Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos

Pros: Stunning vocals, lyrics and piano playing.

Cons: "Mother" is a drag, and "Me and a Gun" too painful to listen to.

The Bottom Line: A truly excellent debut that rightfully took Tori Amos to a wide audience.

Review: After the deserved flop of her pop album “Y Kant Tori Read”, Tori Amos retreated into her shell and reacquainted herself with her piano, resulting in “Little Earthquakes” and a massive shift in style and content. Gone is the hairspray ...

Pros: Very good lyrics, exceptional music, every song is masterful

Cons: Are you kidding?

The Bottom Line: Tori Amos is a compelling, beautiful album filled with raw emotion and vibrant imagery. I recommend this album for its meaningful lyrics, exciting musicianship and emotional depth.

Review: Whether you find her to be a gifted prodigy or a cryptic eccentric anyone who knows anything about music has to admit Tori Amos is a phenomenon. I realize this album has already received sixty plus reviews but I could not consider myself a music critic...

Pros: Expressive vocals, masterful piano, important messages.

Cons: Somewhat strident. Difficult themes.

The Bottom Line: Gorgeous vocals, brilliant piano and a lifetime of observances and experiences captured in one perfect album.

Review: Twenty-four hours ago I put this new-to-me CD on the changer, and it hasn't come off: a full 56 minutes, 54 seconds of musical Rolfing from the child prodigy love child of Laura Nyro and Tim Buckley, Joni Mitchell and Henry...

Pros: Astounding musicianship, frank lyricism, lots of variety

Cons: Slightly dated production, harrowing mental images (though that's less a con and more a warning)

The Bottom Line: Musically, it's not her best work, but it's darn close, and it gets mad props for being the one that started it all. Excellent.

Review: My Tori Amos obsession was an accident. Appropriately enough, it started with Little Earthquak ...

Pros: lyrically, her best album; great vocals; 3 classic songs

Cons: none, really

The Bottom Line: just read the review

Review: I've been listening to Tori Amos constantly since December and I'm addicted to her. I just love her unique voice, sensual piano playing, and her lyrics when they make sense. So after two albums that I really enjoyed, I decided to get what people call ...

Pros: The piano, beautiful. The voice, hair-raising. The words, ingenious.

Cons: Rumor has it that unrestrained, vividly expressed feelings aren't always easy to listen to.

The Bottom Line: Buy Little Earthquakes, as it is mind-blowing. Just don't spill orange juice on your copy, like I did.

Review: Tori Amos was one of those artists I always imagined myself getting into eventually, but I never took the time to work at it. See, I'm a big procrastinator, and involving myself deeply into music is a process -- unfortunately, I ...

Pros: Every song is good!

Cons: If you want perky, this is not for you.

Review: Wielding words like swords and slashing at her past, Tori Amos sings through a range of emotions: anger, guilt, fear, defiance, pain, regret, and isolation. This is not a happy album, but with her beautiful voice, Tori builds to a kind of transcendence....

Pros: Stark emotional nakedness, consummate musicianship.

Cons: Stark emotional nakedness?

The Bottom Line: Yes, Epinions, it's great music to play while LISTENING!

Review: To this early follower, Tori Amos would become a prodigal daughter who walked off to strange and faraway lands during her trek through the Nineties, after the critical and commercial success of her debut album, 'Little Earthquakes'. My cassette copy of ...

Pros: Some great music with real emotion.

Cons: The harrowing subject matter may be too much for some.

The Bottom Line: Little Earthquakes is pure and simply a classic album that should be heard by all who like heartfelt and emotional music.

Review: Tori Amos is one of the most revered artists of the past decade. But it took me a while before I got into her. I always liked her voice. But I never really listened that closely to her music or the words to her songs until one day when I heard "Crucify"....

Pros: Intimate, Involving, Unconventional

Cons: "See Pros"

The Bottom Line: Unless you don't like complex and intimate lyrics, powerful melody's and originality, this is my number one recommendation to anyone.

Review: About Tori: Myra Ellen Amos, born August 22nd, 1963 in Newton, North Carolina began playing piano at the early age of just two, and started composing at four. She composed her first single under her real name "Myra Ellen ...