From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V2 #363 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, December 18 1997 Volume 02 : Number 363 Today's Subjects: ----------------- teacups [BrandyB24 ] Re: Flub-ups! [monolithicjuggernaut@juno.com (Mark W Biscomb)] rabbit [TREW876 ] [none] [Brian the Lion ] Jupiter ["Doron Vidavski" ] Re: flub ups [Alicia ] RE: Flub-ups! [Alicia ] Pay-Per-View webcast! [agentorange2@juno.com (Rusty M Shelby)] Re: rabbit ["Remedy Malahyde" ] Re: teacups ["Remedy Malahyde" ] RE: Flub-ups! ["Giovanni Mantilla" ] Re: Flub-ups! [Mike Gray ] Re:rabbit [MaidenShru ] Re: rabbit [MaidenShru ] Just Wondering? [Troy Cockrell ] Re: [JEDAS1 ] Re: RE: Flub-ups! [JEDAS1 ] Re: rabbit [anabug ] Re: Just Wondering? [monolithicjuggernaut@juno.com (Mark W Biscomb)] Tori news from ICE [Beth Winegarner ] Flub Ups ["Hanna Paulus" ] Re: Flub-ups! [LCS27 ] another flub [Dave Woodson ] Re: another flub [JiVa DiVa ] Confession about Flub-ups [Ashley Blaize ] Re: Just Wondering? [Mikewhy ] Re: another flub [Deborah Nazarian ] hippity hopp [rain ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 02:01:59 EST From: BrandyB24 Subject: teacups I was just noticing the inside cover of the EASTWEST China cd single. On the inside cover the lyrics are types out with Toris hair on the side, and it is in the shape of a teacup, it is the cutest thing, did you all see it, am I just slow...... love ya guys.. brandy(BS) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 22:56:53 -0800 From: monolithicjuggernaut@juno.com (Mark W Biscomb) Subject: Re: Flub-ups! Gee... thanks for the support, GlitterGirl (and I must compliment you on an excellent choice of alias). Peace, Love, and the Goddess-- Mark (who plans on getting a Tori lyric for his signature file soon...) "I'm just about done with this 'oh, woe is me shit' and I want everything back that's mine." --Ani DiFranco On Wed, 17 Dec 1997 00:13:12 -0500 (EST) Glitter Girl writes: >Don't feel so bad, Mark :) At least yours makes sense! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:58:49 EST From: TREW876 Subject: rabbit >>Off~hand I can remember back when I first got UtP. Cornflake girl when she >>goes "by the way~ where'd you put the keys girl...." well i always heard by >>the way *but* my friend insisted it was "Rabbit....blahblah" i believed her :P it IS rabbit... isn't it? it says so in the liner notes... i'm confused. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:30:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Brian the Lion Subject: [none] So where does "flub-ups" come from? maybe i don't know 'cos i'm a Brit. My worst has to be "Emma was a cornflake girl"; i had (and still have) a good friend called Emma and to wind her up i always used to sing this at her. And i really thought that was what it said, 'cos i didn't have they original! D'OH!!!!!!! She forgave me, and now i'm the one who gets wound up when she sings it. Apart from Tori (hope i don't get slapped for this), until i got commercial copies of a load of my Cure stuff, i got about 50% of every song wrong:- eg "we move like asian tigers"?!?!?!?! or "i thought you looked like a japanese, maybe"!! Yours in the land of doofus B. - ---------------------- Brian the Lion bos197@soton.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 15:03:14 BST From: "Doron Vidavski" Subject: Jupiter Embarrassingly enough, when I first heard "Hey Jupiter" i thought she was singing: "If my heart's soaking wet, boy your BOOBS can leave a mess". Pathetic, really. doron, Manchester ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 15:44:32 GMT From: Alicia Subject: Re: flub ups My flub-ups: in CALS: ........don't believe you don't didn't know why love was so small couldn't stand it out mr. say don't just bring your sun it made a lot of sense to me! then, the first time I heard Crucify, I thought she said "change oh-oh-oh" and in PgY, "I hurt the tenderfoot men", then Past the Mission "I don't believe I went to Cuba" and "I once knew a hard girl". in Talula "he's my favorite booker of the whole bunch" But not many, because I usually read the lyrics before I listen to the songs. But, for example, the first time I heard Caught a lite sneeze, I had *no idea* what she was saying so I made up a pretty decent combination of vowels and consonants which made *some* sense so I could sing it. Alicia ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 15:47:43 GMT From: Alicia Subject: RE: Flub-ups! > >I think screwing up on the lyrics is more common, I think with the abstractness of Tori's lyrics. > >-- Nancy and not only the abstractness, she doesn't pronounce so well at times. But we still love her, don't we? Alicia ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 23:11:14 -0500 From: agentorange2@juno.com (Rusty M Shelby) Subject: Pay-Per-View webcast! i haven't posted in forever... so i thought i would make it good.... not that most of you already don't know this... - -rusty _____________________________________________ Amos To Hold Video Benefit On Internet Atlantic artist Tori Amos will offer 14 music videos, including a rare clip for "Cornflake Girl," for viewing over the Internet as part of a holiday charity effort for the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN). The program launches Dec. 18 at http://www.real.com and http://www.atlanticrecords.com, allowing users who make a minimum $5 donation to RAINN to access the clips for a four-week period. RealNetworks, which is providing technology support for the event, says it is the first pay-per-view charity event on the Web. FROM BILLBOARD ONLINE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ check out my web page! (updated 12/13/97) http://www.cantnot.org/rusty ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 16:12:19 +0000 From: "Remedy Malahyde" Subject: Re: rabbit On 16 Dec 97 at 18:58, TREW876 allegedly said: > >>Off~hand I can remember back when I first got UtP. Cornflake girl > >>when she goes "by the way~ where'd you put the keys girl...." > >>well i always heard by the way *but* my friend insisted it was > >>"Rabbit....blahblah" i believed her > :P > > it IS rabbit... isn't it? it says so in the liner notes... i'm > confused. It is indeed "Rabbit". I think I saw it explained somewhere, maybe by Tori, maybe not, in some article somewhere many many moons ago.. *sigh* if only I had enough hard disk space to store everything about Tori I come across. Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "All these people... | http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d550du are they cool??" | http://toristuff.home.ml.org Paul.Tweedy@durham.ac.uk | paultweedy@yahoo.com | * Currently playing * ICQ : 1988634 | IQ : 'Forever Live' =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Um, I was, like, um, that's, like, rilly cool, prolly" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 16:12:19 +0000 From: "Remedy Malahyde" Subject: Re: teacups On 17 Dec 97 at 2:01, BrandyB24 allegedly said: > I was just noticing the inside cover of the EASTWEST China cd > single. On the inside cover the lyrics are types out with Toris > hair on the side, and it is in the shape of a teacup, it is the > cutest thing, did you all see it, am I just slow...... I never noticed that. Surprising really, as I paid eighteen pounds for the damn thing and have been trying to get my money's worth by not having it off my CD player. I'm not sure how I ever lived without the studio version of Flying Dutchman (the live version being on the limited edition Past The Mission single, but then, you already knew that, didn't you? ;). Tch. Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "All these people... | http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d550du are they cool??" | http://toristuff.home.ml.org Paul.Tweedy@durham.ac.uk | paultweedy@yahoo.com | * Currently playing * ICQ : 1988634 | Radiohead : 'The Bends' =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Um, I was, like, um, that's, like, rilly cool, prolly" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 11:38:03 -0500 From: "Giovanni Mantilla" Subject: RE: Flub-ups! Hey, well, I've been quiet lately, but since I really have had a lot of flub-ups, mainly because english is not my first language, here goes the first I remember: in "Professional Widow", the part where Tori sings "Prism perfect, honey bring it close to my lips, yeah, what has termed a landslide", I always thought she was singing: "Present perfect, ahoy bring it close to my lips now, what has turned the lights down?" and I have had more than a few really. It's hilarious! Cheers! Giovanni Mantilla giofabman@hotmail.com ********************* CORNFLAKE CITY-----> My Tribute To Tori Amos http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1826/main.html Giovanni's ARTIST CENTRAL http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1826/personal.html ********************** "Me and Jesus a few years back, Used to hang and He said, "It's your choice, babe, just remember, I don't think you'll be back three days time, so you choose well." " ToRi AmOs, "Me And A Gun" *************************** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 16:41:38 +0000 From: Mike Gray Subject: Re: Flub-ups! >Oooh dear...yus I know what yr talking bout..I've had so many I cant even >count. >Off~hand I can remember back when I first got UtP. Cornflake girl when she >goes "by the way~ where'd you put the keys girl...." well i always heard by >the way *but* my friend insisted it was "Rabbit....blahblah" i believed her. Erm... sorry, I'm sure I'm missing the point here, but in the lyrics in the MTV Unplugged book, and the UtP book, it lists the lyrics as "Rabbit where'd you put the keys girl.." So AFAIK, she *doesn't* go "by the way - where'd you put..." Am I wrong? Oh, and I picked up "Piano Lessons" today (a bootleg) which has Tori performing "Etienne" from the BfP tour. It's quite an interesting little thing, and perhaps I could real audio encode it and stick it on my web pages if anyone wants to hear it? Cheers Mike Mike Gray - michael@pta15.u-net.com http://www.pta15.u-net.com/mike/index.html ^ Now including Celine Dion, Peach, Gloria Estefan, Erasure & more.. And give "Milk" by Garbage a quick listen if you have the time. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 15:13:53 EST From: MaidenShru Subject: Re:rabbit yusyus~ i know yr right! i looked it up...damn the nyquil and etc....i apologize hee...i just made a flub up in from of you all. ~K~ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 15:02:18 EST From: MaidenShru Subject: Re: rabbit ohmy! i really junno...i just looked in the lyrics and well in UtP it says rabbit but in the cornflake girl single cover it says by the way....maybe yr right....ack! help! ~KedrenLeanne~ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 15:47:27 -0500 From: Troy Cockrell Subject: Just Wondering? Hi Guys, I was just wondering what you thought of Tori going for more of a "band" sound rather than it being a woman and her piano? Do you think that Tori is going back to the Y Kant days? I hope not...I will really miss the concerts where it was just Tori and her piano or Caton too. I think that the days where it's Tori and the piano are gone... and it sorta makes me sad. Thanks Troy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 15:49:49 EST From: JEDAS1 Subject: Re: In a message dated 12/17/97 8:01:11 AM, bos197@soton.ac.uk wrote: <> Ack, that's okay...I knew what he was saying but I used to think in the song Lullaby: "His arms are around me and his teeth in my eyes." =) julie ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 15:54:42 EST From: JEDAS1 Subject: Re: RE: Flub-ups! When I first heard CALS before I got the lyrics, it sounded like: beauty, don't believe in it at all didn't know how love was so small couldn't stand it at all Mr. St. John, just bring your son. I got the St. John thing right b/c this teacher in my school is Mr. St. John!! julie ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 15:03:07 +1300 From: anabug Subject: Re: rabbit At 06:58 PM 12/16/97 EST, you wrote: >>>Off~hand I can remember back when I first got UtP. Cornflake girl when she >>>goes "by the way~ where'd you put the keys girl...." well i always heard by >>>the way *but* my friend insisted it was "Rabbit....blahblah" i believed her >:P > >it IS rabbit... isn't it? it says so in the liner notes... i'm confused. > it is rabbit, where'd you put the keys girl ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 13:55:44 -0800 From: monolithicjuggernaut@juno.com (Mark W Biscomb) Subject: Re: Just Wondering? On Wed, 17 Dec 1997 15:47:27 -0500 Troy Cockrell writes: >Hi Guys, >I was just wondering what you thought of Tori going for more of a >"band" >sound rather than it being a woman and her piano? Well, I think it could go two ways. I suppose it's possible that she could regress back into the rock chick she tried to be in YKTR, but I don't think it's likely. If "Siren" is at all indicative of where she's headed, I think she'd going to sound like she has on the Tornado Mix of Talula, or perhaps somewhat Criminal-esque (a la Fiona Apple) which has the piano as the central focus of the music, but also brings in some other stuff as well. I also don't think that even if she does adopt a new sound that it will mean the demise of the "girl and her piano." I think it'll just add a new dimension to her sound and increase her variety. Anyone else have any thought? Peace, Love, and the Goddess-- Mark "I'm just about done with this 'oh, woe is me shit' and I want everything back that's mine." --Ani DiFranco ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 16:10:46 -0800 From: Beth Winegarner Subject: Tori news from ICE Hiya guys... ICE magazine had this to day about Great Expectations: "On January 6, Atlantic Records will ring in the new year with Great Expectations, a 16-song soundtrack featuring new music by Tori Amos.... [list of other bands & stuff] The complete track list, in sequence: Tori Amos -- "Finn" and "Siren" [followed by all the other tracks]... "One thing that makes GE unusual is that the composer of the film's classical score, Patrick Doyle, worked closely with the rock artists on the soundtrack. (Doyle is best known for his work with actor/director Kenneth Branagh) 'We brought together these two different worlds of music,' [executive producer Darren] Higman says. 'We wanted the rock musicians to work with Patrick in creating songs that were evocative of the score and vice versa, which no one has really done before.' "'In particular,' he says, 'Patrick and Tori talked a lot about what they wanted the song ["Siren"] to say. The scene Tori wrote for is one where the Ethan Hawke character has finally decided to get on with his life, but like a siren he's always drawn back to Gwyneth Paltrow. So there's a literal connection to the lyrics.' "On the same day, Atlantic will release GE: The Score Music by Patrick Doyle, which contains additional vocalizing by Amos not found on the soundtrack." :) Beth - -- "And I try to laugh at whatever life brings Cuz when I look down I miss all the good stuff And when I look up I just trip over things." (Ani DiFranco) "I don't like fun. Fun... upsets me." (Marilyn Manson, on Hanson) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 16:47:06 PST From: "Hanna Paulus" Subject: Flub Ups I admit I have had my share of lub ups too, I don't remember many of them but before I looked at the BfP lyric book I thought in the song Twinkle she sang, "No matter what tie she's got in her right, dress untied," instead of, "No matter, what tie she's got in her right dresser tied." And in Doughnut or Donut Song, whatever, I thought she said, "And southern men can grow cold can grow pertty blood can be pertty like a dull looking man," instead of "and southern men can grow gold can grow pertty blood can be pertty like a delicate man." oh and in Talula, i thought she said, "Mary M really hun,said what you want is in the blood of senators," instead of, "Mary M weaving on said what you want is in the blood senators." That's about all I can remember, I never really had any on LE, or UtP because on those when I didn't know what she said I looked in the books. Well, bye. ~Hanna ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 19:29:59 EST From: LCS27 Subject: Re: Flub-ups! This is a rather embarrasing flub-up! In Here in My Head the line is ~and Thomas Jefferson wasn't born in your backyard, as you would have liked to have said~ I always thought it was ~and Thomas Jefferson wasn't born in your backyard and you like to have sex~ Unoriginal for Tori and certainly silly, but I still find myself singing that line sometimes. Laura ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 18:35:45 -0700 From: Dave Woodson Subject: another flub I used to think the chorus of Tear In Your Hand was "The black of the black nasturtium and that tear in your hand..." It is interesting to imagine a great big field of black nasturtiums. I wonder if there actually is such a flower. But none of the wrong Tori lyrics I have imagined hearing [most of which have already been mentioned by others] are as strange as when I used to hear that song that has the line "It's the stuff that dreams are made of..." and it always sounded more like "We can stuff that green tomato..." -Dave ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 22:01:06 EST From: JiVa DiVa Subject: Re: another flub Howdy ya'll.... I'm really new to this list, but I too have my share of flub ups... hee hee... Theyre all pretty dumb... Here's what I thought she sang... from Sister Janet... **~...with my dolly from the shed outside...~** **~...call the wanderer, he is dumb...**~ **~...I think I could die there once again...**~ from Honey **~...you're just too used to mourning...~** (i could hear nothing about honey) from Yes Anastasia **~driving on by all the clothes lines~** from Space Dog **~let him by, he's coming through~** I know none of these are interesting really, and pretty concievable. I'm just not very imaginative that way. JiVa ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 20:53:50 -0800 (PST) From: Ashley Blaize Subject: Confession about Flub-ups Dear golly, the flub-ups I make! Here are some of my most hilarous ones: (A=Acutal Lyrics; M=My stupid mistakes!) LITTLE EARTHQUAKES CD CRUCIFY - R=Got a kick for a dog.... M=Got a kid for a doll.... GIRL - R=My image under her thumb yes with a message.... M=My inner gender has flown, years with a message.... MOTHER - R=Circus Girl without a safety net.... M=Silky skirt without a safety net.... UNDER THE PINK CD BELLS FOR HER - R=Brothers and lovers, she and I were.... M=Brothers and mothers she and I were.... BAKER, BAKER - R=I know you're late for your next parade.... M=I know you're late for your next day.... CORNFLAKE GIRL - R=Rabbit, where'd you put the keys, girl? M=Babbette, where's you put the keys, girl? Mary, where's you put the keys, girl? Mister, where's you put the keys, girl? CLOUD ON MY TONGUE - R=Leave the wood outside M=(only the first time I heard it though! This is embarrassing!)Lee Greenwood's outside *lol* BOYS FOR PELE CD PROFESSIONAL WIDOW - R=What is termed a landslide M=What has tuned the landslide Those are just the main ones. I'm going to put a thing on my web page (Tea With the Waitress) about these flub-ups. If there are any stories of your flub-ups or your friends' flub-ups, please e-mail me at either boy4pele@rocketmail.com or nacho@comsource.net Thanks! Peace, Love and other indoor sports, Mr. Ashley === "Hold on to nothing as fast as you can" - Tori Amos Tea With the Waitress - http://www.comsource.net/~nacho/Tori_Amos/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "why is it that birds fly high in the sky, proud of their ability, yet they rest in the branches of the depressing weeping willow?" - Mackenzie Arnold _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 00:23:24 -0500 From: Mikewhy Subject: Re: Just Wondering? Mark said: >I also don't think that even if she does adopt a new >sound that it will mean the demise of the "girl and her piano." I think >it'll just add a new dimension to her sound and increase her variety. >Anyone else have any thought? I think I agree to this. I keep thinking back to what she said on the ticketmaster chat back on August 1996. Here is the quote: >"I am beginning to kick around in my head a different approach to this >album than to the other ones. I think I've really done the girl with a >piano >thing, so I think I need a new challenge now. If there's a way to >use the piano >without it being the center of attention, I'd like to do >that. She doesn't feel >shafted by that role." This quote has interested me ever since I first heard it. I think she had this in mind when she recorded the new album! Anyway, we will not have too much longer to wait until be find out! Yours in Tori, Mikewhy - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. Whitehead mikewhy@iglou.com My Dent In The Tori Amos Net Universe => http://www.aye.net/~mikewhy/toriamos.html "Moses I know, I know you've seen fire, but you've never seen fire until you've seen Pele blow..." Tori Amos - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 21:21:09 -0800 From: Deborah Nazarian Subject: Re: another flub for the longest time i thought in "Honey", Tori was singing "you just do your stuff my honey now" instead of "you're just too used to my honey now"...go figure :) this topic of flub-ups is really interesting and reminds me of something Seal, another talented musician, wrote in regards to why he doesn't print the lyrics on his albums: he writes "...quite often, my songs mean one thing to me and another to the listener. But that's ok because I think it's the general vibe of what I'm saying that is important and not the exact literal translation. I guess what I'm saying is that the song is always larger in the listeners mind because with it they attach imagery which is relative to their own personal experience. So it is your perception of what I'm saying rather than what I actually say that is the key." thought i'd share this with you all since it relates so well with what we're discussing :) -debbie- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 09:43:53 -0800 From: rain Subject: hippity hopp as for the rabbit thing goes, i heard tori explain in an interview that rabbit is this hippie chick who lives in the woods and makes beads or something wierd like that, and tori met her and thought she was really cool.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~rain~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V2 #363 *************************************