Tuna, rubber, a little Tori Amos #5 in my igloo.

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Op dinsdag 28 maart 2006 22:55 schreef LuQas het volgende:
24,95 euro

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Op dinsdag 28 maart 2006 22:56 schreef Ang3l het volgende:

Ik zag nu trouwens pas dat het Adrien Brody was in A Sorta Fairytale. Was me eerder nooit opgevallen

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Op woensdag 29 maart 2006 01:24 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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Dude! Zeker Kong gezien

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Tori Amos Talks in Tongues

The mystical, enigmatic singer-songwriter discusses her new album and the anniversary of her debut

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE

Tori Amos is never short on metaphors. Conversations with the prodigal piano provocateur are likely to veer in any number of directions: mythology, sex, food and other whathaveyou's. This kind of "Tori-speak" has become notorious, earning Amos a fairy-kook reputation she just can't shake. But her frequent conversational detours somehow always manage to reach a point. And, more importantly, the woman has a sense of humor.

With the insufferably long winter of Cornwall, England, looming, the North Carolina-born minister's daughter has locked herself indoors to write material for her new album, the follow-up to 2005's The Beekeeper. Amos takes a moment to speak to Rolling Stone about her creative process, the fifteenth anniversary of her stellar debut Little Earthquakes and beating out Sarah Jessica Parker for a cornflakes ad.

Just before the release of The Beekeeper, you lost your brother in a car accident. Is that loss finding its way into the new material now that some time has passed?

I think on [the title track] "The Beekeeper" it was addressed, because the song itself speaks about loss. I was drawn to the idea that in the bee colony, the drones are the ones that go first. I thought that it was nature's parallel for the loss of this man before his time. It was originally written about my mother -- she was critical, and she flat-lined and came back. That's the last time I saw my brother. But after his accident, I finished [the album] with an ode to him. "Toast," the final song on the record, I wrote on the plane coming back from the funeral.

I think that this new work -- it's too early to say -- but this is a very different chapter. Certainly, since I've been a mother. You haven't really felt this Tori in a while.

How is the role of mother affecting the work now, versus when your daughter was first born?

I didn't want her looking and hearing me and thinking, "Oh my God, that's a scary lady!" There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world. I'm able to explain now that the woman who comes and reads bedtime stories and hangs out with her is different than the woman who walks behind that piano. I think this is the first time she's able to differentiate that. Now that there's that buffer, there are things in the world it's time to confront. There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first -- and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.

Are some of the same themes appearing -- especially concerning female sexuality and religion?

It was very conscious with [2002's] Scarlet's Walk and The Beekeeper that I wanted to embody the Mother Maiden and core essences within the being -- because I find a lot of women, especially in this time of the right wing, don't know how to be spiritual and sexual. Either they're puritanical, or their tits are hanging out all the time -- that's been a real bee in my bonnet, the program that [tells women] to be sexual. To [counter] that, you have to be nasty. I grenade that idea right out of the water!

One side of yourself might be that vulgar tart, and I'll hang out with her. I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object. That, to me, is playing into this role that women have held in Christianity for a long, long time. I refuse to be victimized by Christianity's misrepresentation of our great mothers. I want to be an integrated woman.

At what point did you begin to embrace both the spiritual and sexual sides of your personality?

It was during [1994's] Under the Pink tour. I wrote a verse: "I have fifty different hearts/They're all in fifty different drawers/When you come calling, I always put the purple one on/If I dump all fifty on the living room floor/Would you say clean up the mess before I get home?" Going out there every night, playing that piano in front of all those people, I realized that who I was when I walked offstage -- what I had created and the kind of life I was leading -- wasn't nurturing me in any way.

The hardest is to be able to hold the spiritual in one hand and the sexual in the other. I'm not talking about going to yoga one minute and then shagging your boyfriend like there's no tomorrow. I'm taking about being able to shag in a holy way . . . no pun intended.

Your entire video collection, Fade to Red, was released on DVD last month. As someone who seems to have very little inhibition onstage, how do you feel when shooting a video?

It's hard because, for me, the music is the purest form. That's where the message is unadulterated, clear and knows who it is. To articulate that in the visual realm is incredibly challenging because you don't want to cloud or pervert what the sonic realm is doing. So everything had to be considered from my point of view.

So you feel more at ease onstage than in front of the camera. Doesn't that make it especially ironic that you beat out Sarah Jessica Parker for a Kellogg's "Just Right" commercial back in the Eighties?

What's so shocking is that this woman who revolutionized the single woman and her role sexually and me -- who's straddled more piano benches than John Wayne has horses -- both went for a fucking Kellogg's commercial. That's the shocker. Children of the corn, both of us!

The anniversary of Little Earthquakes is approaching. What's your perspective on that album now?

It's sort of a way to time-travel. I have incredible, fond memories of that time, but I don't want to be there anymore. It's bittersweet in a way -- although I can smile [thinking of] that time, I also remember an emptiness that I didn't want to carry for the rest of my life.

Do you get frustrated with the labels that have attached themselves to you -- like "Queen of the Fairies" or New Age-y? Do you feel they undermine what it is you're trying to say?

I find it amusing, and my very cynical British husband finds it extremely amusing. He's basically said, "If anybody badmouths a fairy, they'll get their dick cut off in Cornwall." You just don't do that. It's like insulting cab drivers in New York.

JESSICA ROBERTSON

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I think that this new work -- it's too early to say -- but this is a very different chapter. Certainly, since I've been a mother. You haven't really felt this Tori in a while.

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Op zaterdag 1 april 2006 14:48 schreef LuQas het volgende:
Heel fijn interview!

Vooral:
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Is goed nieuws!

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A reliable source has informed Undented that there is a Tori Amos “Rarities Box” slated to be released this autumn. At this point, details are sketchy at best, but we are told that it appears on Warner Music Group’s digital release schedule and that the current release date is September 26th. Beyond that, neither our source nor we have any information about what its contents might include or if this will have a corresponding physical release as well.

One would hope for a comprehensive, multi-CD b-side and miscellaneous non-album track collection, packaged in a lovely hand-carved wooden box with copious liner notes and commentary, featuring several oft-mentioned but previously-unreleased songs to entice all but the most curmudgeonly of Tori fans to fork over their hard-earned dosh. However, that might be the ayuhuasca talking….

Whatever it turns out to be though, this is quite exciting news about something that many of us have hoped for for quite a while. And if anyone happens to have contacts or sources within the music industry, additional information about this would be quite welcome!

Stay tuned…

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Matt Chamberlain has posted that recording on Tori’s next album will be starting as soon as next week!

In his June 2nd news update, Matt writes:

Just packed up and and shipped a bunch of drums to be sent out to Cornwall England for next week when I start recording the new Tori Amos record—lots of recording and learning going on…...

Thanks to Robert Schrader for bring this to our attention.

And, just to recap the little we know about the new record (as all of this predates Undented), the first whiff of a new album came up in June 2005 when Tori played a new song durng the soundcheck of the Bonn stop on the Original Sinsuality tour. A couple months later, she confirmed in an In Newsweekly interview that she was working on new material but that the earliest it would be released would be 2007. Tori divulged more on XM Artist Confidential saying that the “warrior woman” inside her would come out more on the next record. Finally, in an interview Rolling Stone posted at the end of March, she talked a little about how the next record appeared to be a different new chapter and that we “hadn’t felt this Tori in a while.”

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The Collection Reveals Amos’ Classics, Rarities, B-Sides and
Unreleased Tracks for a Five-Disc, Career-Spanning Box Set

A PIANO: THE COLLECTION
Track Listing


Disc 1
“Leather” (Alternate Mix)
“Precious Things” (Alternate Mix)
“Silent All These Years”
“Upside Down”
“Crucify” (Unedited Single Version)*
“Happy Phantom”
“Me And A Gun”
“Flying Dutchman” (Alternate Mix)
“Girl”
“Winter”
“Take To The Sky (Russia)”
“Tear In Your Hand”
“China”
“Sweet Dreams”
“Mother” (Alternate Mix)
“Little Earthquakes”


Disc 2

“Cornflake Girl”
“Honey”
“Take Me With You” *
“Baker Baker” (Alternate Mix)
“The Waitress” (Alternate Mix)
“Pretty Good Year”
“God”
“Cloud On My Tongue”
“Past The Mission” (Alternate Mix)
“Bells For Her”
“Yes, Anastasia” (Alternate Mix)
“Blood Roses”
“Mr. Zebra”
“Caught A Lite Sneeze” (Alternate Mix)
“Professional Widow” (Merry Widow Version - Live)
“Beauty Queen/Horses”
“Father Lucifer”
“Marianne”


Disc 3

“Walk To Dublin” (Sucker Reprise)*
“Hey Jupiter” (Dakota Version)
“Professional Widow” (Armand’s Star Trunk Funkin’ Mix)
“Putting The Damage On”
“Bliss” (Remixed Version)
“Suede”
“Glory Of The 80’s”
“1000 Oceans”
“Concertina” (Single Remix Version)
“Lust”
“Datura”
“Sugar” (Live from sound check)
“The Waitress” (Live)
“Snow Cherries From France”
“Doughnut Song” (Remixed Version)


Disc 4

“A Sorta Fairytale”
“Not David Bowie” *
“Amber Waves”
“Iieee” (Remixed Version)
“Playboy Mommy” (Remixed Version)
“The Beekeeper”
“Jackie’s Strength”
“Zero Point”*
“Sweet The Sting”
“Ode To My Clothes” *
“Spark”
“Intro Jam”* and “Marys Of The Sea”
“Cruel” (Remixed Version)
“Dolphin Song”*
“Gold Dust”


Disc 5

“The Pool”
“Never Seen Blue”
“Daisy Dead Petals”
“Beulah Land”
“Sugar”
“Cooling”
“Bachelorette”
“Black Swan”
“Mary” (Tales Version)
“Peeping Tommi” *
“Toodles Mr. Jim”
Demo Medley:
“Fire-Eater’s Wife/Beauty Queen” (Demo)*
“Playboy Mommy” (Demo)*
“A Sorta Fairytale” (Demo)*
“This Old Man”
“Purple People”
“Here. In My Head”
“Hungarian Wedding Song”
“Merman”
“Sister Janet”
“Home On The Range” (Cherokee Edition)
“Frog On My Toe”

*Previously Unreleased

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Available From Rhino Records September 26

At the time of her debut in 1992, Tori Amos’ captivating storytelling and quirky yet sublime mix of piano, pop, rock and classical music were as conspicuous as her flaming-red ringlets among the dark-haired pop divas who ruled the charts. Since then, Amos’ uncompromising studio albums and cathartic concerts have earned her recognition as one of the most influential artists of the past two decades while inspiring a legion of devoted fans. Rhino Records brings together Amos’ classics, rarities, remixes and previously unreleased music for A PIANO: THE COLLECTION. Presented in deluxe packaging that resembles a piano’s keyboard, this five-disc box set is available September 26 at regular retail outlets and at http://www.rhino.com for a suggested price of $74.98.


Produced by Amos, the career-spanning collection highlights selections from her studio albums as well as b-sides and songs that debuted on Tales of a Librarian, a recent Best of compilation. Featuring numerous unreleased songs, the box set contains a total of 86 tracks that combine well-known studio versions with rare alternative mixes, including several songs Amos remixed for this project. A PIANO: THE COLLECTION also offers a revealing and extensive track-by-track commentary penned by Amos, who discusses the inspiration behind the songs and albums and explains why they were chosen for this box set.


The compilation’s first disc includes an extended version of Amos’ 1992 debut, Little Earthquakes. The classic album has been augmented not only with a different song sequence and alternate mixes but it also features it’s four original b-sides “Upside Down,” “Take To The Sky (Russia),” “Sweet Dreams” and an alternate mix of “Flying Dutchman,” as well as the previously unreleased, unedited single version of “Crucify.”


Spotlighting music recorded between 1994 and 1996, the second disc includes songs from Under the Pink and Boys for Pele. The 18 tracks blend original and remixed versions of albums cuts with the b-side “Honey” and “Professional Widow” performed live. Also included is “Take Me With You,” an unreleased song intended for Little Earthquakes. “At the time I just couldn’t finish it,” writes Amos in the liner notes. “When we found it, there were no lyrics to speak of, just music. So you’ll have something partly recorded in 1990 but with a vocal recorded in 2006…”


The third disc also includes songs associated with Boys for Pele plus 1999’s To Venus and Back and Tales of a Librarian: A Tori Amos Collection. The 15 songs feature original and remixed versions of album tracks as well as “Hey Jupiter” (Dakota Version) and “Professional Widow” (Armand’s Star Trunk Funkin’ Mix). Also featured is “Walk To Dublin (Sucker Reprise),” an unreleased track from the Pele sessions.


From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998), Scarlet’s Walk (2002) and The Beekeeper (2005) are the focus of the fourth disc, which contains 15 songs including original and remixed versions of album tracks. Also featured is the unheard intro for “Marys Of The Sea” from The Beekeeper as well as four previously unreleased songs “Not David Bowie,” “Zero Point,” “Ode To My Clothes” and “Dolphin Song.” In the liner notes, Amos writes: “Some songs seem to have a timeline for when they want to be finished and put out to the world. At the time when we were working on ‘Dolphin Song,’ I had all kinds of ideas for her development after the basic tracking had been done. Instead she got set aside for a while. But once we started to go through the tape library we put ‘Dolphin’ up on the faders again, and I realized we didn’t need to record anything else; it was finished.”


The final disc features 22 tracks spotlighting Amos’ impressive list of renowned b-sides and includes the exclusive digital release “Merman” from 1999. For what could be the most intriguing addition to the collection, Amos invites listeners into her artistic process with a medley of demos for the songs, “Fire-Eater’s Wife/Beauty Queen,” “Playboy Mommy” and “A Sorta Fairytale.” Amos explains in the liner notes: “I’m usually pretty reticent to expose the musical development process...The demo medley was a choice I made so that other songwriters can feel an affinity with the idea that songwriters have to push themselves and not just accept the first incarnation that you are presented with. Each of these three songs are presented here in their completed form somewhere within the box set so you can see conception to development.”

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Op donderdag 3 augustus 2006 08:00 schreef Ang3l het volgende:
[afbeelding]

Wel een mooie doos (die linker dan he )

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Op donderdag 14 september 2006 22:58 schreef Slappy het volgende:
Winter/Tears in your hands vind ik mooie nummers.
Welke cd's zijn aanradders?

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Op donderdag 14 september 2006 23:50 schreef Slappy het volgende:
Tori Amos heeft toch ook nummer van Slayer gecoverd

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Op donderdag 14 september 2006 22:53 schreef LuQas het volgende:
En er is gelekt. Als mensen interesse hebben...