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A review of Strange Little Girls appeared in the October 2001 issue of Q Magazine in the U.K. Thanks to Lucy who sent it to me.
Tori Amos
Strange Little Girls
Ms Amos sings Neil Young, Depeche Mode, Eminem and Slayer. And why not?
In which Tori Amos performs 12 songs written by men as if they were being
sung by the women who suggested she do them. Confused? Take a ticket and
join the queue. The singer strips back Eminem's '97 Bonnie & Clyde to
accentuate its chilling, uxorcidal unpleasantness, tackles The Boomtown
Rats' I Don't Like Mondays in the style of worldweary nightclub singer and
transforms Neil Young's Heart of Gold into a song that doesn't sound much
like Heart of Gold at all. Pick of the bunch, though, is undoubtedly the
Bjorkish revamp of Slayer's Raining Blood if only because it's enjoyable to
imagine how quite appalled the band's fans will be when they hear it.
3 out of 5 stars (Meaning "Good. Not For Everyone, but fine within its field."
Clark Collis
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