Contact is the second album by Silver Apples. The cover and inner artwork generated a lawsuit from Pan Am Airlines. The cover features the Silver Apples in a plane cockpit with drug paraphernalia

Drug paraphernalia

Drug paraphernalia is a term used, often with a slightly negative connotation due to its use in criminal law field e.g. "possession of drug paraphernalia", to denote any equipment, product, or material that is modified for making, using, or concealing drugs, typically for recreational purposes...

 and the inner artwork showed the band amongst plane wreckage playing banjos. Pan-Am was quite unhappy about it.

The album was re-released in 1997 by MCA Records

MCA Records

MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part. MCA Records was absorbed by Geffen Records in 2003...

 compiled with the band's first album Silver Apples

Silver Apples (album)

Silver Apples is the debut album by the band of the same name. It was the most successful original album by the band, reaching 193 on the Billboard 200. The album was re-released in 1997 by MCA Records...

. It was also re-released on compact disc and vinyl in 2003 by Radioactive Records in the UK.

Track listing

1. "You and I" (Simeon Coxe III, Danny Taylor) – 3:24
2. "Water" (Simeon, Taylor) – 4:18
3. "Ruby" (Joy May Creasy, Simeon, Taylor) – 2:32
4. "Gypsy Love" (Simeon, Stanley Warren, Taylor) – 5:36
5. "You're Not Foolin' Me" (Simeon, Taylor) – 6:26
6. "I Have Known Love" (Eileen Lewellen, Simeon, Taylor) – 3:53
7. "A Pox on You" (Simeon, Taylor) – 5:11
8. "Confusion" (Simeon, Taylor) – 3:34
9. "Fantasies" (Simeon, Taylor) – 5:57

The Band

• Danny Taylor - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Simeon - oscillators
  Electronic oscillator
  An electronic oscillator is an electronic circuit that produces a repetitive electronic signal, often a sine wave or a square wave. They are widely used in innumerable electronic devices...
  
  , banjo
  Banjo
  In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
  
  , vocals