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    Gina Caracciola favorited and reviewed To Venus and Back
    
    The last of what I call her 'pure' works
    
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    Aymeric Parcelier reviewed To Venus and Back
    
    Thursday morning and it's still orbiting
    
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    ETHOS liked and reviewed To Venus and Back
    
    A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
    
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    Nick Pokorney liked and reviewed To Venus and Back
    
    Bloody brilliant. Even when trading the pianos for synthesizers, Tori still makes the music outstanding. Concertina is my all-time favorite song of hers.
    
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    Marie Nudi liked and reviewed To Venus and Back
    
    I love going back to favorite albums after a long period of time and falling in love all over again.
    
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    abbygarren favorited and reviewed To Venus and Back
    
    Love the improv on the beginning of 'Cornflake Girl'
    
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    Wade disliked and reviewed To Venus and Back
    
    "For many pop-music cynics, excess can be neatly summed up in three things: live albums, double-CD's, and Tori Amos records. Damned if To Venus and Back doesn't hit the trifecta." -- Whoever wrote... more
    
    "For many pop-music cynics, excess can be neatly summed up in three things: live albums, double-CD's, and Tori Amos records. Damned if To Venus and Back doesn't hit the trifecta." -- Whoever wrote that is brilliant!
    
    I was a huge fan of every minute of music that Tori Amos produced prior to this album. It's not that this album was particularly bad or that Choirgirl Hotel before it was specifically that good, but this somehow became the arbitrary end point in my obsession with Tori Amos.
    
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    Vicki Scruggs favorited and reviewed To Venus and Back
    
    a great tour was born from thos album. one of the lives songs on the cd was one i was at. rabbits
    
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    Stevie Blu-Ray liked and reviewed To Venus and Back
    
    chill enough to play at work
    
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For many pop-music cynics, excess can be neatly summed up in three things: live albums, double-CD's, and Tori Amos records. Damned if To Venus and Back doesn't hit the trifecta. But perhaps Amos is just trying to prove what we've always suspected: that her muse possesses a sly, ironic wit and has been frantically trying to give us a wink while Tori whipped up her heady cocktail of quiet Sturm, desperate Drang, and angst in the panties. There's teasing moments on this double-dose of Tori's love affair with her own melodic and mystical dramaturgy to support that notion, even in the disc of powerful new studio recordings that inaugurates this set. Dubbing a song "Glory of the 80's" is burlesque enough, but yearning to have oneself cloned as Kim Carnes at its climax is simply inspired. Amos is to Kate Bush's distaff mysticism what Mark McGwire was to Roger Maris; she hasn't so much broken the mold as willfully hammered it into her own image. After Bush hit the snooze-bar on her career in the late `80s, Amos boldly stepped into the fray, building a body of work that demanded to be taken seriously, even while the thrift-store chic set were laughing up their tattered sleeves at her ambitious chutzpah. They're not laughing now; in fact, many may find Venus to be a deliciously guilty pleasure. Amos supporters have long maintained that the key to understanding her intrigue lies in her live performances. Disc two boldly states their case as Amos coos, whoops, and warbles through a hit-sprinkled set, her shrewd, sorely undervalued band hanging with every nuance and turn of phrase. Cynics are from Mars; Tori is from Venus--that's just the way her galaxy crumbles. Jerry McCulley

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By Tori Amos, 1999

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