Allmusic lists both Bush and Mitchell as Tori's influences. So, I'll shut up now.
I'm a vision of hotliness, and how weird is that? Mystical comas. You know, if you can stand the horror of a higher power hijacking your mind and body so that it can give birth to itself, I really recommend 'em.
Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
dw - Sep 04, 2005 12:08:44 pm PDT #114 of 10003
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Amy - Sep 04, 2005 5:00:29 pm PDT #115 of 10003
Because books.
I think you're right, dw -- "girls at pianos" is a little broad for my peception of Kate Bush. Although I would have gone with Tori Amos as the closest in style, and more influenced by Bush than Mitchell.
Then again, Prince always cites Mitchell as one of his influences, so make of that what you will.
Sue - Sep 04, 2005 5:05:30 pm PDT #116 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Prince wrote at least one song for Kate Bush (and recorded with?), and I think has been quoted as being a fan.
DavidS - Sep 04, 2005 5:35:07 pm PDT #117 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And I tend to associate Kate with British prog-rock and art-rock, mainly because of Dave Gilmour and the number of Genesis fans I knew in high school who were into her. OTOH, I think of Tori as the musical descendant of Joni Mitchell and the mother of the 1990s female singer-songwriter movement.
I think Tori's influences are split pretty evenly along Joni and Kate lines (with plenty of her own originality). But I think you're right, that in many ways Kate was a fellow traveler with specific British musical streams like prog (Peter Gabriel was an acknowledged influence long before she dueted with him). You're right that Kate has not tended to the confessional - or rather, it's more fair to say that she's cloaked her personal experience in broader metaphors. (I've watched her talking about "Suspended in Gaffa" on a VH-1 Flashback and she's quite interesting and articulate talking about it relating to her Catholic school training about Purgatory.) In a lot of ways, I think Kate is close in spirit to an art-pop group like Sparks or early Split Enz.
dw - Sep 04, 2005 9:58:28 pm PDT #118 of 10003
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This weekend I went down to Fry's and bought a 160GB hard drive and an external HD kit, because I was running low on space for my 11,000 MP3s.
Good Lord, I have 11,000 MP3s -- and I still haven't ripped a third of my music collection.
All this to say that I downloaded the Streets' "A Grand Don't Come For Free" from eMusic. Damn fine album.
NoiseDesign - Sep 05, 2005 12:07:39 am PDT #119 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
I'm sitting at 50.3 days of music right now. 18,265 songs ripped. It's pretty fun once you get that many into the system.
Lyra Jane - Sep 05, 2005 7:15:29 am PDT #120 of 10003
Up with the sun
Okay, why did this post briefly say "Array"? 'Twas not what I typed.
I was going to say that I feel like I have "too much" music at 5,600 -- it would be past 6,000 if I didn't delete stuff I didn't like.
Mr. Broom - Sep 05, 2005 7:22:09 am PDT #121 of 10003
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Why did this post briefly say "Array" too? That's... creepy. What I meant to say was:
I went over 7000 songs and started to make cuts because I had a lot of stuff just for the sake of having it on my computer, not because I was likely to listen to it any time soon. Volume's fine, but density's where it's at.
Polter-Cow - Sep 05, 2005 8:41:57 am PDT #122 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
For any VM fans (or simply fans of "Eclectic electronic ambient pop"), check out this interview with 46bliss. I think music fans in general would get a kick out of it, honestly. Good stuff about how the band got together, how they record, what their influences are, all that business.
dw - Sep 05, 2005 3:43:17 pm PDT #123 of 10003
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I'm sitting at 50.3 days of music right now. 18,265 songs ripped. It's pretty fun once you get that many into the system.
My problem is "iPod block." I have 9500 songs on the iPod, and it takes me 3-5 minutes every morning to choose the first song of the day, scroll through the system, and find it.
Yeah, I can go "random" and see what comes up, but I never do.