2. Fiona Apple When The Pawn...
Oh, no. When The Pawn... isn't the album title. That's just the beginning. Allow me to detail American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple's 1999 album title in full. When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might so When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right The title is the entirety of a poem that Apple wrote while on tour. She wrote the poem after reading various negative letters about herself in an issue of Spin magazine. Despite the somewhat inaccessible title, the album has been repeatedly voted as one of the best albums of the 90s. When The Pawn was the longest album title of all time for quite some time. Until
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