{{more citations needed|date=July 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Wonderful Virus | type = studio | artist = Green Apple Quick Step | cover = Wonderful Virus.jpg | alt = | released = 1993 | recorded = Bad Animals, Seattle, Washington | venue = | studio = | genre = Hard rock<ref name=WP/> | length = 43:08 | label = Medicine, Reprise | producer = Daniel Rey | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Reloaded | next_year = 1995 }} '''''Wonderful Virus''''' is the debut album by the American band Green Apple Quick Step.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TwgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Wonderful+Virus+green+apple+quick+step+1993&pg=PA80|title=Giant Steps Toward Industry Prominence|magazine=Billboard|date=May 28, 1994|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.}}</ref> It was released in 1993 on the Medicine label.<ref name=TP/> The album was produced by Daniel Rey.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Wonderful Virus by Green Apple Quick Step |magazine=Billboard |date=Oct 9, 1993 |volume=105 |issue=41 |page=78}}</ref>
Medicine released the single "Ludes and Cherrybombs" as a promotional CD in Europe in 1993, containing the album version, a version remixed by Martin Feveyear, and an edited version of that remix. The single was also released as a limited edition 7" purple vinyl in the UK in 1994, with the Feveyear remix on one side and the other side containing an acoustic version of "Feel My Way", as well as an X song, "The Unheard Music". Both B-side tracks were recorded by John Goodmanson, mixed by Phil Ek, and produced by Green Apple Quick Step and Martin Feveyear.
==Critical reception== {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name=AM>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r199767|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref> |rev2 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=3 |page=884}}</ref> }} ''Trouser Press'' wrote that "Ty Willman is an inoffensively functional vocalist and the lyrics use more big words than Eddie Vedder, but anyone looking for originality or effective musical excitement would do better turning up other rocks."<ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Green Apple Quick Step |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/green-apple-quick-step/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=7 January 2021}}</ref> ''The Washington Post'' determined that "the album provides the sort of sometimes funky hard rock predicted by the quintet's Seattle return address."<ref name=WP>{{cite news |last1=Jenkins |first1=Mark |title=Green Apple's Bite Only in Its Words |work=The Washington Post |date=Nov 19, 1993 |page=N17}}</ref>
==Track listing== <small>All songs by Green Apple Quick Step</small> {{track listing | title1 = Dirty Water Ocean | note1 = | length1 = 2:53 | title2 = Broken | note2 = | length2 = 4:42 | title3 = Ludes and Cherrybombs | note3 = | length3 = 5:38 | title4 = Bottle | note4 = | length4 = 4:56 | title5 = Rapid | note5 = | length5 = 5:51 | title6 = Feel My Way | note6 = | length6 = 4:41 | title7 = Pay the Rent | note7 = | length7 = 2:56 | title8 = Can't Believe | note8 = | length8 = 3:54 | title9 = Eating on All Fours | note9 = | length9 = 2:57 | title10 = Stereo | note10 = | length10 = 4:40 }}
==Personnel== ;Green Apple Quick Step * Tyler Willman – vocals * Steve Ross – guitar * Daniel Kempthorne – guitar * Mari Ann Braeden – bass, vocals * Bob Martin – drums
;Production personnel * Daniel Rey – production * Ed Brooks – engineering * Ron Saint Germain – mixing * Bob Ludwig – mastering
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Category:1993 debut albums Category:Green Apple Quick Step albums Category:Albums produced by Daniel Rey