pearwaldorf | Tori surveys, ganked from Vanessa

#1:

LITTLE EARTHQUAKES
Initial Favorite: Silent All These Years
Actual Favorite: Tear In Your Hand
Song I usually skip: Mother
Song that I disliked intially but it grew on me: Precious Things

UNDER THE PINK
Initial Favorite: Pretty Good Year
Actual Favorite: Bells for Her
Song I usually skip: The Wrong Band. I think this is probably the worst song Tori has ever done.
Song that I disliked intially but it grew on me: Baker Baker

BOYS FOR PELE
Initial Favorite: Caught a Lite Sneeze
Actual Favorite: Father Lucifer, Hey Jupiter
Song I usually skip: Everything from Not the Red Baron to Doughnut Song
Song that I disliked intially but it grew on me: Putting the Damage On

FROM THE CHOIRGIRL HOTEL
Initial Favorite: Spark
Actual Favorite: Jackie's Strength
Song I usually skip: None. This is my favorite Tori CD.
Song that I disliked intially but it grew on me: iieee

TO VENUS AND BACK (this one either)
Initial Favorite: concertina
Actual Favorite: bliss
Song I usually skip: Josephine
Song that I disliked intially but it grew on me: Datura

STRANGE LITTLE GIRLS
Initial Favorite: New Age
Actual Favorite: Time, Enjoy the Silence, I Don't Like Mondays
Song I usually skip: '97 Bonnie & Clyde
Song that I disliked intially but it grew on me: Heart of Gold

SCARLET'S WALK
Initial Favorite: A Sorta Fairytale
Actual Favorite: Don't Make Me Come to Vegas, Wednesday
Song I usually skip: wampum prayer
Song that I disliked intially but it grew on me: None

#2:
1. When did you first learn of Tori Amos? One of the now departed alt-rock stations played Cornflake Girl, and I was like, "People call this music?" I came around, eventually.

2. How many Tori albums do you own? I have all the albums, including Y Kant Tori Read on mp3 somewhere, and two bootlegs. I also have a bunch of singles and b-sides on mp3.

3. Do you have all of the Tori videos? I've seen most of them at one point or another, butI don't have any.

4. What's your favorite Tori music video? Probably Winter or Glory of the 80's.

5. How many Tori concerts have you attended and where? One, which was in Chicago on the SLG tour. I will be seeing her on the 11th at the University of Portland.

6. What Tori Amos song best describes yourself? Agh. This is hard. Probably New Age.

7. Which Tori Amos album is her best? I can't decide! I say Spark, because that's my favorite, but Scarlet's Walk is very close.

8. Which Tori Amos album is her worst? To Venus and Back or Strange Little Girls

9. Do you think you know all the lyrics to her songs? I know I don't know all of them, but I know most of them.

10. What is your favorite Tori song and why? Honey and Sugar, because they're beautiful.

11. What other Tori stuff do you own? A tourbook from the Strange Little Tour and a keychain from the same.

12. Give me a Tori website you visit: thedent.com; hereinmyhead.com; murkcat.inmyhead.net has beautiful pictures; yessaid.com

13. Did you dye your hair red before or after you knew about Tori? I have never dyed my hair.

14. Have you ever been mistaken for Tori Amos? Online, once. In real life, I would hope not.

15. Have you ever gotten to meet Tori Amos? I have not.