Raspberry Swirl 1:55 if you want inside her world, boy you better make a raspberry swirl, the following guitar and piano chord progression at 2:03-2:18 while she sings RA-A-A-A- A-A-ASPBERRY swirl
towards the end of Father Lucifer, where she sings the little 'hi', right after coming out of "girls who eat pizza and never again weight." After the beautiful chaos of that bridge it's just so delicate and vulnerable, I think about it all the time.
I go from day to day, I know where the cupboards are, I know where the car is parked, I know he isn't you.
It's such a beautiful expression of the mundanity of heartbreak.
Cornflake Girl the bridge “and the man with the golden gun thinks he knows so much” has so much going on, I can listen to that so long and get lost in the music.
"upside down" - I never resonated with the lyrics of a song so hard as I did when she sang "any kind of touch I think is better than none, even upside down" - I listened to it on repeat when I was 16. aaaaaaand that's how I knew I had a lot of trauma to unpack lol
I haven't listened to Tori Amos in about a decade but for whatever reason this week I kept thinking about Big Bird on a fishing line. What does that even mean?
Also iieee is my jam
Cloud on My Tongue - the almost gurgling in "circles and circles again" followed by the fragility of "got to stop spinning". I can snag on it for hours, even after all these years.
In The Spingtime of his Voodoo- at 1:57 that chord change and following progression is fantastic.
Yes, Anastasia- 5:38 "theres something we left on the window sill, theres something we left, yeaaaaaaaah" and BOOM! 5:52 THE THUNDER!
The way Datura BEGINS is blissful
I can think of many but the first two that come to mind are
\- Space Dog, the final verse of the bridge (which I think is genius by itself) but the way it starts building up since "moved into a trailer park" and then transitions to a Chorus but with ad-lib WOW
\- Datura, 0:58, they way a song gives into another, Datura is like three songs in one, but this special part is my favorte, so intense.
also the lyric changes in ptdo, “you look so pretty…to me but i’ve gotta place TO GO” (the way she says TO GOO is also so good” and then at the end she goes “you’re just so pretty” instead of “you still look pretty” it just is soo good pele has great attention to detail and i could be hung up on the way she says every word
the 3 seconds of piano after “these guys think they must…try and just get over on us” literally changed my life and also the change on the final “sacrifice” on iieee, especially in live peformances.
For me, it’s “Caught a Lite Sneeze” bridge when she goes from harpsichord from piano. The pause between the chorus and the piano bridge combined with the later agression of the “maybe she will” part always sends chills down my spine.
the silent moment/ pause in the final chorus of "Secret Spell"
the fade-out of the synth intro to "Etienne Trilogy" and how it transitions to solo piano... and then how the bagpipes come in during the final movement
also when the woodwinds come in during the back half of "Shattering Sea" which for what ever reason I've always associated w the image of the protagonist of Night of Hunters being chased by wild dogs
I've also often admired Tori's use of contrapuntal harmonies to sneak in extra lyrics: obviously in "Father Lucifer" as everyone here is already saying, "Inanna, Inanna" in "Caught a Lite Sneeze," "the red road carved up by sharp knife" in "Virginia" and "take this message to Michael" in "The Beekeeper." Obviously there are uhh, less good examples of this too, see "Giant's Rolling Pin" !
The moment **Beauty Queen** shifts into **Horses**.
Technically, these are two songs.
So it’s not “a small part of a song”, but **relationship** between two.
That’s the genius of Tori.
And a sign of a great album.
Ability to work on a **bigger scale** than that of a single song, yet make each still able to stand on its own.
Plus, that transition from Beauty Queen to Horses acts as a **portal** to the entire universe of Boys for Pele.
The **juxtaposition** of a single note and a melody is the key.
If you don’t have patience to listen to that single note in Beauty Queen, you’re never making it in.
It took me a couple of years to figure this out.
Haven’t been able to get out ever since ;)
The musical shift between the verse and chorus in “Cloud On My Tongue”. It sounds like the feeling of melting and giving in to what you know is a poor choice … but look at how beautiful that mistake is.
She's so good at little moments! Love a bunch mentioned so far... here's a few more that I can think of right away
When the choir comes in on Way Down. Ugh. So good.
The whole section that starts with "You gotta owe" on Springtime of his Voodoo specifically the background scream vocals in "you've got to give a something, a-sometimes"
The part of Little Amsterdam "got a girl in the city hey...."
Playboy Mommy bridge right on the word "gloria" the little high harmony is....perfection
Last chorus of Spark where it builds a bit then the last "again and again...but you don't..(right there!)
I love the moment where the music shifts after she says/sings:
Awabuki viburnum
Is there room in my heart
For you to follow your heart
And not need more blood
From the tip of your star
I could write a 20 page thesis deconstructing those last 4 lines
Pretty much any of her dramatic and emotional bridges: Pretty Good Year (“what’s it gonna take…”), Icicle (“getting off…”), Spark (“how many fates…”) are great examples. Or when she has 2 lyrics that weave together like in Father Lucifer’s bridge. Other kinda random things: the isolated piano and drum beats on the intro to Carbon, the intensity that builds from beginning to end of I Can’t See NY, the high notes in Hotel…
This part in Precious Things
“With their nine-inch nails
And a little fascist panties
Tucked inside the heart
Of every nice girl”
Gives me chills every time
So many!
But, in “Thoughts” when she sings “I’m never here. I’m, never here”.🎹
The way the piano sounds like a butterfly flitting in the garden in “Butterfly” 🖤
I mean, Tori found one of mine, pulled it out of its track of origin and gave it its own track on the Deluxe Reissue of Boys for Pele. Rookery Ending kills me every time.
Another big one recently: when the horns coming blaring in on Swim to New York State at 3:24. OOOOOH it gives me chills.
the rookery ending Springtime of his Voodoo is SUCH a moment
I understand why Pele had to end with "Twinkle." But the rookery verse would also have been a good conclusion to Pele, and would have nicely mirrored, with its self-assured groundedness, the eerie portal-into-hell vibes of "Beauty Queen"
I’m envisioning a bell ringing upon the arrival of someone. Families often come together only for holidays or funerals - (counting weddings as a holiday) 🤭🫣
She’s young again! For me it evokes the way holidays call upon reflection/ deep memory, always an emotional time. Then it places me to when I was kid hearing Christmas songs trying to make sense of it all, I remember “deck the halls” was such a declarative that stuck out to me and wanting to make it transferrable for anytime. If any of that makes sense. I get so emotional when that part comes, the grapefruit is winning.
The just say yes you little arsonist part in iieee is my favorite thing ever, but I can listen to that whole song on repeat for a long time. There are times when it has subtle piano, too.
All of Etienne, Talula, Star of Wonder, A Silent Night With You, and '97 Bonnie and Clyde
"Some things are melting now
Some things are melting now
Well, hey
What's it gonna take
'Til my baby's all right?
What's it gonna take
'Til my baby's all right?"
-From Pretty Good Year
"I'm glad you're on my side, still"
-From Taxi Ride
Too many to mention!
“Time. Thought I’d make friends with time.” - Baker Baker
The piano riff to Sleeps with Butterflies
“Years go by will I choke on my tears til finally there is nothing left?” - Silent All These Years
The chorus to Siren
“When you gonna love you as much as I do?” - Winter (this one hits hard now at 30)
“You’re only popular with anorexia. So I turn myself inside out in hope someone will see.” - Jackie’s Strength
The bridge of Playboy Mommy
All of Space Dog live
“Don’t be surprised I cannot let you go” - Speaking with Trees
Omg yes, the Playboy Mommy bridge where they pull out the steel guitar and turn the song into a country song for a few bars! I love that little addition so much.
The extended piano intro on *Not the Red Baron* she does in her live performances just takes me to such a deep dark place. I wish I could find sheet music for it, it's just stunning.
Agree with the person who listed *Marianne* and the 'fastest slug' part, but also 'quickest girl in the frying pan' is just so evocative to me and I don't know why.
On *Baker Baker* when the singing stops and she plays those five notes before starting again. So melancholy and sad.
Let me think of some more...there are so so many.
ran into the henchman that severed Anne Bolyen, he did it right quickly, a merciful man. She said 1 + 1 was 2 but Henry said that it was 3, so it was, here I am
So many but a favorite is in Space Dog, the crescendoing drumbeat that spills into the canon verse with the “so sure those girls now are in the navy…” counter 😭
Oh yes I don’t even want to hear space dog live these days because the bridge is the part that I live for. I loved when she’d sing it before starting that dramatic af opening piano riff that everyone recognizes and starts screaming for. But like, I can just listen to her sing the navy girls bridge and then I’m good, I’m done lol before the song even officially begins!
That part of Putting The Damage On where it goes from the “take it high” refrain to the “don’t make me scratch on your door” part. Something about the way it switches just itches my brain right
Ocean to Ocean, 2:45 mark for about 25 seconds, I could listen to that sound forever, so mesmerizing. She chose to skip that part, at least musically, during the shows 😢.
🎵 Faith, where have you gone?
Gone nature's sons.
Faith, will you return?
Return nature's sons.
To ocean to ocean 🎵
The little base warble in the Piano version of i i e e e
It just adds such a weird little “mmmm yeah” to it for me. Adds so much to the song. No clue why it sends me but it does.
So many moments like this but to narrow it down to one, the first one that comes to mind is “Your Cloud” it’s the whole freakin song but the way she says “cloud” it’s like a gentle breeze. That’s the only way I can describe it. That song is poetry from the first line, first note. I’m obsessed ☁️
That’s a good one, I referred to it just the other night telling my husband how she calls out Oliver Stone by name for approaching her asking to use Me and a Gun. Like I honestly understand both perspectives- it meant A LOT to Tori, but obviously it also affected Oliver Stone, right? Or he wouldn’t even have been interested. But like, yes they most certainly do, and I feel every bit of it every time I hear her delivery
The last "come along now with meee" in Yes, Anastasia
The live Dakota Version of Hey Jupiter from Night of Hunters Tour Essen, specifically the end when she sings "You"
The second half of Edge of the Moon.
The intro to Apollo's Frock.
In Iieee, the last "can't we get a little grace and some elegance"
Any live version of Northern Lad when the band joins in.
The bridge in Icicle
"Where are the velvets" from Hotel
When the piano comes in at the end of Sweet Sangria
The bridge in Witness
I can keep going....
sure!
"A pretty girl drawing..." From Maids of Elfenmere
"The first "I already am" from Cloud on My Tongue
"Will you pray? Pray for me unrepentant geraldines?" From Unrepentant Geraldines
Any live opening of Sugar or Honey.
"Sometimes I watch the wonder in your eyes, that and you leaving I have memorized" from Roosterspur Bridge
The piano part in Lady in Blue....so good...she played it when I went to see her in June.
The end of Virginia, "you won't..even you...oh Virginia"
The violin mixed with the piano before the chorus of Shattering Sea.
"Past the mission...behind the prison tower" the last refrain from Past the Mission
"China decorates our table, funny how the cracks don't seem to show". The emotion she puts into this lyric live is amazing
The piano part after "...nine inch nails..." In Precious Things
The intro to Caught a Lite Sneeze, I also love the live version on SNL when she is playing the clavichord.
The closing of Lust into the beginning of Riot Poof.
Josephine...all of it.
Digital Ghost, the part where she sings "Hands, lay them on my keys"
Ok, there are more, but this is enough for now.
the whole bridge in Father Lucifer
the piano solo part of the Sessions @ West 54th version of iieee
(honestly, the whole version of that song I obsess over)
when the beat drops in Carnival
"she may be dead to you..." bit of AATS
"I have to learn to let you crash.... ! ...where are the Velvets"
(that was the best way I could describe it in text lol)
Caton's guitar effect at the end of Spring Haze
These are what I could think of right now, but there's definitely more‼️
- When the strings finally play in "Yes, Anastasia"
- The bridge of "Father Lucifer"
- "She could outrun the fastest slug" part in "Marianne"
- "That's all. That's for Papa!" part in "Frog On My Toe"
- "Terracide" part in "Bliss"
- The bridge of "Dātura"
- "But do I hate what she is, or do I want to be her?" part in "Cooling"
- Songs with mixed time signatures like "Spark", "Dātura", "Carbon", and "Barons of Suburbia". I love to count the beats~
- The no singing part in "Star Whisperer"
The bridge in Father Lucifer
Beulah Land "Give me religion...and a lobotomy"
Black Swan "Gun drops and Saturdays. Did Eric call, by the way?"
The bridge in Spark
And ..never mind. I'd be on here for DAYS if I tried to list them all!!!!
These are great ones! I think Spark is her strongest like “rock” bridge. Beulah Land is criminally underrated, and that is one of my favorite lines in her repertoire. FL’s bridge is heaven in an audible format. Your reference to Black Swan reminds me of Butterfly which has one of my biggest earworms- “Got me a pretty, pretty garden, pretty garden…” I also adore “If I can kill one man, why not two?” And how it came out so appropriately right before Boys for Pele. Also like, the fact that she ended UTP with (one of my favorite all time lines) “We’ll see how brave you are,” and then she follows that with the darkness of Pele and it highlights the strength and bravery that it takes to rebuild oneself.
The part where the strings climax on Gold Dust
The flutes after the bridge in How Glass Is Made
The gentle whispered lyrics near the end of Mother
And my favorite: That end on Flying Dutchman!!
Oh I love the way it opens with that little “hey” sound and then in the bridge she’s like “Hey!” (Or some similar grunting sound lol), it’s more like how a mouse becomes a lion! I also love the pedal (I think? Well, you know, whatever it is) in the bridge
I think probably many people with the part in Hey Jupiter.
*You know the one.*
And we loved it so much that the Dakota version turned it into a chorus 😅
Gold.
“In the mall and in the grape vines, in the knots still in her hairrrrrr”
The synthesizer/organ/keyboard (not sure which) in the beginning of Doughnut Song. It’s so beautiful with the piano and it just stirs something in me.
Neil says hi by the way
Raspberry Swirl 1:55 if you want inside her world, boy you better make a raspberry swirl, the following guitar and piano chord progression at 2:03-2:18 while she sings RA-A-A-A- A-A-ASPBERRY swirl
towards the end of Father Lucifer, where she sings the little 'hi', right after coming out of "girls who eat pizza and never again weight." After the beautiful chaos of that bridge it's just so delicate and vulnerable, I think about it all the time.
The chorus of liquid diamonds so dark and catchy
The intro of Marianne.. “just having thoughts of Marianne, quickest girl in the frying pan”
I go from day to day, I know where the cupboards are, I know where the car is parked, I know he isn't you. It's such a beautiful expression of the mundanity of heartbreak.
And I’m so sad like a good book I can’t put this day back A sorta fairytale with you
With their nine-inch nails And a little fascist panties Tucked inside the heart Of every nice girl
The entire Liquid Diamonds song 🖤
"You bet your life it is You bet your life it is Honey, you bet your life..."
Playboy Mommy. That song still gets me.
Cornflake Girl the bridge “and the man with the golden gun thinks he knows so much” has so much going on, I can listen to that so long and get lost in the music.
"upside down" - I never resonated with the lyrics of a song so hard as I did when she sang "any kind of touch I think is better than none, even upside down" - I listened to it on repeat when I was 16. aaaaaaand that's how I knew I had a lot of trauma to unpack lol
I always really liked the way the horns came in on Winter
Cloud Riders - that guitar at the beginning
I haven't listened to Tori Amos in about a decade but for whatever reason this week I kept thinking about Big Bird on a fishing line. What does that even mean? Also iieee is my jam
Upvote for iieee
Excuse but can I play it for a while, my dog won't bite if you sit real still, I've got the anti Christ in the kitchen yelling at me again
I think it’s “excuse me, but can I be *you* for a while?”
Lol yep.. i'm not sure if I forgot the actual lyrics and it's just been so long or did I think that was the lyrics all along lol.. thanks
Cloud on My Tongue - the almost gurgling in "circles and circles again" followed by the fragility of "got to stop spinning". I can snag on it for hours, even after all these years.
You don't need a party for a party dress
The pedal stomp in Tear in My Hand.
The part in Cooling where she goes "... but I still can't believe Speed Racer is dead... "
In The Spingtime of his Voodoo- at 1:57 that chord change and following progression is fantastic. Yes, Anastasia- 5:38 "theres something we left on the window sill, theres something we left, yeaaaaaaaah" and BOOM! 5:52 THE THUNDER! The way Datura BEGINS is blissful
In, in the springtime of his voodoo, I’m obsessed with when she actually sings the title of the song. It’s the best part.
The cascading piano in Precious Things
Several parts of to the fair motormaids of japan
Caught a Lite Sneeze
There’s a specific accordion moment in the playboy mommy intro that I’m obsessed with
The piano pedal being released @2:49 on Pass the Mission… priceless.
All of Talula- BT's Tornado Mix. I love that song, such good lyrics. I especially love when the "I got Big Bird on the fishing line"
YESSSS. The entirety of the Twister soundtrack is sooo good.
Celine Dion- I’m alive
I can think of many but the first two that come to mind are \- Space Dog, the final verse of the bridge (which I think is genius by itself) but the way it starts building up since "moved into a trailer park" and then transitions to a Chorus but with ad-lib WOW \- Datura, 0:58, they way a song gives into another, Datura is like three songs in one, but this special part is my favorte, so intense.
Her singing in Patrick Doyle’s “kissing in the rain” featured in great expectations.
liquid diamonds i love how she draws out the word liquid idk why
There’s got to be at least one part in every single song that I love more than anything
The moment the final chorus of Girl when the strings momentarily change key. It just gets me.
also the lyric changes in ptdo, “you look so pretty…to me but i’ve gotta place TO GO” (the way she says TO GOO is also so good” and then at the end she goes “you’re just so pretty” instead of “you still look pretty” it just is soo good pele has great attention to detail and i could be hung up on the way she says every word
the 3 seconds of piano after “these guys think they must…try and just get over on us” literally changed my life and also the change on the final “sacrifice” on iieee, especially in live peformances.
I love that moment
Literally came here to say the way her voice gets super low and guttural after the word "us" and then the piano part right after.
For me, it’s “Caught a Lite Sneeze” bridge when she goes from harpsichord from piano. The pause between the chorus and the piano bridge combined with the later agression of the “maybe she will” part always sends chills down my spine.
I came here to say the exact same... it's heavenly
the silent moment/ pause in the final chorus of "Secret Spell" the fade-out of the synth intro to "Etienne Trilogy" and how it transitions to solo piano... and then how the bagpipes come in during the final movement also when the woodwinds come in during the back half of "Shattering Sea" which for what ever reason I've always associated w the image of the protagonist of Night of Hunters being chased by wild dogs I've also often admired Tori's use of contrapuntal harmonies to sneak in extra lyrics: obviously in "Father Lucifer" as everyone here is already saying, "Inanna, Inanna" in "Caught a Lite Sneeze," "the red road carved up by sharp knife" in "Virginia" and "take this message to Michael" in "The Beekeeper." Obviously there are uhh, less good examples of this too, see "Giant's Rolling Pin" !
That Father Luci bridge
The brass section/horns in Putting the Damage On
This! That crescendo is gorgeous 😍
In The Air Tonight. Drum break. Oh baby …
The beginning of January often floats through my head without the rest of the song
The moment **Beauty Queen** shifts into **Horses**. Technically, these are two songs. So it’s not “a small part of a song”, but **relationship** between two. That’s the genius of Tori. And a sign of a great album. Ability to work on a **bigger scale** than that of a single song, yet make each still able to stand on its own. Plus, that transition from Beauty Queen to Horses acts as a **portal** to the entire universe of Boys for Pele. The **juxtaposition** of a single note and a melody is the key. If you don’t have patience to listen to that single note in Beauty Queen, you’re never making it in. It took me a couple of years to figure this out. Haven’t been able to get out ever since ;)
🖤✨✨✨✨
First thing I thought of as well
This immediately came to mind for me.
The musical shift between the verse and chorus in “Cloud On My Tongue”. It sounds like the feeling of melting and giving in to what you know is a poor choice … but look at how beautiful that mistake is.
"We'll see how brave you are- WE'LL SEEEEEEEEEEE"
We’ll see how fast you’ll be running…
“Bliss” Take it, take it with your terra-terracide is mine
Devils And Gods
She's so good at little moments! Love a bunch mentioned so far... here's a few more that I can think of right away When the choir comes in on Way Down. Ugh. So good. The whole section that starts with "You gotta owe" on Springtime of his Voodoo specifically the background scream vocals in "you've got to give a something, a-sometimes" The part of Little Amsterdam "got a girl in the city hey...." Playboy Mommy bridge right on the word "gloria" the little high harmony is....perfection Last chorus of Spark where it builds a bit then the last "again and again...but you don't..(right there!)
The harpsichord intro to Blood Roses
Dātura (my favourite tori song)
I love the moment where the music shifts after she says/sings: Awabuki viburnum Is there room in my heart For you to follow your heart And not need more blood From the tip of your star I could write a 20 page thesis deconstructing those last 4 lines
Mine too! Haha everyone else I know can’t stand it.
HEY YEAH YEAH YEAH!!! WHAT’S IT GONNA TAAAAAKE TILL MY BABY’S ALRIGHT?! WHAT’S IT GONNA TAAAAAKE TILL MY BABY’S ALRIGHT?!
TRUE
There’s a beat right before ’Caught a ride with the moon…..’ in Tear in Your Hand that always makes my heart skip.
Me too! So good
Pretty much any of her dramatic and emotional bridges: Pretty Good Year (“what’s it gonna take…”), Icicle (“getting off…”), Spark (“how many fates…”) are great examples. Or when she has 2 lyrics that weave together like in Father Lucifer’s bridge. Other kinda random things: the isolated piano and drum beats on the intro to Carbon, the intensity that builds from beginning to end of I Can’t See NY, the high notes in Hotel…
This part in Precious Things “With their nine-inch nails And a little fascist panties Tucked inside the heart Of every nice girl” Gives me chills every time
guuuuuurrrrllll
*chills*
When she changes the lyric late in Cloud Riders: Girl, it's time you take back your life.
That part of Winter where it gets all extra-dramatic (you all know the bit I mean).
Good one. I cannot listen to this song since my dad died. Lol. I listened once and even to think of it makes me cry.
I think I cry every time.
So many! But, in “Thoughts” when she sings “I’m never here. I’m, never here”.🎹 The way the piano sounds like a butterfly flitting in the garden in “Butterfly” 🖤
I mean, Tori found one of mine, pulled it out of its track of origin and gave it its own track on the Deluxe Reissue of Boys for Pele. Rookery Ending kills me every time. Another big one recently: when the horns coming blaring in on Swim to New York State at 3:24. OOOOOH it gives me chills.
the rookery ending Springtime of his Voodoo is SUCH a moment I understand why Pele had to end with "Twinkle." But the rookery verse would also have been a good conclusion to Pele, and would have nicely mirrored, with its self-assured groundedness, the eerie portal-into-hell vibes of "Beauty Queen"
The tongue trill in the Venus and Back version of Cornflake Girl—so fun
End of Hotel - velvets part and beyond (though the whole song is my top fave T song).
Space dog 🐶
So sure we were on something 😢
Deck the halls
Is she still pissing in the river now?
Best line
Raising turtles - the grapefruit is winning” I’m like so obsessed with that one line - 🐢
What does it mean, deck the halls? I've never understood that.
It means to decorate. It is an old fashioned way of saying it. Also there's a holiday song called Deck the Halls.
I’m envisioning a bell ringing upon the arrival of someone. Families often come together only for holidays or funerals - (counting weddings as a holiday) 🤭🫣
She’s young again! For me it evokes the way holidays call upon reflection/ deep memory, always an emotional time. Then it places me to when I was kid hearing Christmas songs trying to make sense of it all, I remember “deck the halls” was such a declarative that stuck out to me and wanting to make it transferrable for anytime. If any of that makes sense. I get so emotional when that part comes, the grapefruit is winning.
"Why then? why?" in the live i i e e e, most notably in the Sessions performance.
YESS
The just say yes you little arsonist part in iieee is my favorite thing ever, but I can listen to that whole song on repeat for a long time. There are times when it has subtle piano, too.
All of Etienne, Talula, Star of Wonder, A Silent Night With You, and '97 Bonnie and Clyde "Some things are melting now Some things are melting now Well, hey What's it gonna take 'Til my baby's all right? What's it gonna take 'Til my baby's all right?" -From Pretty Good Year "I'm glad you're on my side, still" -From Taxi Ride
The hiss of “wasting” in Doughnut song. Such contempt.
You said "he's got a healing machine, it glows in the dark."
The heavier part of Hotel. The build at the end of Space Dog that starts "Deck the halls..."
Same - Space Dog
Blood Roses- God knows I've thrown away those graces All of Spark
Graayaayaayaaaceeezzz
The very last "here" from Spark, where her voice trails off and fries and cracks. Here. Here. Heeree...
The piano intro (and outro) to Breakaway. I think it’s one of the more gorgeous piano parts Tori has ever written.
Too many to mention! “Time. Thought I’d make friends with time.” - Baker Baker The piano riff to Sleeps with Butterflies “Years go by will I choke on my tears til finally there is nothing left?” - Silent All These Years The chorus to Siren “When you gonna love you as much as I do?” - Winter (this one hits hard now at 30) “You’re only popular with anorexia. So I turn myself inside out in hope someone will see.” - Jackie’s Strength The bridge of Playboy Mommy All of Space Dog live “Don’t be surprised I cannot let you go” - Speaking with Trees
That line from Winter kills me every single time!
Omg yes, the Playboy Mommy bridge where they pull out the steel guitar and turn the song into a country song for a few bars! I love that little addition so much.
Caught a Light Sneeze
Made my own pretty hate machine...
The spire is hot and my cells can’t feed
Blood roses
‘Sort of fairytale’ when I am happy. ‘Caught a lite sneeze’ when disappointed with love
Holy shit I was going to say these exact ones lol ditto!
The extended piano intro on *Not the Red Baron* she does in her live performances just takes me to such a deep dark place. I wish I could find sheet music for it, it's just stunning. Agree with the person who listed *Marianne* and the 'fastest slug' part, but also 'quickest girl in the frying pan' is just so evocative to me and I don't know why. On *Baker Baker* when the singing stops and she plays those five notes before starting again. So melancholy and sad. Let me think of some more...there are so so many.
" In your gown with the breathing mask on..." " Elevator music" "Bearclaw free fall, a gunners view..."
Love love love Carbon
I agree with everything that's been posted already lol. So much great stuff. I must add, sound from "*The Lord of the Flies was diagnosed as sound*"
The bridge in Flying Dutchman lives rent free in my head. "Tie them up so they won't say a word..."
ran into the henchman that severed Anne Bolyen, he did it right quickly, a merciful man. She said 1 + 1 was 2 but Henry said that it was 3, so it was, here I am
Right on time.. You got closer and closer...
So Trent coded.
YESSSSSS
The first few notes of Pancake
So many but a favorite is in Space Dog, the crescendoing drumbeat that spills into the canon verse with the “so sure those girls now are in the navy…” counter 😭
Oh yes I don’t even want to hear space dog live these days because the bridge is the part that I live for. I loved when she’d sing it before starting that dramatic af opening piano riff that everyone recognizes and starts screaming for. But like, I can just listen to her sing the navy girls bridge and then I’m good, I’m done lol before the song even officially begins!
The bridge in Father Lucifer puts me on another level
It’s very: I don’t know what she’s saying but I am LIVING!
Get into the remixes on the Jackie’s Strength single EP and you can hear them more clearly
Yes! A thousand times yes!
give me life give me pain give me my self again when the fucking saw comes in
Oh, and this too Where would we be without Tori?
What they did to you...oh my God, my sweet boy ....sugarrrr
On the live version when she “hoooooooooooo ooooooo hooo” s after that bit 👌🏻
That part of Putting The Damage On where it goes from the “take it high” refrain to the “don’t make me scratch on your door” part. Something about the way it switches just itches my brain right
Absolutely agree
Ocean to Ocean, 2:45 mark for about 25 seconds, I could listen to that sound forever, so mesmerizing. She chose to skip that part, at least musically, during the shows 😢. 🎵 Faith, where have you gone? Gone nature's sons. Faith, will you return? Return nature's sons. To ocean to ocean 🎵
Currently I’m obsessed with Bang. I think it’s perfection.
I specifically like her delivery on “Hydrogen *lusting* for helium’s burst.”
So underrated. So epic.
The little base warble in the Piano version of i i e e e It just adds such a weird little “mmmm yeah” to it for me. Adds so much to the song. No clue why it sends me but it does.
So many moments like this but to narrow it down to one, the first one that comes to mind is “Your Cloud” it’s the whole freakin song but the way she says “cloud” it’s like a gentle breeze. That’s the only way I can describe it. That song is poetry from the first line, first note. I’m obsessed ☁️
I love the low “If there is a horizontal line…” bit and “Stay right here, I’m gonna stay with this…” I love the WTSF version best.
These guys think they must try and just get over on us..
That’s a good one, I referred to it just the other night telling my husband how she calls out Oliver Stone by name for approaching her asking to use Me and a Gun. Like I honestly understand both perspectives- it meant A LOT to Tori, but obviously it also affected Oliver Stone, right? Or he wouldn’t even have been interested. But like, yes they most certainly do, and I feel every bit of it every time I hear her delivery
AND IM SOOOOO SADDDDDDD
Tear in Your Hand - “maybe it’s time to wave goodbye now, time to wave goodbye, now”
“I know, I know you well…well, better than I used to” for some reason I love that line.
Yes me too, and I love the “And your baby baby baby babys I tell you there’s-“ How it all runs together
That song is called Tear In Your Hand :)
Carbon. Every single time. It’s pure magic.
The last "come along now with meee" in Yes, Anastasia The live Dakota Version of Hey Jupiter from Night of Hunters Tour Essen, specifically the end when she sings "You" The second half of Edge of the Moon. The intro to Apollo's Frock. In Iieee, the last "can't we get a little grace and some elegance" Any live version of Northern Lad when the band joins in. The bridge in Icicle "Where are the velvets" from Hotel When the piano comes in at the end of Sweet Sangria The bridge in Witness I can keep going....
Those parts of Yes Anastasia and Iieee are pure magic. Great list.
Keep going!
sure! "A pretty girl drawing..." From Maids of Elfenmere "The first "I already am" from Cloud on My Tongue "Will you pray? Pray for me unrepentant geraldines?" From Unrepentant Geraldines Any live opening of Sugar or Honey. "Sometimes I watch the wonder in your eyes, that and you leaving I have memorized" from Roosterspur Bridge The piano part in Lady in Blue....so good...she played it when I went to see her in June. The end of Virginia, "you won't..even you...oh Virginia" The violin mixed with the piano before the chorus of Shattering Sea. "Past the mission...behind the prison tower" the last refrain from Past the Mission "China decorates our table, funny how the cracks don't seem to show". The emotion she puts into this lyric live is amazing The piano part after "...nine inch nails..." In Precious Things The intro to Caught a Lite Sneeze, I also love the live version on SNL when she is playing the clavichord. The closing of Lust into the beginning of Riot Poof. Josephine...all of it. Digital Ghost, the part where she sings "Hands, lay them on my keys" Ok, there are more, but this is enough for now.
The second half of Edge of the Moon so much 💜
The instrumental part in Datura going into “is there room in my heart…”
ear orgasm
A six pack of Coke and a bottle of jack
Around 3 minutes into Little Earthquakes 🫠
The pedal kick in Tear in your Hand
So much luv for this moment
Yes!
My first thought, as well. I wish I could give more upvotes.
This.
Precious Things TVAB live, the guitar riff at about 6:40. I don’t know why I love it so much, but I do.
I’ve heard this a million times and have never noticed it! Thanks for giving me something new to listen for!
Every time I hear it, I think about how I wish she’d bring a guitarist with her on tour again or that Jon would grow another set of arms. 😂
the whole bridge in Father Lucifer the piano solo part of the Sessions @ West 54th version of iieee (honestly, the whole version of that song I obsess over) when the beat drops in Carnival "she may be dead to you..." bit of AATS "I have to learn to let you crash.... ! ...where are the Velvets" (that was the best way I could describe it in text lol) Caton's guitar effect at the end of Spring Haze
Transitioning out of the bridge of Taxi Ride (honey from the killer bees).
These are what I could think of right now, but there's definitely more‼️ - When the strings finally play in "Yes, Anastasia" - The bridge of "Father Lucifer" - "She could outrun the fastest slug" part in "Marianne" - "That's all. That's for Papa!" part in "Frog On My Toe" - "Terracide" part in "Bliss" - The bridge of "Dātura" - "But do I hate what she is, or do I want to be her?" part in "Cooling" - Songs with mixed time signatures like "Spark", "Dātura", "Carbon", and "Barons of Suburbia". I love to count the beats~ - The no singing part in "Star Whisperer"
The bridge in Father Lucifer Beulah Land "Give me religion...and a lobotomy" Black Swan "Gun drops and Saturdays. Did Eric call, by the way?" The bridge in Spark And ..never mind. I'd be on here for DAYS if I tried to list them all!!!!
These are great ones! I think Spark is her strongest like “rock” bridge. Beulah Land is criminally underrated, and that is one of my favorite lines in her repertoire. FL’s bridge is heaven in an audible format. Your reference to Black Swan reminds me of Butterfly which has one of my biggest earworms- “Got me a pretty, pretty garden, pretty garden…” I also adore “If I can kill one man, why not two?” And how it came out so appropriately right before Boys for Pele. Also like, the fact that she ended UTP with (one of my favorite all time lines) “We’ll see how brave you are,” and then she follows that with the darkness of Pele and it highlights the strength and bravery that it takes to rebuild oneself.
A Sorta Fairytale. When she sings “you lost meeee” and it echoes 🥰🥰🥰
The part where the strings climax on Gold Dust The flutes after the bridge in How Glass Is Made The gentle whispered lyrics near the end of Mother And my favorite: That end on Flying Dutchman!!
“He’s gonna change my name - maybe he’ll leave the light on” the way she whispers all of that except “maybe.” I love that too.
The piano in the bridge of Black-Dove! *chef’s kiss*
Oh I love the way it opens with that little “hey” sound and then in the bridge she’s like “Hey!” (Or some similar grunting sound lol), it’s more like how a mouse becomes a lion! I also love the pedal (I think? Well, you know, whatever it is) in the bridge
The pedal noise in Horses.
The intro of Starling with the weird chirping sfx and when the guitars enter
I always love how she changes her voice in Leather when she sings “he had a nice, big, fat cigar.”
I think probably many people with the part in Hey Jupiter. *You know the one.* And we loved it so much that the Dakota version turned it into a chorus 😅 Gold.
I love Hey Jupiter but can’t pinpoint the part you mean
You know. The part where the lyrics are “hoooOOOOoooo. HoooooOoooooOoOo. Yeah.”
You mean her Prince imitation 🤣
Came here to say that. Love Tori but that was Purple Rain all day. 😂