Oh my what a question Could not choose just one. Tori has moved me with so many songs!! I adore every song on BOYS FOR PELE. Ok if you force me then I choose Putting the Damage On.
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I bought Under the Pink on a whim one winter evening back in 1994. I was 20 and heavily into metal and grunge at the time (still am), but I'd heard a snippet of one of her earlier songs at some point earlier - probably Crucify - and something about it stuck with me. I was meant to be at a bar later that night, so I thought I'd listen to the first track just to clear my head and then head out. I was alone and it was dark outside. Drink in hand, I sat back in a couch, and turned the record on. When the last song ended, my drink was untouched and I hadn't moved from my spot. I had barely moved at all. I had never heard anything like it. I was genuinely mesmerised, even a bit stunned. And thoroughly hooked. Late as hell, I dragged myself off to the bar where I met up with a large group of close friends, one of whom was studying to be a sound engineer. He asked why I was so damned late. I said that I'd been held captive by a record that'd I just got. He laughed and asked what band it was. "Tori Amos," I said. My friend instantly grew serious. "Oh man," he said. "I know what you mean. I listen to a lot of music, but...she's something else." He wasn't wrong.
My god I have such a girl crush on her. Not only is she a genius composer, songwriter and has the voice of an angel, she is freaking stunning. What a woman.
Met her once at Paddington station. She was going back home to Cornwall. I was so Starstruck and a blubbering mess but she was the sweetest. Absolute icon of words and melody. X
I Love this. I also met her once about 20 years ago, she is the only celebrity I’ve ever asked for a picture with and like you I was a star struck mess haha. She is the sweetest. A genius. Her music is transcendental x
This is my favourite song by Tori Amos. I cannot explain why. Tori wrote this song after receiving a fan letter from a man named Greg. Greg felt like his life was pointless, & he did not love himself. The song is about comforting someone who has given up on life.
What a gift to give someone - their very own Tori song. Greg should never feel worthless ever again. Just highlights how special Tori is to respond to a fans personal thoughts and fears with such a wonderfully candid and uplifting song, and one of her very best at that. I'll just have to be happy with my bike to race........................................
takes me back to college and what it was like to be young and hopeful ... didn't have a plan, but wasn't weighted by it - that sort of freedom only comes so often in life and for many it never does. I hate that depression takes a hold of people and there's not much we can do to help them fight other than showing them all the good and wonderful things there are and hope it's enough.
Tori is an absolute departure from all of my other favorite music but I absolutely adore her in a way that is unparalleled amongst my other favorite musicians. Her first three albums are masterpieces in my opinion. Artistically, she personifies femininity to me, in all of its rich complexity.
1) She really is and 2) Same - I've never seen this. Best guess is the label shelved the video (maybe because - let's be honest - aside from Tori's radiance the video sucks lol) and someone "soft leaked" it years later.
@@skoto8219 MTV was the only way to watch music videos back then, and they never, ever, EVER played hers. I had the same issue with Bjork videos and finally bought a DVD of them, but never found one of Tori's.
The only way I ever had seen a Tori Amos video was through MuchMusic. It was cable add-on, I believe it was Canadian, or UK owned. Anyway, that's where I first saw her Spark video in 1996. Followed by Crucify at some point. Most of the music on that channel was purely dedicated to Alternative artists. MTV still played a fair range of music videos, but they started dwindling towards 1997.
I had this album when I was a teenager. I remember that this is one of the songs that I sang along to all the time. I miss those days. Back in the 90s when things still made a little bit of sense.
I can't get over the fact that this song came out in 1994, even the performance of the music video is still current, Ms. Amos is a living musical Goddess! Timeless!
Why does this so perfectly represent the 90's? There was so much sadness and angst and self reflection in the 90's - it was so self deprecating . Heroin chic Nirvana and gothic flair. I think it is something to do with a reaction to - anger at and disgust with - the shallowness and mindless self indulgence of the 70's and 80's. I think also it has to do with the people growing up in broken families due to the divorce boom. Tori translated this feeling perfectly...part anger part sadness part confusion and all raw.
That my friend is a spot on insight. I tend to think too it's a backlash against the frivolity and excesses of the 80s (a decade i also love as well as the 90s). I tend to believe that the 90s is a revival of the 70s in many ways (organic, reflective if a bit self absorbed). But love the 90s and love this music. Thanks for your insight. Brightened up my day. Cheers to you and yours!
There was definitely confusion in those days. And pent up emotion. Frustration even. Growing up at that time, it felt like we had no idea where we were headed. Directionless, and questioning the societally traditional path to “happiness” in life. The decade ended on an optimistic note for me, but the years prior were spent wandering and wondering. It honestly felt like our generation needed a few extra years to discover ourselves and mature, when compared to previous generations.
I've spent the last few weeks going back through Tori's early music. I knew that there was a song that resonated deeply with me and would help me grasp how I've been feeling for such a long time. 2020 has weirdly been a "pretty good year" and a very formative one. Spent alot of time in solitude, tracing back those formative years and maybe... finally... At 45 I feel I have a purpose I'm not lost and have all the jigsaw peices in their place. I'm not a perfect man (who is?) quite flawed really! But I now know I can be my best and it's actually good enough for me!
Tears on the sleeve of a man Don't want to be a boy today Heard the eternal footman Bought himself a bike to race And Greg he writes letters and burns his CDs They say you were something in those formative years Hold onto nothing as fast as you can Well still pretty good year Maybe a bright sandy beach Is gonna bring you back Maybe not so now you're off You're gonna see America Well let me tell you something about America Pretty good year Some things are melting now Well what's it gonna take till my baby's alright And Greg he writes letters with his birthday pen Sometimes he's aware that they're drawing him in Lucy was pretty your best friend agreed Well still pretty good year
She is just everything. Those days were amazing! Look at her, not like the people/artists of today. She is just Tori! No heavy crazy make-up, her clothing is a representation of her... Beautiful Love you Tori Amos
Can we just take a moment to recognize Eric Rosse for his incredible work on the first two Tori Amos albums, which still stand head & shoulders above as the best albums Tori has made. Surely the end of their relationship was painful, but the fruits of their labor together remain with us.
you've gotten me through some pretty tough times, Tori. I love you. like a sister. Pretty big words for a little girls like me. Saw you in concert at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Best concert ever. Three standing ovations... made up for how late you were you prima donna ;) lol
She is an actual artist and nowadays that is so hard to find someone that speaks actually for the masses and not just for themselves and for their own monetary gain it's incredible how lucky we were as teens etc... and how sorry I feel for the future and not that I'm saying all nowadays artists are irrelevant just that I wish that they could feel what she helped us feel and deal with what we needed when we needed it most and I hope to God that the younger generation has an artist that does the same for them at some point.
I know exactly how you feel. Tori’s music helped me get through some really hard bits of my life. She helped me understand myself better, helped me let go of the abusive religion I was born into, helped me deal with the abuse I suffered in childhood and as a teen, helped me to leave an abusive relationship. She helped me have the strength to stand up for myself and believe I deserved to be loved and, more importantly, to love myself. She’s definitely the voice of a generation of girls and women, and I’m sure more than a few men. She’s one of a kind and I’m so happy and grateful I got to experience her music and viewpoint for almost the past 30 year and, hopefully, another 30. There are a few artists I feel the newer generations are appreciating the same way we are. Billy Eilish is one who seems to have that level of introspection, a bit less catering to the record companies and a bit more true to herself and her experiences. In my opinion, anyway. Also Hozier, his music is incredible.
It’s finally back to 1996 on Mackinac Island in Michigan. Working as a Night Auditor at the Murray Hotel. My 18yo self was so confused as to why he had to leave home because he was already hooked on cocaine and alcohol before graduation, because when he did those he could love his girlfriend. But my parents found out about my true live, Scott (he was my first love from 8th - 11th grade) so I ended up on this beautiful/magical island for the summer. Spent nights twirling through the halls of the Murray Hotel & Inn On Mackinac to this album. The greatest summer of my life with the just amazing people. I miss 1996.
The heartbreak and the success .....have resonated within me since this song came out. Bittersweet ? ...Regardless her songs have carried me through more hurt then most people can understand.
"dont wanna be a boy today" was in my head since I heard this song when I was about 14 now Im living as a woman and it feels so right, took way too long to get here im 34 but im thankful to be hearing this again thanks Tori
+Gary Fass same but hey good music is good music,,, I share this with my rock friends and they don't given her a second look....MAYNARD LOVES HER ,, they're good friends
Rachel Rosemary true! So did Trent Reznor, big influences on each other. I consider her as rock and roll as anybody! Maybe not as heavy, but the spirit is there (and sometimes just as heavy, on tracks like Professional Widow). Love her!
Rachel Rosemary I’m assuming you’ve seen their duet of Mohammed My Friend? If not, look it up IMMEDIATELY!! I loved Tori and Tool separately before I ever knew there was a connection. Knowing that just makes it all the better!
Just realized she foreshadowed two albums in the lyrics of this song: Chiorgirl: “maybe a break sandy beach is going to bring you back” Scarlet’s Walk: “So now your off you’re gonna see America”
I don't get the Choirgirl part. The others, of course. I've had every single album of hers up until recently. Played those albums out. What am I missing?
Whenever I play this song, it instantly puts me exactly right back to where I was so many many moons ago. It’s incredible, how much I’m still precisely the same girl, yet somehow through the dark curtains of pain and suffering and just generally living, I’m also someone else now. And yet even still, some things are melting now…….if anyone only knew how much I long to just only be that same girl once again, the oblivious one, the blissfully ignorant one that I used to be. Nothing I tell you, nothing is as one would perceive it to be, back then, I honestly thought the world was perfect. It’s only after living, that one comes to realize just exactly who the wizard behind the curtain is. 🌚🌚🌚
I selected the components of my high-end audio-system (o.a. Meredian and Sonus Faber) with this song (and album). As a sound engineer I used to play this song to do the corrections on the FOH system. (more than) Beautiful song and album, great production. Timeless.
I bought Under The Pink when it first came out (after I saw the video for God). I was going though a tough time in my life and I felt she was an angel singing directly to me.
She sings a true story of her life from her heart I feel every pain and release. Perhaps I should not have kept listening after watching lord of the rings extended I think I've gone overboard am a reck in tears bringing back so many memories of my childhood. Love you so much xx
I like this one because it shows the power in simplicity. Such a lovely video...and the song itself is like, a, look on the bright side sort of positive vibe, a thank you retrospective postcard........
TORI AMOS - UNDER THE PINK Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted. She had to leave at the age of eleven when her scholarship was discontinued for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination". Amos was the lead singer of the short-lived 1980s pop group Y Kant Tori Read before achieving her breakthrough as a solo artist in the early 1990s. Her songs focus on a broad range of topics, including sexuality, feminism, politics, and religion. Her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", "Spark", "1000 Oceans", "Flavor" and "A Sorta Fairytale", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date. Amos has received five MTV VMA nominations and eight Grammy Award nominations, and won an Echo Klassik award for her Night of Hunters classical crossover album. She is listed on VH1's 1999 "100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll" at number 71. ❤️💯‼️ And I have the great honor of having in my discography two CD-albums by this talented artist, LITTLE EARTHQUAKES (1992) and UNDER THE PINK (1994). ❤️💯‼️ Under the Pink is the second studio album by singer-songwriter Tori Amos. Upon its release in January 1994, the album debuted atop the UK Albums Chart on the back of the hit single "Cornflake Girl", and peaked at number 12 in the US. The album was certified double Platinum in the US by the RIAA in October 1999, for sales exceeding 2 million copies. It was the 61st highest-selling album of 1994 in the UK and was certified platinum by the BPI in February 2007, for sales exceeding 300,000 copies. Under the Pink was included in Blender magazine's list of 500 CDs You Must Own, and was voted among the greatest albums of the 1990s by Rolling Stone magazine some years later. A special double-disc tour edition was released exclusively in Australia and New Zealand in November 1994, titled More Pink: The B-Sides. ❤️💯‼️
"Pretty Good Year" Released: March 7, 1994 (UK) [Verse 1] Tears on the sleeve of a man Don't want to be a boy today I heard the eternal footman Bought himself a bike to race [Pre-Chorus] And Greg he writes letters and burns his CDs They say you were something in those formative years Hold onto nothing as fast as you can [Chorus] Well, still, pretty good year Pretty good [Verse 2] Maybe a bright sandy beach Is gonna bring you back, back, back Maybe not, so now you're off You're gonna see America Well let me tell you something about America [Chorus] Pretty good year A-ha, pretty good [Bridge] Some things are melting now Some things are melting now Well, hey, what's it gonna take Till my baby's alright? What's it gonna take Till my baby's alright? [Pre-Chorus] Greg, he writes letters with his birthday pen Sometimes he's aware that they're drawing him in Lucy was pretty, your best friend agreed [Chorus] Well, still, pretty good year A-ha, pretty good A-ha, pretty good year Produced by Tori Amos & Eric Rosse Written by Tori Amos Album UNDER THE PINK (1994)
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Oh my what a question
Could not choose just one.
Tori has moved me with so many songs!!
I adore every song on BOYS FOR PELE.
Ok if you force me then I choose
Putting the Damage On.
I have to pick ONE?!?
Northern lad
Here. In my head or Butterfly. But this one has had me by the soul since 1994
@@tkkcali i can't even listen to it. The pain goes so deep.
Tori Amos= brilliance, eclectic but always worth listening to.
Even after all these years I cannot explain with words how much this song moves me
Even knee deep in 2020 Im still convinced they say you were something in those formative years........
Samsies.
@Rafi z I forgot a "much" :-)
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Me too!!
She is a genius. In every sense of the word. Her songs are poetry and a short story wrapped into a bouquet of notes.
Surely a gaggle of prose incased in a spazz wango of mellifluous ear visuals.
*chuckle* *golf clap* That was a good burn, Patrice.
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She truly is something unique and special
Shes nothing short of of a poet and prophet even with this kind of song....... some things in 2020 are definitely melting now.......
I bought Under the Pink on a whim one winter evening back in 1994. I was 20 and heavily into metal and grunge at the time (still am), but I'd heard a snippet of one of her earlier songs at some point earlier - probably Crucify - and something about it stuck with me.
I was meant to be at a bar later that night, so I thought I'd listen to the first track just to clear my head and then head out. I was alone and it was dark outside. Drink in hand, I sat back in a couch, and turned the record on.
When the last song ended, my drink was untouched and I hadn't moved from my spot. I had barely moved at all. I had never heard anything like it. I was genuinely mesmerised, even a bit stunned. And thoroughly hooked.
Late as hell, I dragged myself off to the bar where I met up with a large group of close friends, one of whom was studying to be a sound engineer. He asked why I was so damned late. I said that I'd been held captive by a record that'd I just got. He laughed and asked what band it was.
"Tori Amos," I said.
My friend instantly grew serious. "Oh man," he said. "I know what you mean. I listen to a lot of music, but...she's something else."
He wasn't wrong.
Happy New Year!
I hope Greg is okay. After all, he wrote a letter that moved Tori so much that she wrote one of the best songs ever written.
I know....Greg ..how you doing
My god I have such a girl crush on her. Not only is she a genius composer, songwriter and has the voice of an angel, she is freaking stunning. What a woman.
Me too. Since the 1990s
Met her once at Paddington station. She was going back home to Cornwall. I was so Starstruck and a blubbering mess but she was the sweetest. Absolute icon of words and melody. X
I Love this. I also met her once about 20 years ago, she is the only celebrity I’ve ever asked for a picture with and like you I was a star struck mess haha. She is the sweetest. A genius. Her music is transcendental x
I was a Greg. This song kills me, thinking of the perspective of my beloved, who saw me through it.
@learningwithharry4996 Tori Amos Pretty Good Year is one of my personal favorite song
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Thank goodness for Tori Amos. One of rock's greatest musicians of the last thirty years. She is amazing.
@Matt Neufeld I agree
@@brandonmoore7497 me too 💜
@@ShaniTrahan-p9bawesome
A gorgeous, moving artistic powerhouse. Loses absolutely nothing after repeated listenings over nearly 30 years
@chadmoodybto4620 Tori Amos Pretty Good Year is one of my personal favorite song
@@brandonmoore7497 same here, Brandon! I love it so much. Happy 2023, honey!
Like her or not, ain't nobody else like Tori. Which is one of the hardest things to achieve artistically. If not the very hardest.
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Correct.
The red hair is icing on the cake!❤
This is my favourite song by Tori Amos.
I cannot explain why.
Tori wrote this song after receiving a fan letter from a man named Greg.
Greg felt like his life was pointless, & he did not love himself.
The song is about comforting someone who has given up on life.
@C. Hum Tori Amos Pretty Good Year is one of my personal favorite song
Wow, all these years and I didn’t know that.
Pretty good
What a gift to give someone - their very own Tori song.
Greg should never feel worthless ever again. Just highlights how special Tori is to respond to a fans personal thoughts and fears with such a wonderfully candid and uplifting song, and one of her very best at that.
I'll just have to be happy with my bike to race........................................
"Hold on to nothing as fast as you can" might be my favorite Tori-ism ever
takes me back to college and what it was like to be young and hopeful ... didn't have a plan, but wasn't weighted by it - that sort of freedom only comes so often in life and for many it never does. I hate that depression takes a hold of people and there's not much we can do to help them fight other than showing them all the good and wonderful things there are and hope it's enough.
1994 was a pretty good year. loving my ride on the Tori train tonight....
:) totally agree
6 years later- right there with you
Tori is an absolute departure from all of my other favorite music but I absolutely adore her in a way that is unparalleled amongst my other favorite musicians. Her first three albums are masterpieces in my opinion. Artistically, she personifies femininity to me, in all of its rich complexity.
God she is breathtakingly gorgeous. I don't know how this is the first time I'm seeing this video after loving this song for over 20 years.
1) She really is and 2) Same - I've never seen this. Best guess is the label shelved the video (maybe because - let's be honest - aside from Tori's radiance the video sucks lol) and someone "soft leaked" it years later.
@@skoto8219 MTV was the only way to watch music videos back then, and they never, ever, EVER played hers. I had the same issue with Bjork videos and finally bought a DVD of them, but never found one of Tori's.
The only way I ever had seen a Tori Amos video was through MuchMusic. It was cable add-on, I believe it was Canadian, or UK owned.
Anyway, that's where I first saw her Spark video in 1996.
Followed by Crucify at some point.
Most of the music on that channel was purely dedicated to Alternative artists.
MTV still played a fair range of music videos, but they started dwindling towards 1997.
This is my favourite Tori Amos song. Absolutely adore her.
C H 😉this one stands out a lot to me too
@@holdtrue2021 Tori Amos Pretty Good Year is one of my personal favorite song
Tori dropped the ball on letting this be the only choreographed dance routine of her career. Not kidding it's perfect for that crescendo.
Confusing comment. You liked it or not?
I had this album when I was a teenager. I remember that this is one of the songs that I sang along to all the time. I miss those days. Back in the 90s when things still made a little bit of sense.
@Marcy T Tori Amos Pretty Good Year is one of my personal favorite song
The 90's were full of beautiful memories and good times that we will never get back and I'm so pleased I lived them out .THE best years of my life 💖
@@debchaytor295 Tori Amos Pretty Good Year is one of my personal favorite song
The 90s was the best decade to me😊😊😊
30 years of performing. She's one of the best!
@chao4364 Tori Amos Pretty Good Year is one of my personal favorite song
MY FAVORITE TORI AMOS SONG! Best part is when she gets loud and all that pain comes out! She makes some excellent emo music!
She is as beautiful as her voice, as her music, as her songs. Incredible Tori
@RGSuperfan Tori Amos Pretty Good Year is one of my personal favorite song
I can't get over the fact that this song came out in 1994, even the performance of the music video is still current, Ms. Amos is a living musical Goddess! Timeless!
Why does this so perfectly represent the 90's? There was so much sadness and angst and self reflection in the 90's - it was so self deprecating . Heroin chic Nirvana and gothic flair. I think it is something to do with a reaction to - anger at and disgust with - the shallowness and mindless self indulgence of the 70's and 80's. I think also it has to do with the people growing up in broken families due to the divorce boom. Tori translated this feeling perfectly...part anger part sadness part confusion and all raw.
That my friend is a spot on insight. I tend to think too it's a backlash against the frivolity and excesses of the 80s (a decade i also love as well as the 90s). I tend to believe that the 90s is a revival of the 70s in many ways (organic, reflective if a bit self absorbed). But love the 90s and love this music. Thanks for your insight. Brightened up my day. Cheers to you and yours!
The 90's weren't all that bad. A pretty good decade actually.
So much raw talent smashed into one seductive infallible design of God. We should all feel nothing less than truly blessed to be a part of such glory
There was definitely confusion in those days. And pent up emotion. Frustration even. Growing up at that time, it felt like we had no idea where we were headed. Directionless, and questioning the societally traditional path to “happiness” in life. The decade ended on an optimistic note for me, but the years prior were spent wandering and wondering. It honestly felt like our generation needed a few extra years to discover ourselves and mature, when compared to previous generations.
All these years later, I still fall for redheads that can sing.
Tori Amos cemented my type when I was 12 and it hasn't changed yet.
I've spent the last few weeks going back through Tori's early music. I knew that there was a song that resonated deeply with me and would help me grasp how I've been feeling for such a long time. 2020 has weirdly been a "pretty good year" and a very formative one. Spent alot of time in solitude, tracing back those formative years and maybe... finally... At 45 I feel I have a purpose I'm not lost and have all the jigsaw peices in their place. I'm not a perfect man (who is?) quite flawed really! But I now know I can be my best and it's actually good enough for me!
I've been drawn back to her early music lately, too.
Tears on the sleeve of a man
Don't want to be a boy today
Heard the eternal footman
Bought himself a bike to race
And Greg he writes letters and burns his CDs
They say you were something in those formative years
Hold onto nothing as fast as you can
Well still pretty good year
Maybe a bright sandy beach
Is gonna bring you back
Maybe not so now you're off
You're gonna see America
Well let me tell you something about America
Pretty good year
Some things are melting now
Well what's it gonna take till my baby's alright
And Greg he writes letters with his birthday pen
Sometimes he's aware that they're drawing him in
Lucy was pretty your best friend agreed
Well still pretty good year
Still my fav Tori song. Everytime I hear it is like the first time. Spellbinding
This song is absolutely brilliant.
She is just everything.
Those days were amazing! Look at her, not like the people/artists of today. She is just Tori! No heavy crazy make-up, her clothing is a representation of her... Beautiful
Love you Tori Amos
Can we just take a moment to recognize Eric Rosse for his incredible work on the first two Tori Amos albums, which still stand head & shoulders above as the best albums Tori has made. Surely the end of their relationship was painful, but the fruits of their labor together remain with us.
I would honestly place Boys For Pele at the top of my list (done after Eric’s departure), but Little Earthquakes and Under The Pink tie for second.
@lil minch completely agreed!
@lil minch Choirgirl wins everything forever
what about "y kant tori read"
Damn ! I miss this !!! Bittersweet memories of the 90's.
you've gotten me through some pretty tough times, Tori. I love you. like a sister. Pretty big words for a little girls like me. Saw you in concert at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Best concert ever. Three standing ovations... made up for how late you were you prima donna ;) lol
I've never played piano before but her playing is exactly how I like it to sound.
I had a great year. I feel more great years are coming.
Still this song is my absolute favourite by her. I can´t with so much beauty. And that voice...
Beautiful soul this woman has.....
This song is amazing…still listening in 2022!
I'm listening to Tori Amos Pretty Good Year near the end of May 2022
Her voice gives me "the dots" (my grandson's term for goose bumps).
i haven’t seen this music video in ages….. What a flawless song 👍👍
Neither have I until now Tori Amos Pretty Good Year
She must have shot the video for this song along with other vids from her first album. They are all so similar and beautiful in their starkness.
All directed by Cindy Palmano!
She's so brilliant!
This song saved my life.
She is an actual artist and nowadays that is so hard to find someone that speaks actually for the masses and not just for themselves and for their own monetary gain it's incredible how lucky we were as teens etc... and how sorry I feel for the future and not that I'm saying all nowadays artists are irrelevant just that I wish that they could feel what she helped us feel and deal with what we needed when we needed it most and I hope to God that the younger generation has an artist that does the same for them at some point.
I know exactly how you feel. Tori’s music helped me get through some really hard bits of my life. She helped me understand myself better, helped me let go of the abusive religion I was born into, helped me deal with the abuse I suffered in childhood and as a teen, helped me to leave an abusive relationship. She helped me have the strength to stand up for myself and believe I deserved to be loved and, more importantly, to love myself. She’s definitely the voice of a generation of girls and women, and I’m sure more than a few men. She’s one of a kind and I’m so happy and grateful I got to experience her music and viewpoint for almost the past 30 year and, hopefully, another 30.
There are a few artists I feel the newer generations are appreciating the same way we are. Billy Eilish is one who seems to have that level of introspection, a bit less catering to the record companies and a bit more true to herself and her experiences. In my opinion, anyway. Also Hozier, his music is incredible.
@@sphereofblue so glad she helped you like she's helped me through things hopefully she can help the next generation as well God willing. .
Janelle Monae!
Everything in this tears my soul to peices. I cry whenever I hear this, same with Jackie's Strength, Silent All These Years, China, and 1000 Years
Here in 2021 reliving my youth.
I'm listening to Tori Amos Pretty Good Year late March 2022
Every now and then, I come back to this song. Essential!
This song takes me off somewhere. Tori's the best.
It’s finally back to 1996 on Mackinac Island in Michigan. Working as a Night Auditor at the Murray Hotel. My 18yo self was so confused as to why he had to leave home because he was already hooked on cocaine and alcohol before graduation, because when he did those he could love his girlfriend. But my parents found out about my true live, Scott (he was my first love from 8th - 11th grade) so I ended up on this beautiful/magical island for the summer. Spent nights twirling through the halls of the Murray Hotel & Inn On Mackinac to this album. The greatest summer of my life with the just amazing people. I miss 1996.
A great...year,tori❤
The heartbreak and the success .....have resonated within me since this song came out. Bittersweet ? ...Regardless her songs have carried me through more hurt then most people can understand.
I love you, Tori!!!❤
Happy 60th Birthday 🎂 to Tori Amos!!!!Pretty Good Year!
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Shes ethereal, so mesmerizingly beautiful
@Shystichu Tori Amos Pretty Good Year is one of my personal favorite song
Truly 💯
"dont wanna be a boy today" was in my head since I heard this song when I was about 14
now Im living as a woman and it feels so right, took way too long to get here im 34 but im thankful to be hearing this again
thanks Tori
@DJ DaveRave aka Dave Gordon
God bless you for being a good soul.
Stay strong, my friend, you are not alone.
💗
Live your best life 💖
Oh how I love her music!
Thank You Tori for this song! Have no words... Thank You 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
she is beyond AMAZING
Heard this song long ago but now it finally hits home and describes my life all these years later. Still.. pretty good year.
I agree. somthings take age...
and are melting now. still a pretty good year ☺
2:12 is the most badass thing ever
Awesome. Beautiful arrangement and string section. Well done. I'm a rock fan but this is a 'keeper' of a song!
+Gary Fass same but hey good music is good music,,, I share this with my rock friends and they don't given her a second look....MAYNARD LOVES HER ,, they're good friends
Rachel Rosemary true! So did Trent Reznor, big influences on each other. I consider her as rock and roll as anybody! Maybe not as heavy, but the spirit is there (and sometimes just as heavy, on tracks like Professional Widow). Love her!
Rachel Rosemary
I’m assuming you’ve seen their duet of Mohammed My Friend? If not, look it up IMMEDIATELY!! I loved Tori and Tool separately before I ever knew there was a connection. Knowing that just makes it all the better!
Just realized she foreshadowed two albums in the lyrics of this song:
Chiorgirl: “maybe a break sandy beach is going to bring you back”
Scarlet’s Walk: “So now your off you’re gonna see America”
American Doll Posse: "Well let me tell you something about America..."
I don't get the Choirgirl part. The others, of course. I've had every single album of hers up until recently. Played those albums out. What am I missing?
@@OpalMoonstone247 Choirgirl was a convalescence she took after the heartbreak of miscarriage, one that she took from Sunny Florida
I can’t listen to her songs sometimes. They are so pretty they make my cry.
Tori, thank you so much for bringing us such beautiful music. I truly Love you! Wow still listening after 20 years 💕
@sherri9187 Tori Amos Pretty Good Year is one of my personal favorite song
Timeless.
What a beautiful video, lights and colors. Very contemporary taste.
I listen to this every December 31st, for perspective.
Whenever I play this song, it instantly puts me exactly right back to where I was so many many moons ago. It’s incredible, how much I’m still precisely the same girl, yet somehow through the dark curtains of pain and suffering and just generally living, I’m also someone else now. And yet even still, some things are melting now…….if anyone only knew how much I long to just only be that same girl once again, the oblivious one, the blissfully ignorant one that I used to be. Nothing I tell you, nothing is as one would perceive it to be, back then, I honestly thought the world was perfect. It’s only after living, that one comes to realize just exactly who the wizard behind the curtain is. 🌚🌚🌚
This and Past the Mission are the two best songs on the album. One of the best albums of the 90s.
Yes, Anastasia is the best song on the album!
@@mirroredheart7292 Tori Amos Pretty Good Year is one of my personal favorite song
I hope everyone has a pretty good yearl let's go 2024
I’m listening to Tori Amos Pretty Good Year late December 2023! With only 9 days left of 2023 until 2024 and 2 days left until Christmas!
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Love this beautiful song and video 💙🤎💗❤💜💚🖤💛🧡🤍
Honestly what hits harder than that first "heyyyyy?"
I selected the components of my high-end audio-system (o.a. Meredian and Sonus Faber) with this song (and album). As a sound engineer I used to play this song to do the corrections on the FOH system. (more than) Beautiful song and album, great production. Timeless.
I bought Under The Pink when it first came out (after I saw the video for God). I was going though a tough time in my life and I felt she was an angel singing directly to me.
Tori we love you ❤ 🔥
She sings a true story of her life from her heart I feel every pain and release. Perhaps I should not have kept listening after watching lord of the rings extended I think I've gone overboard am a reck in tears bringing back so many memories of my childhood. Love you so much xx
this is crystal clear poetry for the soul!
@jdribeiero Tori Amos Pretty Good Year is one of my personal favorite song
Tori Amos Pretty Good Year is one of my personal favorite song
damn 30 ish years later and still AMAZING!!!
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I like this one because it shows the power in simplicity. Such a lovely video...and the song itself is like, a, look on the bright side sort of positive vibe, a thank you retrospective postcard........
This is an incredible song for the end of 2020 in the US! Thanks for the emotional dam- breaker! Quite cathartic and much appreciated 🙏
"Some things are melting now...". Yeah, Tori. My heart.
Was hearing this in my head.
Pretty good year... Amidst a pandemic. But still. Pretty good year.
Timeless
My sweet Tori!
Part of my ongoing new years ritual even if the year doesn't feel even pretty good. Happy 2022 to all. ♥️
I'm listening to Tori Amos Pretty Good Year first day of April 2022 April's Fools Day
I added this song from Tori Amos into a playlist that I made on Spotify which is called, "New Year's songs." 🎊
The meaning...pick a part...❤
God she is insanely Gorgeous!!!
My Holy Trinity of the 90's- Tori, Natalie Merchant and Sarah Mclachlan.
Sarah Mclachlan beautiful voice
Mine would be P J Harvey, Tori and Bjork
...and Heather Nova😍
Tori, Tool, Nirvana
Good choices !
amen Tori!
This is stunning, she's such a naturally performer too.
TORI AMOS - UNDER THE PINK
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted. She had to leave at the age of eleven when her scholarship was discontinued for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination". Amos was the lead singer of the short-lived 1980s pop group Y Kant Tori Read before achieving her breakthrough as a solo artist in the early 1990s. Her songs focus on a broad range of topics, including sexuality, feminism, politics, and religion. Her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", "Spark", "1000 Oceans", "Flavor" and "A Sorta Fairytale", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date. Amos has received five MTV VMA nominations and eight Grammy Award nominations, and won an Echo Klassik award for her Night of Hunters classical crossover album. She is listed on VH1's 1999 "100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll" at number 71. ❤️💯‼️
And I have the great honor of having in my discography two CD-albums by this talented artist, LITTLE EARTHQUAKES (1992) and UNDER THE PINK (1994). ❤️💯‼️
Under the Pink is the second studio album by singer-songwriter Tori Amos. Upon its release in January 1994, the album debuted atop the UK Albums Chart on the back of the hit single "Cornflake Girl", and peaked at number 12 in the US. The album was certified double Platinum in the US by the RIAA in October 1999, for sales exceeding 2 million copies. It was the 61st highest-selling album of 1994 in the UK and was certified platinum by the BPI in February 2007, for sales exceeding 300,000 copies. Under the Pink was included in Blender magazine's list of 500 CDs You Must Own, and was voted among the greatest albums of the 1990s by Rolling Stone magazine some years later. A special double-disc tour edition was released exclusively in Australia and New Zealand in November 1994, titled More Pink: The B-Sides. ❤️💯‼️
"Pretty Good Year"
Released: March 7, 1994 (UK)
[Verse 1]
Tears on the sleeve of a man
Don't want to be a boy today
I heard the eternal footman
Bought himself a bike to race
[Pre-Chorus]
And Greg he writes letters and burns his CDs
They say you were something in those formative years
Hold onto nothing as fast as you can
[Chorus]
Well, still, pretty good year
Pretty good
[Verse 2]
Maybe a bright sandy beach
Is gonna bring you back, back, back
Maybe not, so now you're off
You're gonna see America
Well let me tell you something about America
[Chorus]
Pretty good year
A-ha, pretty good
[Bridge]
Some things are melting now
Some things are melting now
Well, hey, what's it gonna take
Till my baby's alright?
What's it gonna take
Till my baby's alright?
[Pre-Chorus]
Greg, he writes letters with his birthday pen
Sometimes he's aware that they're drawing him in
Lucy was pretty, your best friend agreed
[Chorus]
Well, still, pretty good year
A-ha, pretty good
A-ha, pretty good year
Produced by Tori Amos & Eric Rosse
Written by Tori Amos
Album UNDER THE PINK (1994)
Pretty good 👍 year indeed 😊😊😮😮😮
Gorgeous!
I havent listened to tori for quite some time beautiful songs by her