Tori Amos

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Tori Amos was born Myra Ellen Amos on August 23, 1963 in Newton, North Carolina USA and raised in Maryland; she began playing the piano aged two and a half and by the age of four, she was singing and playing piano in the church choir. Amos, while attending high school in Washington D.C. started performing in local clubs and writing own material; in 1980 under the real name of Ellen Amos recorded her first single.
During the following years she persevered in writing her own songs playing music along with ex-Mr. Mister Steve Farris, Matt Sorum future drummer for The Cult and Guns N' Roses, ex-Poco Kim Bullard and other artists, in the meantime, Tori Amos, refashioned herself as Pop-Rock singer + songwriter and scored a deal with Atlantic Records.

In October 1991 appeared her first 4-track EP "Me And A Gun" and at the start of the new year was released the official debut full-length disc, "Little Earthquakes"; the record reached the #54 position on The Billboard Top 200 Albums chart spawning two Modern Rock top 30 hits: "Crucify" and "Silent All These Years".

She resurfaced in February of 1994 with the release of "Under The Pink", on which Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails made a guest appearance, this album hit #1 in the U.K. and debuted at #12 on The Billboard Top 200 in the U.S. where the single "God" rose to #1 on The Modern Rock chart; "Cornflake Girl", exploded on the radio and became a staple for European stations reaching the #4 slot on the U.K. Singles chart and peaked at #12 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart propelling the album to platinum sales in the United States; the final single, "Pretty Good Year", was another huge hit in Britain where ascended into the top 10 of the National chart.

In 1995 she duetted with Robert Plant, on the song "Down By The Seaside", it can be found on the Led Zeppelin tribute album 'Encomium'.
Amos' third album, "Boys For Pele", released with a two years gap between it and its predecessor, peaked at #2 on the U.S. Top 200 chart spawning "Caught A Lite Sneeze" which reached #13 on The Modern Rock Tracks and the British #1 smash "Professional Widow"; the record also included the single "In The Springtime Of His Voodoo" which was a huge club success.

In May of 1998 appeared her fourth full-length album, "From The Choirgirl Hotel", the record entered the top 10 on both U.S. and Canadian Pop charts while "Spark" hit #49 on The Billboard Hot 100 becoming her highest charting single to date, this track also grabbed a #13 spot on The Modern Rock chart and was followed by the Billboard's Hot Dance smash "Jackie's Strength" plus the Canadian top 20 hit "Raspberry Swirl".

Following the 1999's "Five And A Half Weeks" tour with Alanis Morissette, Tori Amos released a double-CD set called "To Venus And Back" which included a disc of all live tracks as well as a disc of new material; the collection rose to #12 on The Billboard Top 200 Albums list and generated the minor hit single "Bliss".

She returned two years later with an album of cover versions of songs written by men about women entitled "Strange Little Girls", the record broke into the top 10 of the North-American charts and reached the top 20 in Great Britain.

In late October of 2002 the singer released her seventh album and the first on Epic Records, "Scarlet's Walk"; it peaked at #7 on The Billboard Top 200 spawning a series of hit singles: "Sort Of Fairytale" was a top 10 in Canada and received strong airplay on adult contemporary stations Stateside, "Taxi Ride" was a minor success and the third single cut, "Don't Make Me Come To Vegas", broke into the top 10 of the Billboard's Hot Dance chart.
The next year Tori Amos released the greatest hits album, "Tales Of A Librarian".

In February 2005 she delivered an album of all-new-material "The Beekeeper" which debuted at #5 on The Billboard 200; however, the album's two singles, "Sleeps With Butterflies" and "Sweet The Sting", failed to rise beyond the lower reaches of the charts.

Her next record, 2007's "American Doll Posse", equaled the peak position of its immediate predecessor on the U.S. Top 200 chart and yielded the minor hit single "Big Wheel".

May 2009 saw Tori Amos release her tenth studio album, "Abnormally Attracted To Sin", another innovative chapter in the artist's trailblazing story. The 17-song set includes the single "Welcome To England".

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Little Earthquakes

(1992)

1. Crucify
2. Girl
3. Silent All These Years
4. Precious Things
5. Winter
6. Happy Phantom
7. China
8. Leather
9. Mother
10. Tear In Your Hand
11. Me And A Gun
12. Little Earthquakes

 

Under The Pink

(1994)

1. Pretty Good Year
2. God
3. Bells For Her
4. Past The Mission
5. Baker Baker
6. The Wrong Band
7. The Waitress
8. Cornflake Girl
9. Icicle
10. Cloud On My Tongue
11. Space Dog
12. Yes, Anastasia

 

Boys For Pele

(1996)

1. Beauty Queen / Horses
2. Blood Roses
3. Father Lucifer
4. Professional Widow
5. Mr. Zebra
6. Marianne
7. Caught A Lite Sneeze
8. Muhammad My Friend
9. Hey Jupiter
10. Way Down
11. Little Amsterdam
12. Talula
13. Not The Red Baron
14. Agent Orange
15. Doughnut Song
16. In The Springtime Of His Voodoo
17. Putting The Damage On
18. Twinkle

 

From The Choirgirl Hotel

(1998)

1. Spark
2. Cruel
3. Black-Dove (January)
4. Raspberry Swirl
5. Jackie's Strength
6. i i e e e
7. Liquid Diamonds
8. She's Your Cocaine
9. Northern Lad
10. Hotel
11. Playboy Mommy
12. Pandora's Aquarium

 

To Venus And Back

(2000)

DISC #1:
1. Bliss
2. Juarez
3. Concertina
4. Glory Of The 80's
5. Lust
6. Suede
7. Josephine
8. Riot Poof
9. Datura
10. Spring Haze
11. 1,000 Oceans

DISC #2 [live]:
1. Precious Things
2. Cruel
3. Cornflake Girl
4. Bells For Her
5. Girl
6. Cooling
7. Mr. Zebra
8. Cloud On My Tongue
9. Sugar
10. Little Earthquakes
11. Space Dog
12. The Waitress
13. Purple People

 

Strange Little Girls

(2001)

1. New Age
2. '97 Bonnie And 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

 

Scarlet's Walk

(2002)

1. Amber Waves
2. A Sorta Fairytale
3. Wednesday
4. Strange
5. Carbon
6. Crazy
7. Wampum Prayer
8. Don't Make Me Come To Vegas
9. Sweet Sangria
10. Your Cloud
11. Pancake
12. I Can't See New York
13. Mrs. Jesus
14. Taxi Ride
15. Another Girl's Paradise
16. Scarlet's Walk
17. Virginia
18. Gold Dust

 

The Beekeeper

(2005)

1. Parasol
2. Sweet The Sting
3. The Power Of Orange Kickers
4. Jamaica Inn
5. Barons Of Suburbia
6. Sleeps With Butterflies
7. General Joy
8. Mother Revolution
9. Ribbons Undone
10. Cars And Guitars
11. Witness
12. Original Sinsuality
13. Ireland
14. The Beekeeper
15. Martha's Foolish Ginger
16. Hoochie Woman
17. Goodbye Pisces
18. Marys Of The Sea
19. Toast

 

American Doll Posse

(2007)

1. Yo George
2. Big Wheel
3. Bouncing Off Clouds
4. Teenage Hustling
5. Digital Ghost
6. You Can Bring Your Dog
7. Mr. Bad Man
8. Fat Slut
9. Girl Disappearing
10. Secret Spell
11. Devils And Gods
12. Body And Soul
13. Father's Son
14. Programmable Soda
15. Code Red
16. Roosterspur Bridge
17. Beauty Of Speed
18. Almost Rosey
19. Velvet Revolution
20. Dark Side Of The Sun
21. Posse Bonus
22. Smokey Joe
23. Dragon

 

Abnormally Attracted To Sin

(2009)

1. Give
2. Welcome To England
3. Strong Black Vine
4. Flavor
5. Not Dying Today
6. Maybe California
7. Curtain Call
8. Fire To Your Plain
9. Police Me
10. That Guy
11. Abnormally Attracted To Sin
12. 500 Miles
13. Mary Jane
14. Starling
15. Fast Horse
16. Ophelia
17. Lady In Blue

 

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