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

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!

https://i.imgur.com/J6Uui39.jpg
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

https://i.imgur.com/XNr3pUG.jpg
29. Northern Lad
114 points, 3 votes, 1 #1 vote

https://i.imgur.com/PHvnQCO.jpg
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

https://i.imgur.com/7UaG5x6.jpg
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

https://i.imgur.com/R305BtI.jpg
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

https://i.imgur.com/R9nqT1D.jpg
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

https://i.imgur.com/U07SYeI.jpg
24. Girl
122 points, 3 votes, 1 #1 vote

my song!!!!

https://i.imgur.com/H0r6sja.jpg
23. Raspberry Swirl
140 points, 6 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZEh3BTtLfA

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

https://i.imgur.com/ik0caKc.jpg
22. Playboy Mummy
142 points, 4 votes

sometimes this one is too heavy

it's too low, completely devastating song

Where does Honey originate from?

it's an under the pink b-side. originally slated for the album, replaced at the last minute by "the wrong band"

https://i.imgur.com/IVzwdyw.jpg
21. Blood Roses
144 points, 4 votes

Oh wow, never heard it before, I like it.

I found Blood Roses genuinely disturbing when I first heard it. Still shocking even now. I love it though.

it's a shame she replaced Honey for The Wrong Band which is easily the worst track on Under the Pink

I found Blood Roses genuinely disturbing when I first heard it. Still shocking even now. I love it though.

― piscesx, Thursday, September 13, 2018 8:50 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

saaaame

https://i.imgur.com/7BuIhdU.jpg
20. Beauty Queen/Horses
160 points, 6 votes

i was really fixated as a kid on music that was so Overwhelmingly Beautiful it gave me chills. Overwhelming Beauty is a pretty narrow aesthetic range, and i wish i hadn't focused on it at the expense of other music. but also: there was the first time i ever heard "beauty queen/horses," and i thought i was, at last, listening to the Most Overwhelmingly Beautiful Music Possible

https://i.imgur.com/IJamJCm.jpg
19. Icicle
176 points, 5 votes

oh wow i thought this'd be top ten

is there a better song about masturbating while your dad holds a prayer meeting downstairs

i think the good book is missing some pages!

this is definitely one that's up there in her most beautiful compositions, what an incredible bridge

nearly the entire top 20 was very much in flux the entire voting period

https://i.imgur.com/mxHBmAz.jpg
18. i i e e e
190 points, 6 votes

this is one that was in my top 10, sounds unlike anything else (except the potion shop theme from ocarina of time)

yeah it was in my top five

the chorus still gets to me

Ahhh these are all my favourite songs in the world. I voted pretty high for "In The Springtime of his Voodoo", "Icicle", "Playboy Mommy" and "Honey".

I'm glad that "Honey" is a b-side, it's such a self-contained perfect song (such great and unusually straightforward lyrics! "And you know what you're doing, so don't even"; "And I think I could leave your world / If she was the better girl").

Whereas "The Wrong Band" is a perfect piece of lightness in between "Baker, Baker" and "The Waitress" that would get lost outside of the album.

Actually Under The Pink was my first TA album when I was 13 and my favourite track used to switch around a lot but I think after initially being "Pretty Good Year" for a while it was "The Wrong Band" because of the sheer levity of the melody. Then for a while it was "Cloud on my Tongue" due to the soothing hypnotism of "circles and circles and circles again..." and then it settled on "Space Dog" for a long time. Coming back to the album now, "Icicle" was my easy favourite.