Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
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Track List: Little Earthquakes
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Album Details: Little Earthquakes
- Release Date:
- 01/01/1992
- Label:
- Atlantic / Wea
- UPC:
- 075678235825
User Reviews: Little Earthquakes
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Still a relevant album
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Best Tori
, May 20, 2003Reviewer: Jennifer Ach - See all Jennifer Ach's reviewsIf you like Tori Amos, this is a must have. This is the best album she has made. The lyrics are raw and emotional, and the piano is excellent.
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Pro Reviews: Little Earthquakes
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews With her haunting solo debut Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos carved the template for the female singer/songwriter movement of the '90s. Amos' delicate, prog rock piano work and confessional, poetically quirky lyrics invited close emotional connection, giving her a fanatical cult following and setting the stage for the ~Lilith Fair legions. But Little Earthquakes is no mere style-setter or feminine stereotype -- its intimacy is uncompromising, intense, and often far from comforting. Amos' musings on major personal issues -- religion, relationships, gender, childhood -- were just as likely to encompass rage, sarcasm, and defiant independence as pain or tenderness; sometimes, it all happened in the same song. The apex of that intimacy is the harrowing "Me and a Gun," where Amos strips away all the music, save for her own voice, and confronts the listener with the story of her own real-life rape; the free-associative lyrics come off as a heart-wrenching attempt to block out the ordeal. Little Earthquakes isn't always so stomach-churning, but it never seems less than deeply cathartic; it's the sound of a young woman (like the protagonist of "Silent All These Years") finally learning to use her own voice -- sort of the musical equivalent of Mary Pipher's -Reviving Ophelia. That's why Amos draws strength from her relentless vulnerability, and that's why the constantly shifting emotions of the material never seem illogical -- Amos simply delights in the frankness of her own responses, whatever they might be. Though her subsequent albums were often very strong, Amos would never bare her soul quite so directly (or comprehensibly) as she did here, nor with such consistently focused results. Little Earthquakes is the most accessible work in Amos' catalog, and it's also the most influential and rewarding. - Steve Huey, All Music Guide |
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Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos) was one of several female singer/songwriters who combined the stark lyrical attack of alternative rock with a distinctly '70s musical approach. Her music falls between the orchestrated meditations of Kate Bush and the...Full Tori Amos Biography
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Pros: classic Tori; great lyrics
Cons: none
This album ranks as one of Tori's classics. The incredibly personal, yet universal, yet wonderfully poetic nature of her lyrics is epitomized by such classics as "Silent All These Years", "Winter" and "Crucify."