Tori Amos

by **Vindrag** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:44 pm

I loved Carry from the first time I heard it, but it has been growing every since. Most of all, listening to it combined with the other tracks make it much more powerful, when you've really embraced the sound of the album and can relate to it.

I'm sure you would find many of the tracks on Night Of Hunters worth the listen.

by **Vindrag** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:46 pm

To be honest, funny that you mentioned Bells For her. I have been obsessed with some of the new album tracks recently, and there's one track called Star Whisperer which now always make me feel as if I was the same person that I were when first discovering Tori's music. It sounds like a combination of Bells For Her and Marianne. Then there's Your Ghost which is sort of a new Hey Jupiter to me.

Her best album since Boys For Pele. Yes! With time, I might even go as far as saying this is her best work yet.

by **jio** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:51 pm

I listen to "Star Whisperer" right now. It's good, can't say it's anywhere close to BFH but it's good (as is anything Tori is doing really)

by **Vindrag** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:54 pm

Listening to Job's Coffin now - can anyone help me explaining what it is with Night Of Hunters that brings me back to how her early albums sounded?

There is something.

Website · by **Cactuar** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:55 am

Vindrag wrote:Listening to Job's Coffin now - can anyone help me explaining what it is with Night Of Hunters that brings me back to how her early albums sounded?

There is something.

I think it's the arrangements and overall mood. She hasn't used real instruments so heavily since Pele. Also the piano is featured so heavily, like her early days.

Website · by **LonelyDreamer** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 1:20 pm

Vindrag is gonna love it!

Tori Amos - Running Up That Hill + God
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG7C08HZ_8o

by **joiPrince_JO** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 1:24 pm

KevinScream wrote:Vindrag is gonna love it!

Tori Amos - Running Up That Hill + God
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG7C08HZ_8o

Flawless. Just flawless.

by **Vindrag** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 5:06 pm

Yeah! I'm familiar with that version! :wink:

Love it!

I'm going to see Tori Amos live in Copenhagen on friday, if she asks, I'll try to get her to do this version!

by **Chun** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 12:47 am

This is my connection to Tori Amos. We both love Neil and the Sandman stories. Vindrag reminded me of this. I was a huge fan of the Sandman in the 90s.

by **mattsky** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:28 pm

Now I'm really into A Piano Collection and her b-sides but I still can't believe that I didn't like The Beekeeper. For a long time I simply didn't give it a chance but I'm so glad I eventually did. What are your favorite tracks on The Beekeeper or A Piano Collection? 8-)

by **taxi** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:18 pm

mattsky wrote:Now I'm really into A Piano Collection and her b-sides but I still can't believe that I didn't like The Beekeeper. For a long time I simply didn't give it a chance but I'm so glad I eventually did. What are your favorite tracks on The Beekeeper or A Piano Collection?

I dont have APC, but I'll list my favourites from The Beekeeper:

1. Toast
2. Sweet The Sting
3. Parasol
4. Sleeps With Butterfly

8-)

by **CrazyCrazy** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:15 am

Been watching interviews of her, love her talking voice! 8-)

by **Vindrag** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 5:37 pm

Night Of Hunters Survivor

Everybody participate!

crazycrazy - I also love listening to her interviews, it can be quite a challenge sometimes, and most often it's very interesting and in a sense educating

by **AndiIversen** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:10 pm

Gals and Guys, has this been posted? from UK's BPI:

TORI AMOS - FROM THE CHOIRGIRL HOTEL
Gold Certification (Album) 16 III 2012 WARNER MUSIC (ATLANTIC) Released 4 V 1998

yey!

by **Vindrag** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:00 am

Thanks for the info! And congrats to Tori!

by **Vindrag** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:43 am

Tori Amos - Angie (Crucify B-Side)

I didn't know she had recorded her own version of this wonderful track! It's so beautiful! Go Tori!

by **Vindrag** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 10:24 am

Tori on being compared to Kate Bush:

I think that the woman get compared a bit more than the men do [...] and I've said before and I really mean this. When you get a few woman out there singing it's like there's too many tits or something. They have to start comparing them all.

Kind of true!

Watch

by **CrazyCrazy** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:45 pm

Vindrag wrote:Tori on being compared to Kate Bush:

I think that the woman get compared a bit more than the men do [...] and I've said before and I really mean this. When you get a few woman out there singing it's like there's too many tits or something. They have to start comparing them all.
Kind of true!

Watch

I watched this the other day, it is true.

by **CrazyCrazy** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:47 pm

Listening to "The Power of Orange Knickers". Love her song titles! :lol:

by **Vindrag** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:35 pm

Putting The Damage On.... :cry:

by **Vindrag** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 8:01 pm

Cooling (Live from "Welcome To Sunny Floria" DVD)

Watch this! Please. Just lay back and listen. Watch her sing.

I've re-discovered this song and I become very fragile while listening to it now, it was such a long time ago. This used to be "that" song... killing time.

I remember being 15-18 years old. The wild emotions.

The best version, if anyone wants to purchase this, is the live version that's avaliable on disc 2 on To Venus And Back - that one used to be my companion. Studio version never sounded as good. And in that particular live version she'll share a little story as to why this amazing song never ended up on any of her albums!

"Faster than I"

by **Vindrag** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 6:31 am

Why not post this here as well?

I remember this time back in 2006 something when I forced the DJ to play me Raspberry Swirl sometime, and one night he did! The floor became rather empty, but I was there with two friends who I had introduced the song for and we went nuts. Psychotic dancing indeed - undoubtedly I embarassed myself - but I just wanted to dance to that track beneath all the lights, craving for more... "When all the boys can't be men"

Oh and... No! I just think it's wrong, so wrong to compare Tori Amos with either Melua (Zzz Zzz) or Norah Jones (Zzz) - she is so much more! Please, watch this and tell me what you think?

Celebrating your top 10 in the charts of pain

I've seen Tori live close to 10 times now, watching her stroke her piano bench, the way she communicates with the audience, how personal and intense she is, even during the ballads/slow tracks, the way she's experimenting with the different instruments. Nope.

The USA should be proud of having her!

Not to talk about i i i e e - this track was my addiction for more than over a year... the depression I went through..

"WHY CAN'T IT BE BEAUTIFUL?"

And then there's Hotel from the same album as these three above... First time I heard that in full, was while playing the album for the first time with my headphones on... I was dancing in the dark in my room,, and that track scared the shit out of me... Eventually I had to sit down in the corner until it ended in order to be brave enough to pass the wardrobes (where the killer could be hiding) or passing the bed (with evil little Chucky waiting under it to cut my legs with a knife)... so I stand up and I'm about to light up the room... but the track wasn't over

(This event has happened several times, another time with Kate Bush's "Hammer Horror")

Gosh. Sometimes I might forget how amazing From The Choirgirl Hotel actually is... but there are those 4 tracks towards the end except from Hotel which lower to overall score for me.

Double gosh! I'm gonna get late for school now!!! But sitting her remembering FTCH feels soo good.

Tori Amos have always encouraged me to feel free to interpret art and the world as it fits me best, to stand up for my beliefs and to feel brave enough to embrace my deepest thoughts/emotions - no matter how dark they might be. She's inspiring in her music but also in her interviews (although you never understand half of what she's talking about)... she is just this... crazy over-intellectual woman! And I love her so much!

by **Vindrag** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:32 pm

A rare track!

Carnival

I remember finding this about 3-4 years ago and listened to it on repeat the whole night, then I forgot about it, and haven't heard it again until now!

I love it! Very morbid and echoing. It has that "Purple People" feeling which is one of her best tracks!

by **Chun** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:51 am

She won the German "Grammy" for classic without frontiers this weekend! and right now she is on German Breakfast TV, rather long interview and performed Cloud on My Tongue. She was asked and then begged to tell her favourite song from her 20 yrs career but she said she can't because her songs are her children and all the other songs would be mad and never come back. :lol:

The moderators were so rude to her because they kept talking silly stuff when she already sat at the piano and wanted to start playing. And then the one had a cold (cleary, couldn't even speak properly) and still kissed her good-bye. How embarrassing.

Vindrag, I listened to your whole playlist. I really liked her newer more classical stuff since 2009 onward.

by **Vindrag** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:31 am

Thanks for the info Chun! I hope there will be a video soon! Night Of Hunters (2011) is one of her best albms!