From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V6 #174 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org 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, September 20 2001 Volume 06 : Number 174 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Missed Tori on Letterman [earthsis@spindle.net (earthsis@spindle.net)] Re: one more question. [Richard Handal ] SLG Impressions ~ [Mysterilady2001@cs.com] SLG Washington Post review [Richard Handal ] seattle ticketmaster url [strange little woj ] Re: Missed Tori on Letterman [freakgirl ] Re: Precious Things String Instrumental Tribute [Dracovixen@aol.com] Re: Precious Things String Quartet Tribute Album [Twinkle018@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 00:08:21 -0500 From: earthsis@spindle.net (earthsis@spindle.net) Subject: Missed Tori on Letterman Hi everyone, I just got on the puter and read the emails about Tori's appearance on Letterman. I think I may have know about it prior to today, but I haven't been thinking clearly this past week. Would anyone help me obtain a copy of her appearance? I will gladly pay for shipping and I will reimburse you with an extra blank for yourself. Please let me know if you can help me. Thanks so much! Take care, Angela~ - -- "you may say i'm a dreamer, but i'm not the only one, i hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one." - -lennon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 03:35:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Handal Subject: Re: one more question. Daniel axed: > Is Joel still working with, Tori, is he going to be in the Strange > Little Tour? I think your answer is to be found here: http://thedent.com/letterman0901.html [Joel can be seen on there in the photos of Tori leaving the Letterman taping last night.] Joel has said that he will always be there when Tori needs him. As long as Tori can continue to give him plenty of advance notice of her touring he ought to continue to manage to be otherwise unencumbered when her tour times roll around. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 04:14:36 EDT From: Mysterilady2001@cs.com Subject: SLG Impressions ~ Hi ya EWF ~ Looooong day - I'm exhausted & its late but I want to jot down these impressions before other things cloud their clarity. While in the car, in front of Best Buy (11.99 + tax btw), Even before I could listen to the album from start to finish I ripped open the CD to take it all in. (The GIRL I bought was Raining Blood, my kid liked her best so it goes OK for me. I'll get sealed copies of all 4 to tuck away in the collection later this week.) So I look at the back cover - very simple. Front cover - Gorg pic of Tori, & then the CD itself - what was reported to be a gray, I found it to be more of a dark olive green/gray. Odd color. Disc itself is sparse with few words. Reminds me of UTP. Then examined the long booklet. Took in the pics, no surprise there, seen them, like everyone. Read Neil's remark about each girl & moved on to credits & thank you's. 'Course Tori thanks Mark & Tash, her parents and all the folks who helped. Then to bolts & nails - As precious as can be Tori lists Natashya as EXECUTIVE PRODUCER! Too cute! Smiled a sec on that one as I moved to specs for each track - Tori's Dad, Reverend Amos, does the main speaking voice in the intro to Happiness Is A Warm Gun. Cool beans :-) What Dr Amos says, plus what the 2 Bush President's add, coupled with the shooting report of John Lennon bring the songs message home. Upon listening to the CD I found I really enjoyed the way the track listing was set up. Upon first listening I like New Age VERY much as I do SLG, Rattlesnakes, I'm Not In Love, I Don't Like Mondays & Happiness is a Warm Gun. '97 B&C is still spooky as hell, Enjoy the Silence a love song of greater depth than Depeche Mode ever sung it as (in my opinion), Time I found very poignant for today, Real Men I liked very much as well. I feel the message contained is as Neil said "true". I'm still working on grasping Raining Blood - I can't help but hear Slayers death metal version of it in my head, oh poo! :-( Frankly, I'm not a big fan of Heart of Gold. (Neither version. Never have been a Neil Young fan much.) Of course it might change, it has on other albums before. I've listened to the album in its entirety - front to back - 4 times now, worked while doing so, and I really like it. I'm no Roger Ebert but I'd give Strange Little Girls a BIG thumbs up :-) And That's my Day 1 Impression Toodles ~ MysT *** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 05:55:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Handal Subject: SLG Washington Post review http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A53163-2001Sep18?language=printer 'Girls': Tori Amos Goes On a Gender-Bender By Arion Berger Special to The Washington Post Wednesday, September 19, 2001; Page C05 Tori Amos is at it again. Piano-rock's feminist shaman picks up her skull-topped staff and exorcises the demons of misogyny from a dozen pop songs written and originally sung by men. And somehow she pulls it off. Everything that should be bad about this experiment is good: its self-indulgence, its hoary/tacky precedents (from David Bowie to Duran Duran), its strident purpose, even the fact that it expands on a previous Tori trope. With her 1992 cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Amos seemingly performed an act of cashing in on the nation's No. 1 song that, in truth, was totally non-expedient. In fact, it seemed demented that this animated art-muse could turn the unintelligible grunge anthem into a majestically bleeding piano ballad. She didn't have a hit with "Teen Spirit" (or with her beautiful cover of the Rolling Stones' "Angie"), and didn't mean to. She was taking popular music back underground, turning a hit into a cult artifact. On the new CD, "Strange Little Girls," Amos swims through the murky waters of men, women and violence, toying with the masks of aggression and victimization. If this all sounds very women's studies-ish, it is, but it works as a disturbing pop experiment, recontextualizing these male fantasies and fears in sometimes startling ways. Out of the most harmless, forgotten or canonized pop songs, Amos teases threads of disgust and paternalism. The title song becomes more of what it is -- one of the Stranglers' many obnoxiously entertaining lager-lout paeans to the weaker sex, funny and frightening in Amos's earnest voice. Depeche Mode's goth-disco hit "Enjoy the Silence" is revealed as naive and trifling -- a gorgeous melody laid bare against Amos's impressionistic keyboards, powering glib truisms about intimacy. Her tendency to build piano-driven mountains out of rock-and-roll molehills serves her beautifully on a dour, slow-rolling version of Slayer's "Raining Blood." "Real Men," Joe Jackson's exploration of male sexual roles, becomes a series of gentle taunts in the mouth of a confident young woman. The melody is, of course, intact; Amos and Jackson are compositional sisters under the skin. On Neil Young's pained Summer of Love ballad "Heart of Gold," Amos flattens out the melody rather than accentuating it, singing in a fevered Kate Bush monotone with overlaid guitar feedback that Young himself would recognize from his deliberately annoying masterpiece "Arc/Weld." It's as messy as a barrel of snakes and more an anguished cry for love than the hippie optimism of the original. Amos succeeds less vividly on the Beatles' "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," ironic in its original crooning lilt; here, it's funkified and desultory, made soggy with spoken clips of news reports and politicians. Another obvious choice, "I Don't Like Mondays," deservedly the only semi-hit for new-wave oddities the Boomtown Rats, tinkles along like a lullaby, Amos's voice starkly up front. Because the song was originally written from a female point of view, Amos brings little to the conversation beyond simply taking the frighteningly numb words out of Bob Geldof's mouth. But the mere act of male-to-female transformation has a far-reaching effect on Eminem's " '97 Bonnie & Clyde." Stripped of hip-hop aggression and whispered over darkly bowed strings, the story is anguished and unfunny -- a dead woman's message to her uncomprehending child. "Strange Little Girls" isn't easy listening, but it's a powerful argument for the pop adage that it's the singer, not the song. Tori Amos is scheduled to perform Oct. 6 and 7 at Constitution Hall. (c) 2001 The Washington Post Company ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 08:30:11 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: seattle ticketmaster url thanks, shaman! >Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 23:38:13 -0700 >From: Shaman >To: violetandmike@torithoughts.org >Subject: Re: [ToriTour US] toriamos.com newsletter #7 > >Here's the URL for Seattle! > >https://ticketing.ticketmaster.com/cgi/purchasePage.asp?event_id=F00332E8B3D6C48&event_code=EP1109&artistid=749136&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1&artimageid=. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:01:11 -0700 (PDT) From: freakgirl Subject: Re: Missed Tori on Letterman I missed it too! Can someone make me a copy of that and the appearance on Rosie, whenever that will be. I don't get those stations and everyone I know that does get them, gets them staticy. If you can help, let me know off-list. Thanks, Diana __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:04:06 EDT From: Dracovixen@aol.com Subject: Re: Precious Things String Instrumental Tribute I got the album. I love it. The first time listening through, I was a little iffy on some of the songs, like "Precious Things" itself, but the second time I heard it, I fell in love. "Pretty Good Year" is AMAZING. "Caught a Lite Sneeze", and "Flying Dutchman" are excellent. "Cornflake Girl", "Girl", and "Cruel" are pretty cool. I would buy it (I did), definitely if you are a fan of string instruments. Black Dove << Thanks for listening to me in my giddy mood... Desiree << Hi~ I know the current discussions are centering around the SLG album (which I purchased today and I look forward to reading your reviews)- but I have a sorta abstract question. Has anybody bought the "Precious Things: The String Quartet Tribute to Tori Amos" album? If so - what do you think of it? I need some instrumental music to listen to at work sometimes (where I'm an editor) and thought this sounded like a good idea! I'd love to see a review of it. I know at "The Dent" there is a small blurb about it... but I'm interested in other feedback as well. I can't ever seem to get on the official website for it - it always says "Server Too Busy." ~~meg ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V6 #174 *************************************