 Real GoneTom Waits  Tom Waits is one of the most influential musicians in the world today, an artist who never rests on his laurels. He continues to re-invent music, push boundaries and create new sounds. On Real Gone, the up tempo tracks are some of the rawest and most kinetic he's ever laid down...He's never sounded like he's had this much fun...while the ballads are among his most beautiful and even chilling at times. Real Gone also contains his first overtly political song, "The Day After Tomorrow", a plaintive letter home from a young soldier in the middle of a war. Taken as a whole, the experience is breathtaking.  Boys for PeleTori Amos Boys for Pele, the title of Tori Amos's epic third album, is as awkward and confusing as the music inside. Though it sounds like a recruitment slogan for Little League soccer, the name actually refers to the lost temples of feminine divinity. Pele, you see, is the Hawaiian volcano goddess; the boys, well, they're the sacrifices that quell the rumbling lady's rage. Attempting to regain fires stolen long ago, Pele rewrites the crucifixion to star a girl Jesus and in doing so conjures a forgotten matriarchal mythology. While Amos's characters—Jupiter, Muhammad, Lucifer—are male by name, the aural landscape into which they're thrown is as symbolically and expressionistically female as Georgia O'Keeffe's skull-and-roses paintings. Pele is a complex and formless—and often impenetrable—work of gothic-pop chamber music, both beautiful and ghostly in its nearly complete reliance on Amos's rolling Bosendorfer grand piano, chilling harpsichord (which she bangs like a courtly punk rocker), and acrobatic voice (as earthy as Joni Mitchell's and as otherworldly as Bjork's). Unfortunately, she takes us only halfway: her songs engage and challenge us to understand, but the imagery offers few clues to help us crack their frustrating opacity. Pele ends up as much a pretentious and self-indulgent trip as it is a synthesis of talent, imagination, and skewed vision. Still, there's reason to celebrate that an album as formalistically and thematically alien to pop audiences as Pele would win such quick success upon its original release. —Roni Sarig  CrucifyTori Amos No Description Available  Little EarthquakesTori Amos No Description Available.  Past the MissionTori Amos 1994 ultra limited edition 7-track CD single, includes 2 exclusive Spoken Public Service Announcements and 4 live tracks recorded in the USA during 1994, custom picture sleeve. THE TRACK LISTING IS: 1. Past The Mission - Album Version 2. Winter - Live 3. The Waitress - Live 4. Icicle - Lie 5. Past The Mission - Live 6. Spoken Work PSA 7. Spoken Work PSA  Under the PinkTori Amos Australian limited edition release combines two albums, Boys for Pele (1996) & Under the Pink (1994), individually packaged in standard jewel cases & housed together in a slipcase. 2001 release.  Bump CityTower of Power No Description Available  Tracy ChapmanTracy Chapman No Description Available. |
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