Tori Amos all around
I found Tori in Australia. A friend, the Dutch exchange student Marike, copied her Little Earthquakes tape for me and I fell in love. Then my Australian "exchange family" gave me a voucher to the music store for my 17th birthday and I got her then new release Under the Pink with it (I still keep the congratulatory end of the voucher card in the CD sleeve). It blew my mind. Since that I've bought all her albums (except for the official bootleg collection I missed), some singles I could get my hands on, two DVDs and a few books about her. Fangirl, yes.
Tori's tenth album (if one counts in her "best of" album Tales of a Librarian and leaves out the collections The Original Bootlegs and Piano and the DVDs), American Doll Posse, will be released in a week. Already one can enjoy the new music in Tori's MySpace that has all the songs of the new album. (I have to say this is the only reason I visit MySpace -- to listen to music. Just yesterday I decided to skip the warm up act of the gig based on her MySpace samples.)
I also love the age of the Internet. Even if I recall fondly the times when one could discover new music by getting a "my favourite mix" tape from a friend, the capacity for relaying news, interviews, music and video clips fast and wide is simply wonderful. Not to mention getting "extras". I mean, the magazine readers will get their edited shares of Sprk's interview with Tori but in the net one gets to enjoy the whole transcription.
For more Tori, here are my favourite sites:
Tori's tenth album (if one counts in her "best of" album Tales of a Librarian and leaves out the collections The Original Bootlegs and Piano and the DVDs), American Doll Posse, will be released in a week. Already one can enjoy the new music in Tori's MySpace that has all the songs of the new album. (I have to say this is the only reason I visit MySpace -- to listen to music. Just yesterday I decided to skip the warm up act of the gig based on her MySpace samples.)
I also love the age of the Internet. Even if I recall fondly the times when one could discover new music by getting a "my favourite mix" tape from a friend, the capacity for relaying news, interviews, music and video clips fast and wide is simply wonderful. Not to mention getting "extras". I mean, the magazine readers will get their edited shares of Sprk's interview with Tori but in the net one gets to enjoy the whole transcription.
For more Tori, here are my favourite sites:
- Everything Tori and toriamos.com for official goodness.
- Undented continues the fine work of The Dent (still there as an archive) as the definite news site.
- Hereinmyhead.com especially for the Diagnosed Sounds mp3 section.
- Toriphoria for all things Tori.