Tori Amos - The Beekeeper
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Album Details: The Beekeeper
- Release Date:
- 02/22/2005
- Label:
- Sony
- UPC:
- 827969280027
User Reviews: The Beekeeper
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Tori Sleeps with Butterflies and Flys away
, March 3, 2005Reviewer: James B - See all James B's reviews -
lifeless as unwashed hair
, May 2, 2006Reviewer: Mary P - See all Mary P's reviewsPros: Marys of the Sea
Cons: where have the melodies gone?
Not much to like. Awful lyrics, and more importantly, the music is lifeless. Tori makes a big deal about being happy now, and no longer being angry. I don't buy that as the reason for this failure. Paul Simon is very happy in his marriage and with his three young children, and he's still creating great work.
I think Tori's gotten tired of really putting in effort and she's phoning it in. Her fans will accept anything she does, but I won't.
I've had this CD over a year, and I've played it over and over, trying to like it. I shouldn't have to try so hard.
The melodies are just...extremely boring. There's no life here. Marys of the Sea is one of the rare exceptions.
And I'm sick of her abtruse lyrics and concepts that to me don't make sense. News flash: she's just not interesting enough for me to put in the effort to understand her. Why should I care? that's the question Tori can't answer. Give me one of the great books, which will at least provide meaning along with the difficulty in understanding it. ...
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Pro Reviews: The Beekeeper
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Released in conjunction with Tori Amos: Piece by Piece, a memoir presented as a think piece cowritten with music journalist Ann Powers, Tori Amos' eighth studio album, The Beekeeper, is also is loosely autobiographical, a song cycle that chronicles emotional journeys through metaphorical gardens all tended by the beekeeper protagonist of the title. Good thing that this concept was sketched out in the prerelease publicity, since The Beekeeper offers nothing close to a discernible concept in the album itself. At first, songs appear to spill forward in some sort of narrative, but the liner notes divide the 19 songs into six different groups "gardens," if you will that have nothing to do with how they're presented on the album, nor do they seem to have many sonic ties, and their lyrical connections are either tenuous or obtuse. Coming after 2002's Scarlet's Walk, whose title and songs clearly communicated its concept, this willful obtuseness might seem to hearken back to Tori's obstinately difficult albums of the mid'90s, but The Beekeeper is miles away from the clanging darkness of Boys for Pele and From the Choirgirl Hotel. This is a bright, gleaming album that retains its sunny disposition even when the tempos grow slow and the melodies turn moody. Amos even occasionally punctuates her trademark elliptical piano ballads with organdriven litefunk a move that may alienate longtime fans, who may also balk at the album's highly polished sheen, but one that nevertheless fits well into the general feel of the record, lending it some genuine momentum. If the story line or concepts of the album aren't readily apparent, individual songs make their specific points well, and the record does flow with the grace and purpose of a song suite. As a cohesive work, The Beekeeper holds together better than nearly any of Tori's more ambitious albums, but there's a certain artsy distance that keeps this from being as emotionally immediate or as memorable as her first two records. But if Little Earthquakes was an album Amos could only have made in her twenties, The Beekeeper is a record perfectly suited for the singer/songwriter in her forties a little studied and deliberate, perhaps a shade too classy and consciously literary for its own good, but it's an ambitious, restless work that builds on her past work without resting on her laurels. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide |
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Pros: Parasol, Sweet the Sting, General Joy, Mother Revolution, Cars and Guitars, Witness, The Beekeeper, Hoochie Woman, Toast
Cons: It can be considered a little too long!
This album blows Scarlet's Walk out of the water. Although, it is not pent up with the angst that many Tori fans have come to know and love, "The Beekeeper" is extremely emotional. The emotions on this album are real and through her voice the listener is allowed to feel with her. Each song has a unique and wonderful sound that transports you to the world of the beekeeper. It's one of her best!