Tori Amos...Was Little Earthquakes her best effort?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

I started loving and adoring and worshipping Tori during Little Earthquakes release and I think that ever since then I compare all of her efforts to that album..which for me was everything. I think the anger of Pele was amazing and the sadness of Choirgirl was equally as amazing..but her latest stuff..am I wrong..or is Tori meets technology just not as wonderful as simply tori and her piano?

― jenelle o'malley, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Little Earthquakes was marvellous, esp for its time - I think she lost it somewhere around boys for pele, came back huge with choirgirl (it gets so fucking cold)and has been cruising....strange little girls was not as bad asa the ritics reckoned, but she seems to be wanitng something, lacking something...maybe

― Queen G, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Little Earthquakes was a stunning record, but have not been moved even slightly by a note she's committed to tape since.

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i think the covers napstered from concerts are brillaint and perhaps her best work (angie,summertime,satisfaction)
Choirgirl is brilliant as are selections from SLG ( esp. Heart of Gold and 97 Bonnie and Cylde)

― anthony, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to fall asleep to Under the Pink. I think its a much more compelling album than Little Earthquakes. Boy For Pele had "Hey Jupiter" and thats about it. After that I stopped caring.

― bnw, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

About half of Under the Pink is good as is about a third of Choirgirl. The rest is crap.

She's best when she goes for balls-out power ballad stuff: "Past the Mission," "Playboy Mommy," "Cornflake Girl." Slow heartfelt stuff doesn't really work for her and is almost as bad as the fairy crap--so destroy "Icicle," "Muhammed My Friend," "Mr Zebra," "Raspberry Swirl," all that. When she played with the band she actually came close to rocking out a couple times, most notably at a '98 show in Baltimore that had a badass rendition of "Past the Mission."

― adam, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know all of her stuff, but I really love her take on Home On the Range, off the God CD5.

― Ron Hudson, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Little Earthquakes is here strongest work, just simply because it was fresh and new at the time. It also wasn't so much "kooky kerrrrazy Tori" as well (with the exception of "Happy Phantom"). I mean, can you imagine "Me and a Gun" appearing on "Choirgirl" or "To Venus and Back"?

― fuckup, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In essence SHIT IN A FUCKING GLASS

― mig derrig, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

Very highly underrated: To Venus and Back

I mean, the studio disc, just, WOW. I've been a fan to varying degrees over the last decade, and I've always thought this was her best work. The atmosphere, built-up tension and subsequent release in a lot of these songs is just incredible, it's a nearly perfect cycle of songs, holds together strongly as an album, very cohesive; if it was PJ Harvey on this record it'd be much more critically approved. (Works great as a companion piece to Is This Desire?, too, actually.) On par with Choirgirl Hotel as the best album she ever did; nothing else comes close for me.

Thoughts?

― stephen, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

An ex-gf sat me down and made me listen to her entire discography in one sitting.

I came away liking "Choirgirl Sessions" or whatever it's called, but I've tried really hard to forget everything else.

More the ex's fault than Tori's, really, but for fuck's sake.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

xpost So what you're saying is, you found Stylus through Dom's review of The Beekeeper.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

if it was PJ Harvey on this record it'd be much more critically approved

This is probably 100% yes otm.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

When there were rumors of Tori coming to ACL this year, a coworker of mine made the completely serious comment "Mmmm, thousands of girls with Daddy issues ripe for the taking."

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

I hit him in the face.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

And kicked him out of the hotel.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

kane_clap.gif

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

do a poll!

but yeah basically in answer to the question. with '...pele' a close second.

― pisces, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

just saying, yeah, experimental Tori doesn't usually work for critics since Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink were already masterpieces (arguably) in their own rights, and she had no reason to deviate from the formula. i think her best work is the Choirgirl/Venus era stuff.

jaymc: actual lols, not quite

― stephen, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

Agree that LE is her best effort, though her first four records are frankly awesome. After those, everything went embarrassingly downhill.

― Turangalila, Thursday, 1 November 2007 08:51 (eighteen years ago)

Also, it isn't human not to like Mr. Zebra, person upthread. Really. :(

― Turangalila, Thursday, 1 November 2007 08:52 (eighteen years ago)

I like later material somewhat better. "Little Earthquakes" was just too stripped down.

Amos has often been compared to Kate Bush, but what makes Bush so great is first and foremost those great arrangements with lots of details. Thus, I like Amos' stripped-down sound way less.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 1 November 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

fuck all of you. you ruined this for me stephen- you don't get it- I am guessing with a name like "stephen" you have a cock- probabaly a little stubby one too-is that "cohesive" enough for you? ahole

― matt o, Friday, 2 November 2007 01:29 (eighteen years ago)

o_O posts

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 November 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

fucking Under th Pink is the SHT. yes anastiasia

hello?

tori amos haters need to look deeper. choirgirl on ward maybe, before that, ace.

― Surmounter, Friday, 2 November 2007 04:54 (eighteen years ago)

fucking Under th Pink is the SHT. yes anastiasia

at least three typos = are you drunk?

― stephen, Friday, 2 November 2007 05:40 (eighteen years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.