From: owner-apple-tree-digest@smoe.org (apple-tree-digest) To: apple-tree-digest@smoe.org Subject: apple-tree-digest V2 #34 Reply-To: apple-tree@smoe.org Sender: owner-apple-tree-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-apple-tree-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk apple-tree-digest Wednesday, November 10 1999 Volume 02 : Number 034 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fi on TRL, Chat, Leno [ChldisGone@aol.com] WHEN THE PAWN....!!! [Puzzled36@aol.com] Facing a Broken Mirror ["Robert A. Peate" ] yaaaaay fiona! ["Brooke Palmer" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 13:19:10 EST From: ChldisGone@aol.com Subject: Fi on TRL, Chat, Leno Happy Fiona day!! I hope you all have the chance to pick up the album! A couple of things I want to tell you about... PLEASE go to mtv.com and vote under "Other" for Fiona's "Fast As You Can" video! Let's celebrate the release of Fiona's CD by getting her on the countdown! Just go to the following URL and vote, and if you have a chance, please vote for the video at least ten times! It will help us get her there. Go here to vote: http://www.mtv.com/mtv/tubescan/trl99_new/pickaday.tin DON'T FORGET THE FOLLOWING: Tonight at 8:00 PM EST I am hosting a chat to celebrate the release of "When The Pawn Hits...", so please check out the site (there is a link on the main page under the usual three headlines) for more information on where to go to hang out with Fiona's loving fans. Fiona will be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno performing her single "Fast As You Can" tonight! Don't forget to catch it! lane* fly.to/kendall fionahaswings.com fionahaswings.com/shelby ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 16:08:50 EST From: Puzzled36@aol.com Subject: WHEN THE PAWN....!!! I just ran to the store after school to pick up When the Pawn.... and it is awesome! I love the album cover design idea with the red sheet over it! Fiona once again looks extremely beautiful in her pictures, especially the picture over the lyrics for "I Know" and the picture on the back cover of the liner notes. Everyone should definitely go out and buy it! Show Fiona our support! _nate!__ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 17:49:02 -0500 From: "Robert A. Peate" Subject: Facing a Broken Mirror dear apple addicts (or "fellow fruit-followers" :D ), i found this to be a very good article (along with that in this week's *newsweek*, but i like this one better), and i share it with you for the benefit of those who might not have seen it. your's, robert a. peate *TIME* THE ARTS/MUSIC NOVEMBER 8, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 19 SPECIAL ISSUE VISIONS 21 Facing a Broken Mirror From Fiona Apple, an album of fractured beauty BY CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY Like shards from a shattered mirror, Fiona Apple's new album, When the Pawn Hits... (Clean Slate/Epic), glitters with reflective surfaces and sharp edges. The singer-songwriter's debut album, Tidal (1996), was a work of ingenue ingenuity, delicately designed, bright with innocence, laden with the prospect of future accomplishment. This follow-up CD is a promise kept: the 22-year-old's new compositions, angry but articulate, veering between gentle balladry and art-pop, don't need the crutch of precociousness to establish their worth. These are songs that stand on their own. The full title of the album is a poem, written in frustration by Apple after seeing a story about herself in Spin magazine that she deemed unfair. The complete title: "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." It's not an epic poem, but it's an epic title; the CD's name has already drawn its share of critical barbs. "The title came from being made fun of," sighs Apple, "and then of course it becomes a thing I'm being made fun of for." In the songs on the album, Apple is far better at hitting her targets. When the Pawn Hits ... has been artfully produced by Jon Brion, who helps give the CD a carefully ornate sound that's intimate yet rich. Lyrically, Apple is full of fury: at her past, at her lovers, at herself. In To Your Love she sings, "It's hard enough even trying to be civil to myself." In Limp she mocks, "It won't be long till you'll be/ Lying limp in your own hands." She knows there are things about her that put people she loves at a distance. As she watches them recede, she is wistful, but triumphant too, because she has remained true to her nature. "Only kisses on the cheek from now on," she sings to a former lover in Love Ridden. "And in a little while, we'll only have to wave." There's a sadness at the core of this CD that trails every beat like a heart murmur. At age 12, Apple says, she was raped by a stranger. Images from that attack creep across her songs, shadows angling along a wall. In Fast As You Can, she sings, "I fight him always and still." In real life, Apple says, she's happily dating filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights). But on this CD, her heart is a chunk of meat in a fridge: unloved, unlovable, freezer-burned. Violated once, she says romance races "right through" her. So she writes songs that investigate the opposite of romance, and she does so with an almost arithmetic sorrow, as her past subtracts from the happiness of her present. Her chronic melancholy, however, does not overwhelm the rapture of her melodies. Her mirror is broken, but the reflection is still beautiful. COPYRIGHT © 1999 TIME INC. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 02:07:01 GMT From: "Brooke Palmer" Subject: yaaaaay fiona! This is exciting: I had the Record Exchange in my town hold me a copy and I went in to get it at about 2 this afternoon and the guy working said it's a good thing they held it for me because they had run out that morning and are sold out until they get another shipment tomorrow! I love it love it love it too. Very cool, she's such a bad ass. Brooke ;) our suffering is peeling off and revealing a brand new skin, a new power. love heals all wounds and not just time alone. -jeff buckley ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of apple-tree-digest V2 #34 *******************************