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WaywardSon 
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Posted: October 08 2006 at 13:30 |
Anyone like her music?
I have only heard a few songs and was wondering where I should start?
She sounds quite a bit like Kate Bush in some parts.
I like the way she really seems to get into it!  She just sounds so uninhibited..
Here are 2 songs, for those who don´t know who she is..
Edited by WaywardSon - October 08 2006 at 13:32
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KoS
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Posted: October 08 2006 at 13:32 |
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She's great, awesome voice and nice piano playing.
I have about 3 of her CD's. Plus her version of Smells like Teen Spirit kicks
Nirvana's ass
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lucas
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Posted: October 08 2006 at 13:51 |
Well, I adore her voice and her piano playing.
On her very first album, my new temporary signature, she plays some pop stuff in the vein of Pat Benatar and Kate Bush circa 'the red shoes', and her piano trademark signature is already there. I think it's a nice album, progsters would not like it due to its strong "pop" side.
On her further albums, she evolved towards something more intricate, but still with a strong sense of melody. The Kate Bush influence is even more obvious and I recommend 'little earthquakes' and 'under the pink'. The following albums are not as strong as those two albums.
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Dragon Phoenix
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Posted: October 08 2006 at 14:59 |
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Little Earthquakes and the recent Scarlets Walk are in my all-time
album top 10. These are also by far the best albums she made, followed
by Under the pink.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: October 08 2006 at 15:08 |
 Dragon Phoenix wrote:
Little Earthquakes and the recent Scarlets Walk are in my all-time
album top 10. These are also by far the best albums she made, followed
by Under the pink.
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From the Choirgirl Hotel is also a pretty strong album! 
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Posted: October 08 2006 at 15:29 |
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One of her songs was featured in an LP with songs played in a Brazilian soap-opera - I can't remember which. "Crucify" was the song name; it was very good.
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Posted: October 08 2006 at 16:26 |
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Her voice is beautiful, and her music too.....
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eddietrooper
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Posted: October 08 2006 at 18:03 |
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I love her music, but the last two albums have began to sound a little repetitive to me. I would reccommend Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink. Boys For Pele is also a good choice, darker and less catchy, but interesting.
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Posted: October 08 2006 at 19:59 |
Sleeps with Butterflies is great track to listen to when having a cup of coffee.
Lovely voice matched with haunting piano playing!
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WaywardSon
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Posted: October 21 2006 at 17:19 |
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Lets use this as the official Tori Amos thread and lock the other one?
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Posted: October 22 2006 at 13:12 |
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vapid, Listen to the attractive girl in my sig if you want to hear a woman with a beautiful voice.
Edited by Asyte2c00 - October 22 2006 at 13:14
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Posted: October 22 2006 at 13:37 |
Not bad -- Amos is doubtlessly quite talented & original.
I just have the one older CD, but hardly ever play it. I'm not sure why, but I just don't seem to "connect" to TA's writing. I find it depressing, I guess.
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Posted: October 22 2006 at 13:40 |
Asyte2c00 wrote:
vapid, Listen to the attractive girl in my sig if you want to hear a woman with a beautiful voice. |
you arent familiar with Tori Amos' work are you?
For your information:
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She is married to English sound engineer Mark Hawley. Together they have one daughter, Natashya "Tash" Lórien Hawley, born on September 5, 2000.
Amos was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and is noteworthy as one of the few modern pop music stars to use a piano as her primary instrument. She is known for lyrically opaque but emotionally intense songs that tackle a wide range of subjects, including sexuality, religion, patriarchy and personal tragedy. Some of her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Me and a Gun", "Jackie's Strength", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "A Sorta Fairytale", "Professional Widow" and "Spark".
Amos has experienced limited chart success in the United States and the United Kingdom, but has also enjoyed a large cult following, selling around 12 million albums worldwide during her lengthy solo career. She is also known for making eccentric and at times ribald comments during interviews and in concerts, lending her a reputation as being highly individualistic.
courtesy of wikipedia
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Vapid....do you ever qualify anything you post young man?
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Asyte2c00
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Posted: October 22 2006 at 13:52 |
Tony R wrote:
Asyte2c00 wrote:
vapid, Listen to the attractive girl in my sig if you want to hear a woman with a beautiful voice. |
you arent familiar with Tori Amos' work are you?
For your information:
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She is married to English sound engineer Mark Hawley. Together they have one daughter, Natashya "Tash" Lórien Hawley, born on September 5, 2000.
Amos was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and is noteworthy as one of the few modern pop music stars to use a piano as her primary instrument. She is known for lyrically opaque but emotionally intense songs that tackle a wide range of subjects, including sexuality, religion, patriarchy and personal tragedy. Some of her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Me and a Gun", "Jackie's Strength", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "A Sorta Fairytale", "Professional Widow" and "Spark".
Amos has experienced limited chart success in the United States and the United Kingdom, but has also enjoyed a large cult following, selling around 12 million albums worldwide during her lengthy solo career. She is also known for making eccentric and at times ribald comments during interviews and in concerts, lending her a reputation as being highly individualistic.
courtesy of wikipedia
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Vapid....do you ever qualify anything you post young man?
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Its just that I have listened to many female -singer songwriters, however, Lisa Gerrard, DCD material, soundtarck material, solo material, and collaborations with hans Zimmer and Pieter Bourke are stunning. She has a completely unique sound engenders profound emotion within me. Listen to Duality or anything DCD after Spleen and Ideal. I admire Lisa Gerrad more bcasue she was/is willing to take a risk with her music unlike other female artists both past and present. from Goth-Darkwave to World Music with subtle goth chamber influences is quite a contrast.
In fact, regarding female vocalists, right now I am listening to Ashes Are Burning.
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Asyte2c00
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Posted: October 22 2006 at 13:58 |
Not to mention, she was hot, look at the pic in my sig. Thatsa caption from their video "Fronteir." off their debut album.
The picture in my signature captures emotion effortlessly. Look at her eyesbrowes, she is viewing something in front of her, yet assuming authority over what it is; its almost as if she has already indentified the flaw of what is before yet she her facial countenance expresses pity for the person's effort, its an admirable effort but is still wrong, its okay. All of this is conveyed in her composed self.
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Tony R
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Posted: October 22 2006 at 14:05 |
I was referring to your accusation that Amos was "vapid".
Returning to Gerrard,I am only really familiar with her collaboration with Hans Zimmer on the stunning Galdiator soundtrack though I am vaguely aware that my wife has one of her albums..
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Posted: October 22 2006 at 14:34 |
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Amos is a brilliant pianist/songwriter and, before she began recording, was raped by a man who held a gun to her. This may explain the "depressing" nature of some of her songs. I tend to give her room with these issues.
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Posted: January 15 2007 at 09:15 |
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From the Choirgirl Hotel and Scarlet Walk are brilliant albums, the other ones are also very good, the only one I actually dislike is the last one, hope the next one will be a return to form.
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Posted: August 06 2007 at 09:42 |
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I saw a live special this WE with her and she kicked ass. What a group she has too! Not suggesting anything, but she's quite proggy at times. Does her studio stuff resemble her live performances?
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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
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Posted: August 06 2007 at 17:25 |
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+1 for her cover of Slayer's 'Reign in Blood' !!!!
absolutely creepy.
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