2/22/05. Billboard magazine says that Tori's new album is called "The Beekeeper". There are some other details on www.thedent.com.


I CAN'T WAIT!!!!! and hopefully a solo tour to follow. !!!!!

You know what, and I'm gonna be perfectly honest with you, but I could care less about Tori Amos. I'm sure she's a great artist and whatever, but I think there's so many better great female songwriters out there.

I'm sorry, but that's just how I feel.


















Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to

i'm wet. i can't wait to go to new york and see the interview/performance she is doing at the 92nd y! i'm so ready for new tori...a cd, a tour, the promos, the videos...oh my...i think i just came.

SassyBritches said:

Hands Sassy a towel.

I am very curious about her book coming out soon...

I love Tori-great news!



Thanks for the info JonSnow.

No fucking way!!! I'm serious!!! No fucking way!!!

I honest to god spent 3 or 4 fucking months collecting her rare songs, mostly b-sides and compilation stuff. And guess what I called it?

"The Beekeeper"!!!

I kid you not. I'm getting my art for it right now and will upload it to this site very soon.

Fuck, I'm a mindreader! And better yet, Tori's mindreader.

NWF said:

Obviously not new wave enough for you.

This is blowing my mind!

Here is the full press release about The Beekeeper:


Tori Amos Readies New Album The Beekeeper

Acclaimed Artist to Publish First Book Entitled Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

NEW YORK, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- It has been over two years since musical force Tori Amos has brought new music to her ever-growing foundation of dedicated fans. On February 22nd Tori Amos will unveil two exciting projects- a new CD entitled The Beekeeper and her first book Tori Amos: Piece by Piece, co-written with journalist Ann Powers.

Currently, Tori is putting the finishing touches on The Beekeeper, which she's recording and self-producing in her UK studio Martian Engineering. On songs like "Sweet the Sting," "Sleeps with Butterflies," and "Ribbons Undone," Tori incorporates vintage organs, Afro-Cuban drums and Gospel choirs, working once again with longtime partners, drummer Matt Chamberlain and bassist Jon Evans.

Tori Amos explains, "The Beekeeper is musically inspired by the fact that the piano has realized that she has an organ. With my right hand on her organ and my left hand on her piano keys, I have been changed by the relationship between these two beautiful creatures, the Bosendorfer piano and the B3 Hammond organ."

In the book Tori Amos: Piece by Piece co-penned with writer Ann Powers, the usually private Tori gives a rare inside look into many intimacies of her life as both a private individual and a very public performing musician. The book, published by Broadway Books (a division of Random House), will be released on February 8th. On Thursday, February 24, Tori and Ann will make a special appearance at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.

Tori Amos, whose career skyrocketed with the release of the 1992 multi- platinum breakthrough Little Earthquakes, has led the charge in rejuvenating the era of the female singer songwriter. With worldwide record sales topping 12 million and multiple Grammy nominations, Tori continues to be one of the most intriguing and respected artists of our time.

Source: Sony Music Entertainment

Thanks for the info GangstaFam!

Man, February can't come soon enough.



(The book sounds especially interesting-of course the album sounds like some really interesting elements are being incorporated.)

GangstaFam said:

Pretentious bitch!

BinaryJustin said:

Tori, Bjork & PJ Harvey are all battling for no.1.

i loved tori's first two albums but i thought boys for pele was a bit self indulgent and only a handful of tracks have grabbed me since then. i love tori but i would like to see her concentrate on making stunningly beautiful songs rather than the stuff she has been doing since the under the pink album.
...her last album of greatest hits(sort of) barely scrapped into the uk charts so she is losing her fan base big style .

blackboab said:

I actually consider Boys For Pele to be her best work and her last great album. From The Choirgirl Hotel was okay but I thought To Venus And Back was an incoherent mess and Scarlet's Walk was just bland, altho' there were a few good songs. I just hope her next album is a bit . That's when she's at her best.

Cloudbuster said:

Her first two are the most classic, but I actually prefer "Boys For Pele" through "Venus". I just feel like she was at her creative peak during those years.

Cloudbuster said:

They're not pretentious. They're just psycho!

GangstaFam said:

This is unreal!!!!! Gangsta's totally telling the TRUTH and I have one of the original copies to prove it. I thought it was a completely awesome and creative title. I wanna se HER art work! I think Tori owes him some royalties for the title ~ or is it the other way around????

bratchildsfriend said:

The bitch owes me! I made that thing almost a year ago.

I have a hard time picking between Pele and Choirgirl for my favorite Tori album. Probably Pele.. the songwriting and performances are absolutely brilliant. Nothing else like it. It took me a while to "get", but once I did... wow. Amazing record. Choirgirl is a very different vibe... some great songs, but a couple weak ones (She's Your Cocaine and Liquid Diamonds)

Venus is underrated... the production is a little murky, but still some great songs. Suede. Juarez. Bliss.

Scarlet's Walk is #3 on my list.. the murky production is my main complaint.

GangstaFam said:

And it is BRILLIANT ~ hey ~ remember I told you that even Tori would be impressed and want a copy? Can't believe she stole your title!

JonSnow said:

I'm totally with you here. These are my #1 and #2 also. I have a hard time picking between the two also, but I always go back to Pele. It's just so vast and mythological and mysterious. Definitely the "Sign O The Times" of her career.

bratchildsfriend said:

Very strange isn't it? I should've sent her one. Now no one will ever believe us. I'm just wondering if I should change the title of mine. I don't want 2 Tori things with the same name lying around.

GangstaFam said:

I never thought of that analogy - Pele and SOTT - but you are so right. Pele is a very intense trip, all over the place.. definitely her SOTT.

JonSnow said:

In a related note, but not as obvious, that kinda makes Choirgirl her Black Album and Venus her Lovesexy.

JonSnow said:

Trip is right too. She once said that Pele was like crossing the River Styx of her subconscious. You can tell she was struggling to keep her sanity on that one. Songs like "Blood Roses" are downright scary.

GangstaFam said:

The ONLY Tori song I can't listen to ~ totally freaks me out ~ I FEEL it in such an intense way that it puts me over the edge. (and I like Diamanda!!!!)

GangstaFam said:

Oh Yes~ hadn't thought about this but it's perfect

bratchildsfriend said:

I don't know much about Diamanda, just what I've heard from people. But I get the sense that Tori deals with emotions in a much more real and un-gimmicky way. That can be really scary when someone takes you to a certain uncomfortable place and leaves it up to you to figure out how to get out.

GangstaFam said:

I can hear Venus as a Lovesexy equivalent. But I don't connect Choirgirl w/ the BA.

I hear Choirgirl as more like TGE.. sorta brash, in your face, perhaps slightly over-the-top... very fully produced, lots of bold songs..

JonSnow said:

Not so much in the sound I guess. More in the place she was in her life. She has just lost a child and was mourning that death very intensely. I think of it being the most difficult time in her life, and that's why I equate it to the Black Album. But sonically and the way the albums are put together, Pele and Venus I see as direct counterparts to Sign and Lovesexy.