These last few days I’ve been searching all over the Internet for some Fiona Apple bootlegs, but I almost failed. Fortunately, I won’t write here about those Fiona Apple bootleg recordings I’ve been able to find information about, because those are just a few tracks, although their history is pretty interesting.

Today, I will tell you about two full shows, recorded in 2005 and 2006. Even better, I will give you the download links to them! I only hope Sony won’t come to tell me what I do is wrong, because I think we’re only trading information like real fans should – I am not selling what I found, and I don’t charge anything for my research work.

Fiona Apple Live

Because when I first heard about bootlegs, I had no idea what is such a thing, let’s say, first of all, that a “bootleg recording,” usually referred to simply as “bootleg,” is a video or audio recording of a show not officially released by the artist, or under other legal authority. I don’t want to get deeper into the legal matters of the story – I only hope nobody will shoot me for providing download links to Fiona Apple bootlegs here…

Anyway, since this is more about information, let’s get started with what I managed to find out so far. You can consider this list below to be “work in progress,” and it would be great if you could help me make it the most accurate list of Fiona Apple bootleg recordings on the Web. OK, these being said, let’s start with…

2005. Extraordinary Machine (Bootleg release)

Track Listing

“Not About Love”
“Red, Red, Red”
“Get Him Back”
“Better Version of Me”
“Oh Well”
“Oh, Sailor”
“Used to Love Him”
“Window”
“Waltz”
“Extraordinary Machine”
“Please, Please, Please”

Personnel

Fiona Apple – vocals, piano
Jon Brion – producer
Tom Biller – engineer
Matt Chamberlain – percussion, drums
Jim Keltner – drums (track 5)
Eric Gorfain – violin (track 5)
Steven Rhodes – assistant

2005. Live in Los Angeles (unknown location, 26 November)

Track Listing

“Intro”
“Get Him Back”
“Better Version Of Me”
“Shadowboxer”
“To Your Love”
“I Know”
“Sleep To Dream”
“Limp”
“Paper Bag”
“Tymps”(The Sick In The Head Song)
“Oh, Well”
“On The Bound”
“Red, Red, Red”
“Not About Love”
“O’Sailor”
“Get Gone” & Band Intro
“Fast As You Can”
“Extraordinary Machine”
“Criminal”
“Parting Gift”

2006. Live in Paris (Folies Bergere, 10 April)

Track Listing

“Get Him Back”
“Better Version Of Me”
“Shadowboxer”
“To Your Love”
“I Know”
“Sleep To Dream”
“Limp”
“Paper Bag”
“Tymps”(The Sick In The Head Song)
“Oh, Well”
“On The Bound”
“Red, Red, Red”
“Not About Love”
“O’Sailor”
“Get Gone”
“Fast As You Can”
“Extraordinary Machine”
“Criminal”
“Parting Gift”

I have no idea about who recorded these last two bootlegs here, but sound quality is decent, as you’ll be able to figure out for yourselves once you download them. The Paris bootleg has 118 MB in size, and “Parting Gift” is missing from the archive(the only one I’ve been able to find was damaged), while the archive containing the LA concert has 134 MB, and that should be all for now.

Oh, I almost forgot about the password! This is the same for both archives – “We_Love_Fiona_Apple” – without the quotation marks, of course. To unpack the archives, you’ll need 7-Zip, the best free archiver money can’t get. That’s it folks, I’ll add new bootlegs as soon as I find them below this line, but for now, it’s “bye bye,” and nothing more!

15th of February – As I was hoping, I managed to find another Fiona Apple bootleg in the meantime. This time, we’re talking about an old one, recorded way back in January 2000. To be more accurate, I’m talking about a live set recorded at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York on the 7th of January, 2000. As expected, the songs are coming from her first two albums, “Tidal” and “When The Pawn.”

2000. Live at the Eastman (7 January)

Track Listing

“On The Bound”
“To Your Love”
“Criminal”
“Limp”
“Sullen Girl”
“Paper Bag”
“Get Gone”
“Love Ridden”
“Sleep To Dream”
“Carrion”
“The Way Things Are”
“I Know”
“A Mistake”
“Fast As You Can”
“Just One Of Those Things”

The password is the same as for the other two bootlegs, but this archive is a bit smaller, with a bit less than 68 MB in size. Just click here, and grab this new Fiona Apple bootleg I managed to retrieve. Oh, yeah, and maybe you’ll get back here from time to time… I’ll do my best to keep this page updated with useful information for true Fiona Apple fans!

22nd of February – Good news, people! Today, I just managed to grab Fiona’s “Fiona Has Wings” bootleg, including covers! Sound quality is very good, although we’re talking about 96kbps MP3 files, but before we get to the download part, here’s the track listing, especially since the files in the archive are not tagged, and they don’t have proper names, either…

1996/1997. Fiona Has Wings

Track Listing

“Never Is A Promise”
“Criminal” (Radio 99 X Studio Master)
“Sleep To Dream” (Atlanta)
“Slow Like Honey”
“The Child Is Gone”
“Sullen Girl”
“Pale September”
“Sleep To Dream” (”Morning Becomes Eclectic” Sessions)
“Never Is A Promise”
“Criminal” (Omega WHFS Sessions)
“Criminal” (Maryland Studios)
“The First Taste”

Password’s the same, but this time you only have to download 47 MB of data(click here). Even more, you can print the covers and burn these files to some Audio CD, and you’ll get a great present for any Fiona Apple fan you happen to know. That’s it for now, but I’ll do my best to keep’em coming!

12th of March – Another update, and this time a video bootleg! We’re talking about Spankin’ Live on MTV, but the truth is that I am a bit lost here. Some sources claim this is a 51 minute recording, while what I have is only 36 minutes long, without giving me the feeling something is missing…

1999. Spankin’ Live on MTV(Sony Studios NYC)

Track Listing

none, for now

Same password, two files to download and unpack(about 250 MB): part one and part two.

20th of June – Oh, my, I must say that I am really sorry about the delay, but at least I got my hands on some new Fiona Apple treasure, and now I’ll finally share it with you! The download has 43MB in size, and same password as the others that came before it. Enjoy!

2005. Extraordinary Machine(Leaked Version)

Extraordinary Machine Leaked Bootleg

Track Listing

“Not About Love”
“Red, Red, Red”
“Get Him Back”
“Better Version of Me” (rough mix)
“Oh Well”
“Oh, Sailor”
“Used to Love Him”
“Window”
“Waltz”
“Extraordinary Machine”
“Please, Please, Please”
“Better Version of Me” (alternate version)

That’s all, for now, but the fight for more Fiona Apple bootlegs is still far from over!

Damn, I wish I was a butterfly. Butterflies get so close to apple tree flowers, they make me jealous. Anyway, we’re not going to talk about apple fruits today, since I intentionally pushed aside Fiona Apple’s singles out of the article regarding her discography, and now the time has come to fill in another part. That’s because to some people looking to find that Fiona Apple discography, singles are also important, maybe to have a better picture of her as an artist, maybe simply to have all data nicely gathered.

Speaking for myself, well… I think most singles are released by artists who simply have 2-3 good tracks on an album, and a few fillers too many. I guess that’s why Fiona Apple hasn’t released a single for almost a decade now. Singles could be good to make you popular easier in the beginning, but not once you get serious -and she is, my friends, she really is serious!

Fiona Apple, Single(s)

OK, enough talk – let’s get to the point now – you’re looking for the Fiona Apple singles collection here, right? Unfortunately, I can’t sell any of them to you just yet, but let’s leave that aside for now. If you need my help, just ask it, and you’ll get it; these being said, here’s the collection of Fiona Apple singles:

1996 “Shadowboxer”
1997 “Sleep to Dream”
1997 “Criminal”
1998 “Never is a Promise”
1999 “Fast As You Can”

Out of that list, the first four are coming from her “Tidal” album, while the last one comes from “When The Pawn.” None of them was really a smashing hit, since the most notorious one – “Criminal” – only made it to the 4th position in the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks chart, and 10th in the U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40. Of course that this doesn’t mean anything. After all, there may be more people eating hamburgers than apples, but that doesn’t mean hamburgers are better…

In the last two days, I had a lot of things on my mind, and I also had to fight my flu all the time, but I couldn’t help falling in love with Fiona Apple’s “Criminal,” and there’s a serious reason for that. I will probably say it again in the future, but now it’s the first time that your AppleMadman here makes such a confession – I love songs and people that give me a wrong first impression, just to grow in time, with each new encounter, and that’s exactly what happens with Fiona Apple’s “Criminal…”

Fiona Apple, (sweet) Criminal

Since the best quality video I found on YouTube has embedding disabled, I will give you only the link here – Fiona Apple – Criminal video. Some claim this video is “soft porn,” but I wouldn’t ever go that far. After all, let’s see…

It all starts with a catchy bass line that you probably won’t notice at first audition. Soon, Fiona enters the scene, saying she’s been a “bad, bad girl,” but without any chances to impress me. I am sure her way of singing the intro, looking to be “just another voice” is a well chosen approach to getting deeper into the song, and regarding the video, well… it’s not something really straightforward, it’s not easy to digest, and it’s not cheap nudity for the sake of your average male audience. No, sir, this is not even close to that!

Hey, what am I doing here? I hate spoilers, so I’ll give you the lyrics below. You already have the link to the Fiona Apple – Criminal video above, and now you’ll have the Fiona Apple – Criminal lyrics you were probably looking for. That’s it, enjoy my favorite “Apple artist” once again!

I’ve been a bad, bad girl
I’ve been careless with a delicate man
And its a sad, sad world
When a girl will break a boy
Just because she can
Don’t you tell me to deny it
I’ve done wrong
And I want to suffer for my sins
I’ve come to you ’cause I need
Guidance to be true
And I just don’t know where I can begin

What I need is a good defense
‘Cause I’m feelin’ like a criminal
And I need to redeemed
To the one I’ve sinned against
Because he’s all I ever knew of love

Heaven help me for the way I am
Save me from these evil deeds
Before I get them done
I know tomorrow brings
The consequence at hand
But I keep livin’ this day
Like the next will never come

Oh, help me
But don’t tell me to deny it
I’ve got to cleanse myself of all these lies
‘Till I’m good enough for him
I got a lot to lose, and I’m bettin’ high
So I’m beggin’ you:
Before it ends, just tell me where to begin

What I need is a good defense
‘Cause I’m feelin’ like a criminal
And I need to redeemed
To the one I’ve sinned against
Because he’s all I ever knew of love

Let me know the way
Before there’s hell to pay
Give me room to lay the law and let me go
I’ve got to make a play
To make my lover stay
So what would an angel say?
The devil wants to know

What I need is a good defense
‘Cause I’m feelin’ like a criminal
And I need to redeemed
To the one I’ve sinned against
Because he’s all I ever knew of love

What I need is a good defense
‘Cause I’m feelin’ like a criminal
And I need to redeemed
To the one I’ve sinned against

Because he’s all I ever knew of love

Just for the record, your AppleMadman here usually enjoys music that would make your grandmother instantly have a heart attack, but there are some artists that even he simply can’t ignore, especially when they have a name that includes one of his obsessions, together with a notorious antivirus producer. Yes, I am talking about Fiona Apple, born Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart on September 13, 1977, and since for the AppleMadman, every artist’s story starts with his discography, let’s take a look at the Fiona Apple discography, shall we?

Fiona Apple, beautiful sadness

Obviously, we had to introduce ourselves to Fiona first of all, so here you have her – beautiful and sad, just as most of her songs, but let’s get to that Fiona Apple discography now, just as I promised!

Albums

Tidal – Released: July 23, 1996 (U.S.)
Chart positions: #15 U.S, #43 Australia, #21 France

When the Pawn – Released: November 9, 1999 (U.S.)
Chart positions: #13 U.S., #46 UK, #54 Australia, #32 France

Extraordinary Machine – Released: October 4, 2005 (U.S.)
Chart positions: #7 U.S, #53 Australia, #61 France

iTunes Originals – Fiona Apple – Released: February 14, 2006 (U.S.), December 17, 2007 (U.K.)

Other recordings

“Use Me” (Bill Withers) – Live version from Bad Girl, an Apple bootleg recorded at the Phoenix Concert Theater in Ontario (1997)
“Angel” (Jimi Hendrix) – live version from Bad Girl
“Sitting in Limbo” (Jimmy Cliff) – live version from Bad Girl
“Across the Universe” (Lennon/McCartney) – Soundtrack to the Motion Picture Pleasantville (1998, Sony), lead vocalist
“Please Send Me Someone to Love” (Percy Mayfield) – Soundtrack to the Motion Picture Pleasantville (1998, Sony), lead vocalist
“Bridge over Troubled Water” (Paul Simon) – duet with Johnny Cash from American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002)
“Father and Son” (Cat Stevens) – duet with Johnny Cash from Unearthed (2003)
“Frosty the Snowman” – from Christmas Calling (2003)
“I Want You” (Elvis Costello) – live version from VH1’s Live for Decades Rock Live!, released as an iTunes single (2006)
“Sally’s Song” (Catherine O’Hara) – from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Special Edition Soundtrack (2006)

This is it for now, my friends, but don’t you even dare to think that I’ll stop here! After all, there are a bunch of awesome Fiona Apple videos to check out, but I didn’t include them here, since we’ll take them one by one, in the future. Also, some may say that the discography of a certain artist includes the singles, but the AppleMadman thinks otherwise. While foreplay can be extremely pleasant, it’s nothing next to the real thing, and that’s exactly what a single is, next to an album.

OK, so we have to conclude here our first encounter with Fiona Apple and her discography, but since she’s the first “Apple artist” I can think of, we’ll get back to her as soon as possible.