| Apple | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Mother Love Bone |
| Cover: | Mother Love Bone Apple.jpg |
| Released: | July 19, 1990 |
| Recorded: | Fall 1989 at The Plant, Sausalito, California, and Winter 1989 at London Bridge Studios, Seattle, Washington |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 57:59 |
| Label: | Stardog/Mercury Lemon Recordings (reissue) |
| Producer: | Bruce Calder, Terry Date, Mark Dearnley, Mother Love Bone |
| Prev Title: | Shine |
| Prev Year: | 1989 |
| Next Title: | Mother Love Bone |
| Next Year: | 1992 |
Apple is the only full-length studio album by the American rock band Mother Love Bone. It was released on July 19, 1990, through Stardog/Mercury Records.
Days before Apple was slated to be released, lead singer Andrew Wood overdosed on heroin. After spending a few days in the hospital in a coma, he died, effectively bringing Mother Love Bone to an end. The album would see release later that year in July, and it eventually peaked at number 34 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart in 1992.
Kim Neely of Rolling Stone said that the album "succeeds where countless other hard-rock albums have failed, capturing the essence of what made Zep – dynamics, kids! – and giving it a unique Nineties spin."[6] David Browne, in The New York Times, opined that "Apple may be one of the first great hard-rock records of the 90's."[7]
In 2005, Apple was ranked No. 462 in Rock Hard magazine's book "The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time".[8] In 2016, Apple was ranked No. 18 in Rolling Stone magazine's "40 Greatest One-Album Wonders".[9]
All lyrics written by Andrew Wood. All music written by Jeff Ament, Bruce Fairweather, Greg Gilmore, Stone Gossard, and Andrew Wood. Primary composers listed below.[10]
Reissue bonus track
Mother Love Bone
Production