"Fast As You Can" by Fiona Apple

Strong Songs

Kirk Hamilton

Music Commentary, Music, Musicreviews

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Shaking and shifting with Fiona Apple's 1999 syncopated supersingle.

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0:00.0	A Chamberlain is an incredibly cool tape-based instrument from the 50s, named after its creator, Harry Chamberlain.
0:09.1	And I got to say, I appreciate any time an instrument is named after the person who created it.
0:13.9	It's a power move, but I respect it.
0:28.7	Welcome to Strong Songs, a podcast about music. I'm your host, Kirk Hamilton, and I'm so glad that you've joined me to talk about music played on a Chamberlain, music played on a Melatron, and sometimes
0:32.9	music played on a chamberlain that taped and recreated a melaton. Strong Songs is an independent listener-supported show.
0:40.3	I make the show exactly how I want to make it with no interference because my only
0:43.9	sponsors are you.
0:45.7	If you think this show is cool and you want to support it, go to patreon.com slash strong
0:50.2	songs to join up.
0:52.8	On this episode, a manic, metrically shifting tune that sometimes pauses for introspection,
0:59.1	written by one of my favorite living songwriters joined by a particularly supportive
1:02.9	producer.
1:04.0	It's unstoppable.
1:05.1	So, let's tune up the snare, wind up the chamberlain, and hit this thing.
1:09.0	Music wind up the Chamberlain and hit this thing. Some songs tell tales of love, some tales of loss. Some songs are a greeting, an enticement,
1:36.7	beckoning the listener to come closer to let the singer in. But some songs...
1:45.0	Some songs are none of those things. Some songs can only be described as a warning.
1:55.1	On this episode, we're going to climb inside one of the gruviest, most percussive warnings
2:00.6	ever delivered from one of the preuviest most percussive warnings ever delivered
2:01.7	from one of the preeminent warners in all of pop music.
2:06.7	The one and only Fiona Apple.
2:09.1	I let the beast in too soon.
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