Emotional connection: Album Rank

[John's Face]

Rank the albums by your emotional connection at the time they were released. Don't rank by production or lyrics, but by how you connected with them at the time.

BFP
LE
NI
TVAB
UTP
FTCH
SW
ADP
MWG
UG
TBK
SLG
AATS

[Venus_Envy]

Well the first album I ever got new was Scarlet's Walk, so I'm ranking on connection from when I first heard them:

1. Under The Pink (PGY was the first song I ever heard and the song that made me a fan)
2. Choirgirl
3. Scarlet's Walk
4. Venus
5. Little Earthquakes
6. Native Invader (Reindeer King on it's own ranks higher)
7. ADP (loved it when it came out and played it to death - it hasn't aged well)
8. Unrepentant Geraldines
9. Pele (took me the longest time to get into this one, hence the lower ranking)
10. The Beekeeper (I adore it now, hated it at the time)
11. AATS (still hit and miss with this one. I'm a lyrics boy and whilst the music is good on this one, the lyrics still don't grab me)
12. SLG (me on first listening: THESE ARE NOT TORI AMOS SONGS)
13. Midwinter Graces (I fucking hate Christmas)

[Faust]

ohhhhh, um. I don't remember a lot of initial reactions, but I can definitely rank based on my current emotional connection! (I do remember Gold Dust, Unrepentant and Native Invader first impressions emotionally though - Gold Dust and NI both hit very hard)

Boys for Pele
Strange Little Girls
Native Invader
Gold Dust
Scarlet's Walk
Under the Pink
Little Earthquakes
Unrepentant Geraldines
The Beekeeper
From the Choirgirl Hotel
To Venus and Back
Midwinter Graces

American Doll Posse & Abnormally Attracted to Sin each have a very small number of songs that emotionally hit me now or at release, so I don't know how well I can rank those. Night of Hunters is a complete mystery to me on ranking because I have a hard time establishing which parts of me connect to the classical compositions (originals) and which to the Tori Amos songs and arrangements/variations. Likewise, I think all of her first five records were emotionally important and impacting in my first listens but beyond Pele, I don't really relate to much of them outside of the odd song or b-side.

[Kala]

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[Carey]

i kind of forgot about Tori until i saw a gorgeous photograph of her in a magazine while she was pregnant. i bought SLG and fell madly in love with Real Men. i liked New Age and Time but that was about it. however, I saw her on the tour and that show had the best set-list of any that i've seen to date.

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I'm curious, what show did you see?

[Kala]

I'm curious, what show did you see?

Chicago 2001:

'97 Bonnie & Clyde
Real Men
Hey Jupiter
Devil In A Blue Dress improv
Silent All These Years
Flying Dutchman
Not The Red Baron
Rattlesnakes
Little Earthquakes
Doughnut Song*
Bachelorette
Bells For Her
Here. In My Head*
Me and a Gun
Windows Of The World

1st Encore:
Butterfly
Pretty Good Year

2nd Encore:
Tear In Your Hand
Sister Janet*
Baker Baker

* In my top 20 favorite Tori songs.

I also adore Not the Red Baron, Butterfly, Flying Dutchman, Pretty Good Year, and Bachelorette.

Real Men is her best live cover IMO.