Tori Amos

is she pretending to be an indian again this time? because I like scarlet's walk but kind of hate that shit

Watched a recentish performance of hers and was elated when she played "Putting The Damage On"

anyone catching her on this tour? one of the best live acts in existence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsSBNNjhGJY

holy shit this song rules

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.

this is so good

Good to hear her wax about Y Kant Tori Read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAenlXjCVLE

Nylon interview is also really good. Tori is such an eloquent speaker and totally genuine and empathetic. Legend

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?")

^ I got Raspberry Swirl :-/

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

Still so great.

new album's out - just started listening, first track is "raindeer king" and yeah it's an instant classic

second song a little middling
third track, "broken arrow," super great

oh thanks for the reminder, definitely want to hear this. not keen on her daughter's vocals tbh

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

I think her fans established that it was either Stevie Nicks or Joni Mitchell.

oh cool, thanks!

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.

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

oh also, "bang"! "bang" is like my favorite tori song in years

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.

Reindeer King is so lovely, absolute classic.

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"

feel like "reindeer king" is Tori's bid at 50 ft of snow KB

"reindeer king" is classic Tori

might sound cheesy but I started playing piano as a teenager because of Tori

yeah reindeer king is one of her best songs.

Yooooooo, how long has she been covering We Don't Need Another Hero??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7jio-XxVuA

ugh i wish i had seen her on this tour. the last tour too

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.

Wow, that's a whole lot of effort on top of digging through her own repertoire.

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.

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)

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 :-)

Oops meant running up that hill not hounds

seeing her on friday, so excited. Haven't seen her since the strange little girls tou

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.

Night of hunters is a fucking good record

^ it's her best since from the choirgirl

somehow i forgot night of hunters in my tori top 5 - what a record, clearly she still has it.

Happy belated birthday

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

New album, Ocean to Ocean, apparently to be announced soon?

https://i.imgur.com/8SyRjps.jpg

01 Addition of Light Divided
02 Speaking with Trees
03 Devil's Bane
04 Swim to New York State
05 Spies
06 Ocean to Ocean
07 Flowers Burn to Gold
08 Metal Water Wood
09 29 Years
10 How Glass is Made
11 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.

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

hm this seems good

Yeah, this is good and I'm glad she's still at it.

where my other tori heads at

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.

Would you describe it as ... back to basics?