Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
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Free Music Review: Get sucked into Tori-world
Hit: 5 Stars
Tori Amos has released a lot of brillant albums since Little Earthquakes, nonetheless, this remains her most accessible album and the easiest way to get sucked into Tori-world, and begin to get interested in other, deeper stuff by her. It sucked me in. Every track is brillant. No filler. All killer Tori.
Crucify - This is a sharp one. She explains the suffering we put ourselves through, but Tori's never whiny, rather strongly accepting that she's crucifying herself. She wants out, but till then she can handle it.
Girl - Girl is a sweet mid-tempo track with the incredibly catchy hook "She's been everybody else's girl. Maybe one day she'll be her own." Very vividly describes the naïveté of youth and the challenge of growing up.
Silent All These Years - I heard this one first. It was on an acoustic piano collection and this sucked me (like many other fans) into Tori-world. It talks about the suffering of having to be silent, almost abused, and shut up, but manages to remain sweet and catchy. "My scream got lost in a paper cup. Do you think there's a heaven where's some screams have gone?" ;)
Precious Things - This song feels instantly heavy and claustrophobic and loud and rocking. I kinda interpret it as teenage angst and rebellion ("Little fascist panties tucked inside the heart of every nice girl." Ehem...), but I'm not quite sure.
Winter - This remains one of her sweetest ballads. The lyrics are incredibly poignant and sincere and she means every word when she sings. About growing up and has some points of exchange between Tori and her dad. "All the white horses are still in bed, I tell you that I'll always want you near. You say that things change, my dear."
Happy Phantom - This is a funny one, with Tori imagining dying and becoming the Happy Phantom. It has some wise insight on death and dealing with it, "The sun is getting dim, will we pay for who we've been?" and how people whom we leave behind will soon learn to live without us, "Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?"
China - This is another sweet sweet ballad. Now about being in a relationship where the other person shuts you out and how hard you try to bring them back. "You're right next to me, but I need an airplane."
Leather is a searing sorta-black comedic song about not being truly loved in a relationship, "Look i'm standing naked before you. Don't you want more than my sex?" The Leather is a kind of metaphor for consolation in such a situation.
Mother, despite being the longest track on the album, is actually quite catchy. After one listened you won't feel completely affected, but later on you'll find yourself singing, "Mother, the car is here. Somebody leave the light on." It's about leaving home and finding independence, with all the fear of changing and the like. "Just in case I like the dancing, I can remember where I come from."
Tear In Your Hand is one of the most charming break-up songs I've ever heard. About a guy who's found someone else and Tori wonders, "I can't believe you're leaving 'cuz me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream." and pleads, "maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen" That maybe Tori had everything the other woman had and more. What's incredible about how she sings it, it's not one of those, I'll-sweep-your-floors-and-serve-you-hand-and-foot-if-you-take-me-back songs. Eventually she realizes, "Cutting my hands up, every time I touch you. Maybe it's time to wave goodbye now."
Me And A Gun is probably the most painful song on the album. Tori was raped once at knifepoint and the song sears and burns your heart as she sings: "It was me and a gun and a man on my back and i sang 'holy holy'
as he buttoned down his pants" You can feel her violation, her mutilation, her anger.
Little Earthquakes culminates the album as it talks about the need for some degree of suffering, of pain to feel alive, to be alive, showing that all the pain and angst all through the album are not wholly bad things. You live and you learn. You go on, but without, you are numb. "Give me life. Give me pain. Give me myself again."
Tori exorcised many of her personal demons on this album and she did it poignantly. She never sounds like a victim. This is no pity-me-I've-had-such-a-bad-life album. She sounds like she's valiantly telling the world: These things happened to me. I'm laying myself bare. You can listen. And I say you owe it to yourself to take that invitation.
Free Music Review: Like a life jacket to me...
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD, from start to finish, saved me from one of the darkest period of my life---offering hope, light, and a sense that someone else had been so down as I had. "Silent All These Years" was my voice at a time...Free Music Review: Outstanding
Hit: 5 Stars
A very important album in every way. Every song is perfect! Beautiful voice, incredible compositions and an unforgettably poignant statement of human being's complexities and intricate emotional turmoils! Couldn't recommend it enough! Tori is magic in all her albums!Free Music Review: Blast from the past...
Hit: 5 Stars
This album brings back so many memories... It is hard to believe the big cheeses wanted to kill the piano on this... Idiots!Free Music Review: A Perfect Start...
Hit: 5 Stars
I can't get enough of Tori Amos. Her music is so divine: lyrically, vocally, and instrumentally. My absolute favorite songs from this album are: Crucify, Girl, Precious Things, Winter, and Little Earthquakes. By the way, those songs remain top favorites among all her albums. And you'll notice I didn't list the familiar "Silent All These Years" as an album favorite; isn't it wonderful to buy an album because of a song like that, which you love so much, but find yourself loving the other songs the same or even more?