
It was certified 3x platinum by the RIAA in December 1997. Tidal is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, released in the United States on July 23, 1996, by Work Records and Columbia Records (Sony Music). Judging from the songs that litter her debut, this 18-year-old singer-songwriter is at odds with every situation in which she finds herself. "Criminal" won the 1998 Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and was nominated for the 1998 Grammy for Best Rock Song. Fiona Apple was nominated for the 1998 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Recorded at Sony Music Studios, Ocean Way Recorders and 4th Street Recording, Los Angeles, California. Personnel: Fiona Apple (vocals, piano, Optigon) Jon Brion (guitar, harp, tack piano, Chamberlin, dulcitone, Optigon, vibraphone, marimba) Rob Laufer (guitar) Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar) Ralph Morrison, Claudia Parducci (violin) Evan Wilson (viola) Larry Corbett (cello) Patrick Warren (piano, Chamberlin) Dan Rothchild, Greg Richling, Sara Lee (bass) Matt Chamberlain, Danny Frankel (drums, percussion) George Black (drum programming) Amber Maggart (background vocals). TIDAL contains multimedia photos, lyrics, a biography and the "Shadowboxer" video, all of which are playable on a CD-ROM drive. The album is featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. A year later, Slant Magazine placed it at number 74. In 2010, Rolling Stone placed it among the greatest albums of the 1990s, at number 83. In 2008, Entertainment Weekly named Tidal the 20th Best Album of the last 25 years (1983-2008). The album was very well received upon release and continues to be highly regarded. The 2005 album I've Got My Own Hell to Raise by Bettye LaVette is titled after a lyric in "Sleep to Dream", and includes a cover of that song. The music video for "The First Taste" never aired in the U.S.

"Criminal", the album's most popular single, won a 1998 Grammy Award for "Best Female Rock Vocal Performance" and was named the single of 1997 in a poll of Rolling Stone readers. Tidal produced six singles: "Shadowboxer", "Slow Like Honey", "Sleep to Dream", "The First Taste", "Criminal" and "Never Is a Promise". The result is a more expansive, inclusive vision of pop, music that keeps rewriting its history with every beat.Tidal is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, released in the United States on July 23, 1996, by Work Records and Columbia Records (Sony Music).

More than half the songs here - 254 in all - weren’t present on the old list, including a third of the Top 100. Where the 2004 version of the list was dominated by early rock and soul, the new edition contains more hip-hop, modern country, indie rock, Latin pop, reggae, and R&B. They each sent in a ranked list of their top 50 songs, and we tabulated the results. Ward to Bill Ward - as well as figures from the music industry and leading critics and journalists. To create the new version of the RS 500 we convened a poll of more than 250 artists, musicians, and producers - from Angelique Kidjo to Zedd, Sam Smith to Megan Thee Stallion, M. So we’ve decided to give the list a total reboot. But a lot has changed since 2004 back then the iPod was relatively new, and Billie Eilish was three years old. It’s one of the most widely read stories in our history, viewed hundreds of millions of times on this site. In 2004, Rolling Stone published its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
