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Tidal

Fiona AppleMP3 Music
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (336 customer reviews)

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  • Original Release Date: May 23, 1996
  • Format - Music: MP3
  • Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
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Fiona's vocals here are amazing, and the song has great lyrics. Busy Body  |  47 reviewers made a similar statement
She writtes great lyrics, she has a beautiful and strong voice and she plays piano very well! Patricia  |  48 reviewers made a similar statement
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful, poetic album July 5, 2001
Format:Audio CD
Tidal is a poweful, passionate, poetic piece of work, from a woman whose art, voice, and personality would seem to possess all of the aforementioned qualities as well.

From the first track, Sleep to Dream, Fiona grabs you with her strong vocals, both in their performance and their lyrics. Fiona effortlessly transitions from such passionately angry pieces as Sleep to Dream to quieter, piano-centered pieces like Sullen Girl, giving us, through voice and lyric, a musical journey through the range of emotions that make up the ebb-and-flow of a young woman's journey through romantic life (that ebb-and-flow being the inspiration of the album's name, Tidal.)

Other notable pieces are of course the quite famous Criminal, with its jazzy, self-impugning look at romantic sin; The First Taste, combining a dance beat with all of Fiona's subtle lyrical poeticism, and the perhaps underappreciated Never is a Promise, a breathtakingly beautiful, melancholy song about the limits to which one can communicate one's essence, even to those one most deeply cares about.

Fiona sings with a maturity, her lyrics reveal a depth, her music demonstrates a passion most would say was "beyond her years." To me, Fiona demonstrates clearly that popular music created by a young person (Fiona was only 18 when this was released), need not sound like the general conception of what popular music created by a young person sounds like (e.g.. the Pop Princess Cabal.) No, this is the beautiful work of a profoundly mature young artist, and it is one that you cannot afford to miss.

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29 of 32 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars "Tidal" wave January 30, 2005
Format:Audio CD
Fiona Apple has become one of those few singer-songwriters who is known for her talent, with only two albums to her name. Her debut "Tidal" is more uneven than her sophomore album, but Apple's rich voice and exquisite musicianship make up for the occasional lyrical stumbles.

"You say love is a hell you cannot bear/And I say gimme mine back and then go there for all I care," Apple sings in the first song, her alto suspended somewhere between a purr and a snarl. Backling her up is her own textured piano playing, backed by a heavy bass lick that pops up every few seconds like a tribal drum.

But unworthy lovers aren't the only topic that Apple tackles here. She also explores personal changes ("And I suddenly feel like a different person/From the roots of my soul come a gentle coercion"), hurting others in love, and "You'll say "don't fear your dreams"/It's easier than it seems."

Her songs are painfully deep in themselves, but it's all the more shocking and stunning when you realize that she was only eighteen when the album was released. Her music exudes the sorrow, anger and emotion of a woman twenty years older, mixed in with the ever-changing personality of a young girl. Music like this can't be calculated; it can only ever be real.

Her youth does show in songs like "Pale Summer," or certain awkward lines like "Oh, your love give me a heart contusion/Adagio breezes fill my skin with sudden red." It sounds a bit too overblown, in a high-school poetry way. But Apple has a rare way with simpler lines, giving them a verbal punch that a shadowboxer couldn't match. "I have never been so insulted in all my life/I could swallow the seas to wash down all this pride!" she snarls in the first song.

But honestly speaking, Apple could sing some really dreadful songs and they would still sound good -- her voice is another thing that was much older than she was, the sort of thing you'd expect to find in a thirtysomething torch singer. Her husky alto carries the songs with a rare intensity, backed with swelling strings and her delicate piano melodies.

There are a few lyrical stumbles in Fiona Apple's debut "Tidal," but it's still a pop masterpiece. Beautiful, intense, heartfelt and heartbreaking.
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Art July 5, 2000
By jman
Format:Audio CD
Fiona's voice is a distinct beauty. Her songwriting is beyond her years--powerful and honest.

I didn't like Fiona when I first heard her way back in '96 (seems like eons ago). I thought "shadowboxer" was boring. A year later I still didn't like her or her new song, "sleep to dream"--it was boring too. But I began to respect her, artistically. I knew she had talent and could sing and write very well (a combination lacking in today's music). By the end of 1997, I fell in love with her song, "sullen girl" and the rest of her album, through a friend's copy of "TIDAL".

Now "sleep to dream" is one of my favorite songs, and I also like "shadowboxer". "Sullen Girl" is a song anyone, male or female, could relate to in regards to the lyrics:'Days like this, I don't know what to do with myself . . .' Of course the song turns out to be about her rape. The rest of the album is flawless. Even the slower, less appealing tracks, "The Child is Gone", "Slow Like Honey" have a unique, beautiful sound. It's hard to pick a favorite track cuz there's so many good ones--"Never is a Promise" is a meditation on hopelessness and that familiar suicidal urge, "Criminal" is one of the best songs to hit the airwaves in years, and "The First Taste" is perfect.

Overall, this is an impressive debut. It's rare to find a young female artist who can sing AND write so well.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
1.0 out of 5 stars Only good for the singles
If you are just learning to sing and/or can appreciate a weak voice, then maybe won't offend; but I've only ever loved the first and the theme song, two singles which launched her... Read more
Published 7 days ago by Opah Jorge
5.0 out of 5 stars Fiona is the best!
Its hard to say which is my favorite, but I am going to say that this one is. This was my first Fiona Apple CD back in the day.... when I was like 13.... I am old now lol.... Read more
Published 11 days ago by Nichole D Dobbins
3.0 out of 5 stars wish i could put it on my ipod.
im not sure if im mistaken but is there no way to add the music purchased on amazon onto your ipod? I don't listen to music on my computer or phone much
Published 1 month ago by Andrea Arrieta
5.0 out of 5 stars Still awesome
I still can't believe she wrote this at age 19. It is powerful and awesome and better than all the current pop tarts on the radio right now combined. Read more
Published 1 month ago by TXShopperGirl
4.0 out of 5 stars Classic
This album is so 90s and I love it. I still know every word and it is classic Fiona. Worth it.
Published 2 months ago by Mallory
5.0 out of 5 stars Tidal
The quality of the music meets expectations of original disk. I recommend to any customer who appreciates sultry, melancholy music from pop jazz artist Fiona Apple. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Nora Gonyer
5.0 out of 5 stars fiona apple
Fiona Apple is one of the best female vocalists that i know. She has a beautiful voice and great lyrics that I know youll enjoy.
Published 3 months ago by david andrew deaton
5.0 out of 5 stars Still one of my go-to albums, after all these years...
I remember buying this when I was a teenager. Of course, I didn't understand the depth of her lyrics, but they have grown with me. Read more
Published 3 months ago by JoeMama
5.0 out of 5 stars Then and now.
one of my titles of all time.
Amazing how it brought me right back to that time in my life yet also resonates with me in the here and
now.
Published 3 months ago by Ms. KaLA
4.0 out of 5 stars Apple's best work.
There are only two albums by her I can stomach. The other one is "When The Pawn..." which is more upbeat. But this one is very calm sounding pretty much throughout. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Adrian Cooper
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