From: owner-precious-things-digest To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V1 #15 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Sunday, 3 March 1996 Volume 01 : Number 015 Today's Subjects: ----------------- tori on world cafe and other things ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: MATH TRIED ERR Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 16:34:19 -0500 (EST) Subject: tori on world cafe and other things Hi! Tori's World Cafe interview was broadcast yesterday. Great stuff. Took up the entire second hour of the show. No in-studio performance, just Tori and David Dye hanging out talking about the tracks he played from the album ("Beauty Queen/Horses", "Caught A Lite Sneeze", "Mr. Zebra/Marianne", and "Talula"). A couple interesting bits: - -- I've seen talk elsewhere as to why "Beauty Queen" and "Horses" are one track on the CD (there is a definite dividing groove between them on the vinyl, btw). Turns out they were both recorded in the same take (the first and only take), and were thus left together that way. - -- "Talula" is "the space on the album with permission to dance". The Jungle Mix, which will appear on the forthcoming single should be Interesting -- Tori said a whole new verse showed itself in the middle of making it, so she had to put it in. (Dunno about you, but I can't WAIT to see what kind of a video they're going to do for this one...) She also talked about just how hellish it is to bring harpsichords out on the road (she's got two, in case one breaks), and how she's looking forward to seeing how "the girls from Earthquakes get along with the girls from the volcano. The Earthquake girls are dying to meet the volcano girls." Maybe they'll end up going to the Cornflake Girls' house for tea afterwards. ;> Angie posted: >I just thought I'd email you and talk a little about the Goddess. Oh, no! We've already reached the deification stage! Run Away!!! ;> >I finally got my chance about a month ago when she came to Seattle for a >radio interview. Only 7 other people showed up, so we were let in the studio >and Tori came and signed our things and talked with us. Hey, I know someone else who was there! Small world. (Neile, are you with us?) >I had made her a bracelet >out of some awesome indian beads too and put it one her wrist, she told me >it was "groovy" and really liked it. She must have liked it pretty well >because she wore it on Jay Leno the next night. :) That really meant a lot >to me. :) That's really neat. I noticed that bracelet, too -- nice! >I've heard so many complaints about how it's disturbing and too long >and blah blah blah. I think it's a nice length and disturbing doesn't always >mean bad. Not all music should be comfortable to listen to. Ah, an intelligent voice in the wilderness... Tori said on the World Cafe that she can understand her lyrics just fine, thank you, and she *likes* making people have to think about what they're hearing. She doesn't want to spoon-feed it to the masses like too many other people do. Amen to that. >I absolutely love the >harmony part in Father Lucifer where 3 Tori's sing together. That's Religious Experience #1 of the album for me. Sends me into another dimension every time. >On thing about >Tori, she has AWESOME backups as well as solos. That's for sure. I've heard people say that the backing tracks on BfP are her most adventurous and experimental yet, but she's had some really nifty backing stuff on her previous two albums as well ("Girl" and "Space Dog" some immediately to mind). Still, the backing vocals on BfP are the most consistently compelling. Aside from the "Father Lucifer" 3-in-1 bridge, the backing vocals on "Doughnut Song" are pretty damned transcendent too. >I just wish these songs would >get some airtime. The only one they play around here is Caught A Lite >Sneeze, although I've requested Proffessional Widow quite a few times. Well, considering some of the lyrics to "Professional Widow", don't look for it on the American airwaves anytime soon. :) I've heard "Talula" and "Blood Roses" on the radio, but last night was the first time I'd heard anything besides those and "Caught A Lite Sneeze" get- ting any airplay. >I heard she did Bells For Her on the harpsichord... very >interesting... ?!? Whoa. >my friend went to the House of Blues >and requested that she play Spacedog but she said she fogot it. Oops. :) Hey, was the House of Blues thing for an upcoming episode of the TV show of the same name? If so, anybody got an air date? >She >must have ten million songs going through her head right now, I can imagine >it's hard to remember and keep your mind straight. I've heard from other radio performances that she's sometimes started out to do one song, then suddenly found herself in another one -- I'm thinking in particular of WNEW in New York, where she started "Marianne" and then ended up in "Sugar". ;> Which reminds me: last weekend I was listening to a tape of a show she did in the UK during the UtP tour, where she played "Smells Like Teen Spirit" to lead off the set. The instrumental noodling she did to start off the song there was exactly the first few bars of "Marianne". Hmmm... +===========================================================================+ |Meredith Tarr meth@delphi.com| |Boonton, NJ USA http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/meth/| +===========================================================================+ | "nothing's gonna stop me from floating" - Tori Amos | +===========================================================================+ ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V1 #15 ************************************