Boys For Pele by Tori Amos

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Best "starter" album
Cons: Some filler

Boys For Pele: the Tori album that gained the most fans.
This is how it was for me, anyway. I did not even know who Tori was until one day, I was flipping through the channels and saw "Caught a Lite Sneeze" on The BOX. I thought it was an...

Pros: a harpsichord and intriguing lyrics
Cons: you gotta listen to it at least 3 times to adjust to the new sound

You have to give Tori Amos credit. She composes for herself and won't be confined to any particular genre. This is what makes her my favorite artist. Every time she releases a new album, the critics have a field day-"she's weird! She doesn't make...

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: Abstraction on a new level
Cons: None

Tori Amos wrote this album about the men in her life, not necessarily all in a sexual sense. The album's title contains the word Pele, which is the name of the Hawaiian volcano god. This is a metaphor for the album, and sets it up nicely. The album is...

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: 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: 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....