※ 引述《ciccone (%sanity%)》之銘言：
: 很有趣，不管是q還是spin在條列全宇宙最優或是90年最優的專輯時
: 都會列這張，可是好像不太常看到有人選Boys for Pele :pp
: 不過BFP和FTCH都是滾石評到四星的專輯。
LE是「代表作」呀
同時有它在音樂史上的意義和地位
就像Nirvana的In Utero未必比Nevermind差吧
不過它的地位和代表意義絕對無法與Nevermind相提並論啊
這是anchovies個人淺見
既然elton提到Spin的評選
我就把Spin九月號的"The 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s"專題轉錄一下
#31 Tori Amos
Little Earthquakes (ATLANTIC, 1992)
Little Earthquakes was half-debut, half-retreat from the big rock
trip/tragedy of Y Kant Tori Read. So it came to pass that
preacher's daughter Tori Amos packed up her piano, her Sylvia
Plath books, and her renegade theology and headed off toward a
(anchovies按：Tori果然是Sylvia Plath的忠實讀者喔
elton兄真厲害)
labyrinth of dreams and memory, of fury, sex, and guilt-driven
psychodramas. She almost ended up nowhere instead. "When I
brought the album to the label, it was rejected," Amos says.
"Nobody really cared what I was up to." Amos agreed to write
four new songs, as long as she didn't have to sell her soul to the
big-guitar sound then annexing the universe.
It turned out that the holy soul jelly roll had been there all along -
not just in the emotionally loaded dice of rape narrative "Me and
A Gun," but also in the dense, mercurial melodies of "Crucify"
and the unadorned piano of "Silent All These Years." No one else
this side of Prince during his golden era had climbed so far down
into sex and so far up into heaven at the same time. The final
version of the album, with its expressionist clothes and naked
feeling, offered an alternative to the alternative scene's
boys'n'guitars monopoly. And it quickly inspired the most
obsessive following in the biz, turning the Web into a global
Torifest. "A lot of her fans are really shy and different, and they
feel safe on the Internet," says Schuyler McGraw, who interned at
the Amos-sponsored Rape Abuse and Incest National Network.
Such a far-flung fandom replicates Little Earthquakes itself, a
recording about fragmentation and the struggle not to come apart
entirely. Or as Amos puts it, "I make music from the divisions
inside myself."
(See also: piano woman Fiona Apple's Tidal, which is similarly
obsessed with sex and psychosis.)
by Joshua Clover
這篇小小的article還有附一張Tori的照片
下面寫著 "Cornflake Girl: Tori Amos."
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作者: rev (KISS OFF) 看板: ToriAmos
標題: Re: Spin九零年代九十大專輯 LE排#31
時間: Sat Jul 31 00:09:44 1999
※ 引述《anchovies (anchovies)》之銘言：
: ※ 引述《ciccone (%sanity%)》之銘言：
: : 很有趣，不管是q還是spin在條列全宇宙最優或是90年最優的專輯時
: : 都會列這張，可是好像不太常看到有人選Boys for Pele :pp
: : 不過BFP和FTCH都是滾石評到四星的專輯。
: LE是「代表作」呀
: 同時有它在音樂史上的意義和地位
: 就像Nirvana的In Utero未必比Nevermind差吧
: 不過它的地位和代表意義絕對無法與Nevermind相提並論啊
嗯..非常有道理的舉例。我在想若amos當初只丟LE後就離開樂壇的話
(真是邪惡的假設),那近十年後的樂評也許就很容易忽略它,更不用說把
它選上album of the all time之類的評選名單之列了。但實際上如我
們所知後來UTP,BFP,FTCH專輯一張比一張精彩,每張都在突破,每張都有
其意義。所以,我覺得選出那一張應該不是那麼重要了。而LE的確為90
年代初的樂壇投下不小的震撼, 又是amos"大翻身"的half-debut,形式上
選上它應該有其代表意義吧!
: Little Earthquakes was half-debut, half-retreat from the big rock
: trip/tragedy of Y Kant Tori Read. So it came to pass that
: preacher's daughter Tori Amos packed up her piano, her Sylvia
: Plath books, and her renegade theology and headed off toward a
: (anchovies按：Tori果然是Sylvia Plath的忠實讀者喔 elton兄真厲害)
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呵.. 又是一位令人汗顏的人物喔........:)
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