Tidal (CD) ~ Fiona Apple (Artist) Cover Art

Tidal (CD)

By: Fiona Apple (Artist)

More About this Product
List Price: $8.99
Tower Price: $7.98
You Save: $1.01 (12%)
Add to BagAdd to Bag Click to go directly to the checkout.
This item qualifies for FREE Shop N' Save Shipping for orders over $25. Check individual shipping price. *Some Restrictions Apply.
Availability: In Stock
Share This:
Add To KaboodleAdd To Kaboodle  Submit To Digg!Submit To Digg!  Share On FacebookShare On Facebook  Add to FavoritesAdd to Favorites  TwitterTwitter 

Mesh Match For "Tidal" CD by Fiona Apple:

Related Definitive Album:
 [Extraordinary Machine (CD) ~ Fiona Apple (Artist) Cover Art ]
 [Extraordinary Machine (CD) ~ Fiona Apple (Artist) ]
 

Fiona Apple Artist Snapshot:

It may have been tempting to dismiss the 19-year-old Fiona Apple as flavor of the month when her 1996 debut record, TIDAL, earned raves from critics and scores of articles about her appeared in the press. But the outspoken Apple, heavily influenced by Billie Holiday and the poet Maya Angelou, was clearly more than a teen sensation. Provocative videos and constant MTV exposure shot her to almost instant notoriety, but it was Apple's wise-beyond-her-years music that made her a force to be reckoned with. After an epic, highly publicized struggle with her record company over creative issues, Apple's greatly anticipated third album, EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE, was released in 2005.

Product Description

Track Listing

Your browser doesn't seem to have Flash enabled.
In order to access the album preview center, please ensure that the Flash player is installed. You can download it here.

DISC 1 for Tidal (CD) Album By Fiona Apple (Artist)
1   Sleep To Dream
2   Sullen Girl
3   Shadowboxer
4   Criminal
5   Slow Like Honey
6   First Taste, The
7   Never Is A Promise
8   Child Is Gone, The
9   Pale September
10   Carrion
 

Run a Quick Search on "Tidal" by Fiona Apple to Browse Related Products:

Browse more products related to "Tidal"

Browse more products related to "Fiona Apple"

Review

Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.63) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."
Rolling Stone (12/25/97, p.155) - "...There is a mature heft in her voice...that theatrically elevates even Apple's most brazen fits of honesty....Apple has a precocious flair for tart minor-mode flourishes in her melodies..."
Q (12/96, p.121) - 4 (out of 5) - "...Reminiscent of Nina Simone or Judie Tzuke....languidly addictive, with some suitably atmospheric percussion and sonic weirdness from Jon Brion, who plays everything from the marimba and vibraphone to the chamberlain and tack piano..."
Village Voice (2/24/98) - Ranked #35 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.

Title Note

TIDAL contains multimedia photos, lyrics, a biography and the "Shadowboxer" video, all of which are playable on a CD-ROM drive.

Personnel: Fiona Apple (vocals, piano, Optigon); Jon Brion (guitar, harp, tack piano, Chamberlin, dulcitone, Optigon, vibraphone, marimba); Rob Laufer (guitar); Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar); Ralph Morrison, Claudia Parducci (violin); Evan Wilson (viola); Larry Corbett (cello); Patrick Warren (piano, Chamberlin); Dan Rothchild, Greg Richling, Sara Lee (bass); Matt Chamberlain, Danny Frankel (drums, percussion); George Black (drum programming); Amber Maggart (background vocals).

Recorded at Sony Music Studios, Ocean Way Recorders and 4th Street Recording, Los Angeles, California.

Fiona Apple was nominated for the 1998 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. "Criminal" won the 1998 Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and was nominated for the 1998 Grammy for Best Rock Song.

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Judging from the songs that litter her debut, this 18-year-old singer-songwriter is at odds with every situation in which she finds herself. While exotic beats and luscious pop textures decorate the space around her, Apple takes a defiant stance with everyone she addresses. In song after song, she looks for her "own hell to raise" or "to take flight"; or else she paints herself as a "Shadowboxer" or "Criminal." Over and over, Apple presents herself as a hard-to-please emotional invalid, a societal outcast for whom songwriting is the only release.

Apple masks this confessional writing with simple-but-arty, piano-based melodies that recall Tori Amos. There are also jazzy touches to much of the presentation, which hint she might be a Rickie Lee Jones for an alternative nation. At times, particularly on "Slow Like Honey," which combines her husky, up-close-and-quiet voice with Jon Brion's tasteful vibraphone, a surprisingly subtle, smoky atmosphere develops. But, as with the rest of Apple's presentations, it becomes a dark lounge filled with Alanis-like notions of sexual politics.

Customer Reviews for "Tidal (CD)" by Fiona Apple (Artist)

There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review!

Submit your Review

Explore More Great Tower Sales & Specials

Tower Records music Sales, Promotions & Special Features

Today's Most Popular Music Genres

Tower.com Music Boutique Stores

  • Greatest Hits Boutique
    Expand your musical horizons with our monthly selections for "Greatest Hits" and "Best Of" CD Collections.
  • Tower Records Vinyl Store
    Enjoy some of our favorite new pressings, indie rock releases, and milk crate essentials priced at up to 30% off so you can keep spinning right round (Like a record!)
  • The Beatles Collector's Boutique
    On 09-09-09, experience music history when the original studio albums by The Beatles are re-released, digitally remastered for the first time! Browse our favorite Beatles music, video and book titles!
  • Woodstock Anniversary Boutique
    Celebrating 40 years of Woodstock - Three days of music that changed the world forever!
  • The History Of Indie Rock Boutique
    Browse Our Album Art History of Indie Rock Influencers, from the 1960s to today!

Interact with Tower.com