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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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A chance to go back in time, 7 Nov 2008
This double CD provides us with the wonderful chance to go back in time and hear 2 quite different concerts by Amos. CD1, from 1991, captures Tori just before the release of her debut album LITTLE EARTHQUAKES (I am discounting her true first release, Y KANT TORI READ, as this flopped). Here, you hear that there is a vulnerability to Tori - she comments upon not being used to playing in front of so many people, and during the song "Happy Phantom", she forgets one word. Rather than doing what she would now do - just replace it for another, meaning no-one would be any the wiser - she stops, and admits to the crowd that she has forgotten her lyric.
CD2 is from 1992, just after the release of LITTLE EARTHQUAKES, the album which got her the appreciation sh deserves. Here, you can hear that there is a difference despite only a year passing. She sounds more sure of herself. She also merges two songs together effortlessly ("Whole Lotta Love" and "Thank You"), which hints towards how she would develop as a live performer.
I love this album. Instead of Tori now, with her band behind her, you get just her and her piano. In my mind, this is often the very best way to experience her and her music. I also love that, despite being a huge fan for a few years, I still learnt something about her and her music; she explains that she played the song "Leather" for someone in the music business once, and he told her not to play it again or she would have no career. Quietly, but bravely, she thens says to the audience, "So I'm playing it".
For any fan of Tori, this CD is a must.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tori live, lively and in her element, 24 May 2009
There are artists that always bring something new to the live versions of their songs, and Tori Amos is one of them. As someone who has been busy with iTunes and made four discs worth of Legs and Boots CDs, and two of the Original Sinsuality tour, I think it's fair to say I'm easy to convince as a buyer, but I think it's especially good that this has been released because it will go some way to satisfying those fans of Tori's early work who keep complaining about her later albums as if she never had any right to change and mix up her style. For those who have bought all of Tori's records, if you're ever suffering from recent live album fatigue it is very good to go back to the time when it all started and you won't be disappointed with this album, which covers a period in her career before she put the band together.
If you've never heard Tori live you haven't had the full experience of her music, so this is an essential buy for you.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
La espera valió la pena, 21 Jan 2009
Largamente esperado por los fans de Tori(pero que ya circulaba en forma pirata desde hace rato), este disco doble resume dos conciertos muy importantes para la carrera de Tori Amos.
Cuando un artista conjuga el talento y la disciplina hacen que cada concierto sea único e irrepetible, mostrando en cada ocasión nuevos matices derivados del momento por el que atraviesa o la acústica del lugar.
En este Tori Amos: Live at Montreux 1991 - 1992 se presentan, a lo largo de 90 minutos y 19 canciones, el crecimiento y desarrollo artístico de la artista estadounidense, en una revisión de los temas correspondientes a los primeros años de su carrera desde su etapa independiente y su álbum debut, Little Earthquakes, dividido en dos presentaciones realizadas en el Montreux Jazz Festival, con un año de diferencia.
El sentimiento que imprime a cada estrofa interpretada en su voz le da una nueva dimensión a la canción que interprete, tal es el caso de Smells like teen spirit, original de Nirvana y que en la versión de Tori Amos le da el sentido que corresponde a la letra de Kurt Cobain.
Dieciocho años más tarde se hizo justicia y ahora todos podemos darnos el gusto de escuchar estos irrepetibles conciertos de una de las artistas más innovadoras de las últimas décadas.
Bravo!
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