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Emotionally and musically intense, Little Earthquakes shows that the piano is as much a rock & roll instrument as the guitar. Tori Amos's debut (if one disregards Y Kant Tori Read, as one would be well advised to do) is at once listenable and challenging; she takes on every topic, from sex to gender to religion, in an uncompromising manner. Her music appears gentle at first but this appearance is deceiving, as one quickly learns upon listening to the wrenching "Crucify" or the almost violent "Precious Things". By the time the album gets around to "Me and a Gun", sung hauntingly by Amos without accompaniment from her piano, the juxtaposition of Amos's sweet voice and the emotional complexity of her lyrics is both familiar and shocking. Sandman fans should listen for a reference to author Neil Gaiman in "Tear in Your Hand". --Genevieve Williams
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TORI AMOS Little Earthquakes (1992 UK 12-track CD album including Crucify Silent All These Years Winter & China)
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Tori Amos's wonderful debut solo album sounds as fresh today as when it was first released in the early 1990s.
The album is essentially Tori Amos and her piano, it has a raw, emotional appeal - at times lush and beautiful, at others spare and stark Highlights include the haunting 'Me and My Gun', an autobiographical song about a sexual assault sung without accompaniment; her first hit single, 'Silent all these years' which is possibly the best track on the album, along with the other singles: China, Winter and Crucify.
A wonderful, accessible album - even if you do not particularly like girl and her piano music there is much to admire here.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I'm a huge Tori Amos fan and this was the first album I bought from her and the one I turn back to regularly. Every track has a moment to take your breath away, to lift you up and suit almost every emotion you feel. With beautiful singing, great lyrics and one of the strongest collection of songs put together on an album this is an CD to own, cherish and become part of your life. Regardless of whether you enjoy female singer songwriters in general if you love music you'll love this.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Comparisons remain odious, but they make life so much easier-it's Kate Bush and Laura Nyro. Tori sings and plays like Kate, displays Laura's gift for striking sexual imagery and creates a classic album in the process. Little Earthquakes is quite an intense album, dealing with extreme situations an emotions set to exquisite tunes. Her delivery and the unique arrangements turn the tracks into poems in a splendid mix of the humorous, the erotic and the unsettling. The two highlights on an album of great songs are Silent All These Years and China, a haunting, majestic lament describing two people drifting apart by using the image of the great wall as a symbol of separation.
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Work of art
How can you describe an album that took your soul away and throw it to an unknown place and leave you there for 57 minutes? Pretty much, nothing enough. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Kaan Sensoy
Emotionally and musically intense
Tori Amos' debut album Little Earthquakes is at once moving and challenging, with a stunning set of musically complex and brutally honest songs. Read more
Published on 8 Sep 2009 by Cath
As good as I remembered
So glad I decided to order this album. It took me back to the early nineties, wolverhampton, and my nurse training. Happy days. All my girlfriends love it too. Read more
Published on 16 April 2009 by R. morgan
Amos joins the ranks of the finest singer/songwriters on her debut
After the failed experiment of her hair-metal/pop album, 1988's Y Kant Tori Read, Tori Amos returned to her Hollywood apartment and composed the material that made up her solo... Read more
Published on 31 July 2008 by M.B.
Give me life/Give me pain/Give me Tori Amos again
By far the best Tori Amos album ever.
In fact, by far the best album ever!
Emotional, honest, weird, beautiful, bitter and strangely compelling. Read more
In fact, by far the best album ever!
Emotional, honest, weird, beautiful, bitter and strangely compelling. Read more
Published on 4 April 2008 by thetalentedmremm=TANK BOY
Amazing debut album
Well,there do i start,then i bought this album in 1993 i already had some of her single releases off this album but i did not realise that every track would be as special as these... Read more
Published on 17 Mar 2008 by C. Hague
A little work of art
A desparately good debut album, with emotion & maturity normally associated with a life-time of broken hearts and injustice. Read more
Published on 2 Feb 2008 by wiz
One of the best albums of the 1990s!
Tori Amos' 1992 album 'Little Earthquakes' is arguably the greatest female singer songwriter debut since Patti Smith's 'Horses'. Read more
Published on 27 Aug 2007 by Nik
This album has caused little earthquakes its that good!
Ok sorry for the cheesy title but this cd really is that good.As Tori's first solo cd you would expect it to not be up to 5 stars but thats where your wrong. Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2007 by M. J. Howkins
"Maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen"
This is Tori's debut album (if you disregard her album Y KANT TORI READ, as she would probably prefer you to do). Read more
Published on 15 July 2007 by Brida
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