Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (1992)192bkps

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Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

Year 1992

1. Crucify 4:59
2. Girl 4:07
3. Silent All These Years 4:15
4. Precious Things 4:27
5. Winter 5:41
6. Happy Phantom 3:17
7. China 4:59
8. Leather 3:12
9. Mother 6:59
10. Tear In Your Hand 4:38
11. Me And A Gun 3:44
12. Little Earthquakes 6:51

Emotionally and musically intense, Little Earthquakes shows that the piano is as much a rock & roll instrument as the guitar. Tori Amos's debut (if one disregards Y Kant Tori Read, as one would be well advised to do) is at once listenable and challenging; she takes on every topic, from sex to gender to religion, in an uncompromising manner. Her music appears gentle at first but this appearance is deceiving, as one quickly learns upon listening to the wrenching "Crucify" or the almost violent "Precious Things". By the time the album gets around to "Me and a Gun", sung hauntingly by Amos without accompaniment from her piano, the juxtaposition of Amos's sweet voice and the emotional complexity of her lyrics is both familiar and shocking. Sandman fans should listen for a reference to author Neil Gaiman in "Tear in Your Hand".
With this debut, Tori Amos rose above the inevitable Kate Bush/Joni Mitchell comparisons, producing a stunning set of brutally honest and emotionally wrought songs. A skilled and imaginative pianist, Amos also proved a versatile vocalist, moving from whisper to scream in an instant. She concentrates on intimate stories of her religious upbringing, childhoodtraumas, and predominantly, sex, self discovery and unhappyrelationships. "Silent All These Years" was the first to hit a nerve with the public on single release, but all the tracks memories of her father in "Winter", the bittersweet "Happy Phantom", the harrowing account of her own rape, "Me AndA Gun" combine to make this inspiring, if rarely comfortable, listening.