^ this
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 23 April 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
i like the hits a lot. you know, the famous fiona songs. they played the criminal song on the radio this morning when i was taking the kids to school and i always like hearing it. some of the non-hits bog down for me with that samey piano formula and can be a bit of a drag. i like this song a lot because its so sparse. i like her voice.
― scott seward, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
What Scott said.
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
(to some extent. I DID love all of Extraordinary Machine.)
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
Dig this new song. The minimal instrumentation works really well.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 26 April 2012 07:18 (twelve years ago) link
"I just made a meal for us both choke on" is just classic Fiona delivery of lyrics that somehow reaches into some deep crevice inside you and then you unravel (sorry)
I just wish that in between her crazy indolent periods she'd just release cover albums because since 1996 I haven't found a voice I love this much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0zPYHTEiPs
With this and her "Walkin' After Midnight" cover I wish she was my classic country jukebox
― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Friday, 27 April 2012 05:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/arts/music/fiona-apples-new-album-the-idler-wheel.html
― markers, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
man the photo with that article
― just sayin, Thursday, 31 May 2012 10:09 (eleven years ago) link
"anything we want"
http://pigperson.tumblr.com/post/24231972248/fiona-apple-anything-we-want
― uberweiss, Saturday, 2 June 2012 03:17 (eleven years ago) link
Like the song, voice sounds weirdly raspy.
― Turangalila, Saturday, 2 June 2012 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
I think I need to get used to whatever it is she's doing with her voice in this song.
― Turangalila, Saturday, 2 June 2012 04:41 (eleven years ago) link
Im indifferent to most of her songs but First Taste is one of the sexiest songs of the 90s.
― Moka, Saturday, 2 June 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
I don't see any relation between her and Alanis Morissette? Humourless female singer songwriters both of them but their voices and their music don't sound alike at all.
― Moka, Saturday, 2 June 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
Fiona Apple is humorless?
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 June 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
There's a lot of dark humor in When The Pawn and Extraordinary Machine.
In other news, I'm pretty sure this album is going to kill me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fby632bPn0E&feature=youtu.be
― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 05:40 (eleven years ago) link
eh whatever http://youtu.be/Fby632bPn0E
― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 05:41 (eleven years ago) link
i'm heartily amused by the critical attention (rightly) being lavished on her atm! this was not the case in the 90s, iirc everyone just called her an alanis morissette clone o_0
Tidal finished 35th on Pazz & Jop, and "Criminal" was the #11 single, so it's not like critics were universally dismissing her.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, and When the Pawn finished 7th!
yeah, the whole "finally, my peers are getting into fiona apple / i was always into fiona apple" thing that perpetua/lex have been throwing around rings false b/c i was a total unnuanced indie fuck when i bought when the pawn and i bought it based on the critical attention
but i was also like 14 so i dunno
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i remember tons of people being excited about when the pawn hits when it came out (i think i was a freshman in college?). seems like she's always been a step cooler than morrissette and her ilk.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
full album stream yay!
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=154422085&m=154351745
― uberweiss, Monday, 11 June 2012 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
:D
― Turangalila, Monday, 11 June 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, this is marvelous.
― Turangalila, Monday, 11 June 2012 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
who is drumming on this record
i would like to give it up for that drummer
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Monday, 11 June 2012 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
in the past few years I've seen her live a bunch of times and she's just so fuckin talented, I'm not even a fan of her recorded material or anything it's just like her shit's so undeniable when you see her idk
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 11 June 2012 05:58 (eleven years ago) link
BradNelson, it's Charley Drayton, who co-produced the album with her.
― Turangalila, Monday, 11 June 2012 10:38 (eleven years ago) link
yesyesyesyesyes this album
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
the rounds on "hot knife" i just sat there looking at my speakers going OMGOMG silently to myself
the LYRICS
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
the ARRANGEMENTS
This is great. "Hot Knife" is crazy good, though hard to pick a favorite so far.
― Regional Tug (irrational), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
remember when we argued on the concept of regret?you were an expert even then but not me, not yetnow all you gotta do's remind me that we met
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Monday, 11 June 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I don't think anyone was expecting Hot Knife at all.
― Turangalila, Monday, 11 June 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
Judging by "Hot Knife" and this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvO31CyFlTI
Fiona and her sister should together more often.
This album is tremendous.
― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 05:22 (eleven years ago) link
LOL
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/270904_10151792056115018_604816896_n.jpg
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
That's ...ironic?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
haha
i think characterising apple's lyrics as "bottomless pit of despair" might be even worse though. do they not hear her humour?
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 12:59 (eleven years ago) link
oh look we're back to using adverbs like "bewitchingly" to describe woman piano music
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
this album isn't very bewitching, it's odd and sparse and more unvarnished than anything she's done before
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
I think I like it less now. But Hot Knife is still amazing and my favorite thing she's done in years.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
I never expected those bouncy 1920s jazz vocal harmonies after some of the hyper-dissonant stuff that came earlier in the record. Also, with different production, it could be a Destiny's Child song.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
huh
maybe I should have paid more attention to the rest of Fiona Apple's career
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
ok wow "hot knife"
"he makes my heart a cinemascope"!!
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
That's a great line!
He makes my heart a cinemascope screen showing a dancing bird of paradise
...or something.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
ehhhh ilm has never been into young female singer-songwriters though, has it
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, April 23, 2012 10:22 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
where would women in music be without their sister lex taking care of them?
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
xp "he excites me! must be like the genesis of rhythm" is an amazing line as well
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
<3
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
the arrangements on this are kind of like if she took her ornate rococo brion-era arrangements and took 3/4 of the stuff out but left the essential heartbeat in
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
also how ridiculous that an album with "hot knife" as its most immediately talked-about song is getting these "OH SHE'S SO MISERABLE" reviews
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
I think for 'Bottomless pit of despair' read 'The most self obsessed person ever to make music...I mean nobody's wretched love life is that interesting....
― The Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
musician formerly in bad relationship uses experience as creative fodder, film at 11
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
Just got it this week and am loving it.
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Saturday, 22 December 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
Jesus christ, this fucking album. Speaking as an unabashed Fiona fan, I have no idea why I put off listening to it for so long. The sparse, minimalist rawness suits her so well that I kinda retroactively wish she'd never gotten mixed up with Jon Brion (even though those albums sound great). So many wonderful untethered moments here. Upon first listen, it sounded like a musical version of Isabelle Adjani's performance in Possession, which is about as high a compliment as I could pay an artist.
― Alien Lays (Old Lunch), Monday, 31 December 2012 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
I'm so in love with this album
'Anything We Want' killllls me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 March 2013 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for the "It's Only Make Believe" cover upthread. Whazzabout this cover of Macca's "Let Me Roll It"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM11NrlF8Dc
― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
what a still
― hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 28 April 2013 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG1VVFfOnYQ
― Gukbe, Thursday, 25 July 2013 06:41 (ten years ago) link
I need more albums like this. Any recommendations?
― woolsuit, Friday, 22 August 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
Lisa Germano's Geek the Girl feels tonally (if not necessarily sonically) similar to me.
― Two Scoops of Plump, Juicy Raisins (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 August 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
This album is pretty sui generis, no?
― Treeship, Friday, 22 August 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
Wildbirds and Peacedrums
― faghetti (fgti), Friday, 22 August 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
Cousins: Mary Margaret O'Hara's Miss America and Jesca Hoop's Silverscreen Demos.
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Saturday, 23 August 2014 04:02 (nine years ago) link
listening to this album a lot recently, and it is still so singular and great.
every record fiona makes is the perfect record for that time in my life.
― dc, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:08 (eight years ago) link
otm
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link
Do love this record so very much.
― Austin, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
fiona really elevates this andrew bird song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZwtWExDmoI
― dc, Friday, 27 May 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
On my shortlist for favorites of the year.
― Austin, Friday, 27 May 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
forgot how fucking good this album is.
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Saturday, 16 December 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
one of the best wordsmiths to ever grace music
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Saturday, 16 December 2017 13:39 (six years ago) link
I can only take the deep dive back into this album after I've had some time away from it, but boy oh boy when I do...
'Left Alone' hitting like a hammer atm. Feeling you, Fee-Fee.
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
same here old lunch - last time i put this on was dec. in the xposts there, but i had not heard it since the tour and shit i forgot how good it is - the biggest shame is how fiona seems to have no intention of releasing a new record, but only stray singles like left hand kisses - based on articles it seems she is content to live in her trailer property and smoke hash all day ymmv
― Ross, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
i'm sure she'll drop a new record, but the gaps are getting wider between each one. considering how much of her soul she puts into each one, i can't really blame her for not wanting to go through that experience more than once or twice a decade.
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
seeing her live twice was amazing, she is such a great performer and the audience loves her infinitely.
― Ross, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
I was actually just talking about how good this album is the other day
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
her poetry is super on point on this one (is on all of them obviously) and i admire how the record uses field recordings and avant-garde methods to create such raw, powerful songs
― Ross, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
'Regret' is a raging blast furnace that reduces me to ash, every time.
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
― Ross, Thursday, 16 August 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
"based on articles it seems she is content to live in her trailer property and smoke hash all day ymmv"
who can blame her
― akm, Thursday, 16 August 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
not me
sounds ideal
― Ross, Thursday, 16 August 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
i had a very bad week/month which had a lot to do with trying to reconnect with an ex and i think i should've been listening to this album the whole time
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
Good idea
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:01 (five years ago) link
even the "fuck you you complete asshole" songs on this one are so nuanced
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
Much of the album seems to be Fiona waving the listener away from the false door labelled "closure" and toward the real door labelled "get the fuck out"
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
I spent August 2012 listening to this album in a loop
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, November 30, 2018 4:16 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nothin wrong when a song ends in a minor key
― galaxy brian (voodoo chili), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
my ills are reticulatemy woes are granularthe ants weigh more than the elephants
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link