Showing posts with label Tori Amos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tori Amos. Show all posts

Sunday 17 May 2009

Silent all these years - Tori Amos

Listening to Tori Amos these days you can't help but wonder what happened to the magic of her earlier work. It seems to have completely disappeared. But it would be difficult to keep performing on that level: 'Silent all these years', coupled with 'Me and a Gun' was a stunning debut. The latter, originally presented as the A-side of the single, was an acapella song about rape.

Tori herself commented: 'In the song I say it was 'Me and a Gun' but it wasn't a gun. It was a knife he had. And the idea was to take me to his friends and cut me up, and he kept telling me that, for hours. And if he hadn't needed more drugs I would have been just one more news report, where you see the parents grieving for their daughter. And I was singing hymns, as I say in the song, because he told me to. I sang to stay alive. Yet I survived that torture, which left me urinating all over myself and left me paralysed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violation through sex.'

'Silent all these years' was a more accessible song, and so radio stations began to play that instead. Ultimately the single was re-released with nearly identical packaging but retitled as 'Silent all these years'.

My collection: 7" single no. 1949
Found: Record fair, Amsterdam, September 25, 1993
Cost: 5 guilders
Tracks: 'Silent all these years' / 'Me and a gun'

Wednesday 7 January 2009

A sorta fairytale - Tori Amos

As far as I know, 'A sorta fairytale' was the last single by Tori Amos to be released on 7" vinyl. It was taken from her first album for Epic records, 'A scarlet walk', and played the same track on both sides.

Having collected Tori Amos singles ever since she rose to prominence with 'Silent all these years', I bought this single as soon as I saw it. Even if her albums got increasingly patchy, her singles have always been strong tracks.

My collection: 7" single no. 3366
Found: Record fair, Utrecht, October 2002
Cost: 5 euro
Tracks: 'A sorta fairytale (single version)' / 'A sorta fairytale (single version)'
Download: here
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