I will listen to her sing just about anything.

I loved her first three albums. I still listen to those and the b-sides from them every once in a while. The fourth had a few songs I really liked. But after that they quickly became less and less interesting to me. I do not even remember the name of the last album I bought as I only listened to it a couple of times, but I do remember thinking it sounded like it was created specifically for playing in department store elevators.

I remember her music really affecting me strongly when I was of an impressionable age and it was all new/fresh/shiny/controversial. I'm thinking like undergrad age here? I was kinda nutso about Sinead O'Connor back then, too, so make of that what you will.

Anyhow I've listened to it within the past 5 years and it all strikes me as either not having aged well, or else I've moved on from being in that particular emotional/idealistic/philosophical mindset to really connect with it.

I think her first 2-3 albums are as meaningful as they are relevant to your own current or past experiences, no more, no less. I can listen to Tori today from a purely nostalgic mindframe and it's ok, but like I say it's kind of lost it's edge for me. I honestly don't generally care for someone else's "take" on music anyhow since it's all so subjective. Music speaks to you or it doesn't. I've seen people inspired by stuff as diverse as Berlioz and Eminem, sometimes even on the same playlist, so it's all good,

I concur with her having kinda sold out to the elevator music and Pilates crowd in her more recent works, but then that seems to be the ultimate fate of a lot of singer-songwriter artists; c.f. basically anything from the 70's of the "soft rock" ilk.

true, I was an unhappy undergrad when I first listened to Little Earthquakes etc... plus the climate was dark and cold... that stuff hit home like a shot in the vein

Somehow the name Tori Amos made me lookup Heather Nova

It seems she's another US musician who's only well know in NL, DE, etc.

Another song by her

I pick up everything Heather Nova releases, I think I just like her voice really. I have always loved hearing her sing. She is another artist I listened to constantly in my late teens/early 20s. Oyster is still one of my favorite albums.

This person uploaded all of her last album on youtube. It is a return to the sound she had early on, most of her music has been really stripped down. I really like the album although there were SO many albums that came out last year that I liked that I haven't listened to it enough yet.

My take on Tori Amos: Lots of talent and no soul. Trying to fake having a soul so hard that it's a little embarrassing.

She and Ani DiFranco (oh, and maybe Suzanne Vega) top my list of artists I was "supposed to" like because I was female and wrote songs, but whom I found insufferably self-serious.

I was a huge fan back in the day when Little Earthquakes landed. Over the next few years, I managed to see her live three or four times and still rank those as some of the most exciting shows I've ever been to. But, somewhere around Boys For Pele, the magic started wearing off for me. I liked Choirgirl Hotel ok, but I can't say I connected to it. I won't go so far as to say Tori had fallen into a formula, but it all did sort of start feeling very...same-ish.

Other than listening a bit to Scarlet's Walk, I've not really kept-up with her music since Choirgirl.

I like her, but concur she doesn't have a lot of range.

I liked her cover of "I'm Not In Love" and the Bonnie & Clyde song. However, those were years ago and I haven't heard anything since.

Funny. I'm one of those whose Tori fandom began with Boys for Pele and continued unabated through The Beekeeper. I didn't care for her last few and didn't have much use for her first few. I got a review copy of A Piano when it came out, and could probably make a really excellent single-disc compilation from it, but I don't listen to any of her most influential albums all the way through.

Also, Suzanne Vega made two of the best albums of the '90s - 99.9F and Nine Objects of Desire - and her debut is a classic. I would have to cherry-pick from the rest of her oeuvre.

I liked Tori for her early albums, but got bored with her music later. It's sort of like the "chick with guitar" thing where after awhile they all start sounding the same unless it's truly compelling. She does do a great version of "Famous Blue Raincoat" which is on "Tower of Song", which unfortunately also has Bono singing "Halleluiah" on it. I didn't know a truly great song could sound so horrible, but Bono shows us that it can happen.