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Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin Audio CD

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Tori Amos Band: Tori Amos
Title: Abnormally Attracted to Sin
Rating:
Release Date: 2009-05-19
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: GIVE 2: WELCOME TO ENGLAND 3: STRONG BLACK VINE 4: FLAVOR 5: NOT DYING TODAY 6: MAYBE CALIFORNIA 7: CURTAIN CALL 8: FIRE TO YOUR PLAIN 9: POLICE ME 10: THAT GUY 11: ABNORMALLY ATTRACTED TO SIN 12: 500 MILES 13: MARY JANE 14: STARLING 15: FAST HORSE 16: OPHELIA 17: LADY IN BLUE

An abnormally rich record!
A Spectacularly haunting album. This is another great production from of Tori Amos. If someone were expecting another Little Earthquakes or Under the Pink, he's gonna be dissapointed. In my case, i've learned to hear her records alone without keep constantly comparing one album to another. This record - just like all the others - has it's richness of it's own and it's wonderful. It's not a record for those who wants only piano, but for those who likes music. She's going to different directions, but always keeping her trademark. She does perfectly with synths and guitars. The songs Abnormally Attracted to Sin, Give and Lady in Blue are ones of her best songs ever. And I just love her political and theological views as she shows in Strong Black Vine and Flavour. A dark, satisfying piece of work.

I like the DVD very much. She's a good actress. The visualletes of Strong Black Vine, Ophelia, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, Maybe California and Police Me are perfect! This is her best Deluxe Edition so far. I hope that she in her next albums releases a Deluxe Edition with a DVD full of live versions of the songs.

This album must be heard at least four times to be understood. Once you have an open hear and mind, you'll eventually love this record.
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Editing could bring it up to ***, but AATS is ** as is.
The last three albums have found me drifting increasingly further from Tori Amos. I recently went back to The Dent and read my online review of the first Tori concert I attended in 1998. I experience this with an inexplicable and overwhelming sense of mourning. The only traces of the woman who moved me so profoundly at that show eleven years ago are found within a paucity of tracks including "Give," "Starling," and "Flavor. " There are some other tracks that work individually, but not as part of the tapestry assembled here.

Tori, I'm going to give you a little tough love here. You need to try something else. Take some time off and hopefully you will find new themes that inspire you. We don't need another album about the spiritual/sensual dichotomy. We get it! We get it! We get it! Move on. It's out there. We've been around this block three times on a tricycle. Teach us something else. Enough with the concept albums. We're still listening, but we're bored. How about focusing on a collection of cohesive and strikingly original music?

Collaborate with new producers. You might be surprised by the genius that emerges if you surrender some control and inject new blood into the system. Give Nellie McKay or Joanna Newsom a call. Get in that studio with some new faces. Maynard, Imogen Heap, Bjork, SOMEONE! Kick off your producer shoes for once. You continue to fall short on your own.

Cut it down. The Beekeeper couldn't be saved even if you did edit, but this one would certainly be strengthened by whittling down the number of tracks.

I love you. I really do. But I can't seem to find you from the other side.

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Understandably unattracted to this...
Since "The Beekeeper"(which I loved), Tori has been lacking both lyrically and musically. I have to wonder if Tori Amos's career has run it's course. Has she lost her inspiration? Did she use up the best of her artistic creativity?
I remember when Tori's music made me feel something that no other artist can provide, but now I don't feel anything. "Abnormally Attracted To Sin" has an electronic undertone that sounds empty and bland. However, at times a great melody can be heard, and I think that is what saves this album. The lyrics are the worst part, and they drag the music down with them. Very uninspired and uninteresting.
With that said, there are a few good songs here. "That Guy", "Starling", "Ophelia", and "Lady In Blue" save the album from the total damnation of a one star review!
Can Tori Amos rebound from this musical "Sin"?

A dissapointing 3 Stars.


tori amos is an amazing artist
this is the first new tori cd i have bought it a while and now i'm back to beefing up my tori amos collection again!. she just gets better and better.


Knock, Knock... Hello is Tori in there, anywhere, anyone?


This album is a perfect example of where you have gone astray:
Nonsensical, cryptic cliched lyrics
Overproduced big band sound
Nothing personal about the lyrics
All of these things make the music sound like it was just made for money. Tori,
Things people loved about your music:
Authenticity
Sparse sound of a piano and your voice
Vulnerability
All of these things made fans love you because they could relate.
Completely vague, impersonal, just like the make believe characters.

Please put yourself out there, or don't at all. Why bother?
Also, learn one from Michael Jackson and embrace getting older. You're not fooling anyone.


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