Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with FIONA APPLE!

This song sounds better with age and it sounded good when it came out. Know that that means? It's aged to Music Series perfection. It's time to lead things off this week. She wrote this one, 'Shadowboxer' and her fabulous album Tidal when she was 17. Fuck Johnny gently with a chainsaw. He had kabillions of great ideas swimming in his head at 17 and the best way he expressed them out was throwing past-their-prime vegetables at cars and legalized hockey violence.

Well played Fiona.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with FIONA APPLE!

Johnny would like to know whomever set this gal up with 88 keys so he can thank them. She was born to play and write awesome awesome songs like this. Johnny has no idea how the Britney's and Christina's of this world could look themselves in the mirror when at roughly the same time this 16 year old protege was recording intelligent, passionate, and prodigious hits, with wondrous lyrics as are on display here. Kicking off the music series tonight here is Fiona Apple with the smoky 'Shadowboxer'.