From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V6 #69 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, April 17 2001 Volume 06 : Number 069 Today's Subjects: ----------------- It's working now [Mallettdove@aol.com] Re: Song Interpretations [UnderH20thing@aol.com] Re: Piano recital [Hicky3000@aol.com] Re: Song Interpretations [Xprtyoninsidex@aol.com] Tori Trivia 6 ~ [Mysterilady2001@cs.com] Re: Piano recital [Hicky3000@aol.com] Re: live album song choices [UnderH20thing@aol.com] Re: precious-things-digest V6 #68 [JNe9027355@aol.com] Re: new Tori album info [Mikewhy ] Girl [Twinkle018@aol.com] Rolling Stone - Fuel [ashy- ] Re: new Tori album info ["Daisy Dead Petals" ] Re: Piano recital [ToriLiscious@cs.com] Girl ["Daisy Dead Petals" ] Re: Girl [UnderH20thing@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:52:07 EDT From: Mallettdove@aol.com Subject: It's working now I just need to be more patient. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 15:09:35 EDT From: UnderH20thing@aol.com Subject: Re: Song Interpretations The best site that I have seen is called Titalisq. You can honestly spend hours there. The address is: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/3939/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 02:57:09 EDT From: Hicky3000@aol.com Subject: Re: Piano recital there's also the tori amos for easy piano songbook out there... it makes some of the songs a little simpler danny ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 20:55:05 EDT From: Xprtyoninsidex@aol.com Subject: Re: Song Interpretations TITALiSQ: The Interactive Tori Amos LyrIcs Solving Quest this is a good site, for Tori interpretations....check it out and let me know what you think.... ....Till Next Time, See You In The Dreamtime.... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 02:47:52 EDT From: Mysterilady2001@cs.com Subject: Tori Trivia 6 ~ Hi ya EWF ~ Jim's 2 week stay is ending today & we have mucho things to do... So I'm making this one super easy & short: Atlantic produced a promo item that was later recalled - (by legal threat!) Tell me ~ 1. Item - description & lot number. 2. Why it was recalled. 3. WHO made them recall it. Good luck Toodles ~ MysT *** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 02:56:13 EDT From: Hicky3000@aol.com Subject: Re: Piano recital i think me and a gun and song for eric are the easiest, followed by beauty queen. no, just kidding... playboy mommy, the waitress, flying dutchman, and hey jupiter are kind of easy. so's mary and ettiene. a really easy, but pretty, non-tori song is natalie merchant's beloved wife if you can find the sheet music. danny ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 15:00:40 EDT From: UnderH20thing@aol.com Subject: Re: live album song choices I also know that she chose certain songs for certain people. For example, she said that she had to put Space Dog on there for Mark, and I think Bells for Her was for Marcel. I can't remember where I read this though. I agree with the energy thing too though. Cornflake Girl blows my mind. Does anyone know which article/interview I am talking about when Tori talks about the reason some songs are on there? ...till next time see you in the dreamtime... Glitter Girl ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 04:46:34 EDT From: JNe9027355@aol.com Subject: Re: precious-things-digest V6 #68 In a message dated 4/15/2001 10:34:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time, owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org writes: > Speaking of Leno & Letterman ~ Jay Leno absolutely LOVES Tori! He calls > her "One of Our Favorites" every single darn time she appears on his show. Hey, he calls every star i've seen interviewed a favorite--sometimes even when they're making their 1st appearance there , and usually always when they return. :shrugs: - -AJ p.s i agree w/your opinions on leno/letterman interviewing styles ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 16:27:48 -0400 From: Mikewhy Subject: Re: new Tori album info >Amos Talks Music, Motherhood >Baby, new album keeping Tori Amos busy Matthew, while many people probably know where this came from, I am sure there are others who do not. If you post something like this, an article, I think it is very important that you also post the place where the article came from. For those who do not know, the article was posted on April 13 to RollingStone.com. Here is a direct link to the article: http://RollingStone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=13694 I cover this extensively on The Dent as well. And again, PLEASE post the source of such articles when you send them to the list! Yours in Tori, Mikewhy - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. Whitehead mikewhy@iglou.com A Dent In The Tori Amos Net Universe => "my fear is greater than my faith" Tori Amos - Suede - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:00:00 EDT From: Twinkle018@aol.com Subject: Girl About "Girl"... I remember being suprised that it was on the live side of Venus because I had heard once (I'm sorry I can't remember specifically where or when) Tori saying that she didn't perform "Girl" anymore* (at that time apparently*) because the "girl" had grown into a woman. It kind of reminded me of an interview she did on The End radio station in Seattle about how the Dakota version of "Hey Jupiter" was the more mature version from the woman (as opposed to the girl on the album version of "Hey Jupiter". I'll find the exact quote and post it unless someone beats me to it. Desiree ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:01:20 -0700 (PDT) From: ashy- Subject: Rolling Stone - Fuel so i dont' know if this has been pointed out, but in the new rolling stone magazine (issue 867 April 26, 2001) there is an article about the band fuel.... at the bottom of p. 32, it has a part that says 'infulences' and carl bell (guitarist) says: {on female artists} "When Tori Amos writes, "Boy, you' best pray that i bleed real soon," that took thought and maybe some real-life experience. I apsire to dig that deep" there's also a teeny weeny pic of tori. Just thought i'd point it out, sorry if it's been mentioned... ashy- ===== through that and this trading list - http://members.tripod.com/thewaitress/trading/html/ tea with the waitress - http://members.tripod.com/thewaitress/waitress/html/ ashley's page - http://members.tripod.com/venusenvy/ 'rolling and unrolling, coiling, emerging, running free...' - tori amos Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:09:10 -0500 From: "Daisy Dead Petals" Subject: Re: new Tori album info Thanks so much for this info! I am THRILLED to hear that Tori is still nursing! I am a nursing mom and a nursing advocate, so this is great news! I know what she means about having lots of time to think while nursing. I started to lose my mind until i got some books on tape. When they are tiny, you dont have free hands to even read a book. I hope that her nursing will inspire new moms to give it a go. Wouldnt it be wonderful if she were still nursing while on tour and took a break during the concert to feed Natashya? That would be a great example and a powerful statement that women should NOT be disgraced into thinking that nusing should only be done in private. A baby's gotta eat for crissakes--do you have any idea how impossible it is to have to HIDE to feed your child??? And when nursing is done skillfully, VERY little skin shows...Ooo sorry, I feel a rant coming on--I will quit now... Daisy Melanie loopgaroo@g2a.net > It has also led her to produce her first > musical offering since 1999's To Venus and Back. > Strange Little Girls, due out on September 18th, is a project that > Amos says came about from the long bonding sessions she had nursing > Natashya. > "The thing about nursing is, you do have enforced thinking time for > hours and hours and hours a day. That's when I formulated the whole > thing," says Amos from her home studio in Cornwall, England. " ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:25:24 EDT From: ToriLiscious@cs.com Subject: Re: Piano recital "Are any of you are keyboardists who could recommend a relatively simply Tori Song for me? The simpler, the better, but I'm open to any ideas since I have quite a while still to learn it." I play piano.. sorta.. i don't take lessons, but i'm a music freak, so i like to try and pound out tori's stuff.. i have found that the easiest song to play is Twinkle.. it takes awhile to be able to sing along because the rhythm is so off. Yes, Anastasia was also fairly easy for me. lots of simple chords.. the only unfortunate part about that song is, i'm used to hearing the violins come in after "officer i saw the sign", and it just took awhile for it to sound okay to me with the whole thing being played by piano. but... if you have a synthesizer, you can keep it on orchestra, and play it like tori does with her synth and/or harpsichord, and just turn around on your chair and play it. Yes, Anastasia is a long song, but like i said, i do not consider myself to be a piano player, but i was able to play it up to tempo in less than a month (from memory), although it took me longer than that to be able to sing along, maybe a couple of weeks or so. hope that helps stuff, micah ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 20:33:22 -0500 From: "Daisy Dead Petals" Subject: Girl > I think there's 2 kinds of Tori fans.. ones that like Cornflake Girl and ones > that like it only because it's sung by Tori. I like it only because it's sung > by Tori. I don't know why. (I think someone said that before in an e-mail) > What is so different about Cornflake Girl? And, for me, it's not the > popularity (someone said that too), because I live in Oklahoma, and I have > NEVER heard Tori on the radio, and I really don't watch much TV so the only > popularity I know that Tori has is all of us ToriPhiles following her every > move like the Christians follow Jesus (lol). > So, any comments on why Cornflake Girl just doesn't catch on with a lot of > people? I really like the lyrics, I just don't get on with the music aspect This is soooo verrrrrrry intersting because I do not like Girl and I LOVE Cornflake Girl. I love the lyrics to Girl, but the music just dosent move me. And Cornflake Girl--oh I just love EVERYTHING about it! I love it live. It may very well be my favorite Tori song. It just resonates in me. I think some of the appeal has to do with the multilayered lyrics. You listen to Girl and you know just what she is talking about (IMHO). When you listen to CG, there are several stories being told, and they are all open to more than one interpretation. Anyway, Robert Smith once said something like (and I am not sure of the exact quote--this is just what my poor memory provides) "the Cure fans that like Disintegration the best of all the Cure albums are smarter than the fans that dont". I cant ever imagine Tori saying anything like that, and I hope that the person that said that there are 2 kinds of Tori fans--ones that like Girl and ones that like CG--wasnt insinuating something like this. ps I dont like Disintegraion the best of all the Cure albums. Daisy Melanie loopgaroo@g2a.net Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it. "Women must understand that simply attacking or hating all men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power. All it will do is make her puke eventually. Rather than say "all men are bastards" let's say "all men are infants, until they decide to be men." Calling them bastards is boring at this stage." - -Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 15:07:42 EDT From: UnderH20thing@aol.com Subject: Re: Girl That's funny because I am the opposite. I love the music so much more than the lyrics...however I love the meaning/purpose behind the song more than the lyrics. Go figure! I think that the music is pure genius and is one of the few songs that shows her amazing piano talent. Excuse me while I get a little bit into music talk, but the song has 4 voices in it (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) simultaneously and it sounds like there are 4 hands playing, but it's just her. You have to listen really closely during the piano solos and listen to every sound you hear. I also remember reading that in some ranking of the 90's Cornflake Girl was ranked as the 26th best song of the 90's. The article was talking about the instruments that she chose to use on the song like the mandolin and stuff like that....anyways, I always give you guys "facts" that I read somewhere so it's hard to back anything up...but I know that I did somewhere. I love Cornflake Girl...esp. when I found out what "watchword" was. ...till next time see you in the dreamtime... Glitter Girl ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V6 #69 ************************************