| Product Summary | | Label: Wea/atlantic | | UPC: 00075678235825 | | Release Date: 2/25/1992 | | Buy.com Sku: 60149304 | | Item#: MDRC3X | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 2643 | Format:  CD |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Tori Amos (vocals, acoustic & electric pianos, keyboards); Jef Scott, Steve Caton (guitar, bass); John Chamberlin (mandolin); Eric Williams (ukulele, dulcimer); Will McGregor, Matthew Seligman (bass); Eric Rosse (drums, programming); Ed Green, Carlo Nuccio, Chris Hughes (drums); Paulinho DaCosta (percussion). | | Producers: Davitt Sigerson, Tori Amos, Eric Rosse, Ian Stanley. | | Engineers include: John Beverly Jones, Ian Stanley, Eric Rosse. | | Includes music videos, live footage, and an interview. | | With this debut, Tori Amos rose above the inevitable Kate Bush/Joni Mitchell comparisons, producing a stunning set of brutally honest and emotionally wrought songs. A skilled and imaginative pianist, Amos also proved a versatile vocalist, moving from whisper to scream in an instant. She concentrates on intimate stories of her religious upbringing, childhood traumas, and predominantly, sex, self-discovery and unhappy relationships. "Silent All These Years" was the first to hit a nerve with the public on single release, but all the tracks--memories of her father in "Winter," the bittersweet "Happy Phantom," the harrowing account of her own rape, "Me And A Gun"--combine to make this inspiring, if rarely comfortable, listening. |
| | Artist Overview | | Rising from the ashes of the amusingly named rock band Y Kant Tori Read, Tori Amos debuted with LITTLE EARTHQUAKES in 1992, a stunning set of brutally honest and emotionally wrought songs that recalled Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush without being slavishly indebted to them. Since then, when not dispensing revelatory cover versions of songs by Nirvana or the Rolling Stones, Amos has mostly concentrated on intimate stories of her religious upbringing, childhood traumas, sex, self-discovery and various unhappy relationships. A skilled and imaginative pianist and a versatile vocalist, Amos makes music that's often inspiring but rarely comfortable. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/25/1992 | | Original Release Date : 1992 | | Catalog ID : 82358 | | Label : Atlantic (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 57m : 13s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00075678235825 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (4/2/92, p.46)
- 3.5 Stars - Very Good "...Amos' songs are smart, melodic and dramatic; the deeper you listen, the hotter they get... a gripping debut..."Spin (9/99, p.134)
- Ranked #31 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s." Spin (9/99, p.134)
- Ranked #31 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s." Q (12/99, p.74)
- Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s." Village Voice (3/2/93, p.5)
- Ranked #36 in the Village Voice's list of the 40 Best Albums Of 1992. Q (1/93, p.68)
- Included in Q's list of the 50 Best Albums Of 1992. Q (2/92, p.82)
- 4 Stars - Excellent - "...[Amos can] write seemingly effortless melodies...Lyrically, she's something special: a granite-like hardness with a journalist's eye for detail and compassion..." |
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