Tori Amos

By Tori Amos - from the album 'American Doll Posse' (2007)

By Tori Amos - from the album 'American Doll Posse' (2007)

We all need a little Springtime and a little Voodoo. This is a very solid, live version of the song from Fort Myers late last year. Blazingly spot-on bootleg altogether! =)

how about a little Tori love i'm gonna save em all in word ONE DAY YEAH RIGHT!

Because I can... Because I adore this cover and the story attached to it. ;-)

Tori Amos "Yo George"/"Big Wheel"

Starting with her first solo CD, Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos uses unorthodox arrangements that often focus on the piano with minimal accompaniment. In “Crucify,” the drum part is largely just kick drum and, in the chorus, a low tom that evokes a relentless hammering. In the verses of “Precious Things,” the underlying rhythmic element is not even percussion but what sounds like eighth-note bursts of breath, perhaps inspired by the opening line “so I ran faster.”
In those e... MORE

Tori uses highly personal and idiosyncratic language in her lyrics that makes the songs often difficult to decipher and open to multiple interpretations. We don't always know exactly what she's talking about, but her choice of words and imagery convey an underlying emotional state that we understand. The ambiguity of meaning helps keep the songs interesting and engaging.
A good example of the challenge of interpretation is "Caught A Lite Sneeze" from her third solo album, B... MORE

Lately i felt an inner need to listen to female voices..in all kinds of music..forgive me if i am not too much renovated..i suspect there must be a lot of young artists worthy to listen to..but i was looking for this special character, we all know, in some very well known women, like Billy, like Janis, like Amy, nowadays, like Kate Bush, like Cesaria Evora and like the one i wanted you to listen to..a very special edition of nirvana's smells like teen spirit..cheers..

Leonard Cohen destroys by being destroyed; Tori Amos mourns what he's lost, what you've lost, that things can be lost, and always will.

There's something about remorse and regret that demands a smoky bar, a husky voice, and a piano. Nobody does the piano bar regret blues quite like Tom Waits. so today, a trio of Toms. While Tori Amos doesn't fit the piano bar blues profile, she did one Waits cover on her Strange Little Girls lp in which, if you close your eyes, you just might see her in a different light. Well, things are pretty lousy for a calendar girl.The boys just dive right off the cars and splash ... MORE

I love George Porter's bass line on this.