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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

 

Tori Amos & The Polish Radio Orchestra - Marianne - Warsaw 2012

 

(another favorite and IMHO under appreciated song. This is the version from the Gold Dust album)

Tori Amos - Suede (Live from Jools Holland)

Tori Amos- Don’t Look Back in Anger

(I love this cover. She starts the song about 2 mins in.)

Tori Amos -Cloud On My Tongue Live in Vienna May 2009

Tori Amos performs a great live cover of Billy Joel’s The Piano man - HQ recording - 28-06-2005 Frankfurt, during the “Original Sinsuality” tour.

cityblue30:

Tori Amos, smack talking Morrissey, and playing possibly the best cover of Don’t Look Back in Anger, I’ve ever heard!

Thanks, Lauren!

Tori Amos- Strange Little Girl (Stranglers cover)

Sorry for Tori spam…I went back and read Neils stories for this album and then wanted to listen to it.

Tori Amos- ‘97 Bonnie & Clyde (Eminem cover)

Tori Amos - Raining Blood (Slayer cover)

rapunzeltheoceantree: “Here: an exercise in choice. Your choice. One of these tales is true.She lived through the war. In 1959 she came to America. She now lives in a condo in Miami, a tiny French woman with white hair, with a daughter and a grand-daughter. She keeps herself to herself and smiles rarely, as if the weight of memory keeps her from finding joy.Or that’s a lie. Actually the Gestapo picked her up during a border crossing in 1943, and they left her in a meadow. First she dug her own grave, then a single bullet to the back of the skull.Her last thought, before that bullet, was that she was four months’ pregnant, and that if we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.There is an old woman in Miami who wakes, confused, from a dream of the wind blowing the wildflowers in a meadow.There are bones untouched beneath the warm French earth which dream of a daughter’s wedding. Good wine is drunk. The only tears shed are happy ones.”- Written by Neil Gaiman. Neil wrote a story for each of Tori’s ‘girls’ on her Strange Little Girls album, if you’ve never read them you can find them here: http://www.hereinmyhead.com/neil/slg.html I don’t know of another place online to read them. But I think both Tori and Neil fans alike will greatly enjoy them. ‘Strange Little Girl’ is my favorite.

rapunzeltheoceantree:

“Here: an exercise in choice. Your choice. One of these tales is true.

She lived through the war. In 1959 she came to America. She now lives in a condo in Miami, a tiny French woman with white hair, with a daughter and a grand-daughter. She keeps herself to herself and smiles rarely, as if the weight of memory keeps her from finding joy.

Or that’s a lie. Actually the Gestapo picked her up during a border crossing in 1943, and they left her in a meadow. First she dug her own grave, then a single bullet to the back of the skull.

Her last thought, before that bullet, was that she was four months’ pregnant, and that if we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.

There is an old woman in Miami who wakes, confused, from a dream of the wind blowing the wildflowers in a meadow.

There are bones untouched beneath the warm French earth which dream of a daughter’s wedding. Good wine is drunk. The only tears shed are happy ones.”

- Written by Neil Gaiman.

Neil wrote a story for each of Tori’s ‘girls’ on her Strange Little Girls album, if you’ve never read them you can find them here:

http://www.hereinmyhead.com/neil/slg.html

I don’t know of another place online to read them. But I think both Tori and Neil fans alike will greatly enjoy them. ‘Strange Little Girl’ is my favorite.

(Source: ithinkimightbeacat)