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TO VENUS AND BACK was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance.
TO VENUS AND BACK pairs a disc of studio tracks with a disc of live concert recordings. The first disc features some of Amos' most electronic-sounding productions to date. Though her acrobatic singing is given its usual full rein, many of the studio songs feature intricate, effects-rich orchestrations. The album-opening "Bliss" begins as a windswept soundscape, only to open up into a hook-laden chorus. "Juarez" is an intoxicating stew of disembodied voices, roiling synthesizers, and propulsive percussion. "Glory of the '80s" visits a night of drug-fueled hedonism during a decade that defined excess. "Josephine" is a standout track that will appeal to fans of Amos' more open, piano-centered work.
The second disc culls tracks from Amos' 1998 Plugged Tour. The live rendering of "Cornflake Girl" is a particularly stirring affair, noteworthy for Amos' vocal bravura and for the cascading sheets of piano that she adds during the song's climax. Also featured is "Cooling," a track that Amos has never committed to album. No Tori Amos fan will want to be without TO VENUS AND BACK.
2 CD-Disc 1 (Studio)-Disc 2 (Live)
Recorded at Martian Engineering, Cornwall, England. Live tracks recorded in 1998.
Personnel: Tori Amos (vocals, keyboards, synthesizer); Steve Caton (guitar); John Chamberlain (drums, percussion); Matt Chamberlain (drums); Andy Gray (programming).
Recording information: Martian Engineering, Cornwall E.
Photographer: Loren Haynes.
Personnel: Tori Amos (vocals, piano, synthesizer); Steve Caton (guitar); Jon Evans (bass); Matt Chamberlain (drums, percussion); Andy Gray (programming).
Engineers: Mark Hawkley, Marcel van Limbeek.
Rolling Stone (10/14/99, p.124) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...testifies to just how wide and deep her river runs....[it] is Amos at her most surreal, dreaming of her past, her pain and her desires in supersaturated musical and lyrical color..."
Entertainment Weekly (9/24/99, p.145) - "...this disc is more 'Tori in an Ambient Mood'....it's the most enjoyable listen she's generated in years..." - Rating: B
Q (11/99, p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...her most involving album to date....she only emerges as even more singular a talent, practically unique....The songs of Tori Amos are nothing if not brave."
CMJ (10/18/99, p.32) - "...The studio album contains some of Amos' most introspective songs to date....The live bonus album showcases her more rocking and raw side with hard-hitting renditions of her hits....VENUS should appease anyone looking to scratch that Amos itch."
Mojo (Publisher) (11/99, p.97) - "...This fine, complex record finds [Amos] a little calmer, but no less challenging or controversial. She's threaded a few more beads, several of them gems." Tori Amos To Venus And Back Songs To Venus And Back Music Review Average Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Tori = #1
Tori Amos is the greatest and I recomend this to anyone.
Submitted by Ttuxmask (Minot, ND, USA) 
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 Hmmmmm......
Wasn't one of her best...I love Tori's music but this one was not up to par for my taste.
Submitted by a reviewer (Houston, TX, USA)
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AMAZING!!!
?!?!?!? - the studio disc is AWESOME - it has all the best qualities of her previous work,just now it's all moved up to the next level!!
"Juarez"/"Concertina" - 2 examples...with music that's now all electro/alternative/vibed out = THIS IS THE PERFECT/ULTIMATE TORI EXPERIENCE!!!!!
Submitted by twin peaks... (England)
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The live disc is pretty good but it's the studio disc that's not. Bliss and 1000 Oceans are passible (albiet rehash of earlier work) but the rest is almost unlistenable. This begins a run of garbage from Tori that continues thru today. Maybe "Beekeeper" will be better.
Submitted by Spike (Fresno, CA, USA)
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"father, i killed my monkey, i let it out to, taste the sweet of spring" are tori's 1st lines on to venus and back:disc1(on "bliss"), in complete tori form. we know this album is going to be a bumpy and brillant ride to venus right at the beginning of take off.
this is her most technical magic sounding work; abstract and cryptic most of the time, the piano is a bit buried on here but all the other sounds and her voice shining through, makes you barely notice. songs like "juaraz", "concertina", "datura" and "spring haze" really reminds you that this woman is in a class all by herself.
disc one almost plays the role as P.A. music before a concert, if you move right along into disc2, which is an awesome concert, just when you thought she couldn't out due disc 1, she so does with this concert of various recordings from the '98 plugged tour,"precious things", "cooling", "cloud on my tounge" and "sugar" are just afew of the highlights, with "waitress" probably winning best in show.
Submitted by mel (solvang,CA, USA)
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