Strange Little Girls is our No. 11 Album - receiving a total of 514 points, it also peaked with one vote for the number two spot.
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 8:35 AM
Rattlesnakes
Five #1 votes
575 total points
On 32 of the 45 lists submitted
Time - with a kiss upon her lips, this Strange Little Girl makes her appearance at the midway point of the Top 25. Earning two #2 votes, 24 mentions, this cover obtained a total of 333 points.
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 1:01 PM
I Don’t Like Mondays - 18 of 45 EWF chose to include this song in their lists. Its highest rank overall was in the #3 spot, and brought in 215 points.
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:06 PM
One of the big tasks was creating the surreal skies that were key to the look the director wanted to achieve. These were painted on the massive backdrop on set and using inferno I extended the skies past ceiling. The painted backdrop had no real life to it so I also had to imbue motion into using live action cloud footage and by warping the existing painted backdrop.
The wolf in the video had to appear massive. This was done for some shots using a miniature set within which the wolf appeared to be twenty feet tall. In other shots it was isolated and reintroduced into shots of a smaller scale, with appropriate non-existent shadows, in Inferno. It also had to appear to be mouse-sized as it enters the house. In a similar fashion, camera angles were matched for shots of different scale and integrated.
from Robert Moggach’s website - more here
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 1:28 PMfrom amanda (hey that’s me! tori-related twitter)
when people ask me about songs that tori’s covered, this is always one of my examples. her interpretation is sonically miles away from slayer’s original, but the intent is spot on. the slayer version describes a “banished soul awakened and hungry for vengeance.”
tori took it in, felt the motives & the energy behind it, stripped it down and ripped it apart, and gave us her take on the song: “i was reading about what was going on in afghanistan - the way women were being oppressed … when i heard that song, i just imagined a huge juicy vagina coming out of the sky, raining blood over all those racist, misogynist fuckers”
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Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:00 AMfrom hernando of tori amos brazil (blogspot & facebook)
“Rattlesnakes” was written by Lloyd Cole and The Commotions and its first release was in 1984. The original version is quite different from Tori’s one, but the theme is really familiar to Amos: the song talks about a girl who went through a miscarriage, and this made her depressive, lonely, apathetic. Indeed, the character that represents this song girl, created with Neil Gaiman, is described as the one that “rides rollercoasters but never screams when they plummet or twist and upside down”.
My favorite verse from this one is: “It’s so hard to love when love was your great disappointment” ♥
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Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:00 AMtori amos
i don’t like mondays
originally by the boomtown rats, 1979
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM