelter Me

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks

Against the World,Frontline,Avalon,Rock

Against the World [Import]

All The Best [Import] Feel So Young, Ain't No Way To Treat A Lady, Let's Go Up, Angie Baby, Here In My Arms, Looks Like Love, You And Me Against The World, Lost In The Shuttle, I Am Woman, That's All, Delta Dawn, I Don't Know How To Love Him, Leave Me Alone

Average customer rating:

All The Best [Import] Feel So Young, Ain't No Way To Treat A Lady, Let's Go Up, Angie Baby, Here In My Arms, Looks Like Love, You And Me Against The World, Lost In The Shuttle, I Am Woman, That's All, Delta Dawn, I Don't Know How To Love Him, Leave Me Alone
Helen Reddy
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000O1RIR8

Average customer rating:

not bad
Futurepop for the Here and Now
Emo Tripe
Selling Out
Hmmm?

You and Me Against the World
Apoptygma Berzerk
Manufacturer: Sony / Bmg Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Goth | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music

Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
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ASIN: B000AP51V8
Release Date: 2005-10-11

Tracks:

Tuning in Again (Intro)
In This Together
You Keep Me From Breaking Apart
Love to Blame
Back on Track
Cambodia
Faceless Fear
Tuning in to the Frequency of Your Soul
Mercy Kill
Lost in Translation
Black Pawn
Maze
Into the Unknown
Is Electronic Love to Blame?

Customer Reviews:

not bad.......2007-02-03

A few of the other reviews here can be a little harsh, if not ignorant. As a fan of some of the previous albums, I too was a little disappointed in the turn that the band has chosen to take with their 2005 effort. I do prefer the heavier reliance on synths than guitars and the heavy vocal effects.
YAMATW isn't bad. It's just a turn of style. The heavier synth influenced rock has been making its way around the corner with The Killers and fellow synth band Shiny Toy Guns (check out all 3 versions of their freshman release...STG is former Cloud2Ground gurus Jeremy Dawson and Chad Petree.)
If adapting is what is ALLOWING the artists that we have grown to love to continue to make music successfully and BE ABLE TO AFFORD to make more, why are we condemning them? Afterall, isn't that what smart business sense is all about?
I understand the perceived feeling of these "sellouts" that a few of the synthier electronic bands are doing; I love anything synth. But being a good artist means that they know how to evolve.
Eat or be eaten. It's simple.
Get this album if you are a true fan of Apop. If you like the new emo synth rock hybrid, buy this one. If you're a rotten baby with his thumb in his [..]to anyone who wants to experiment, save your money.

Futurepop for the Here and Now.......2007-01-10

Even now, two years after it's release, Apoptygma Berzerk's "You and Me Against the World" (2005) is a frequently over-looked and under-appreciated gem in the sea of Futurepop and Synthpop.

While others may argue that this isn't the Norweigan band's best work, it is a pleasantly dramatic departure from the band's synthpop/EBM style of albums past and is a breath of fresh air for novice and veteran listeners alike. Truly, this is a brave new world for APB - who are willing to roll the dice and take a risk, if only to steer clear of a *potentially* stale and sterile format of music. Fortunately, APB makes it through this album, but not completely unscathed. Quite a few tracks didn't even make MY iTunes list - and I'm generous with what music appeals to me . Regardless, those that didn't make my "Blech" or "Meh" lists are proudly and prominently showcased in my iTunes Futurepop list.

Taking on the challenge of a more mainstream rock style, APB's synth-driven sounds temper what could have been an overbearing, almost too-sweet mainstream pop sound. And APB pulls it off - even in a world where the "comptetion" like VNV Nation, Assemblage 23, Beborn Beton, Angels & Agony, and Icon of Coil continue to spearhead the genre. Contrast these bands and APB with the alternatives to listening to electronic music (chiefly mainstream pop, rap, et al).

There are several tracks on this album which may catch your eye, rather your ear - which are worth purchasing in- and of themselves: "In This Together", "Love to Blame", "Is Electronic Love to Blame" (a bonus track on the limited edition), "You Keep Me From Breaking Apart", "Lost in Translation".

While APB's "You and Me Against the World" is a dramatic change from the sounds of "Welcome to Earth" and "7", or even "Harmonizer", many of this 2005 album's tracks rank high even in comparison with past hits like "Unicorn" (feat. Claudia Brüken) but not quite up-to-snuff with the very popular, very danceable track "Kathy's Song".

In short: If you like the idea - and the sound of Futurepop/Synthpop to be masterfully peppered with pop/rock-like guitar riffs, intricately arranged, almost hypnotic music, - and if you like lyrics (which can admittedly sometimes seem trite or even stretched and desperate) that take you from gloomy, angst-driven stories to the hopeful and manic, then check out this album!

If my review doesn't quite convince you or if you're new to the band, at least check out the preview of their songs on iTunes. Either way, you're sure to find something you will enjoy.

Emo Tripe.......2006-08-07

Dear Groth:

After "Kathy's Song" and all of "Harmonizer," I get it: you really want girls to like you. That's cool; I want girls to like me too. But I don't go about it by writing songs about how all of my failed relationships are my fault, slathering my ham-fisted lyrics atop minimalist programming and a few guitars. I don't go on for 60 minutes about how worthless I am and how much better things were in the past. I don't become some kind of lunatic stalker, willing to forsake everything else in pursuit of a new, purely conceptualized woman.

Yes, that's an analogy for Apop's dramatic new shift into emo, away from anything I'd feel comfortable suggesting to people who want quality electro/trancEBM/industrial/whatever-the-hell. It's also a damnation of Groth's inability to write quality lyrics. Sure Apop verses have never been the best to begin with, but the writing on this album is almost as bad as Funker Vogt's "golden showers" references. Scratch that: this is as bad as a golden shower.

And don't even try flaunting the return of guitars; this is nothing like "Bitch" or "Deep Red," or the Welcome to Earth tour, where Groth had fun using guitars, and where he had facerocking as a front-and-center concept.

Look, man, you want girls to like you? Stop being so mopey. Combichrist, somehow, has managed to attract a legion of followers at club nights by repeating four measures of bassline with some banal lyrics; if it's you and me against the world, couldn't you at least toss a brother some oontz oontz?

Selling Out.......2006-08-02

Most of the reviewers seem to agree that Apoptygma Berzerk had gone pop or has gone mainstream. Some reviewers applaud this change while others condemn it. Personally, I think the reviewers who claim that they are long time fans and have trouble accepting the new 'pop' sound must not have been listening to the older albums very closely. The 'New Metallica' and 'New KMFDM' critics have a simliar blindspot. They failed to notice that these bands have been recording pop sounding material off and on for years. If any true Apoptygma Berzerk fan enjoys songs like 'Suffer in Silence', 'Kathy's Song', and 'Until the End of the World', then this new album shouldn't be at all shocking. Yes it's a pop album, but it was foreshadowed long ago.

Hmmm?.......2006-06-23

I must say I like the cd. (I am a sucker for good synth pop.) I also must say that I am glad that I did not start my APOP here. I think one cd like this of APOP would have been plenty! It almost seems like they were TRYING to go mainstream! (Cambodia!) Far cry from what used to sound like A-Split Second, and early Frontline Assembly. This is just your standard poppy synth stuff. Nice, but no real edge like the past! If you have started with this one, get yourself "7"! That would be what they SHOULD sound like.

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