Tori Amos
Little Earthquakes
She's still out there: that musician girl. Pulling strings on the new guitar she bought, red-faced and ashamed for no good reason because the music clerk treated her like a slut. She's been going home early and skipping Sex and the City, feeding her cat and figuring out the guy in purchasing--she's practicing. Her voice is still too high, and she's got too many words in a beat up allegory (or a metaphor, or a symbolism--she dropped out of creative writing after the goth kid told another molestation story.) Someday she'll show up at a coffeeshop, or an open mic, and she'll spit out cracked pieces of bad poetry over easy chord changes. The guys who buy her cd-r are doing it to flirt with her--right? Do they like it? She might come back--a little more confident, with lipstick this time. After all, she's got her goddess now. Why can't she do it too? Maybe next time she'll do the acoustic piece, the one she didn't play for her aunt 'cause "it's not any good"...but it is good. It's the best thing she's got, and maybe they'll think so too. Maybe it'll make them feel the way she did, back when she first heard "Silent All These Years"---maybe, maybe, maybe. Every generation needs one--back in 1992, this is who the girls had: a sexy poet slut, a librarian reading Rimbaud. Maybe this girl will be their new one--after all, they can't all like Dashboard Confessional. It'll never stop being easy to laugh at Tori--but there's an entire generation who are never going to keep going home to her. Whether that's a good thing or not, whether one enjoys this kind of naked emotionalism, Little Earthquakes is the sort of album that, for a decent amount of people, changes lives. It's why people still well up over "Big Man With A Gun," and it's why that coffeeshop girl you're flirting with can't hang out on a Tuesday: because for good or bad, these are the albums that fire a thousand hopes of a future.
-Tucker Stone, 2006
Tori Amos is a lesbian. I am against that.
Posted by: alex fumero | 2006.10.18 at 23:56
No. She's just pretending to be a lesbian. Which is much much worse.
Posted by: Squidhelmet | 2006.10.19 at 11:45
I would of put this album much higher on the list. No she's not gay and yes you probably are. Is it just me or did chicks just rock much harder in the ninties.
Posted by: Ryan Canfield | 2006.10.24 at 18:00
Lillith Fair ruined it for everybody.
Posted by: MC Stank Booty | 2006.10.24 at 18:51
No, RAINN ruined it for everybody.
Posted by: Factual Opinion Moderator | 2006.10.25 at 15:44
This is one of the best albums EVER!!
If you really knew anything about music you'd agree.
Is it hard to look beyond the flavor of a fan base?
Posted by: Tony Macaroni | 2006.11.03 at 10:30
Dude, 5 guys took the time to post a comment about this album when no girls did. So...
You guys want do it?
Posted by: Ryan | 2007.08.02 at 11:43