From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V4 #279 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 Tuesday, September 21 1999 Volume 04 : Number 279 Today's Subjects: ----------------- sugar live [GoneAndromeda@aol.com] UK [Majik224@aol.com] Re: lyric check [Danielle Ringrose ] dallas: borders listening party ["no angel came" ] two extra houston tix, 9/30 ["pagina (spanish - \"pa-HEE-na\")" ] Re: TVaB box set [Natalie Lockwood ] Re: Concertina (small Interp) ["crtny" ] i just got TVAB!!!!! digipak ["Armani Boy" ] Re: lyric check [Erinita@aol.com] First post... [POIZNIV@aol.com] UK TVAB review ["pete lambert" ] EWF Tori Stories ["Chloe Sparkle" ] Chat Transcript 9/20 [SYNCJ05@aol.com] cornflake girl MP3 ["+_courtney_+" ] Re: TVaB box set ["Ears with Feet" ] Article in Charlotte Observer E&T magazine ["Eva Szentpetery" Subject: Re: lyric check On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Joshua Meier wrote: > can anyone tell me where I can find the lyrics to famous Blue Raincoat? The TALD (Tori Amos Lyrics Database) which I run with my boyfriend has almost all the lyrics to all of Tori's songs that she's covered in concert, as well as b-sides, soundtrack stuff and whatnot. You should be able to find them there. Dani. ~~~ my homepage: http://student.uq.edu.au/~s338990/ the Tori Amos Lyrics Database: http://www.powerup.com.au/~evos/dan/tori/tald.html "she's got a soft spot for heels and spurs and there's something believing in her voice again" -- Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 07:00:43 -0500 From: "no angel came" Subject: dallas: borders listening party does anybody know what's going down with the whole Listening party at borders? i know it's tonite at 10.00 but i don't know much more than that. oh yeah, it's the borders on Greenville. i don't know if i can make it :-( anthonY:) The above text is my stated opinion, which basically makes it fact. You can dispute it all you want, but the truth of the matter is, it's my e-mail and my views, and that's that. If you care to disagree, fine, but don't tell me, 'cause frankly, I could care less. I'd also thank you for your time, but it probably would've been wasted anyways, so you have contributed nothing to me. Goodbye. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 00:28:01 -0500 From: "pagina (spanish - \"pa-HEE-na\")" Subject: two extra houston tix, 9/30 i have ended up with two extra tickets to the Houston, TX show on 9/30 that i need to get rid of. i'll sell them for $40 each or $80 for the pair. that's a lot less than i paid since i ended up spending a shitload on some others on ebay (bad idea). need to get rid of them quick cause the show is coming up soon. wurmy - ------------------------------------------------ "When you're having a really bad day, and you think something a bit self-destructive, put your hands in the air, your index fingers above your head, one each, touch the air with them and say "horns." And make sure you remember that you have to stay around. So we can touch horns when I see you again." - -- Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:47:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Major Tom Subject: bakersfield show heya, well, i'm about t'start my 7 hour trek to bakersfield for the show, looks like my friend and i are gonna be car-sleepin it. anywho, if you see me, say hi. (i'll be the chic with the short blue-green hair, and either capris and a blue button up shirt or khakis and my ewf shirt, depending on the coldness of the evening. as an offshoot, the concord show last night was fabulous, i just adore the new version of sugar, and i almost melted when she sang landslide. and did i hear riot proof in there somewhere? anywho, gotta run or we won't make it. :) toodles, - ami After my picture fades and darkness has turned to grey watching through windows you're wondering if I'm okay secrets stolen from deep inside, the drum beats down the time. ami@blue.netnation.com - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- http://www.goldcom.com/~hegemon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:15:41 -0400 From: Natalie Lockwood Subject: Re: TVaB box set At amazon.com, the box set is listed at the normal price for the CD, and the release date (at least for the one I found -- it did say "box set" though) was Sept. 21. On the other hand, EQS had the price listed at about $170. While we're on the topic of box sets, how much is the FtCH box set worth? It's listed at amazon.com for about $85, but is far less limited than the TVaB one. Thanks! Natalie Nadyne Mielke wrote: > It appears that there will be a box set for TVaB! Both Amazon > and EQS Music are taking > pre-orders for it. The Amazon site has no details. EQS tells us that it > is a limited edition of 250, will be a walnut box, and will not contain the > CD. Both say that it's due out 19 October 1999. > > I haven't been able to dig up anything further! > > Enjoy! > /nad > (with pre-orders in at both sites, just in case...) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:35:20 PDT From: "crtny" Subject: Re: Concertina (small Interp) krisis, (great name) well i just paraphrased the words from what i was listening to. i do actually have all of the lyrics printed out from a previous post on the list. i totaly didnt know what a squeezebox was! thank you for filling me in. i was jsut talking tomy friend like "what the fuck is tori talking about THIS time?" and he had no clue either. i dont really have any interpretation of it, i think that in the first paragraph shes indicating that either she or the concertina seem to get into "his" head (mark?) with quite an ease, or maybe the concertina gets into herhead the easily. the whole song has this crazy irish pub feel to me, lyrics-wise. drinking, feverish glances, fiercest clams, "trancing the sauce" (getting drunk maybe?) and just a plain old-fashioned pub scene. maybe im just as crazy as she is (god knows my poems remind people of her, with all the obscurity) the point is is that whoever she wote it for knwos exactly what she's talking about, or at least SHE knows exactly what shes doing. and sometimes i think shes the only person who really knows exactly whats goin on with her songs. toris so wonderful, dont you agree? i cant wait to get the new album!!! - -courtney http://www.angelfire.com/bc/rapideye - ----Original Message Follows---- From: krisis@drexel.edu To: hisnothing@hotmail.com Subject: Concertina Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:41:27 -0400 I totally agree that from what i have heard (which is all but tracks 7-10) Concertina is the most sonically stunning song on the record. The lyrics are also very deep, tho i think the first verse is really the perfection. In case your lyrics are wrong (mine were missing some key points), these are the ones from the booklet. Repeats aren't typed, and breaks and punctuation are mine. clouds descending i'm not policing what you think and dream i run into your thought from across the room just another trick can i weather this i've got a fever above my waist you got a squeeze box on your knee i know the truth is in-between the 1st and 40th drink concertina, concertina a chill that bends this i swear you're the fiercest calm i've been in concertina, concertina try infrared this i swear you're the fiercest calm i've been in the soul-quake happened in a glass world particle by particle she slowly changes she likes hanging chinese paper cuts just another fix can i weather this i've got my fuzz all tipped to play i've gotta dub on your landscape then there's your policy of tracing the sauce without the blame too far too far too far it could all get way to cheerful concertina i know the truth lies in between the 1st and 40th drink clouds descending I think the lyrics are so interesting... a concertina is a small accordian, which is a squeezebox. So is she singing the chorus to the instrument, or singing it to the person who has it on their knee? Also, the song switches to "she" in the second verse. I hope there really is a connection between all of these parts ... some of the new lyrics seem so helter skelter ... like, Tori just threw down words. Perhaps she's just being more obscure; i mean, *now* we all know what iieee is about, but at the time... :) I'd be very interested to here any interpretations you have. krisis - -fly.to/AMkitchen ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:41:31 EDT From: "Armani Boy" Subject: i just got TVAB!!!!! digipak hey there everyone, i just purchased TVAB at a local inde store that sells items when they come in, not necessarly on the "on sale date" only. anyway, my copy is a tri-fold digipak. according to the store, there are 2 versions...one in the jewel case and the other in the digipak. they didn't have the jewel case, but the other major stores in my area, ie Best Buy, said that they have the jewel case. so, i don't know which one is more *rare* or *limited*....but the digipak KICKS ASS! by the way, target will be telling the cd set for $16.00, and Best Buy for $16.99. anyone else have any more info?? armani boy ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:10:14 EDT From: Erinita@aol.com Subject: Re: lyric check Josh, You can find this & all her other covers & original lyrics, etc at this fabulous site called the Tori Amos Lyric Database. Enjoy. http://www.powerup.com.au/~evos/dan/tori/tald.html It's four in the morning, the end of December I'm writing you now just to see if you're better New York is cold, but I like where I'm living There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening. I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert You're living for nothing now, I hope you're keeping some kind of record. Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear Did you ever go clear? Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder You'd been to the station to meet every train And you came home without Lili Marlene And you treated my woman to a flake of your life And when she came back she was nobody's wife. Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief Well I see Jane's awake -- She sends her regards. And what can I tell you my brother, my killer What can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you I'm glad you stood in my way. If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free. Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried. And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear -- Sincerely, L. Cohen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:01:49 EDT From: POIZNIV@aol.com Subject: First post... Hi Everyone...this is my very first post...and honestly...i hope i'm doing it correctly...... But i need i huge favor...yesterday we received a mail from someone (which unfortunately i deleted by accident) who was praising 1,000 Oceans...claiming that it wasn't typical of Tori's songs but loved it to no end...this person also added comments Tori had made about the song...including ones of her father-in-law's passing...would someone please forward me the letter and/or if the person who originally wrote the letter receives this please e-mail me i would be so much appreciative... thank you all = ) ...finally crawling out of the shadows... As Ever...Jaye ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:36:46 +0100 From: "pete lambert" Subject: UK TVAB review This review (the only one I've seen so far!) appeared in Boyz, the free tabloid given out at gay clubs in the UK.... despite it's blasphemous Alanis comparisons ("supporting"! "cynical"!) it's still a pretty good review. Am I right though in thinking that so far (L)east(B)est have spent £0.00 on promoting this album? Not one print advert, no posters, no TV or radio promotion, no in store displays doesn't look like they've even bothered sending out review copies.... Anyway here goes: TORI AMOS - TO VENUS AND BACK This is a luxury bit of Tori, a double CD comprising one new album and an album of live material. The new stuff isn't quite as musically inventive as >From The Choirgirl Hotel, and it includes Tori doing an alarmingly Alanis-type ditty in the form of the possible-big~hit 'Glory Of The 80s'. Could it be a cynical attempt to grab some of Alanis' audience while supporting her on her current tour? Whatever. She's not about big hits is Lady Amos. She's an album bird with a great pedigree, and this is yet another well rounded, beautiful-in-parts album. Stand out tracks include the single 'Bliss'; 'Suede' and 'Josephine' -all gems. Listen to this, Imbruglia and learn... <> Pete evrybodyknowsSHEsmyMAN ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:32:11 PDT From: "Chloe Sparkle" Subject: EWF Tori Stories Hi there! Do any of you lovely EWFs out there have a site that collects Tori stories? I heard some really intresting stories of Tori meetings at the Concord show and would love to read more. -Chloe Sparkle ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:14:20 EDT From: SYNCJ05@aol.com Subject: Chat Transcript 9/20 Hi EWF, Does anyone have the complete transcript from the alanis and tori mp3.com and bestbuy chat (9/20/99)?? My piece of junk computer shut down in the middle of it so i missed a good amount of the chatting. If anyone has it, please email it to me or post it on the list :) Thanx!! Megan SYNCJ05@aol.com **So sure we were on something your feet are just on the ground, girl** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 02:10:18 GMT From: "+_courtney_+" Subject: cornflake girl MP3 hi!! a week or so ago somebody posted links to the 4 Central Park/Good Morning America songs in mp3. I only downloaded 2 of them and would relaly like to get my hands on "Cornflake Girl" Can anybody help?? - -Courtney - ------------------------------------------- http://www.angelfire.com/bc/rapideye (LPC) "if you call me an airy-fairy new age hippy waif, ill cut your penis off" -tori amos ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 02:46:53 GMT From: "Ears with Feet" Subject: Re: TVaB box set I went to Amazon.com to check the price of the Box set there, and I saw the same thing that you saw. The thing that seemed weird was that the prize was to low for a box set, so I went all the way to the bottom of the list and I clicked on the TVaB. What I found out was that if you click on the TVaB link, it says that it costs $141.97 and it says that it is going to be released on October 19, 1999. I thing that they just mixed up the Box set info. with the 2CD info. What do you guys think? AJ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:07:57 -0400 From: "Eva Szentpetery" (by way of puppycakes ) Subject: Article in Charlotte Observer E&T magazine This article was in Friday's Charlotte Observer, in the E&T insert. Death in Mexican desert haunted, inspired Tori Amos by Lindsey Henry Voices, spirits and supernatural forces don't spook Tori Amos. She's used to them shaking her awake at night with demands that their song be written, and the songs on her new album "to venus and back" are no exception. The voices of women who met violent deaths in the desert town of Juarez, Mexico, summoned Amos while her "from the choirgirl hotel" tour rolled through Texas. More than 120 women had been found dead around the city since 1993, and Amos said she translated their anguish into the song "Juarez," telling their story from the desert's perspective. The album, her fifth solo effort with Atlantic Records, will be in stores Tuesday. "I was inspired by Juarez on the road," she said while on tour with Alanis Morissette in August. " We were by the border and I was dragged out of the bunk. The song was grabbing me by the throat, saying you have to sing the song. It was just clear that the voices were calling me; the desert was obviously the only thing that heard her last breath, and everything started coming after that." The song's distraught melodies, paired with an industrial, almost techno sound, match the isolation of the desert wasteland. Amos wrote and produced the new material on "to venus and back," recording it with the band that accompanied her on tour. New songs trace themes of binding father-daughter relationships, loss of loved ones and the dissolution of living in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Wrenching, layered lyrics, coupled with evocative, occasionally haunting and longing tunes give Amos' ardent fan base more of what they crave. In "1,000 Oceans," Amos sings of crying oceans of tears to sail someone back. The song would fall flat with most anyone singing of longing, but the sadness in her voice makes it real. The song "comes from a few places" said Amos, who was born in Newton. "It started with a dream I had. An African woman was singing to me singing the melody, humming it to me. I got up and found the piano, got up at 5:45 a.m., recorded the melody and went back to bed." Inspiration for lyrics came later when her father-in-law died in February. Amos matched the feelings that accompany emotional isolation with her husband's grieving process. Her husband is Mark Hawley, one of her engineers. "They were so incredibly close that '1,000 Oceans' seemed to be the only thing that could bring him out of his sadness," she said. "He'd come out and sit and say, 'Could you play that one, the ocean song?' It became about feeling close to people you can't reach, seeing this depth of love for this person who was gone." Initially the album was to be a collection of b-sides. Yet once the muses and spirits stopped in for a visit, Amos and her engineers decided to rework their plans. They paired her 13 new songs with 12 live tracks from the "choirgirl" tour. "We had like an NBA playoff system going," she said of the live song selection process. "It was a four-point ranking system, starting with the ones that just had this magic about them." Round after round, Amos and company pitted song against song and finally narrowed the field to 12. Combining new and live music brings two of her universes together, she said. "There are two worlds for them," she said. "They feed off each other. The live wouldn't exist without the studio. They go in tandem with each other." Live songs include "Bells for Her", "Waitress," "Mr. Zebra," "Sugar," and perennial fan favorite "Cornflake Girl." ____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from ToriNews, e-mail torinews-request@smoe.org with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V4 #279 *************************************