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...
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...
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: Half the songs are incredible Cons: Half the songs are unnoticible
Let's start with the obvious here. Tori, darling, what the hell were you thinking with those pictures? They certainly were ... different ... and people talk about Madonna!?
All that aside, Boys For Pele is your in the middle album. You...
Pros: even at her least accessible, Tori is still hypnotically beguiling Cons: at times, almost too stripped and intimate
A certain reserve of blind faith and bravery proves indispensable when delving into this schizophrenically scattershot song-cycle. If Little Earthquakes stripped Amos to the skin – and Under the Pink to the bone – then 1996’s Boys For Pele slashes...
Yes, know I have written three pieces on Tori but with a voice like hers its not hard to fall under her spell. Her music in entrancing, and once you think you have figured her out she hits you with another album just as real , just as beautiful....
Pros: Wonderful arrangement, complete. Cons: Sometimes silly lyrics, "Not The Red Baron"
Tori has had four major peaks of her career. First there was the "Little Earthquakes" peak. Then there was the "Under the Pink" peak. Then the "Pele" peak, and after that "Choirgirl". Then something happened:...
Boys for Pele is by far the least accessible of Tori Amos's albums. Personally, I listened to it for months before I really began to enjoy it. But after such a long courtship I found this album to be highly rewarding, complex, and beautiful. ...
Pros: A Sorbet for your eardrums Cons: A really grody picture of Tori breastfeeding a piglet
Now be honest, Tori fans,...have you ever tried to wail and shriek and hit the high note in "Professional Widow" when she says "running in the family"?...Liar.
Pros: a great selection of songs that show her flexibility and beauty Cons: some short songs that are pointless
Tori is a goddess, a truly talented musician and writer. This album is by far my favorite. Perhaps it's because I am a sucker for albums that deal with heartache, but this album cannot be described as anything less than wonderful.
Pros: Deep yet easily related to. Cons: Average listeners might not grasp or enjoy her music.
If you thought Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink were amazing you are in for a treat! Boys For Pele is one of her best works to date. Her music is enchanting and haunting and her lyrics are powerful and so filled emotions not yet named that I find...
Pros: Worth the trouble of getting to know her. Cons: Inaccessible at first, and even then, some of the songs remain unmountable.
I've had a variety of Tori fans comment to me that Boys for Pele is the most difficult of Tori's albums to "get into". While there are some standard straight-forward songs on this album such as "Caught a Lite Sneeze", many of the...
Pros: makes me proud to be a woman Cons: Tori had to suffer so much for this brilliant record
Every bad breakup I have had has seemed to revolve around the songs on Boys for Pele. Each soul-bearing, heart- swelling song throws itself upon the alter of the great volcano goddess, Pele. Every human emotion possible is represented on this Tori...
Pros: interesting sounds, very different from other Tori Amos albums Cons: graphic lyrics
Tori Amos' album, Boys For Pele is very straight-forward, and does not candy coat any of the feelings that Tori Amos has. This album has more curse words than her other albums and seems to have been written with rage. I love this album, however, i...
First and foremost, I am a dedicated Tori fan. I suppose, in a way that this makes me biased, but I also listen to her music as though she were speaking directly to me, as if every note from her Bosendorfer & every shrill in her voice is carrying an...
Pros: Caught a lite sneeze is a great song Cons: the rest are not
Maybe it's just politically incorrect to trash a Tori Amos album, but I have a hard time believing all these glorious reviews of this one. Though I consider myself a fan of Tori Amos, and think her Venus album one of the very best albums of 1999, I...
Tori Amos' third solo album, and by far my favorite, Boys For Pele is a wonderful album that uses many styles and different lyric methods to make the listener fall into a dreamland of excitement and wonder. Many of the album's songs are different from...
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...
The title tells the story of the cd "Boys for Pele,"Pele being the Hawaiian volcano goddess. This is the story of her sacrifices to the goddess or the story of the men that drifted through her life.
Pros: You must find your own "Pros" In TOri's music Cons: There are no Cons in anything that is Tori
Pele is a trip to the back of a womans head...A place where Childhood happiness is mixed with sexual tention and trama...From the first note of the single noted "Beauty Queen" the listener has a feeling of the powder puff life of a woman which...
Boys For Pele is my all time favorite album. If some one forced me to go the rest of my life with no more music except for one cd/tape i would have to choose Boys For Pele. It makes you feel and think. She sings everything that i can only start to...
Pros: It is incredible music Cons: It has varying music, some people might not like that.
This was the first CD that I listened to by Tori Amos and I just have two words to say about it Complete Heaven. This CD is a sampling of approximately 18 songs. It is an eclectic mix of Tori's style and talent. The amount of heat that is located in...
Pros: good emotion Cons: not very clear as far as storytelling
This album is full of emotions so well expressed that anyone listening can feel them just as Tori does. As compared to her two earlier albums, Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink, this one has a power to it that is not as straight forward. Most of the...
Pros: Sets its own mood Cons: One might find themselves only understanding some of the songs while under the influence of LSD
Hello again! Ah, Boys For Pele. Admittedly, after owning Little Earthquakes and Under The Pink, I did not like this one when it came out. In fact I avoided it. Only until one night I got stuck at a friends house with nothing else to listen to. It grew on...
Pros: beautiful lyrics and piano, very lulling Cons: some may find it a bit boring
Boys For Pele was the first Tori Amos CD I purchased, and I was very impressed. Though some of the songs do take a bit of "warming up to," it's so worth it later on. I liked the songs enough to get the piano songbook and it was then that I...
Tori Amos is a very distinctive artist. It is very hard to compare her to any other artist. She expresses deep emotional grief and happiness in her albums. Boys For Pele is just one of many wonderful albums by Tori. This one in particular really...
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