From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V4 #306 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, October 12 1999 Volume 04 : Number 306 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: tori was great in seattle last night! [angel dust ] London Girls [ASKLUITER@aol.com] 1,000 Oceans video on "The Box" ["Wake UpNeo" ] Tori on The Beat (107.5) in Portland, OR ["Sammy Baker Davis Jr." ] tori in cosmo [Faeries44@aol.com] australian 'glory' single ["torture garden" ] Review of "To Venus And Back" from "Sky" magazine, UK #158 ["Mike Gray" <] Re: New sheet music [SYNCJ05@aol.com] Re: "Sky" magazine review [Hey Pele ] KICK A*S SITE!! ["a+bath~of .~:.::glitter::.:~. " Subject: Re: tori was great in seattle last night! who got confused with their review, me? like latex, fur and feathers: angel - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- no she didnt play jupiter it was god sugar juarez... no jupiter i was there :) he got confused i guess with his review kat ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 01:34:03 EDT From: Freedom110@aol.com Subject: Re: My own private review--L-O-N-G! In a message dated 10/10/99 7:27:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time, derelict@netnitco.net writes: > The only possible problem with > the album is the trippy, hypnotizing "Datura," which, at over nine minutes > long, can get tedious excuuuuuuuuuuuuse me? I beg to differ! - -Gus ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:47:08 EDT From: ASKLUITER@aol.com Subject: London Girls, like again Duh! Oh yeah! I forgot. Did she ever like play it, you know, like in front of people, as in like a concert or something? El Hedgehog ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:47:51 EDT From: Cdfreke@aol.com Subject: Boots, I need my boots hi everyone i am in desperate need of the following charlotte-8-24-99 dallas-9-29-99(i think that's the date) houston-9-30-99 i do realize that the dall and houston shows probably aren't available yet but i want them i need my tori and i got the 1000 oceans single ( or a thousand oceans for the nummerically illiterate ) and i stumbled on the tori spin cover story great article and it's amazing what EWFs will do ( the honey bear and the bollte of water are really pyscho but i would probably keep them too ) toodles matt the merman ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 19:47:02 -0700 From: Megasus Subject: Seattle Setlist confusion... crtny wrote: > it was not hey jupiter you guys. > > it was sugar. :) > > i think meg just had a little confusion with all the "oooooaahahhiieeyya"'s > that tori sings during sugar. Argh... no.. I didn't get it mixed up. I had written down "Sugar"... when Angel copied my notes, we were in the car on the way home and it was dark... and God and Sugar were written in Silver pen which was very hard to see. I don't know how "Sugar" Looked like "Hey Jupiter" ... but I had the setlist correct. This is the setlist -as I wrote it down- : God Sugar Juarez Cornflake Girl Blood Roses Father Lucifer Little Earthquakes Secret Time: Take to the Sky Smells like teen spirit Cooling Suede Riot Poof Professional Widow Waitress Encore 1: Precious Things Black Dove Encore 2: Spring Haze Pretty Good Year Just wanted to clear that up. I had my notes written down correctly.. I wrote down each song as they were being played, and I wrote down "Sugar" and not "Hey Jupiter"... I can scan my notes if ya'll don't believe me :P hehe Anywhoo... it was an awesome concert. And I'm glad you had a good time Courtney.... it's okay that you didn't come home with us. We were tired and wanted to just crash as soon as possible anyway. :) TTFN! - -- ^_~Megasus~_^ http://members.xoom.com/Megasus/ ICQ# 14241089 "Just when you escape, you have yourself to fear.." -Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:45:10 EDT From: ASKLUITER@aol.com Subject: London Girls Um, Hey. I have a, er, like question or whatever. Um, you know that one song, uh, like, London Girls? Um, that song is really cool. But like, is it, um, a like, cover, or what? And does anyone like, know the words or something? Cause like, you know that one part? It's like all hard to understand and stuff. Does anyone else, like, think this song is, like, um their favorite, er Tori, song or whatever? Cuz, like I think it kicks ass! Or like sorta. El Hedgehog ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 18:07:07 GMT From: "Wake UpNeo" Subject: 1,000 Oceans video on "The Box" Just to let everyone know; I just watched Tori's new video "1,000 Oceans" on "The Box" cable pay-per-video channel. It is on different stations and not every cable company carries "The Box". But here locally it was video # 248. I really like the video but, it seems to be saying something disturbing about Tori's relationship with the public. I couldn't help but think about the "Bliss" video and how it seemed to *only* focus on people who were crying, tattooed, pierced, or all three. *shrug* In the 1,000 Oceans video, Tori is trapped behind glass as different people seem to try and communicate with her/bring their problems over. At least that's my interp. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 22:18:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "Sammy Baker Davis Jr." Subject: Tori on The Beat (107.5) in Portland, OR heya, i got home this evening just in time to hear tori on a local radio station, doing a little private concert/interview thing that she seems to have been doing a lot lately. i thought i'd type it up, since i've nothing much else to do, and it was kinda interesting. so here y'go. Announcer: you guys ready? alright, this is a very special opportunity, we're REALLY glad you're here to join us today. if you'd please welcome, to the New Sound Session, Atlantic recording artist, Tori Amos. Tori: how's it going? pretty well? okay.. i'll play something that'll warm us all up, i'm FREEZING. Tori: how are you guys doing? pretty well? *audience laughs and claps* Are you cozy and everything? i had to keep my coat on too, because i'm always freezing.. it's gorgeous up here, but i always need to like, walk around with a little heater. um, so.. any questions or any thoughts or anything from anybody? Random Audience Member: your new album's fabulous. it's WONderful, from beginning to end. Tori: Thank you.. it was very funny, because the title came first, i was having a very good bottle of wine (she said the name, but i cant figure out how to spell it, heh) with two of my girlfriends, and one of my girlfriends, she's actually here, she um, i got the 'i need to go to and back somewhere', that was my bit, and she just looked at me and said, 'you know, you'd go to venus if you could', so once the title was in place.. and that was about november thirtieth of last year.. because i usually remember the nights we have good wine, its a strange thing. i got like 600 on my SAT's, but i can tell you about years of wine. so anyway, she and i besides enjoying that nice bottle.. i was in place, and then by february, these songs were like, marching in, saying "hi, we're from venus". there you have it. this is off the new record, i think im gonna build up on this one, cauz i still just had my morning coffee, this is called Lust. good thing for morning. Tori: anybody else? thoughts or questions about stuff? Guy: What's your favorite song from the new album? Tori: umm. Suede. but.. um, i cant play that at the piano. and they change all the time, i mean i was into datura for a while, but it took us so long to mix it, and uh, i was reading my garden list, datura's a hallucinogen, and all those flowers are in my garden. and um, i was reading this book, it's the sequal to 'bloodline of the holy grail', written by a guy named.. gardner, somebody gardner.. laurence, i dont know. but anyway, the sequel you can't get here right now, you can get it in england, and it was really talking about the land of canaan, and the different people that were there that some of the information that i was privy to wasn't quite exactly what people are coming up with now. so all this fighting about who gets a piece of the garden, was sort of inspiring me. and that was one of my favorites, but the band wants us to work it up in the next three shows, and i think that's the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard! *laughs* i dont think that's gonna happen, cauz we cut it in sections, it's a really tricky piece, we do cut it live though, piano and drums, but everything is like, different sections, different stimulants.. different everything! *more laughter* but that's datura, that's not suede. so im gonna play a song that's really different from both of them. this's called Concertina, and i normally dont play it at the piano, but i'm sorta in the mood. Tori: Hi! so you guys coming tonight, to the show? okay, good. my brothers'll be there, hope they're all ready to play. some of you have seen them before.. they're out of their minds, but they're gonna be there. anybody else? Girl: What artists inspire you now, or inspired you before? tori: well, a lot of different artists from different mediums. 'cause i dont just listen to music, although i listen to quite a bit of it, i look at a lot of visual artists, and sometimes i dont even know all of their names, cause i just get books, and take in information. i have quite a big library, but i dont read anything from top to tale, everything just becomes a bit of a.. i excavate it, so what im doing is a lot of times.. its images, and something that makes me see something in a different way. umm, and then i start collecting like, a bloodline of that, and building a tree. and then that's how songs start to form, i get to understand a friend of hers that wants to be in the family tree, and it could be the word 'solar field' like in thousand oceans. i was going through maps, to try and understand what thousand oceans wanted to be, and um, so i had maps of dartmoore in england, and i knew that i had to get certain places that i'd been to.. silbury hill, which is near avebury england, quite a few times. and so i got a sense that it wanted to be that, and then i was looking through maps that would say "soldiers field" and i knew that that wasn't right, and i had it written down, and it's in one of the maps, and then i stumbled upon one of marcel's astronomy books, some physics-astronomy thing, he's into all that, and i started reading and i saw 'solar field', and i knew that that's what she wanted to be. so that's kinda how it can be map makers, it can be drummers, it can be other singers, but a lot of times it's visual arts for me. cause you dont wanna steal from people who do what you do, so sometimes you have to go to a different medium, so that you can really respect your contemporaries, and not, you know, kinda go.. "oh SHE wont know if i take a bit of that".. anyway. Subject: New sheet music There is a new book of Tori Amos sheet music which I saw at Sam Goody. It is "all 17 singles finally comprised in one book." I did not buy it (b/c I own all the other books, and there is no new material in it) but it is a nice looking book and there are some new photos in it. There are no b-sides in it; it is all album tracks, and I think it's LE through FtCgH. Just thought you guys might want to know! love, sonya =Thank you for your squirrel= ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:12:53 EDT From: Faeries44@aol.com Subject: tori in cosmo In today's Sacramento Bee[california newspaper] there is a small article on Tori. It is an overview of an interview in Novemeber's Cosmo[haven't gotten it yet]...here's the article: A Little Rebellion Growing up with a Methodist minister for a dad, singer Tori Amos felt surrounded by religion. "I've grown up with the church in my bathroom, my bedroom, in my underwear drawer," Amos jokes in the November issue of Cosmopolitan. That's why, she says, she's rejected organized Christianity. Still, the 36-year-old pop star, whose latest album is titled "to Venus and Back," loves to read and debate religious philosophy. "The PC thing, that's not my scene. I lay it on the table." i don't know much about religion, but i thought tori's dad was baptist--is methodist the same thing....i hope there's a new pic in cosmo... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:23:04 +1000 From: "torture garden" Subject: australian 'glory' single sorry if this has already turned up.... the australain 'glory' single hit the shelves today with quite a few notable FSCK UPS *pout*. If you think Atlantic and East/West are bad, try Warner Australia on for size... First up, 'Famous Blue Raincoat' is listed as 'Blue Raincoat'. Apparently Leonard Cohen is not famous enough for the goose who Warner stupidly let loose on the layout... To make it worse, it was pointed out on oztori that song writing credits for this 'blue raincoat' go to tori, but 'twinkle' was written by Leonard Cohen.... *slaps forehead*. torturegarden Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream Get your Free E-mail at http://thevampskiss.zzn.com ___________________________________________________________ Get your own Web-based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 22:38:02 GMT From: "Tom xxxxx" Subject: RE: Tear in your Hand Hi there all. Cindy, your interp of this song was awesome. It's one my all time Tori faves. There's one thing I was hoping others on the list could clarify (it's so minor I hate to bring it up, but I'm such an anal stickler for accuracy): >Song clip: ...If you need me, me and >Neill be hanging out with the dream king...Neil says hi by the way.. >Interpretation: He's breaking up with her...She's trying to cope and >be >calm about this...If he wants her he knows that she'll be with >her friend >(notice that it's a male friend ~jealousy) Neil Gaiman I was under the impression that TiYH and most of the other songs on LE were written before she knew Neil. Therefore, I always concluded that the narrator was hurt and depressed and was just going to sit alone and read Sandman (ie, she needs some good, dark escapism). Can someone in the know clarify this (albeit minor) point. Cindy, don't it personally; I'm just picky. I really loved the whole interp. Tom "We own nothing, nothing is ours Not even love so fierce it burns like baby stars But this poverty is our greatest gift The weightlessness of us as things around begin to shift." Emily Saliers, "Everything in Its Own Time" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:51:20 +0100 From: "Mike Gray" Subject: Review of "To Venus And Back" from "Sky" magazine, UK #158 Don't think I've seen this one posted yet, so... - -- Tori Amos To Venus And Back *** (out of *****) She's most famous for being ginge, a bit mad and sounding like Kate Bush. Now she's still ginger, and still a bit mad but sounds a whole lot more like Madonna. Back with another collection of PMT favourites, the post Armand Van Helden Amos has developed her style in a more dancier direction. The songs here are all big, big, big - the production is over the top and they have a grandiose quality. The lyrics are just as incomprehensible as before which adds to her charm, but now come with a many-layered, bass-heavy, trip hop backing. Bliss veers from sounding like Tricky with tits to a breezy, cheesy chorus, and Glory of The 80s is more traditional Tori territory, with thumping piano chords. Best listened to when you're feeling really miserable, it'll cheer you up just to know someone else feels worse than you do. Skip to : Juarez, which starts where Madonna's "Justify My Love" left off and is just crying out for another stonking remix. The next Professional Widow. Soundbite : Feminax-fuelled coffee table disco. Like. - -- Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:44:14 EDT From: SYNCJ05@aol.com Subject: Re: New sheet music Speaking of sheet music... does anyone have a clue when the sheet music for TVaB will be out, if there is any? I would love to learn to play Lust.. Josephene.. 1000 oceans, etc... any info. you guys have would be helpful :) Thnx, Megan SYNCJ05@aol.com *So sure we were on something your feet are just on the ground, girl* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:20:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Hey Pele Subject: Re: "Sky" magazine review >Glory of > The 80s is more traditional Tori territory, with > thumping piano chords. Best > listened to when you're feeling really miserable, > it'll cheer you up just to > know someone else feels worse than you do. > This is the most gorgeous explanation I've heard yet of why I love this song so much. So many people think it's just a throw-away, but it's my favorite on the album right now! Thanks for the post, Mike! paige- ===== "Give me life Give me pain Give my myself again." Tori Amos-"Little Earthquakes" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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" Subject: KICK A*S SITE!! okay. i was wandering around in tori mp3 land because i am absolutely OBSSESSED with them, and i ran across a very freaking cool site with a homemade remix of precious things that ROCKED MY WORLD. go go go go RUN to this site guys. http://listen.to/tori_remix its called "i hate elevator music". really. go see it. its awesome. be well. amanda - --- "I could never pay you in fruit, land, money, or blowjobs what your worth as a human being is." :amos: "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." +hemingway+ :.*rolling*and*.unrolling.*coiling*:emerging:*running*+free+*.: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Pavilion/2910/rape.html HotBot - Search smarter. http://www.hotbot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:54:47 EDT From: ASKLUITER@aol.com Subject: Um, excuse me again.{ramble} Just for the public record, my post about London Girls was not meant to imply that Tori fans are ditzy airheads. See, it was a joke about having to get up and ask a question in front of a bunch of people and being all nervous and whatnot. But since I got more responses from people who didn't get it than from people who did (more responses than I ever expected actually) it leads me to pose the following query: Has anyone noticed that maybe Toriphiles seem to be, er (how to put this gently) not big fans of sarcasm? Everyone seems to be so earnest and sincere, not that that's a bad thing, mind you, but it seems like it puts a crimp in a person's sense of humor. You all are a very different type of fan base and one that I find very interesting. There seem to be elements of an almost religious-type devotion. I find that a lot of people feel that Tori's songs have personally helped them in some way, and I don't just mean "Me and a Gun." but a somewhat more subtle phenomena. Has anyone else noticed this? Again, just to avoid any angry reprisals, I'm not criticizing, I'm just wondering if anyone else has noticed this, and if they have any thoughts on it. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:43:43 -0500 From: "mr zebra" Subject: Re: Review of "To Venus And Back" from "Sky" magazine, UK #158 > Amos has developed her style in a more dancier direction. I HATE. I absolutely HATE how everyone hears beats and they automatically label it as dance music. Dancier, my ass. I can Tori-dance to just about anything, but real dancing (not just getting into the music) cannot be done to anything except perhaps Glory of the 80s and Riot POOF. > Skip to : Juarez, which starts where Madonna's "Justify My Love" left off MY ASS. Justify My Love being about wild passionate sex. Juarez being about poverty-striken rape and murder. Yeah. It fits. :-\ I hate stupid people. Matthew if I said it I meant it. I'm not really demented. I'm just saying it's been said again and again. ICQ# 298707 mrzebra@fumblers.org http://surf.to/gotsarah - got Sarah? ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V4 #306 *************************************