James Chapman

It’s supposedly about Courtney Love…
“Don’t blow those brains yet / we gott be big, boy”.

You might appreciate my best of Tori playlist.

open.spotify.com/playlist/2Xf...

Let’s see your Spotify Wrapped so we can all have a good laugh.

I can only assume you aren’t remotely familiar with her catalogue, or have zero taste.

Incredible take

In a good or a bad way? She totally merits it imho. She has at least four or five 10/10 albums and has seen a major return to form on the last couple.

Isn’t she? She obviously has a devoted fanbase but she deserves so much more.

My first time seeing Thea Gilmore, a singer I’ve loved for years, live tonight at St Pancras Old Church, a magical venue for her folk tunes. Her voice was even more special live than on record. Rise was my favourite song; there was also a great Cohen cover @theagilmore.bsky.social

I was a bit behind you

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Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit

Boris Johnson described HMT's “doom-laden” predictions as a “hoax” and “just not credible”. Farage attacked Cameron and Osborne for feeding the public “a constant diet of lies". In fact, it transpires, HMT's Brexit forecasts weren't nearly negative enough.

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The Best of Tori Amos

In that case let me introduce you to my best of Tori playlist ❤️
open.spotify.com/playlist/2Xf...

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

The Best of Tori Amos

Have you kept up with her underappreciated later work? Songs like Reindeer King, Forest of Glass, Climb, Metal Water Wood, Weatherman, Star Whisperer, Bats, Bang, Flowers Burn to Gold… all as good as the 90s stuff.

open.spotify.com/playlist/2Xf...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:

Tori Amos
Fleetwood Mac
Father John Misty
Kate Bush
Sufjan Stevens

1= Boys for Pele
1= Scarlet's Walk
3 From the Choirgirl Hotel

That would be hilarious

No point in half measures and being a 'rule taker not a rule maker': let's rejoin as a full member of the EU. It will happen in my lifetime; the politics and demographics are inevitable. It will be interesting to see which of our many opt-outs we can renegotiate.

Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU

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One-off injection ‘gives heart failure patients their life back’ The new stem cell treatment, pioneered in a London hospital, has shown remarkable results and is one clinical trial away from roll-out across the NHS

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An introduction to Tori Amos

If the albums don’t hit you could maybe give my intro to Tori playlist a go:

open.spotify.com/playlist/0oG...

I prefer her to all three (though I love Kate and Fiona dearly; never could get into Joanna even a little bit) but as Tori herself once said: “I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.”

yes definitely; she also sang about "burning CDs" in that song way before it was a thing.

she also claims to have been visited by eleven muses (actual spiritual entities) since she was a child who gift her songs or fragments of songs. Love her.

It’s superb

An introduction to Tori Amos

It’s a shame that remix is all some people in the UK know of her work. As you suggest, it’s not really representative at all. Check out my intro to Tori playlist.

open.spotify.com/playlist/0oG...

The Best of Tori Amos

You might appreciate my best of Tori playlist.

open.spotify.com/playlist/2Xf...

I love this album and return to it often but in my opinion she surpassed it with Boys for Pele, From the Choirgirl Hotel and Scarlet’s Walk.

EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed