Crucify - EX

Cornflake Girl - UK Limited Edition Single	Past The Mission - Part 1	China	Raspberry Swirl The second single from Tori's top five 1998 album 'From TheChoirgirl Hotel'. Contains three versions of 'RaspberrySwirl': Lip Gloss Version, Sticky Extended Vocal Mix andScarlet Spectrum Feels. Slimline jewel case. 1998 Atlanticrelease.	Glory of the 80's, Pt. 2 The first single from Tori's 1999 outing 'To Venus And Back', a two disc set with one being live & the other studio recordings. Pt.2 is backed with live versions of 'Baker Baker' & 'Winter'. Slimline jewel case. 1999 release.
Silent All These Years	Pretty Good Year	Scarlet Stories Songs from her Scarlet's Walk album, with introductory commentary by Tori. Advance, extremely limited edition, RARE! Fold-open digipak case.	Toys: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Live at Montreux 1991 & 1992 These two concerts from Montreux in 1991 and 1992 catch Tori Amos right at the start of her solo career. The first, from July 1991, was filmed a few months before the release of her "Little Earthquakes" album and the second from July 1992 followed a few months after. There is a f...

A Must-Have For The Completist Toriphile
Okay fellow Toriphiles, take notes: there are three singles/EPs released under the title 'Crucify' that you owe it to yourselves and your obsession that you must possess them. The first is the easily found US EP that contains the legendary covers of 'Angie,' 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' and 'Thank You.' The second is the UK CD single, which contains the original studio versions of 'Mary' and 'Here. In My head' (there's another bonus track on it, but as it's found on other releases, I don't remember what it is), and there is this one, perhaps the rarest of them all (save, perhaps, for the UK Ltd. single for 'Silent All These Years' and the first CD of the two-part UK single for 'Past the Mission'). I didn't even know this one existed for years, until I saw it listed on amazon.com. At any rate, it is a lovely little package, entirely worth whatever amazon or whomever is charging for it. The four art prints are lovely, the box is nice, and the music is, of course, an absolute necessity. Live versions of 'Crucify' are highly uncommon; in fact, this may be the only one available on CD (I just checked; it is). Hard to believe, isn't it, that a song that is so well-known and important to the founding of Tori's career isn't on any of the six official bootlegs from last year, or To Venus and Back, or any of the many singles containing live tracks that she's put out over the years. It is on the DVD Welcome to Sunny Florida, but this is the only old-school, just-Tori-and-the-piano version you can find anywhere. It's preceded by 'Little Earthquakes,' which, while not quite so uncommon, is good to have a live version of that's this early. In fact, I'd say that's the prime appeal of this short set: these are tracks from Tori's very first tour, when this material was fresh and immedate to her, still full of the evangelical fervour an artist always applies to the current work. Since Little Earthquakes holds such an important place in the hearts of us first-gen Toriphiles, it's wonderful to hear live recordings of these beloved songs from the time when she was first playing them and we were first experiencing them. Ah, such a perfect chance to wallow unrepentantly in Gen-X nostalgia. . . The other two tracks on the disc, the ever-intense classic 'Precious Things' and the breathtakingly beautiful 'Mother,' round out this all-too-short set. About the only complaint I might make is this: why is there still not a live recording of 'China' officially available anywhere?! But I guess that isn't a flaw in this package per se; just an accidental oversight that covers Tori's whole career. Perhaps she doesn't realise that 'China' has never been released in a live version outside of the bootleg market. If any of you reading this happen to know her, please bring this unfortunate fact to Tori's attention, please. Anyway, this rare live EP is still a wonderful artifact from the time when Tori and those of us who have loved her the whole time were still becoming acquainted, and I wholeheartedly encourage all of you who, like me, still can't get enough of these wonderful songs to do whatever you must to get a copy of this gem, as well as the other rare UK 'Crucify' release (I think 'Upside Down' is the other extra track on that, by the way). Hmm. . .am I gloating by flaunting my own possession of these rare 'precious things,' do you think? You know, I probably am. Well, I'm not so much gloating about having them as I am about the fact that I mostly got lucky on amazon and in local used CD shops, and didn't have to pay through the nose for most of them. Still: get it, and do it now. It's worth the time, trouble, expense, whatever. And who knows? Maybe you'll get lucky. Maybe we'll all get lucky, and she'll finally release that live version of 'China' I've been waiting almost half of my life for. Maybe. . .