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Tori Amos, Under The Pink. 20th Anniversary Retrospective.

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Just 18 months after releasing her debut album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos stamped her authority on her music direction by releasing the superb Under The Pink.  Gone were the days Y Kant Tori Read forever, this was 100 per cent what the talented musician was all about, trailblazing, confessional, confrontational but with that alluring feminine smile paving the way before slamming the piano with full heart and lyrics that were designed to make you thing as well as enjoy. The musical personification of poets Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton but with even bigger welcoming attitude and an allure that got beneath the skin of the subject she wrote about.

R.E.M. Automatic For The People. 20th Anniversary Retrospective.

Although R.E.M. had been around for many years, by the time Automatic for the People came out in 1992, the excitement and rush it caused in their long term fans could be seen as finally over-spilling into mainstream appeal.

The band had finally broken both the U.K. and American top ten with their previous album Out of Time and with Automatic for the People they cemented their position as one of the great alternative/rock band of the period. The four musicians that made up the band seemed to pick the right time to come of age, making their way through a very pop dominated 1980’s in which to start with they barely troubled the U.K. charts, through the power period dominated by bands such as Heart/Whitesnake/T’Pau and finally were in the position to be among the bands that were sweeping aside the celebrity culture of pop inspired false personality.

Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes. 20th Anniversary Retrospective.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 2nd 2012.

In 1992 Tori Amos released her debut solo album Little Earthquakes and in amongst the battle ground between the dying days of 1980’s preening rock stars, the new wave of grunge and the coming of so called super celebrity music. The music, always evolving always up for musical comment and commitment to the latest music cause looked to dragging out in a three way battle that ultimately has led to none being hailed as loudly as Tori Amos, the first woman of 1990’s music.