From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V6 #181 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, September 27 2001 Volume 06 : Number 181 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: SLG: One question ["Carmen Riojas" ] Re: SLG: Many comments ["Carmen Riojas" ] Re: What happened!!! and my thoughts on SLG... [Prntr66051@aol.com] toriamos.com newsletter #8 [strange little woj ] Re: SLG: Many comments ["Carmen Riojas" ] Has anyone ever met TORI? [Fannyfest@aol.com] SLG lyrics ["Tom xxxxx" ] Indiananoplis: For Those Of You Going... ["Shaigirl ..." ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:58:57 -0500 From: "Carmen Riojas" Subject: Re: SLG: One question all of the songs on SLG are posted on Toriphoria, with the original and tori's lyrics. i'm pretty sure she didn't change anything for new age, but don't quote me :) toodles CR ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:10:45 -0500 From: "Carmen Riojas" Subject: Re: SLG: Many comments i just heard '97 Bonnie & Clyde and it's just incredibly disturbing (no i didn't hear the orig.but i know this is an old thing). i don't think i will EVER listen to anything affiliated w/ eminem again. but anyway, one thing i would like to say to the upset depeche mode people is what she has done (stripping down the music) to emphasize the view she's trying to get us to see is just monsterously clever and i'll let ya'll figure out what i mean by that. overall i find the sound and what she's done w/ the songs thought provoking on some and just fun on the rest. if you want to hear butchering listen to the other version of "Happy Workers" on the Toys soundtrack. (the one not sung by Tori) toodles CR ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:50:54 EDT From: Prntr66051@aol.com Subject: Re: What happened!!! and my thoughts on SLG... I hope none of these were directed towards me, I simply responded to an email saying that if the person did not want to be an EWF anymore, than that was fine, maybe someone else could get his tickets that he did not care to purchase. Again, I go back to my point, technically this is not "Tori" in the sense that we all have come to know her. These are re-makes and traditionally, albums that consist of all remakes do not do well. I dont find this album outstanding, but once again I give kudos to T for doing what she does, and this is, exactly whatever the hell she wants to do. Andy In a message dated 9/20/2001 6:25:48 PM Central Daylight Time, ayukawa@twcny.rr.com writes: > . But > seriously, it's not necessary nor appropriate to go and completely rail on > somebody simply because they don't like SLG. Personally, I don't care for > it much myself. I heard a few of the tracks that were scattered around on > the internet, and wasn't impressed at all. I bought the album thinking that > perhaps when complete, it'd be better. > My first impression of SLG was this. "It's not worth the plastic it was > packaged in." I found the album to be way too slow in my taste. There's > not a lot of tracks on it that can be really grooved too, like on her other > albums. I personally have seen an unfortunate trend in Tori's music, in > that her albums have, to me, gotten progressively stranger. Choirgirl is my > personal favorite, but after that... Venus's studio disc was very > different, odd, and I don't care for it as much as the other albums. SLG in > my opinon is even farther out there. > After a few listens through the album, a lot of it IS growing on me. I ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 01:12:55 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: toriamos.com newsletter #8 >From: "Tori Amos" >Subject: Tori covers Eminem >Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 21:06:15 -0700 > > > > >Sept. 26, 2001 - Issue #8 > > >Strange Little Girls In stores now! > >This week's exclusive track: > > > "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" > Audio > Realaudio > > > > Originally from The Slim Shady LP > Eminem, 1999 > > >Send this song to your friends and remind them that Strange Little Girls is in >stores now! Click the link at the bottom of this email (AOL users may need to go >back to the text version of this email in order to access the link) > > _________________________________ > >Tour Date On Sale This Week > >This is the final show to go on-sale for pre-sale tickets. All other shows have >gone on sale. > > >Password: GIRLS > >11/11 Oakland, CA Paramount Theatre > Presale Starts: 9/28 at 10am > Presale Expires: 9/29 at 10pm > Public On-sale: 9/30 at 12noon > Ticketmaster > >To purchase, click the Ticketmaster link and enter the password as requested >in order to purchase tickets. Please keep in mind that there may be many people >trying to purchase tickets at the same time, so please keep trying if you don't >get through. If you continue to have trouble, please click on the help section >at . > > > ToriAmos.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:10:45 -0500 From: "Carmen Riojas" Subject: Re: SLG: Many comments i just heard '97 Bonnie & Clyde and it's just incredibly disturbing (no i didn't hear the orig.but i know this is an old thing). i don't think i will EVER listen to anything affiliated w/ eminem again. but anyway, one thing i would like to say to the upset depeche mode people is what she has done (stripping down the music) to emphasize the view she's trying to get us to see is just monsterously clever and i'll let ya'll figure out what i mean by that. overall i find the sound and what she's done w/ the songs thought provoking on some and just fun on the rest. if you want to hear butchering listen to the other version of "Happy Workers" on the Toys soundtrack. (the one not sung by Tori) toodles CR ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 07:43:47 EDT From: Fannyfest@aol.com Subject: Has anyone ever met TORI? Have any of you ever had the pleasure of meeting miss Tori? If you have, share.... "Maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen" ~~Tori AMos~~ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:50:10 +0000 From: "Tom xxxxx" Subject: SLG lyrics Hi-ho, Does anyone know if the lyrics to SLG are available somewhere? I wasn't ablt to access the Tori Amos Lyrics Database a few days ago. Is there some other site that has the SLG lyrics? Thanks, Tom _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:38:42 -0500 From: "Shaigirl ..." Subject: Indiananoplis: For Those Of You Going... Conversation for Tori Amos fans interested in going to the Indianapolis (Indiana) show. Will there be "meet and greets" this year? If so, when and where? If not, are people interested in meeting up before the show for a little get-to-gether?! Join now and find out!!! URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indyewf Post message: indyewf@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: indyewf-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: indyewf-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com List owner: indyewf-owner@yahoogroups.com Peace, ~Shaigirl shaigirl79@hotmail.com "I know I'll never know nobody better than I know myself but I can't even figure out just what the hell I'm all about." -Bob Schneider _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:00:39 -0400 From: nadyne@mindspring.com Subject: review of SLG on The Onion AV Club There's a review of SLG available at The Onion AV Club . I'll quote it below: Strange Covers Tori Amos Strange Little Girls (Atlantic) The art of radically reinterpreting and reinventing songs is often unfairly maligned. But while the result can be mere cover-band mimicry  or worse, the sort of wacky irony-wrangling that a million interchangeable punk bands use to take the piss out of sappy love songs  the most inventive reworkings prove nothing less than the eternal malleability of song. In one fine recent example, Red House Painters singer Mark Kozelek recorded an album of acoustic AC/DC covers, effectively locating the pathos and beauty buried beneath Bon Scott's swagger. Tori Amos has long made a practice of filtering unexpected material ("Smells Like Teen Spirit" and others) through her unique presentation, but never as overtly or ambitiously as on Strange Little Girls. Covering songs originally sung by men, mostly about women, and Amos-izing the arrangements of originals by the likes of Eminem and Slayer, the disc looks, on paper, like an intriguing exercise. Unfortunately, it sounds, in reality, like little more than an intriguing exercise: With few exceptions, it's tedious and predictable, wearing its calculated concept far too boldly on its sleeve. Early on, a cover of Eminem's "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" provides a new perspective on an already-chilling narrative. But by the time Strange Little Girls rolls past dull covers of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy The Silence" and 10cc's "I'm Not In Love" to a tiresome eight-minute reworking of "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" (complete with head-slappingly obvious news bites about gun control and John Lennon's assassination), the whole affair has worn perilously thin. On her two most recent albums, From The Choirgirl Hotel and To Venus And Back, Amos was in top form, showcasing maturity and versatility without alienating her ardent fan base. Strange Little Girls is a forgivable misstep, the product of ambition and experimentation, but it's a misstep nonetheless. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 17:15:34 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: SLG Debuts at #4 on Billboard Album Chart launch.com reports : >Tori Amos had the highest debut of the week, landing at Number Four with her >collection of song interpretations, Strange Little Girls, which sold some >111,000 units. The set features her versions of songs originally recorded >by Depeche Mode (news - web sites), Eminem (news - web sites), Joe Jackson, >the Beatles, and others. the billboard 200 chart is at and, apparently, hasn't been updated to reflect the changes yet. woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:52:32 -0500 From: "justin sears" Subject: Re: SLG lyrics I've got lyrics to all of Tori's albums on my Tori page at: An Ear with a Foot http://kindlyone.50megs.com/music/tori Justin ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V6 #181 *************************************