Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Bill and Brian get to spend a nice lazy Sunday afternoon enjoying each other's company without a guest, chatting about Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine (2005, Epic). Brian talks about discovering Fiona's moody, electric pop sound as a disparate soundtrack to some sunny summer days. Bill notes how he first heard of this album due to the producer and label controversy surrounding its delayed release. Bill and Brian then discuss Jon Brion's original vision, the sound Mike Elizondo and Brian Kehew eventually brought to the final product, Questlove's funky drumming, seeing Fiona live on this tour, a surprising amount of lyrical analysis, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:06.0	2005's Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple.
0:35.8	Yeah. What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:39.8	We try to have the conversation around the how and the why.
0:41.1	We're fans of the music.
0:41.7	Oh, yeah.
0:45.3	And this will all culminate in a track-by-track review.
0:48.9	Ooh, you know I love me that track-by-track.
0:52.3	And Brian and I are doing this by ourselves this week. We don't have a guest joining us.
0:54.2	Yeah. Unfortunately, we had someone last week who had to reschedule, and we actually were supposed to have today off from recording, but thankfully, neither Brian or I actually planned anything for our day off.
1:09.3	Yeah, this was, this was, this, this, this, it's been a
1:12.7	busy week. Uh, and today was going to be kind of just a, a lay low sort of day. And if we sound
1:18.8	extra relaxed, it's actually because Brian and I are sitting in my living room on some very
1:24.6	comfortable furniture as opposed to the...
1:27.8	The metal folding chairs that we currently have in the quote, studio.
1:34.2	A.k.a. spare bedroom of my house.
1:36.8	Yeah, Bill's got the recliner here. I'm on the love seat, which is nice.
1:40.2	So we decided to talk about Fiona Apple, I think, because it's an artist that Brian and I are both pretty familiar with.
1:47.5	Yeah, and we saw her on the same tour for this record because, you know, we kind of have our short list of albums that the two of us could just do at any, you know, at any given time.
2:03.2	And Fiona Apple, it was like Fiona Apple, question mark, because all four of her albums are pretty consistently good, like, top to
2:10.5	bottom. And so maybe she's, it's a little bit of that curse of consistency kind of thing, like, well,
2:16.3	which one is great?
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