Monday, April 25, 2011

Music Trivia: Which of these artists once released an album title that was over 400 characters long?

Musicians are known for their eccentricity, and very often, that eccentricity seeps into their music.  On less frequent occasions, the eccentricity manages to make it into other areas, such as album titles.  On one particularly wacky occasion, one particular artists decided to have their CD name be over 400 characters long.  This album was generally referred to as "When the pawn..." since the full title would have taken about ten minutes to recite!

Anyway, off of Pocket Trivia - Music Trivia: Which of these artists once released an album title that was over 400 characters long and commercially abbreviated as 'When The Pawn…'?  Was it Prince, Fiona Apple, Neil Young or Mariah Carey?

Seems like something wacky that Prince would do, right?  Well, it wasn't him.

The correct answer to this one is Fiona Apple.  The full album title is from a poem that Apple wrote:


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


For some time, the album title held the world record for longest album title (though it lost that in 2007).  Incidentally, the album was a critical and commercial success, reaching #13 on the Billboard Top 200.

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