Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
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Free Music Review: one of the seminal albums of the 90s
Hit: 5 Stars
"Little Earthquakes" was a revelation when I first heard it. Here I am now, 15 years after having first heard the album, reviewing it. Is this a review of the album or of everything that I have tied to this album? They have become inextricably intertwined for me, which speaks to the power, beauty, and honesty of "Little Earthquakes".
Tori Amos showed us what a girl with a piano can do. She can bring the house down with the intensity of the title track. She can stop everything with the pure emotional power of the haunting "Me and a Gun". She can speak to previously-unvoiced inner anguish, as surfaced in "Mother" and "Silent All These Years". And then we find out that some of the best songs from this era aren't even on this album; run, don't walk, to go get those b-sides right now. "Sugar" and "Take to the Sky" are two songs that simply must be heard.
This album is one that will stand the test of time. It is 15 years old as of this writing, but the lyrics and music are still as ground-breaking today as they were when they were first released. I've long since lost count of the number of times that I've given this album as a gift to a friend who I think needed to hear it. I still do it now. I haven't yet found any other single album that touches souls in the same way that this one does.
Free Music Review: I cry my eyes out
Hit: 5 Stars
If there ever was a CD that cut to the quick, it has to be this one. I will not critique every song (they're all beautiful and heartbreaking) but one song almost seems written just for me. "Winter" takes me back to my childhood so quickly and so poignantly I can barely listen to it. I grew up in the midwest with snowy winters, I had a white horse I loved beyond belief, I used to put on my dad's gloves, and I know the pain of growing older as a woman. Every word speaks to everything I feel - all I can say is that every time I listen to that song, I cry my eyes out. A catharsis perhaps that I need. Tori Amos is a true jewel - a poet and a musician. Love her!Free Music Review: Why do we
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of my top five favorite CDs ever. Tori brought the girl and the piano ensemble shrieking into the spotlight, leaving a wake of skeletons unearthed from their closets around the world. And she did it with this CD.Free Music Review: Very Alternative
Hit: 4 Stars
I liked this album. I waited a long time for it. It's got a more alternative style to it. There's a little rebellion in there as well (which Tori can be known for). I loved the last song on the disk, "Little Earthquakes." It's probably the dartkest of all the songs on the album. I still can't quite understand it, but it's good anyway. The album overall is great. I would recommend this album to all of the new Tori listeners because it is a bit easier to understand then some of her other ones. Overall, it is a great album and I highly recommend it.Free Music Review: Happy Phantoms
Hit: 5 Stars
Opening up with the brilliant "Crucify" and one of my favorite lines ever (I've got so much guilt I could start my own religion), this is the ultimate in the Tori experience. Sure, she's gone on to other things including a fairly brilliant turn at a more electro style but for the most part Tori has tended to bore me as the years go by. I know there's a ton of Torifanatics out there ready to lynch me but I can't help it. Little Earthquakes is a brilliant album and nothing else in her catalog really compares. My ultimate favorite on the entire album is "Tear In Your Hand" which is probably the most poppy and filled song on the album, (I think she's just pieces of me that you've never seen) but the piano intro of "Silent All These Years" and its excellent take on a bored housewife theme, at least to me, it's like an update of "The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan" to me, and it's a testament to know that will only a piano backing, this song is one of the most powerful things ever recorded - so you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts/ well what's so amazing about really deep thoughts/ boy, you best pray that I bleed real soon/ how's that thought for you. Brilliant, vindictive, pissy, everything I like. "Precious Things" with its story of teen anguish, feels like I lived the whole song with Tori (I want to smash the faces of all the beautiful boys/ those Christian boys/ so you can make me cum that doesn't make you Jesus). "Happy Phantom" with its happy little piano chord and not so pleasantries is a gem. The acapella horror of "Me & A Gun" still resonates all these years later, particularly when you find out it is a true story. When this album came out I hadn't really heard anything like it before. Sure, there's Kate Bush but this new breed Tori was just a little more edgy. Of course the entire time Tori has been recording, Kate was taking a sabbatical and I wonder if Kate just got bored of listening to Tori as well and that's why she finally came out of the woodwork. Well, no matter what this album stands the test of time as one of the best albums ever released.