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precious-things-digest    Wednesday, March 27 2002    Volume 07 : Number 066



                               Today's Subjects:
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  how i found tori                                       [Cindy2Love@aol.com]
  Re: Threads That Are Golden ---  [=?iso-8859-1?q?sterilevision?= <sterilev]

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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 07:28:14 EST
From: Cindy2Love@aol.com
Subject: how i found tori

I really *love* reading the "how I found tori" stories.

I was 14 years old in February 1992.  My 2 bestfriends and I were at the mall 
shopping for dresses for some sweethearts dance at school.  Bestfriend #1 
said "Let's stop by the music store because I want to buy this cd by Tori 
Amos."  And I was like "Who's Tori Amos?"  and she said "Oh she's this red 
headed freak girl on drugs that I saw on MTV yesterday and she's so good."  
Then Bestfriend #2 said "I saw that!  I totally want you make me a copy of 
that cd when we get home."

So we go to the music store and we pick up the cd.  I remember looking at the 
back of it thinking it was so phallic, but whatever.  Then we go back to my 
friend's house and I swear when Crucify the first song on Little Earthquakes 
came on I was so mesmerized with her music.  It was love at the first sound.  
They were eating pizza and I couldn't even eat because I was just so into 
listening to the cd.  We listened to the whole cd and they kept asking me if 
I was all right because I was so silent.  I spent the night at her house and 
the next morning I rushed home and I begged my dad to drive me to the music 
store so I could get her Little Earthquakes cd.  I listened to it all day, 
all night and the next day at school I was so tired.  I didn't even want to 
go to school because I didn't want to be away from my cd.  I skipped soccer 
practice, my coach yelled at me and I just rushed home so I could listen to 
it again.   I was kind of a psycho tori fan from the first listen and ever 
since then I've been known as "that girl who loves tori amos." 


That's my tori story :-)

Love,
~~*Cindy*~

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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 00:45:55 +0100 (CET)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?sterilevision?= <sterilevision@yahoo.it>
Subject: Re: Threads That Are Golden ---

Hey there,
I know I'm late with this topic, but I read
Precious-Things when I have some spare time. So here
is my story: I live in Italy, so here medium get on my
nerves with Italian junk or some commercial foreign
trash. It's hard to come across some alternative &
interesting artist. However, one day I saw on TV the
CALS video. At first, my impression wasn't very
positive. I was a little puzzled by the sound itself,
on the contrary the video was original. But from that
moment the song begin to creep into my brain: I
realized I had to listen to it again. So I started
watching that TV channel everyday just to have a
chance to see again the CALS video. Finally I taped it
and watched to it several times. I wasn't sure that
type of music fit me, but I decided to buy the Pele
album. The strange thing is that I didn't like it, but
this pushed me to buy Little Earthquakes & Under the
Pink (which are absolutely my favourite T albums). In
fact, after having heard Pele for the 1st time I
thought this:"Ok, the album is bad, but I spent my
money on it, so I have to listen to it until I like
it". And so I did: I've listened to Pele again and
again. At the end, now I like it just because it's a T
album (because I like everything T does), but I felt I
had to know more about T and her music. In some way I
felt she was in resonance with me.
Some concluding words about T obscurity in lyrics. To
me, most of her song, lyrically speaking, are
ununderstandable (what a difficult word!), but this
doesn't bother me. I feel she's among the artists that
suit me. It's something deeper than the pure meanings
of the words.
I never read lyrics more than one/two times and I
never memorize them. The only song in my life that I
impressed in my memory is Me & a Gun. It struck me so
deeply.
That's all!
Take care,
Alessio

> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Mysterilady2001@cs.com>
> To: <precious-things@smoe.org>;
> <precious-things-digest@smoe.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 6:11 AM
> Subject: Threads That Are Golden ---
> 
> >     I've been following the marketing discussion.
> What I believe
> > would be valuable is learning where/how current
> fans came to
> > know of Tori's music and focus on those areas.

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