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Song of the Day #5,920: ‘Get Him Back’ – Fiona Apple

Continuing a countdown of my favorite albums of 2005…

#2 – Extraordinary Machine – Fiona Apple

Here’s an album that could have been on this list twice.

Fiona Apple’s long-awaited follow-up to 1999’s When the Pawn… was initially recorded with producer Jon Brion before being shelved (either by the record label, the artist herself, or some combination of the two, depending on which version of events you choose to believe).

That “bootleg” version was later leaked in full to rapturous reviews, causing fans to lobby for an official release that never happened.

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Song of the Day #5,639: ‘get him back!’ – Olivia Rodrigo

Pitchfork’s #5 song of the year is the third single from Olivia Rodrigo’s sophomore album Guts, the love-him-and-hate-him anthem ‘get him back!’

Rodrigo has such a knack for writing catchy hooks and tapping into Gen Z angst that she is well on her way to becoming the musical voice of her generation. Over just two albums, she has already amassed a laundry list of signature songs that sound simultaneously like they’ve been around forever and were written earlier today.

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