DEEP DISCOG DIVE: Fiona Apple

Let me know your favorite Fiona Apple album/song/related thing in the comments!

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:26 Prologue
01:29 Tidal
03:35 When The Pawn...
08:05 Extraordinary Machine
13:09 The Idler Wheel...
16:58 Fetch The Bolt Cutters
20:40 Conclusion

ABOUT FIONA APPLE
Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter. Her debut album, Tidal, containing songs written when she was 17, was released in 1996 and received a Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Rock Performance for the single "Criminal". Other hit songs from that album include "Shadowboxer," "Never is a Promise," "Sleep to Dream," and "The First Taste." She followed that album with When the Pawn... (1999), Extraordinary Machine (2005), The Idler Wheel (2012), and Fetch The Bolt Cutters (2020).

[MicTheSnare]

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[crm]

my favorite fun fact about Fiona Apple is that she quit using cocaine after spending an “excruciating” night hanging out with Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson

[zzjamie-is-over-partyzz]

idk why but it’s kinda inspiring that Fiona recorded fetch the bolt cutters on garage band and then the album ends up as one of the best albums of 2020

[therobotdevil]

Fiona sleeping through the Grammys deliberately is such a serve.

[heytherenewton]

crazy how music didn't exist before she wrote "i know". good on her for doing that for us

[dvln_]

Ah yes the creator of When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right

[neriss]

For me, to listen to Fiona’s music is to be understood. She’s a phenomenal songwriter and nothing is more satisfying than the rage in her voice. She truly is my favorite artist.
This video made me oh so happy!

[liteflightify]

I don’t think there’s been a modern music artist that’s had so many different types of other music artists sing their praises throughout the years (Kanye, Jay-Z, SZA, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, Lorde, Rina Sawayama, St. Vincent, Bob Dylan, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dave Grohl, Tori Amos, Lars Ulrich, Elvis Costello, Phoebe Bridges, etc.) She really is an artist’s artist.

[andrasparag]

Her MTV speech was actually not (just) an overwhelmed teen's rant, it was taken out of context. Her speech was about how showbusiness is bullsh*t and how celebrity culture shouldn't be followed as an example - which she eventually got to live by.
Fiona is an interesting artist for me, not only because of her music and persona but also the place she holds within the music sphere - with Kate Bush and Björk they are the original and ever so unique art/alternative/baroque pop artists, who earned their status for a reason, finding a perfect balance between commerciality and personality, embracing exciting, unique ideas and their own weirdness.
As for the ranking of her albums, I personally find Extraordinary Machine to hold a similar place in Fiona's discography like Biophilia does in Björk's. When I first heard it, I was like "this is really good, why do people rank it so low?" It's the context, the comparison to what their other records achieved in sound and vibe that makes them not to hold up to other, greater ones within the discographies.

[KamFails]

The Idler Wheel is my favourite record of all time. What really draws me to her music is her lyricism specific. She. fucking. B L E E D S on that page and you feel every ounce of humanity in her being through her words.

Also, the fact that you don't even DISCUSS Regret??? AN ACTUAL CRIME. The lyrics on that song are INCREDIBLE.

[KayButtonJay]

Slow Like Honey is one of the most underrated Fiona songs ever. I will die on this hill

[DJPuzzles]

My favorite example of anaphora (a linguistics term when you introduce a term and then refer back to it later more vaguely) is done so well in Sleep to Dream: "You think love is a hell you cannot bear, and I say gimme mine back and then go there for all I care."

[CloudyYote]

mic you are fucking KILLING IT with these DDDs right now, absolutely loving the videos <3

[metroidIllusionist]

It's a strange feeling seeing how much Fiona had an effect on media despite me never having heard of her. I like to think I'm pretty aware but it's wild and exciting learning of a completely new artist to delve into. Great video as always.

[soaribb]

"This world is bullshit"
DID I LIE?
DID I LIE?
*DID I FUCKING

[WaveOfTidal]

When The Pawn.. and The Idler Wheel were absolutely phenomenal albums to be introduced into Fiona's discography. I'm always a sucker for the singer/songwriter genre and her vocal performance throughout her career should not go understated. Get Gone would have to me my favorite track off hers, the uproar of a track then being followed by the slow ballad of I Know is too good to pass up when I'm in the mood to listen to some Fiona Apple

[toledo_campos]

One quality in Fiona's music is how she keeps learning how to make the songs breath, while still being intense and tight. One of the best songwriters of these last decades, but also an artist who keeps finding ways to surprise herself with sound, something that's really inspiring. Thank you for the hard work you've been putting with more regular DDDs, Mr. Snare.

[becastockman]

Fetch the Bolt Cutters was my first real dive into Fiona, and the album helped me swing back from such a dark place in my life. All her music is raw and passionate and resilient and rare. Adore her, thanks for the video!

[liteflightify]

Fetch The Bolt Cutters, The Idler Wheel, When The Pawn are my ultimate Fiona trio of albums. You can argue each is a masterpiece in its own way. And they’re each fairly different from each other while still maintaining the Fiona Apple-like connective tissue. Though I do really like Extraordinary Machine, and I appreciate Tidal for the more basal and commercial jazz-pop album it is. I hope ‘Fetch’ doesn’t end up being her last album. But if it is, she has a pretty strong and distinct discography and ended with possibly her best work.

[mattila]

Fiona is mother. All her albums are fantastic (The Idler Wheel is probably my favorite), and everything she touches turns into gold (all the wonderful covers).