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Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls

Year 2001

1. New Age
2. '97 Bonnie & Clyde
3. Strange Little Girl
4. Enjoy the Silence
5. I'm Not in Love
6. Rattlesnakes
7. Time
8. Heart of Gold
9. I Don't Like Mondays
10. Happiness Is a Warm Gun
11. Raining Blood
12. Real Men

Tori Amos's Strange Little Girls is a departure as she takes 12 songs written by men about women and delivers them from the female perspective. "Words are like guns" she says, "a person has to take responsibility for their words." So she turns Eminem's "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" into a song of dark misogyny, and reinterprets the Boomtown Rats' "I Don't Like Mondays" with quiet, melodious keyboards and a reflective voice. Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" has been completely recast as banshee rock, while The Stranglers' "Strange Little Girl" has a new post punk power. Sometimes Amos's own compositions have a tendency to ramble, but these four minute nuggets have concentrated her skills wonderfully. It's an ambitious record, but one that works.