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| You and Me Against the World | 
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| Artist: Apoptygma Berzerk
Label: Bmg/Gun
Category: Music
Buy New: $36.49
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 444782
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 828767057620
EAN: 0828767057620
ASIN: B000ANXMAC
Release Date: September 12, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Tuning in Again (Intro) | | • | In This Together | | • | You Keep Me From Breaking Apart | | • | Love to Blame | | • | Back on Track | | • | Cambodia - Apoptygma Berzerk, Wilde, Ricki | | • | 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? |
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Album Description
This release showcases the band's ever evolving ability to go from hard hitting dance floor smashers to top 40 radio hits. While still rooted in electronics with signature synth lines, the new album welcomes early member Anders Odden back by exhibiting more guitar work than on the previous two releases. Apoptygma Berzerk re-invents itself with every release, and this CD is no exception.
Album Details
2005 Album from the Alt-rock German Solo Artist also Known as Stephen Grothesk who Preceeded this Release with the "in this Together" EP.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
 Emo Tripe August 7, 2006
13 out of 20 found this review helpful
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?
New Christian Music!!! = HORRIBLE!!! April 28, 2006
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
When I first heard this, I could'nt believe my friggin ears!
What is this guy doing??...sounds like side project music!
Ladytron did a way better job than Stephan did experimenting with guitars. Yes , I know he had guitars before but not infront of the music like this CD, sounds like Christian Music. I'm sure he lost alot of fans because of this, but I'm gonna wait til the next one to see what happens on this 'musical adventure' he's going on. I've seen this cd for twenty dollars or more elsewhere and I laugh because I know someone will but it and be disappointed. If you like the way it sounds you're better off buying it used here! You won't here these songs @ the Club that's for sure. 1 Star for the artwork!
 All is not lost, but.... September 29, 2005
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
Apoptygma Berzerk returns with a new, rock-based sound... Although I've read a lot of comments about the record being a sell-out, it's still apoptygma berzerk, so if you're a hardcore fan, you'll like the material, but nowhere as near as anything else grothesk has done. Some may like it more than others, some may hate it, but I went in with a negative attitude about it, and i'm a hardcore fan, and i still thought it was rather enjoyable.
 I rather like this new direction November 1, 2005
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
A couple of months ago, I heard the first single "In This Together" off Apop's myspace page. I was pleasantly surprised by the change in direction that Stephen Groth took. The sound incorporates more guitars than on previous Apop efforts. Unfortunately "You & Me Against the World" is currently available only as an import. Thankfully I was able to get hold of a copy. Diehard fans of "7", "Welcome to Earth", and/or "Harmonizer" might be disappointed in this album. The songs are pretty much in the vein of "In This Together". Of course Stephen couldn't completely ditch his familiar EBM sound. It is still evidence in the music. The synthesized melodies are crisp as ever but at times reminded me of some of my favorite new wave songs. "In This Together" is a killer single to kick off the album. It is addictively catchy. "Lost in Translation" is a gorgeous midtempo track. It is easily one of my favorite songs off the album. "Back On Track" is another personal favorite track off the album for me that is getting lots of mileage from my stereo. I am a big Apoptygma Berzerk fan, while I do love the band's previous cds, I love the direction Stephen Groth took with his band's music. I appreciate it when an artist/band takes risks even if their attempts don't work out. In this case, it worked for Apoptygma Berzerk.
Different direction, but still sounds incredible! October 1, 2005
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
My one big complaint with Apop was that they would always throw these lame filler songs on the album. For instance, Welcome to Earth had like 14 songs on the CD but only 9 were actual songs. With You and Me Against the World Stephan Groth finally pulled his head out of his Norweigan ass and made an album from start to finish with solid songs. They are not all Apop sounding songs having a much rockier sound with guitar and real drums, but the song writing is still incredible and the songs are fun to listen to. The last song "is electronic love to blame?" is my new favorite Apop song and is, I think, the most Futurepop sounding song on the album. I like how Apop is not trying to sound the same with every album they put out.
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