I didn't like Cloud Riders or Up the Creek much (the first one IMO being boring and the second a cool yet not fully realised idea), but yes, Reindeer King is gorgeous. Love every second of it.
I don't know WTF is up with the iMovie lyric videos, though.
― mthrn, Saturday, 26 August 2017 23:06 (six years ago) link
this is so good
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 27 August 2017 05:56 (six years ago) link
Good to hear her wax about Y Kant Tori Read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAenlXjCVLE
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 1 September 2017 03:51 (six years ago) link
Nylon interview is also really good. Tori is such an eloquent speaker and totally genuine and empathetic. Legend
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 1 September 2017 04:03 (six years ago) link
because I do not value my time I threw a couple clicks into the buzzfeed tithe, and immediately regretted it:
http://i.imgur.com/ZjEkkVb.png
(the worst thing? this is sponsored content by Tori's own team. also, American Doll Posse was a much better "which one is you?")
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 1 September 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
^ I got Raspberry Swirl :-/
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 1 September 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
I'm sure anyone that has wanted to hear Y Kant Tori Read has heard it by now?? but I just found out it is up on Spotify in a Remastered version.
Maybe you want to listen to it?
https://open.spotify.com/album/5pnAHJIW4UWmdlFnjyN0IT
― brontosaur, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
Still so great.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 13:28 (six years ago) link
new album's out - just started listening, first track is "raindeer king" and yeah it's an instant classic
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 8 September 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
second song a little middlingthird track, "broken arrow," super great
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 8 September 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link
oh thanks for the reminder, definitely want to hear this. not keen on her daughter's vocals tbh
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 9 September 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
in a recent interview Tori made a reference to how she wasn't acknowledged by an artist she admired for many years. Couldn't help but wonder if it was Kate Bush
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 9 September 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
I think her fans established that it was either Stevie Nicks or Joni Mitchell.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Saturday, 9 September 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
oh cool, thanks!
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 9 September 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
i believe I saw Bush say something complimentary about Amos around the last time she bothered to do any kind of press at all. maybe not.
― akm, Sunday, 10 September 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
i like this better than the last one, it's way too long and my attention drifts occasionally but, like, "reindeer king," "broken arrow," "cloud riders," and "up the creek" are all really wonderful songs
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
oh also, "bang"! "bang" is like my favorite tori song in years
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
This album is like if, after the 90s (or maybe Strange Little Girls / Scarlet's Walk) Tori had started transitioning to a "mature artist" instead of spending a decade messing with her formula.
I haven't come to grips with most of it yet but stylistically it's on point.
― Tim F, Thursday, 14 September 2017 10:53 (six years ago) link
Reindeer King is so lovely, absolute classic.
― akm, Thursday, 14 September 2017 12:45 (six years ago) link
This album is like if, after the 90s (or maybe Strange Little Girls / Scarlet's Walk)
it's def got a "long-delayed follow-up to scarlet's walk" aspect about it, though that may be me projecting bc "mary's eyes" is my fav tori closer since "gold dust"
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 September 2017 13:42 (six years ago) link
feel like "reindeer king" is Tori's bid at 50 ft of snow KB
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 15 September 2017 04:54 (six years ago) link
"reindeer king" is classic Tori
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 8 October 2017 03:07 (six years ago) link
might sound cheesy but I started playing piano as a teenager because of Tori
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 8 October 2017 03:09 (six years ago) link
yeah reindeer king is one of her best songs.
― akm, Sunday, 8 October 2017 06:15 (six years ago) link
Yooooooo, how long has she been covering We Don't Need Another Hero??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7jio-XxVuA
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
ugh i wish i had seen her on this tour. the last tour too
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
Apparently that "We Don't Need Another Hero" was the first time ever she's done it. But according to setlist.fm she's already done over 50 different covers on this tour. Almost 120 (!!!) on the previous one.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
Wow, that's a whole lot of effort on top of digging through her own repertoire.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 16 November 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link
a friend saw her in new orleans last night and was a tad disappointed at the amount of covers actually, though he said it was still good.
― akm, Thursday, 16 November 2017 02:52 (six years ago) link
I saw her in New York and there were only about two covers (honestly, I preferred the Tuesday setlist, which I didn't see, to Wednesday's, which I did, but Kristin Hersh was playing Tuesday and I saw her instead)
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 16 November 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
Really hope I can her in Washington (I'm in Vancouver). Tori's covers are one of my favourite parts of her shows, absolutely love her hyper ballad, and dream of sheep, I'm on fire, hounds of love and Philadelphia covers. Course there's plenty more good ones :-)
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 16 November 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
Oops meant running up that hill not hounds
seeing her on friday, so excited. Haven't seen her since the strange little girls tou
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 20 November 2017 02:30 (six years ago) link
Saw her in Washington last night. Energy level felt a little lower than some of the recent sets wherein she would quickly traverse from one original/cover to the next. Energy briefly picked up on apollo's frock, but that was 10 songs into the set. Honestly, I would have been happier with a covers set and she was better on the strange little girls tour, but I admire her decision to play how she feels every night and keep it spontaneous.
Highlights: Silver Springs, Running to Stand Still, Raspberry Swirl and Another Girls Paradise. Nice to hear a few LE tracks as well.
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Sunday, 26 November 2017 01:26 (six years ago) link
Night of hunters is a fucking good record
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 24 December 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
^ it's her best since from the choirgirl
― Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 05:40 (five years ago) link
somehow i forgot night of hunters in my tori top 5 - what a record, clearly she still has it.
― Ross, Thursday, 23 August 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
Happy belated birthday
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 23 August 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
POLLing the Damage On - ILM Artist Poll #91 - Tori Amos (voting open until 9 September 2018)
forgotten to link this here until now but here it is for posterity
― ufo, Thursday, 6 September 2018 12:45 (five years ago) link
New album, Ocean to Ocean, apparently to be announced soon?
https://i.imgur.com/8SyRjps.jpg
01 Addition of Light Divided02 Speaking with Trees03 Devil's Bane04 Swim to New York State05 Spies06 Ocean to Ocean07 Flowers Burn to Gold08 Metal Water Wood09 29 Years10 How Glass is Made11 Birthday Baby
The cover is horrendous per usual but the unusually short tracklisting + the appearance of musicians other than the Amos Family Band (Matt Chamberlain, Jon Evans and John Philip Shenale are apparently all credited) make it sound somewhat interesting. Bracing myself for the track(s) that deal with her mother's death, her way of dealing with grief lyrically always fucks me up.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Friday, 17 September 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
Tried to send this Facebook post on to an ILXor and discovered they’d deleted their account, so posting it here instead:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10220578352989813&id=1263695503
The gist: “Strange Little Girls” is 20 years old
― kermit the grouch (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
hm this seems good
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 29 October 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
Yeah, this is good and I'm glad she's still at it.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
where my other tori heads at
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 17:38 (two years ago) link
Listened once so far and enjoyed it quite a bit, probably way more than anything else she has released in the past 15+ years? I liked bits and pieces from the last two albums but this one just sounds much better (I suppose this is because of guest musicians contributing as well, instead of just the Amos family band and their shared Macbook) and there are no clunky genre pastiche tracks or overwrought concepts.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
Would you describe it as ... back to basics?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
it's not really a return to her peak form or anything but it would be pretty easy to make the case that it's still her best in a long time, it's pretty solid
― ufo, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I don't think it's up there with the best of her albums, but it's good. Love some of the textures, like on "Metal Water Wood". I actually dug some of the Native Invader tracks quite a bit so I'd put this on the same level
― Vinnie, Monday, 15 November 2021 09:59 (two years ago) link
saw her on wednesday, my first time in person (i owned the welcome to sunny florida dvd as a kid), her band rn is jon evans on bass and ash soan on drums and that's it, and they sound really incredible, all the improv was gorgeous and i got surprised a lot by the set ("spring haze"!!!), kept thinking if she made an album with just these two guys it would fucking rule (evans was carving soundscapes with his bass like he was playing in talk talk or something), idk if that'll ever happen though
― ivy (BradNelson), Saturday, 1 July 2023 01:13 (eleven months ago) link
triggered a desire to listen to every tori amos song for the first time since the ilx poll. been having a really great time, even though her last three albums are all the same album (some songs that rise to the occasion of her earlier work, plus many songs that are just fine)
― ivy (BradNelson), Saturday, 1 July 2023 01:39 (eleven months ago) link