Tori Amos

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Skyline

Skyline

itf said:
The problem for Tori was the wheels totally fell off the choirgirl singles campaign particularly in the UK, singles would be listed and delisted - there was meant to be a Jackie’s single with new B-Sides (like a virgin was mentioned - although I think this is thought to be an original song with the same title) and Swirl got a release in Europe but not the UK. Then the messy remix stuff, it just didn’t work. She never really had a proper singles campaign after that with B-Sides etc.
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I read somewhere that the U.K. Jackie's Strength single was originally going to have "Merman" as one of the b-sides before it cancelled. Do you know how many other b-sides were supposed to be on the single? The U.S. CD ended up with "Never Seen Blue" and "Beulah Land" but I don't know if they were supposed to come in the U.K. as well.
 
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Skyline said:
I read somewhere that the U.K. Jackie's Strength single was originally going to have "Merman" as one of the b-sides before it cancelled. Do you know how many other b-sides were supposed to be on the single? The U.S. CD ended up with "Never Seen Blue" and "Beulah Land" but I don't know if they were supposed to come in the U.K. as well.
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My memory is that there was some listing of two songs that had the same name as other songs but were actually originals - one a Madonna title, one Bjork? But this was all the best part of 30 years ago so my memory is a bit hazy.
Ah, it's mentioned here -
Like A Virgin and Love Is A Battlefield

https://www.popmatters.com/163874-the-most-wanted-unreleased-tori-amos-music-2495809707.html
 
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Skyline

Skyline

itf said:
My memory is that there was some listing of two songs that had the same name as other songs but were actually originals - one a Madonna title, one Bjork? But this was all the best part of 30 years ago so my memory is a bit hazy.
Ah, it's mentioned here -
Like A Virgin and Love Is A Battlefield

https://www.popmatters.com/163874-the-most-wanted-unreleased-tori-amos-music-2495809707.html
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I think the "Bachelorette" b-side on Spark was rumoured to be a Bjork cover before the single got released. Never knew that 'Like a Virgin' and 'Love is a Battlefield' ever existed!

Such a shame that the remixes took over on Tori's singles by the end of the 90s, and the Venus singles only got live tracks (which were still nice I suppose). The UK charts company reducing the maximum number of songs on a single to 3 didn't help either.
 
NobodyKnowsMe

NobodyKnowsMe

To Venus And Back and I are having a moment together.

It's not like I disliked the album before, or anything close to it. I just hadn't connected with it as a whole album. Certain songs on the album have always been bright lights for me, and over time other songs unlocked. But now I feel like the parts of the album that I'd sidelined are lighting up big time and I'm really appreciating it as a complete piece. And whew, imagine the journey you went on from 1992 to 1999 as a Tori fan.

Suede has been a favorite for a long time. I love how it takes a pretty intimate concept ("It's the dangerous games that we play with mind control -- the power of seduction, and how so many people put their hands up and say, "I didn't do anything," because they didn't fornicate.") and turns it into something so much bigger. It's like whatever is happening between these people, and whatever the ramifications are, it's elemental, it's an erotic thriller on a cosmic scale.
 
ohnoitisnathan

ohnoitisnathan

Skyline said:
I read somewhere that the U.K. Jackie's Strength single was originally going to have "Merman" as one of the b-sides before it cancelled.
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Yes, that rings a bell. Pretty sure I read it in the A Dent in the Tori Amos Universe website (which was THE site for information) at the time. No other B-sides planned for the single were mentioned.
 
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