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May 3, 2024 · Explore this curated list of the best Fiona Apple songs of all time, including Criminal, On The Bound, and more - ranked by fans.
- “Not About Love” (2003 version) For fans of Apple and Jon Brion, the anticipation over the singer’s long-delayed third album Extraordinary Machine was very high by 2005.
- “Fetch The Bolt Cutters” From Paul McCartney’s beloved sheepdog Martha to Bradley Nowell’s dalmatian to Freddie Mercury’s felines, musicians’ pets sometimes acquire a fanbase of their own.
- “Criminal” When “Criminal” was released as a single in September 1997, its drum-heavy, steady groove fit perfectly in an era dominated by such beat-driven acts as Portishead, Tricky and Bjork.
- “Hot Knife” Apple’s pedigree as a jazz singer is quite omnipresent in varying degrees across all of her work. But on The Idler Wheel’s “Hot Knife,” she goes full Ella.
- “Fast as You Can”
- “I Know”
- “Get Gone”
- “Criminal”
- “Anything We Want”
- “Not About Love”
- “Get Him Back”
- “Werewolf”
- “Every Single Night”
- “Paper Bag”
It’s maybe the quintessential Fiona Apple lyric: “Oh darling, it’s so sweet you think you know how crazy I am.” By the time the skittering “Fast As You Can” hit the streets in 1999, Apple’s identity as a pop eccentric had already been fashioned. There was the MTV speech; her relationship with magician David Blaine; and the cancellation of the final...
Gosh, this one is just a bummer. “So be it, I’m your crowbar — if that’s what I am so far,” Apple sings, “until you get out of this mess.” “I Know” closes out When The Pawn …on a devastating note, a song about being the third wheel and hoping against hope that things will work out. Apple’s delivery is heartbreaking, and the song’s direct denouement...
Apple is a gutsy singer, often willing to push her voice to the point of distortion. On “Get Gone,” she shouts the chorus like she’s trying to project a swarm of angry bees from her mouth. “Nothing to figure out, I gotta get him out, it’s time the truth came out that he don’t give a shit about me!” In a career full of caustic, cathartic break-up an...
It’s difficult to view “Criminal” in a vacuum, because it’s so tied to that damn video, so tied to its omnipresence, so tied to the era in which it was recorded. Haters gonna hate, but take away all the bullshit and you’re left with a pretty great song — the smoky piano, the strings that pop in and out, and the weighty guilt that comes with using s...
The years have been kind to Apple’s voice. It’s always been deep and mature, but early in her career she had a tendency toward forced sultriness. Age has turned it into a more naturally handsome, cragged instrument, with nooks and crannies that she fills with wounded confidence — a trick that’s especially effective on “Anything We Want.” Coming aft...
What makes us say terrible, almost comically mean things to our loved ones? “‘What is this posture I have to stare at?’ That’s what he said when I was sitting up straight!” Apple complains in “Not About Love,” a song about the brutal war of words that can erupt in relationships gone bad. In a song filled with killer lines, Apple drops one of her be...
Pure unadulterated violence, this one — just listen to the way Apple slams into her piano on the four beat. The song’s title is a massive understatement — what she’s talking about here is pure annihilation. “Wait till I get him back / he won’t have a back to scratch / yeah, keep turning that chin / and you will see my face as I figure how to kill w...
“Nothing wrong when a song ends in the minor key.” Sixty-plus years of rock and roll songs about broken hearts and nobody thought of that line until just last year? Man. “Werewolf” is the sparsest and loveliest moment on The Idler Wheel, and one of the most compassionate and empathetic songs in her repertoire — yeah, you bit my head off like a shar...
Does any pop musician capture the clicks and hums of a restless mind better than Fiona Apple? “Every Single Night” is filled with vivid, disturbing imagery — of white-flame butterflies beating against the brain, ideas that “trickle down the spine” and swell into a blaze, and second skeletons forced beneath the skin. Apple spends most of the song si...
“Paper Bag” exists outside of time. If not for that wonderfully self-aware opening line (“I was starin’ at the sky / just looking for a star / to pray on, or wish on, or something like that”), you could almost picture Judy Garland or Doris Day singing it. But few could imbue a song with such subtle ache and longing — almost quiet hysteria — that Ap...
Listen to the Fiona Apple Essentials playlist on Apple Music. 18 Songs. Duration: 1 hour, 17 minutes.
Mar 18, 2020 · The 15 Best Fiona Apple Songs. Earlier this week, Fiona Apple let loose some much pined-for information regarding her eagerly awaited new album, via an extensive interview with The New...
A late-1990s overnight sensation, singer-songwriter and pianist Fiona Apple was cast as the antidote to packaged pop divettes like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.
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Apr 18, 2020 · One of Apple’s most sprightly songs is a poetic ode to rose-colored glasses, and their removal: “I thought it was a bird but it was just a paper bag.”
