Like I mentioned on the other thread, I cannot believe the name of Tori's new album. Last year around this time, I started filling in the gaps in my Tori collection. When I got done around Christmas time, I made a couple sets, one of b-sides and one of greatest hits. And to be clever, I called the b-sides collection, "The Beekeeper". So naturally when I found out that she has a new album coming out and what the title was, I flipped out. I was listening to her music and reading about her so much last year that at times I felt like I was becoming her songs. I actually understood what she was singing about for the first time, lol. So I must've psychically tapped into her creative process somehow. j/k. But it's fun to imagine.

So anyway, here's what I came up with. I just updated it to include the extra songs from 'Scarlet's Hidden Treasures'. It was pretty close to this already, just with a little tweaking. The years don't line up exactly, but I tried to keep it roughly chronological. It makes sense and sounds great as you're listening through it too. I believe that every song that she's done that hasn't been included on an album is on this set.

Here's the cover...



Here's the back...



And here's what one of the discs looks like:



Pretty groovy huh?

Also, when her "Tales of a Librarian" set came out last year, I decided to make my own version of that. I really love it the way it is. I thought it was super ambitious of her to rework all of those songs. But it could've easily been 2 discs. She has plenty of singles that didn't make it onto 'Librarian'. So that's what I tried to do. Come up with an order that tells a story and that sounds good, like her own version does. I left the first disc intact. The second collects all the stuff not included and a few extras. I tried to use edits and the versions that were on singles to make them slightly different than what's on the album. Plus, you can fit on more songs that way.

So here's the front (nothing changed):



Here's the back:



Here's the inlay:



And here's what the discs look like:

The versions I used on the 2nd disc are:

1. Pretty Good Year - album version
2. Caught a Lite Sneeze - single edit
3. Cruel - Shady Feline version
4. The Waitress - album version (not a single, but released on a sampler)
5. Concertina - single remix
6. China - custom fade in
7. Taxi Ride - radio edit
8. Past the Mission - album version
9. Talula - Tornado edit
10. Strange Little Girl - radio edit
11. Glory of the 80's - album version
12. Raspberry Swirl - Lip Gloss version
13. In the Springtime of His Voodoo - Hasbrouck Heights edit
14. Blue Skies - BT single edit
15. Don't Make Me Come To Vegas - Timo Maas custom edit
16. Heart of Gold - promo edit
17. 1,000 Oceans - album version
18. A Sorta Fairytale - radio edit
19. Hey Jupiter - The Dakota mix
20. Putting the Damage On - Twilight mix
[Edited 11/2/04 0:20am]

AMAZING!

I will have to send you four blank cd's now....

Or six...

Or like a hundred...

And so many things I do not have...

GooeyTheHamster said:

You'll get yours. The long-awaited package will materialize someday.

And I just realized there are some mistakes in my artwork. But these were done over a year ago and I think my first drafts.

On the b-sides set, "Blue Skies" and "Voodoo" should be replaced by the remix of Father Lucifer. And on the 2nd disc of "Librarian", "Sugar" and "Twinkle" are replaced by "Don't Make Me Come To Vegas" and "Heart of Gold". My bad. But you get the idea anyway.

Jeez, I can't even get my corrections right.
[Edited 11/2/04 0:32am]

I'd love a copy as well-great collection!

Love Tori.

suh-weeeeet!!!

shit, i didn't know you were telepathic

GrayKing said:

If ya don't know...now ya know...

Wow, that's really cool! I wonder if I have all her bsides? I've never listed them all like that, so who knows! I'm sure I have most of them.

Beautiful artwork! The Tornado version of Talula is the best!!! And I LOVE the Sandwich Song.

I know what you mean about studying someone's work and getting really in tune with it. Back in 94ish I took a jazz history class and wrote my term paper on Eric Leeds. I listened to everything I had with him on it, outtakes, live songs with Prince, Family demos, The Family's debut at First Ave... Then the cool thing is shortly after I turned in the paper, Sheila E was touring with the E Train and I saw them in a small club, front row!

Anywho, back to Tori. Love the Labrynth on the disc and the picture of the book! You've very creative.

I have her Live from Sunny Miami dvd with SCARLET'S HIDDEN TREASURES! I love it!
I LOVE Tori Amos!

GangstaFam said:

Okay.... read my mind....

I did my own collection a while back, called Upside Down. I'll have to dig it out to post my own track listing, but I did it in such a way that the third disc is all covers (called Covergirls ) I've been planning on doing a fourth disc, but just haven't had the time. Anyhoo, thanks for sharing. I always enjoy seeing people's different takes on this stuff.

By the way, where are "Abbey Road", "Om La Boomleigh", "When I Was Dreaming" and "Paradiso Purduto" from? I don't have these tracks.

JediMaster said:

Paradiso Perduto is from the "Great Expectations" soundtrack.

The rest are from radio sessions I believe.

VinaBlue said:

Thanks!

Cloudbuster said:

Get out of here with your one star!

GangstaFam said:

Wha? I have the "Great Expectations" sountrack, but the one I own only has "Finn" and "Siren"!!!

JediMaster said:

There were 2 soundtracks I believe. The other has "Paradiso Perduto" and another version of "Finn".

GangstaFam said:

Well, crap-in-a-hat! I gotta go find that one!!!

JediMaster said:

Don't sweat it too bad. It's mostly instrumental I think. It's nice but not essential.

JediMaster said:

That's the score, right?

VinaBlue said:

Yeah, I think so.

Okay, here's the set I did a few years back. Keep in mind that I did this before Scarlet's Walk came out, and I'm not including the Live disc that I was also working on at the time. I also purposely exluded any remixes, to give each one more the feel of a true album (each was designed where they could fall squarly between albums. Disc 1 falls between LE and UTP, while disc 2 falls betweem BFP and FTCH. The covers disc would probably best fall before or after SLG, depending on your tastes) :

Upside Down: The Bee Sides, Volume 1

1. The Pool
2. Upside Down
3. Mary
4. Sugar
5. Sister Janet
6. Take To The Sky
7. Sweet Dreams
8. Home On The Range- Cherokee Edition
9. Humpty Dumpty
10. Flying Dutchman
11. Ode To The Banana King, Part 1
12. Here, In My Head
13. Daisy Dead Petals
14. Honey
15. Black Swan
16. Thoughts
17. All The Girls Hate Her
18. Over It
19. Song For Eric

Butterfiles & Samurais: The Bee Sides, Volume 2

1. Finn (intro)
2. Siren
3. Butterfly
4. Frog On My Toe
5. Sister Named Desire
6. Alamo
7. Never Seen Blue
8. Beulah Land
9. Cooling
10. Graveyard
11. Toodles Mr Jim
12. Hungarian Wedding Song
13. The Happy Worker
14. Blue Skies (with BT)
15. Bachelorette
16. Purple People (Christmas In Space)
17. Samurai
18. Amzing Grace/Til The Chicken
19. Merman

Covergirls

1. A Case Of You
2. If 6 Was 9
3. Strange Fruit
4. Thank You
5. Angie
6. Smells Like Teen Spirit
7. Ring My Bell
8. Famous Blue Raincoat
9. I'm On Fire
10. Losing My Religion
11. Carnival
12. Do It Again
13. Down By The Seaside (with Robert Plant)
14. After All
15. Only Women Bleed
16. London Girls
17. That's What I Like, Mick (The Sandwich Song)
18. This Old Man

I know a few tracks are missing, and I may work them into the lineup later, or just save them for a further compilation down the road. Haven't decided yet.

Funny thing is, you're talking about how Tori's new album has the same title as your set. Well, I laughed when I saw your cover, because that's what I chose for my second disc!!! Great minds think alike, eh?

Hehehe.

I kinda went from 160 Tori songs to 313 songs today. Hurray for Kazaa...

I am currently browsing what is good quality and whatnot...

I AM HAVING A TORI MOOD!
[Edited 11/3/04 6:39am]

GooeyTheHamster said:

Well, hey! You'll have to share with us which ones are worth it, and which ones are shite!

GangstaFam said:

By the way, GangstaFam/Tron, bravo on that second disc of the Tales Of A Librarian. I think we talked about that when the album first hit, but I see you actually followed through with it!! Did you use any alternate versions on disc two?

JediMaster said:

I posted this above, but here 'tis again.

The versions I used on the 2nd disc are:

1. Pretty Good Year - album version
2. Caught a Lite Sneeze - single edit
3. Cruel - Shady Feline version
4. The Waitress - album version (not a single, but released on a sampler)
5. Concertina - single remix
6. China - custom fade in
7. Taxi Ride - radio edit
8. Past the Mission - album version
9. Talula - Tornado edit
10. Strange Little Girl - radio edit
11. Glory of the 80's - album version
12. Raspberry Swirl - Lip Gloss version
13. In the Springtime of His Voodoo - Hasbrouck Heights edit
14. Blue Skies - BT single edit
15. Don't Make Me Come To Vegas - Timo Maas custom edit
16. Heart of Gold - promo edit
17. 1,000 Oceans - album version
18. A Sorta Fairytale - radio edit
19. Hey Jupiter - The Dakota mix
20. Putting the Damage On - Twilight mix