Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
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Free Music Review: No not baby anymore.....
Hit: 5 Stars
I have both of Fiona's previouse c.d's. This one took the topping. No wonder it took forever to come out, the words and the syle of the music is just beautiful. Free Music Review: Extraordinary Fiona...gets better every time you listen
Hit: 5 Stars
I liked Fiona OK before hearing this album, but now she is one of my favorite female artists, up there with Tori Amos and Michelle Shocked as one of the cool rockin' chicks who do their own original thing and we are all just lucky to listen.
Her deep, unusual and subtly nuanced voice always seemed like something special, but I didn't like what seemed like the "heroin chic" of her old music videos on MTV; the "Criminal" one comes to mind.
But then I heard her sing the title song on a tv show, "Extraordinary Machine," and I was immediately intrigued. The song had such a cool. mellow, sophisticated and also catchy tune, and hearing it was like sitting in a funky jazz/blues bar in New York. Then I got the cd and after spinning it a few times, I came to realize I liked the whole thing.
Now my favorite song is the last one on the CD, Better than Fine, which has such a wonderfully original, almost cabaret or carnival sound to it. It seems kind of retro. The piano is so beautiful, too. She could teach those over-singer contestants a thing or two about how to sing to showcase one's voice without showing off.
She seems to be doing her own thing and not too concerned about what people think of what she does, and happily, perhaps as a result, or just incidental to that, I (and I think many others) like what she does a lot. I look fwd. to more. Thanks, Fiona! Please come to D.C. to play if you can.
Free Music Review: She's so unusual
Hit: 5 Stars
Well, she's weird.
Apple's got this shrill pounding piano right outta the Plastic Ono Band from which she issues a barrage of Joni Mitchell / Suzanne Vega pulverizing poetics. It's a militant tone - bracing, dialectical, electronic.
At it's best (title track is jaw-dropping), it's a cabaret sound - sorta like a desperate Annie Lennox - but better words, way unpredictable. Some of the chord progressions are Double Fantasy ("Oh, Well" and "Please Please Please"), but Apple's icy delivery is pure Bare.
Apple is like the ballad conscience of the Stepford Wife, on occasion - and always occult boogie-woogie crammed with thought and heart, analyzing heart by thought. Dizzying at times (which is why I love it).
Plus, a punch in the nose (love that, too).
Free Music Review: amazing
Hit: 5 Stars
this is without a doubt one of my favorite albums that i've heard in a long, long time. when you first start listening it becomes impossible to put on anything else for a while- nothing sounds quite as good. it's great soundtrack to life music. Free Music Review: Awful, whiny, adolescent transparent attempt
Hit: 1 Stars
Other than Extraordinary Machine which is an "okay" song, this is the whiniest, most adolescent, transparent attempt to use a CD to talk to a guy who obviously won't take her calls anymore. While I am sorry she is heartbroken, this is not an enjoyable CD at all. Don't waste your money. It is not good music and I usually love solo female vocalists.