SO YOU'VE FOUND A GIRL WHO BUYS 2% MILK

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Tori Amos is a tremendous talent. Great singer, great songwriter. Love 'er! However, her raging success in the 1990s was not without collateral damage. Supermarket muzak now consists almost entirely of women singers with that little-girl voice, backed by pianos and acoustic guitars, singing yearningly about their yearning to yearn. It's dreck. Somehow I imagine Ms. Amos driving around in her car or going to the Stop 'n' Slop and hearing Sixpence Nun and the Michelles trying for a sound somewhere between hers and the Sundays and being blithering idiots, and she slams her Super Big Burp down on the cupholder and yells "Fuck.. FUCKING FUCK!"

I hope she does! Because i do.

Comments

[changeng.livejournal.com]

true. MAybe Gabriel thinks too hard on his records. I bet the eralier versions were way more interesting.

Primus, eh? Ha! It must reeeely be obvious then. Then again, Kate could sing the Primus songbook and make it wonderful. That voice is otherworldly.

[eamajyn.livejournal.com]

i am a fan of both, and must say, after a ridiculous amount of hours spent studying them, they have their own individual things to offer. also as tori grew, she sounded less bushy. now she just kinda sucks, but that's beside the point.

[changeng.livejournal.com]

I've never been a fan of Tori's however I don't taste bile when I hear one of her songs.

What Gabriel boots I have of works in progress never fail to fascinate. He just takes too long between releases and probably does tons of second-guessing on himself. "Up" wasn't so bad, it was better than the previous one, still you want that innovation from him he showed whe he went solo.

gabriel

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Everything he's done since So has sounded like... ...doing So again. It's a fine record, but re-doing it for 20 years he kinda lost me.