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With her haunting solo debut Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos carved the template for the female singer/songwriter movement of the '90s. Amos' delicate, prog rock piano work and confessional, poetically quirky lyrics invited close emotional connection, giving her a fanatical cult following and setting the stage for the Lilith Fair legions. But Little Earthquakes is no mere style-setter or feminine stereotype -- its intimacy is uncompromising, intense, and often far from comforting. Amos' musings on major personal issues -- religion, relationships, gender, childhood -- were just as likely to encompass rage, sarcasm, and defiant independence as pain or tenderness; sometimes, it all happened in the same song. The apex of that intimacy is the harrowing "Me and a Gun," where Amos strips away all the music, save for her own voice, and confronts the listener with the story of her own real-life rape; the free-associative lyrics come off as a heart-wrenching attempt to block out the ordeal. Little Earthquakes isn't always so stomach-churning, but it never seems less than deeply cathartic; it's the sound of a young woman (like the protagonist of "Silent All These Years") finally learning to use her own voice -- sort of the musical equivalent of Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia. That's why Amos draws strength from her relentless vulnerability, and that's why the constantly shifting emotions of the material never seem illogical -- Amos simply delights in the frankness of her own responses, whatever they might be. Though her subsequent albums were often very strong, Amos would never bare her soul quite so directly (or comprehensibly) as she did here, nor with such consistently focused results. Little Earthquakes is the most accessible work in Amos' catalog, and it's also the most influential and rewarding.
© Steve Huey /TiVo
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Davitt Sigerson, Producer - Jef Scott, Bass Guitar - LESLIE ANN JONES, AssistantEngineer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - Paul McKenna, MixingEngineer - JOHN BEVERLY JONES, RecordingEngineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer - ERIC WILLIAMS, Ukulele - Ed Green, Drums - Tina Gullickson, Background Vocals - Paulinho Dacosta, Percussion - John Chamberlin, Mandolin - Nancy "Beene" Shanks, Background Vocals
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1991 Atlantic Records
Eric Rosse, Producer, Drums, Programming Keyboards, RecordingEngineer - Jon Kelly, MixingEngineer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - Steve Caton, Guitar, Bass Guitar - Tori Amos, Producer, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer, Strings Samples
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1991 Atlantic Records
Davitt Sigerson, Producer - Nick DeCaro, Conductor, Arranger - LESLIE ANN JONES, AssistantEngineer - Ross Cullum, MixingEngineer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - JOHN BEVERLY JONES, RecordingEngineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer - Philly, Finger Cymbals
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1991 Atlantic Records
Eric Rosse, Producer, Backing Vocals, Programming Keyboards, RecordingEngineer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - Paul McKenna, MixingEngineer - Steve Caton, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals - Tori Amos, Producer, Piano, Electric Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer - Carlo Nuccio, Drums - Dan Nebenzal, RecordingEngineer - Will McGregor, Bass Guitar
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1991 Atlantic Records
Davitt Sigerson, Producer - Nick DeCaro, String Arranger, Strings Conductor - Eric Rosse, Drums - Jon Kelly, MixingEngineer - LESLIE ANN JONES, AssistantEngineer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - JOHN BEVERLY JONES, RecordingEngineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1991 Atlantic Records
Davitt Sigerson, Producer - LESLIE ANN JONES, AssistantEngineer - Paulinho Da Costa, Percussion - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - JOHN BEVERLY JONES, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer - Phil Shenale, Programming Keyboards - ERIC WILLIAMS, Dulcimer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1991 Atlantic Records
Stuart Gordon, Violin - David Lord, String Arranger - Ian Stanley, Producer - Steve Williams, RecordingEngineer - Chris Hughes, Drums - Ross Cullum, MixingEngineer - Paul Corkett, RecordingEngineer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - David Rhodes, Guitar - Will Gregory, Oboe - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer - Mathew Seligman, Bass Guitar
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1991 Atlantic Records
Davitt Sigerson, Producer - Jef Scott, Guitar - LESLIE ANN JONES, AssistantEngineer - Ross Cullum, MixingEngineer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - JOHN BEVERLY JONES, RecordingEngineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer, Strings Samples
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1991 Atlantic Records
Davitt Sigerson, Producer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - JOHN BEVERLY JONES, RecordingEngineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1991 Atlantic Records
Eric Rosse, Producer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - Paul McKenna, MixingEngineer - Steve Caton, Guitar - Tori Amos, Producer, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer - Carlo Nuccio, Drums - Dan Nebenzal, RecordingEngineer - Will McGregor, Bass Guitar
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1991 Atlantic Records
Ian Stanley, Producer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - Tori Amos, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1991 Atlantic Records
Eric Rosse, Producer, Backing Vocals, Programming Keyboards, RecordingEngineer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - Paul McKenna, MixingEngineer - Steve Caton, Guitar, Backing Vocals - Tori Amos, Producer, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer - Will McGregor, Bass Guitar - Nancy "Beene" Shanks, Backing Vocals
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1991 Atlantic Records
DISC 2
Davitt Sigerson, Producer - Jef Scott, Bass Guitar - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - JOHN BEVERLY JONES, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer - David Sigerson, Carillon Bells - Phil Shanale, Mellotron
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1991 Atlantic Records
Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1991 Atlantic Records
Ian Stanley, Producer - Ross Cullum, RecordingEngineer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1992 Atlantic Records
Ian Stanley, Producer - Steve Williams, RecordingEngineer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - Tori Amos, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1992 Atlantic Records
Ian Stanley, Producer - Steve Williams, MixingEngineer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - JOHN BEVERLY JONES, RecordingEngineer - Tori Amos, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1992 Atlantic Records
Davitt Sigerson, Producer - Eric Rosse, Drums, MixingEngineer - Jef Scott, Guitar, Bass Guitar - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - JOHN BEVERLY JONES, RecordingEngineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer - Tina Gullickson, Background Vocals - Nancy "Beene" Shanks, Background Vocals - Paulihno Dacosta, Sleigh Bells
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1992 Atlantic Records
Davitt Sigerson, Producer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - JOHN BEVERLY JONES, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer - Tina Gullickson, Background Vocals - The Subdudes, Additional Instruments - Nancy "Beene" Shanks, Background Vocals
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1992 Atlantic Records
Davitt Sigerson, Producer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1992 Atlantic Records
Ian Stanley, Producer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - Tori Amos, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1992 Atlantic Records
Davitt Sigerson, Producer - Jon Kelly, MixingEngineer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1992 Atlantic Records
Ian Stanley, Producer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1992 Atlantic Records
David Grohl, Writer - Ian Stanley, Producer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - Kurt Cobain, Writer - Krist Novoselic, Writer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist, ReissueProducer - Steve Jackson, RecordingEngineer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1992 Atlantic Records
Ian Stanley, Producer - Steve Williams, RecordingEngineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - David Conroy, RecordingEngineer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1992 Atlantic Records
Ian Stanley, Producer - Steve Williams, RecordingEngineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - David Conroy, RecordingEngineer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1992 Atlantic Records
Ian Stanley, Producer - Steve Williams, RecordingEngineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - David Conroy, RecordingEngineer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1992 Atlantic Records
Ian Stanley, Producer - Steve Williams, RecordingEngineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - David Conroy, RecordingEngineer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1992 Atlantic Records
Ian Stanley, Producer - Steve Williams, RecordingEngineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - David Conroy, RecordingEngineer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1992 Atlantic Records
Ian Stanley, Producer - Ross Cullum, RecordingEngineer - Jon Astley, Remastering Engineer - Tori Amos, Piano, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ReissueProducer
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 1992 Atlantic Records
Album review
With her haunting solo debut Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos carved the template for the female singer/songwriter movement of the '90s. Amos' delicate, prog rock piano work and confessional, poetically quirky lyrics invited close emotional connection, giving her a fanatical cult following and setting the stage for the Lilith Fair legions. But Little Earthquakes is no mere style-setter or feminine stereotype -- its intimacy is uncompromising, intense, and often far from comforting. Amos' musings on major personal issues -- religion, relationships, gender, childhood -- were just as likely to encompass rage, sarcasm, and defiant independence as pain or tenderness; sometimes, it all happened in the same song. The apex of that intimacy is the harrowing "Me and a Gun," where Amos strips away all the music, save for her own voice, and confronts the listener with the story of her own real-life rape; the free-associative lyrics come off as a heart-wrenching attempt to block out the ordeal. Little Earthquakes isn't always so stomach-churning, but it never seems less than deeply cathartic; it's the sound of a young woman (like the protagonist of "Silent All These Years") finally learning to use her own voice -- sort of the musical equivalent of Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia. That's why Amos draws strength from her relentless vulnerability, and that's why the constantly shifting emotions of the material never seem illogical -- Amos simply delights in the frankness of her own responses, whatever they might be. Though her subsequent albums were often very strong, Amos would never bare her soul quite so directly (or comprehensibly) as she did here, nor with such consistently focused results. Little Earthquakes is the most accessible work in Amos' catalog, and it's also the most influential and rewarding.
© Steve Huey /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 30 track(s)
- Total length: 02:13:10
- Main artists: Tori Amos
- Label: Rhino Atlantic
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation ℗ 2015 Atlantic Recording Corporation. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
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