Get Him Back

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"Get Him Back"
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Single by Fiona Apple
from the album Extraordinary Machine
ReleasedFebruary 6, 2006 (U.S.)
Recorded2004-2005; Phantom Studios, LA and Stanley Studios, Venice, CA
Length5:26
Label Epic
Songwriter(s) Fiona Apple
Producer(s) Mike Elizondo, Brian Kehew
Fiona Apple singles chronology
"Not About Love"
(2006)
"Get Him Back"
(2006)
"Every Single Night"
(2012)

"Get Him Back" is a song written by American singer Fiona Apple and produced by Mike Elizondo and Brian Kehew for her third album Extraordinary Machine (2005). It was released as a promotional CD single only to triple-A radio as the album's fourth single on February 6, 2006 (see 2006 in music). [1]

Contents

In 2003 Extraordinary Machine, which was originally produced by Jon Brion, was submitted to Sony Music executives, who were reportedly unenthusiastic about the finished product and shelved it. On February 26, 2005 radio DJ Andrew Harms at 107.7 The End in Seattle began playing previously unheard tracks from a bootleg copy of Extraordinary Machine, and before long, poor quality copies of "Not about Love", "Get Him Back" and "Used to Love Him" were circulating on the internet. [2] [3] Soon after, CD-quality versions of all the tracks were released through the BitTorrent website TorrentBox. An extensively reworked version of Extraordinary Machine, co-produced by Mike Elizondo and Brian Kehew, was released in October 2005.

The Chicago Tribune published a track-by-track comparison of the leaked and official versions of the album, and wrote of "Get Him Back": "Brion's drum fills are more pronounced and strings underscore the vocals, while the Roots' Ahmir Thompson gives the Elizondo-Kehew version a more linear groove." [4] Blender magazine ranked the official version of the song at number thirty-five on its list of "The 100 Greatest Songs of 2005". [5]

Formats & track listing

Acetate promo CD single:
1. Get Him Back (Radio Edit)
2. Get Him Back (Album Version)

Personnel

Notes

  1. "R&R Going for Adds: Triple-A" Archived 2011-07-15 at the Wayback Machine . Radio & Records . February 6, 2006. Retrieved June 1, 2006.
  2. Lane. "Seattle radio playing new Fiona tracks" Archived 2005-09-01 at the Wayback Machine . FionaApple.org. February 26, 2005. Retrieved September 4, 2005.
  3. Perez, Rodrigo. "Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Songs Leaked On The Radio". MTV News. March 1, 2005. Retrieved September 1, 2005.
  4. Kot, Greg. "Fiona Apple in stores finally". Chicago Tribune . October 9, 2005. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
  5. "The 100 Greatest Songs of 2005" Archived 2008-05-02 at the Wayback Machine . Blender . January/February 2006. Retrieved June 1, 2006.

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