From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V6 #201 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, October 18 2001 Volume 06 : Number 201 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: lyric analysis/EDM/biggest thiskest ever sky ["Missy" ] reuters concert review (9 oct 01) [strange little woj ] washington post review [strange little woj ] new york times concert review [strange little woj ] boston herald review [strange little woj ] connecticut post interview [strange little woj ] tori promos for RAINN ["Armani Boy" ] webcast? ["Janet & Jon Haverman" ] tori on detroit tv [strange little woj ] concert reviews ["Aileen Sharkie" ] Wallingford, CT 1999 [Hgelmini@cs.com] posters ["Daisy Dead Petals" ] toriamos.com newsletter #11 [strange little woj ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 23:24:45 -0700 From: "Missy" Subject: Re: lyric analysis/EDM/biggest thiskest ever sky Hi, Your qoute below describes the following link perfectly..." > ..... I remember a site i found, oh a few years > ago that had quotes from what Tori had said about a few things/ her songs in > interviews and such, and also in concert, when she says things right before > she plays it. Anyone know? Im sure that site may be out there, somewhere in > internet land..." > This site has the lyrics and Tori's comments/qoutes about the songs... They seem to be in the process of moving, since if you go to thier main page, it sends you to a nonexistant new one where they supposedly moved to. I guess they're new home is giving them problems. However, from this page, you can just go to the song links, and it works just fine. Thought it sounded like what you were looking for. http://www.home.aone.net.au/evos/dan/tori/index_all.html - ----- Original Message ----- From: "ekrone1" To: Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 7:27 PM Subject: lyric analysis/EDM/biggest thiskest ever sky ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 03:04:27 EDT From: ToriphileMaria@aol.com Subject: Re: Lyric Book Has anyone else noticed that Tori appears to be using the Lyrics book when she forgets the words to Hey Jupiter on the WB Broadcast concert? Interesting that Tori herself uses it as a reference!! ~~Maria Maria's Tori Amos Bootleg Bliss "An Angel's Face is Tricky to Wear Constantly" ~Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:28:19 +0000 From: "Tom xxxxx" Subject: Tori quote in RS Hi all, thought you'd like to know Tori is quoted in the special 9/11 edition of Rolling Stone. There is no picture, unfortunately. The quote goes: "Whether you're a country being invaded or a person being invaded, your trust goes, you're vulnerable, and you ask yourself, 'What does freedom mean?'" There's also a nice picture of and quote from Stevie Nicks, too. toodles, Tom "All the carnage of my journeys makes it harder to be livin' He said, 'It's a long road to be forgiven." Amy Ray, "Chickenman" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:22:59 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: reuters concert review (9 oct 01) Wednesday October 17 1:41 AM ET Tori Amos revels in gloom Tori Amos (Beacon Theater; 3,017 seats; $40 top) By David Sprague NEW YORK (Variety) - Tori Amos certainly knows how to make an entrance. On Tuesday night, the enigmatic singer-songwriter kicked off the first of three Gotham shows on her solo American tour by pitching the Beacon Theater into total darkness -- a black hole from which emanated the sepulchral sound of her version of Eminem (news - web sites)'s murder allegory ``Bonnie and Clyde '97.'' It was a fittingly eerie beginning to what would prove to be a haunting performance. The stage trappings -- a semi-circle of simple, stretched fabric hangings that shifted shape with each shift in mood -- were every bit as stark as Amos' unvarnished performance. She spent most of the 100-minute set seated at a grand piano, and occasionally slipping off to play one of two organs situated on the otherwise bare floorboards. Although ostensibly touring in support of the just-released Atlantic album ``Strange Little Girls'' (which consists of a dozen oddball covers), Amos focused largely on earlier material -- even going back so far as to reclaim a long-disavowed ditty from her stint fronting Y Kan't Tori Read. While not radically revamped, the proffered versions of ``Icicle'' and ``Crucify'' -- the latter of which took some white-knuckled melodic swerves - -- both played up Amos' insistent restlessness. The same could be said of her take on Lloyd Cole's ``Rattlesnakes,'' which rose in aching arcs quite unlike the ones captured on ``Strange Little Girls.'' Amos has always been prone to capriciousness as a singer -- leaping octaves, stretching notes oddly -- but this perf showed her to be palpably more controlled, capable of coaxing subtly jazzy inflections from ``China'' and ``Cooling'' and ratcheting up the energy level on ``Sweet Dreams.'' The most affecting number -- as is invariably the case when it's slipped into the setlist -- was the autobiographical rape narrative ``Me and a Gun.'' Amos' a capella near-whisper, virtually drained of emotion, made the song difficult to listen to but impossible to ignore. An encore medley of ``Thank Heaven for Little Girls'' and ``Over the Rainbow'' (both performed with wistful charm and a total lack of irony) proved Amos' tonal palette to be broader than one might imagine. Those few points of wan light pierced the gloom beautifully, more than making up for the lack of sunshine in Tori's cloudy day. Amos performs at L.A.'s Wiltern Theatre Nov. 15-17. Presented by SFX. Opened and reviewed Oct. 9, 2001; closed Oct. 11. Reuters/Variety REUTERS ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 02:17:37 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: washington post review Monday, October 8, 2001; Page C05 All that was missing from New Age diva Tori Amos's sold-out Constitution Hall concert Saturday night were the aromatherapy candles. Bathed in a golden light and seated in front of a fluttering white scrim that gave the stage an airy, dreamlike feel, the 38-year-old piano player and rebel chanteuse performed nearly two hours of her soaring, ethereal fare. Whether it was old favorites like "Icicle" or "Crucify" or such new material as a cover of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence," the first plinked notes of every song drew shrieks of recognition from the crowd. It was an unabashed love-in for the Maryland-raised singer. Amos remains as much a performance artist as a singer-songwriter. She still straddles her piano bench and lurches about so much that it's hard to tell whether she's performing a concert or practicing for the rodeo. It's overblown and exaggerated and seems a bit silly. Unfortunately, the dramatic excess creeps into her songs as well. Amos has a beautiful voice, but her ballads, meant to exude a Kate Bush-like exotic, intoxicating ambiance, begin instead to feel bombastic, turgid and repetitious. Notable exceptions included a straightforward cover of Elton John's "Daniel" and a disturbing a cappella version of "Me and a Gun," her harrowing firsthand account of being a victim of sexual violence. Amos also performed several songs from her new album, "Strange Little Girls," a collection of covers in which she gives a female voice to songs written by men. The show opened with her convincingly spooky reworking of Eminem's misogynistic anthem "97 Bonnie & Clyde." Singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright proved his pedigree (his parents are folk singers Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle) with an opening set marked by droll asides and a batch of winning songs including "California" and "Poses." - -- Joe Heim ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 02:43:13 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: new york times concert review [this article will only available on the nytimes website for a week.] A Cast of Thousands Perched on Tori Amos's Piano Bench By JON PARELES Alone at her piano Tori Amos was a one-woman crowd when she performed at the Beacon Theater on last Tuesday night. She was a dreamer, a rape victim, a little girl, a threatening boyfriend, an abandoned lover, a beauty queen, a blasphemous Christian, an ancient myth. She was sweet and remote, cagey and raw, pained and merciless. While her characters could verge on madness, her music was under absolute control. Ms. Amos has a classical pianist's technique, meticulously weighting every note. And she made her voice plead or scratch, whisper or sob with a thespian's timing. To her devoted fans her songs bring the consolation that even the most bewildering events can be set in order. Ms. Amos has been riffling through female archetypes for a decade. Her new album, "Strange Little Girls" (Atlantic), assembles songs written by men about women or addressed to them, and none is as simple as a love song. At the Beacon she started with Eminem's "97 Bonnie and Clyde," in which a man has his young daughter help him dispose of his wife's corpse; over a recorded background of chamber-music strings she narrated it like a doting parent. And she brought an enigmatic sympathy to Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence," whose narrator professes love while warning his sweetheart not to speak. Her own songs can be more elusive. While her early ones, like "Crucify," speak directly about a young woman's rebelliousness and uncertainties, her later ones spin far-flung fantasies. Some use melodies as concise as lullabies, while others are rhapsodic, leaping from bruised low notes to pure soprano heights. To pull off such idiosyncratic songs takes unwavering conviction, something Ms. Amos has never lacked. She merges the calculation of a recitalist with the intensity of a torch singer, and she made every keening wordless note sound heartfelt. She even had some whimsy, singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and substituting "boys" for "girls," then concluding, "Without them, what would other little boys do?" It was all part of her continuing inquiry into what's not exactly the battle of the sexes but the bafflement as they meet. On the surface Rufus Wainwright, who opened the concert, treats desire and death more casually, in easy-swaying, modernized parlor tunes that hold gently self-deprecating lyrics. Though he joked as he moved between keyboard and guitar, the songs came through clearly to an audience that hung on every word. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 02:49:37 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: boston herald review Amos creates riptide of emotion by Dean Johnson Tuesday, October 16, 2001 Tori Amos, with Rufus Wainwright, at the Wang Theatre, last night. It's almost impossible to take in a Tori Amos concert and not feel like the cheapest kind of voyeur. Amos is such an intimate, evocative and physical performer that just watching her sing and play a piano can be a riveting and unnerving experience. Last night's sold-out Wang Theater concert included nearly two dozen songs during her 105-minute set. Amos performed solo, jumping among three keyboards. The stage setting and lighting were dramatic in their simplicity. But nothing stole the thunder from her performance. Amos has an uncanny ability to unveil several personalities in a song, dredging up emotions and primal feelings. She's an expert at dynamics, moving from a whisper to a scream in a few bars, wrapping everything in tight piano arrangements that flutter like butterflies one moment and drop into dark, stomping Clive Barker chords the next. Though Amos sampled her new disc ``Strange Little Girls,'' she actually did more songs from older albums and performed covers ranging from Led Zeppelin's ``Thank You'' to the schmaltzy ``Please Come to Boston.'' But the couplet of the stark ``Me and a Gun,'' about rape, followed by a heartbreaking version of ``Somewhere Over the Rainbow'' was the night's highlight. Rufus Wainright opened with a solo set that was just a little too coy for his own good. But then, Vanity Fair just named him the only pop star progeny more famous than his parents, so what does he care. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 03:06:31 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: connecticut post interview Tori Amos turns the tables to get a man's perspective October 12, 2001 By SEAN SPILLANE sspillane@ctpost.com It's not unusual for songwriters to add a cover song or two on their albums, but when an artist does a whole record of cover versions, it's usually something released by the artist to fulfill a record contract or if the artist's cupboard of new songs is bare. For Tori Amos, thankfully, this is not the case. Her new album, Strange Little Girls, is held together by the theme of her recording versions of songs written by men. The disc ranges from songs by Lou Reed ("New Age"), Neil Young ("Heart of Gold") and John Lennon ("Happiness is a Warm Gun") to songs by more obscure artists such as the Stranglers ("Strange Little Girl"), 10cc ("I'm Not In Love") and Lloyd Cole ("Rattlesnakes"). Throughout, Amos uses words written by men and adds the female perspective. Nowhere is it more chillingly done than on " '97 Bonnie & Clyde," a wife-killing fantasy by rapper Eminem. "It was irresistible," Amos said in a recent phone interview from a tour stop in Washington, D.C. "I had more trepidation about doing Tom Waits ["Time"] because that's more subtle. The Bonnie & Clyde' thing was airtight, it was clear. There's a woman in the trunk dying who doesn't have a voice. Come on! I had to pick that one up. "Especially since my brain trust of men never asked about her. She was faceless, voiceless. She didn't resonate. Nobody wanted to know what kind of coffee she drank." Amos enlisted some male friends to assists in picking songs for the new album, her sixth and first since 1999's To Venus and Back. All five of her previous albums have gone platinum [1 million sold]. "I got together a brain trust of men," Amos said, "realizing that my premise -- how men say things and what a woman hears -- can only really hold up if first I investigate and understand how men say things and what a man hears. So I sat back and watched men expose their world to me. A lot of the material was brought by them. "It was about music that resonated with them, not music that women think men should like. . . . What is in [a man's] private CD pack that they keep in their computer bag, that's the one I wanted." But even with the input from her male friends, it was Amos who ultimately decided on which songs she would use. "I made certain choices that I felt right about," she said. "I didn't go to the mothers of these songs -- who are men. I've been a song-mother for a long time and I'm a human-mother and they're very similar. "I felt like I was going to make choices based on one important fact: there are some things that you only tell your mother. And I respected the song's relationship with its male mother." Now, one of the challenges for Amos is to work the songs into her live shows. She's on tour now and plays the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford Sunday night at 7:30. The other challenge is that since she's touring solo -- just her and her keyboards -- some of the album's songs need to be reworked for this tour. Strange Little Girls features other musicians, most notably guitar wizard Adrian Belew. "Some of [the songs] are easier to rearrange than others," Amos said. "I'm only going to do [live] what I think I can pull off. "But I'm not here to just deliver the new album live. That's not why I tour. Why I tour is to kind of work with all the songs -- the work that I've just done and also the work from the past 10 years." It is Amos' first tour without a backing band since 1994, when she was on the road in support of her Under the Pink album. This intimate format gives Amos a chance to take each show in a different direction. "It's such a different animal," Amos said of her solo trek. "I don't approach it the same way. A lot of the songs are not the same ones I would do with a band. What I would do with a band is a very different set list than what I am doing right now. They both have their challenges. "It's pretty improvisational every night, [except for] the opening number. Every tour I decide on an opening number and then that's the tone that I'm setting. But everything else can change. Until I walk in there, I don't know what I'm going to do." The show's theme also changes from city to city, especially in light of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. "There's no question that after Sept. 11, you have to weave this shattering into the tapestry every night," Amos said. "That is something everyone does have in common right now. Some people are more on the hope side, some people are more on the fear side and some people are more on the vengeance side. So a show can hold a lot of different emotions. "Each city is slightly different. I'm in D.C. tonight (Oct. 6) and there's a different tone here. New York, D.C., Boston -- they're shows that have their own relationship with this whole thing that's different from everybody else because they were attacked. "Everyone else was attacked emotionally, but they were in the epicenter so it's a different frequency that you're dealing with." Tori Amos, with special guest Rufus Wainwright, is at the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford Sunday night at 7:30. For tickets ($35-$43), call the box office at 265-1501. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:59:52 -0400 From: "Armani Boy" Subject: tori promos for RAINN hey guys and girls going through my tori and found somethings that i don't have to have anymore. i'd rather offer them to people on here than use eBay. i have just one of each item, $1 covers shipping no matter how many items you want, and i'm giving all the money to rainn let me know a.s.a.p. if you're interested! armaniboy $10.00 EACH Cornflake Girl -rare US promo w/ 2 vers. f/b cover art PRCD-5606-2 Silent All These Years RAINN concert promo cd. unique f/b artwork w/ concert info on sticker PRCD 6986 from the choirgirl hotel 4 track promo sampler f/b artwork PRCD 8520 to venus and back :live sampler 4 track promo f/b artwork--very cool pic of tori on cover! PRCD 9142 tracks from to venus and back 8 track sampler (only came w/ b artwork) PRCD 9091 $4.00 EACH 1000 Oceans cd single includes live version of baker baker Spark cd single still sealed w/ "purple people" Bliss cd single still sealed w/ live version of Hey Jupiter thanks for checking this out! _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:29:51 -0400 From: "Janet & Jon Haverman" Subject: webcast? TORI AMOS' 'STRANGE LITTLE WEBCAST' DEBUTS AT WARNERBROS.COM* Better than a backstage pass - Tori Amos fans can catch a rare dress rehearsal performance in the acclaimed artist's 'Strange Little Webcast.' Accessible at the below Warner link and AOL Keyword: Music, this Internet-only event features an unaccompanied Amos alone at the keyboards for the first time in seven years. Among the selections will be songs from Tori's new album, STRANGE LITTLE GIRLS,' including 'Time' and 'Enjoy The Silence.' Amos is currently in the midst of a major cross-country concert tour - for more info and dates visit her official site, ToriAmos.com. http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/wblcs/aol/tori_amos/splash.jsp http://www.toriamos.com http://www.atlantic-records.com/tori_amos ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 05:58:27 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: tori on detroit tv from toriamos.com : Wednesday, October 17 Be sure to listen Tomorrow morning to Tori's interview with FOX 2 News Morning/WJBK-TV, FOX Detroit, MI. Thursday, October 18th. woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 22:35:13 From: "Aileen Sharkie" Subject: concert reviews Has anyone else noticed that in EVERY review of a concert in which Tori sang Me and A Gun, it was described as "a song about her real life rape", or something to that effect? It's starting to get on my nerves, considering she WASN'T raped. Don't journalists have to check their facts before writing up a story? :-P just complainin' though aileen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 20:07:28 EDT From: Hgelmini@cs.com Subject: Wallingford, CT 1999 Hi, I have a question about Tori's show when she performed at the Jingle Ball Jam at the Oakdale Theater in Wallingford, CT on December 2, 1999. She opened the show with Smells Like Teen Spirit, and in the middle of the song she sang a part that is not in the song on any of her albums. Does anyone know what exactly she sang, or what those lyrics are from? It was something like, "you are right there little one." Any help would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to e-mail me privately if you would like. Thanks so much! Heather ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 20:09:20 -0500 From: "Daisy Dead Petals" Subject: posters Many thanks to all that helped me find out the history of my posters! It seems many people are selling Strange Little Girl posters nowadays, but if you are looking for some cool oldies, check these out: BfP: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1476048892 Debi Bowes: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1476039363 Magazine Covers poster: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1476043936 Daisy Melanie loopgaroo@g2a.net "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - --Issac Asimov ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:10:30 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: toriamos.com newsletter #11 - ----- Forwarded message from Tori Amos ----- From: "Tori Amos" Subject: Your favorite song Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 20:48:31 -0700 ToriAmos.com Oct. 17, 2001 - Issue #11 "Strange Little Webcast" http://www2.fanscape.com/toriamos/rd/101201wbroswebcast.asp A rare inside look at a dress rehearsal performance available now through Jan. 11 ____________________________________________ "Rattlesnakes" Audio Real http://www2.fanscape.com/toriamos/downloads/rattlesnakesrm.asp Originally from Rattlesnakes Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, 1984 ____________________________________________ She doesn't know who owned the jacket originally. Nobody claimed it after a party, and she figured it looked good on her. It says KISS, and she does not like to kiss. People, men and women, have told her that she is beautiful, and she has no idea what they mean. When she looks in the mirror she does not see beauty looking back at her. Only her face. She does not read, watch TV, or make love. She listens to music. She goes places with her friends. She rides rollercoasters but never screams when they plummet or twist and upside down. If you told her the jacket was yours she'd just shrug and give it back to you. It's not like she cares, not one way or the other. -Neil Gaiman One of the top writers in modern comics, best-selling novelist, and friend of Tori Amos, writes his interpretation of the characters from Strange Little Girls. ToriAmos.com | Tour Update http://toriamos.com/tour.php - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V6 #201 *************************************