April 2013
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March 2013
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December 2012
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August 2012
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“When someone asks me if I’ve found Jesus, I say, “Yeah, I saw him at a Nirvana...”
– - Tori Amos, Spin - October 1994 (via torispokenword)
OMG Future “Big Wheel” lyric right here.
(via blossomingriotpoof)
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July 2012
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June 2012
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Watchtorisongs:
Sonically mesmerizing, it’s easy to lose your breath and sense of self in this song. Chilling and ethereal, perhaps you hear it as a hymn … or as a murderous prelude. Tori’s not said much about “The Pool” - nor have many other people. Decide for yourself what her story means to you. Background image by Justin Cherry from the 2006 RAINN calendar
Today’s feature on our Tori Songs...
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May 2012
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April 2012
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“I’ll never talk about it at this level again, but let me ask you. Why have I...”
– Tori Amos
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Is anybody interested in taking over this blog?
deciphertorismessage:
Send a message if you want it.. If I don’t get any messages within the next week I’m going to delete it, unfortunately. :/
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Is anybody interested in taking over this blog?
Send a message if you want it.. If I don’t get any messages within the next week I’m going to delete it, unfortunately. :/
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Space Dog
Space Dog is amazing because I think it connects us with a deep, innate need to see ourselves as more than just this flesh. A need for meaning and value in our lives, to manifest dreams, and to not waste our time here. The symbolism and myth in the song is so strong that it’s hard to understand with the logical part of our brains… but to the right side, it makes complete sense.
March 2012
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Song Energies
I create the occasional not-that-good-or-bad song with MTV Music Generator’s premade riffs. I’ve made a couple of gems. one of them, I’m convinced, is a song entity that visited me (sometime in 2002) before it visited Tori to inspire Drive All Night. I swear, up and down, that it had to be the same song creature because both her song and my song, while they sound nothing alike...
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Liquid Diamonds
I absolutely believe it when Tori says she tries to achieve a certain sonic architectural sound in her songs. I don’t know if it was what she had in mind with Liquid Diamonds, but when I listen to it, I “hear” an empty, cold, barren cave with a very slow-moving body of water going through it.
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Black Dove as a Lullaby?
(yes, I’m obsessed with Black Dove.)
for me personally, I feel like there’s a thread—especially in the PBS Soundstage version—in Black Dove that is a lullaby to Tori’s lost babies. there’s just that quality to it for me. I certainly wouldn’t mind being sung to sleep to it, and frequently play it before I head off to bed, in fact.
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Fast Horse
I’ve said this before elsewhere, but Fast Horse seems to say to me, “SLOW… DOWN. life is not a race.” I tend to rush through life, and every time the “you’ve got you a fast horse darlin’” part of the song comes on, I feel like Tori’s poking me hard in the chest as if to say “pay attention, you.”
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Bliss, To Venus and Back, and sex
I get this weird feeling about Bliss (and the whole TVAB album in general) that not only is it about everything else that Tori’s said it was about in interviews, but that she also can’t resist bragging JUST a bit about the awesome newlywed sex she had while on tour in ‘98. it just has that energy to me of “perform and rock the place one night, get laid the next. hell...
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Come On Guys!
We still need submissions! I’m probably giving this tumblr another week or so and I’m giving it up if it doesn’t start getting stories soon. :( These stories don’t have to be about what you specifically think the songs about, but more about what they MEAN TO YOU personally. <3
February 2012
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Anonymous asked: can any of these be submitted anonymously? or at least posted that way?
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Black Dove and Spark
continuing the Black Dove discussion…
I can definitely buy that it came from a dream—a nightmare, even. but keep in mind that not all nightmares are scary. some can be sad, too. I also think, though, that Spark came to her at least in part from the same dream(s) that inspired Black Dove.
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I've Got Me Some Horses....
Horses are your dreams. They faded and disappeared in Winter yet awoke again during Pele. These dreams take us away from the Beauty Queen. We look at the horses, the ones we hid from ourselves or forget and then we see the truth.
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Friends
Tori almost always mentions friends from her past and present, like “Marianne” and “Beenie”…A song that has always made me wonder is “Twinkle” where an unnamed friend says “I killed a man, T. I gotta stay hidden in this abbey”. The nature of the song is so sad and quiet, but so captivating. What is it about?
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Space Dog...?
Can someone deciper “Space Dog?” It’s always kind of been my favorite Tori song.
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BLACK DOVE
Judging by what Tori herself said in regards to the song, I believe it is an homage to the trials of her childhood.
“When I sleep I often have nightmares. I can already hear your readers saying: ‘I knew that. The way your songs sound you must really have horrible nightmares.’ Just like the one I’m describing in the song Black-Dove on my last album From the Choirgirl Hotel....
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HORSES
I’d love to know what people think about the running theme of horses in Tori’s work. To the best of my knowledge, only Under The Pink, To Venus & Back and Midwinter Graces are the only albums that don’t have at least one mention of “horses” or “riding.” I don’t remember having hear Tori talk about this and any ideas would be welcomed..
