From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V7 #249 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, October 24 2002 Volume 07 : Number 249 Today's Subjects: ----------------- TORI AMOS Chats Live Online This Friday, October 25 [Beth Winegarner ] san francisco tori show details [dances with virgos ] bt & tori amos - light speed (hybrid remix [JNe9027355@aol.com] vienna tori show [dances with virgos ] ny daily news article [dances with virgos ] Re: bt & tori amos - light speed (hybrid remix) [Cyndi S Crawford ] asft singles ["Aileen Sharkie" ] Re: asft singles ["trent \[like a good book\]" ] Re: asft singles [Richard Handal ] ASF Single In Chicago [tgwyn@toolkitmail.com] Re: ASF Single In Chicago ["Mike Gray" ] Re: asft singles ["Ali E." ] Limited Edition [bee straszheim ] RE: asft singles ["h." ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 22:40:08 -0700 From: Beth Winegarner Subject: TORI AMOS Chats Live Online This Friday, October 25 > TORI FANS - > > We're only a week away from the release of Scarlet's Walk and there's so > much great stuff going on....Read on for the details: > > + TORI CHATS LIVE ONLINE THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 > + MORE NEW MUSIC FROM SCARLET'S WALK PREMIERES > + THE SCARLET'S WALK CD IS YOUR KEY TO EXCLUSIVE CONTENT > Find out more.... > ___________________________________ > > + TORI CHATS LIVE ONLINE THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 > This Friday at 7PM (ET) / 4PM (PT), Tori will log on to invite you all to > join her on Scarlets Walk! The chat will take place during the world > premiere of selections from Scarlets Walk that will stream for 24 hours > beginning at 1PM (ET) / 10AM (PT) that same day, all accessible at: > http://www.toriamos.com/virtualinstore > Online retailers all around the world will pre-sell the album during the > entire event, so no matter what country you're in, you'll be able to > pre-order it!!! Be sure and mark your calendars for this Friday so you > don't miss this! > > + THE SCARLET'S WALK CD IS YOUR KEY TO EXCLUSIVE CONTENT! > Scarlet's Walk is your key to "Scarlets Web," an entire online bonus > world at www.toriamos.com only accessible when the disc is in your CD-ROM > drive. ConnecteD technology recognizes the CD and will then let you > unlock this exclusive content. Once inside "Scarlet's Web," you'll find > three maps to navigate through a vast, bonus world of photos, songs not > found on Scarlet's Walk, lyrics, a track-by-track commentary from Tori, > behind-the-scenes video, mini movies, stories, contests to win front-row > concert tickets, and souvenirs to collect along the way. A special > highlight of "Scarlets Web" will be exclusive live tracks recorded along > Toris On Scarlets Walk tour that embarks on November 7. These live > songs from the road will be premiered exclusively for fans in "Scarlets > Web." Make sure you get Tori's Scarlet's Walk CD so you can access all > this great stuff! > > + KEEP PICKING TORI AT MTV.COM! > Keep supporting Tori and keep those votes coming in for "a sorta > fairytale" as YOUR "VIEWER'S PICK" at: > http://www.mtv.com/music/viewers_pick/ > Let's take this one home for her.... > > Stay tuned for much more at: > http://www.toriamos.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:54:04 +0200 From: "Kasia" Subject: Limited Edition of Scarlet's Walk Hey, hey. I don't understand one thing. If I don't buy Limited Edition of SW I won't have an access to Scarlet's Web??? Help me, cause I'm so confused right now! Kasia ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:05:24 -0400 From: dances with virgos Subject: san francisco tori show details from : >Live and in concert! Tori Amos >with opening act, Howie Day >Saturday, December 21 > >Tickets go on sale Sunday, November 3 at 10:00 am at >Ticketmaster 415-421-TIXS (8497); www.cc.com and www.ticketmaster.com > >Seats are reserved; Tickets are $39.50 and $29.50 in advance; >Ticket prices include $.25 for a local charity. > >Doors open at 6:30 PM >Show starts at 7:30 PM one presumes that a presale will take place on friday, november 1st. thanks to kennie for the head's up on this! woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:59:54 EDT From: JNe9027355@aol.com Subject: bt & tori amos - light speed (hybrid remix was looking for hybrid songs and this came up. Never heard of it before. its a neat versus --a bt song, perhaps "flaming june" and tori's "caught a lite sneeze" tell me what you think! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:43:01 -0400 From: dances with virgos Subject: vienna tori show just noticed this on the dent: >Another European date has been added in Vienna, Austria on January >30, 2002 at BA-CA Halle/Gasometer. Tickets not on sale yet! I have >added this to my Tour Schedule Page. (Thanks Martin.) woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:06:56 -0400 From: dances with virgos Subject: ny daily news article An American odyssey Tori Amos tells a story-in-songs culled from the people she met on the road after 9/11 By ISAAC GUZMAN Tori Amos would prefer that her latest release, "Scarlet's Walk," not be referred to as a "concept" album. But it's hard to get around such labels when a record comes with its own color-coded map and offers links to a Web site filled with American history and explanations of the album's fictional characters. Amos has crafted "Scarlet's Walk" around a meandering journey through America, although the casual listener would be unlikely to glean the plot from a single spin of the album. Her title character travels from Anchorage to Sioux Falls, S.D., Chattanooga, Tenn., and New York City. Along the way, she runs into spiritual charlatans, wanna-be revolutionaries and, most significantly, an adult-film star named Amber Waves, who is a few years past her prime. Amos, 39, nicked the name from Julianne Moore's character in "Boogie Nights." But where Paul Thomas Anderson's film has Amber embodying the spirit of the '70s, Amos thinks she's emblematic of America in an age of disarray. "She's getting pimped out," Amos says. "Also, the word 'fading' porn star  in this song, it's not as if she's exactly fresh meat. She's made certain choices that she has to come to terms with. They're haunting her now, so it seemed to me that that's very much where America is at today." Amos conceived the record's theme as she trekked across the U.S. during a concert tour last fall. The nation was still in the throes of post-9/11 anxiety, and Amos says she got a chance to talk to people on an unusually intimate level. "Conversations I normally wouldn't have had were going to all these deep places," she says. "Relationships were formed at a much quicker pace. Things were amped, so feelings weren't tucked in like shirts." In covering everything from shattered romances to atrocities against Native Americans, "Scarlet" has Amos is in a typically ambitious mode. Her last album, "Strange Little Girls," was also built around an idea, as Amos sought to put a feminist twist on songs written by men. While much of the record seemed muddled, her breathy take on Eminem's " '97 Bonnie and Clyde" was a psychologically wrenching depiction of violence against women. It recalled the song with which Amos broke into the pop world. In 1991, she released "Me and a Gun," an autobiographical, a cappella track in which she described being raped. That challenging stance instantly made her a polarizing figure, leading some critics to deride her as shrill even as she inspired rabid devotion in her fans. "A lot of fans are drawn to her music because she dares to go into these taboo subjects in a real in-your-face style," says Dianne Spoto Shattuck, an associate editor at Women Who Rock magazine. "Her subject matter deals so much with conflicts that have to do with sexuality and religion, feminist issues and her own experience with rape. There aren't too many artists who delve into those areas." While Amos modeled much of her sound and sensibility on '80s art-rocker Kate Bush, she herself became a major influence on a generation of women singer-songwriters. Piano-based anthems such as "God" and "Cornflake Girl" clearly resonated with artists such as Paula Cole, Fiona Apple and, most recently, Vanessa Carlton. "She's like the godmother of the entire '90s singer-songwriter movement," says Jim Kaminski, rock buyer for Tower Records in Greenwich Village. "Her records selling was what made labels go out and sign other female singer-songwriters." For years, Amos was rankled by being compared with other female artists, especially those on the Lilith Tour. But she says that when she became a mother two years ago  she and husband Mark Hawley, a studio engineer, are the parents of Natashya  she began to feel more comfortable with her role as an icon for women rockers. "It's about becoming more of a nurturing force," she says. "Now I have a lot of time for the young ones coming up, and I can be thrilled for other people. The only thing that was hard about it was being pitted against each other in the media." Members of the press again annoyed Amos last summer when  despite distribution to only a handful of journalists  advance tracks for "Scarlet" wound up on the Internet. So, like many artists, Amos took extreme measures in trying to foil pirates before the official release date. "Those were my babies  those weren't even finished mixes," she says. "So I went to my guys and said, 'Do what you have to, because trust has been broken.' " SEALING THE DEAL The solution of Amos' label, Epic, was to loan copies of the record to music journalists in a portable CD player with the lid sealed shut and a pair of jumbo headphones glued into the only output jack. The whole affair made Amos even more adamant about protecting her work from bootlegging  one of the music business' most pressing issues. "I believe in wine-tasting, but if you put a bottle of it in your bag, what you're saying is that you don't respect the people who made it," she says. "If you need to take the music, take the music. But at some point you just become a taker. You're a parasite." Even if some fans download her songs, Epic and retailers expect "Scarlet" to be her best-selling album since 1998's platinum "From the Choirgirl Hotel." For Amos, however, the greatest success is weaving a tale with a unified theme, something she's wanted to do for years. "To have a story work from top to tail with one character moving through is a challenge," she says. "But I didn't set out to write a road-trip sonic novel. The songs just started coming quickly because I was out in the land at a time when the masks were down, when people were talking about things they might not talk about today. Like, 'If tomorrow doesn't come, what would I change today?' " ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:07:26 -0400 From: Cyndi S Crawford Subject: Re: bt & tori amos - light speed (hybrid remix) >was looking for hybrid songs and this came up. Never heard of it before. its a neat versus --a bt song, perhaps "flaming june" and tori's "caught a lite sneeze" tell me what you think!< I actually have that too, it's not bad at all. :D I found it by searching for Tori Amos remixes. a lot of the remixes I came up with are fan-made tho, however, at least half of 'em wound up being really good. :) Sincerely, Cyndi S. Crawford http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/368/ciara_blaze.html -- http://learntothink0.tripod.com/learntothinkagain/ -- http://www.geocities.com/keyyooo/ -- http://www.platinumcomplication.com/cyndi/ -- http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=kittitude Tori Amos' response when asked to describe herself in five words: "I. Do. Not. Describe. Myself." ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:55:39 -0700 From: "Ears with Feet" Subject: Re: Limited Edition of Scarlet's Walk regular CD. The Limited edition CD only has some extras, like a DVD and a map of Scarlet's travels. So whatever copy you buy, you will have a chance to visit Scarlet's Web. AJ >From: "Kasia" >To: "precious" >Subject: Limited Edition of Scarlet's Walk >Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:54:04 +0200 > > >Hey, hey. I don't understand one thing. If I don't buy Limited Edition of >SW I >won't have an access to Scarlet's Web??? Help me, cause I'm so confused >right >now! > > Kasia _________________________________________________________________ Unlimited Internet access for only $21.95/month. Try MSN! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/2monthsfree.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:55:23 -0400 From: dances with virgos Subject: toriamos.com update : TORI CHATS LIVE ONLINE THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 This Friday at 7PM (ET) / 4PM (PT), Tori will log on to invite you all to join her on Scarlets Walk! The chat will take place during the world premiere of selections from Scarlets Walk that will stream for 24 hours beginning at 1PM (ET) / 10AM (PT) that same day, all accessible Here At The Virtual In-store! Online retailers all around the world will pre-sell the album during the entire event, so no matter what country you're in, you'll be able to pre-order it!!! Be sure and mark your calendars for this Friday so you don't miss this! THE SCARLET'S WALK CD IS YOUR KEY TO EXCLUSIVE CONTENT! Scarlet's Walk is your key to "Scarlets Web," an entire online bonus world right here ToriAmos.com only accessible when the disc is in your CD-ROM drive. ConnecteD technology recognizes the CD and will then let you unlock this exclusive content. Once inside "Scarlet's Web," you'll find three maps to navigate through a vast, bonus world of photos, songs not found on Scarlet's Walk, lyrics, a track-by-track commentary from Tori, behind-the-scenes video, mini movies, stories, contests to win front-row concert tickets, and souvenirs to collect along the way. A special highlight of "Scarlets Web" will be exclusive live tracks recorded along Toris On Scarlets Walk tour that embarks on November 7. These live songs from the road will be premiered exclusively for fans in "Scarlets Web." Make sure you get Tori's Scarlet's Walk CD so you can access all this great stuff! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:59:14 +0000 From: "Aileen Sharkie" Subject: asft singles I went into HMV at the local mall yesterday and made my regular trip to the tori amo's section only to see..gasp!...the single for a sorta fairytale. Of course I bought it. But i was wondering, how many different copies of this single are there? the one I bought has the 101 mix, operation peter pan, the single edit and then the one minute video clip. It only cost me $4 (canadian). Thats pretty cheap, even for a single. So are there different versions of the single that are more expensive? aileen _________________________________________________________________ Unlimited Internet access for only $21.95/month. Try MSN! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/2monthsfree.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:13:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "trent \[like a good book\]" Subject: Re: asft singles i'm in detroit and can go over the bridge to HMV in windsor but has anyone in the US seen the single at Tower Records yet? - --- down new mexico way something about the open road i knew that he was looking for some indian blood and find a little in you find a little in me we may be on this road but we're just impostors in this country you know tori amos -- a sorta fairytale ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:49:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Handal Subject: Re: asft singles Trent spoke: > i'm in detroit and can go over the bridge to HMV in windsor but has > anyone in the US seen the single at Tower Records yet? I put on my bulletproof vest and went to Tower Records in Rockville, Md., a couple hours ago and they didn't have it, despite having told me last week they would have had it yesterday. I also asked about the likely distribution of the Scarlet Stories CD with the track by track commentary as spoken by Tori and the manager didn't know anything about it specifically, but she said the distribution of such extra CDs is typically left to the discretion of the individual dealers. She also said to check for a Tower ad in Sunday's newspapers as there might be something mentioned in there about it along with the ad for Scarlet's Walk. I was lucky enough to have been given a copy of this bonus disc over the weekend, and I reported on it and sent scans to both the Dent and . I'll include my comments about it below. <======================= my official comments =======================> You can tell there were some edits here and there, but Scarlet Stories is pretty much just Tori speaking close into a microphone in a studio seamlessly relating the narrative of Scarlet's Walk, and providing some backstory and details to go along. As with Tori's music in general, it's mainly about the emotions from the perspective of the characters in the songs, and there is plenty about the emotions and underlying themes going on in this commentary. The song-titled tracks of this CD change within the natural flow of the album's narrative as the story progresses. Tori sounds extremely relaxed and centered, and clearly knows this complex story quite well from every conceivable angle; it's really alive to her. I'm sure this is something folks are going to want to listen to again and again. I'd suggest playing it once before listening to Scarlet's Walk, and then after hearing Scarlet's Walk a few times going back and listening to Scarlet Stories again to be brought up to speed a bit. Considering the intricate nature of Scarlet's Walk I'm sure Scarlet Stories will come to be an invaluable resource everyone will want to have to enhance their enjoyment and appreciation of Scarlet's Walk. <======================= my official comments =======================> Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 21:37:03 +0000 (GMT) From: tgwyn@toolkitmail.com Subject: ASF Single In Chicago Has anyone in the are found the singles yet? I checked Virgin Mega yesterday, nothing, as well as both the Tower in the loop and the one in Lincoln Park. PLEASE HELP, i'm normally a lurker, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Tripp Gwyn ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 00:16:20 +0100 From: "Mike Gray" Subject: Re: ASF Single In Chicago Hi All, They were a bit thin on the ground in the UK, too, as were the 1-track promos. I know this might sound like a radical thought, but why don't people just order from the UK? Presumably it's not going to cost much more (if indeed it actually costs any more at all) than buying it from an import rack in Tower or Virgin. I'd recommend www.action-records.co.uk as very reliable and offering a good, personal service. Also the obvious such as www.amazon.co.uk or www.hmv.co.uk I'm sure could help. The CD itself should set you back #2.99 or #3.99. That's $4.63 and $6.18 respectively. Even when you add the P&P markup, it's not going to cost you more than about $10 or $12 bucks, which IIRC is about the cost of an import in stores, and you don't even have to leave the house. I make it a total of $7.73 [actually slightly less as you'll lose 17.5% VAT on the #2.99 cost of the CD] - a little over $7 shipped from www.action-records.co.uk (look under 'indie') - they're safe, and it compares well to $12.99 from Amazon.com excluding shipping! Action Records ship within 24 hours in my experience and are a nice local firm. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:51:39 +0800 From: "Ali E." Subject: Re: asft singles I think you scored a really good deal. I pre-ordered mine from Amazon for $12.99 US. I don't know if this is an import or the regular single. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aileen Sharkie" Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:59:14 +0000 To: precious-things@smoe.org Subject: asft singles > But i was wondering, how many different copies of this single are there? the > one I bought has the 101 mix, operation peter pan, the single edit and then > the one minute video clip. It only cost me $4 (canadian). Thats pretty > cheap, even for a single. So are there different versions of the single > that are more expensive? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:26:39 -0400 From: bee straszheim Subject: Limited Edition I am sure that many of you are signed up with the Tori Amos mailing list and have received their email about .... well let me just cut and paste shall I? " Tori's new album, Scarlet's Walk is out on October 29, 2002! This could be your last chance to pre-order your limited edition copy of "Scarlet's Walk from the official Tori online store! Quantities are limited so reserve your copy by clicking here" Okay, so in search of the single during last week I had called my local music stores, well book/ music stores, those would be Barnes and Noble and Borders, and Borders music department said that they themselves are getting 29 copies of the Limited Edition 2 cd disc (and they are one of the ones with a crappy music selection!) set so basically my question is, does anyone have any idea how "limited" this cd is? Sounds like it is only limited by the number of people who will be buying it. Does anyone disagree??? Oh why does the "limited edition" Winter single come to mind so easily? : ) I wish you all well, bee ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 21:06:28 -0700 From: "h." Subject: RE: asft singles > > i'm in detroit and can go over the bridge to HMV in windsor but has > > anyone in the US seen the single at Tower Records yet? i was at the tower records in berkeley last night, they didn't have it (they did have 2 copies of the SLG single though!). neither did rasputin's or amoeba in berkeley. :( if anyone in the bay area knows a place to find it, i'd be happy to know about it. i could always order through amazon, i guess, but that's expensive. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V7 #249 *************************************