From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V3 #163 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 Sunday, May 3 1998 Volume 03 : Number 163 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: OK tons of info etc [woj spice ] Re: ONE more thing [JupiterCMS ] Chicago Sun-Times gives FTCGH 3 1/2 *'s [AKlink8489 ] Re: limited tori cd [woj spice ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 14:23:41 -0400 From: woj spice Subject: Re: OK tons of info etc also sprach Jenn: >* some sad news.. I am part of the radio station WKNH here at college, and >we just got the tori CD in.. I can't borrow it till sunday but believe me >you'll hear about it then.. also some guy at Atlantic keeps calling our >music director saying not to play it till the 11th because they might push >back the release date because of shipping problems or something ( sob, sob) interesting. just got this from cdnow: >I regret to inform your order XXXXXXX has been canceled because >the release date established by the record label has been postponed >indefinitely: > >AMOS*TORI/FROM THE CHOIRGIRL HOTEL (VINYL) > >At this time we have no information about when the item (s) will be >available. I am sorry that we won't be able to fulfill your order. > >Thank you. > >Sincerely, >Customer Service > >CDnow, Inc. this isn't the first time that cdnow has failed to come through on vinyl orders, so i guess it should come as no surprise. does anyone know if the lp will not be released after all? woj ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 13:49:31 EDT From: JupiterCMS Subject: Re: ONE more thing <<"some talking points for parents of teenage Amos fans : As always avoid further alienation by emphasizing the positive. In conversations with your child, note Amos's accomplished musicianship, her years of classical training, her soaring soprano, the complex structure of her songs. No need to mention that you find her musci repetitive, boring, and in dire need of a backbeat. Pretend you can't understand everything Amos says-she slurs most of the bad words anyway-and if you happen to read the lyric sheet, shun sarcastic remarks about phrases like "lollipop gestapo" and "icecream assassin" discuss less obscure songs on this CD like "Jackie's Strenght" It includes a line about "lunch boxes worshiping David Cassidy" a perfect opening for an anecdote or two about pop stars in your day. Or "Playboy Mommy" which actually has a story to tell. Above all, be convincing. The more you pretend to like this album, the less your kids will want to listen to it. Bottom line: A mess; don't linger here for long">> i hate when writers do things like this...i mean yes..everyone is intitled to his or her own opinion but if it means sabatageing (sp ? lol i cant spell to save my life) the artist/ musician...etc....then it gets way out of hand....also its pretty low when writers start using the "dont let your kids listen to it because....." thing..that is just pathetic...tori's music is no danger to anyone...people draw their own meanings and conclusions from it, and alot of people have been helped by it. Also...How could anyone ever say Tori is boring ???? geez i dont know what the world is coming to !! another thing that part about the phrases in her songs....what the hell is so wrong about an "ice cream assasin" or "Jackies Strength" ???...i am just upset at this article..i dont know who thses people think they are writing things like this..as if they are the almighty gods of what music to listen to !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! peace out~ catherine =) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 11:30:22 EDT From: AKlink8489 Subject: Chicago Sun-Times gives FTCGH 3 1/2 *'s Tori Amos, 'from the choirgirl hotel' *** 1/2 Chicago Sun-Times April 30, 1998 by Jim DeRogatis Straddling her piano bench like she's mounting a mechanical bull and virtually beating her piano into submission, Tori Amos displays an intensity that's sorely lacking in other Lilith-style singer-songwriters. Ever since her cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," I've thought that her music would be even more intense and musically involving if she incorporated a solid rock band. (Amos spent time fronting a heavy metal band before reinventing herself on 1992's "Little Earthquakes.") Guess what? Amos' fourth album, which arrives in stores on Tuesday, features the baking of longtime collaborator Steve Canton on guitar, Matt Chamberlain on drums and Jon Evans on bass. The same group will be performing with her tonight at the Park West, part of a 12-city warm- up tour that will be followed by bigger shows later this summer. The band is a welcome addition indeed, but Amos' new album isn't so much of a departure that her legions of dedicated fans will feel betrayed. The focus remains on her virtuosic piano playing and her soaring, swooping, octave-spanning vocals. It's still a love-it or hate-it voice, and a lot of people just can't stomach Amos' sometimes histrionic delivery. But her singing wears out its welcome less quickly when it's in these more elaborate musical settings, as the band evokes the lush, elastic art-rock of late '70s Peter Gabriel or the sound of that famous Amos heroine, Kate Bush. As in the past, Amos is at her best when she's exploring dark psyches and strange obsessions. Thankfully, there's much less of the hippie-dippie New Age mumbo-jumbo that characterized "Boys for Pele" (1996). "She's addicted to nicotine patches/She's afraid of the light in the dark," Amos sings on "Spark," the album's first single. "She's Your Cocaine" is a tale of twisted gender- bending that I'm still trying to figure out, and "Jackie's Strength" flashes on stray childhood images ranging from the Kennedy assassination to David Cassidy lunch boxes before concluding: "If you love enough you'll lie a lot/I guess they did in Camelot." Her Park West concert will be broadcast live on the nationally syndicated radio show "Album Network" (locally on WKQX-FM, 101.1, starts at 8 p.m.), and it also will be filmed for a Real Video "Webcast." Check out her Web site at www.tori.com for more information. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 16:53:41 -0400 From: woj spice Subject: Re: limited tori cd also sprach ToriPyro: >doesn't anyone feel that this new album is just reeking of commercialism?? is anyone surprised at this? tori has a huge, enthusiastic fanbase, all of who will be lining up to buy the record when it is released. many are collecters who won't hesitate to buy any sort of tori-related item. none too few are even, dare i say it, obsessed and will pay any price for any item. it's a marketer's wet dream. woj ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V3 #163 *************************************