# Tori Amos fans: Is "A Sorta Fairytale" typical of her stuff? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 4, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tori-amos-fans-is-a-sorta-fairytale-typical-of-her-stuff/179517 "2003-06-04T04:40:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tori-amos-fans-is-a-sorta-fairytale-typical-of-her-stuff/179517/1 "2003-06-04T04:40:50Z")
'Cause if it is, I’ll buy the album. But i thought she was one of those angryatmengurrrlpowerLilithFair types. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tori-amos-fans-is-a-sorta-fairytale-typical-of-her-stuff/179517/2 "2003-06-04T04:49:55Z")
She is and she isn’t. She’s more loony than angry most of the time. ASFT is characteristic of the album, though like the alubm, its a little subdued for her. Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink are still her best, and if there’s any preaching going on, it’s unintelligible at first pass to matter anyway. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tori-amos-fans-is-a-sorta-fairytale-typical-of-her-stuff/179517/3 "2003-06-04T05:08:28Z")
Tori’s anger is a very quiet anger. I don’t know who you’re considering the gold standard for “angryatmengurrrlpowerLilithFair types”, but if you like ASFT, you’ll at least like that album (Scarlet’s Walk), and you’ll probably like the others. I’m partial to Under the Pink and From the Choirgirl Hotel, myself. Her current tour (I think it’s still going on) is also fantastic. I highly recommend it. Dr. J ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tori-amos-fans-is-a-sorta-fairytale-typical-of-her-stuff/179517/4 "2003-06-04T05:38:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Apos \* > **ASFT is characteristic of the album, though like the alubm, its a little subdued for her.** Hmm. Didn’t the same thing happen to Liz Phair? Squeezing out rugrats is apparently the cure for feminist outrage. 😛 [sub]I’m kidding, I swear![/sub] Anyway **Doctor J** , I don’t think there really is a “gold standard.” I tend to think of certain artists as all belonging to a group that every girl I knew listened to back in the mid to late 1990s. Back then, I called them “the Lilith Fair bunch.” Many were a bit folky and they all seemed angry much of the time, mostly at men (or so it seemed to me back then). Many sang songs on quite violent subjects or emotions that were rather mild musically. The classic example is Shawn Colvin’s “Sunny Came Home,” about arson. Thank God we have gangsta rap to remind all those “Lilith Fair types” that while we men might all be ‘potential rapists’, _they_ are all still bitches and worthless ho’s. :rolleyes: Talk about cognitive dissonance! ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tori-amos-fans-is-a-sorta-fairytale-typical-of-her-stuff/179517/5 "2003-06-04T11:04:17Z")
I don’t think there really is a typical Tori Amos album. Just about everything she’s done has had a very unique flavor to it. ASFT has some catchy tunes on it, but I really miss the piano-intensive earlier stuff. I still think _Little Earthquakes_ was her best album. _Under the Pink_ and _Boys For Pele_ aren’t very accessible at first, but once you listen to them a few times, they’ll blow you away. When “Yes Anastasia” finally clicked for me, I was in heaven. If ASFT is more your speed, though, you’d probably be better off buying _From the Choirgirl Hotel_ and _To Venus and Back_. If you ever have the chance, you should also check out the B-sides to her singles. So many of them are better than the album tracks. I own almost all of her CD singles, but they are in pretty limited supply for purchase these days. It may be worth your while to search out some of these songs through, um, somewhat less legal means. I think you know what I mean. A few of my favorite B-sides are: Cooling Concertina Take to the Sky Bachelorette Beulah Land Flying Dutchman Upside Down Never Seen Blue Sweet Dreams Home on the Range (Cherokee Edition) Daisy Dead Petals