i was electromagnetically sucked back
into a party going on that night
it was the glories of the 80's
with karma drawn up in lines
and two bugle boy models saying, 'baby,
it's free-bee you sure look deprived'
i had the 'story of o' in my bucket seat
of my wanna be mustang
auditioning for reptiles in their
racquel welsh campaign
in the glories of the 80's
you said, 'i'm not afraid to die'
i said i don't find that remotely funny
even on this space cake high
and then when it all seemed clear
just then you go and disappear
silicone party barbies to the left and
joan of arcs to the right
no one feeling insecure we were
all gorged and famous in our last lives
and the glories of the 80's you said
'the end is nothing to fear' i said
blow the end now baby
who do i gotta shag to get outta here
and then when it all seemed clear
just then you go and disappear
sure you're out there orbiting around
wish i had you back now
i met a drag king call venus
she had a velvet hologram she said
'my husband ran off with my shaman
but they love me as i am'
in the glories of the 80's
i may not have to die
i'll clone myself
like that blonde chick
that sings betty davis eyes
and then when it all seemed clear
just then you go and disappear
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted. She had to leave at the age of eleven when her scholarship was discontinued for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination". Amos was the lead singer of the short-lived 1980s pop group Y Kant Tori Read before achieving her breakthrough as a solo artist in the early 1990s. Her songs focus on a broad range of topics, including sexuality, feminism, politics, and religion.
Her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", "Spark", "1000 Oceans", "Flavor" and "A Sorta Fairytale", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date. Amos has received five MTV VMA nominations and eight Grammy Award nominations, and won an Echo Klassik award for her Night of Hunters classical crossover album. She is listed on VH1's 1999 "100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll" at number 71.
I adore Tori (not unconditionally, and not all of her oeuvre, but when she's good she's outstanding) and I'm a man. I'm also a pianist and composer ... so maybe I also admire and respect her undoubted chops (one of the best left hands in rock piano).
I adore Tori (not unconditionally, and not all of her oeuvre, but when she's good she's outstanding) and I'm a man. I'm also a pianist and composer ... so maybe I also admire and respect her undoubted chops (one of the best left hands in rock piano).
Me as well, well the male who really enjoys Tori and exactly as you say, when she is good, she is outstanding! But, not the musician part, I can only hurt people, small animals and children with my lack of musical talent. I tell my wife I was put here purely to listen, some of us had to be, right?
Jon Evans
I'm sure your mother is very proud
I adore Tori (not unconditionally, and not all of her oeuvre, but when she's good she's outstanding) and I'm a man. I'm also a pianist and composer ... so maybe I also admire and respect her undoubted chops (one of the best left hands in rock piano).
I second this comment which was in response to somebody postulating that Tori fans were women and Tori haters were men. I was introduced to Tori Amos's music by my husband who is, without doubt, a man and a fan.
She's not my favorite and I am, without doubt, a woman. This song isn't bad though.
I do not like any Tori amos songs ever. Until this.
I don't want to , but I do.
"Mainly the honesty of the decadence of that decade. There's the line and then, just when it all seemed clear you go and disappear. I knew a lot of great people in the eighties but at the time I didn't always understand them. Now, there's such a void in the art world, people with vision have physically passed on. It's also a stab at political correctness - you can't say this, you can't say that; now everybody has to be called a Spanish American, an African American and I mean... Oh bloody, fucking hell!!! I understand the abuses that have happened and I absolutely think recompense should be paid, but you don't do it just on a surface level. Everybody thinks that the debt has been paid to the 'quote unquote' Indians who had their land taken away from them because we call them Native Americans. It's hard when everything is so eggshell, eggshell, eggshell. I do miss the eighties. It was great, knowing that friends were on one hand dialing a charity and on the other hand doing a line of blow — but not lying about it, being honest. None of us are this light and dark fantasy. What's dark to you may be light to me and vice versa." -Tori Amos
Me too! I was distracted (trying to work) and I was kinda enjoying this. Usually listening to her makes me vomit just a little bit.
But then RP follows with the wonderful Kate Bush - no contest.
Look up Y Kant Tori Read and take that back. Starting with her solo work I'd agree though.
I'll dance to this...
Nice! {Romeotuna supplies the dancing silicone party Barbie desribed in the lyrics!} By the way, this is the first time I've (knowingly) heard Tori Amos. Lyrics are great, music is good.
We be dancing... love it...