Boys For Pele by Tori Amos

Pros: Caught A Lite Sneeze, Hey Jupiter, Professional Widow, and In The Springtime of His Voodoo...
Cons: Everything else: length, harpsichords, performance, arrangement...

After years in the industry, Tori Amos still rests by her on choosing between the mainstream and the underground. Her piano-driven opuses appeal to a largely female audience—many of which have suffered her same hardships. Maybe my emotionally ...

Pros: Sound of voice, Lyrics, Instrumental accents
Cons: Style of vocals (often inarticulate), Musically dull for the most part.

A number of Tori Amos fans I have talked with have told me that Amos is like Bjork: you either love or hate her works*. I am happy to stand in defiance of that absolutism and write from a middle ground that seems to baffle some of the Tori Amos fans ...

Pros: This is the Abbey Road of Tori's career.
Cons: Tori's so uncool.

Far be it from me to write a review that competes with or strays from an epinions lead author (especially one I really respect and trust), but I have to give this album its props. This is probably the most trashed, misunderstood, and overlooked album in ...

Pros: Different instruments, it is Tori
Cons: some people may find some songs offensive, a little hard to digest at first.

Boys for Pele was released in 1996 and is the first album that Tori herself produced. According to many interviews with Tori, more than half the album is fairly negative towards men. If you are a new Tori fan I would not suggest buying this as your...

Pros: vocals are best in this album; experimental; acoustic; personal
Cons: her least accessible album; her most cryptic album; few people may be offended

Boys For Pele marked a big change in Ms. Amos' career and personal life. She broke up with her producer/boyfriend, Eric Rosse, and this was the first time she was producing an album all by herself. She experimented with different instruments such ...

Pros: Lengthy, Intricate, Personal
Cons: Lengthy, Dense, Mysterious

Tori Amos's Boys For Pele is intimidating, initially just because of its length (nineteen songs) or the cover image of a stern Tori casually slinging a rifle over her knee while playing footsie with a python. Not surprisingly, the album lacks immediately...

Pros: 18 tracks of awesomeness!
Cons: Can be hard to get into, but nothing else!

Tori Amos..a fiery red-headed piano-playing goddess! This was my second Tori CD, after purchasing her recent Tales of a Librarian album. At the time, I had no clue I was picking up her best album to date. I simply saw that it was the one with the most ...

Pros: A number of complicated and interesting songs. Intriguing themes.
Cons: Pointlessly oblique lyrics and some massively annoying vocal tics.

Well, she certainly didn’t sell out. Since “Y Kant Tori Read”, each of Tori Amos’ releases till this album had been considerably less accessible to the mainstream; however, not until this point had she produced a record almost one hundred ...

Pros: Unmatched among Tori’s creations in terms of creating its own world.
Cons: It’s a disturbing world indeed, and exhausting.

It was one of those summer days where it feels like the sun is almost malicious in its overwhelming glory, blazing down on the frail inhabitants of earth with reckless abandon. The air wavered from the heat, and I was trekking through the rocky plateau, ...

Pros: Gets better every time you listen to it. Rewards the patient listener royally.
Cons: Not as easily accessible as Tori's other albums - not for the impatient.

There are very few albums indeed that posses this level of....durability. I bought it about three years ago, and it turned out to be one of the few cd's that has a permanent position near the top of my cd-stand. Just like good wine, "Boys for Pele" gets...

Pros: incredible innovative music and evocative lyrics
Cons: Unnecessarily long with 18 songs stretching over 72 minutes

Note: As you may or may not know, I'm on a mission to review every album in my house in alphabetical order by artist and chronologically within each artist. Once in a while a situation will arise where I obtain a CD by an artist that falls under a...

Pros: Different Sounds Make An Excellent Album.
Cons: Difficult To Love...At First.

"Boys For Pele" is the 1996 release by Tori Amos, one of the best female performers in the music industry. After having had "Little Earthquakes" and "Under The Pink" for some time, I was utterly shocked at what this album...

Pros: Wonderful songs and meaningful lyrics.
Cons: Nothing.

I became a fan of Tori Amos just a few months ago when I downloaded a few of her songs and liked them a lot. So, I decided to go and buy a Tori Amos album. I was in a hurry, so I just picked an album under the "Tori Amos" section at the music store....

Pros: Moody and beautiful at the same time.
Cons: Can you take it? Some can't.

In the sickening sweet world of today’s pop music, it’s sometimes refreshing to hear someone speak from the other side of the fence, far away from the shiny, happy people and Hootie and those god-forsaken Blowfish. Enter Tori Amos, with her third...

Pros: Strange and exhilerating
Cons: Slightly too long

Tori Amos's third album is a strange and stripped down masterpiece filled with unexpected twists and turns that keep the listener on their toes. While Little Earthquakes was perfectly orchestrated and precise and planned out, Pele often only features a...