Found this on Rollingstone.com:

Tori Amos will encapsulate her decade-long career with the release of a best-of collection on Atlantic Records on November 18th. Amos, who first surfaced with 1992's Little Earthquakes, conceived the set -- which contains two new tracks, ("Snow Cherries From France" and "Angels") -- as a librarian would, in an attempt to remember and restore some of her early work, presenting it in a cohesive package.
"I'm referring to it more as a 'best-of' because I think to have a 'Greatest Hits' you need like ten Top Ten hits," Amos says from a Columbia, Maryland, tour stop. "This is more of a chronicle of what we know of Tori from 1990 to 2003 . . . So it's from her perspective of the last many years, having traveled around the world and going through her own personal stuff. And the songs do that. Maybe it's the closest thing to an autobiography of this woman's life that there's ever been."

The album's track list is informed by Amos' narrative approach as much as her commercial successes. "It includes things like 'Precious Things' and of course 'Silent All These Years,' 'Cornflake Girl,' 'Spark,' songs that people might be familiar with on one level," she says. "And then there are quite a lot of songs that I felt gave you more story and a bit of sizzle with variations musically. It had to represent a whole musical spectrum because that's very much a part of the story. It's not just the ballads. It's not just what you heard on the radio."

Two songs -- "Mary" and "Sweet Dreams" -- were originally slated for release on Little Earthquakes, but were cut from the final album. Amos re-tracked the songs with her current bassist Jon Evans and drummer Matt Chamberlain. "I don't think they were brought to their zenith," she says. "And I thought the songs were still valid."

As for the new songs, Amos says she recently finished writing "Snow Cherries From France," after years of failed attempts. And she describes "Angels" as being more situated in the present, the culmination of having played in piano bars for "that whole Washington set" since she was a teenager. "It's a commentary on now," she says. "The world after what we've been through the last two years and the state of play."

According to Amos, the hardest part was not selecting which songs from her oeuvre would make the cut, but rather finding the original mixes. "Tracking down some of these tapes was an awesome task," Amos says. "I think they might have been in somebody's dorm room somewhere [laughs] . . . I'm serious, the libraries that were supposed to be taking care of the masters were not in tact. So we had people chasing down masters all over the world. We found some in -- you'd be amazed -- in like the playroom of their house. It's like, 'What's "Winter" doing there?'"

Excellent! Is there a finalized track list anywhere on the net?

Cloudbuster said:

I'm sussing right now. I'll post once I find it.

and of course 'Silent All These Years' this one made me and feel good at the same time

Shit I've lost my Little Earthquakes cd, I miss Winter

Tori performed Purple Rain in Minneapolis last month

But on topic I have to ask if the mixes were found all over the world is there a large bootleg market for Tori?

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[This message was edited Sun Sep 7 7:20:01 PDT 2003 by lovemachine]

lovemachine said:

Yes, there is.

anemone said:

Absolutely huge in fact.

OUTSTANDING!!! Thanks TRON. I had heard of the existence of "Snow Cherries" but was never able to find it. What an amazing year for great releases by the best!

Cloudbuster said:

not yet, but it was mentioned in an interview with drummer Matt Chamberlain that "Upside Down" was also re-recorded (along with Mary and Sweet Dreams), but no confirmation that it made it onto the CD.

I'll get it.. sounds nice.

JonSnow said:

Sweet! "Upside Down" is my favorite Tori b-side.

TRON said:

upside down was recorded with the band so it can sound the way it sounds live. it will be on the cd.

ive always enjoyed Tori in small doses...


her vocal execution just screams of attention..and not in a good way..


that said, listen to her at the right moment and she can move and change your world.




(ps..but i still say she is a wannabe kate bush...hehehehe)

sosgemini said:

i think after all of these years in marginally wanting to get into Tori, that you've encapsulated my resistence. i've always been somewhat interested, thinking "oh, maybe i'll get into her. she has a nice back catalog, and all of those b-sides and rarities type of things i love tracking down."

but i owned a Tori album once, and it was rather difficult to get through in one sitting.

don't get me wrong, i still have goodwill toward her, and i think perhaps one day i will conquer her, but... for now, i'm not sure i can take that much of her all at once.

i do think she's kind of neat though. and what i've heard, i like. but small doses...

AaronSuperior said:

Sometimes she's too angst-ridden, she'd drive a person to kill themselves if you listened too long and too hard...

Little Earthquakes is one of my fave albums, one of the truly great debuts.

I was a little disappointed with her later stuff. I bought the covers album last year - each track sounds fine on it's own, but it really doesn't work as an album, she manages to reduce all the songs to the same sound.


I'm looking forward to the Best Of album.

Snow Cherries From France - sounds like a Parade outtake!

Didn't she actually "first surface" in 1990 with Y Can't Tori Read?

Yeah, but L.E. is still her debut, in the same way that Prince's debut is For You and not that early 94 East nonsense.

doomboogie said:

I thought it was released in '88.

doomboogie said:

technically YKTR was a group album, not solo Tori. It was a self-titled album credited to Y Kan't Tori Read.

It actually has some worthwhile stuff on it. She did amazing solo versions of Etienne and Cool on your Island on the Strange Little Tour in 2001, and Cool on your Island popped up a few times on her most recent tour as well.
Since she's re-recording some of the old stuff, i would LOVE to hear these tracks redone.

AaronSuperior said:

This is common. Even for a Tori die-hard like myself. Once you appreciate her unbelievable keyboard skills and beautiful voice, you'll get hooked. But a little goes a long way. Her music is extremely demanding emotionally and it's hard to give as much as she requires sometimes. And going to her concerts is on an even higher level. It's almost scary at times the places she takes you. If you get to the point where you can appreciate it for what it is and collect the music, you'll be able to love her fully. But it takes putting her away for periods at a time to keep a healthy perspective.