Song · Fiona Apple
“Get Him Back” by Fiona Apple
From the album Extraordinary Machine (2005)
“Get Him Back” by Fiona Apple appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2006 and 2018. It was first released in 2005 on the album Extraordinary Machine. Its best result is #69 on the Y100 Top 88.5 Songs of 2006. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #437 alternative song of 2006.
"Get Him Back" is a Fiona Apple song with a messy backstory. It belongs to Extraordinary Machine, her third album, which she first made with Jon Brion and which Sony executives reportedly shrugged at and shelved in 2003. In February 2005 Andrew Harms, a DJ on Seattle's 107.7 The End, started playing tracks off a bootleg; rough copies of "Get Him Back", "Not About Love" and "Used to Love Him" were soon all over the internet, and CD-quality versions of the whole album followed via TorrentBox.
The official album, reworked with Mike Elizondo producing and Brian Kehew co-producing, arrived in October 2005. The Chicago Tribune, setting the leak against the release, found showier drum fills and strings under the vocal in Brion's take, and a straighter groove from the Roots' Ahmir Thompson in the new one. Blender ranked the official version 35th among the 100 greatest songs of 2005.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 69 | Y100 Philadelphia, PA | Y100 Top 88.5 Songs of 2006 | 89 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 787 | WTMD | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 | 896 |
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