Boys For Pele Music Cd

Tori Amos - Boys For Pele

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Boys for Pele      Artist : Tori Amos      List Price : $7.98 USD        Your Price : $6.47 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1996-01-23      Studio : Atlantic / Wea      Label : Atlantic / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (336 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Boys For Pele      Does anybody actually read these reviews?      Rating:      I wonder. This is a great album. Not as catchy as most of her material except for "Caught A Light Sneeze" but the others are excellent. I bought a cassette version for my car (that came w/ a tape player!) and have listened to it over and over. It is becoming my most listened to album now. Good for long drives and even a quick trip to the liquor store!;-) It is like a nice long and deep conversation w/ a good friend. A quiet, beautiful and sensitive friend. Listen with care. You are amazing Tori Amos.     Customer Reviews for Boys For Pele Cd      One of today's truly great musical artists      Rating:      This is the first, but not the last Tori Amos album I have bought. It is amazing and weird. The harpsichord was a stroke of genius, and brings a new light to one of my least-favorite instrumental timbres. Amos uses her voice as an instrument and as a canvas on which to splash color and texture. She is a true musical artist, as opposed to a commercial, typical diva that we have had way too many of. Editorial Reviews for Boys For Pele Audio Cd      Amazon.com      Boys for Pele, the title of Tori Amos's epic third album, is as awkward and confusing as the music inside. Though it sounds like a recruitment slogan for Little League soccer, the name actually refers to the lost temples of feminine divinity. Pele, you see, is the Hawaiian volcano goddess; the boys, well, they're the sacrifices that quell the rumbling lady's rage. Attempting to regain fires stolen long ago, Pele rewrites the crucifixion to star a girl Jesus and in doing so conjures a forgotten matriarchal mythology. While Amos's characters--Jupiter, Muhammad, Lucifer--are male by name, the aural landscape into which they're thrown is as symbolically and expressionistically female as Georgia O'Keeffe's skull-and-roses paintings. Pele is a complex and formless--and often impenetrable--work of gothic-pop chamber music, both beautiful and ghostly in its nearly complete reliance on Amos's rolling Bosendorfer grand piano, chilling harpsichord (which she bangs like a courtly punk rocker), and acrobatic voice (as earthy as Joni Mitchell's and as otherworldly as Bjork's). Unfortunately, she takes us only halfway: her songs engage and challenge us to understand, but the imagery offers few clues to help us crack their frustrating opacity. Pele ends up as much a pretentious and self-indulgent trip as it is a synthesis of talent, imagination, and skewed vision. Still, there's reason to celebrate that an album as formalistically and thematically alien to pop audiences as Pele would win such quick success upon its original release. --Roni Sarig