What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library

Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine - 2005 - *



Third album. Probably my least favorite of the three. No telling how long it sat on the shelf, but 3 years in the making. Reached #7 on Billboard charts but did not sell as well as the first 2. Love the title track, but the rest, not so much.


Favorite Track - Extraordinary Machine

I certainly haven't been shopping for any new shoes
-And-
I certainly haven't been spreading myself around
I still only travel by foot and by foot, it's a slow climb,
But I'm good at being uncomfortable, so
I can't stop changing all the time

I notice that my opponent is always on the go
-And-
Won't go slow, so's not to focus, and I notice
He'll hitch a ride with any guide, as long as
They go fast from whence he came
- But he's no good at being uncomfortable, so
He can't stop staying exactly the same

If there was a better way to go then it would find me
I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

I seem to you to seek a new disaster every day
You deem me due to clean my view and be at peace and lay
I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way, and say,
I've been getting along for long before you came into the play

I am the baby of the family, it happens, so
- Everybody cares and wears the sheeps' clothes
While they chaperone
Curious, you looking down your nose at me, while you appease
- Courteous, to try and help - but let me set your
Mind at ease

(Chorus)

-Do I so worry you, you need to hurry to my side?
-It's very kind
But it's to no avail; I don't want the bail
I promise you, everything will be just fine

If there was a better way to go then it would find me
I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine


1) Extraordinary Machine - ***
YouTube - Extraordinary Machine
2) Get Him Back - **
YouTube - Fiona Apple- Get Him Back (Live)
3) O' Sailor - **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjrLwUg0eAk
4) Better Version of Me - *
YouTube - Fiona Apple- Better Version of Me
5) Tymps (The Sick In The Head Song) - *
YouTube - Fiona Apple- Tymps (The Sick in the Head Song)
6) Parting Gift - *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSedNthxokQ
7) Window - **
YouTube - Fiona Apple- Window
8) Oh Well - *
YouTube - Fiona Apple - Oh Well (unreleased version)
9) Please Please Please - *
YouTube - Fiona Apple- Please Please Please
10) Red Red Red - *
YouTube - Fiona Apple - Red, Red, Red (unreleased version)
11) Not About Love - *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krTE0AJkqj4
12) Waltz (Better Than Fine) - *
YouTube - Fiona Apple & Nickel Creek : Waltz (Better Than Fine)

3's - 1
2's - 4
1's - 7

Rating - 1.4


Please please please, just get him back because you know he's an extraordinary machine, but it's not about love and as I look out the window, I know his parting gift will be that he made a better version of me. O; sailor, remember when we did the waltz and you made the remark about my lips being so red red red, and all I could say was oh wellm as you led me into a verse of tymps.