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Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998)
	Album details
	Label:     Ref#: rock-0017 Date: 1998   Category: misc Length: 54:11     Format: CD   Record Store Day:   Audio: Stereo   Album Collection Title:   Genre: Singer/Songwriter   Album Collection Disc Nbr:
Notes/Reviews
For Tori Amos, sex can be a weapon, a spiritual offering, or an act of protest. It's certainly been the singer-pianist's big subject since her 1989 debut Little Earthquakes. But while her earliest compositions tried to punch every emotional hot button at once and came off sounding turgid and overblown, her new album packs a greater punch by toning down mock-symphonic excess in favor of stark, haunting tracks that contain veiled mysteries. Love cuts both ways on Choirgirl. Songs such as "She's Your Cocaine" and "Cruel" view relationships as vicious power plays, while the protagonists in "Playboy Mommy" and "Northern Lad" desperately seek salvation via emotional connection. Hypnotic, affecting, and frequently gorgeous, From the Choirgirl Hotel is Amos's most accomplished album to date. --Marc Weingarten
Songs/Tracks
1.   Spark  4:14 2.   Cruel  4:07 3.   Black-Dove (January)  4:38 4.   Raspberry Swirl  3:58 5.   Jackie's Strength  4:26 6.   i i e e e  4:07 7.   Liquid Diamonds  6:21 8.   She's Your Cocaine  3:42 9.   Northern Lad  4:19 10.   Hotel  5:19 11.   Playboy Mommy  4:08 12.   Pandora's Aquarium  4:46
Recording/Credits

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