Apartment Life

Product Description
This one brims with Ivy's sophisticated brand of pop including their radio hit "The Best Thing" and "This Is The Day," featured in the hit movie There's Something About Mary. Originally released, 1997. Re-issued by Unfiltered Records, 2003.

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Apartment Life

Average customer rating: Perfect good but not great These reviews have me puzzled... Remarkable music pleasing sounds found here

Apartment Life Ivy Manufacturer: Unfiltered ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: In the Clear Long Distance Lately Realistic Wonderfully Nothing ASIN: B0000AYLJ3 Release Date: 2003-08-26

Tracks:

1. The Best Thing
2. I've Got A Feeling
3. This Is The Day
4. Never Do That Again
5. I Get The Message
6. Baker
7. You Don't Know Anything
8. Ba Ba Ba
9. Get Out Of The City
10. These Are The Things About You
11. Quick, Painless and Easy
12. Back In Our Town

Album Description

This one brims with Ivy's sophisticated brand of pop including their radio hit "The Best Thing" and "This Is The Day," featured in the hit movie There's Something About Mary. Originally released, 1997. Re-issued by Unfiltered Records, 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Perfect.......2007-03-19

99 out of 100 people dont know who these people are, i'm glad i do. Get out of the city has the most casually catchy guitar riff i may have ever heard. There is a slight meloncholy that runs throughout the album, like a beauitful girl alone in her apartment looking out the window at the city below, thinking about life. I am taking a guess that's why they named it apartment life. To write 12 songs expressing 12 sides to a single topic, pretty cool.

good but not great.......2006-10-29

This is breezy, over produced pop power/pop music. The singer has a unique voice which does make the songs sound interesting but it also casts a similar sound for all of the songs.

One thing this is not is an extention of "Fountains of Wayne".

This is a good cd with a lot of quality songs. Most of the tunes have an upbeat, happy vibe.

My favorite song is "Baker" since it is the most distinguishable song. It is slow tempo with a very beautiful horn riff that practically serves as the chorus. "Ba Ba Ba" is the hardest rocker and has almost a Car's feel to it. Very new wavish!

"The Best thing" "I've got a feeling" "This is the day" and "I get the message" are highlights.

This is a good work but cannot be considered a masterpiece. Every song is a 3 minute, wispy, breezy song with the French-accented lyrics.

When I first got it I did listeneto it a lot but I have not placed it into my cd player in a about 4-5 years.

When a greatest hits compilation comes out, it will be worth getting.

These reviews have me puzzled..........2006-08-13

I was a big fand of Schlesinger/Fountains of Wayne, so when this CD first came out (on Atlantic Records, at the time) I was really eager to hear this CD. Needless to say, I really found this monotoned loungish-pop record to be a total disappointment. I had difficulty even getting through the entire disc in one sitting! One word comes to mind: dull. Not recommended!

Remarkable music.......2005-01-07

Absolutely remarkable album - one of the first I have heard in a long, long time that I loved from the very first listen (was inspired to purchase it after catching a brief snatch of 'Thinking of you" at the end of Shallow Hal). Each and every piece is a classic, amazing that IVY haven't received more airplay over here (Ireland)

pleasing sounds found here.......2004-12-22

What saddens me about being a fan of this type of pop music is that I live in the US and I'll never be able to hear any of my favorite bands on the radio. In fact the only time I've heard Ivy outside of my place and my car was while I was waiting for my girlfriend who was shopping at some boutique, (this did make me question my choice of music, but only for a fleeting second). In Apartment life, the sweet sound of Dominique's voice flows seamlessly over the wonderfully created pop songs with an air of indifference. Ivy ranks up there with Saint Etienne, and Belle and Sebastian as my favorite pop groups, and this CD is a good one to get if you're at all interested in their wonderful sound. Maybe one day the relentless teen pop that comes streaming towards me from the tv and the radio will one day ebb in a moment of bliss as people realize that there are other facets of pop music out there. Until then, I'll just bide my time and listen to my Ivy at home and in the car; and when it's played as I patiently wait in the boutiques, I'll smile and tap my shoe.

Average customer rating: Lush and listenable Undertow Great Stuff A VERY NICE APARTMENT Brilliant sophomore effort

Apartment Life Ivy Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: In the Clear Long Distance Lately Realistic Apartment Life ASIN: B00000DCHR Release Date: 1998-10-06

Tracks:

1. The Best Thing
2. I've Got A Feeling
3. This Is The Day
4. Never Do That Again
5. I Get The Message
6. Baker
7. You Don't Know Anything
8. Ba Ba Ba
9. Get Out Of The City
10. These Are The Things About You
11. Quick, Painless And Easy
12. Back In Our Town

Amazon.com

This slightly altered version of Ivy's 1997 instant classic of savvy semi-lounge pop keeps its virtues--Dominique Durand's breathy vocals, the winsome tunefulness, its lyrics' meld of wistfulness and resoluteness. The changes come in a handful of reworkings that seem designed largely to make the tracks more suited to radio's demands; fans of the earlier versions might prefer them, but the cranked-up drums on "The Best Thing" and changes in "I've Got a Feeling"'s guitar line hardly hurt the songs' charm. Apartment Life remains one of the late '90s' finest melds of mainstream and indie sensibilities. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

Lush and listenable.......2005-07-20

A perfect CD for summer, a night out, or a rainy day.

Full of great songs highlighted by simple yet amazing rhythms and Dominique Durand's voice.

Ivy shine at the mid to uptempo stuff. The highlight track has got to be "I Get the Message", a three minute pop gem. Strengths are "The Best Thing", "You Don't Know Anything" and the summery mid tempo tracks "Quick Painless & Easy" and "I've Got A Feeling".

Some of the slower tracks don't work quite as well for me, still "Apartment Life" deserves a wider audience.

Undertow.......2003-04-11

I heard Undertow on one of the Ultra Chilled CDs. It is a gorgeous song....the perfect backdrop for a chick surfer movie!!!

Great Stuff.......2002-11-13

Ivy has become one of my favorite listens. This is really probably their best CD but Long Distance is also excellent. The biggest compliment I can pay this CD is that it has not left my car CD player for a long time. I've got lots of CD's to play and a very short attention span so staying on the platter is a major feat.

Apartment Life is less "cutesy" than Long Distance and while it is still basically pop music (whatever that means), there is a depth to it that transcends the obvious. Like clear warm water, the depth of the music is not apparent from its transparency. Ignore the fact that one song was used in "Something About Mary" - it just means that the producers of that movie found some good music.

While Guest Room still leaves me uninspired, I have to give my highest recommendation to this CD and to a slightly lesser degree Long Distance. While pop music is not normally raised to this level there are other examples, most notably to me Todd Rundgren's music, where it can achieve extraordinary heights by being that tune - or here tunes - that keep you moving through life.

A VERY NICE APARTMENT.......2001-10-20

Buoyant soft indie-rock glides smoothly under the lilting euro-lounge vocals of Dominique Durand, a 90s Claudine Longet-like spoken breath singer. "Apartment Life" sounds like a day in one's apartment staring out the window musing about the cat on the sill and the meaning of life. "Get Out Of The City" is a catchy pop melody hopefully escaping a stillborn psyche and "Back In Our Town" is a haunting three part vocal that adds an ominous tone to this otherwise breezy scene.

Brilliant sophomore effort.......2001-08-30

Hmmm, let's see, I think I played "The Best Thing" about 863 times soon after buying this album. That's the power of that song. One of the greatest opening tracks ever... But the whole album is filled with other excellent tracks - in fact the last four tracks are some of their BEST work, especially "Get Out Of The City". Many people new to Ivy may recognize "This Is The Day" from "There's Something About Mary" soundtrack. Ivy has always been able to shift gears and moods with songs almost effortlessy. One minute a song may make you bop around the room and the next have you contemplating a broken relationship. This band has has great hooks and melodies up the wazoo. Ivy knows a thing or two about classic pop song structure and the music world is all the better for it.

Average customer rating: Great CD Proving yet again you can't go wrong with anything by Ivy! best cd of 1997 Pop Songcraft - 1997 Style Another one you can't live without..

Apartment Life Ivy Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: In the Clear Realistic Apartment Life Long Distance ASIN: B000002JE1 Release Date: 1997-10-07

Tracks:

1. The Best Thing
2. I've Got A Feeling
3. This Is The Day
4. Never Do That Again
5. I Get The Message
6. Baker
7. You Don't Know Anything
8. Ba Ba Ba
9. Get Out Of The City
10. These Are The Things About You
11. Quick, Painless And Easy
12. Back In Our Town

Amazon.com

As the story goes, Ivy's singer Dominique Durand left her native France to move to New York City to better her English. Shortly after, she joined some fellow musicians, and voilá--the loss of the French is everybody's gain. Ivy take the breezy melodic structure of the Mamas and the Papas, kick in some Style Council-esque horns, add some of their own sense of style, and create one pop gem after another in the process. Apartment Life brims with Ivy's sophisticated songs: "The Best Thing," "I Get the Message," and "This Is the Day" all swing with a continental flair. But don't be fooled, this is not a sugar-soaked cache by any means. Durand's cynicism is front and center on "Quick, Painless, & Easy," showing the band doesn't live in a rose-tinted world. Their music just sounds that way. --Steve Gdula

Customer Reviews:

Great CD.......2003-02-22

I got this CD along with Long Distance after hearing their song on that Holland America Cruise Commercial. This CD has a permenant place on my iPod, you can listen to it all the way through which is becoming more rare with music these days. They are a bit hard to categorize I think, sort of a cross between Cardigans, Mono, Hooverphonic and Morcheeba, so if you have any combinations of the above bands Ivy will round it out nicely.

Favorite tracks include "The Best Thing" "I've Got a Feeling" "This is The Day" and "Get The Message"

It's a shame that they're not more well known, but I'm sure they'll continue to seep through via cruise line commercials, Farrelly brother's movies and WB teen drama soundtracks. Oh well. If you do buy this album and like it please support them and buy all their other stuff, hopefully they'll stay productive.

Proving yet again you can't go wrong with anything by Ivy!.......2002-12-29

I just found out about Ivy a few months ago, so I'm going back now and finding some of their earlier releases, and finding that I really do like ALL their songs! This is the only group that I can pop their CD in and listen to the whole album, without skipping over some songs like I do with other groups.

I already had Long Distance and Guestroom, and decided to go back and pick up this earlier (Atlantic) version of Apartment Life, although I also want to soon get the Sony version as well. I'm interested to hear what the differences are, and I'm sure that version will spend alot of time in my stereo as well!

I've been finding out that I can't go wrong with ANYTHING by Ivy!

best cd of 1997.......1998-08-26

Excellent songs. There is no better female singer around. If you like melody this disc is loaded with them from the first song to the last.

Pop Songcraft - 1997 Style.......1998-07-27

If you believe pop song-stylings went out with grunge, this CD will change your mind. The songs are crisp and full of hooks, certainly in the tradition of Prefab Sprout, Burt Bacharach, etc. Only trouble I have is Dominique Durand's voice, which is breathy and off-key - fine for punk singing, but not popsongs. Oh well. That doesn't keep "The Best Thing" or "Quick, Painless, and Easy" from settling in your head. Not arty, not groudbreaking, but a nice entertaining romp that'll stick to your ribs.

Another one you can't live without.........1998-07-05

Ivy is yet another band that hasn't been heard of by the general populace, but needs to be. Not too hard, but not to soft. This is definitely an album you can groove to. And the horns opening for "This Is the Day" will draw you in and keep you listening. Infectious from the start and good all the way through, this album is definitely one of music's pinnacles, and Ivy one of the best artists that you'll just HAVE to hear.

Average customer rating:

All-Time Greatest Hits Manufacturer: Collectables ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Rota, Nino | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Lounge | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Easy Listening | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Soundtracks | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music All Bargain Titles | Easy Listening | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B00009EIOO Release Date: 2003-09-16

Tracks:

1. Theme From "The Apartment"
2. Exodus
3. Tonight
4. Khartoum
5. Smile
6. Live For Life
7. A Man And A Woman
8. Midnight Cowboy
9. Lay Lady Lay
10. Love Theme From "The Godfather"

Album Description

A budget-priced 10-track collection of favorites by Ferrante & Teicher. All original recordings.

Album Description

Nice price collection featuring 'Exodus', 'Theme from The Apartment', 'Tonight' and more. 2003 Collectables reissue originally released in 1991 on EMI.

Average customer rating:

Apartment Life Ivy Manufacturer: Nettwerk America ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008G5QX Release Date: 2002-01-01

Tracks:

1. Best Thing
2. I've Got a Feeling
3. This Is the Day
4. Never Do That Again
5. I Get the Message
6. Baker
7. You Don't Know Anything
8. Ba Ba Ba
9. Get Out of the City
10. These Are the Things About You
11. Quick, Painless and Easy
12. Back in Our Town

Average customer rating:

Unfiltered 2003 Unfiltered , Caroline , Stratosphere Sound , and Nettwerk Manufacturer: Caroline Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000U8VQ6O

Product Description

Track Listing: 1. - Ivy - "Get Enough" 2. Ivy - "This is the Day" 3. Brookville - "Walking on Moonlight" 4. Brookville - "Sweet Sensation" 5. Paco - "Lie". Limited Edition Compilation EP.

Average customer rating: EVERYONE IS IN AWE Just Keep Getting Better

Apartment Life Ivy Manufacturer: Sony/Epic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music Alternative Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000JX8Y

Tracks:

1. The Best Thing
2. I've Got A Feeling
3. This Is The Day
4. Never Do That Again
5. I Get The Message
6. Baker
7. You Don't Know Anything
8. Ba Ba Ba
9. Get Out Of The City
10. These Are The Things About You
11. Quick, Painless And Easy
12. Back In Our Town
13. Sleeping Late
14. Sweet Mary

Album Description

French reissue of the MPB vocal group's 1965 debut album. EMI Odeon. 2004.

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks: Sleeping Late, and Sweet Mary.

Customer Reviews:

EVERYONE IS IN AWE.......2001-01-30

I have followed Ivy for years and love turning people on to this group! I play it in my place of business and everyone is in awe of it; they are mesmerized!! But what is really amazing is that it keeps getting deeper and richer each time we play the album!! The classy Euro-voice of Dominique Durand is magnetic and the music is magical! BRAVO!!!!

Just Keep Getting Better.......2000-09-24

I have been an Ivy fan sice they were the opening act for Morphine at the Metro in Chicago. Their first album which was Lately an EP was just an opening show case to what they could do. Then Realistic comes out and you can hear the grow. Now With Apartment Life show how the group has grown and expaned not only in lyrics but in music. They are using more keyboards and overdubs which is something that they had never done before. The songs are catchy, but worth a listen. The music sometimes takes away from what Dominique Durand sorrowfull songs and hush tones.

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6. Bring on the Night [Live] [Original recording remastered]
7. But Seriously
8. Chicago III [Original recording remastered]
9. Chrome
10. Colour of My Love

Rap Music

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