Every Tori Amos Album Ranked
Every Tori Amos Album Ranked, from ‘Little Earthquakes’ to ‘In Times of Dragons’
No massive shocks, weird that a 1 day old album is included however…if you don’t want to click on this ad-ridden site:
The Beekeeper
Strange Little Girls
Ocean to Ocean
Unrepentant Geraldines
Night of Hunters
American Doll Posse
Native Invader
In Times of Dragons
Abnormally Attracted to Sin
Scarlet's Walk
To Venus and Back
Under the Pink
Boys for Pele
From the Choirgirl Hotel
Little Earthquakes
About In Times of Dragons:
If Boys for Pele saw Amos visiting the devil in order to exorcise her grief over the loss of a lover, and Scarlet’s Walkdocumented a road trip across America in the wake of 9/11, In Times of Dragons closes the circle. Tracing the artist’s sojourn through a nation that itself has mutated into something resembling hell, the album reprises the themes of those earlier efforts, examining what truth and power mean in a society ruled by terrible men.
As has been the case with many latter-day Amos albums, her lyrics can be overtly literal, with references to “democracy,” “free speech,” and, on the brief “Ode to Minnesota,” “ICE [breathing] in fire’s wind.”
But they can also occasionally elicit a well-earned chuckle: She extends an olive branch to supposed rival Courtney Love on “Shush” (“Can I live through this?/Courtney, thank you”). But it’s the album’s stunning closer, “23 Peaks,” that fully captures both the allegorical lyricism and fusion of classical and prog-rock influences that made Amos an iconoclast.