Diving into Tori: help a girl out (she'll darn your socks and wash your...)

[Sardonicus]

Who've I got to SHAG to get OUTTA HERE?

Oh TELL ME ABOUT IT TORI LOVE

 

[Jark]

I thought this was a bit nothingy at the time (& it became her first lead single to miss the UK Top 40) but time has been VERY KIND

my first listen response to this was QUITE PLEASANT but it's blossoming. great production, bonkers lyrics.

all of the following singles were better than Bliss

 

[Debbie Jellinsky]

I like Bliss a lot, but I hate the monkey line.

 

[Sardonicus]

Bliss has always sounded to me like Tori does Britney

 

[Jark]

moment of appreciation for the horns (?) outro of Hotel that ends on what sounds like a rogue fart.

 

[Mark R 3]

Mark, listen to me, you’re going to want to buy the Scarlet’s Walk Limited Edition which comes with the fold out poster map, and sit down and listen to the album, following the route (get help if you’re colourblind), then listen to Scarlet’s Hidden Treasures.

Before you listen to any of the others.

I have scarlets walk and american doll posse already bought.
I listened to ocean to ocean last night and wasn't too impressed with it, but I'm finding her albums to be growers.
I'll try scarlets walk tonight.

 

[Iguana]

Bliss has always sounded to me like Tori does Britney

It must be the lyrics about ENTROPY, BILOCATION and TERRACIDE

 

[Debbie Jellinsky]

It must be the lyrics about ENTROPY, BILOCATION and TERRACIDE

Sounds like classic Britney to me!

 

[Debbie Jellinsky]

I have scarlets walk and american doll posse already bought.
I listened to ocean to ocean last night and wasn't too impressed with it, but I'm finding her albums to be growers.
I'll try scarlets walk tonight.

I never bothered with O2O tbh. The tour was great though.

 

[Mark R 3]

Yes she's meant to be really good live.

 

[Sardonicus]

It must be the lyrics about ENTROPY, BILOCATION and TERRACIDE

Not the lyrics Ig. Obviously that's her being her usual self. Think of Britney singing the ACTUAL SONG

LOOK IT MAKES SENSE TO ME OK

 

[Sardonicus]

Also FAT SLUT is the best. Deal with it

 

[Sardonicus]

@Jark causing fucking murder again with another "innocent" thread

 

[Iguana]

Not the lyrics Ig. Obviously that's her being her usual self. Think of Britney singing the ACTUAL SONG

LOOK IT MAKES SENSE TO ME OK

 

[Sardonicus]

Yes I know but it's BESIDE THE POINT

 

[Iguana]

Yes I know but it's BESIDE THE POINT

I lost what the point was, I just love my fucking twot!

 

[Iguana]

Also while we're at it

 

[Iguana]

Can we have a separate topic for Tori and Britney please?

 

[jivafox]

 

[Tisch]

I like Tori Amos. She's a really interesting artist.

 

[Iguana]

Got a brand new dress BABE

Could it make you wanna
TRY?

 

[Sardonicus]

I lost what the point was, I just love my fucking twot!

My point was (& I get nobody, including you cares, I'm just being a PEDANT) is that if you'd give any song from her to Britney to sing, it'd be that one. I can totally get her singing it. Humour me & imagine it for a sec & you'll see what I mean.

I'm also a bottle and a half of wine in, so sorry Ig bbz I'm probably talking nonsense. Father Lucifer has never looked so sane.

 

[Jark]

the nerve of her to say that Britney's career hasn't been so hot after Toxic

 

[Tisch]

Britney Spears could sing Bliss. But Tori could NEVER sing Deep in Your Heart

 

[Mark R 3]

Well I just listened to scarlets walk and I found it a bit of a chore to get through. A lot of the songs were forgettable and overall it was too long IMO. I can now see what people say when they say she lost it after the first few albums.

 

[Iguana]

Well I just listened to scarlets walk and I found it a bit of a chore to get through. A lot of the songs were forgettable and overall it was too long IMO. I can now see what people say when they say she lost it after the first few albums.

OH HUN

I'd give it more of a chance if you're so inclined because it IS one of her masterpieces

Musically it's softer than albums that came before it, which I think can be jarring if you're not expecting it, but my God what a collection of songs.

 

[Mark R 3]

Yes definitely going to give it more of a chance. To be fair I've only listened to it once.

 

[GNL]

I should probably like Tori Amos more than I do, but I once had a panic attack while working on the bar at one of her concerts.

 

[Jark]

omg? this pre-Ray of Light funky techno serve?



!

 

[Mark R 3]

I never bothered with O2O tbh. The tour was great though.

I think what's great about tori is you don't really need to know her latest album(s) as she changes the set list up so much.

 

[Mark R 3]

I prefer ocean to ocean to scarlets walk (so far).

 

[jivafox]

 

[Mark R 3]

I've ordered the beekeeper. I'm trying to familiarise myself with her back catalogue in preparation of seeing her live in April.

 

[Jark]

on The Beekeeper... obsessed with this Swedish (?) TV interview from the promo in which she embarks on quite a tangent describing songwriting as "seeing light filaments, entering the shape of a melody, and inside that shape looking for a door, or a window..." while sounding somewhat woo-woo she then sings unprompted. what a delightful woman.

 

[Mark R 3]

Scarlets walk has really grown on me. I LOVE a sorta fairytale and taxi ride.

 

[Mark R 3]

Well I've done a complete u turn and after repeated listens, scarlets walk is now one of my fave albums by tori that I've heard so far.

 

[Jark]

ok it's been three weeks or so and she's basically all I've been listening to (along with DIDO when I need to feel BORED) - time for a current top 20

01 Cornflake Girl
02 Never Seen Blue
03 Song for Eric
04 Muhammad My Friend
05 The Waitress
06 Silent All These Years
07 Cooling (Venus live)
08 The Beekeeper
09 Hotel
10 Cars and Guitars

11 Father Lucifer
12 Space Dog - is she still... pissing in the river now?
13 Spark
14 Black Dove (January)
15 General Joy
16 Bachelorette
17 Putting the Damage On
18 Playboy Mommy
19 Ireland
20 Take to the Sky

please post your top 10/20s so I can see what else I need to cherry pick from the albums not dived into yet. Scarlet's Walk next.

 

[jivafox]

Well I've done a complete u turn and after repeated listens, scarlets walk is now one of my fave albums by tori that I've heard so far.

 

[Debbie Jellinsky]

These are the ones I listen to these days. In no particular order because I can't really do a a proper ranking for Tori or Madonna, it changes all the time:

Pretty Good Year
Silent All These Years
Bouncing off Clouds
Crucify
Jackie's Strength
Take to the Sky
1000 Oceans
Doughnut Song
Space Dog
Past the Mission
Here, in My Head
Taxi Ride
Reindeer King
Mother
Cooling
Raspberry Swirl
Caught a Light Sneeze
Barons of Suburbia
Precious Things
Winter

 

[Mark R 3]

ok it's been three weeks or so and she's basically all I've been listening to (along with DIDO when I need to feel BORED) - time for a current top 20

01 Cornflake Girl
02 Never Seen Blue
03 Song for Eric
04 Muhammad My Friend
05 The Waitress
06 Silent All These Years
07 Cooling (Venus live)
08 The Beekeeper
09 Hotel
10 Cars and Guitars

11 Father Lucifer
12 Space Dog - is she still... pissing in the river now?
13 Spark
14 Black Dove (January)
15 General Joy
16 Bachelorette
17 Putting the Damage On
18 Playboy Mommy
19 Ireland
20 Take to the Sky

please post your top 10/20s so I can see what else I need to cherry pick from the albums not dived into yet. Scarlet's Walk next.

Hopefully you like scarlets walk. I wasn't keen on it at first but it's now one of my fave albums by her. Well the ones I've heard so far.