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Tori Amos - Crucify Audio CD

Band: Tori Amos Title: Crucify Rating: Release Date: 1992-05-12 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Crucify [Remix] 2: Winter 3: Angie 4: Smells Like Teen Spirit 5: Thank You

Gotta get rehashed to get to the stash
The "remix" is not much, and Winter is intact, so you are left with just three songs that require attention, but as Miz Amos tended around that time, attention they do require; 3 exquisite piano translations which showed how beautiful and articulate her interpretative ear was. 3 1/2

As an EP it's slightly questionable but as a single, great. With these skills she should've just held out for a whole covers disc.

A Small Sample of What Was to Come
Having insomnia, I was up late on a Friday night, flipping channels when I came across this stunning redhead at a piano. I was in high school in 1992 when this was released. If I'm not mistaken, the show was ABC's In Concert. I'll be darned if I remember which song she was playing, but I do remember she also did "Me and a Gun", which was unlike anything I'd ever heard before. The true story of her rape at the hands of a fan, its effect was immediate and gut wrenching. The next day, I went in search of the album at the music store. Alas, they were sold out of Little Earthquakes, but they did have this EP in stock. I was disappointed, but I looked at the track listing, shocked to see "Angie", a Rolling Stones cover. At the time, the Stones were my favorite band, so I needed no further prodding to purchase Crucify. Her version of "Angie" proved to be amazing, as were her covers of Led Zeppelin's "Thank You" and Nirvana's "Smell Like Teen Spirit". "Crucify" turned out to be an excellent song about guilt and the search for salvation. But the song that blew my mind and made me an instant devotee of this songstress was the absolutely magical "Winter". To this day, "Winter" remains one of the most powerful songs I've ever heard and is still my all time favorite Tori song. It's about growing older, about losing some things, about falling behind, about the loss of innocence and probably a million things I'll never quite understand. Needless to say I was hooked and haunted the record store until they replenished their supply of Little Earthquakes. This EP keeps a special place in my collection, simply because it was my first exposure to Tori. .

"Figures that my courage would choose to sell out now..."
This cd also contains three covers: The Rolling Stones beautiful ballad Angie. Cucify by Tori Amos is a great cd single. Led Zepplin's Thank You, and Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Tori successfully makes each song her own, this woman is amazingly talented. She plays the piano like no one else and the way she sings these covers gives you chills. Gorgeous and haunting ballads, this is one EP you won't regret getting. Buy it today!.

Haunting
It was foreshadowing. We knew she could bare us emotionally with her own compositions, then she manages to unleash that same power revisiting covers.

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