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refimprove|date=January 2011Infobox album| Name = When the Pawn...| Type = studio| Artist = Fiona Apple | Cover = Fiona apple when the pawn.jpg| Caption =| Released = November 9, 1999 ( United States|U.S. )| Recorded = Andora Studio; Chateau Brion Studio; Nrg; Ocean Way Studio; One On One South; Preasence Studio Westport; Woodwinds| Genre = Jazz fusion , Alternative rock|alternative | Length = 42:39| Label = Clean Slate / Epic Records|Epic | Producer = Jon Brion | Last album = Tidal (album)|Tidal (1996)| This album = When the Pawn... (1999)| Next album = Extraordinary Machine (2005)| Misc = Singles| Name = When the Pawn…| Type = album| Single 1 = Fast as You Can | Single 1 date = November 20, 1999| Single 2 = Limp| Single 2 date = 2000| Single 3 = Paper Bag| Single 3 date = 2000Album ratings|rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = Rating|4.5|5Allmusic|class=album|id=r443464/review|pure_url=yes Allmusic review|rev2 = Entertainment Weekly |rev2score = (A) http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,271594,00.html Entertainment Weekly review|rev3 = Los Angeles Times |rev3score = Rating|3.5|4 http://www.neverisapromise.com/reviews/LATimes1199.html Los Angeles Times review|rev4 = Pitchfork Media |rev4score = (8.0/10) http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/15003-when-the-pawn? artist_title=15003-when-the-pawn Pitchfork Media review|rev5 = PopMatters |rev5score = (8/10) http://www.metacritic.com/music/when-the-pawn/critic-reviews PopMatters review|rev6 = Q Magazine|Q |rev6score = Rating|4|5 http://www.metacritic.com/music/when-the-pawn/critic-reviews Q review|rev7 = Robert Christgau |rev7score = (A-) http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php? id=461& name=Fiona+Apple Robert Christgau review|rev8 = Rolling Stone |rev8score = Rating|3.5|5 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/when-the-pawn-hits-the-conflicts-he-thinks-like-a-king-19991125 Rolling Stone review|rev9 = Spin (magazine)|Spin |rev9score = (positive) http://www.neverisapromise.com/reviews/aSpin99.html Spin review|rev10 = Uncut (magazine)|Uncut |rev10score = Rating|5|5 http://www.neverisapromise.com/reviews/aUNCUT00.html Uncut review
'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'll Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You Know That You're Right ' is the second album by American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple , released by Epic Records in the United States on November 9, 1999. The full album title contains over 400 characters of text. In 2010, Spin (magazine)|Spin magazine named the album the 106th greatest of the last 25 years. http://www.spin.com/spin25/125-best-albums-past-25-years#page=2 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years | SPIN.com A year later, Slant Magazine named it the 79th best album of the 1990s. http://slantmagazine.com/music/feature/best-albums-of-the-90s/251/page_3
Background
The album came in special packaging that contained sheer red paper around the inserts. The title was written as a poem over Apple's face on the cover. The title is a poem Apple wrote after reading the readers' letters that appeared in Spin after an article had cast her in a negative light in an earlier issue. The full title reads:
''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, cause you'll know that you're right
The album's long title has become a source of trivia, and when it was released held the world record for longest album title (previously a record held by one of the volumes in The Best... Album in the World...Ever! . ( Rolling Stone magazine made fun of the title/poem, calling it, " When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Oh the Hell With It ".) However, in October 2007 Soulwax released their remix album Most of the Remixes , which has 100 characters more in its title. This was later surpassed in 2008 by the Chumbawamba album The Boy Bands Have Won|The Boy Bands Have Won... , with its full title containing 865 characters of text.
The first single, " Fast as You Can ", was fairly popular and received moderate radio and music video|video airplay. It reached the top 20 on the U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and became Apple's first top 40 hit on the UK Singles Chart . The follow-up singles, "Limp" and especially "Paper Bag", though it was nominated for a Grammy Award, were less successful. Apple's boyfriend at the time, filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson , directed videos for all three singles.
