Reviews (page 7 of 8)
No es lo mío ni mi estilo de música.
2 stars None of it stuck to me. I agree with the comments of it being generic Kate Bush.
This album just put me in a mood
I really wanted to like this album but I just don't. Most of the time listening to this it felt like I was trying reaaally hard to get into it. But I appreciate it for the influence it had on other female artists in the alternative music scene.
I did not enjoy this
It is probably a very good album to a lot of people. She is a wonderful player
Not the biggest fan, Leather was definitely my favourite on the album, but a lot of the lyrics in other songs just didn't quite connect for me. I did enjoy the instrumentals and she had a lovely voice, just a disconnect in lyrics.
Well... I had a nice hour of sleep, guess that's worth something...
Talented singer, nice arrangements. Overall boring and not my cup of tea, I don’t think I’ll be revisiting.
Singer-songwriter, 73 eme album => 2/5 Pas désagréable, mais long et ennuyeux.
Best Track - "Crucify"
It was fine. I honestly couldn't tell you about any songs, they simply passed me by.
Didnt finish, maybe it was the day - but not my vibe at all
Great voice, just not a style of music I like. This rating is based entirely on preference.
Better than a lot of pop on the radio these days.
Started off strong. Then in the middle, it started sounding all the same to me. Did hear similarities to Kate Bush.
Other than the title cut Little Earthquakes and the a cappella Me and a Gun, the songs are very similar and too long. I did recognize Silent All These Years but overall not my style. A little too fluffy with some religious undertones. The heavy breathing to start Precious Things fit in well with the elliptical routine. Glad for the exposure, no need to explore further. (2.3*s) I will say that the Cornflake Girl sure can play the piano.
Tori Amos is a well known artist and I have to say I never knew any of her work. After the listen of Little Earthquakes, this just ain't for me. "Precious Things" and "Happy Phantoms" stood out. Let's move on...1.42 stars.
Quite dramatic
The album explains a very important detail, I always wondered how they got those chairs into the matrix room. They used the Tori Amos dumbwaiter. I don’t understand the name of this album though and what little earthquakes have to do with anything. As for the music, mid, I’m sorry but not my cup of tea. Like this the same year we had bone machine, dirt, and RATM like what! This is shite compared to them (completely different vibes) The only good song was me and a gUn.
music to fold laundry to.
I hate it. It took listening to girl rock from the same era to figure out why I had such a visceral reaction. Tori Amos just sounds too earnest/sincere/self-important. I liked plenty of similar singer-songwriters like Jewel and Fiona Apple, but Tori Amos is just too much. And too warbly.
Didn't hate it, but also definitely didn't like it
Didn't really care for this, other than "Leather"
I've never really given Tori Amos a shot. Some of this was quite good. Overall was a bit uneven and too long though.
I gave it 6 songs. Just not my vibe, although she's damn talented. I did enjoy the last track I listened to - Happy Phantom
Nope
I couldn’t get through it. She’s talented. No doubt about it. I see why people love her.
I think this album would go hard as fuck as a metal cover.
It’s hard to separate how much I generally liked the musicianship and how grating I found her voice a lot of the time. Sometimes I dug it, kinda sounded like FKA twigs at times, but often it was shrill. After the first couple of songs I thought I would like this more than I ultimately did. 2.5 but rounding down for the three minute a capella song near the end.
enkele goeie nummers, maar meeste zijn nogal hetzelfde en ook langdradig
Uinteressant
Tori Amos - I get is an excellent musician, but not much on here for me.
Interesting but not for me
Some records test you
46. fine
I had high hopes, but despite the 90s nostalgia it was only ok.
Emotionally powerful music, yes, but it’s never really resonated with me.
Big voice, big hair. Red hair! She can’t be trusted!
Sorry, Tori... the role of Kate Bush has already been filled... by Kate Bush. This isn't terrible, per se... in the same way that some AI synthpop isn't terrible... I just prefer the real thing.
Not great, not terrible
This is very difficult. It’s like my 12th album on the generator and it’s the first one I can’t really feel the “vibe” of. I have a fairly high tolerance for long singer-songwriter type songs, especially downtempo and melancholy ones. But I feel like a lot of the downbeat songs here have a “redemptive” or empowering arc that feels so quintessentially nineties. Consider the minor key chorus of “Girl,” which is so good, until the bridge introduces a swing-inflected cheesy positivity that cheapens the lush backing strings in the rest of the song. This just has such a whiff of persona construction that feels somewhat inauthentically engineered. People compare the music to Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell in its intellectual complexity, and sure the music is very technically accomplished, but it is packaged under an off putting sort of brand, like Celine Dion for people who graduated from the Ivy League.
I found it a bit bland and boring, the whole album sounded the same tonally
Eh
Don’t think I’m the target demo for this one.
I wasn't into TA in the day. I'm still not. Apparently there are hits on this album. I recognize none of these songs. Probably my problem.
Very mediocre, not a bad voice just not used well 2/5
J'aime mais sans plus. Me fait quand même ressentir une émotion troublante (je n'arrive pas a trouver laquelle, c'est dérangant sans vraiment l'être).
Its not bad, but this is not for me. All the songs fit in the album, making it whole. The problem reside in may taste, i guess, because not even a song was markeble. Its a beautiful voice, maybe in a more jazzy song it would get better.
Just not for me at all.
Another artist I've never heard of before. Suffice to say this isn't my cup of tea at all. Sounds a bit like a boring version of Kate Bush somehow? I guess it was beautiful in a way, but also felt quite pious and... just straight up safe and uneventful. Not anything I needed to hear really.
Well that was an experience
Another in the realm where I feel I'm being asked to appreciate rather than enjoy
Not for me at all
This album did nothing for me, no highlights, just happened. Disappointing.
I've only known her from the radio single "Cornflake Girl". Over all a decent album with songs full of tension. But her high voice is not my favour ("Mother"...). favourite: "Precious Things" 2,5
Some of the piano parts are actually pretty good/interesting, but mostly this feels like a template for all of the overwrought and stomach-churningly sappy pop that unfortunately became popular in subsequent years. 1.5/5.0: Bad
Never heard of this album or artist BOOM there it is again. If you ever want to win big bet everything on me not knowing a single thing about music. I'm assuming that I'm in for another 90s alt rock album going off of the cover. That make of album is generally up my alley, though I must admit that the non-big time players on this list have generally been pretty disappointing. In any case, I'm curious to give this one a listen. Wikipedia doesn't have a list of genres. That's strange. RYM says this is piano rock, which I suppose I can agree with. Close enough guess. We'll get em next time. Anyways, this isn't really my thing. The pianos are pretty good across the board, though that's the only consistent strong suit of this album. I started out with an appreciation for the vocal style - it was well above the standard for this kind of music, though it really weighed down on me as the album dragged on. Just stick to a consistent vocal delivery PLEASE. There's a bit of a heavy sound going on with many of the tracks too, though I never felt the songs had much of a kick or were as gripping as they could be. Overall, I was pretty let down by this, though I didn't having it a background listening. "Crucify" is decent. I'm not normally a fan of the "rolling voice" phenomena which is present in popular music, but it works well here during the chorus. The bassier bits which underscore the piano and vocals are pretty good, too. "Winter" is another decent one. Good vocals once again, and the piano is at it's best on this song. "China" has a good atmosphere. I like the distant sound and delicate pianos. "Me and a Gun" is incredibly weird, I won't lie. It's one thing to talk about your rape experience in a song and it's another to deliver it on an a capella track with that flittering vocal style. I guess it's done to give the song a claustrophobic feel, though I can't say it worked for me all that much. Book time. Boundary-breaking. Personal. Counter-cultural. Strong independent wahmen. Cult musician. This sounds like cultural denigration to me, dawg. Wikipedia says that the album and singles had some decent chart success and the album has received enduring critical acclaim. Yeah, this seems like a solid pick for the list. I cosign.
Happy Phantom
Recognized the name but didn’t really like this album. Sounded like she was trying too hard. 2/5
It was okay but super overbloated
Beautiful voice, quite unique in some ways, but the songs themselves didn't capture me and I was a little bored halfway through. The sparse arrangements and production didn't help. Her name on the album cover looks a bit like it's poop.
Fav song: Tear In Your Hand 90's to a PAINFUL degree. I found this one a very difficult listen. Silent All These Years made audibly laugh out loud when it went from the part after the first chorus into that spooky piano part again.
one step above oil spill for me...
2.5 57:11 (12 tracks, debut), 1992 I liked it a lot more while walking with headphones. Still Tori comes across as whiny. While I applaud her work founding RAINN; it doesn't mean I have to love her music. I've always felt she and Davitt Sigerson exploited for money her personal tragedy. I really feel like Tori could have remained a classic pianist (for a lot less money and fame) but choose this route. Still for anyone who loves this album I don't want to take anything from you - she is a talented musician and artist.
Felt very similar to Joni Mitchell and Alanis Morissette
This is a lot like Kate Bush but if Kate Bush was, like suuuuuuuuuuper boring instead of being awesome. Every note of this is like "I am an . . . ARTIST!"
Meh
I would just never choose to listen to something like this
I remember trying to give this a go as a college student and giving up. I didn't find it as difficult to listen to this time but it's still really not the kind of music I like. The last track was the best by far. 2.5
i can tell it's well made it simply isn't for me
I've heard a bunch of songs off this album, but I don't think I've ever listened to the whole thing start-to-finish. I just don't really like Tori Amos' singing. If she made an instrumental album, I'd probably enjoy it more.
I don’t think this is bad but it doesn’t connect with me at all.
Veldig melankolsk. Nesten vanskelig å få hørt hele albumet
Not for me, though I can appreciate how talented she is.
I didn’t like this album when I was in college even though everyone said it was the best. 25+ years later, still don’t.
muito chato e clichê … sofri escutando
didn't love - unique vibe but couldn't finish it
The best and the worst I can say about it is I didn't mind it playing
I'm not huge on singer-songwriters. She has a nice voice and these songs felt varied enough to be interesting, but also kind of vanilla at the same time. I got bored. Annoyed at me and a gun. Don't need to listen to this again. 2*
Meh.
2.2 Not my type. Just sounds like Kate Bush but without the songwriting talent. Just seen it's routinely ranked amongst the best album ever so I'm obviously missing something. Maybe someone will explain it to me one day.
Best track: me and a gun, and precious things 2,5 /5 Not my taste a bit to melankoli
I feel like there’s so much happening with her music but also absolutely nothing
Locked into the timeline it was created. Good? Bad?
If I had wanted to listen to a Kate Bush album…I would have listened to a Kate Bush album.
langweilig
Kate Bush meets Joni Mitchell
it had moments here and there but overall very dull. just not my kind of singer-song writer vibes
Budget Kate Bush from the 90s Its ok
Not my style. Very creative work from her though.
Jebus, this just made me edgy and angry after an hour. Not for me, no sir.
Overall: 4/10 I'm sorry to say that this just wasn't for me. The talent is obviously there, and the one thing that really stood out to me was the piano playing. Unfortunately, I'm not only not a fan of her voice but I also don't like her lyrics. I found so much of it strange in a bad way, which is weird because I love strange artists. Maybe I'll come back to this later in life and discover what I'm missing, but right now it's not something I plan on revisiting. Fav Song: Winter Least Fav Song: Girl
I liked this well enough at the beginning but as it progressed I had less patience for it. I liked the slower songs least. She also has a few vocal idiosyncrasies I'm not super fond of.
Effortless voice. Still a bit boring though.
it starts off pretty good, but drops off into a mix of weird solos and slow pacing songs, indistinguishable from one another.
Yea it was nice. Good singing. Nice piano playing. Whatever.
Didn't really grab me then, or now. I get that she's talented.
take it or leave it Will I listen to again: 0%
It was a decent listen, just really not my style.
I’m not particularly excited by her voice, lyrics, the instrumentals and production. Very run at the mill stuff
2/5. Just not for me
I didn’t hate this but I found it to be pretty boring. There was nothing here that was interesting enough for me to want to sit through an entire song.
Not with it. Contemporary generic adult alt with a mid singer.
Disco arrastado, instrumentação sem graça e esquecível. Um pop vazio. Única faixa interessante é "Tear In Your Hand". Fraco!
What a weird album.
first song is dope, rest not so much
Like you ordered Kate Bush from Temu... Ok , but not the real thing
I didn't enjoy this one as much as I'd hoped. musical arrangements was nice and lyricism good, but I didn't really vibe with this.
Thought it was pretty boring. A lot sounded like it could have been from a Disney soundtrack.
I like the piano work and the instrumentals but the vocals just don't work for me. Everything together feels maybe a little too dramatic for no reason. I would never choose to listen to this on my own.
This music is making me so depressed. And I just went mountain biking, so I shouldn’t be depressed.
While looking at the related artists it showed Alanis. This isn't alanis. Its good vocally but the backing band just is a boring wonder bread thing. Its just nothing most of the time. Boring as all get out. The best song on the whole record is the accapella track. She sounds great without the distractingly bland instrumentation. Not the worst thing ive ever heard but not worth playing again.
se me hizo aburrido
Not much here. Nothing offensive but also nothing inspiring. Just blah.
Not that interesting to me. I could've gone without hearing this. 2/5
Favorite Track: Girl
Couldn't really get into this. Tear in Your Hand stood out. 2/5.
Didn’t need to be any hour long, reminds me of a stripped back more toned down vibe of Chappell Roan. Most tracks are self-indulgent to me but some such as the title track have some substance to them.
Great voice but forgettable and no variation
Tori Amos has a fine voice and the production on this album is decent, but there is something enervating to listening to a full hour of these songs. They really all start to blend together and the piano forward music starts to grate and become boring. I think maybe you need to connect to the lyrics to really appreciate this stuff, but it didn't do anything for me. Standout: Happy Phantom
Not sure about this one. One minute it's a nice piano driven song then it crashes into something else
Very little earthquakes indeed.
I don't know if I can give this a solid review of what was good and/or bad. I remember the first 3-5 songs being slow and mundane, but her lyrics being rather poetic and nice. But it was just so bland overall my brain tuned it out, and when it was over, and Spotify played something different my brain woke back up and I was like, did I even listen to the album. I guess with that, nothing stood out in a good or bad way, which I think is kind of bad if this is an album I needed to hear before I die. 3.2/10 #28/1001
An undeniably beautiful voice and some nice witchy vibes. The best bits reminded me of Kate Bush but ultimately a lot of it just kind of bored me. (2.5 stars)
meh
Not for me
Man, what a drag. The mix and instrumentation suggest that these ballads are carried by the lyrics, but they're just not that great. She keeps threatening to do something interesting and then backing off. Way too long. "Precious Things" was ... almost good
Not a bad record but it’s pathetic as shit. I don’t really know what she wants to tell us.
Reminded me a lot of Nick Cave and the Badseeds, so I was felt lukewarm towards this album.
Tedious
The production aesthetic of this doesn't use sounds I like and I'm not a lyrics listener unless I love a record, so while I'm sure this is good it isn't really for me.
As a feminist, I'm certainly glad that women have Tori Amos. I know many women who love her and I get it. Honestly not for me, but I wouldn't jump up to turn it off.
just didn’t leave that much of an impression on me, there are other singer-songwriters that do more interesting things to me
Ok I guess, never got into her stuff
In places this really grabbed my attention and thought, she's great, then in lots more places, I was thinking, just shut up please. I'm sure she was getting some very important message across on large parts of this album, but it was completely lost on me.
Didn’t love her voice but a few songs were good
Picture it: It's the late 2000s, and you need background music for your poorly created picture slideshow of your Young Life adventures that you're eventually going to upload on YouTube. This album is what you'll use for that slideshow. The only thing saving this from a one-star rating was its versatility. Favorite Track: "Leather".
Ok
ehh
I mean, it’s Tori Amos, you know what you’re going to get. She ok but a whole album is a bit much.
Frankly, exactly what I expected going into this. Kind of warbly singer-songwriter vibes, filling out the generational Matryoshka doll of Kate Bush --> Tori Amos --> Lorde
Tori has a great voice. Just not for me.
Miserable nonsense.
The 1st song was incredible, unfortunately none of the other songs did anything for me
It was listenable, but it's really not my thing. It has that Kate Bush \ Joanna Newsom feel that I just can't get with. The vocals are bouncing about all the time, and they have the feel of somewhere making the words up as they go along. Musically, there's nothing special there. If this is your thing then knock yourself out, but personally it's a pass. I made it all the way through so it's 2 stars for me Clive!
I don't like Tori Amos. I'm sure she's a fine person, but I don't like her music much at all. I kind of feel bad saying this, as I know a lot of people can relate to her songs and this is an important album for them, but stylistically, I find it really difficult to get into. The arrangements are probably a little too piano-forward for my tastes and I really hate the way she sings. It's that overly theatrical style that is just like nails on a chalkboard for me. There's a few songs I think are alright -- "Crucify", "Silent After All these Years", the title track -- but probably not to the extent I'd go out of my way to hear them. 2.5 stars.
Opener was ok. I really like “girl”. “Silent all these years” sounds like what I have come to expect from Tori Amos. Great song. “Winter” is where everything starts to sound the same with Tori. It’s well written and arranged, but I know she has other songs that sound like that. This is a good album but it is not for me.
Not very fond of this kind of singer/songwriter. Probably not so bad if you like that type of music.
Meh
I did not like this. There were a couple moments I liked. The dissonant piano on precious things and the song Happy Phantom. Other than that I couldn’t wait for it to be over. This album was a drag.
I’m not a fan of ballads. This actually sounded like a huge rip of Kate bush to me
Totally hear Kate Bush's influence, but much less riveting.
I can appreciate that people would like this, but it's not for me at all. It's not terrible, it's just kind of bland and uninspiring. At it's worst it's a bit annoying. I don't like her style at all, the construction of the songs, the delivery... Nothing works for me personally.
Crucify is a killer opener with its piano hooks and insistent drum beat. The piano is weaved through all of this, but some of the best is in Precious Things where it's layered with guitars and a healthy dose of female rage. There's a dissonance to it that keeps you on edge. Winter is a dramatic ballad that tries to walk the line between epic and Disney movie and doesn't quite manage it. The next 3-4 songs are also a bit too musical theater for me. The a capella Me and a Gun is as uncomfortable to listen to as it's supposed to be. Overall, up and down, had it kept the momentum from the first four tracks this would be a winner. Crucify and Precious Things are good ones though.
It’s a fun album I like the sound and the vibe but it just didn’t rock with me today. I’ll revisit it down the road see if it plays differently … Silent all these years is def a stand out and I like hearing some jazz vibes always , getting this after steely dan hurt its value
We’re getting dangerously close to Kate Bush territory here, and now I have this overwhelming urge to watch Dawson’s Creek.
# Playlist track - Happy Phantom # Notes - I feel this album is way way overdone. There is too much singing, if that makes sense. It's like Adele, if Adele was more interesting. It's better, but not a good album.
Sorry but no immediate dislike but not bc is bad, just straight up dislike for me
boring
The "female singer-songwriter" list is not a terribly deep one for me, and Tori is near the bottom
Meh
Nice voice. Not for me…
Not my jam. Seemed like a Kate bush knockoff
I have plenty of friends that like Tori, but I've never been able to get into her. She's a good poet, but I don't care for her singing style.
SO SAD
Back in the 90s, I really liked Tori Amos. She was a singer songwriter that was much more raw and visceral than was typical of the genre. Amos was part of that wave of high confessional, no holds barred singers that emerged at that time. Subsequently, I bought her first three albums which include this one, LIttle Earthquakes, plus Under the Pink and Boys for Pele. In the ensuing decades, I find that her music hasn't aged well. What seemed intense then, now just comes across like shrieking. Highly confessional songs from that time, are more like whining now. Maybe the world has changed; Maybe I have. Perhaps it was a simplier time and I've becopme jaded. In any case, Tori Amos is not something I bother with anymore. She was of the time but the time has gone. Listen to this album, if only to get the zeitgeist of the early 90s which spawned a lot of angry music. Just don't expect to come back to it again and again. It's a one and done type album.
2.5 - after a while just got on my nerves a bit.
I listened to two songs but I prob would not have enjoyed it any better than I did those two songs
Kate Bush with an American accent? I dunno, I'm a middle aged bloke so maybe it's not meant for me and it's not clicking. Might listen to it again later but right now it's mid.
Nothing special.
I’ve heard of Tori Amos but none of the songs on here sounded familiar. I couldn’t name you her biggest hits. Overall it was ok, but she definitely wouldn’t make my list of favorite female singer-song writers.
So overwrought. Like someone tried to make a full album of “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”
Love her voice, but stylistcally she sounds like a knockoff. And this all sounds the same. Not much variation on here.
The songwriting and musicianship is good, but I'm just not into piano-based singer-songwriters. Sorry Tori.
Not a fan of this one. I found it boring.
Was ok. Maybe need to give her more of a go at some point.
Ok, not great.
Today I learned that I do not like Tori Amos. I like her lyrics, they're very poetic. Sadly it wasn't enough to save her performance.
I've never heard of Tori Amos, so I was interested to see what this would be like. This album is not really for me. I was bored most of the time, and the songs all felt very similar. It wasn't bothering me, but it felt like work to get through. 4/10
Tori Amos is obviously very talented, I can appreciate this album but I can't listen to her for very long
I want to crucify myself after having to listen to this. Sad piano girl music. Every song is basically the same song. They are all too long with not enough changing throughout the songs. 3/10
Wasn’t a fan before, still not a fan after
taylor swifti? beautiful... beatufol voice singing..Loistavaa. Ennen Tori Amosia ainoa todella uraauurtava naispianotaiteilija oli Kate Bush. (KAIKKI MUUT PASKOJA) Monet muut artistit tekivät tylsiä, pirteitä numeroita, jotka eivät koskaan eronneet joukosta. (PASKOJA PASKOJA PASKOJA ARTISTEJA 1 HYVÄ NAINEN MUUT PASKOJA..)Mukana tuli Tori puhumassa itsetyydytyksestä, (RUNKKAUS) onnettomasta ja kadonneesta rakkaudesta, uskonnollisesta sorrosta (ISRAEL) ja monista muista asioista, jotka saivat hänet leimautumaan maailmaan. niin kekseliäs ja nokkela.. ja seksikägs unghhhhhhhh... white woman sings songs. china
I had heard of Tori Amos but never listened to her music. I know she was parodied in the Bob's Burgers episode Food Truckin' (one of my favorites) but I didn't realize how accurate the parody is. I wouldn't opt to listen to this on my own.
Some really nice moments on this. But I didn't connect with it at all. It felt plaintive in a way that came across as annoying or tedious rather than emotional. I wanted to like this so much more than I actually did.
Just ok, not my style.
If it weren't screechy, it'd be better
bit too warbly
Underwhelming and uninspired. Sounds like a watered-down Disney soundtrack.
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Not bad just didn’t click with me
Please refer to slimlimbtim’s response below
Not for me.
Not my thing
Seemed OK. Like an off brand Kate Bush.
Came in with an open mind and the vocals are strong but really never totally felt the vibe. I think it’s more a me thing than her not being talented.
Interesting voice, piano skills, didn’t do it for me
I've never listened to Tori Amos. As a debut this is a very solid sounding album. She's got a good voice and knows what she's doing. I don't see a ton outside of that going on but it could be me missing something more here. It feels a bit like the songs are written and performed for a musical. There's an attempted depth here I don't feel really lands.
Something about this album made me not really care for it. Amos has the ability to be amazing, she has a great voice and the style of songs are there for her to succeed. However the songs range so much in lyrics and really feel all over the place. It was like she was trying to do a little bit of everything and hope something sticks. To me it didn’t seem that great. A song here or there was good but nothing to bring me back. 5.3/10
#170. These songs are all basically the same. And not particularly interesting. 2/5: yawn
Все ещё лучше чем coldplay
It is time for yet another female singer-songwriter record. Thankfully, this one is better than others I have heard with more interesting tunes and melodies. Honestly still just too mellow for me.
Lyrically good, vocally good, but instrumentally this does nothing for me
Better than I thought but bot something Ill listen to again. But, did find a track.
Too dramatic, started ok but as it went it dropped to a two
Album # 34 Her vocals would be great if she didn't launch into a breathy whine every other verse. Like her other female singers came along after Tori (I'm looking at you Jewel) and whined their way through songs even more than Tori. Whining can be good when it is controlled (looking to you Amy Lee) but Tori made it seem like it was forced and unnatural within her vocals on this album. Hints of Kate Bush can be heard throughout the album, she should have just stuck with that vocal range.
Not my bag.
Way too piano-forward. This is one of those albums that makes you kinda wonder who it’s for. I can’t picture the type of person who wants to hear this. Happy Phantom is a good song though.
meh
Easy to imagine this being very impactful to the right person at the right time, but it wasn’t me.
Not for me. The songwriting verged into bad musical theatre territory a few times and it just didn’t really land for me. I can appreciate the music and vocals, and it’s easy to hear all the artists that this inspired.
# 161 : Pretty average album in my opinion. Got some epic piano, but nothing made me want to "sing hallelujah", The last few songs are pretty good though. Fav Track : Tear In Your Hand
Storladent. Jeg havde lidt svært ved at vurdere om hun havde noget at have det i. Det her er slet ikke min stil, så pladen var MEGET lang.. Kunne godt lide China..
En los 90 pasaron cosas raras con la música. El grunge hizo tal limpia de todo lo anterior que quedó terreno libre para que entraran cantantes y grupos que estaban lejos del rock sucio de Seattle, pero que extrañamente tuvieron su momento. Tori Amos creo que encaja en ese momento. La escuché es esa época y recuerdo su otra canción más famosa: Cornflake girl. El disco suena bien y me ha gustado alguna canción (Precious things) pero no creo que sea imprescindible más allá de tener éxito en una época compleja musicalmente como los 90.
The best way I can describe this album is that it’s almost cool and edgy, but just missed. Sorry, Tori.
No thank you. Too dull. Pretty, and dull.
Tori is the girl in high school who thinks she’s a nine but is actually a six, who thinks she’s edgy but is actually a prude, who draws in her secret journal where she keeps her darkest secrets not dead flowers and daggers but still boys‘ names in bubble letters and unintentionally disfigured anime puppies, sorry not sorry.
You know they mean business when they put the title track at the end.
Iets minder vaag dan Björk, iets minder spookachtig dan Kate Bush, iets minder alternatief dan PJ Harvey, iets minder boos dan Alanis Morissette. Verder schurkt het tegen al die dingen vrij dicht aan, maar dan wel op een totaal oninteressante manier. Ik durf de term kattengejank gerust een keer te laten vallen hierbij. Dit is niet aan mij besteed. Nog net een 2.
When it's mostly just piano and singing, I get bored quickly. The songs weren't terrible or anything but this style just isn't for me
Tori must have listened to Kate. 2.3
This is the first album that I don't have in my collection so .... I'll be back. Not my tasse de te
We all know how technically brilliant tori amos is. Great voice. And lovely to listen to in small doses. Small doses being less than an entire album. Preferred the stuff she did with Kellogg’s 2.0
was ok, not my style
Shes good at singing but that cant save the shitty songs
not really my type of music.
Brengt me terug naar de tijden dat ik mijn zus der zijkmuziek door de muren van mijn ouders heen kon horen
Ze kan zingen, ze kan piano spelen. Me bekoren kan ze niet.
I cant really hear anything that separates her from her peers at this time. I'm sure one of these tracks made it to a Women & Songs album.
Not for me at all, but heard worse
Like if you put 90s pop wailing into a seashell and add piano.
The correct seismologic term is "low magnitude earthquakes". I know she only repeats the chorus 3 times per song, but somehow it feels like 7. Best song is "Precious Things", the rest are saved with skilled piano. 2 fascist panties out of 5 🩲🩲
Feels like she was going for a more accessible take on Kate Bush’s sound (the vocal runs are a dead giveaway) but unfortunately isn’t up to snuff in songwriting quality or vocal performance. Certainly nothing I outright hated, but as a whole there wasn’t really any single track that grabbed me behind feeling like acceptable background music I wouldn’t get up to turn off.
Beautiful voice, but the music was a chore.
Interesting listen but Kate does it better.
not my cup of tea.
Exciting music for boring people.
Seemed fine. Made me want to listen to Fiona Apple 2/5
Boring and moany
I like Crucify but that might just be nostalgia from hearing it so many times growing up. Still, it's an interesting sing with great dynamics and interesting instrumentation. The rest of the album just sounds very cookie cutter and rather boring. She even sounds bored singing it.
As a NIN fan, I had always heard that Trent Reznor and Tori Amos has some kind of relationship and that he helped produce some of her music. If true, it was not this record. It's not a bad record. But it's painfully boring. The whole thing is just sort of forgettable and sleepy.
Zo'n album dat je opzet, vervolgens ga je wat anders doen en je merkt nauwelijks dat het draait. Het irriteert niet, maar maakt ook niet veel los. Dat is voor top 1001-album wel erg mager, maar helaas staan er meer van dit soort in de lijst. Meerdere keren draaien helpt ook al niet. Dus tja.
Was expecting some relaxing acoustic folk but got an '80s pop knockoff instead. I guess the "Little Earthquakes" refers to those unnecessarily loud snare booms. Never judge a book by its cover.
I always wondered if it helped or hurt Tori Amos to be a part of the great 1990's alternative female singer songwriter scene alongside Alanis Morissette and Fiona Apple. Personally I love those acts and think they are amalgams of variables that I often really love and search for in music- edgy, witty, creative, cool, etc. Tori Amos I always felt was unfortunately the most... I don't know.. pedestrian of the bunch and when I've listened to her I've always wanted to rather listen to those other acts. It's a weird curse. I don't know if it's because I've been practicing pentatonic scales a lot lately but the pentatonic run on "Crucify" over the lyric "chains" sounds grating. It's just a little boring and the specific riff highlights the pentatonic's stereotypical Asian sound which I think is the worst use for it when used outside of actual Asian music. The lyrics are pretty corny to me as well, but at least the chorus hook is catchy. I love chromatics but the intro piano in "Silent All These Years" is exactly what I don't like with chromatics unless you are scoring a horror movie. Chromatics I think are best used when they are elevating a normal scale and making for a more exotic sound. Personally I love breaking rules in music! But these are just weird choices... The track with the most plays on it, "Winter" is also pretty bleh to me. It's so dramatic and I think the tone of her voice just isn't enough for it to really shine. It's like going to a college cabaret night. The singer has great pitch and control and can certainly play their instrument, but it's so overly acted and it just doesn't have that star power or star vocal sound that elevates the song. I want to like this because I usually like this sound. I like acts that have come out since that I'm sure were inspired by her, like Sara Bareilles, Olivia Rodrigo, Gracie Abrams, and dozens of female piano driven singer songwriters since, but man I just don't love it. 2/5..
Maybe I'm not in the right mindset for this album right now, but it's kind of like a boring Fiona Apple.
Kate Bush wannabe. Slightly grating
Some very light music, nothing stood out
It's obvious she wanted to be the next Kate Bush, but nothing here is musically interesting, or lyrically inspiring in the way of the aforementioned artist. Overall just a big pile of argumentative nothingness. A disappointing record.
I knew nothing about Tori Amos. Reading about her while listening to this album, it's clear why this album is important given the context and the subject matter. Musically she is without a doubt incredibly gifted. This is just not at all for me.
Some excellent songs mixed with I don't know what. The album switches between genres and the majority of the songs doesn't hold up well. Kate Bush vibes.
Voor een album met Winter kan ik niet minder dan 2 sterren geven, maar verder nogal saai.
Usually when I’m listening to a new (to me) album I’m looking for songs that grab my attention and don’t let go - ‘Crucifier’ came close in that regard before the rest of the album sunk into banal 90s singer-songwriter tropes, and my attention never recovered.
It sound's like the Demon Madonna made a pact with the Devil to steal's Bjorg's body in a different dimension and made an album about the struggle's of being a woman. With a small twist, she's already a demon for 500 year's and forgot what being a woman is so the lyrics are senseless just like the modern movement, talking about jeans, snowman and mirror's. Point's to feminism I guess, for another non remarkable shit that was made into something.
Beautiful voice but really not my thing.
Ei tää ihan toiminut. Taitavaa sinänsä, mutta loppua kohti jopa hieman ärsyttäviä biisejä.
shes very talented, just not my style....I can hear alot of Fiest in here....and I love fiest...not sure why I cant get into it
How is it never really a giant Tori Amos fan and now I remember why there's some weird little inflection in her voice that just is grating to me. I like the music and it's a pretty decent background album I was surprised by a couple of songs.
While I understand the appeal, Tori's music is just not for me. Her vocal gymnastics gets on my nerves pretty quickly and I find the production to be a bit corny now. I guess she's a good songwriter but I'm just not into her art.
Nothing really bad, but just completely boring
First half of the album intrigated me since I heard some similarity with Joni Mitchell that I like, but second half was too long and boring.
Bittersweet piano rock from the 90s can be good for a light hearted movie from that era, but not to stand the test of time. Sorry, it was not bad, but long and boring.
Did not enjoy her work when it was released and I still find it hard to penetrate the lyrics or the inane piano riffs
Not really my taste in music. I can see the appeal but I didn’t really like it. 4/10
Well nothing about cornflakes, all felt a bit limp
Found this a bit dull to be honest
White lady piano stuff.
A little too mellow
At the time, I found I could never truly relate to Amos’ music, despite it ticking most checkboxes. Fast forward to today, and not much has changed.
I admire but cant enjoy it. One of my partners favourite albums, it highlights a difference betwen men and women tastes and also emotional range. All I can hear is a voice achingly shrill with too much emotionality and soaring drama (other reviewers mention Kate Bush etc). This is a thing. In her own words, Tori Amos "I’m too raw for straight men. They are tortured by my shows" (2015, The Guardian)
very dramatic female vocalist similar to Kate bush
Pretty generic singer/songwriter stuff. This record aged pretty well I must say, but just not my style.
They speak of the label wanting to move to guitars in place of Tori’s piano and I very much agree. This was boring. I couldn’t hum the tune or recite a line from any of the songs and I just finished listening to it.
“So you met a girl who thinks really deep thoughts. What’s so amazing about really deep thoughts?” This cracked me UP. The majority of this album is not for me but a couple songs were more interesting so i’ll give a 2 (Leather/Happy Phantom)
Tori Amos has an impressive voice, but I just cannot get into what she chooses to use it for. The lyrics are interesting and the compositions likewise, but I just cannot shake the feeling that Little Earthquakes is trapped in the 90s. Side note: it probably does not help that every single Disney tune since 'Let It Go' seems to be heavily inspired by Amos…
Ugh, no. I thought Tori Amos was somewhat quirky but this was just melancholy and depressing.
Olin onnellinen kun tämä levy loppui, en vain koska kokonaisuus oli hieman puuduttava, vaan koska kaksi viimeistä biisiä olivat sen parhaat.
Cant say i thought it to be too interesting
Pretty dated. Pretty mid.
Boring
Signer/songwriter, velkomponeret, stærk vokal, lidt kedeligt
Tori kinda snapped but not enough, eh Nolan? Nolan: Yuh
Boring version of Kate Bush. Not bad at all, great voice, but struggled to pay attention
There were bits in this that I liked a lot, but in my opinion, most of the instrumentation on the album feels really dated. It has that '80-'90s pop vibe that I'm not all that fond of, and that bothered me more than I would have hoped. However, the songs that were a bit more stripped-down were great. A good example of such a song is Leather, which I thought was brilliant. I would have loved to give this a higher rating, but in all honesty, I found that the negatives outweighed the positives quite strongly on this.
Prior to this the only Tori Amos that I knew I heard was Cornflake Girl (meh) and a snicker inducing cover of Raining Blood. My expectations were not high and in thatvregard I wasn't disappointed. Boring stuff. She's talented enough that I cam understand why others might like it, but this was a boring chore for me.
The cover of "smells like teen spirit" was interesting, other than that it was pretty slow and boring. Tori has a great voice, the singing was fantastic, but overall I didn't care for it
Tori Amos is before my time and though I usually like to uplift women in music, her voice and her intonation are annoying to me. I kept thinking Alanis can do this better. Cool line “ so you can make me come. It doesn’t make you Jesus”. The whole thing sounds like a musical. Not in a good way.
Found it really, really boring and made me feel like i should be watching Ally McBeal in the 90s
I like it! A really solid first album, but nothing more than that for me. I wouldn't skip any of these songs if they showed up on shuffle, but I'm not sure I'll be seeking them out anytime soon either.
2.5
Has its moments but is mostly a drag
Based on the wiki article, this sounds like a very influential album but lyrically it reminds me of Tracy Chapman and the wavy folksy vocals sound like tons for stuff that came before 1992 I think. Either way I was pretty bored by this album and will probably forget about it at like 11 tonight when I get the next album
Meh
It's not bad, but it didn't earn a spot on my playlists. I wouldn't ask for it to be changed, but wouldn't ask for it to ever be played.
Not really my jam
Not quite what I was expecting. Bland.
Nah.
This starts out good with Crucify, but after that she sounds like a bargain bin Kate Bush. There's too much piano and its all one-note, so it got boring real fast. TBH As an older male it was hard for me to identify with songs about her traumatic childhood and adolescence. So this was a slog to listen to for me.
Meh
this woman is going through it! wish her music was good!