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Tori Amos - Jackie's Strength Audio CD

A fair review of the Tori Amos "Jackie's Strength" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Tori Amos reviews here, or go back to the Tori Amos tabs.

Tori Amos Band: Tori Amos
Title: Jackie's Strength
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Release Date: 1999-02-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Jackie's Strength (Wedding Cake Edit) 2: Father Lucifer (Sylkscreen Remix) 3: Jackie's Strength (Wedding Cake Club Mix) 4: Jackie's Strength (One Rascal Dub #1) 5: Father Lucifer (Sylkscreen Instrumental) 6: Jackie's Strength (Wedding Cake Meltdown Mix) 7: Jackie's Strength (One Rascal Dub #2) 8: Jackie's Strength (Bonus Beats)

could of been better
I myself discovered her by hearing a remix, which led me to find out more and come to love her many albums. I like Tori remixed - remixes are meant to be enjoyed in clubs, and when your feeling the need to dance or feel good , image a world with no remixes - doubt half of us would know who Tori Amos is and im sure we wouldnt be dancing to tori in clubs.

But these "wedding cake" mixes of jackies strength are not the best. Was an acapella even used to remix this? Or was the beats just layered over the original?? It seems to me like the latter. In parts towards the end you can hardly hear tori for the beats are too loud. These could of had real potential if mixed correctly by some big name remixes at the time. The slyscreen mix of father lucifer is awesome. Can not find a fault. I actually prefer it to the original. .


A remix single with a few surprises up its sleeve.
This is the second release that consists of remixes only. "Jackie's Strength," a beautiful track off Amos's fourth solo album "from the choirgirl hotel," saw two commercial single releases. All four remixes of the title track would fit quite nicely onto any dance floor. However, the mixes of "Father Lucifer," from Amos's third solo album "Boys for Pele," are a different story. They are quite unique and very effective mixes that you can't always dance to. The instrumental version just might take your breath away.


What where they thinking.....
I'm not. Don't get the idea that I'm one of those people who hates all Tori remixes. I actually enjoy quite a few of them, but most of these are absolutely horrible. The "Wedding Cake Edit" is pretty good and "Father Lucifer:Sylkscreen Remix" is quite enjoyable. The Wedding Cake Club Mix" is not very enjoyable and no matter how hard I try I can't get into "One Rascal Dub #1 . The "Father Lucifer" instrumental things sounds like a hip hop remix and well, I suppose it isn't horrible in comparison, but really now people, hip hop? The next is an appropriately titled "Meltdown Mix" because it sounds like one. It is very repetitive which wouldn't be as annoying if it wasn't so blasted lengthy(8:22) which I would be perfectly able to handle if it wasn't such utter dren. Again we visit "Rascal Dub" mixes with number two of the set. It sounds exactly like the preceding track unfortunately, repertitive and labourious. ANd what can say about the "Bonus Beats" besides BLAH!
Buy it if you are a Tori fan, if not pass it up.


Tori's best dance floor adaptation
But by far and large she is a full-length album/CD artists and you really need to buy those to get an appreciation of her unique style. Tori Amos is one of those few artists that still puts out a lot of singles to please collectors and long time fans.

That being said, I think "Jackie's Strength" is one of her best single releases. The song is one of Tori's most beautiful -> a breathtaking and thoughtful ballad. Her fans have many different views on the song's meaning: my feeling is that she wrote it about Jackie Kennedy.

Unlike most of Tori's releases, "Jackie's Strength" was remixed and promoted to dance clubs, and reached #1 on the Billboard Dance/Club Chart in the spring of 1999. The Wedding Cake Club Mix is the definitive mix here and made this into kind of a dance floor smash. The mix gives "Jackie" an unmistakable groove but maintains its beauty and its serious and contemplative tone.

Most of Tori's biggest fans and purists are against having her songs remixed. But I think we can make an exception here. Only a tiny handful of Tori tracks have been remixed for dance clubs, namely "Professional Widow", "In The Springtime Of His Voodoo", and "Don't Make Me Come To Vegas. Over all these tracks "Jackie's Strength" stands out as the Tori's best dance floor adaptation to date.


Best track = Father Lucifer Remix
It is by far the best Tori remix I've ever heard (next to Lipgloss Raspberry Swirl). The ONLY decent track on this CD is Father Lucifer Sylkscreen Remix. All the other mixes on this CD are cliched mid 90s-style club mixes which make you cringe. They sound outdated flat and almost as dull and camp as the Springtime Of His Voodoo mixes. Jackie's Strength is NOT the sort of track which should be mixed into a club/dance type thing at all.
I ended up burning the Father Lucifer remix on a home-made Tori compilation CD and throwing out the Jackie's Strength remix single.


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