Tori Amos - Creep (live) has been added as a related post - related requested by lucky760.

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Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by lucky760.

Holy cow. Great. *quality

Found this the first time just now via @Zawash's Tori Amos live cover.

One of the first songs that really reached me in my formative years.

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I don't envy you, taking on my queue. It's full of audio sifts of my music tastes, which are eclectic to say the least. Not very crowd pleasing material! Thank you for any efforts on my behalf.
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Why, thank you kindly, sir!
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I don't have a hundred million power points, so my efforts to get your ruby will be a bit slower... :

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Why, thank you kindly, sir!
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I don't have a hundred million power points, so my efforts to get your ruby will be a bit slower...

Why, thank you kindly, sir!
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i like this as much as i hate tori amos, which is a lot

>> ^deputydog:
A hint of Tori Amos. Lovin' the trumpets.


Not trumpets. Trombones.

I thought you'd say something along those lines

How am I supposed to be #1 RNR all time if Tori cant be RNR??

Im back-ish.. not feeling that tingly business in my no no area about it anymore, but we will see

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Tori is fantastic. And she is a musical genre herself, a strange combination of sensuality, soul and parts yet to be discovered. Nothing as simple as rock'n'roll though.

Good to see you posting vids again, ivy

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love Tori. I wanted to put this is rnr but wasnt sure if you'd allow it

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Tori Amos is awesome. Neil Gaiman is one of her closest friends and he partly based one of his best characters on her.

Tori is fantastic. And she is a musical genre herself, a strange combination of sensuality, soul and parts yet to be discovered. Nothing as simple as rock'n'roll though.

Good to see you posting vids again, ivy

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love Tori. I wanted to put this is rnr but wasnt sure if you'd allow it

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Tori Amos is awesome. Neil Gaiman is one of her closest friends and he partly based one of his best characters on her.

Tori Amos is awesome. Neil Gaiman is one of her closest friends and he partly based one of his best characters on her.

My life according to: Tori Amos!

Are you a male or female? Cornflake Girl

Describe yourself: Playboy Mommy

How do you feel? Caught a Lite Sneeze

Describe where you currently live: China

If you could go anywhere, where would you go?: Little Amsterdam

Your favorite form of transportation: Horses

Your best friend is: Father Lucifer

You and your best friends are: Beauty Queen[s]

What's the weather like? Raspberry Swirl

Favorite time of day: Bouncing off Clouds

If your life was a TV show, what would it be called?: Putting the Damage On

What is life to you: Liquid Diamonds

Your current relationship: In the Springtime of his Voodoo

Your fear: Blood Roses

What is the best advice you have to give? Take to the Sky

Thought for the Day: Hey Jupiter

How I would like to die: Me and a Gun

My soul's present condition: Professional Widow

My motto: Pretty Good Year

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Westy and gwiz665, you both make a good point. What you're speaking of could be called "emotional economy". It's the idea that we only place emotional investment in those close to us - those whom we expect will in return invest emotionally in us. This is the natural way of human civilization, and it is an important psychological defense mechanism. For instance, as i write this, someone somewhere in the world just died. If all people could feel the death of all other people (or creatures in general), we would all be overwhelmed by the constant flood of pain and emotion.

However, you fail to understand the nature of the situation. And while it is important to have a rational outlook on the subject of celebrities, it is also important to understand this next concept:

When you kill an animal for food (or buy a packaged, pre-killed, animal product) it is healthy to thank that animal for giving its life to sustain your own. Too many people thank God, or some other thing, but thanking the animal - so that you understand your own place in the natural order - is the true purpose of saying grace before eating.

Without that thanks, and without the understanding that comes with genuine gratitude for the sacrifice of another life for your own, a person begins to devalue the life of the creature they killed. The devaluation continues and grows in its own way, until eventually that person (and all people) come to believe themselves to be above less intelligent forms of life. Understand: Just because humans are higher on the food chain doesn't mean you are any more significant than a deer - or a bee. Or even a virus.

It is not possible to understand the meaning of this overnight. It is a kind of insight that must grow in you until the meaning becomes clear on its own. It is the same as when your parents push you to say "please" and "thank you" and to show respect in general and have good manners. As a very young child, you don't understand the necessity. But as you grow older and gain experience with other people and social situations, you begin to understand that the words "please", "thank you", "excuse me", "i'm sorry", and so on, have a deeper purpose that goes beyond mere manners.

And so it is with emotional expression. People form attachments to artists and performers. These attachments are, in truth, almost always made to the image that the artist is projecting of him- or herself. But even that projected image is a part of the person. Just as importantly however, it should be understood that celebrities /become/ celebrities not just because of the link between their image and their fans, but also because of the links between people who share a love or interest in what that famous person is doing. People tend to congregate around ideas (and ideals). That's why going to church is so popular. People could worship in the privacy of their own homes, yet many choose to go to a church (or temple, etc). Why? Because of the social aspect. Because of the shared links, not just between the congregation and the topic at hand, but also between all the people present! It is this way with all things.

Understand further that a person's emotional investment itself is so often times tied directly to some event in their life. Perhaps someone experienced her first kiss while Elvis was playing on the radio in the background. Perhaps a close family member died 20 or 30 years ago, and at that time, that person heard a song that echoed the same feelings he or she was feeling at that moment. There was a sense that "Yes, someone else out there /knows/ what i'm going through. Their lyrics comfort me. Their melody is a catharsis of my very soul." There's a gratitude there. And now that the musician has died, it is as if the person has lost a piece of themselves.

It may not seem rational, but it is most certainly logical.

Understand finally that this emotional connection to a person's outward persona is a fine and necessary substitution for having a direct emotional connection to them. (Regardless of whether they're a so-called "celebrity" or not.) The problem isn't that we have too much of that, it's that we don't have enough of it going around to more people. And what we do have is too often abused by unscrupulous journalism (ie: "The Media"). Perhaps you would find it interesting to know that i personally have more emotional resonance with Tori Amos than i do with any one of my blood kin. She and i don't know each other personally, but her actions (her music) have helped me through situations that none of them would or could have (and in fact, some of those situations were caused by them).

There's so much more that could be said on this subject, though i will simply close with this: All things in moderation. Balance.

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