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Danny.Weddup tells me that Tori's album "Strange Little Girls" made the Best of 2001 List in the U.K. newspaper the Independent. This was shown in the December 14, 2001 edition of the publication. Here is what the paper said about Tori's album:
Tori Amos, Strange Little Girls, (eastwest)
At a time when we're unlucky enough to have lame brains such as So Solid
Crew polluting our charts (so a 15-year-old won't have sex with you; so
naturally you break her jaw), it's good to know there's an antidote out
there. On Strange Little Girls, Tori Amos takes a variety of boys for a walk
on the wild side to see how they like it; which is not very much, going by
Eminem's fan website. Amos does the job by picking a selection of
male-penned ditties, reinterpreting them in a most revealing way. First she
sticks it to the aforementioned Marshall Mathers with an incendiary take on
"97 Bonnie & Clyde", telling it from the viewpoint of the murdered wife
reaching a ghostly hand to her tiny daughter. Then she gives us 10cc's "I'm
Not In Love", all icy emotional denial. On the other hand, Lloyd Cole comes
out smelling of roses, his "Rattlesnakes" a lyrical beauty; Depeche Mode
emerge as victors, too, "Enjoy the Silence" is revealed as charged and
unbelievably huge-hearted. All delivered in Amos's lush soprano. Yep, it's
the right stuff.
Glyn Brown
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