Tori Amos (Official Thread)

[Fisha]

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Really? Couldn't be less attracted to her right about now.

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

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Fun fact: Professional wrestler Mick Foley is a huge Tori Amos fan and would always play this song before important matches in his career for a number of years...

 

[Soot and Stars]

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Fun fact: Professional wrestler Mick Foley is a huge Tori Amos fan and would always play this song before important matches in his career for a number of years...

Really! Mick Foleys in my top five all time wrestlers and I can't believe I didn't know that! That's so cool!

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

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Yep. He was on the Daily Show a couple weeks ago and he let that cat out of the bag and I thought it was really cool.

I just didn't remember to post anything about it until yesterday.

 

[snakes&ladders]

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Now here's a very sexy and talented LASS

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

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I found this really really good cover of "Purple Rain" today that Tori did and thought I'd share...

 

[snakes&ladders]

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i found this really really good cover of "purple rain" today that tori did and thought i'd share...

huge cover....thanx for sharing that

 

[Tray73]

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Tori Of The 80's​

The 80's were a weird time for Tori! She had graduated from school and continued to perform and she was persistently sending demos out to record companies. She still hadn't quite found her voice yet and doubts were circling about her identity through this process. While performing she would get comparisons to a singer you all might know:

Kate Bush


Kate Bush was a very ethereal singer songwriter that mixed 80's excess with fantasy and singer songwriter balladry! I can definitely see why people thought that she would be a precursor or influence on some levels to Tori but a s much as I respect Kate I find the comparisons overstated!

During that year in question of 1981 that Tori started hearing this Kate hadn't broken out with her breakthrough material. Tori hadn't even heard her! This was a single that would've been heard during that time:

Breathing


I can hear flourishes of piano slightly similar to Tori but as a whole this is vocally and musically on a different plane other than they are both strange, quirky singer songwriter chicks with a huge rock influence!

Tori speaks on the comparison and the time:

I'll never forget the first time I heard about Kate. I was playing in a club, I was 18 or 19 and somebody came up to me, pointed their finger and said, 'Kate Bush.' I went, 'Who's that?' I wasn't really familiar because Kate didn't really happen in the States until Hounds Of Love. I was shocked because the last thing you want to hear is that you sound like someone else. Then people kept mentioning her name when they heard me sing, to the point where I finally went and got her records. When I first heard her, I went Wow, she does things that I've never heard anybody do, much less me. But I could hear a resonance in the voice where you'd think we were distantly related or something... I must tell you that when I heard her I was blown away by her. There's no question... But I knew that I had to be careful, so I didn't voraciously learn her catalogue. I left the records with my boyfriend at the time, because I didn't want to copy her. [Q - May 1998]

Still, all this ended up in a confusion and identity crisis that resulted in this big haired adventure:

Stay tuned for my coverage of Tori's band "Y Kant Tori Read" in my next installment of "Tori of the 80's"!

I'm a fan of Kate's too. I have all her albums & I have to admit at times I think Tori sounds very much like her, I particulary get that from 'Spark'. When I first heard Tori's work - 'Little Earthquakes' soon after its release - I immediately thought 'there's an artist who was influence by Kate Bush if ever I heard one', so it was really surprising to find out she actually wasn't! I like this quote from Tori:

"Well, when I was about seventeen, I was playing clubs and people would come up to me and say, 'You sound like Kate Bush.' And at the time: seventeen, that was ... thirteen years ago, and I would say, 'I don't, I don't know that, but I've heard of her.' So eventually, of course, I got her record, and I didn't really think I sounded like her. But maybe there're moments--there're moments -- who knows what my great-great-great-great-grandfather was doing back there, you don't know where the genes go. I, I do admit that there are moments of 'God, that's uncanny.' I mean, I guess if somebody was going to do, like, you know, 'Is it live or is it Memorex?', we could probably do each other and nobody would know, unless you really have a good ear. But, um, she smokes a little more weed than I do, so I'd have to catch up. Just a little more."
-- Tori; CFNY Radio Toronto, Oct 12, 1995

 

[Abraxas]

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A new painting I finished earlier to add to this thread.

 

[Soot and Stars]

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A new painting I finished earlier to add to this thread.

I love it dude! I really like thye area around the eyes! They are so life like and full of character!