The Tori Amos Poll - Progressive Rock Music Forum

My vote goes to the album with the most 'rock' in it: American Doll Posse

Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love
(Introitus - The hand that feeds you)

Sean Trane wrote:

Like the majority, Little Earthquakes is my fave, probably because it's the first one I discovered.

Like Lensag says though.... I really have a difficult time listening to an entire more recent album of hers, because she is fairly one-dimensional in her songwriting techniques.....

I saw her Florida DVD last year and was struck at how her songs are way too similar to each other, and the succession of them actually bored me.... outside waiting for the odd track I was looking forward to (guess what most of them from her first two orthree albums)

Someone should send her some lessons on how to dress correctly, or buy her some good tastes, though.... she's probably the worst-dressed woman in showbizz.

i felt the same way.. it´s really hard nowadays for me to identify any of her latest albums songs and her singing seems to have lost some peculiarity (i don´t know if this is a word in english.....).

i think people love little eartquakes so much because it is very deep, intimate, honest, personal record. people can relate to the lyrics and the songs seem all so natural, they flow into each other..and of course the piano...

What i respect in Tori Amos (like few other artists) is that she writes all the songs and lyrics and plays the piano and she´s a really good stage performer..

"when routine bites hard and ambitions are low,
and resentment rides high but emotions won´t grow
And we´re changing our ways, taking different roads..
Then love, love will tear us apart again.."

Like the majority, Little Earthquakes is my fave, probably because it's the first one I discovered.

Like Lensag says though.... I really have a difficult time listening to an entire more recent album of hers, because she is fairly one-dimensional in her songwriting techniques.....

I saw her Florida DVD last year and was struck at how her songs are way too similar to each other, and the succession of them actually bored me.... outside waiting for the odd track I was looking forward to (guess what??? most of them from her first two or three albums)

Someone should send her some lessons on how to dress correctly, or buy her some good tastes, though.... she's probably the worst-dressed woman in showbizz.

Edited by Sean Trane - August 27 2010 at 05:20

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

many wonderful songs, perhaps too many albums .. fans should look into Forgotten Earthquakes: B Sides and Rarities http://www.last.fm/music/Tori+Amos/Forgotten+Earthquakes:+B-Sides+and+Rarities

I have Little Earthquakes in my collection and I have heard Under the Pink. Little Earthquakes is great (and, if I may say so, a good reason for Tori's inclusion in PA), but I was not charmed by its successor.

I've got a video version of Little Earthquakes, a videos compilation, and a Live in New York concert all on VHS. I copied them onto DVD. No telling what shape the tapes are in by now. They've been well taken care of but they are tapes and not all VHS tapes were made good quality.

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

Well, I've just about added in everything I have in my collection (that hasn't been added yet). All that's left is Tales Of A Librarian CD w/ DVD
and three VHS that are out of print.

Edited by Slartibartfast - August 26 2010 at 19:20

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

Finnforest wrote:

NOTE: This is NOT the place to debate Tori's inclusion at ProgArchives. If you wish to do that, open your own thread in the appropriate place. Thanks. Smile

I did that, but it was locked for reasons that remain somewhat murky to me.

I have them all, I like them all, and I don't think I can vote. LOL

I'm going the abby something album. It has Mary Jane. Tongue

Edited by Slartibartfast - August 26 2010 at 18:15

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

harmonium.ro wrote:

As I said yesterday, Stefro raised the bar quite high. Gotta do better than that Snowie Wink

I can't compete with that brilliant performance. LOL

Poll Question: Your favorite Tori moment?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Little Earthquakes	12	[31.58%]
Under the Pink	4	[10.53%]
Boys for Pele	4	[10.53%]
From the Choirgirl Hotel	7	[18.42%]
To Venus and Back	1	[2.63%]
Strange Little Girls	1	[2.63%]
Scarlet's Walk	2	[5.26%]
The Beekeeper	2	[5.26%]
American Doll Posse	3	[7.89%]
Abnormally Attracted to Sin	2	[5.26%]
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