agreed on the Tom Waits sound
it'll take a few spins for me to get the hang of this; I found it distracted/distracting on first listen (as I do Waits), but it seems worth further attention
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
it's the most conventional track here but still i want you to love me is deliriously beautiful
When the album started I was like "Ah crap, this is some more girl-and-her-piano bullshit - I've been suckered again!" NOPE.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link
This is frustrating. I would like to purchase this, but all I get upon googling is people talking about people talking about what they think of it.
I hate contemporary society.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.fionaapplestore.com/dept/featured?cp=107902_107930
For ease, since I'm not the only one that had problems finding it.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
i would beg to disagree but begging disagrees with me
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
might have to cop that crewneck
― devvvine, Friday, 17 April 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
JFC finally found it only took thirty minutes
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
This album
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 April 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link
The repetition in Cosmonauts is a necessity, it wouldn’t feel growing in intensity without it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 April 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
loving the No New York style guitar on 'On I Go'
― cajunsunday, Friday, 17 April 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
ICAMI she did a track by track thing for Vulture
https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters-songs.html
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 17 April 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
I am not normally a believer in identity-based arts criticism - once you put a piece of art out into the world, any member of the public has the right to comment on it - but I really want to read reviews of this album from women over 40.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 17 April 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
"I hardly ever write a song about just one person, but there was one time that I wrote a song that was not a nice song, and it was about one person, and I felt the need to tell that one person and play them that song before it came out, and it went fine."
just gonna assume that she means "it went fine, for me" and that this other person melted immediately
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 17 April 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
good thing i was born in 1975
― maura, Friday, 17 April 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
“you don’t even know hurricane gloria!!!!”
― maura, Friday, 17 April 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link
As I said on the other P4k thread this album sounds like tUnE-yArDs and I'm here for it, personally
― we have no stan but to choice (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 17 April 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
there's a significant bounty on the first actually-good 'fetch the bolt cutters' pun display name i heard
― when I come out, can you introduce me as Jagger (imago), Friday, 17 April 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
spare us the cutters
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
this is great. "Ladies" has a bit of a Cat Power swagger.
― akm, Friday, 17 April 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
i am reminded of suzanne vega's 99.9F°
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 April 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
ladies ladies ladies ladies
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 17 April 2020 18:54 (four years ago) link
This whole album is incredible, but right now Ladies is the one.
― kitchen person, Friday, 17 April 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
for me, it's been "Newspaper" and "For Her"
― winters (josh), Friday, 17 April 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
just cranking the whole discography at this point, best artist of my generation
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 17 April 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
imagine making a record better than when the pawn????? and i think she's done it twice now
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 17 April 2020 22:12 (four years ago) link
You'll laugh, but When the Pawn.. is the only album I haven't heard.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
alfred
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 17 April 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
production-wise when the pawn is a steely dan album of the '90s
a prime candidate for my Harvest Rule: a major album by a major artist I haven't heard.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
When The Pawn now and forever but this album is fucking amazing
― gman59, Friday, 17 April 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
Hey this is really good.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 18 April 2020 01:18 (four years ago) link
I didn't expect it to be so rhythm-focused. I said it after the last album, but this just reinforces it: she's trying to make her own Hounds of Love.
And whoever said Suzanne Vega is also spot on.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 18 April 2020 01:26 (four years ago) link
i continue to be so happy this album exists
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 01:30 (four years ago) link
also alfred you need to listen to when the pawn right fucking now!!!!! it'll crush you!!!!!!
it's like imo in the constellation of your tastes that is a missing star, you gotta hear it
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 01:31 (four years ago) link
I will agree that When the Pawn is a total winner.
And I have to believe the her writing and arranging process is exceptionally intricate. She's become quite a masterful writer.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 18 April 2020 01:32 (four years ago) link
yeah this album is exceptional. it's unhinged and mad at times, in a way that Brian Wilson's 70's output was mad.
― akm, Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:05 (four years ago) link
Haven't heard her since the 90s, but so many different people were flipping over this today now I'm interested. Descriptions and references in this thread have me excited--"Jungle Line," 80s Tom Waits...
― Soundslike, Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:06 (four years ago) link
My only issue with this album is there is going to be absolutely no suspense when it comes to the winner of our end of year album poll next January.
When The Pawn is still my favourite with The Way Things Are being my favourite song of hers.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:07 (four years ago) link
― akm, Friday, April 17, 2020
Not the defense I needed lol
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:08 (four years ago) link
Thanks, Brad. I will. I own the rest.
"heavy balloon" is a really sick r&b song about depression
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:19 (four years ago) link
I was working at a music store when The Pawn came out. I didn’t know anything about Fiona Apple and assumed she was boring angsty teeny pop. A promo of Pawn landed in my lap and I put it on in the car driving home from work and it blew me away. The production, the lyrics, her voice. Just the sound of the album is amazing, everything else is gravy.
Kept up with her since then, but I’ve never heard the first album.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:24 (four years ago) link
tidal's great, nothing but hits in her catalog
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:32 (four years ago) link
"the first taste" and "never is a promise," right in a row, is some '90s-ass sequencing but i love it
she has a pretty spotless discography, each album is amazing in it's own way.
― akm, Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
Just heard about the 10! Wow, congratulations Fiano!
― frogbs, Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
'90s-ass sequencing
against every instinct, i need to know more
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:44 (four years ago) link
"Fiano" lol
― we have no stan but to choice (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:53 (four years ago) link
― mookieproof, Friday, April 17, 2020 7:44 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
"first taste" is this amazing tactile sade-esque groove thing, "never is a promise" emotionally shattering and spare
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:55 (four years ago) link