I used to be a really big Tori Amos fan, to the extent that my band is named after one of her lyrics. I kind of lost touch with her later on after a couple of lower quality albums (although I'm told some of her more recent albums have been back up to her earlier standards so may have to reacquaint myself soon) but at this point I was a very big fan. Glory Of The 80s was the first single from her 1999 double album "To Venus And Back" and while i dug it a lot at the time, it's not really one of her better tracks. I mean, It's OK, but it's not going to convert anyone who just thinks she's that mad ginger woman (i refuse to use the word kooky) that sang about Cornflake Girls and breastfed piglets on her album covers.
I was hoping to post the excellent live cover of Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat" that's on the B-side but unfortunately I can't find it amongst the terrible fanshot mobile phone videos flooding youtube, so here's the video for the lead track...
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