Sound Effects is a 2001 compilation album by indie pop

Indie pop

Indie pop is a genre of alternative rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid 1980s, with its roots in the Scottish post-punk bands on the Postcard Records label in the early '80s, such as Orange Juice, Josef K and Aztec Camera, and the dominant UK independent band of the mid...

 Elephant Six

The Elephant Six Collective

The Elephant 6 Recording Company is a collective of American musicians who spawned many notable independent bands of the 1990s, including The Apples in Stereo, The Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, Beulah, Elf Power, Of Montreal, and Circulatory System.-Foundation:The collective was...

 group The Apples in Stereo

The Apples in Stereo

The Apples in Stereo, styled The Apples in stereo, is an American indie rock band associated with The Elephant Six Collective, a group of bands also including Neutral Milk Hotel and The Olivia Tremor Control. The band is largely a product of lead vocalist/guitarist Robert Schneider, who writes the...

. The album was originally released in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 and Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 as an introduction to the band that spans music from 1992 to 2000. It features remastered songs from other albums as well as exclusive radio mixes and acoustic outtakes.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Robert Schneider

Robert Schneider

Robert Peter Schneider is one of the co-founders of The Elephant 6 Recording Company, along with Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss, and Jeff Mangum...

 except where noted.

1. "Motorcar"
2. "Touch the Water" (J. McIntyre
   Jim McIntyre (musician)
   Jim McIntyre is a musician best known as the man behind the Elephant 6 band Von Hemmling. He was also the original bassist for The Apples in Stereo before leaving in 1993. He has written or co-written many early songs for the band, including "Stop Along the Way", "Touch The Water", "To Love The...
   
   )
3. "Time for Bed/I Know You'll Do Well"
4. "Tidal Wave [Radio Mix]" (R. Schneider/C. Parfitt
   Chris Parfitt
   Chris Parfitt is an American guitarist who was one of the founding members of the Elephant 6 indie pop band The Apples in Stereo. Before his 1993 departure, he co-wrote the songs "Tidal Wave" and "Not the Same" with Robert Schneider and his performances appear on the band's original self-titled EP...
   
   )
5. "Lucky Charm [Radio Mix]"
6. "Winter Must Be Cold" (H. Sidney
   Hilarie Sidney
   Hilarie Sidney is a musician most famously recognized as the longtime drummer for The Apples in Stereo. She was previously married to Apples in Stereo frontman and Elephant 6 co-founder Robert Schneider. Their divorce became publicly acknowledged in 2004...
   
   )
7. "Seems So"
8. "Tin Pan Alley"
9. "Ruby"
10. "Strawberryfire"
11. "20 Cases Suggestive of..." (H. Sidney
    Hilarie Sidney
    Hilarie Sidney is a musician most famously recognized as the longtime drummer for The Apples in Stereo. She was previously married to Apples in Stereo frontman and Elephant 6 co-founder Robert Schneider. Their divorce became publicly acknowledged in 2004...
    
    )
12. "The Bird That You Can't See"
13. "Not the Same [Acoustic]" (R. Schneider/C. Parfitt)
14. "She's Just Like Me [Acoustic]"

• Track 1 was originally released on the self-titled Apples EP in 1993.
• Track 2 was originally released on the Hypnotic Suggestion EP in 1994.
• Track 3 was originally released on a 7" split EP with The Olivia Tremor Control
  The Olivia Tremor Control
  The Olivia Tremor Control is an indie rock band prominent in the mid to late 1990s which, along with The Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel, was one of the three original Elephant 6 projects...
  
   in 1994.
• Tracks 4 and 5 are exclusive radio mixes of songs from the 1995 album Fun Trick Noisemaker
  Fun Trick Noisemaker
  Fun Trick Noisemaker is the debut studio album from The Apples in Stereo, recorded in a house in Los Angeles, in Robert Schneider's portable Pet Sounds Studio. The album is perhaps the most raw example of the Apples, with the rather lo-fi recording values being eclipsed somewhat by their later...
  
  .
• Track 6 was originally released on Fun Trick Noisemaker
  Fun Trick Noisemaker
  Fun Trick Noisemaker is the debut studio album from The Apples in Stereo, recorded in a house in Los Angeles, in Robert Schneider's portable Pet Sounds Studio. The album is perhaps the most raw example of the Apples, with the rather lo-fi recording values being eclipsed somewhat by their later...
  
  .
• Tracks 7 and 8 were originally released on Tone Soul Evolution
  Tone Soul Evolution
  Tone Soul Evolution is the second album from The Apples in Stereo. It was recorded from February to June and released in September 1997.The vinyl edition of the album was released with a bonus 7" that included the songs "Man You Gotta Get Up" and "The Golden Flower".-Track listing:All tracks...
  
  in 1997.
• Tracks 9 and 10 were originally released on Her Wallpaper Reverie
  Her Wallpaper Reverie
  Her Wallpaper Reverie is the third album from The Apples in Stereo.The fifteen tracks listed for the album give the impression that it is about the same length as the band's previous two albums, but only seven of the tracks are "actual" songs. The other eight tracks play a variation of the same...
  
  in 1999.
• Tracks 11 and 12 were originally released on The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone
  The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone
  The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone is the fourth album from The Apples in Stereo. It received generally good reviews as a showcase for the band’s experimental/psychedelic pop....
  
  in 2000.
• Tracks 13 and 14 are exclusive acoustic tracks.