The Tori Amos thread

[Mikkamakka]

i honestly cant stress enough how fucking awesome these records are. i havent been this impressed with an artist/band since i got into Guns N' Roses!!

I LOVE TORI!!!!!

Same here! Tori and the classic GN'R are my all time favourites!

Check out The Beekeeper next, you'll like that, too!?

i've actually been avoiding that for now, i heard Tori fell into boring "adult contemporary" pop music and became? "safe" in her recent records due to the fact she settled down and had a kid etc.. dont know how true that is i'll check it out eventually i guess....

The album has 16 or 18 tracks, I don't remember. Like 4 of these is safe pop music. The rest is magic. She's more laid down in lyrics, but it doesn't mean that the songs are meaningless - they are just not as 'Torish' as the old ones. The music is pretty good, though. But if you want to hear 'mad Tori', go buy the first two albums, Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink, those have pretty strong lyrics. 

[GnFnR87]

i honestly cant stress enough how fucking awesome these records are. i havent been this impressed with an artist/band since i got into Guns N' Roses!!

I LOVE TORI!!!!!

Same here! Tori and the classic GN'R are my all time favourites!

Check out The Beekeeper next, you'll like that, too!?

i've actually been avoiding that for now, i heard Tori fell into boring "adult contemporary" pop music and became? "safe" in her recent records due to the fact she settled down and had a kid etc.. dont know how true that is i'll check it out eventually i guess....

The album has 16 or 18 tracks, I don't remember. Like 4 of these is safe pop music. The rest is magic. She's more laid down in lyrics, but it doesn't mean that the songs are meaningless - they are just not as 'Torish' as the old ones. The music is pretty good, though. But if you want to hear 'mad Tori', go buy the first two albums, Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink, those have pretty strong lyrics.?

cool, i'll check the recent ones out soon. this new one looks cool, i'm really diggin' the cover



i saw a better quality version and in her right hand she is holding the bible and the other hand has "shame" written on it. that is also blood coming down her left leg.

also heres an awesome live performance of "iieee"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEk6d13zyUs

this woman gets nasty on the piano!!!

[GeraldFord]

I think Under the Pink is her best album, and I don't think she will ever be able to make a better album. That CD is just magic, one of my favorites.

[GnFnR87]

i have have had 1,000 Oceans on repeat all day. its so fucking beautiful.

[GnFnR87]

Finally got Little Earthquakes, i'm really impressed. its great, especially for a debut album.

[GnFnR87]

me again, the new album will be a CD/DVD combo, here's the tracklisting:

1 Yo George 01:27
2 Big Wheel 03:18
3 Bouncing off Clouds 04:08
4 Teenage Hustling 03:59
5 Digital Ghost 03:51
6 You Can Bring Your Dog 04:03
7 Mr. Bad Man 03:19
8 Fat Slut 00:40
9 Girl Disappearing 04:00
10 Secret Spell 04:03
11 Devils and Gods 00:52
12 Body and Soul 03:56
13 Father's Son 04:00
14 Programmable Soda 01:25
15 Code Red 05:26
16 Roosterspur Bridge 04:00
17 Beauty of Speed 04:08
18 Almost Rosey 05:22
19 Velvet Revolution 01:19
20 Dark Side of the Sun 04:18

The following will be on the DVD

21 Posse Bonus Album 01:50
22 Smokey Joe Album 04:16
23 Dragon 05:05

[GnFnR87]

me yet again.....

[edited]

Bouncing off Clouds is possibly the second single. i love it!!!

[Skeba]

She _is_ coming to Finland!!! Provinssirock here I come.. VR's also gonna be there! As is Patti Smith!

[GnFnR87]

Tori Amos Forms Anti-Bush Posse By Mutating Into Greek Goddesses
 
'As a woman, I needed to stand up,' singer/songwriter says.

by Chris Harris

For the better part of her 20-year career, piano-bench-straddling singer/songwriter Tori Amos has touched upon a wide range of loaded subjects ? including sexuality, patriarchy and personal tragedy ? over the course of her eight studio LPs. The redhead has also strongly criticized organized religion, specifically Christianity, through her impassioned lyrics. Now, she is setting her cerebral crosshairs on the realm of politics.

Of course, when it comes to taking a stand against the state of international affairs, it seems like there's no time like the present, with artists like Bj?rk, Nine Inch Nails and Muse ? to name just a few ? baring their fangs. Thanks to a certain someone ? cough ... President George W. Bush ... cough ? Amos couldn't help herself to do the same.

"Frankly, as a woman, and as a woman who wrote 'Silent All These Years' [a song about rape that appeared on 1992's Little Earthquakes], I needed to stand up," Amos explained. "It seemed to me that, sometimes, the material wanted to be overtly political. Sometimes the material wanted to be cheeky and seductive. Sometimes it wanted to be heartbreaking and deal with the inner world of women.

"The way to really combat the right wing is to not be subservient to them on any level, particularly when it comes to ideology," she continued. "Therefore, you better offer up another ideology that can combat theirs, and as a preacher's daughter, I understand their ideology inside and out. Frankly, they've all hijacked Jesus and his message. I'm sorry, but 'Love thy neighbor as yourself' is nowhere to be found, especially in our current regime, who, in the name of God, is sending our young men and women to die over there [in the Middle East]."

Amos' American Doll Posse is due May 1 and leads off with "Yo George." In the track, Amos wonders, "Where have we gone wrong, America?" and asks, "Is this just the madness of King George?" She then blasts the president's job performance, singing ever so gently, "You have the whole nation on all fours." The record-closing anti-war anthem "Dark Side of the Sun" asks, "How many young men have to lay down their life and their love of their woman for some sick promise of a heaven?"

"If for one minute the generation who is about old enough and eligible to vote thinks this is about one person, then we're all very foolish," Amos said. "We need to wake up and realize that just because we think we're in a democracy, there is a little bit of a seduction there. They're not overtly burning books and they're not doing this and that, but they're doing exactly what they want to do, and we're distracted. It's funny ? they're not burning books, they're just throwing more information at us, and drowning us in it. You have to be able to think for yourself and not get manipulated."

But in order to make her political statement, Amos called on "Isabel," one of the four archetypes she developed for the disc. Each of these archetypes symbolizes a particular side of her musical personality, and each is based on one of the female constituents of the Greek pantheon. Isabel, Amos explained, is a photographer and a reflection of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. Clyde, who was inspired by Persephone, the goddess of the underworld, embodies the singer's emotional and idealistic side. There's also Pip, the confrontational "warrior woman" based on Athena, and Santa, the sensual side of the artist, who was inspired by Aphrodite.

"Maybe they've been gestating inside of me for many years now, and it's taken till I got to a certain place in order to be able to mine them and excavate them from the recesses of my unconscious," Amos said of her multiple personas. "I don't know the why of it, but I do know that usually, I make records that have one single thread and a theme coming from one narrative. [On] most of the records, there's usually a center focus. But this was not that, and therefore, because there were so many varied styles coming in, I brought the band in early, knowing that we had to develop them from the ground up, and that some of these songs were much more guitar-biased than they were singer/songwriter-biased. I guess it was the producer in me that had to say, 'OK, the singer/songwriter's going to have to take a back seat some of the time here,' and I was really fine with that. After so many records, it's good to change it up."

When Amos heads out on the road in support of American Doll Posse, she said she'll step aside and let "all of these women" ? each of whom has a specific look and fashion sense ? take the stage. "So, the shows will start with one of the four women that isn't Tori, and then Tori will take the stage about a third into the concert," she explained.

More than anything, though, Amos said American Doll Posse is a psychological exploration.

"It's not just, 'I'm going to wake up and play dress-up today,' " she said. "I think it's fair to say that all women are a different percentage of these archetypes, and each culture has different versions of these if you're a rich culture. And if you were around before the monotheistic authority, [when] God came and then suppressed the power of the mother gods, these women at one time were powerful and autonomous and part of the pantheon as well as the male gods. Now, of course, there's just one guy, and the women are subservient to him. I find this incredibly myopic. We have access to this rich culture as women, and we need to open ourselves up."


This report is provided by MTV News

this sounds awesome. i cant wait. i'll try to catch her on the US tour.

[SLCPUNK]

Met her in Tampa years ago, she was very gracious and cool.

[GnFnR87]

Met her in Tampa years ago, she was very gracious and cool.

you...........met her??[gasps] it is my dream to meet her. i love that woman. 

[GnFnR87]

supposedly the whole album leaked.

here is the music video to Big Wheel

http://music.yahoo.com/musicvideos/lists/new.asp

or here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsoMMerOdM0

[GnFnR87]

the entire album is streaming on her myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/toriamos

[GeraldFord]

I'll be picking this up today and give a brief review.

[GnFnR87]

what i heard on her myspace sounds promising, i'll probably buy it this saturday when i come home from college. I'll probably try to catch her when she tours the states too. [drools]

[Hammy]

Never listened to anything by her until 2 weeks ago.

Was channel hopping and saw the end of a program where she performed 2 songs from her new album, really liked it so i picked up the album yesterday, so far so good, the short track "Programmable Soda" is probably my favourite at the moment...

Any album recommendations for a new fan to pick up?

[Mikkamakka]

Never listened to anything by her until 2 weeks ago.

Was channel hopping and saw the end of a program where she performed 2 songs from her new album, really liked it so i picked up the album yesterday, so far so good, the short track "Programmable Soda" is probably my favourite at the moment...

Any album recommendations for a new fan to pick up?

From The Choirgirl hotel is her best work so far. Dark, deep with a lot of effort by her band, and some loops and other electronica. That should be your next Tori purchase 

[GeraldFord]

Her best album is Under the Pink, IMHO.

I just listened to American Doll Pose and I love it. It really exceeded my expectations, as I didn't care for The Beekeeper at all. Love the new one, her best work since the mid-90s. Very rock flavored, but with a lot of beautiful piano orchestration as well. Great CD, pick it up.

[GnFnR87]

 i think From The Choirgirl Hotel is her best. That record made me a die-hard Tori fan. But Little Earthquakes is probably my second favorite. They both are fine starters but i'd probably reccomend From The Choirgirl Hotel.

i never could get into Under The Pink although there are some good tracks on there, especially "Past The Mission" with no other than the prince of darkness himself, Mr. Michael Trent Reznor on backing vocals.

people tend to forget about To Venus And Back which i liked alot too, "1,000 Oceans" is just gorgeous.

can't wait to pick up this new one.

[Mikkamakka]

people tend to forget about To Venus And Back which i liked alot too, "1,000 Oceans" is just gorgeous.

Yeah, that's a cool and trippy album. Could have been longer though. Tori should have put the studio version of Sugar, Cooling and Purple People on it, which were previously unreleased, but got place on the live disc of Venus. With those 3 songs added, Venus would be amazing.