From: owner-precious-things-digest To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V1 #88 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" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Thursday, 23 May 1996 Volume 01 : Number 088 Today's Subjects: ----------------- talula us talula single news Boston 5/21 review/setlist/etc Tori in B-Side Tori in strange places ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: flaky white stuff Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 18:05:33 -0400 Subject: talula more stuff forwarded from rdt/torinews (are there enough people who are on neither list that want me to continue doing this? please reply to me if you have an opinion on this). >From Michael.Solomon@chronicle.page1.com Wed May 22 14:01:23 1996 >Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 13:51:58 -0500 >From: Michael Solomon >To: torinews@chihuly.com, rdt@oasis.net >Subject: Talula Revealed -- Billboard article > > > I just found a mention of Tori in last week's Billboard -- it might > still be on the newsstands. > > It's in the new soundtrack column by David Sprague, a former editor at > Creem, and seems to shed some light on the creative process behind > Talula. > > Here' s the scoop: > > "Tori Amos, whose Talula provides some of the soundtrack's more > haunting moments, was introduced to tornado chasing -- a favorite > Great Plains adventure -- by producer Brian Transeau before either had > any knowledge of the Twister soundtrack. Amos was so fascinated by > the notion that she rewrote Talula to incorporate its cataclysmic > imagery. The song, which was recorded during sessions for Amos' Boys > for Pele album, came close to being shelved, until Warner Bros. A&R > director Kevin Laffey heard of the revision. > > "I told Transeau's manager that I was working on the soundtrack," says > Laffey. "It was just synchronicity when she said, 'Well, they have > this track about tornadoes, and they don't know what to do with it.'" > > Hmm... > > -- Michael > > ------------------------------ From: flaky white stuff Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 18:41:53 -0400 Subject: us talula single news more stuff of note. >From gregb@netcom.com Wed May 22 17:17:08 1996 >Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 14:12:07 -0700 >From: Greg Burrell >To: torinews@chihuly.com >Subject: Re: talula us single > >Hi Everybody, > > The new US "Talula" single is now available. Your local music store > should have it for about $5.99. The package has a sticker saying it > contains the song Talula "featured in the summer's biggest hit, > Twister". The track listing is: > > 1. Talula (Tornado Album Version) 3:43 > 2. Samurai (Previously Unavailable) 3:03 > 3. Frog On My Toe (Previously Unavailable) 3:40 > 4. London Girls (Previously Unavailable) 3:20 > 5. Talula (BT's Synethasia Mix) 11:27 > > Yes, that's "Tornado Album Version" because from now on all new > pressings of "Boys For Pele" will have the "Tornado Mix" rather > than the original "Talula". And of course all of these songs WERE > previously available on the UK singles. (Whenever the record company > says "previously unavailable" they usually mean "in this country".) > The next single is reported to be "Hey Jupiter" to be released in the > UK. No word on when or what tracks it will contain. > > > -Greg ("he writes letters...") > ------------------------------ From: abbe@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 18:44:06 -0400 Subject: Boston 5/21 review/setlist/etc Last night was by far the best Tori concert I've gone to. Wow. Whatever has been said about people worrying about Tori becoming more and more drained emotionally as time goes on... I'm not sure. She seemed to have more energy than usual --- which is saying a lot, given what her concerts are like. Yet it felt like she was giving it all to the audience and winding up drained in the end. I hope she's trying to take care of herself. The set list: Beauty Queen/Horses Leather (she didn't seem to enjoy it nearly as much as last time I saw her play it. *shrug*) Introduces her harpsichord...went something like "this is my new friend. She has seven guys taking care of her, bringing her blankets, margaritias, anyting anyone could want..she's 300 years old, so don't you girls worry about aging too much" Blood Roses (harpsichord) (this was *amazing*. drool.) Little Amsterdam (Steve was playing these weird little sounds on the guitar to accompany her. She also played a verse in the middle that I didn't recognize at all... anyone else who was there get any of it?? ) Introduces Steve Caton (as Caton) to the audience, sounds kind of embarrassed to say they were in YKTR together... Cornflake Girl (with Steve) This was much much much much better than the backing track version. WOW. They had a lot of fun with it. Doughnut Song (She sung the lyrics that you can hear if you listen carefully to the album, too, like people have mentioned before... I started crying at the "happy for you / but I am sure that I hate you line." It's kind of funny... I went and watched Seth and Amy get married last weekend. I've been "over" this for nearly four years now, and I love them both and was happy to see them married, yet it was amazing how quickly I could go back to reliving it from the emotion in her voice.) Space Dog (with Steve) (Again, they had sooooooo much fun, and in a lot of places it sounded nothing like the recorded version. whee.) Crucify (the audience loved it) A brief talk to the audience..."Girls, do you know when you keep going and doing something... and I don't mean like chocolate cake.. that you know is bad for you?" (someone in the audience says men...) "Well, men, women, whatever..." she goes on about this for a bit...into Putting the Damage On Precious Things (the GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRL is just getting longer and longer each time.) Not the Red Baron Caught a Lite Sneeze (with Steve) (very different from the recorded version, pretty interesting) Talula (with Steve) (with the tornado mix lyrics at the beginning. I really really liked this.) MAAG - -----1st Encore Somewhere Over the Rainbow (slow, but pretty) China - ------2nd Encore Pretty Good Year During the song they pulled out what we thought was the Bells for Her piano. Turned out to be an organ. Professional Widow She said she's only tried this once before and she almost wound up with a brain aneurism. =) She had said earlier that someone asked her to play Professional Widow and she said she hadn't "learned" it yet - not sure what she meant - but that she could try to pull it off anyway. It was a very different version from the album, slower, a bit less chaotic, and on the organ. and she only did some of it... but it was cool. Hey Jupiter (also on the organ.) - --end They gave out roses afterwards and said they were from Tori and the Wang Center. It was really coooool. afterwards I went and waited for her to come out of the stage door. I touched her hand very briefly, but after she talked to about 2 people her security guy dragged her off to her limo and she waved one last time and got in. Still, it was really amazing. - -abbe ------------------------------ From: MATH TRIED ERR Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 20:52:50 -0500 (EST) Subject: Tori in B-Side Hi! Tori Amos is on the cover of the current issue of B-Side magazine, and it's the best _Boys for Pele_ interview I've seen yet. (B-Side has always done the best interviews, not just of Tori, but of the likes of Sarah McLachlan and many others as well.) Tori takes us on a guided tour of the album, from start to finish, and also gives tips on which red wine to select to make your listening experience the most enjoyable. :) If you want the definitive scoop on exactly where each song is coming from, don't miss this article. (Ignore the fact that the magazine DESPERATELY needs a copyeditor. :P) If you can't find the magazine near you, their address is: B-Side Magazine P.O. Box 1860 Burlington, NJ 08016 USA (609) 387-9424 Sample issues are $5.50 PPD. Call for foreign rates. The current (May/Jine) er, June :) issue also features interviews with Lush, Ruby, Brel Canto, and Cocteau Twins. (I'm not affiliated with the magazine -- though I am seriously considering offering to be their proofreader -- just a very happy subscriber :) Meredith meth@delphi.com "honey we're recovering Christians" ------------------------------ From: MATH TRIED ERR Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 21:15:56 -0500 (EST) Subject: Tori in strange places Hi! This may be old news to some of you, but I've fallen WAY behind on my comics reading, and thanks to a kind soul who has lent me his collection, I'm just catching up now. In BOOKS OF MAGIC #15 (excellent Vertigo title based on the miniseries of the same name by Neil Gaiman and now written by John Ney Reiber), which was out last summer, in one scene a peripheral character and her little daughter are seen sitting in the balcony of an ornate theater. On the stage below are two pianos, a Grand and an upright. The character has tears streaming down her face. Her girl asks why they're not going like everyone else, and she says she just has to take a few minutes to get herself together. As they finally get up to leave, the little girl asks, "Mommy, can I have red hair too?" She's *everywhere*, folks -- and not just in the Dreaming. :) Meredith, busy counting the Tori references in issue #1 of the new series THE DREAMING (anybody else catch the woman suckling the fish in the back- ground in one panel? ;) meth@delphi.com ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V1 #88 ************************************