American POLL Posse - ILM Artist Poll #91 - TORI AMOS - Results

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38. The Waitress
86 points, 3 votes

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37. Space Dog
86 points, 6 votes

Wanted to add "Little Earthquakes" to my ballot after I sent it, but didn't want to make trouble for ufo. Glad it squeaked in.

i love the whole last two minutes of Space Dog, whenever she does her overlapping vocals it's incredible

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36. Baker Baker
88 points, 4 votes

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36. Taxi Ride
88 points, 4 votes

I love Taxi Ride so much, it's like a midpoint of Cocteau Twins and Fleetwood Mac lol

Didn’t vote (sorry!) because I didn’t feel knowledgeable but loving the images! Great job

"taxi ride" just missed my ballot (or rather i couldn't in good conscience vote for both it and "secret spell" since they're doing near-identical things) so i'm glad it's here

also these images rule thank you ufo

Secret Spell is so much more driven and it's almost a power pop thing while Taxi Ride is extremely dreamy soft rock so there's not much connection between the two to me except they're both highlights of her 00's albums

and i'm glad people are enjoying the images!

Secret Spell is so much more driven and it's almost a power pop thing while Taxi Ride is extremely dreamy soft rock so there's not much connection between the two to me except they're both highlights of her 00's albums

― ufo, Wednesday, September 12, 2018 8:34 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah i get this but i group them together anyway, both choruses are sugar

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34. Cloud On My Tongue
90 points, 6 votes

"cloud on my tongue" has like at least fifteen melodies in it, each of which could support their own song

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33. God
92 points, 3 votes

God has a great groove and when everything drops out except for the intentionally heavenly backing vocals in the chorus is a highlight

that trill downwards on "fi-hi-hind"/"ni-nine iron"

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32. Concertina
92 points, 4 votes

aw it's so nice this made it! one of my favorite venus songs that also dropped off the end of my ballot at the last minute

"i know the truth is in between the first and fortieth drink" is prob my favorite lyric she's ever written, a stark sudden depiction of alcoholism in a song that i can't otherwise make heads or tails of

and the last one for today

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31. Bells for Her
96 points, 3 votes

Love the images, ufo!

"Yes, Anastasia" was my #1, glad to see it made the list.

so much of under the pink already!

Yes, Anastasia just missed my ballot and I was surprised it didn't get more votes, it's a real epic

God that low is a shocker, but small pool of ballots makes things unpredictable I guess. (It was my #2)

I've no idea what the consensus favourites from TVaB are so I'm happy to see 'Concertina' place.

great images again ufo!

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30. Twinkle
96 points, 4 votes, 1 #1 vote

doing 30 to 16 today

Twinkle is my favourite album closer and just missed my ballot

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29. Northern Lad
114 points, 3 votes, 1 #1 vote

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28. Putting the Damage On
114 points, 4 votes, 1 #1 vote

three of the best songs ever made in a row, none of which made my ballot lol

personally "putting the damage on" is wayyyy too tied to my first relationship and being 15 and feeling bad all of the time and at this point it feels like the song belongs to a different person than who i am now. still devastated every time i hear the chorus or "it's just your ghost passing through / and... now... i'm... quite... sure"

Putting the Damage On has a really great vocal performance and I love the horn arrangement

boy you still look pretty

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27. Cooling
118 points, 4 votes

somehow, a song too intense to make the tracklist of boys for pele

also maybe the most beautiful song she ever wrote; in its winding digressions it feels twinned with "icicle" for me even though they're about v different things

is your place in heaven
worth giving up
these kisses

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26. In the Springtime of His Voodoo
118 points, 5 votes

too low. even on my own ballot it was too low

there are so many ideas in this song and the second uh post-chorus? with the overlapping vocal lines is divine

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25. Honey
120 points, 5 votes

that's it for the b-sides on my ballot

arrangement of this song perfectly haunts the piano line

that sustained guitar feedback like flames licking at the song

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24. Girl
122 points, 3 votes, 1 #1 vote

my song!!!!

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23. Raspberry Swirl
140 points, 6 votes

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i love the extra percussion in the live versions

ok so i first heard this song when i was 15, playing a low-quality video on a tori fansite, and it just knocked me out, i had never heard anything like it before. it sounded like what i wanted desire to feel like. anyway now i'm very gay, thanks tori

Seconded!

Tracks (ranked)

Take to the Sky
God
Mother
Spark
A Sorta Fairytale
Wings
Precious Things
Pretty Good Year
Bliss
Cool on Your Island
Silent All These Years
Raspberry Swirl
Sugar
Tear in Your Hand
Honey
Bouncing Off Clouds
Hey Jupiter
Hotel
Talula

Albums (ranked)

Little Earthquakes
From the Choirgirl Hotel
Under the Pink

idk i can't help it, at some point when i was a kid i convinced myself the lyric was just a little less sure-footed than the rest of le and that feeling persisted even though it doesn't matter! lovely music behind it ofc

It definitely points forward to a more oblique lyrical style than the rest of the album. "Somebody leave the light on / just in case I like the dancing / I can remember where I come from" isn't top-tier. But man.. the sudden shift in tone on "he's gonna change my name" wow

he's gonna change my name is outstanding yes, maybe i should work hard at changing my relationship with this song lol

Surprised by how low yes Anastasia and putting the damage charted

My ballot would have snuck Past the Mission into the top 40 too :)

Datura

Criminally underrated

Is there a spotify playlist of the results?

Thanks very much to everyone who participated in this - I listened to Little Earthquakes a lot in college but never went much beyond that, and have really enjoyed discovering everything else in this poll.

Tori influenced my writing to an incredible degree. When she says Ed is watching my every move, that is such an abstract lyricism - perhaps it is Ed the Horse, but Tori always wrote lyrics that allowed one to transpose themselves onto them. Even if she did not give background to these lyrics, she respects the intelligence of the listener to take away their own meaning (much like Lynch). I am grateful she exists and her music changed my life