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dcat said:Hmmm, "Grace Slick" anyone ?
her voice and singing capabilities are nowhere near amos. besides, amos is a much greater songwriter. grace slick was ok in jefferson, but her solo stuff
she was a hottie when she was young, though
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NineFeetUnderground said:
You just keep telling yourself that, man, if it makes ya happy
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Sorry, my bad. I assumed that because I was arguing against his point, you were trying to counteract that from the same direction he was. And like I said, if that's how you perceive mainstream music then fe, I just look at it a little differently.
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Don Corleone said:her voice and singing capabilities are nowhere near amos. besides, amos is a much greater songwriter. grace slick was ok in jefferson, but her solo stuff
she was a hottie when she was young, though
Mmmm, you obviously haven't heard "Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun"
http://www.amazon.com/Baron-Von-Tollbooth-Chrome-Nun/dp/B000002X1O
Read the reviews...
Correct. It´s on the "Live From NY" videotape (recorded in January 1997), but I have to say that it´s one of my least favourite songs on that tape, whereas I like most of the other live versions on it a lot better than the studio versions. At this concert as well as on her tour in 1996, Tori was just accompanied by her guitarist and I definitely prefer this combination to the one with her rhythm-section on the "Welcome To Sunny Florida"-DVD.Don Corleone said:
My favourite Tori Amos album is a live bootleg (with a very good sound quality) from 1996 titled "Saint And Sinner", featuring among other stuff a very different live version of "Bells For Her" and live versions of "Little Amsterdam" and "In The Springtime Of His Voodoo" which are - IMO - far better than the original studio versions. It´s also quite interesting to hear how Tori includes excerpts of "Tubular Bells" and "Smalltown Boy" in her song "Father Lucifer" and they don´t sound out of place. (At a concert last year, she mixed her song "God" with Kate Bush´s "Running Up That Hill".)
np: Kari Bremnes - "Skrik" (live @ Inntöne Festival 2006)
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I just saw her last week on the American Doll Posse tour, and it was easily the best show I've ever seen. If anyone here is on the west coast, you should get tickets while you still can. She had the full band with her for most of the show and it really got raucous, the intensity put out by her on stage is incredible and it made me feel like I"ve been totally wasting my time with all the goddam porcupine tree/opeth shows I go to. She's an actual professional and has the most stage presence of anyone I've ever seen, and it was just flat-out awesome. The new version of "hey jupiter" was easily the highlight of the show, but Space Dog, Code Red, Pancake, Scarlet's Walk, and plenty of others were also great live.
The album American Doll Posse is kind of hit and miss, btw, but it sure awakened the crazy Tori Amos of yore...just look for some versions of Cruel from this tour where she goes into profanity laced rants.
This tour is light years more exciting than what I heard from the Scarlet's Walk and especially Beekeeper tours where it was pretty much just her and the piano playing more laid back material.
I just saw her last week on the American Doll Posse tour, and it was easily the best show I've ever seen. If anyone here is on the west coast, you should get tickets while you still can. She had the full band with her for most of the show and it really got raucous, the intensity put out by her on stage is incredible and it made me feel like I"ve been totally wasting my time with all the goddam porcupine tree/opeth shows I go to. She's an actual professional and has the most stage presence of anyone I've ever seen, and it was just flat-out awesome. The new version of "hey jupiter" was easily the highlight of the show, but Space Dog, Code Red, Pancake, Scarlet's Walk, and plenty of others were also great live.
The album American Doll Posse is kind of hit and miss, btw, but it sure awakened the crazy Tori Amos of yore...just look for some versions of Cruel from this tour where she goes into profanity laced rants.
This tour is light years more exciting than what I heard from the Scarlet's Walk and especially Beekeeper tours where it was pretty much just her and the piano playing more laid back material.
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I've never seen her live (damn her for not coming to latin america!!!). but i've been following her sets online and i have to say she really is one of a kind. Does anyone else vary their sets as much as she does? Almost every night there's one or two debuts and she's basically played all of her catalogue so far. Impressive to say the least!
I agree ADP has some bad songs, but thegood ones make up for those not-so-good. Code Red is one of the best things she's ever released along with Almost Rosey, Smokey Joe, Dragon, Bouncing off Clouds and Roosterspur Bridge (beautiful song!).
I've been listening to the live disc from to venus and back and i'm just fucking floored by this woman. Every single female (and male) singers should be forced to listen to this woman playing live for 24 hours straight and try to learn something from her. She really stands above all contemporary female artists and besides that she's fucking hot!!!
I agree ADP has some bad songs, but thegood ones make up for those not-so-good. Code Red is one of the best things she's ever released along with Almost Rosey, Smokey Joe, Dragon, Bouncing off Clouds and Roosterspur Bridge (beautiful song!).
I've been listening to the live disc from to venus and back and i'm just fucking floored by this woman. Every single female (and male) singers should be forced to listen to this woman playing live for 24 hours straight and try to learn something from her. She really stands above all contemporary female artists and besides that she's fucking hot!!!
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I've never seen her live (damn her for not coming to latin america!!!). but i've been following her sets online and i have to say she really is one of a kind. Does anyone else vary their sets as much as she does? Almost every night there's one or two debuts and she's basically played all of her catalogue so far. Impressive to say the least!
I agree ADP has some bad songs, but thegood ones make up for those not-so-good. Code Red is one of the best things she's ever released along with Almost Rosey, Smokey Joe, Dragon, Bouncing off Clouds and Roosterspur Bridge (beautiful song!).
I've been listening to the live disc from to venus and back and i'm just fucking floored by this woman. Every single female (and male) singers should be forced to listen to this woman playing live for 24 hours straight and try to learn something from her. She really stands above all contemporary female artists and besides that she's fucking hot!!!
Get some of the official bootlegs from this tour if you can - I know the official site doesn't sell to anywhere outside of North America, but a couple can be found through illicit means. They sound absolutely fucking amazing, as they're all soundboard recordings - the Boston shows are probably the best I've heard so far. They just destroy the live disc of To Venus and Back, even though I really like that too. The live version of "Hey Jupiter" she's been playing is by far my favorite thing she's ever done.
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^would you care to elaborate? some names would be welcome
i had björk on the same pedestal i had tori, but after the borefest called volta she's losing me
i had björk on the same pedestal i had tori, but after the borefest called volta she's losing me
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His response will probably be something along the lines of 'LMAO she sux ur fgt,' don't bother asking. Bjork is good, but I just plain don't connect with her music anywhere close to as well as I do with Tori Amos's (Medulla is great, others are hit and miss - I will say that song with Antony on Volta is one of my very favorite songs by her though). I'd be overjoyed to find more female artists as good as/better than her, but I've never once had a suggestion that turned out good, at all. Namely early kate bush, it's like classic rock as played by an obnoxious grandma (Hounds of Love is pretty decent I will admit). Or Fiona Apple, who's never released anything remotely close to as good as Tori Amos's even slightly above average material, but still stands head and shoulders above most of the other female singer/songwriter junk I've been exposed to.
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Kate Bush is also a favorite of mine, but she's definitely hit and miss for me. I'm not too fond on over-dramatic artists, which definitely requires talent, but it's not my cup of tea. And I won't even mention the bush-amos comparison because it's plain ridiculous.
As for Fiona, she is also way up there in my list, but she doesn't come close to Tori's abilities. It's interesting the way she plays with her voice, but she could try to vary her style a bit more. She isn't really a master playing the piano, but i find it very enjoyable. She's just 30 (she released Tidal when she was 18 or so which is impressive to say the least), so she still has enough time to try new things.
Then there's PJ Harvey, another intresting woman. To Bring you My Love and Is This Desire? are fantastic albums (so is Stories from the City, Stories from Sea in some parts). But her first 2 albums and the last 2 really leave a lot to be desired.
Joanna Newsom is also doing cool stuff, but we'll have to wait and see what happens with her.
To all naysayers,... please listen to Tori's Cloud on My Tongue live, just Tori and her piano... it's just ... idk.. sublime, i guess. No other female singer i've heard reaches that level of beautiful-ness in their music.
As for Fiona, she is also way up there in my list, but she doesn't come close to Tori's abilities. It's interesting the way she plays with her voice, but she could try to vary her style a bit more. She isn't really a master playing the piano, but i find it very enjoyable. She's just 30 (she released Tidal when she was 18 or so which is impressive to say the least), so she still has enough time to try new things.
Then there's PJ Harvey, another intresting woman. To Bring you My Love and Is This Desire? are fantastic albums (so is Stories from the City, Stories from Sea in some parts). But her first 2 albums and the last 2 really leave a lot to be desired.
Joanna Newsom is also doing cool stuff, but we'll have to wait and see what happens with her.
To all naysayers,... please listen to Tori's Cloud on My Tongue live, just Tori and her piano... it's just ... idk.. sublime, i guess. No other female singer i've heard reaches that level of beautiful-ness in their music.
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Like what? Her songwriting and singing are both so much more standard it's sickening, and her musicianship is VERY sorely lacking. I just get terminally bored when I listen to her. There are like, two songs I've heard by her that I really liked and they were just good as droney background music. I've only heard Tidal/When the Pawn Shop... though. What have you heard of Tori Amos that caused you to draw this conclusion? Probably terrible things. Not that you'd probably ever like her anyway cause your mind seems made up, but yeah it's pretty undeniable she's much stronger than Fiona Apple in terms of creativity/musicianship at the very least. Go download "Carbon" or something IMO ;_;
