| Name | Boys for Pele | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Type | studio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Artist | Tori Amos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cover | ToriAmosBoysforPelealbumcover.jpg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | 23 January 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | Ireland, 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Alternative rock, baroque pop, experimental pop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 70:09 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Atlantic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Producer | Tori Amos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last album | Under the Pink(1994) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This album | Boys for Pele(1996) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Next album | From the Choirgirl Hotel(1998) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Boys for Pele is the third studio album by American singer and song-writer Tori Amos. Preceded by the first single, "Caught a Lite Sneeze", by three weeks, the album was released on 22 January 1996, in the United Kingdom and on 23 January, in the United States. Despite the album being Amos’ least accessible material to radio to date, Amos explained, "In my relationships with men, I was always musician enough, but not woman enough, I always met men in my life as a musician, and there would be magic, adoration. But then it would wear off. All of us want to be adored, even for five minutes a day, and nothing these men gave me was ever enough." After a trip to Hawaii and learning about legendary volcano goddess Pele, the album began taking shape and the songs represented stealing fire from the men in her life as well as a journey to finding her own fire as a woman. Along this journey, Amos, who has openly discussed her experiences with hallucinogenic drugs, particularly in relation to Boys for Pele, took drugs with a South American shaman and visited the devil. Such experiences led her to write the track "Father Lucifer."
Theme and lyrical contentTwo underlying currents run through Boys for Pele: exploring the role of women in both patriarchal religion and relationships. Amos had previously written songs in a religious and/or theological context ("Crucify" from Little Earthquakes (1992), "God" from Under the Pink), but her viewpoint takes a particularly feminist slant on this album. "The feminine part of God has been circumcised out of all religions... God (is) a patriarchal force, a very masculine energy, with the feminine having been subservient, either being the mother, the lover, the virgin, but never the equal, never to have the whole." Amos said of the title. Amos herself has described the album as a novel, as a "story of the descent of a woman to gain her passion and gain her compassion," looking for fragments of herself and being suppressed. Songs such as "Blood Roses," "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Hey Jupiter," "Doughnut Song" and "Putting the Damage On" deal directly with the aftermath of a break-up and a woman's reflection on the failed relationship."Blood Roses", which Amos had initially intended to serve as the opening track to the album, finds the singer scorned over a failed relationship, belting out lines such as, "can't forget the things you never said" and "I've shaved every place where you've been boy". Regarding "Caught a Lite Sneeze", Amos says, "the whole current is doing anything so that you don't have to face yourself. Nothing is enough"; but the bulk of the record was recorded in a church in County Wicklow, Ireland, as well as in New Orleans, Louisiana. Given her religious upbringing, Amos was drawn to record in a church, not in anger, but "with the intention of wholeness and of bringing a fragmented woman back to freedom." “so I figured if I was going to claim my womanhood, my passion, and sing this record - which, for me, was claiming fragments that I had suppressed for a long time - then I was going to go back to a church, back to the old world, to do it.” Due to the logistics of the space, Amos stood to perform on the harpsichord and piano. The time it took for her to turn around accounts for the break in music heard in "Caught a Lite Sneeze" when switching between instruments. Amos can be heard entering the box at the beginning of the first track, "Beauty Queen", and the Leslie effect is made obvious as it is switched on and off during different parts of "Horses", itself a continuous piano piece, allowing for a clear comparison in the piano's sound with and without the cabinet.
Marketing and promotionIn late 1995, Atlantic released a promotional-only CD in Germany and America simply titled "Tori Amos", under catalog number PRCD-6535-2. "New Music from Tori Amos..." appeared on the front cover, and upon opening the jewel case, "...is coming soon" appears on the back of the insert. The release is a 9-track promotional compilation of Amos’ singles from her first two solo albums, meant for radio stations to play to generate interest in the forthcoming album. (Interestingly, the track "Precious Things" is mislabeled as "These Precious Things" on both the CD and the back cover. Additionally the tracks list "Crucify (Remix)" with a time of 4:58 when in fact the album version plays.) The cover photo features Amos in a green tank top sporting an armband tattoo and lying on a camouflage blanket.The album’s first single, "Caught a Lite Sneeze", was released commercially and to radio stations on 2 January 1996, a full three weeks prior to the album’s release. This is a marketing tactic often used to build anticipation for a forthcoming album, and a sticker accompanying the US single blatantly acknowledged this: "Hear the first new music from Tori in over 2 years!" From the start, Amos’ marketing team has made use of the Internet to market and promote new music. Since the Internet was more sophisticated in early 1996 when Boys for Pele was released than it had been two years earlier upon the release of Under the Pink, it was an essential marketing tool for promoting the album. Some reviews provided links to the Atlantic homepage or to Amos’ homepage to listen to audio clips from the album, while others panned its overt and excessive self-indulgence while Rolling Stone went as far to bluntly say that most of the album's lyrics are "ultimately mystifying and, well, bad". One reviewer observed that Amos' unfettered creativity from serving as her own producer cost the album its accessibility. For Amos, it's not about making radio-friendly music with universal lyrics, she explained, "a song is only part lyrics and, for me anyway, more than 50% music, easy. There's so much subtext in the music that's part of the story."
Track listing
B-sidesThe writing process and recording session for Boys for Pele is one of Amos' most prolific. Between the songs that were included on the album, included as B-sides, and included in later compilations, Amos composed and recorded approximately 35 songs during this time.{|class="wikitable" style="float:left" ! Title ! Length ! Single |- | "Graveyard" | align="center"|0:56 | rowspan="7" align="center"|"Caught a Lite Sneeze" (1996) |- | "Hungarian Wedding Song" | align="center"|1:00 |- | "London Girls" | align="center"|3:20 |- | "Samurai" | align="center"|3:03 |- | "That's What I Like Mick (The Sandwich Song)" | align="center"|2:59 |- | "This Old Man" | align="center"|1:44 |- | "Toodles Mr. Jim" | align="center"|3:09 |- | "Alamo" | align="center"|5:11 | rowspan="4" align="center"|"Talula" (1996) |- | "Amazing Grace/Til The Chicken" | align="center"|6:48 |- | "Frog On My Toe" | align="center"|3:40 |- | "Sister Named Desire" | align="center"|5:29 |- |} The chart on the left lists only the songs that were released as B-sides on singles from Boys for Pele. Many songs written and recorded for Boys for Pele were released in conjunction with subsequent albums or have yet to be released. Three such songs, "Cooling", "Never Seen Blue" and "Beulah Land", were recorded for inclusion on Boys for Pele, but were kept off the album, later released as B-sides on the "Spark" (1998) and "Jackie's Strength" (1998) singles. Other songs were partially written during the Boys for Pele era and finished and released later: "Snow Cherries from France" appears on the Tales of a Librarian (2003) compilation, her final release with Atlantic; "Apollo's Frock" appears on Scarlet's Hidden Treasures (2004); and "Walk to Dublin", which was left off the album after disagreements over the musical structure of the song between Amos and her label, then revisited again during the From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998) recording sessions, was not released until (2006). Another song, "To the Fair Motormaids of Japan", was also recorded during the Boys for Pele recording sessions, but has yet to be released. The Hey Jupiter EP includes live performances of some of Amos' previously-released B-sides, including a cover of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" [sic]. Amos covered "Famous Blue Raincoat" for the Leonard Cohen tribute album, Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen and "I'm on Fire," "Landslide," and "Over the Rainbow" on VH1 Crossroads.
Remixes, reissues and salesThe album debuted at # 2 on the Billboard 200, selling 102,000 copies in its first week, and going on to achieve RIAA Gold certification in the US by early March. making it the highest-charting transatlantic debut of any of Amos' albums. Prior to its release, the album achieved BPI Silver certification in the UK,The success of remixes from this album lead to the album being reissued in both the US and the UK. In the US, the original version of "Talula" was replaced by "Talula (The Tornado Mix)," which incorporates a minor dance beat. In the UK, "Talula (The Tornado Mix)" replaced the original version of the song and a remix of "Professional Widow" was added to the album, immediately following the original version of the song. As a result of the extra "Professional Widow" track, the song "In the Springtime of His Voodoo" was removed completely. "In the Springtime of His Voodoo" was also remixed and released as a dance single, but was a much smaller club success.position |- | Billboard Top 200 (U.S.) | align="center"|2 |- | Official UK Album Chart (UK) | align="center"|2 |- | ARIA Album Chart (Australia) !style="font-size:85%;line-height:1.3;width:4em;vertical-align:top"| Hot Dance Music/Club Play !style="font-size:85%;line-height:1.3;width:4em;vertical-align:top"| UK Top 40 ! style="font-size:85%;line-height:1.3;width:4em;vertical-align:top"| Top 100 Australian Singles ¤ - Denotes sales position on Billboard 200 for Hey Jupiter EP ψ - Denotes position of "Hey Jupiter/Professional Widow" double A-side single
AcclaimDespite receiving mixed reviews upon its release, Boys for Pele has gone on to become a strong-selling album, as well as a critically underrated album. |align="center"| 4* |- | WXPN Philadelphia | Best Albums of 1996 |align="center"| 11* |- | Billboard Magazine | Best Album Sales of 1996 |align="center"| 100 |- | The War Against Silence | Best Albums of 1996number(s) |- |rowspan="4" valign="top"| United Kingdom |rowspan="3" valign="top"| 22 January 1996 |rowspan="4" valign="top"| East West | CD | 82862-2 |- | Cassette | 82862-4 |- | LP | 82862-1 |- | 10 February 1997 | CD∞ | 80696-2 |- |rowspan="4" valign="top"| United States |rowspan="3" valign="top"| 23 January 1996 |rowspan="4" valign="top"| Atlantic | CD | 82862-2 |- | Cassette | 82862-4 |- | LP |82862-1 |- | Jun 1996 | CD∞ | 82862-2 |- | Canada | 24 January 1996 | East West | CD | 8286223 |- | Japan | 25 February 1996 | Atlantic | CD | AMCE-918 |}∞ Denotes reissue
References
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Tori Amos - The Making of 'Boys for Pele'
Documentary that interviews Tori and goes behind the scenes of the creative process that resulted in Boys for Pele. She is so on drugs.
Tori Amos - Boys For Pele EPK
Tori talks about the recording of "Caught a lite sneeze" from her third solo album, "Boys for Pele" (1996).
Tori Amos - Caught a Lite Sneeze (live)
2003 ,Live at Oxygen Concert; Genre(s): Alternative rock, Piano pop/rock, Experimental, Electronica . Album: Boys for Pele (1996)
BPK - Song Hunting Contest: Boys for Pele (Tori Amos)
Hello. (Click "more" for Rules) Congratulations to tortoise69 who prevailed in the contest. The answers are posted as annotations in the video itself. Comments are now enabled for this video. Feel free to discuss, lampoon, exalt, or say nothing at all. :-) T hanks to all who entered. Rules: This medley contains every track from Tori Amos' 1996 album, Boys for Pele. The first person who messages me at my account here listing all 19 songs in the order they appear is the winner. If there is no correct entry by the end of July 21, 2008, then the contest lapses. Note that Beauty Queen and Horses appear separately. Prize: "Bake the Baker" I play a lot of Tori Amos on this channel. I didn't think I would do it at first, but I'm going to post a cover to honor every song on all of her eight studio albums (except The Beekeeper, which instead has a single medley that features everything). Most of them are done but there is one in particular I haven't gotten around to learning. That one is Baker Baker from Under the Pink. Everything else on that album is uploaded, but I don't even know what key Baker Baker is in. So what to do? I thought maybe I'd have a baking assistant. There are a lot of different possibilities when it's time to play a Tori song. Sometimes I just play them on piano setting in their standard mold and other times I do more "fun" and experimental things. These include different voices (She's Your Cocaine), melding them with other songs (Smokey Joe), key changes <b>...</b>
Boys for Pele EPK
Electronic Press Kit of 1996 Boys for Pele album
Caught a Light Sneeze - Boys for Pele EPK
Tori Amos - Caught a Light Sneeze explonation for where the song comes from.
Tori Amos - Boys For Pele (1996)
[1996] promo
Tori Amos - Hartford-04-10-05 =20= Twinkle
Tori Amos - Hartford-04-10-05 =20= Twinkle These are my playlist, watch'em if you like REMIX = it.youtube.com Tour 98-99 = it.youtube.com Tour 2002-03 = it.youtube.com
Tori Amos Explains: Caught A Lite Sneeze (Audio Commentary)
Tori Amos explains the video for Caught a lite sneeze from her album Boys For Pele (1996). Taken from the DVD Fade to Red (2006) VOB file.
Tori Amos live Professional Widow'- 5.5 weeks tour
Tori Amos live Professional Widow'- 5.5 weeks tour
~~Muhammad My Friend~~Tori Amos(Live '96)
Hey!!! This is another one of my favorite live perfomances of Tori! I hope you enjoy her as I do everytime I see and hear her! Here are the lyrics: Muhammad my friend, it's time to tell the world We both know it was a girl back in Bethlehem And on that fateful day when she was crucified She wore Shiseido Red and we drank tea by her side Sweet, sweet, sweet Used to be so sweet to me, well Muhammad my friend, I'm getting very scared Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law And what about the deal on the flying trapeze? Got a peanut butter hand, but honey do drop in at the Dew Drop Inn Sweet, sweet, sweet Between the boys and the bees Sweet, sweet, sweet Between the boys and the bees And Moses I know, I know you've seen fire But you've never seen fire until you've seen Pele blow And I've never seen light, but I sure have seen gold And Gladys save a place for me on your grapevine till I get my own, honey, TV show Ashre, ashre, ashre, ashre And if I lose my Cracker Jacks at the tidal wave I got a place in the Pope's, honey, rubber robe Muhammad my friend, it's time to tell the world We both know it was a girl back in Bethlehem
Tori Amos Fool on the hill/Horses
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Tori Amos Doughnut Song
Tori Amos playing Doughnut Song (from Boys for Pele) on December 12, 2007 at the Copley Symphony Hall in San Diego
Tori Amos - Hey Jupiter (HD Official Video)
This is the Dakota Version of the song released on the compilation "A Piano" used for the official video of Hey Jupiter. The original song was released on Boys For Pele This song hit me when I first heard it, it's incredibly sad you could end up sobbing easily. LYRICS No one's picking up the phone Guess it's me and me And this little masochist She's ready to confess All the things that i nerver thought That she could feel and Hey Jupiter Nothing's been the same So are you gay Are you blue Thought we both could use a friend To run to Sometimes I breathe you in And I know you know And sometimes you take a swim Found your writing on my wall If my heart's soaking wet Boy your boots can leave a mess Hey Jupiter Nothings been the same So are you gay Are you blue Thought we both could use a friend To run to No one's picking up the phone Guess it's clear he's gone And this little masochist Is lifting up her dress Guess I thought I could never feel The thing I'm feeling Hey Jupiter So are you gay Are you blue Thought we both could use a friend To run to And I thought I wouldn't have to keep With you Hiding
Tori Amos - Talula (Original Version)
From the first release of Boys for Pele (1996).
BPK - Putting the Damage On (Tori Amos) Keyboard Cover
"Boy... you still look pretty when you're putting the damage on." This song in the final stretch of Boys for Pele finds Tori emoting with sadness on that peculiar feeling we tend to get when someone is hurting us and making us feel small, and the knife just keeps getting twisted even more by the fact that they're still so attractive. Has anyone ever felt that? I have and it's terrible! This song is musically fairly simple but lyrically touches upon yet another life experience that has only been put into words by Tori Amos. I hope the little horn intro from the album version doesn't offend anyone; Holly said it had to be there and she is the biggest Tori fan I know. So I obliged. Hope you enjoy. Thanks, -BPK
Tori Amos Explains: Talula (Audio Commentary)
Tori Amos explains the video for Talula from her album Boys For Pele (1996). Taken from the DVD Fade to Red (2006) VOB file.
Tori Amos - "The Waitress" - Live at Nokia Theatre LA Live
Tori Amos - "The Waitress" - Live at Nokia Theatre LA Live - Los Angeles, CA - December 16, 2007. Recorded by Joshua J. Smelser www.myspace.com www.nokiatheatrelalive.com
Tori Amos - Mr Zebra
Tori Amos performs Mr Zebra on Jools Holland
Tori Amos - Marianne @ London Apollo Victoria, 18 July 2010
Tori Amos performing "Marianne" from her 1996 album "Boys For Pele", in a Solo Show @ Apollo Victoria Theatre, London, on 07/18/2010.
Tori Amos Putting The Damage On Live
tori amos 1996 a repost. was too long cut it down to one song. 2 meter sessions 1996 Glue stuck to my shoes
Tori Amos Hey Jupiter Live
tori amos strange little webcast tori messes up the words in the middle.
TORI AMOS live MR ZEBRA
Hello Mr. Zebra Can I have you sweater Cause it's cold cold cold In my hole hole hole Ratatouille Strychnine Sometimes she's a friend of mine With a gigantic whirlpool That will blow your mind Hello Mr. Zebra Ran into some confusion with a Mrs. Crocodile Furry mussels marching on She thinks she's Kaiser Wilhelm Or a civiliaes syllabub To blow your mind Figure it out She's a goodtime fella She got a little fund to fight for Moneypenny's rights Figure it out She's a goodtime fella Too bad the burial was premature she said And smilied
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11 May 2009
The Examiner
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The best Tori Amos album: Boys for Pele
27 Sep 2008
The Examiner
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FOOTBALL: PELE THE BOY FOR MCCALL
07 Jul 2003
Daily Record
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BPK - Song Hunting Contest: Boys for Pele (Tori Amos)
BPK - Song Hunting Contest: Boys for Pele (Tori Amos)
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Hello. (Click "more" for Rules) Congratulations to tortoise69 who prevailed in the contest. The answers are posted as annotations in the video itself. Comments are now enabled for this video. Feel free to discuss, lampoon, exalt, ...
~~Muhammad My Friend~~Tori Amos(Live '96)
~~Muhammad My Friend~~Tori Amos(Live '96)
4:00
Hey!!! This is another one of my favorite live perfomances of Tori! I hope you enjoy her as I do everytime I see and hear her! Here are the lyrics: Muhammad my friend, it's time to tell the world We both know it was a girl back in Bethl...
Tori Amos - Hey Jupiter (HD Official Video)
Tori Amos - Hey Jupiter (HD Official Video)
3:52
This is the Dakota Version of the song released on the compilation "A Piano" used for the official video of Hey Jupiter. The original song was released on Boys For Pele This song hit me when I first heard it, it's incredibly s...
BPK - Putting the Damage On (Tori Amos) Keyboard Cover
BPK - Putting the Damage On (Tori Amos) Keyboard Cover
5:23
"Boy... you still look pretty when you're putting the damage on." This song in the final stretch of Boys for Pele finds Tori emoting with sadness on that peculiar feeling we tend to get when someone is hurting us and making us...
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