Re: Love-Hounds digest V12 #34

[RansomGroup1@eworld.com]

Alan Stonebridge writes:

>Don't get me wrong, I 
>like Tori a lot, but I think "Little Earthquakes" and "Under the Pink" 
>work much better because they contain far less in actual numbers of 
>songs. It's not that they are written any better than BfP.


That's interesting. While not taking away from "Under the Pink", which 
was a fine album, and not having heard BfP, I was struck by "Little 
Earthquakes" (after having already heard several Tori EPs), and thought, 
and still think, that was one of the best albums I had ever heard, 
certainly one of the best first, album-length efforts by a new artist I 
had ever heard in my life; simple so good that "Under the Pink", while 
being perfectly all right, could still not hold a candle to it.

This is not just to Alan, however. I've gotten the feeling from the 
discussions that almost nobody has this take on Tori, and I was curious 
if I was a complete mutant.

Actually, after having heard "Under the Pink", I thought "Little 
Earthquakes" might be a lot like Thomas Dolby's "Golden Age of Wireless" 
-- so good at being what it is that a follow up begs comparison and 
rarely reaches the same degree of personal and/or popular and/or 
ciritical success of the previous work.

In my humble personal opinion, the emotional range and quality of "Little 
Earthquakes" (Particularly with songs like "China" and "Everybody Else's 
Girl") is just hard to beat.

Kevin S. Willis
http://www.ransomgroup.com/al_phlipp/