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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Mar 16, 2007 15:02:00 GMT -5
I like the font but don't really like the cover. It would look like a good insert picture but not the cover.
And 23 tracks? Naw.
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Post by Glove Slap on Mar 16, 2007 15:20:03 GMT -5
The theme of the cover does make sense with the title, but it does look rather fan made.
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Post by microcuts on Mar 16, 2007 15:30:10 GMT -5
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Post by SHOOTER on Mar 16, 2007 17:51:42 GMT -5
That is the album cover and some of those 23 tracks are interludes. I personally can't wait for this album.
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Post by vinyl on Mar 16, 2007 17:53:50 GMT -5
The album cover is special. I like it. I think.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Mar 16, 2007 19:17:57 GMT -5
That is the album cover and some of those 23 tracks are interludes. I personally can't wait for this album.
Apparantly the album is coming with a DVD as well and 3 of the tracks are on that. The album has already been confirmed with 20?
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Post by MusicMan88 on Mar 19, 2007 20:36:51 GMT -5
It has been confirmed to have 20 tracks, yes. A few fans have actually heard/reviewed the record already.
The DVD will have three bonus tracks, apparently.
And no official cover has been chosen yet.
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Post by oscillations. on Mar 19, 2007 20:43:59 GMT -5
Any HQ versions of these promo pics yet? I need to make icons from them for a special LJ order, lol.
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Post by MusicMan88 on Mar 19, 2007 23:21:48 GMT -5
undented has some better quality pics than what are posted in this thread but nothing super HQ has been posted.
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Post by microcuts on Mar 20, 2007 16:45:01 GMT -5
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Post by MusicMan88 on Mar 21, 2007 20:53:46 GMT -5
www.undented.comUndented has the official cover, tracklist for the album! More info about the concept is available as well. Tori's official mailing list sent out an audio snippet of Tori talking about the album. Five characters total - Santa, Clyde, Isabelle, Tori, and Pip. Each woman gets to "speak" on the record (through song of course). The picture of all five members of the Posse is really hot. I can't wait to see more!
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Post by SHOOTER on Mar 22, 2007 0:33:26 GMT -5
I'm in love with it.
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Post by microcuts on Mar 22, 2007 11:44:57 GMT -5
Why can't Tori just be Tori anymore? I'm worried she really has Dissociative Identity Disorder or something, heh.
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Post by JJ on Mar 22, 2007 17:35:22 GMT -5
I think she gets bored really easily with herself. Does she have a family? Anyone know?
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Post by tortuga on Mar 22, 2007 21:36:13 GMT -5
I think she gets bored really easily with herself. Does she have a family? Anyone know? What a stupid question, of course she does.
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Post by SHOOTER on Mar 22, 2007 22:09:21 GMT -5
How old is her daughter now?
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Post by JJ on Mar 23, 2007 13:14:38 GMT -5
I think she gets bored really easily with herself. Does she have a family? Anyone know? What a stupid question, of course she does. Ok, wow, I meant is she married, does she have kids? No need to get nasty.
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Post by tortuga on Mar 23, 2007 20:53:09 GMT -5
ok, sorry. and to answer your questions. Yes and yes. Her daughter is 6 years old.
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Post by SHOOTER on Mar 23, 2007 22:23:46 GMT -5
Awww. I bet she's adorable.
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Post by MusicMan88 on Mar 23, 2007 22:41:02 GMT -5
Check out Undented again for a link to hear not only the full version of Big Wheel (which is the first single), but also a ROCKING clip of Teenage Hustling! The song is probably the most rock-oriented song Tori has ever done! It's fantastic.
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Post by SHOOTER on Mar 23, 2007 22:59:20 GMT -5
I love "Big Wheel"!!!!!
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Post by Callmeatomic on Mar 24, 2007 23:10:11 GMT -5
Teenage Hustling is so great. I've tried to get into Tori in the past but it failed mostly. This song is amazing by the sound of it so far.
Big Wheel is pretty good.
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Post by banet2001 on Apr 5, 2007 9:35:47 GMT -5
Tori Amos Forms Anti-Bush Posse By Mutating Into Greek Goddesses 'As a woman, I needed to stand up,' singer/songwriter says. For the better part of her 20-year career, piano-bench-straddling singer/songwriter Tori Amos has touched upon a wide range of loaded subjects β including sexuality, patriarchy and personal tragedy β over the course of her eight studio LPs. The redhead has also strongly criticized organized religion, specifically Christianity, through her impassioned lyrics. Now, she is setting her cerebral crosshairs on the realm of politics. Of course, when it comes to taking a stand against the state of international affairs, it seems like there's no time like the present, with artists like BjΓΆrk, Nine Inch Nails and Muse β to name just a few β baring their fangs. Thanks to a certain someone β cough ... President George W. Bush ... cough β Amos couldn't help herself to do the same. "Frankly, as a woman, and as a woman who wrote 'Silent All These Years' , I needed to stand up," Amos explained. "It seemed to me that, sometimes, the material wanted to be overtly political. Sometimes the material wanted to be cheeky and seductive. Sometimes it wanted to be heartbreaking and deal with the inner world of women.
"The way to really combat the right wing is to not be subservient to them on any level, particularly when it comes to ideology," she continued. "Therefore, you better offer up another ideology that can combat theirs, and as a preacher's daughter, I understand their ideology inside and out. Frankly, they've all hijacked Jesus and his message. I'm sorry, but 'Love thy neighbor as yourself' is nowhere to be found, especially in our current regime, who, in the name of God, is sending our young men and women to die over there [in the Middle East]."
Amos' forthcoming album American Doll Posse is due in stores May 1 and leads off with "Yo George." In the track, Amos wonders, "Where have we gone wrong America?" and asks, "Is this just the madness of King George?" She then blasts the president's job performance, singing ever so gently, "You have the whole nation on all fours." The record's closer, "Dark Side of the Sun," an anti-war anthem, asks, "How many young men have to lay down their life and their love of their woman for some sick promise of a heaven?"
"If for one minute the generation who is about old enough and eligible to vote thinks this is about one person, then we're all very foolish," Amos said. "We need to wake up and realize that just because we think we're in a democracy, there is a little bit of a seduction there. They're not overtly burning books and they're not doing this and that, but they're doing exactly what they want to do, and we're distracted. It's funny β they're not burning books, they're just throwing more information at us, and drowning us in it. You have to be able to think for yourself and not get manipulated."
But in order to make her political statement, Amos called on "Isabel," one of the four archetypes she developed for the disc. Each of these archetypes symbolizes a particular side of her musical personality, and each is based on one of the female constituents of the Greek pantheon. Isabel, Amos explained, is a photographer and a reflection of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. Clyde, who was inspired by Persephone, the goddess of the underworld, embodies the singer's emotional and idealistic side. There's also Pip, the confrontational "warrior woman" based on Athena, and Santa, the sensual side of the artist, who was inspired by Aphrodite.
"Maybe they've been gestating inside of me for many years now, and it's taken till I got to a certain place in order to be able to mine them and excavate them from the recesses of my unconscious," Amos said of her multiple personas. "I don't know the why of it, but I do know that usually, I make records that have one single thread and a theme coming from one narrative. [On] most of the records, there's usually a center focus. But this was not that, and therefore, because there were so many varied styles coming in, I brought the band in early, knowing that we had to develop them from the ground up, and that some of these songs were much more guitar-biased than they were singer/songwriter-biased. I guess it was the producer in me that had to say, 'OK, the singer/songwriter's going to have to take a back seat some of the time here,' and I was really fine with that. After so many records, it's good to change it up."
When Amos heads out on the road in support of American Doll Posse, she said she'll step aside and let "all of these women" β each of whom has a specific look and fashion sense β take the stage. "So, the shows will start with one of the four women that isn't Tori, and then Tori will take the stage about a third into the concert," she explained.
More than anything, though, Amos said American Doll Posse is a psychological exploration.
"It's not just, 'I'm going to wake up and play dress-up today,' " she said. "I think it's fair to say that all women are a different percentage of these archetypes, and each culture has different versions of these if you're a rich culture. And if you were around before the monotheistic authority, [when] God came and then suppressed the power of the mother gods, these women at one time were powerful and autonomous and part of the pantheon as well as the male gods. Now, of course, there's just one guy, and the women are subservient to him. I find this incredibly myopic. We have access to this rich culture as women, and we need to open ourselves up."
www.vh1.com/news/articles/1556300/20070404/amos_tori.jhtml
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Post by MusicMan88 on Apr 6, 2007 13:01:35 GMT -5
www.musicload.de/item.ml?releaseid=2313733_2Clips of the entire album! It's 20 tracks plus 3 bonus songs that are actually on the album as opposed to the limited edition or a second disc. The quality is terrible so I am not going to listen to them. But I thought I'd let people know who don't care about the quality of clips! The general consensus seems to be mostly positive. A few people who have heard the full album say the clips are not really representative of the album and that the full thing sounds WAY better!
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Post by busyboy on Apr 19, 2007 13:38:24 GMT -5
It has leaked, apparently...
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Apr 19, 2007 15:46:25 GMT -5
It has leaked, apparently... It has leaked very widely.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Apr 30, 2007 15:03:33 GMT -5
Music Review: The many sides of Amos By KIMBERLY REYES, For The Associated Press Mon Apr 30 Tori Amos, "American Doll Posse" (Epic): Always somewhat schizophrenic in sound and lyrics, Tori Amos decided to write the tracks for her ninth album from the perspective of five distinct characters: Pip, Isabel, Clyde, Santa, and Tori. Produced by Amos, this album evokes the heavier and more energetic music of her early '90s heyday, while introducing a more ornate (hello electric guitars!) musical landscape to tackle both inner and international conflicts.
Although the different personalities are hard to differentiate at first, the 43-year-old provocateur uses the persona of Isobel to voice her disgust with the incumbent administration in tracks like "Dark Side of the Sun" and "Yo George" in which she declares, "And I sneeze 'cause I have now an allergy to your policies it seems." Things tend to get interesting when Amos focuses her disdain on something β patriarchal values or George Bush.
Still, melodic and powerful tracks like "Roosterspur Bridge" and "Girl Disappearing" prove that the album would have been better served if left in the hands of doe-eyed Clyde, whom Amos gave the most inspired tracks. Instead we get quantity over quality. The time put into crafting the four other guises should have been used to focus on the type of coy bewilderment that Amos does best.
CHECK THIS OUT: "Bouncing Off Clouds" is bursting with the melody, melodrama and a whimsical innocence that we haven't seen from Amos (by way of Clyde) in years.
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Post by MusicMan88 on Apr 30, 2007 17:16:15 GMT -5
It is such a fantastic album. It's officially released tomorrow! I pre-ordered on iTunes so I should have it at midnight tonight.
If you're interested in picking it up tomorrow, get it at Borders! It comes with an extra track called Drive All Night.
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Post by tortuga on Apr 30, 2007 21:06:14 GMT -5
It doesn't feel like its coming out. I know its not gonna got to #1 or #2 because of Ne-Yo and Avril but I wonder where it will debut.
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Post by itsaboutart on May 1, 2007 3:45:06 GMT -5
I got this album a couple of days ago and it is so wicked. I luv Teenage Hustling, Big Wheel and Mr Bad Man but im sure that'll change. I dont think this album is gonna get top 10. And thats ok. I dont think thats what it about with Tori. Altho i do hope it can sell 400k in total. I totally hate the big wheel vid (if u could call it that) - it had the potential to be smoking. Oh well bring on the next one...
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