The Tori Amos Poll - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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

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.."

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)

octopus-4 wrote:

Where is the "none of the above" option? LOL

In the "go away to another thread" button in the high left...

Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.

Where is Y Kant Tori Read, her very first album, on which Vinnie Colaiuta is featured on drums. Very nice AOR CD, with one prog song on it.

"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)

Actually a really hard pick for me as I like nearly all the albums while none of them are something I often play from start to end. (I feel her material is often a bit uneven)

Went with From the Choirgirl Hotel as I think I like the atmosphere of that one the best. And it only has a couple of forgettable moments.

Scarlet's Walk and Boys for Pele would propably be the next two. The debut is good as well but I'm surprised it's overpowering the poll by that much atm.

I have Little earthquakes, Under the pink, Boys for Pele, From the choirgirl hotel, Scarlete's walk and Beekeeper. Voted for Boys for Pele which is a bit better than the others IMO. And no, it is not the first I've heared.

omri

I first saw Tori in 1998 (at one of the few gigs which wasn't bootlegged) then several more times in 2001.

My vote goes to Choirgirl, but Y Kant Tori Read should be in the poll too

rotten hound of the burnie crew

Choirgirl hotel Thumbs Up

She realy deserves to be here!

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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