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Kind of a tough one to get through. A jumble of instrumentals partnered with vocals that comprise of talk-singing along with high-pitched wails. Not necessarily one-star worthy, but definitely not a very pleasant listening experience.
The "spread like strawberries" song lowkey slapped. For Her had some sick harmonizing. The rest was very hipster-experimental, occasionally in a good way, but mostly in a bad way.
- Wurde zum Ende hin deutlich entspannter und besser - insgesamt aber nicht so richtig meins 1,75/5
Quirky bedroom made nonsense that grabbed the music presses attention. Doesn't add up to much. Pass
99/1001 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
I respect this more than a lot of the bland two-note pop music. She’s gone for it with both feet and at least written something as cool as Under The Table. Lots of it is very very odd and doesn’t strike me as something I’ll be coming back to.
Not for me
Really unfortunate that this person had to follow albums by Michael Jackson and Prince
этого чемпиона топов и наград я слушала в год когда он вышел, спасибо не надо, Фиона не для меня певец. он не ужасный, но дельфинье соло не ценю, и вообще люблю когда поют а не разговаривают
I wanted to like this so bad, but I just didn't, it's really weird and feels slightly nonsensical. Her voice gets super annoying at times and she often just makes nosies during the song
2.5
This is… alright. Really not my thing at all and frankly it’s a bit boring.
Not really a fan of her voice
Bastante rollo.
She has a good voice but with the minimal instrumentation it got annoying after some point. Stand-out: Rack of His
Bastante rollo.
I enjoyed her earlier album, Tidal, but this was less music driven and all about her artistic voice. She has an American bluesy vocal, but mostly just plays at being an Artist reminding for some reason of Tom Waits. Way too arty for me.
Has real Regina Spector vibes, but not nearly as good. Contrary to her lyrics in Under the Table, I wish you would just “shut up”.
I Want You to Love Me is actually a banger. Well, at least the first 2 minutes of it is. I really wanted to give this 3 stars, but I can’t for 2 prime minutes in a 51 minute album. So many of these albums have their best song(s) front loaded in general. I don’t like it. With that in mind, awesome piano sample (sped up nine inch nails?) with some edgy angsty lyrics? I’m in. “I move with the trees In the breeze I know that time is elastic And I know when I go All my particles disband and disperse And I'll be back in the pulse And I know none of this'll matter In the long run But I know a sound is still a sound Around no-one.” That shit is hard, en garde. 1 star for each good minute of the album.
Feels like if Kate Bush was making experimental music into the 21st century. I think the album gets better as it moves along, which is only because it starts out weird as hell. I don’t think it was hard to get through but it wasn’t my cup of tea. If we hadn’t already listened to Murder Ballads by Nick Cave I’d probably give it one star, but it’s better than that so I guess I have to give it a two? Gonna keep Criminal as Fiona Apple’s only song in my library. Also, I listened to the beginning of For Her again and it reminded me of the Star Wars Bad Lip Reading song Seagulls, Stop It Now and now I’ll never hear it any differently.
I can see how "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" would resonate with everyone locked down during the COVID-19 pandemic. I don't think it really holds up outside of that mindset though. I usually enjoy an experimental album, and maybe this belongs on the list for when it came out, but I don't think this is revolutionizing anything now.
feel I'm actively trying to ignore the overly rambunctious singer in a cat coffee shop who insists to maintain eye contact with anyone not alternative enough and convinced they had it so much worse than everyone else. In short not for me, but not terrible. 1.8
Jaha. Den här skivan kanske plastade på listan (långt ifrån övertygad). Men att hennes andra platta var med är bara trots. Detta är inte en artist som förtjänar två skivor på listan. Jag misstänker att vissa bättre band/artister bara kommer få ett bidrag. Ok. Till albumet. Chockerande att det hyllats som absurt. Tycks vara de "utelämnande" texterna. Musiken, och helheten roligare än hennes förra skiva. Men mest meh. Den beskrivs som experimentell, "sound never heard before". Sånt trams. Inget jag kommer lyssna på igen. Tycker inte nån låt sticker ut som hit heller. Svagt.
I liked it more than the other album. But still not my jam. 2.5
Not as catchy as her old stuff. Overall fine, but doesn't resonate with me. Hate the album cover lol.
An interesting album. Creative and punchy but not a particularly enjoyable listen. Also, a bit relentlessly samey from song to song.
So she can sing but prefers to chant along with the music. Not really a talent !
This is ok. I enjoyed some of the instrumentals and singing, but no songs really stood out to me.
Just okay 2.4
Not sure how this is on the list
Löö
Boring and repetitive
Fiona Apple is the female Morrisey can't stand either.
Mwa
Second Fiona Apple album. I don’t know, forgettable? Not really my sound.
Lots of clanky percussion - that's the takeaway from this, it's all itchy sounds and tempos that sound like a disintegrating robot walking down stairs. That, and Apple's less than appealing voice. Still, she keeps it interesting lyrically and there's often some element in the junkyard mix that commands the attention. Did I enjoy it though? Jury's out.
Was not a fan of the rhythm in most of the songs. very boring.
Experimental, menacing, at some points funky, at some points jazzy. Lots of feminist tropes that don’t apply to me and that I only have a peripheral understanding of. Would not listen to again, but I can see how others might.
I normally like her stuff but this album wasn't for me.
Very indie. It's not bad, just not for me at all.
I don't have the patience to get through this.
I'm sure I'd like this more if I was exposed to it earlier in life, but it just didn't land for me. Her voice is beautiful, but there are some wacky gutteral sounds and yips that it really took me out of it.
Who is that woke up and said to themselves, "yes, this is the album that should represent 2020's music for this curated list"? Because, to me, this album sounds like eccentricity for eccentricity's sake.
Pretty good, a little bit too poppy for me
Ok, so I can tell that she is really good at what she does. There's obviously talent here. It's just not something I want to listen to.
I don’t really find the use of percussion terribly interesting beyond reading about it and noting it’s novelty. The album certainly does feel like a lot of improv and then once a phrase has caught her attention, it is repeated until it starts to lose coherence. It’s all technically very clean, the topics being discussed are important and relevant, but it is a dragging bore to listen to.
diferente las letras un 10 el tembleque nop mucho trauma o algo así ladies, heavy balloon, cosmonauts, drumset () mejoran no es para mí, me agobia mazo 2 estrellas
The piano was neat in the first few songs. Not enough to redeem the album. Too much of the same? Lyrically, meh.
I remember when this came out in 2020. I always meant to listen to it because it got absolutely glowing reviews. Now, 3 years later, I am disappointed upon my first listen. Many reviews praised how "cluttered" it sounded because I guess it represented our lives during the pandemic? I just thought this was a bit pretentious and experimental with no real direction. I did enjoy the songwriting and some of the tracks. But a majority of it was just meh. It really didn't resonate with me at all.
Pretty boring and not my style. Her lyrics are child like
Fiona Apple has always been a name I remember along side other names like Alannis Moresette and Jewel from back in the 90's so I was interested when this recommendation came up. It's never been my kinda music but a trip back to my youth could have been fun. So imagine my surprise when I see this album was released in 2020. What the hell could Fiona Apple be doing in 2020 that would make this a must listen album? That answer to that question is.... absolutely nothing. This is an incredibly pretentious album and not in a fun eccentric way but in a Yoko Ono sort of way. The first song ends with her making Dolphin noises very much like Yoko Ono would have done when butchering John Lennons live performances. Theres not really any music on here either. Its just Fiona talking "singing" and rambling about bullshit over a nothing backing tracks. I'm honestly confused how this album made the cut for the 1001 albums project. It's not old enough to he influential and it's not interesting enough to stand out amongst other modern music.
Tuntu et albumi hyökkäs kimppuun ja melkein voitti...Perkele.. Kaks tähteä nöyrtyneenä täältä..
Weird so far. Just feels a little pretentious idk. I’ll see how it goes. End of fetch the bolt cutters and under the table are an improvement.
Gaat een beetje alle kanten op, behalve de kant die ik echt leuk vind.
An unusual album that is very percussion based. Lots of repeated lines and unusual instrumentation, rhythms and song structures. The weird instrumentation in combination with unstructured songs unfortunately make this album feel a little random, unplanned and wacky for wacky's sake. It is impossible to tell whether or not there are good songs buried under the layers of pretentiousness. Whilst it could be said to be creative, there is probably a reason that people generally use actual instruments rather than found items and the bones of beloved family pets to make music. Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: Ladies Date listened: 30/08/23
never followed her much after Extraordinary Machine. I don't like this album too much. It's too noisy and unmelodic meh, 2 stars
Uninteresting.
This album sounds like it was composed by ChatGPT.
OK album, the first song is a banger.
At first I liked the direction and the production but then it got very tedious and redundant quite fast. Midway through I was pretty much done with this.
It's werid and disjointed, and I cannot figure out why I had to hear this one. Apple isn't my favorite to start with and this might be my least favorite of her albums I've listened to. At least she can sing, so she has that going for her, I just didn't understand the percussion, the strong structure, the recording quality, etc. The only plus it got is that, while I never enjoyed it, I never got to the point where I really thought about turning it off, either.
Did not enjoy this at all
she seems like a girlboss but this is not for me
Whimsical and occasionally interesting. But on the whole, not pleasant to listen to and I found myself skipping the second half of 3-4 of the songs. A shame, since I enjoyed the other Fiona Apple album we had.
Watching the fine line when it comes to art pop of making a song that's enjoyable to listen to and still interesting is hard to walk, and in my opinion, this album fails at it. Often it feels aimless or like it needs to throw anything and everything in at once without really sticking with me. Definitely angrier than expected, and that led to some manic parts I liked, but it was definitely wearing thin by the end. It does make me curious about her 90s album on the list, as I can't imagine it's too similar production wise. Or perhaps it is?
Highlights: "Fetch the Bolt Cutters," "Rack of His," "For Her" As we pull closer to the present in the list, it gets harder to put albums in full perspective. That only puts more burden of proof on an album, and it's just impossible to see this as historic in any way. It's a decent, samey, forgettable album. The percussion is probably my favorite part. She lays off that goat vibrato mostly. The vocal performance is mostly like if Stevie Nicks only listened to Cab Calloway and Tom Waits. But that's to make any promises about lyricism. The lyrics have some nice earnest well-put moments, but it repeats entire verses or one quarter-clever line forty times because it's so self-impressed and unedited. It also spends most of its time declaring its own outspokenness with minimal follow-through. 'What if I told you Hollywood stars were flawed? What if I told you handsome men were abusive and manipulative?' Well, I sure wish someone was here to convey that poetically. It's hard to represent a rebellious spirit when half the album approaches dogmatic marching chants. The one sort of transcendental thing about this album, where thoughts are felt, is the woundlicking -- Apple cherishing her resentments.
I really can’t stand this album. It received high praise. It reminds me of the British punk that I don’t like. The talking, droning, lack of singing doesn’t work for me.
Look, I applaud the attitude but I sure hate the delivery. Fiona seems to be real averse to writing melodies. Or choruses. Or even singing for a single whole song. I want this mind - with her witty lyricism and "come at me" attitude - behind some actual, honest-to-God vocal melodies. She's got a voice when she chooses to use it. She just... doesn't. The sheer number of tracks that devolve into wordless howling and random noises is staggering. Why do you think anyone wants to listen to you yelp and howl, Fiona? Nobody paid for that. Minus 2 stars for the yowling. Minus 1 because you seem to hate melodies and 1 more for the lack of choruses. Plus 1 for the attitude, though. Love that.
Don't think it will make a lasting impression
Shameika was lying
Sisältää kunnionhimoisia kokeiluja, jotka herättävät huomiota mutta ärsyttävät. Sisältää myös tyypillisemmällä tavalla rytmikkäitä standardivetoja, jotka ovat ihan jees mutta unohtuvat. Silloin kun eivät ärsytä (huom. strawberries, peas and beans, couple of cosmonauts...).
Okay, so Apple is a wierdo. And that is fine. But does that mean she has to be hard to listen to? Yeah. I'm not not entertained. But I also don't want to listen to it again ever again.
Right off the bat there is a weird dolphin sounding vocal part? I really think this sounds like it is written by someone who smells like shit for some reason. I do not enjoy the weird vocalizations and vocal rhythms at all.
Torturous listen. Not a fan of Apple, but I do respect her. I just don’t want to listen to her.
fetch the bolt cutters reference to kate bush!! the second half of cosmonauts is my fav & then for her is very fun - but gonna put this alb in same boat as yes, i just don’t think art pop rock is my thing
Interesting, but it didn't really catch my attention. I remember in college, one of my good friends loved Fiona Apple. I'm sure I heard her before, but never looked back.
It's... artistic. I was not really a fan of this. I had a hard time listening to it at times.
“Singing,” or talking, out of key is not music.
Not a fan of this at all
In the current era of singers/songwrighters, the art of writing a good hook seems to have been lost. The songs on this album coud use some more structure, and there is nothing that could catch my interest, most tracks meandering aimlessly without a genuine great idea or melody. It's pretty disappointing. 2/5
Not good, more like spoken word and not at all catchy
This felt longer than it was. I tried this when covid broke out. It wasn't for me then. I still struggle with this. I usually like weird music that makes people question my sanity. But this just doesn't do it for me.
I've never listened to Fiona Apple, she seems to be just a USA thing. Just confirmed - according to setlistfm she's toured a lot but barely left North America. So keen to find out more. ... [one album later] ... Less keen now, I couldn't really cope with the stream of consciousness put to music. Lots going on instrumentally but just so random, and just a bit smartypants too. Echoes of Laurie Anderson I support.
Just not my thing
This is interesting and creative. Not sure I’d listen to it though.
Not for me
Meh
Good lord we get it you have “potential”. Do you though? Why are there dogs barking in the background. I don’t really like the mid word “crack.” At least she’s aware of the singing but I am not a fan.
This one is a challenge - not always or necessarily in a bad way. It's just absolutely not readily-accessible even after a few listens - I first heard it upon release and thought "interesting" but nothing stuck. Or continues to stick. I think it's the exact intent and nature of the album that makes it seemingly-impenetrable: it's aggressive, very percussive, and not smooth in any way which if someone was only familiar with Fiona's debut album it's a bit of a switch especially on the first ~3 tracks. She's almost creatively rap-singing on many of the songs which creatively acts as a perfect accompaniment to the percussive elements of the album. There's very little that's "normal" about this record - there's no 3 1/2 minute standard singles with a catchy chorus or hook, or nothing close to that; it's like a smattering of paint thrown across a large canvas then before drying it was pushed into slightly-familiar patterns. That description makes it sound...terrible, and it *is* frustrating. Frustrating enough to say that I don't think I could voluntarily put this on, as opposed to earlier works of Apple's. But I do think there's value in giving it a listen or two - it's an impressive effort towards art, even if I'm not entirely sure whether I actually like it or not ... (and steer towards the latter.... ) 5/10 2 stars
My wife loves this album.
Some of Fetch The Bolt Cutters works. Much more of it doesn't. I'm interested in her voice but the music around it is very messy to the point I don't want to listen. 2/5.
I was quite excited when we got Fiona Apple again - I hadn't heard of her before listening to her earlier album through this - but this was a bit disappointing. Went a bit too heavy on the 'all men are bastards' theme with not much subtlety or cleverness, and musically it feels a bit weird - can't put my finger on why, but doesn't work for me. Nothing anywhere near as gripping as Sleep To Dream from Tidal. 2/5.
Lord knows I tried. I tried because Tidal and When the Pawn... are two of my all-time top 149 albums (don't ask). So I'm happy to accept that (1) this is me, not you or her or anyone else, and (2) to acknowledge that once again (probably for the 20th time) I've tried and failed to listen to this album through to the end. I think is is a psychosocial trigger, possibly related to the eeriness of the pandemic period. Every time I hear it, I just seize up completely. It is unbearably...ok, I'll shit up now. Point made
Enkele heel coole nummers, maar ook enkele heel slechte. De goeie nummers hebben iets Industrieel-Tom-Waits achtig
Nope
I did not enjoy this very much, but I think it must've been very topical at the time of release. 2
I understand the draw of the lyrics and the multitude of silent voices they represent. Shameika may be right, and maybe I'm lying to myself but they just don't speak for me.
Not the type of music l like. 31/112 (This is a rating of how much I enjoyed listening to this album not how good I believe it is)
2 I think this is true alternative. It’s not quite anything but it’s also everything. At first I fucking hated it but strangely by the end I was bought into a lot of it. It’s too long for sure. Some songs could use a little monotonous chanting. Not something I’ll ever buy on vinyl but might listen to others by her.
2 I read on this album's Wiki page that Apple was going for an unconventional percussive sound on this record, and that definitely came through on my listen. Lyrically and thematically the album is pretty sound, but I found the music jarring, which is a shame. Every time it felt like a powerful feminist statement was being made, it was immediately washed out by the most obnoxious drum pattern I've heard. It had its moments, but as a whole I definitely felt the 51 minute runtime... so I don't think I would give this full album a re-listen. Favorite songs: Ladies, Under the Table
Meh, don’t really get the hype on this. Seems a bit bland to me.
Some cool jazzy songs, but the acapella sound isn’t for me
The latter half of this album is much better than the first half. Solid song writing but a bit to janky and quirky for my taste.
I dont really get the love for Fiona Aaple. It’s a descent album though. 2.5/5
I have heard of Fiona Apple, but never gave her a listen before. Not feeling like I have missed out on too much though. This album contains a bunch of 'ditties' with weirdly specific personal messages and something more akin to beat poetry or spoken word than singing. Not really my cup of tea. Stand out tracks: Under the Table, Rack of His.
Kudos to her for being adventurous and pushing the envelope here. The music is quirky and unconventional so that's good. But unfortunately it doesn't really resonate with me. Lots of folks seem to like this so maybe its me.
Sounds very interesting, would give it a few more listens, great writing. Not really my taste but I get it.
This was one-star for so much, but it redeemed a star over the runtime. Not sure how, but it did.
I really liked the last Fiona Apple album that came up on the Generator (Tidal). Struggled to get into this one. Less musical and more rambling at a piano.
More percussive than I'd imagined. Also the vocals seemed totally disconnected from the music, which is a weird production choice. Overall, this one wasn't for me and I can't imagine there's enough historical context around it to even make the list anyway.
The album cover picture of Fiona struck me as a bit off kilter, a little imbalanced. The album certainly has a uniqueness, and I appreciate the construction of the songs: found percussion instruments and unprocessed vocals. Unfortunately, the sound is too much like my initial impression of the cover photo. There is a lack of cohesion in the improvised construction and the final product is off balance. I tend to enjoy the second half of the album better than the first. Respect to the concept of this album; however, I do not enjoy the execution.
Menee osastoon Chisu eli yksittäinen hetki yksittäisessä biisissä voi olla mahtavan kuulosta, mutta kokonaisuus lähinnä vituttaa. Ei jatkoon eikä uutta soittokertaa.
Eccentric, weird, bold, innovative, a lot of things that Fiona Apple is apparently known to aspire to and seemingly fail upwards repeatedly. Fiona Apple seems to get in her own way, the first track "I Want You To Love Me" is a fine song, she sings with earnest, the music is groovy and rhythmic, but then she engages in a weird squealing scat-like ad libbing that is indistinguishable from the rest of the song. Weird is not always wrong, but it is wrong here, but at least Shameika was right. "Fetch the Bolt Cutters", the title track, falls prey to the same weird way of ending a song. A mix of dog barks and awkwardly rhythmic heavy breathing, as though perhaps we were hearing a metaphor for intimate activities? Maybe that's Fiona Apple's issue, she does not know how to end a song in a way that makes sense. That is a bit of the rub here. The songs here are groovy and fun, her choruses and compositions give so much to make the album really, near incredibly enjoyable. A few songs later, there is not much new to add other than Fiona Apple still cannot end a song without doing something weird. That said, there are no regrets in listening to this album, just some confusion as to motivation.
In 1999, Jessica Hynes and Simon Pegg teamed up with Edgar Wright to produce Spaced - one of the most brilliant television programmes ever crafted. Spaced did things with single-camera comedy that had never been done before, and paved the way for Wright to direct big-budget Hollywood films, for Pegg to make multiple appearances in fan-favourite film franchises such as Mission Impossible and Star Trek, and for to Hynes continue with Bafta-award winning comedy performances. Why do I mention Spaced? Well, the third episode of the first series is called "Art", and strongly lampoons talentless, self-congratulatory avant-garde "performance" through the character of Vulva, played by David Walliams in probably the least intolerable performance of his career. I could easily imagine some of this album being the soundtrack for one of Vulva's art installations, in that many of the tracks are hacky, avant-garde hogswill with few identifiable merits. Thankfully, not all of the tracks are atrocious, there is some good stuff in here. Not enough to make me want to tolerate the rubbish, though.
2, I think she may have experienced bullying
Dwadziescia cztery lata odstepu pomiedzy dwoma albumami, ale jest, kolejny krazek od pani Fiony Apple, na liscie raczej nowosc bo rocznik 2k020, wiec juz z poczatku ery covidowej, czego oczywiscie wszelacy krytycy muzyczni nie omieszkali pominac w swoich rozprawach dotyczacych plyty, ktora wpasowala sie w izolacyjne motywy szurow, ktore tutaj sie przejawiaja w izolacjach pani Fiony w samej sobie, czy to jesli chodzi o zwiazki romantyczne, przyjaznie, czy o wlasne cialo, bo i rozbijanie sie na czesci pierwsze tez sie przewija, sluchajac tego nie slychac pani w srednim wieku, ktora wyszla juz z tego okresu zagubienia i buntu z Tidala, ale zabawnie zestarzala ta sama mala dziewynke, ktora chce robic muzyke popowa ktora bedzie oddawac jej pokrecone wnetrze, ktore tutaj jest przelane na 13 trakow i 51 minut materialu, ktory jest spiewany, ale juz nie takim glosem jak na tidalu, a troche juz zawodzacym, albo stylizowanym na zawodzacy, bo dziwne zeby dzieja sie nie tylko lirycznie, ale same wokale maja sporo giberyszowych miejsc, czy onomatopeji, jesli chodzi o instrumentale to pierwsze skrzypce graja tutaj drumsy, ale nie klasyczne walenie po bebnach czy talerzach, ale wykorzystywanie dziwnych rzeczy do tworzenia dziwnych dzwiekow jak glosi wiki, to jak najbardziej sie udalo bo brzmi on dosc orginalnie przez ta symfonie drumujaca za ktora stoja Amy Aileen Wood i Davíd Garza, poza ta dwojka w nagraniach bral udzial Sebastian Steinberg glownie na basie, ale tak jak reszta muzykow z pania Fiona na czele kazdy ma spora liste dziwnych rzeczy na ktorych wydawal dzwieki na tym jakze wymeczonym nagraniu, bo skladanie krazka trwalo prawie piec lat, ale takiej artysce renomowanej nigdzie sie juz nie spieszy i moze szlifowac swe dziela, a dodatkowo tak trafic z czasem wypuszczenia plyty zatytulowanej fetch the bolt cutters na poczatek pandemii, gdzie ludzie barykadowali sie w domach i sprzedac prawie ze konceptowy album jest ladnym zbiegiem okolicznosci, wiec tego nagrania sluchalo sie o wiele ciekawiej niz Tidala, ktory zawiewal standardami, a tutaj jest wiecej eksperymentow, ale jednak nadal nie jestem fanem wokalnych czy tez lirycznych zdolnosci pani Apple, na plejke leci heavy balloon, ktory wokalnie przypomina mi cos Adele, ale mocno porobionej przez zycie, bo kto wie jaka historie skrywa kariera pani Fiony w muzyce popularnej
Bastante rollo.
Some good songs, some bad, some meh. A true 2.5, rounded down because it's not my typical genre
Nothing doing here. Got through it but wasn’t anything stand out.
I felt like I wanted to like this, but just couldn't. Every time I heard something that sounded kinda cool, she ruined it.
I did not know Fiona Apple released an album in 2020. In fact I did not know that she recorded any other music than Criminal. Well apparently she did. Most of the album is eccentric and not neccesarily eccentric in a good way. There some some songs that are a bit "traditional" and those are the better songs. There is nothing that is really noteworthy about the album. One consistent problem is the outtros are too and the song won't end. End the song and on to the next. Anyways no need to listen to this album maybe one or two songs.
I really wanted to like this album, but she basically plays row, row, row the boat in most of the songs, but angrily.
Bruh…. Detta är int ok…
Weird to some extend, which makes me feel unpleasant… not for me
This wasnt it for me.
Wel beter dan de gemiddelde singer songwriter, maar niet echt lekker luisterbaar
Pretty lousy, not my bag
She's got a good voice and was doing some interesting and unique stuff. Unfortunately, it may have just been the mood I was in, but it just didn't capture my attention/interest at all and I was just waiting for the album to be over.
Some songs were interesting and good, but overall was just too bizarre for me.
I hated this album when it came out. Tried it a few times and just could not get through it. For me, each one of her albums takes a step down in terms of the way I feel about them. Upon giving this a fair shake, turns out I was wrong. It’s not as bad as the one before it, but it’s still not good. Sorry.
Not a fan. This veers worryingly close to 1 star territory.
most over rated album of the last few years, by far
First proper listen of FA. The barmy rhythm and avant garde sound structures become familiar, the internal sounds of a brain at work.
I wanted to like this, really I did. I can kind of appreciate it but it just isn't for me unfortunately.
NIce. Need to hear more of it.
Not my style. Too alt
Not for me
I'm just not a fan of Fiona Apple. I recognize it as artistically good. But I also recognize John Cage is artistically good. That doesn't mean I go around listening to 4'33" for fun.
Am I missing something?
Pretty awful - not turn it off right now bad but really poor. A generous 2 - probably 1.5 max
Oh Dear Lord - what is going on here? How could there possibly be another Fiona Apple on the list? I thought one was a mistake, but now another one!!! It's so bad I really cant even be bothered to hate on this Just put me down as a hard NO! Left wondering how did we get here . . .
Não entendo essa tia
Se eu pudesse, dava menos de zero, o que so o meu gosto. O album deve ser ótimo pra quem gosta, e eu entendo. Mas é ruim.
1. me - 1 2. zhame - 0 3. bolt - 0 4. table - 1 5. relay - 0 6. rack - 1 7. paper - 1 8. ladiez - 0 9. balloon - 0 10. cozmo - 0 11. her - 1 12. drum - 0 13. go - 0
Not a fan of this one at all, didn't finish
One of the very worst albums on the list. This belongs on here about as much as Hitler belongs on a list of great humanitarians. An especially embarrassing entry even by the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die bizarrely low standards. I swear sometimes I feel like I'm being trolled because who honestly thinks that anyone needs to hear this dreck before leaving this planet?
I don't like this. I don't know what else to say.
Nice album cover, asshole.
Fiona Apple, 2 eme album =>1/5 Encore pire que le précédent.
First album I had to stop listening to. It feels like a 13 year old came up with a line they thought went really hard, and then decided to repeat it and repeat it for the chorus of each song (derogatory). GIRL WE GET IT! Unfortunately this didn’t land with me at all, and I turned on the album so much I knew I wasn’t going to get anything more out of it.
This is very interesting but they haven't reached the right audience with this one
this lowkey sccary
Sounds like it was recorded in a kitchen, and the used kitchen utensils as instruments.
What even????
No, not for me
Das Album klingt genauso, wie es das Cover suggeriert. Sinnloses, chaotisches Rumgequietsche. Melodien? Fehlanzeige! Gesang? Nicht vorhanden! Ab in die Tonne!
Despicable
How ecclectic. Not my style unfortunately. I'm not entirely sure what makes it great but you can't win them all. i guess.
Well... lost my notes. TLDR I'm sure someone loves this, but it's not for me. Idk what I just experienced. Wow.
This is performance art, not music. I feel I should be snapping my fingers and wearing a beret at someone’s open mike night. It’s like everyone has made this silent pact that she’s really bold and experimental without looking for the music. I couldn’t finish this pretentious garbage.
Fiona Apple bemoans that the Drumset is gone and asks why did you take it away on that eponymous song. Can whoever stole Fiona's drumset please give it back so we don't have to endure more low-fi improvised percussion from her? 1 out of 5 stars only for this.
An odd and uninteresting album.
Не люблю женский вокал.
Not my preference so far,
Meh. Just not my thing.
I knew with the Yoko Ono/Chuck Berry screaming at the end of the first song that I'd be in for a rough ride. It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but I'll never listen to this again, therefore it's a 1.
This is not good. It sounds like someone has just discovered garage band and wants to show off some half baked ideas as songs. Should there be more women on this list? Yes. Should we accept any old junk as long as it’s done by a woman? No. .5 of a star.
There comes a time where they want to be an "artist". I'm ok with breaking free of form and going down another path, that's axiomatic. But when they decide to start with the jarring discordant stop start chord sequence singing like Ornette Coleman with lots of talking and strange noises clanking people singing for no good reason....I get the shits. Fiona is great, has had some fine moments. But not this.
Mmm nope. Not my cuppa'
This is quite unpleasant.
Terrible
Exasperating
Second FA album within one week. But the (vocal) extravagance on this is simply annoying. 1,5
Hated the way she ended all her songs
I was curious to listen to this because I remember there being so much buzz about Fiona Apple when the album was announced. This isn’t my style. Like, at all. Maybe I need to check out her earlier work, but her lyrics and the fact that it sounds more like she’s talking than singing really annoy me.
Unique voice. Unique songs.
this annoyed me so much
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More like Fiona Crapple
A load of rubbish.
Rubbish. Can I give it less than 1 star?
First song is weird, let's hope it gets better. Fiona Apple is regarded as one of the best singer song writers, so I owe it to her and to my love of singer-songwriter music to listen with open ears. Update: I really tried. I did. It's just too discordant for me. I like a better flow. I can see why people would like it, it's just not my cup o' tea.
A really underbaked and boring album. Repeating the same phrase with slightly varying 4/4 backing percussion gets very stale very fast, and the lyrics themselves feel incredibly one-note and shallow. Feels like a very low-effort album for one apparently so personal
dog shit
A lot of sensless sounds and whooptie-doo.
Way too weird. Very interesting voice. Songs are terrible.
Just not really my style. I liked Drumset, but most of the other songs on the album, i could take or leave
There are albums I love, albums I hate, but I don't think an album has annoyed me more than this one.
I don’t get it. I’d heard of fiona apple before. I’ve never heard a single song on this album. Nothing… I’m not sure now if I e ever heard a single song by Fiona Apple. And, I didn’t like any of it. I just don’t think I get what she’s after.
Pfffffttthahahahahaha, now I know y'all are f***ing with me. There's no way y'all put this album on this list and got people genuinely praising it. Hahahaha, that's comedy. This might've been good if she actually sang on a track, or at the very least stayed on beat, but neither of those things happen. For the entire album. People saying how this was the album during COVID, so what? Covid is over, bro. And the lockdowns weren't that severe that you had to be locked up listening to this weird shit. Bo Burnham's Inside came out around the same time and is a way more introspective and social commentary project about that time, the time before it, and what was to come after. This thing barely aged past the first week without feeling like a choppy throwaway project. The only good thing that will come out of this album is randomly playing Shameika in the car to startle my friends and get a good laugh. Other than that, this was not worth anyone's time and y'all should be ashamed of yourselves for trying to pass this off as anything other than noise.
Eh, not my bag
Ive never listened to her but everything ive seen before always says shes amazing so i have high expectations nvm i dont like it at all it was so hard to listen to. Far too repetitive and she was just talking really.
This poor lady is having a mental breakdown over shitty sounding contemporary jazz with……I’m not going to rag on her. She needs help.
She's clearly very talented. I have no interest in whatever is going on here, and disliked every second of it.
Strays into Yoko territory. Plus some Queen crap. No ta.
was anderes, für andere
Eine Liedermacherin welche für mich zuviel experimentiert
isses einfach nicht
Not…what I expected from her.
3/10
Firstly, she can’t sing. Or perhaps she just chooses not to sing as she’s too busy being angry and quirky. Painful listening. Making no connection with me.
Poor in every way, maybe except for her bank balance, I'd imagine. She's trying to be edgy and quirky (I had to steal that word from my friend) in the way only Americans can do. So it comes across as contrived drivel. Horrible.
why did you get into music
This is the musical equivalent of the “art” with the banana taped to the wall. A lot of notes about it being “experimental.” What was she experimenting with? How to sound worse than all of her older music? She’s barely even singing for most of this album. Just kinda drawn-out talking over some weird percussion that isn’t even good. No catchy melodies, no good vocals, and I couldn’t even pick out anybody playing good instrumentals behind her. Nothing special about any part of this. By far the worst thing I’ve been subjected to on this challenge. Why is this a must-listen? Especially considering how few albums we get on this list from the current decade. THIS is one of just three albums from 2020 on this list. There are so many more important artists and albums that could’ve been included but we get this tryhard bullshit instead.
I remember not liking this album when it came out and making sure to keep it to myself lest I get chewed up and spit out by the fanbase at the time. Happy to have a reason to give it another try. Common theme: Even if I enjoy a song, Fiona ends it with a 30 second freestyle interlude that I'm over by second 3. The first track was SO GOOD until she animorphed into a dolphin. I loved the piano runs in the second track but overall I disliked pretty every other aspect- like everything that isn't the piano, and sometimes even the piano. By the end I was happy it was over. The title track sounds cool at parts but corny. It reminds me of the poetry scene from An Extremely Goofy Movie. Once again I got tired of it by halfway through. I started to warm up to things a little bit more by Relay. Felt comfortable by Rack of His, but I realized it was more of a Stockholm Syndrome than actual enjoyment. Newspaper is industrial and vulnerable, but still not a song I feel like listening to more than once. The start of Ladies reminds me of Mung Daal from Chowder too much. At least got a chuckle out of that. Heavy Balloon was pretty solid and I actually loved Cosmonauts... right until the ending outro. For Her has one of the only outros that I liked. Also liked most of Drumset and On I Go. Not like, to ever pick up again, but at least in the moment. Life is like a lime, tart and tangy. 1/5
I read on the Wikipedia entry for this album that it was largely done in GarageBand. More like GarbageBand, amirite? I like Fiona's older stuff a lot, but this is just trash. 1/5
This is super weird & not at all my thing. 1/5
Absolutely hated this, how is it on this list. It's not edgy, it's pretentious
Meh
Kakvo je ovo užasno eksperimentalno smeće. Nisam mogla slušati ovo. 1/5, 1/10
1/10
Too much noise. 1/5
0:00 of play time that weren't annnoying
Not for me
Another rubbish music again... I really didn't need to listen it before I die, and I hope listen to it never more again.
some cool diy production can't save it
.
Fiona Apple reinvents "rock" music by hitting two rocks together and calling it music
Incredible. Incredibly boring I mean.
Off-Beat, literally. I’ll admit this was the first album I’ve had where I had never heard of the artist before, and unfortunately I think I preferred when I lived in ignorance. The percussion was all over the place, the production was so poor it sounded like an essay that hadn’t been proof-read before submission. The lyrics described an erratic soul and someone I felt needed a hug, and probably therapy, rather than a recording contract. A few songs started well, for about 20 or so seconds I thought that perhaps this song would be good, and then it would go odd, and odd for odd’s sake. I think there’s a talented artist there somewhere, some of the lyrics were clever, her voice, when she actually bothered to sing, was good. With a decent producer and someone there to tell her to stay on-message she could release something listenable. Unfortunately I really struggled with this, it felt too much like the poetry of a 15 year old filled with angst, who doesn’t have the maturity yet to realise all-out cynicism won’t make you happy. In fact those 15 year olds may love this album. Sadly for me, it was a rare album I couldn’t even bring myself to listen to twice for reviewing purposes.
It was annoying
I hated this so much
Always liked her voice
If you're going to produce an album of this style, at least make the effort to do it well. To me this just sounds like an immature, middle-class teenager who thinks being angry with their parents is the ultimate revolutionary act. I had never heard of Fiona Apple before. I wish it had stayed that way. I'm not sure this album should even be included in the top 100 trillion albums of all time, let alone the best 1001. Utter puerile drivel.
Quirky voice and ok music but not really my thing.
I love her voice but I've never felt she could put together a full album of great tracks, more of a singles maker but that was 20 yrs prior to this release. I hated the intro track and her delivery, just rough and I didn't want to love her after hearing it. Then "Shameika" and it's redundancy and over the top instrumentation let me know this ain't the album for me. The percussion on "Relay" is distracting and manic. I can't connect with these quirky songs. She isn't showcasing her great voice at all, most of it was talking not singing. It has angry undertones and repetitiveness that make it unenjoyable for me. Fairly popular album based on the # of listens on Spotify. I skipped ahead on most of this. I just don't get what she's selling. I found none of it compelling, it sounded like the ravings of someone who's making music alone in their basement. "Ladies" was the one song I could tolerate, but again it's lined with rambling incoherent words and sounds. One star for trying but I hated it. Not 1001 worthy.
I hate this kind of music. Really a pain to listen to.
No
It's like you're sitting a hipster gastropub and the live local musician for the night is a spoken-word poet who tries, and fails, to do her best Regina Spektor impression The lack of rhythm, structure, and weird vocal inflections/performances here is absolutely exhausting. And it really feels like the singer is trying sooo hard to be "weird" and "out there", when really it's so try-hard that it's just annoying. Another analogy - it's the equivalent of being out in public somewhere and a bunch of shithead high-schoolers are being obnoxious by making "lol so random" loud noises and doing everything they can to disrupt anyone around them, simply to gain any degree attention at all. When really their attention-seeking antics, and this album itself, isn't funny or interesting; it's just trying so hard that it's cringe.
Couldn’t make it through a single track and gave up on the album 3/4s of the way through. I felt like I had wandered into a coffee house on poetry night and all the performances were really BAD.
Haar jaren negentig-album was al niet veel soeps, maar dit is pure aanstellerij. Lelijk gebrul, lelijk gezingzeg, lelijk gelal. Weer zo'n wijsneuzerige plaat waarbij je af en toe kijkt of het al afgelopen is, om vervolgens te verzuchten dat je nog maar net over de helft bent. Waar is Fransie als je hem nodig hebt?
Chaotic To summarise - random dolphin like squealing, dogs barking, heavy breathing. Piano keys being smashed around and what sounds like a kitchen drawer being rattled You can hear the lockdown insanity in real time as the album went on Felt like fetching the bolt cutters to chop my ears off and end the suffering 1 ⭐️
Meh
Made it to the beginning of track 3 after being tempted to switch off half way through track 2. It was truly awful.
I really wonder why anyone could throw 5 stars. I really wonder why the critcs can talk this way about this album. How much was the money they got ??? Clear 1 star, because 0 is no possible option.
No. Sorry, gonna pass on this one. Don’t need every Beatles or Deep Purple album on this list, nor do we need a late era album from someone who’s run out of real ideas. How about “Exile In Guyville” by Liz Phair instead?
Nah
Not my style
Sounds like a mental health crisis. There isn't a single part of this album I enjoyed or considered worthy of being released ,no less making it a “must listen”.
God damm that's a strange bird
This album made no sense to me, and quite frankly I am flabbergasted that it's included on this list. It's a 100% miss for me.
To say I find this disappointing would be an understatement. Fiona Apple has long been recommended as somebody who aligns to my musical interests, but I never really explored her until now because I'm just naturally skeptical of pop music. Well...this album makes my delay feel justified. It doesn't fall short where pop typically does fall short for me though--it's definitely not formulaic or written specifically to boost a studio. I give credit for experimentation, but almost all of it misses the mark for me. Can't really grade on anything else besides that. For Her...my word man, what an unlistenable song. I'm sure it got a ton of plaudits for its message coming out at the point in time in which it did, but compositionally and production-wise, it might be the most cacophonous song I've ever heard.
Not for me
Oh this was so bad, just horrible. Talentless woman shouting and speaking crap with random noises in the background. Absolutely hated every minute of it. Also, it was far too long and could easily have been 51 and a bit minutes shorter without losing anything of musical value.
Niet mijn ding, instrumenten klinken willekeurig door elkaar.
Okay, i can´t take this....
Ja hier zaten we op te wachten zeg. Eén keer Fiona Apple was blijkbaar niet genoeg. Dochter van een acteur en zangeres, opgegroeid op privéscholen en later thuisonderwijs. Ja dan krijg je dit. "Apple was classically trained on piano as a child, and began composing her own pieces by the age of eight". Als je normale ouders hebt wordt gezegd dat je als kind al vaak aan de piano zat te kloten. Als je uit zo'n gezin komt waar beide ouders overleven op aandacht was je op die leeftijd aan het "componeren". Na 3 minuut 40 begint ze te letterlijk hinniken en ben ik er eigenlijk alweer klaar mee. Ik trek dit heel slecht. Fiona is mijn Joni Mitchell. Ik denk dat ik de muziek zelf voor 85% nog wel trek, maar het is dat gebrabbel en het kattengejank waar ik vrij snel al enorm boos van word. Dat iets kut klinkt maakt niet dat het kunstzinnig is. Dit is muziek voor vrouwen die naar een retraite gaan en dan in groepsverband aan van die vaginale stoombaden doen.
This might be the most loathsome album I've ever listen to. Not because of Fiona Apple. Yes, she's a bombastic weirdo who thinks vocals should be depressing & devoid of melody. And yes, she thinks an offbeat bass drum & randomly smacking a snare drum with a brush stick makes highbrow music. Who cares? Whatever floats her boat. I loathe anybody who *pretends* that this bollocks is somehow profound songwriting. Fuck. Right. Off. It seems that critics love this album, which isn't surprising. Personally, I don't feel critics gravitate to art with universal appeal or familiar brilliance; they seek art that allows them to flex their critical prowess. Art that allows them to utilise their catalogue of empty platitudes; to introduce their unquantifiable measures of greatness; to flout their superior intellect, making us common dullards gasp at their scholarly perspectives. Blowhard cunts. Non-critic "fans" of this shit probably enjoy open mic poetry readings. They probably wear turtlenecks and fucking berets. They're probably freshman arts students who will wax lyrical that Abstract Expressionism has some deep meaning, rather than it being any old shit slapped on a canvas. Insufferable turds. Listen to the long, boring way that Fiona Apple sings "Yoooooouuuuuu" in "I Want You to Love Me" and tell me it doesn't give you a greater appreciation for singers who can creatively hold a note. Listen to the final 20 seconds of this same song and tell me producing that fucking noise & recording it for others to hear is somehow commendable. Listen to the track "Relay" and tell me it isn't the most annoying racket you've ever dumped inside your earholes. Listen to the lyrics in "Heavy Balloon" and tell me there's a hidden message in this ridiculous word salad. Garbage. This album was released during the COVID pandemic, while most of the world was in lockdown. My guess is that many self-aggrandizing arseholes clung to "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" because it served their narcissistic needs. It's the kind of obscure, dreary album that generates groupthink amongst their cliques. The perfect album for a critical circle jerk. I bet those who praises this album also exclude any tracks on it from their Spotify playlists. And I don't blame them. "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" is a tedious slog. 👎👎
Don’t like this
I don't like Fiona Anna. Maybe her face reminds me too much of a friend I don't like either. So I was certainly biased. Nevertheless, I tried to listen to the album. I think the first track was not too bad. After the chanting in an unpleasant voice got on my nerves more and more in the second track, I only gave the other tracks a quick listen. There was nothing more that I liked.
furchtbar
Newspaper was very cringey - not enjoyable listening for me. Also “I Want You To Love Me”. And…. the whole album. Nevermind. It’s the whole album. Some songs were actually fine. But I still wouldn’t put them on over much else. That being said, I don’t regret listening to the album, because now I know that I shouldn’t ever listen to Fiona Apple again, and can happily judge others for doing so.
Weird. But it’s unique. Not my type of music. Lyrical and poetic for artsy women in NY.
I hate this.
Just no...i don't know what I just listens to but ist wasn't good
the most overhyped and overrated record of the decade in the history of the universe
Shit pile of an album
This was just unpleasant noise.
This is fucking shit. Cut away 80% of the content and you'll have a solid 2/5 EP because there are some ideas that work.
Not for me. Her first two albums, however, very much are.
I've never listened to Fiona Apple before and after listening to this album I don't think I'll be listening to her again.
0/5 my co-workers told me to put in headphones
The dogs randomly barking in the background were arguably the best part.
Not great album
Ew
she's shit isn't she. i think she's a safe bet to put on my list for potential wrong uns.
Also not as good as Blue. RIP Chris Bart-Williams
Awful stuff. Clearly I’m not enlightened enough to appreciate musical experimentation
I'd give this a 0 if I could
1/5 Best: Ladies Worst: On I Go
Not a fan
I knew I was in for quirky when I saw the album cover, and I was not wrong. Fun to hear something contemporary, but I personally think there are loads of new albums that are better than this by miles. It gets plus points for trying to do something different - so tired of hearing rock at this point. Unfortunately it doesn't do anything for me at all, which is unfortunate because I WANT to enjoy it. I think I can single out 1 or 2 tracks that I could give a chance again, but other than that it's an album that I'll definitely remember, but not return to.
So excited to give this album a one. People think this is creative because they made indie girl music with beats, and had their dogs bark in the background. This album is coffee shop background noise. No thanks!
Not a big fan of this. But the lyrics are kind of interesting to listen to.
Wow so creative!
I like Fiona Apple but not a fan of this album
Smettila di fare versi te ne prego. Da strano poi diventa irrilevante, pff
nooooope
Sorry, my first 1 rating. Too experimental for me.
Not too sure why people love Fiona Apple so much. I listened to this album when it came out because people were so excited about it and did not care for it. I listened to again because of this list and do not find it enjoyable again. The experimental drums was a miss. The singing wasn’t great sounding. All in all I did not enjoy it. 2.5/10
nothing really clicked on it for me
Did not enjoy.
Didn't work for me.
This sucked ass. Never would've thought I would've heard Yoko Ono levels of shrieking on a track but here we are. Also barely any singing, just spoken word. This album is the personification of the weird horse girl everyone had in school. 3/10.
Don’t get it
Im sorry but it’s boring
Song #1 ending, WTF?? Song #2 - Shameika doesn't know shit Song #4 where she's saying, I won't shut up. Please reconsider. Heard the name as was curious. A few songs in and I was no longer curious or interested. Pass for me. 1 because it was music
I DO NOT LIKE IT. I'm sorry but it's definitivno NOT for me. I really tried, but it was really heard to tolerate, like really really bad...
Not my kind of music
nada de especial, muito experimental
Oh no. This is like listening to a Yoko Ono album. Terrible lyrics, maddening transitions, painful vocal noise. Sounds like near the rock bottom drug spiral album or maybe like the midlife crisis album. Or maybe this was an album intended to stick it to a bad contract with a record label. If I could sum it up with one word: alarming.
Talking music is not for me. Sorry
COVID-19 pandemic just hyped this album. 1/5 for me.
Don't fetch them.
I couldn’t listen to more than a couple of tracks. Fiona Apple has a great voice but the constant singing out of tune really grated on me. Definitely not going on my favourites list!
Didn’t hurt my ears but I can’t say I enjoyed it so only 1*
Never really gave her a chance... now I did
Ikke for meg