Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
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CD Details
Artist: Tori AmosEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 1996-01-23
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Horses
- Blood Roses
- Father Lucifer
- Professional Widow
- Mr. Zebra
- Marianne
- Caught a Lite Sneeze
- Muhammad My Friend
- Hey Jupiter
- Way Down
- Little Amsterdam
- Talula
- Not the Red Baron
- Agent Orange
- Doughnut Song
- In the Springtime of His Voodoo
- Putting the Damage On
- Twinkle
Music reviews of Boys for Pele
Music Review: Jump into the fire
Rating: 4 Stars
Probably the most eclectic album from an artist who is often described as an eclectic artist, Tori Amos' "Boys For Pele" is a caterwauling tornado of metaphors, whacked out lyrics, driving piano and many, many harpsichords. Skating above it all is Tori's voice, alluring and mystifying as ever, waging a lyrical war about the conflict of the sexes. At 18 songs, it was also likely impossible for her to maintain her usual universally high quality of songwriting. The best run the gamut from beautiful piano balladry ("Hey Jupiter"), a medieval waltz ("Blood Roses") to the confessional Joni Mitchell type of song Tori became known for in the first place ("Putting The Damage On").
Judging from the way the original album was sequenced, Tori meant this to be considered in four parts. There's the "Beauty Queen" segment, followed by "Mr. Zebra," "Way Down" and "Agent Orange." Each of these short transitional pieces lead into a mood/theme change. Each of these bends to its own wind, with the bluesy "Way Down" segment being the oddest of the bunch. (And if this album ever gets a re-issue, I hope the original glitter mix of "Talula" is featured; the version on most CD's has been the version featured on the Twister Soundtrack.) That may even be in incorrect assessment, as the lyrics at times border on babble. Sample; (From "Marianne") "The weasel squeaks faster than a seven day week, I said Timmy and the Purple Monkey are all down at Bobby's place." "Boys For Pele" is not Tori's easiest album to penetrate.
Be that as it may, it is also her most musically accomplished, eccentric and diverse. If you can deal with that fact and don't hold against her that "Boys" is light years away from Little Earthquakes, you may enjoy the ride.
Description of Boys for Pele
Boys for Pele, the title of Tori Amos's epic third album, is as awkward and confusing as the music inside. Though it sounds like a recruitment slogan for Little League soccer, the name actually refers to the lost temples of feminine divinity. Pele, you see, is the Hawaiian volcano goddess; the boys, well, they're the sacrifices that quell the rumbling lady's rage. Attempting to regain fires stolen long ago, Pele rewrites the crucifixion to star a girl Jesus and in doing so conjures a forgotten matriarchal mythology. While Amos's characters--Jupiter, Muhammad, Lucifer--are male by name, the aural landscape into which they're thrown is as symbolically and expressionistically female as Georgia O'Keeffe's skull-and-roses paintings. Pele is a complex and formless--and often impenetrable--work of gothic-pop chamber music, both beautiful and ghostly in its nearly complete reliance on Amos's rolling Bosendorfer grand piano, chilling harpsichord (which she bangs like a courtly punk rocker), and acrobatic voice (as earthy as Joni Mitchell's and as otherworldly as Bjork's). Unfortunately, she takes us only halfway: her songs engage and challenge us to understand, but the imagery offers few clues to help us crack their frustrating opacity. Pele ends up as much a pretentious and self-indulgent trip as it is a synthesis of talent, imagination, and skewed vision. Still, there's reason to celebrate that an album as formalistically and thematically alien to pop audiences as Pele would win such quick success upon its original release. --Roni SarigGeneral CDs
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