Fiona Apple - Red, Red, Red (unreleased version) video free download


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Uploaded: 2008/11/27

This is the unreleased version of Fiona Apple's "Red Red Red" (produced by Jon Brion).

Lyrics:

I don't understand about complementary colors

And what they say

Side by side they both get bright

Together they both get gray

But he's been pretty much yellow

And I've been kind of blue

But all I can see is

Red, red, red, red, red now

What am I gonna do?

I don't understand about

Diamonds and why men buy them

What's so impressive about a diamond

Except the mining?

But it's dangerous work

Trying to get to you too

And I think if I didn't have to

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill myself doing it

Maybe I wouldn't think so much of you

I've been watching all the time

And I still can't find the track

But what I wanna know is it okay

Is it just fine

Or is it my fault

Is it my lack

I don't understand about

The weather outside

Or the harmony in a tune

Or why somebody lies

There's solace a bit for submitting

To the fitfully cryptically true

What's happened has happened

What's coming is already on its way

With a role for me to play

I don't understand

I'll never understand

But I'm trying to understand

There's nothing else I can do

Comments

9 years ago

sombersin

This version is so cool, the album version is a lot more somber but this one is so much more demented and abstract.

9 years ago

Frank Barros

incredible hard to believe, this extraordinary machine...so much extraordinary songs and melodies in just one album...amazing, that´s Fiona.

9 years ago

Kevin Patrick

" don't understand about diamonds .... and why men buy them ... whats so impressive about a diamond ... cept for the mining ... "

10 years ago

KendrixTermina

Aha. This kind of made me expect a huge difference when it first started, but the singing is pretty similar, allthough you almost can't hear her. I sort of see what they were trying to do with the dramatic strings, by themselves they're cool in a way, but in my personal opinion the music in the finished version fits th singing much better. This version tries to hard to turn a contemplative, jazzy song into a dark, dramatic one. 

10 years ago

Apple Cobain

Better than on the album :)

10 years ago

JaneStone

This one is waaay better.

10 years ago

Audacious Scoundrel

It is a half-truth about the album being re-done.When I worked with a rep during the time period, they said Fiona wanted to do a double album, and caused a negotiation of an extension. As to what the double album was about, it may have been wanting two producers, two sides to ideas, or simply more songs that were not finished and didn't "fit" the sound of the album.She later was interviewed saying she simply wanted to re-record the album with another producer (yet this is 95% of the time a response from a label, ask any band whom re-recorded a finished album).Fact remains, there is evidence she recorded the album, and re-recorded it with another producer. In the history of the music production business, it is USUALLY because the label has a problem with the original master. Likely, they didn't want to pay Jon Brion what he deserved, or credit him, or simply they wanted another individual under their own umbrella contract. Ultimately all studio time (money) is owed by the musician (fiona) back to the label, paid by touring and sales. If Fiona had made the album with a friend, on the cheap, the label would refuse it because of the cost they are required to pay out vs. their satisfaction of the product. She demanded too much, or took control of the project without seeing what the label wanted to accomplish, when it clashed, I am sure she made the necessary adjustments on her own accord, seeing that they are funding and supporting her.Just my two cents.

10 years ago

youfoolishmuggle

Fiona is an artist. She would know.

10 years ago

breacat

I liked the other version better. The instruments drown out Apple's voice too much and the other version sounds more haunting. I still include both as my favorites, but this one takes second.

10 years ago

Grithron2

I agree with most of you. This version of this song is incredible - whereas the released version is a bit "throwaway".

10 years ago

Angela Deaner

well, technically you're both somewhat right. It depends on whether you are talking about light or pigment. Additive vs subtractive color.

10 years ago

Andy Witmyer

eriramizi: "Black is the absence of color and white is the presence of all colors." Wrong. Black is the totality of all of colors and white, the absence thereof...

11 years ago

Laura Fiorelli

oh my god, this is creepy and badass as hell! so happy i found the unreleased tracks

11 years ago

Jonathon Atwood

"Complementary colors are defined to mix to grey, either additively or subtractively, and many color models place complements opposite each other in a color wheel."

11 years ago

Davide Garbero

Contro vococentrismo e chitarrocentrismo.

11 years ago

top20fanatico

Idk why when I think about this song,that one always remember me like a murder soundtrack o.O

11 years ago

Joe Zamora

The best thing about this version is the line "maybe I wouldn't glisten so much for you" as opposed to "maybe I wouldn't think so much of you" in the album version. Always disliked the change. :)

11 years ago

StarvingNovelist

This version is so much more of a soundscape of which her voice mingles as part of a greater make-up where as the released version lends itself much more to her vocals and the rest of the music emphasizes such vocals. I actually prefer the released version. It feels more frank; the sound is appropriated to the meaning.

12 years ago

babybluecebu

I like how everyone has different opinions but everyone is being civil to each other. It's because we're all Fiona fans lol

12 years ago

Dongly Trusis

absolutely the REAL - BETTER version

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