Desert Island Discourse

Episode 32: Tori Amos

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Synopsis

Need a big loan from the girl zone? Well this desert island has you covered, thanks to longtime castaway enthusiast (first-time castaway) Caroline Pendleton! With her anime-fueled determination, Max's lifetime devotion, and Andrew's generally pleasant demeanor, we have everything we need to cover the first half of the discography of songwriter/piano-bench humper Tori Amos. That's right, we're all Toriphiles now. Tori Amos is sort of an anomaly in the music scene. She's a classically-trained pianist who made her name writing lyrically and melodically dense albums, but she's also a die-hard pop fan who was kicked out of music school for refusing to read sheet music. She's boasts a dry wit and a fanciful streak a mile wide whose biggest hit was a dance remix of a harpsichord song that heavily features the line "starfucker/just like my daddy". But for her diehard fanbase (of whom Caroline and Max count themselves a part), Tori Amos is quite simply one of the greatest songwriters of her era, and her discography i