Tori Amos - The Beekeeper
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Free Music Review: Delayed gratification
Hit: 5 Stars
It's always fun reading other people's Tori reviews, especially given that her "ears with feet" often seem to be almost as passionate and outspoken as Tori herself. Though I'm hardly the first to say it, my only caution to EWFs who claim to love Tori but dislike this album is that passion can sometimes lead us to snap judgments that cause us to miss out.
I'm not excluding myself here: it took many, *many* listens for me to fall in love with _The Beekeeper_ -- more listens than any other album in recent memory, and certainly more than _Scarlet's Walk_ -- yet I truly have fallen in love with it.
Yes, it's almost 80 minutes long, and parts of it are as opaque as anything Tori's ever done. She's not always going to make it easy for us, and we arguably should know better by now than to expect her to. This is no _Little Earthquakes_, which I still remember, so many years ago, hearing in the car with my best friend on the way back from picking it up at Tower with both our jaws hitting the floorboard simultaneously and us looking at each other all "are you *hearing* this?"
At first, there may be only a few songs on _The Beekeeper_ that really grab you. For me, it was "Parasol," "Jamaica Inn," "Marys of the Sea," "Toast," and especially "Ribbons Undone," which I knew immediately was one of the five or so most hauntingly gorgeous things Tori's ever written and would now place somewhere in the top three.
Keep listening. Take those first few addictive songs off repeat and give their neighbors a chance. Soon enough, you may well find these songs seeping into your brain, the connections between them becoming clearer, the melodies that once seemed oblique now seeming inescapably beautiful. In the same way that I may well have listened to _Scarlet's Walk_ more times than _Little Earthquakes_ at this point -- it's less immediate, but also a lot harder to burn out on -- I suspect that _The Beekeeper_ will be with me for a long, long time.
(Incidentally, it's great to see the accompanying recommendations for Vienna Teng's _Warm Strangers_, even if I've still got a softer spot for her debut _Waking Hour_. More than any other singer-songwriter since Tori hit the scene, IMHO, Vienna is unnervingly gifted.)
Free Music Review: You Can't Spell 'Honesty' Without 'Honey'
Hit: 5 Stars
After 2003's Tales Of A Librarian closed the book on her earlier work for Atlantic with a respectable hits collection, Tori Amos took stock and re-evaluated where her future output would take her. From the very beginning, The Beekeeper showcases a more relaxed Tori compared to the conceptual headmistress at work on preceding releases Scarlet's Walk and the overlooked Strange Little Girls. Settled in Cornwall, England with her four-year old daughter and music engineer husband, Tori seems at ease with her existence; the musical caress of her Beekeeper tunes far from the prickly moments of Boys For Pele and To Venus And Back. Although this 19-track eighth album is another lengthy addition to the Amos canon, The Beekeeper is an uncomplicated listen. Gone are the provocative paeans to dressing in leather for sexual enticement and diddling in the bedroom while holding a Bible, replaced by a mood of satisfaction in the cosy world of a reformed 40something. In this new musical sphere, Tori suggests `the sexiest thing is trust' and empowerment comes from colourful underwear rather than the `peace. love and a hard cock' of her Professional Widow days. The wide-eyed beauty of first single Sleeps With Butterflies and Ribbons Undone - an ode to her young daughter Natashya - are stirring proof that compassion beats kook every time. While the piano again predominates over keyboards after a background role on Strange Little Girls, the album keeps a funky edge on tracks such as Sweet The Sting and Witness, Hoochie Woman stops off at New Orleans for a hip-shaking romp and the religious rebellion of Marys Of The Sea valiantly dips into the French phrasebook. Listeners can just imagine The Power Of Orange Knickers' guest vocalist Damien Rice blushing at the chorus he is required to sing, yet his backing vocals act as an excellent counterweight while Tori's double-tracked vocals arc around him. Along with the light of tracks such as Orange Knickers comes the dark of the closing track Toast, an apparent requiem for her brother - a fatality in a November car crash. Such personal narratives find Tori brushing aside her musical mysticism in favour of veracity and warmth on the aptly titled The Beekeeper - after all, you can't spell `honesty' without `honey'.Free Music Review: Is it Sweet the Sting?
Hit: 5 Stars
Tori Amos is a fraction of the artist she once was. Her rage, her beauty, her talent have all been stripped a slight strip of her old stylings. However, that is not to say she's lost everything. She can still make quality music that makes me swoon, even if it doesn't have the quality of her earlier work.
Tori began this descent only one album ago with her release of the adult contemporary album Scarlet's Walk, her first album with the Epic label. The album was great, but was very calm and disappointed many Tori fans. So much that her sales for her new album, The Beekeeper are dramtically lower than any of her others. Many blame this on the album's first single "Sleeps With Butterflies", easily the least creative and most mainstream work she has done thus far. In my opinion, the album sales would have been much higher if the first single would have been either "Sweet the Sting" or "The Power of Orange Knickers". Her management has realized this mistake and "Sweet the Sting" is emerging as her second US single.
As for the actual album, I love it. She's in love with the piano in a way she hasn't been since Boys for Pele, and even if it is an entirely different form of music I think that this album is one full of her happiness. It shines through fully. Taking note of each of the 19 tracks would take so long so I'll just say that most of the songs are calm, but a few of them beat through, Such as "Barons of Suburbia", probably her first really emotional song for awhile, and "Witness", a funk track with enough sexual power in it to fill an album. Sometimes the album loses heart, and she probably would have been better off trimming some of the songs and going for a slightly shorter album, releasing some of the less worthy work such as "Martha's Foolish Ginger" and "Marys of the Sea" as B-sides which her hardcore fan base would undoubtedly snatch up.
Overall, it isn't her strongest work, but is far from weak, and according to recent interviews it's her last experiemnt with overproduced adult contemporary. we can only hope she isn't kidding and that we get back a little bit of Tori's rock spirit.
Personal favorites:"Barons of Suburbia", "Mother Revolution", "Witness", and "The Beekeeper"
Free Music Review: Tori Amos has took us to a journey
Hit: 5 Stars
Tori Amos has took us on a journey into her life and no other artist has took us on that kind of journey
She started the journey with little earthquakes, We know all her little earthquakes and her thoughts. I give this one 5 stars.
hightlights
silent all these years
winter
Then she gets skin stripped on under the pink, and makes a album better then little earth quakes. I give this 5 stars
hight lights
yes anastacia
cornflake girl
space dog
Boys for pele she went through a bad break up and makes the most painful but best epic album to date. This album is hard to understand but a classic 5 stars
hightlights
caught a lite sneeze
taula
blood roses
we get choir girl now
a good album but not my favorite. I think it's more dark then boys for pele and very hard to listen to. I give 4 stars
hightlights
spark
playboy mommy
black dove
liee
now venus to back I love this album, but it's hard to understand the songs and some songs are just not my favorite. 3 stars
datura
bless
riot poof
strange little girls I never got it but I heard some of it on the internet 2 stars
Scarlet's walk
this is her best album since choir girl and boys for pele
even though some people think it's dual. it's not it's like a story of finding true love 5 STARS, and is the first tori album i can listen to with out feeling sad.
The beekeeper
I think this is her best album since boys for pele
this has many hightlights
5 STARS
hightlights
witness
jamaica Inn
hoochie woman
I think it's her best album ever
i feel sad for the people dissing this album
no its not going to be like boys and choirgirl
but it's better then most albums
like rebirth (jennifer lopez)
which is not a good album
Free Music Review: After all these years, She still got it!
Hit: 5 Stars
I just bought this album yesterday, and I love it! Comparing to "Scarlet's Walk", this is more of a mellow Tori. But, any Tori Amos Fan can tell from this album that it's definitely Tori. "The BeeKeeper" is something fresh and slightly different from Tori's previous albums. I've grown to love it!
Album Tracks:
1. Parasol - I fell under Tori's Magic again. I listen to this track like 10 times before I continued with the next tracks. Great Melody, too.
2. Sweet the Sting - Really Funky, Refreshing!
3. The Power of Orange Knickers - Kinda put off from the Title at first, but it's a really catchy track.
4. Jamaica Inn - Really good track...reminds me a little of "A Sorta Fairytale"
5. Barons of Suburbia - Hot Track, Love the organs!
6. Sleeps with Butterflies - This Track is the reason I bought this album...but Tori never disappoints.
7. General Joy - Good Rhythem, grown to love it.
8. Mother Revolution - Getting use to it...only listen to it once.
9. Ribbons Undone - Not sure about this one!
10. Cars and Guitars - Really like this one...Typically Tori.
11. Witness - Very Soulful, Funky. Tori should of been a Black Women. Then again, she's just as soulful.
12. Original Sinsuality - Beautifully Written.
13. Ireland - Haven't really gotten into this track.
14. "The Beekeeper" - NOW THIS THE TORI I KNOW AND LOVE....Semi-Techno with a dark and haunting melody....I love this Track!
15. Martha's Foolish Ginger - I thought this sound was about the whole Martha Stuart Case based on the title. Haven't really listen to it yet.
16. Hoochie Woman - Love this track...reminds me of Tori's earlier work.
17. Goodbye Pisces - Great Lyrics! Grown to love it!
18. Marys of the Sea - I haven't really listen to it yet!
19. Toast - Good track, but not the best of the album!
Overall, "The BeeKeeper" is worth every penny. But really, anything Tori touches turnes to gold. BUY THE CD OR LIVE TO REGRET IT!