What I heard....3/13/09

After suffering through the second Ace of Base album....a slight improvement over the first one, which still makes it crap....I delved into the Tori Amos catalog. I remember when Little Earthquakes (and even Under the Pink) came out, it seemed like an explosion, something very ground breaking like a Nirvana. It just hit a perfect spot. It still does, and that's one of the things I've been looking for specifically in this project--whether an album holds up as time passes. The songs and styles of these two albums are solid. "Crucify" and "Winter" still blow me away, as do her hits from Under.... But as I said previously when I was working through her singles and b-sides, something went wrong-and Boys for Pele is a bloated horrible mess. I think that's what kind of turned me off her, and caused me to not follow Amos besides the singles that followed. And then I listened to From the Choirgirl Hotel. Wow. This is an *excellent* complete album. It has a flow and a mood to it that is really deliberate and thoughtful. I am now very intrigued by the albums that follow....