Music Collection #8: Aerosmith and Tori Amos

Artist: Aerosmith
Album: Greatest Hits
Favorite Song: Sweet Emotion (I guess)
Origin: Annie's

Why is this in the collection? I don't know. It's a pretty random Aerosmith cd to own - it only covers the early part of their career, from 1973-79. I was less than a year old when the final song on this collection was released. Being a child of the MTV generation, I'm of course more familiar with Aerosmith in their Run DMC and Alicia Silverstone incarnations.

Artist: Tori Amos
Albums: Little Earthquakes, Crucify, Winter, Under the Pink, Cornflake Girl, Boys for Pele, Hey Jupiter, From the Choirgirl Hotel, To Venus and Back, Concertina, StrangeLittleGirls, Scarlet's Walk, Tales of a Librarian, The Beekeeper
Favorite Song: Winter
Origin: One of Annie's favorites

This is a lot of cds to cover in a single entry. I was originally going to make this two, but then I realized that I hardly have enough thoughts on Tori to fill a single post, let alone two.

My friend Sarah in college was a huge Tori fan. Huge. Like, camp-out-for-hours-before-the-show-to-meet-Tori huge. And she did meet her - twice actually. But by Sarah's own admission, she wasn't even close to being a truly rabid fan - some of the other girls, apparently, were carve-her-name-into-your-skin rabid. All of which is to say that Tori is not the type of artist who you can listen to casually. I actually purchased Little Earthquakes from BMG once, but sent it back before I opened it. She's a Bush Doctrine artist - you're either for her or against her. And I just didn't feel like lugging around that much emotional baggage.

I actually once spent an evening with Sarah and one of her roommates watching a VHS tape of Tori performances recorded off of TV (all my other friends had gone home for the weekend). I don't remember if it was something that Sarah put together herself, or if it was something that she traded for online from another fan. It was from that tape that I decided that Winter was my favorite song of hers, though at this point I frankly can't even remember how it goes.