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Feb. 19th, 2006 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aprilstarchildI forgot how much I liked Fiona Apple's first album, Tidal. Don't get me wrong, I love the other two as well. But taken as whole albums, I think I still prefer the first one.
Her singing is more skilled on the other two, especially Extraordinary Machine, the newest. But it's far more raw on this one. Hell, the whole album is. And given a choice between raw emotion, and a more refined sound, I'll take raw emotion any day. Hence how much I enjoy Janis Joplin, for instance. Or as I pointed out to people last night, I've heard the Natalie Merchant version of "Because the Night," and the Patti Smith version, and y'know what? I really really like the Patti Smith version better, even though Natalie Merchant is by far a "better" singer.
So, yeah; reading a long fanfiction and listening to Fiona Apple, and I'm the only person in the house currently, life is damn good.
EDIT: Advantage to my dad's super-nice headphones--I just noticed that one of the instruments in the song "Pale September," is a hammered dulcimer.
Pianos work like huge hammered dulcimers. Harpsichords actually pluck the strings--hence their name. But all the notes are the same volume, because of the way it plucked the strings. The piano was originally called the piano-forte, which is Italian for soft-loud. They were named such because how hard you hit the keys determined the volume of the note.
*curtsies* That was your useless knowledge for the day.
Her singing is more skilled on the other two, especially Extraordinary Machine, the newest. But it's far more raw on this one. Hell, the whole album is. And given a choice between raw emotion, and a more refined sound, I'll take raw emotion any day. Hence how much I enjoy Janis Joplin, for instance. Or as I pointed out to people last night, I've heard the Natalie Merchant version of "Because the Night," and the Patti Smith version, and y'know what? I really really like the Patti Smith version better, even though Natalie Merchant is by far a "better" singer.
So, yeah; reading a long fanfiction and listening to Fiona Apple, and I'm the only person in the house currently, life is damn good.
EDIT: Advantage to my dad's super-nice headphones--I just noticed that one of the instruments in the song "Pale September," is a hammered dulcimer.
Pianos work like huge hammered dulcimers. Harpsichords actually pluck the strings--hence their name. But all the notes are the same volume, because of the way it plucked the strings. The piano was originally called the piano-forte, which is Italian for soft-loud. They were named such because how hard you hit the keys determined the volume of the note.
*curtsies* That was your useless knowledge for the day.
