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Title: Scarlet fever: Patrick Wolf is becoming Tori Amos, and Tori has become five different versions of herself.
Author: Kurt B. Reighley
Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 8, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 985Page: 60(1)

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All Collectors MUST have
I recently found Pink Earthquakes at Tower records for only $16.00!! It is real neat and includes a lot of cool pictures of tori. I have to admit this is not my fav. tori book, but if you are a collector of her things, youshould really get it. Don't get me wrong though, it is a great book.

No Tori collector should be without it!
If you collect all sorts of CDs and books by Tori Amos, Pink Earthquakes should be no exception to your collection.Mainly this book is known for its beautiful pictures of the artist throughout her early career as a solo artist.(1990-1995)These pictures include Tori with her producer and boyfriend Eric Rosse, her longtime idol Robert Plant, as well as live photos and interesting photo shoots.The book also contains a brief biography and a discography illustrating her career from 1981 when she released "Baltimore" under the name Ellen Amos when she was 17, through the Y Kant Tori Read years, and up until her sophomore album Under The Pink. ... Read more

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Chapters: Tori Amos Discography. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 56. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tori Amos is an American pianist and singer-songwriter whose musical career began in 1980, at the age of seventeen, when she and her brother co-wrote the song "Baltimore." The song was selected as the winning song in a contest for the Baltimore Orioles and was recorded and pressed locally as a 7" single. From 198489, Amos fronted the synthpop band Y Kant Tori Read, which released one self-titled album with Atlantic Records in 1988 before breaking up. Shortly thereafter, Amos began writing and recording material that would serve as the debut of her solo career. Still signed with Atlantic, and its UK counterpart East West, Amos' initial solo material was rejected by the label in 1990. Under the guidance of co-producers Eric Rosse, Davitt Sigerson and Ian Stanley, a second version of the album was created and accepted by the label the following year. Amos' solo career began in October 1991 with the UK release of the Me and a Gun EP. The following month, after the first track on the EP was receiving more airplay than the title track, the label reissued the EP with the same artwork, but changed the title to Silent All These Years. Although the second version of the EP reached only #51 on the UK charts, BBC Radio 1 picked it as "Record of the Week", which helped Amos get her initial exposure. Her debut solo album, Little Earthquakes, was released two months later in January 1992. The album peaked at #14 on the UK Top 40 and at #54 on the Billboard Top 200. Upon its release, the album received mostly positive reviews and was labeled an important album that kick-started the female singer-songwriter movement of the 1990s. Despite reaching only #54 on the Billboard 200, Little Earthquakes ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8470716 ... Read more

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Chapters: Mariah Carey, Tori Amos, Bon Jovi, Jon Bon Jovi, Melissa Etheridge, Portishead, Pj Harvey, Lionel Richie, Fefe Dobson, Natalie Imbruglia, Fightstar, Florence and the Machine, the Killers, the Bravery, Automatic Man, Hoobastank, Bad Company, Justin Bieber, Vanessa Amorosi, Gabriella Cilmi, the Airborne Toxic Event, the 88, the Feeling, Charlie Simpson, Jon Mclaughlin, Clocks, Babyface, Rival Schools, Dj Felli Fel, Boy Kill Boy, Ashes Divide, Attic Lights, Wallis Bird, Johntá Austin, School Gyrls, Andy Bull, Molly Beanland, Coco Sumner, World's Famous Supreme Team. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 328. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records established her position as Columbia's highest-selling act. According to Billboard magazine, she was the most successful artist of the 1990s in the United States. and is also considered to be one of the most influential female vocalists in contemporary music. Following her separation from Mottola in 1997, Carey introduced elements of hip hop into her album work, to much initial success, but her popularity was in decline when she left Columbia in 2001. She signed to Virgin Records but was dropped from the label and bought out of her contract the following year after a highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown, as well as the poor reception given to Glitter, her film and soundtrack project. In 2002, Carey signed with Island Records, and after a relatively unsuccessful pe...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19499 ... Read more

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Chapters: Tori Amos. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument. Some of her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", "Spark", "1000 Oceans", and "A Sorta Fairytale", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date. As of 2005, Amos had sold 12 million albums worldwide. Amos was born in Newton, North Carolina. When she was two, her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she began to play the piano. By age five, she had begun composing instrumental pieces on piano and, while living in Rockville, Maryland, she won a full scholarship to the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Her scholarship was discontinued at age 11 and she was asked to leave. Amos has asserted that she lost the scholarship because of her interest in rock and popular music, coupled with her dislike for reading from sheet music. At the age of 14, she began playing at piano bars, chaperoned by her father. Amos first came to local notice by winning a county teen talent contest in 1977, singing a song called "More Than Just a Friend". As a senior at Richard Montgomery High School, she co-wrote "Baltimore" with her brother Mike Amos for a competition involving the Baltimore Orioles. The song won the contest and became her first single, released as a 7" single pressed locally for family and friends during 1980 with another Amos-penned composition as a B-side, "Walkin...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=31471 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Françoise Hardy, Vanessa Paradis, Madonna, Shania Twain, Britney Spears, France Gall, Gwen Stefani, Kelly Clarkson, Tori Amos, Céline Dion, Dido, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Nelly Furtado, Jane Birkin, Linda Ronstadt, Beyoncé Knowles, Miley Cyrus, Shakira, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, Mandy Moore, Zazie, Katy Perry, Hilary Duff, Paris Hilton, Lily Allen, Aaliyah, Fergie, Katie Melua, Jessica Simpson, Demi Lovato, Vanessa Lynn Williams, Brandy Norwood, Petula Clark, Sia Furler, Ashanti, Colette Deréal, Eva Cassidy, Lio, Sofia Rotaru, Leann Rimes, Duffy, Melissa O'neil, Brenda Lee, Kelly Chen, Willa Ford, Kate Bush, Yelle, Nancy Sinatra, Yael Naim, Achinoam Nini, Sandra, Christine Lebail, Dusty Springfield, Samantha Jade, Koxie, Little, Lisa Germano, Jewel, Daisy Evans, Aimee Mann, Nathalie Makoma, Dana Dawson, Emilia Rydberg, Tanita Tikaram, Brisa Roché, Mindi Abair, Natalie Merchant, Sandrine, Connie Francis, Inara George, Noe Venable, Dorota Rabczewska, Holly Brook, Julieta Venegas, Selma Bajrami, Marie Osmond, Nikka Costa, Lykke Li, Kaci Brown, Karmen Stavec, Sam Brown, Vonda Shepard, Makka Sagaipova, Jacqueline Taïeb, Lucrecia, Yasmin Knock, Yulduz Usmanova, Aubrey Morgan O'day, Sheena Easton, Annika Norlin, Aneela, Beverley Craven, Ira Losco, Mariana Popova, Cheyenne Kimball. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Françoise Madeleine Hardy (née le 17 janvier 1944 à Paris) est une chanteuse française. Auteure-compositrice-interprète, Françoise Hardy débute dans le monde musical à 18 ans et rencontre un succès immédiat. Après s'être produite pendant six années sur scène, elle abandonne cet aspect démonstratif du métier. Depuis, elle poursuit une carrière essentiellement discographiq...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Malicorne, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Kate Mcgarrigle, Jeff Buckley, Tori Amos, Van Morrison, Alan Stivell, Alan Lomax, Tom Waits, Gérard Jaffrès, Cisco Herzhaft, Sufjan Stevens, John Lomax, Wannes Van de Velde, Dan Ar Braz, Katie Melua, James Blunt, Neil Young, Allan Edwall, Joni Mitchell, Little Boxes, Joan Baez, Tracy Chapman, Crosby, Stills ... Read more

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Chapters: Tori Amos, Richard Fuller, Igor Kipnis, Emilie Autumn, Daniel Pinkham, Martin Pearlman, William Christie, Scott Ross, Thomas Dunn, Barbara Harbach, Ralph Kirkpatrick, Temple Painter, Jory Vinikour, Carole Terry, Albert Fuller, Rosalyn Tureck, Ruta Bloomfield, Predrag Gosta, Mitzi Meyerson, David Schrader, Alan Curtis, Bradley Brookshire, Joel Spiegelman, Sylvia Marlowe, Fernando Valenti, Malcolm Hamilton. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 94. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument. Some of her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", "Spark", "1000 Oceans", and "A Sorta Fairytale", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date. As of 2005, Amos had sold 12 million albums worldwide. Amos was born in Newton, North Carolina. When she was two, her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she began to play the piano. By age five, she had begun composing instrumental pieces on piano and, while living in Rockville, Maryland, she won a full scholarship to the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Her scholarship was discontinued at age 11 and she was asked to leave. Amos has asserted that she lost the scholarship because of her interest in rock and popular music, coupled with her dislike for reading from sheet music. At the age of 14, she began playing at piano bars, chaperoned by her father. Amos first came to local notice by winning a county teen talent cont...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=31471 ... Read more

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A decent transcription and a beautiful book.
The book has decent enough transcriptions of the songs, however they are not as accurate as some of her other songbooks.Still a must have for all die hard Tori Amos fans.

This songbook really isn't just for a girl and her piano
Choirgirl Hotel is probably my favorite album.Of course, her girls are changing all the time (what do you expect? all of us grow older) so when I really say it's my favorite, it more refers to what this album means to me and what musically maturing is.Also, because we are changing all the time, our favorites really could change from day to day.Would you really listen to Boys for Pele end-to-end if you just found the perfect love of your life?

At the time of the album's release, the music world was experience new trends, especially an explosion in Electronica/Ambient/Trance (well, these were not necessarily new, but newly popular).This album, to me, seemed to follow this same trend of altering the sounds coming from acoustic instruments and by using ethereal voices along with repetitive/hypnotic lines.We also start seeing Tori using a synthesizer in her live shows.So many of these sounds can't be produced with just the piano -`I guess you go to far when pianos try to be guitars.'Regardless whether this trend was intentional on her part, or if was just something she needed coming out because she is finally admitting to herself that it's time to turn the page, she openly admits she did put Bose in the back seat.So if the piano does not have a big role in the concept of this album, how can we have the expectation it's going to have one in the song book?

Yes, I admit I was very excited to take my new purchase home and start playing these songs I immediately fell in love the first time I ever heard the album, but when I sat down to play, my piano had seemed to loose it's voice.So not to betray Tori, I left the book out as much as I could, but it eventually no longer was considered something good enough to be in the bench seat (It went into long-term storage).

However, just about a month ago, when I received the Stimulas check without any knowledge as to what is was or why, I found myself with some extra cash.I bought a new synthesizer to replace the one I've had for years (the one with the second C# that no longer works, and the electrical cord had a short).Of course, I have had many different residences since Choirgirl came out, so when I received my keyboard, All my music was in one place, so luckily they got a chance to possibly come out and play.With some of these new features on keyboards these days, you can do some really cool stuff...and to pieces where you really need the additional `stuff'

Anyway, I'm just now experiencing some ways I can reproduce some of these songs in a way that still captures Tori's original intent.

This songbook really isn't just for a girl and her piano.But you could put on a nice big-bottom beat and add some interesting arppegiated harmonies to the music and still feel like you're singing in the Choir.

Poor/questionable arrangements
The Choirgirl Hotel album features many overdubbed instruments and one can't reasonably hope to play every layered melody with only their two hands and a piano. However, I will say that David Pearl's arrangement is questionable at the very least. Most of the songs seem reasonable but I was struck by how off the main melody for 'Spark' is. I understand that it's a treated piano played through an effect rig, but Pearl's interpretation is...just...crazy. The first half of the second measure is completely wrong. He's got something like "d a f# a f# a" when it's closer to "d f# a b g a".
Spark is the only song I've yet to really analyze, so I don't know if this is an isolated mistake, or what.

Yes, I'm picky, but the man has a tin ear.

More solid transcriptions than expected, less omissions than usual
Choirgirl offers pianists a few challenges while mostly avoiding the daunting key signatures and compound time found on efforts like Under the Pink. Compared to the books for Little Earthquakes and Under The Pink the omissions here are few and mostly forgivable, and a few songs that could have turned out unplayable are spared by judicious compositing.

There are two unqualified highlights in the book: a fantastic "Pandora's Aquarium" and a faithful "Spark." Both songs are eminently playable while offering a few instances where you might need to pencil in your fingering. A serviceable trio of "Liquid Diamonds," "Jackie's Strength," and "Black Dove" follows them closely in quality.

However, the latter two tunes plateau at a particular difficulty, omitting a few killer passages that are just slightly defter than the rest of the song. A careful listen will reveal what's missing (and, if you have a good ear, will help you to fix it).

The problem is much more more glaring on "Raspberry Swirl." Where Tori occasionally departs from big block chords the book always stays with them. Also, there are some instances where the book could have indicated some of the additional keyboards from the song. Finally, it omits the ad-libbed solo running through the outro.

Simple "Playboy Mommy" is - puzzlingly - the worst offender. The book displaces simple figures from where they ought to be, and repeatedly ignores sparse right hand work in favor of continuous vocal melody. It plays okay, but it's clearly not the same thing Tori is doing. The same goes for a middling version of "Northern Lad."

Choirgirl includes some songs where piano isn't the most prominent fixture of an arrangement - songs are driven by keyboards, or Tori just supports the rhythm section. The book approaches these songs in a number of ways, because providing a verbatim keyboard part isn't always the best solution ... much of "Hotel" is very accurate to what Tori performed on tour, but at points it sounds peculiar when you play it by yourself.

The best-adapted band arrangement is "She's Your Cocaine." It mostly sticks to what Tori plays, but it adds some bass to the left hand and gives the melody to the right where it would be tacit. The additions don't sound wrong, and they're easy to identify and eliminate if you choose. "Iieee" does it's best to composite an occasional piano with with keyboards and bass guitar. It's a solid arrangement, and with a little ad-lib it can match perfectly to the disc. By contrast, "Cruel" could very well be what Tori is playing on keys and we'd never know it - the mix of the song obscures almost everything. The book errs in favor of bass notes and melody for most of the arrangement. It's not very fun to play.

Only one truly serious omission is made: the amazing "doing oh so well these days" section of "Liquid Diamonds" is completely absent. Also, the second verse piano is lost to a repeat sign, and Tori is clearly doing something different (more simple?) than what is notated in the chorus. Balancing these errors are a nearly flawless intro and first verse. Overall the song is playable and sounds fine.

The only other omission is that the "how many fates" bridge in "Spark" is clearly simplified. Otherwise, the brief piano bridge of "Black Dove" is close to accurate, as are most of the outstanding compound-time solos in the middle of "Hotel." And, as already mentioned, the arrangement of "Pandora" is excellent.

The book features no background vocals, which leaves Tori's unintelligible and sometimes operatic efforts to the imagination. The loss isn't too objectionable since nothing could really be counted as a dual-lead on this disc (as opposed to the bridges of "Space Dog" and "Father Lucifer").

Choirgirl might be the best Amos book for guitarists - the chord frames offer logical choices, nothing requires a capo (though try first on "Swirl" and fourth on "Black Dove"), and the songs all lend themselves to adaptation. A guitarist who reads a bit of music will be able to incorporate many key riffs or arpeggios that are perfect for guitar or bass (see "iieee," "Playboy Mommy," and "Jackie's Strength"). Inventive players will even be able to adapt songs for solo performance using alternate tunings (try a drop-D variation such as DADGAD for "Hotel").

Choirgirl is perhaps the Tori album that could most benefit from a full score, as it uses her band to the utmost. However, even as just a piano folio it's a strong set of songs that sometimes benefit from careful adaptation. If you're planning to just buy one Tori book based on the strength of the piano transcriptions you may want to opt for Pink, Pele, or Scarlet's before coming back to this one. If you're collecting Tori's entire series of sheet music you should buy it ASAP, as has been out of print for quite some time.

Advanced - beginner, something for the inbetween
Although some versions of songs are not as technically sound as Tori herself plays on From the Choirgirl Hotel, the versions provided in this book are very similar to the album versions. For the person who likes to attach phrases to the aural sensation of Tori's music, this book is for you. I myself found some fabulous underlying rhythms to staples of the album that I had never heard before. With Tori's music, you hear things a bit differently each time.

Book includes all the tracks on the album and some vivid imagery as the artwork for it. If you're a Tori fan, consider buying this even just for the glossy photos. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on July 29, 2003. The length of the article is 822 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Amos, Folds hit the right keys at Cuthbert.(Reviews)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: July 29, 2003
Publisher: The Register Guard
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