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Wednesday 4 June 2014
Fiona Apple - Every Single Night
Amazing track from the 2012 album "The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do"
Please leave a reply if you know an even longer album title ;-)
How about Ms. Apple's 2nd album, released in 1999? Although commonly referred to simply as "When the Pawn...," the full album title is actually "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," She sure does like her ridiculously long titles, doesn't she? ;)
On long titles, my mind goes first to T-Rex's debut album (1968) 'My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows' :)
Aww, the track "Fast as you can" on "When the pawn" was my introduction to Fiona's music. I didn't realize the title was that long! I guess I couldn't file it in on my PC due the Windows maximum character limit.
Anyways, I googled for the top 10 longest album titles and found that "The idler wheel" nor "My people" are on that shortlist. Instead I found on no.1, the band Chumbawamba with an album title containing 158 words!! Hold on, here it is:
"The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether From Lack of Ideas or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won."
Never heard about this band, so listening to their Facebook song (Add me) on that album, learned me they will never run out of words ;-)
How about Ms. Apple's 2nd album, released in 1999? Although commonly referred to simply as "When the Pawn...," the full album title is actually "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," She sure does like her ridiculously long titles, doesn't she? ;)
ReplyDeleteMm love this song - thanks for posting, Gala <3
ReplyDeleteOn long titles, my mind goes first to T-Rex's debut album (1968) 'My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows' :)
Aww, the track "Fast as you can" on "When the pawn" was my introduction to Fiona's music.
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize the title was that long! I guess I couldn't file it in on my PC due the Windows maximum character limit.
Anyways, I googled for the top 10 longest album titles and found that "The idler wheel" nor "My people" are on that shortlist. Instead I found on no.1, the band Chumbawamba with an album title containing 158 words!! Hold on, here it is:
"The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether From Lack of Ideas or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won."
Never heard about this band, so listening to their Facebook song (Add me) on that album, learned me they will never run out of words ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2TuohSsw4k