The Beekeeper by Tori Amos

Pros: Some gorgeous photographs in the liner notes.
Cons: The album proper.

I've always told you the songs are separate from me. Yes, I write them; I gather the elements. But I do so by going around and listening to other people's stories. I watch the audience. I study how people react to what I've already created, and that ...

Pros: "Sleeps With Butterflies" and a few other scattered moments of "ahh"
Cons:

Songs generally bleed together, frequently boring

When I first took an interest in Tori Amos' music, countless people told me to avoid her 2005 release The Beekeeper. After listening to many of her other albums and liking most of them very much, I remained curious about this release ...

Pros: Some pretty songs with some decent vocals.
Cons: Many of the songs are lackluster and just don't work.

Many years ago I remember an album that effected me like no other of the time and in some ways the way an album never has since. A naked testimonial to the pain and hurt that can accompany being not only a woman but a human being Tori Amos offered ...

Pros: A few songs that make decent or good impressions...
Cons: ...surrounded by many more songs that make horrid impressions or no impressions at all.

Tori Amos is typically not described as an artist who lacks passion. The North Carolina-born singer/songwriter/prodigy pianist/unconventional 90's alternative female rocker struck a chord with listeners with her opening quartet of albums (1991's ...

Pros: A surprising lack of pretention makes the album fairly accessable.
Cons: Amos still tracks back to her indulgences in obtuse metaphor.

Tori Amos' "The Beekeeper" is an album rife with expectations. Arguably her biggest years of succses were 1991 (in the U.K.) and 1997 (in the United States.) Her debut album "Little Earthquakes," with it's quirtky and deeply personal lyrics, struck a ...

Pros: A lot more consistently good this time.
Cons: Really long, some filler.

Part of a three-part series entitled "The Perfect Tori Record" Again, I'm playing the mad scientist and mangling Tori's last three original albums, reordering them, leaving out roughly half the tracks that I don't like, and making a double CD ...

Pros: Some of my favorite songs - ever - are on this CD.
Cons: There are also some really bad tracks.

INTRODUCTION This is probably the most schizophrenic album of Tori Amos' career. I think that is why it is alienating some of her long-time fans. Ever since the late 1990's she has seemed engaged in a game of tug-of-war between commercial ...

Pros: A handful of good songs and some thoughtful themes.
Cons: Sterile production. Flat singing and playing. Long, with almost no good melodies.

If the 18-track adult-contemporary fest of "Scarlet’s Walk" wasn’t enough, Tori Amos elected to follow it up with “The Beekeeper”: this time with 19 radio-friendly, inoffensive ditties. Once again, the songs present a simple set of ...

Pros: Unbelievably beautiful music, clear vocals, and a message of growth and contentment.
Cons: None at all. The 80 minute length is a pro to me.

Tori Amos has chosen the most perfect song to open her album “The Beekeeper”. Entitled ‘Parasol’, it sets the tone for one of the most well-produced and beautifully delivered albums of the decade. As she whispers “When I come to terms with this, my world ...

Pros: 80 minutes of magic from a very special artist!
Cons: While more accessible, this CD will still confuse the majority of the listening public.

Well, here we are again...A new Tori CD and a new crop of reviews from disgruntled listeners who still think it's 1992. Guess what? It's 2005! Tori is all grown up. She's not going to make another Little Earthquakes. I wonder if da Vinci was criticized ...

Pros: Intelligent lyrics dealing with important themes, beautiful melodies and vocals, thought provoking concept.
Cons: none, this really is an exceptional album.

With an impressive back catalogue from 1992's exceptional debut 'Little Earthquakes', 1998's harrowing 'From The Choirgirl Hotel' and 2002's 'Scarlet's Walk', a sonic novel based upon a road trip across the whole of America, one comes to expect alot from ...

Pros: Beautiful vocals, some amazing imagery.
Cons: Some boring tracks, not enough organ.

When I first heard that Tori Amos was incorporating gospel choirs into her new record, The Beekeeper, I assumed she would lay off the incessant over-layering of her own vocals. Apparently, she just loves it too much. Layer upon layer of her own voice is ...

Pros: Tori's finest work since "Pele"
Cons: That it's not a double-album...

Tori Amos has finally crafted an album with all the fierce beauty and passion of "Boys for Pele" and "from the choirgirl hotel" with the accessible sound she (perhaps over-) perfected with 2002's "Scarlet's Walk." The result is a gorgeous opus dealing ...

Pros: Beautiful lyrics, takes the best of her past music and makes it fresh.
Cons: Some people may be expecting more synth-driven vocals.

Well, it's finally happened. After great amounts of publicity and anticipation on the part of Toriphiles everywhere, The Beekeeper, Tori Amos' first CD of original work since the 2002 release of Scarlet's Walk, has arrived in stores. It was worth the ...

Pros: Tracks 1 thru 19...
Cons: "Barons of Suburbia" has a bit of a weird structure, kind of un-Tori-like...

After exploring the vastness of the North American continent with "Scarlet's Walk", Tori Amos now leads us into a much more sheltered corner of her psyche with "The Beekeeper". Here the grandeur of Scarlet's themes, laden with political issues, gives in ...