Tori Amos - The Beekeeper (Special Limited Edition)
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Artist: Tori AmosEdition: Music CD
Format: Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 2005-02-22
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Parasol
- Sweet the Sting
- The Power of Orange Knickers- Featuring Damien Rice
- Jamaica Inn
- Barons of Suburbia
- Sleeps with Butterflies
- General Joy
- Mother Revolution
- Ribbons Undone
- Cars and Guitars
- Witness
- Original Sinsuality
- Ireland
- The Beekeeper
- Martha's Foolish Ginger
- Hoochie Woman
- Goodbye Pisces
- Marys of the Sea
- Toast Album
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Free Music Review: Tori, come to your senses!
Hit: 2 Stars
After "Scarlet's Walk" proved that Tori's fans are still with her, she turned to creating another uninspiring album in summer of 2004. Some things have happened in the past few years before the album's release. Amos' brother died and her daughter started growing up. You'd expect her to start making more vital music, but she kept doing what she seemingly does best now--churning out accessible, unfinished, not-thought-through material for her most obsessive fans. There's no one else who could enjoy this level of self-indulgence from Amos. The melodies are pure clich?s, the production is flat and the songs are simply bland. Amos is producing too much material, she's losing a lot of her inspiration and she's not too keen on self-editing. I blame motherhood.
"The Beekeeper" isn't as bad as much as it's boring. There's not much room for originality and she didn't work enough on these songs to make them good. You've heard material like this a hundred times before. Her lyrics are becoming extremely trivial and this just ended her downfall as a musician. Certain songs manage to be pretty, but they're pure mediocrity when compared to her early material. There's not much room for her to express herself vocally and instrumentally--things she used to be captivating at. Which brings us to the main point: Amos is losing her creative spirits and falling short on all her artistic levels. You can't believe that this is the same woman who made stark, powerful material such as "Little Earthquakes" and "Boys for Pele".
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The limited edition package with a bonus DVD - footage includes a candid conversation with Tori Amos talking about the inspiration and theme for The Beekeeper and the bonus track "Garlands".The limited edition package groups the 19 songs into 6 different gardens- Roses and Thorns, Herbs and Elixers, The Desert Garden, The Greenhouse, The Orchard and The Rock Garden. To complement this garden theme the package includes a "Beekeeper" mix of flower and plant seeds.
After Scarlet's Walk, Tori Amos' 2002 ambitious sonic travelogue that took her to all 50 states, penning love letters to America along the way, the fiery earth-sprite has fashioned another high-minded concept album, tying her 19 songs--and one not-so-hidden track--into a garden motif that's part a retelling of Alice In Wonderland, another A Little Shop of Horrors. The Beekeeper chronicles her rather autobiographical protagonist's journey through what seems to be an overgrown labyrinth of the subconscious as she experiences a series of life-altering events and emotions. In addition, living in Cornwall for the past decade has certainly had an effect on Amos, she even takes inspiration from Daphne Du Maurier's classic novel Jamaica Inn, which takes place on that rugged seacoast, but the greatest change is the grit in her voice; on a song like "Hoochie Woman," she sounds like she's channeling Chrissie Hynde--a welcome change from some of the preciousness of her earlier work. She also surprises with the steely, eloquent resolve on a song like "Goodbye Pisces" one of the better break-up songs in recent memory. The Beekeeper returns the quirky singer to the same whimsical terrain of 1992's Little Earthquakes, but with much stronger storylines, and a much more assured and nuanced voice. Her best yet. --Jaan Uhelszki
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