@cassl14 God, no. Pam Anderson wishes she was Tori. Seriously, Tori Amos is an amazingly engaging performer. I'm sorry you don't get what she does in concert. Maybe if you went to a show and experienced it from start to finish?.. Her eyes would find you at some point and she would notice you. She's a great one for actually seeing her audience.
Tori knows what she's about. I saw her live back in September of 1992 during the Little Earthquakes tour. It was a smallish venue and I was in the fifth or sixth row, right side, pretty close to Tori and her piano. She sat just like she's sitting in this video, legs askew, and her eyes constantly scanned the crowd. (She met my eyes several times, but as she was under hot lights and most of the crowd was in the dark I'm not sure how well she actually saw any of us. But she tried.) As a performer she wasn't what I was expecting at all. Given her vulnerable lyrics and that aching soprano I thought she'd come off as shy and distant, even damaged. Anything but! She was warm and supremely confident, without a hint of stage fright. Her stage patter was bold and amusing...I remember her telling us a funny story about a sexual awakening she had while looking at a poster of Jim Morrison when she was young. Her performance was flawless, too. She didn't sing a single note off key.
@@ziweiyuan I saw Tori in Phoenix in 2018 at the stupid Comerica theater. I was up in the nosebleed balcony section and I know she saw me and my buddy, Star. She even pointed right at us when she sang "Running Up That Hill". Probably because I am an old-school Kate Bush fan and I sorta popped a vocal cord when I recognized the first notes. It was an amazing show and to hear her cover Kate was like frosting on top of a cake made of frosting. :)
When I was pregnant with my one and only child, I listened to Tori and Leonard Cohen every day. She is 21 now and a musician now and songwriter. I made sure she learned piano, but she taught herself guitar. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and politics, and is getting her master’s in Public Policy. She wants to work for an NGO. BUT her first love is music, and she told me yesterday that she’s dedicating two days a week to practicing and writing songs. I have encouraged her to never stop playing. She said it’s her fantasy to just be able to play and write songs every day, but she is a realist. It’s her life- and I can’t blame her for wanting a “normal” career. She’s goiMy to record an ep soon and shop it around clubs in London!
That piano sounds so 'dirty' on the lower notes... Epic cover with a unique twist to it. No matter how much I love the original, this is almost as epic. Wow...
@@jeffblydenburgh5938 and I disagree deeply and profoundly with your disagree. the vocals on the original simply do not agree with the emotion of the lyrics thenselves. S and G were just 2 nice american boys singing sweetly. the lyrics are so far removed from this. With disturbeds cover the discontinuity is resolved, the vocals are now true to the lyrics. it has to be one of the finest covers ever, of any song
@@jukeseyable The dissonance between the sweet, simple singing in the original is perfect for the lyrics. Life is dissonant. We are tone deaf to the suffering of others and cannot and will not bear witness to it even as we cannot come to terms with our own. Cries for help are met with silence. Consonance is all we're trained to hear and to respond to. I love both the original and the cover. Each performance has its own depth of message.
This is exactly how you do a cover. The first problem with many covers is the song choice, and once facet of that problem is the risk of covering an immensely iconic song that truly "belongs" to the original artist. This scenario for covering often ends in disaster, and yet Tori aced it. The second point is general criteria for an excellent cover: a fresh, new spin, adaptation to produce the covering artist's true style, and backstory: personal connection the song and possibly even portraying a new meaning than the original has. Check, check, and check.
Richard Tyminski and you should take what's left of your brain and flush it, which isn't much since you don't have two braincells to rub together. fail troll idiot :)
Richard Tyminski Honestly, people like you are just boring. You spout your bile without recourse and we live with it, and we will, not because of decency, but because there is hope for everyone. Damn my friend, you need to get out into the world and actually live, but hey, I love you a little bit, not much, but some! Good luck kid.
Tori Amos sang and recorded that song before NIRVANA, who were not big yet, as she was starting as well, they knew each other and they gave the song to her, and it was not a hit, more a B-Side, but she did it pretty much like this piano and voice, then Nirvana made it a grunge hit....
Everybody who says she's butchering the music honestly must not understand musical theory whatsoever. It's haunting and beautiful. The way she crescendos or moves from piano to fortissimo in an instant is fucking gorgeous.
I think there are people who say that because they don't like her for other reasons. Allegedly she's a Satanist and other things, etc. I think it's safe to say, though that whatever you think of Tori's character, she is an amazing performer.
@@cmcgrew98 probably not a 'satanist',whatever that might actually be. outspoken, though, i think. some folks have trouble with semi-famous people speaking out-of-turn, especially if they disagree with them...
@@shnootch I think in this case, it has to do with some shallow Christians attempting to label people like Tori as Satanists, because people like her criticize Christianity. My response to that is that it's important to have things out in the open and not to lie in fear of such people like Tori even if they are "Satanists". It is true that Tori is talented, and the best thing to do is to debate certain issues rather than cowering in fear and downgrading one's obvious musical talent. I have a pretty serious problem with shallow Christians myself having grown up with and around them. Christians who don't like Halloween, for example. I know of one family who won't let their son watch a single movie, not even a Christian one, because reasons. I really think this is a serious issue in the Christian community, and I certainly don't think that it really helps their case to remain ignorant and shallow in such ridiculous ways.
@@cmcgrew98 I myself drifted out of the church because of this pervasive shallowness. Just take note of who american evangelicals have embraced as their emmissary of truth on earth...
This is exactly how you make a cover of a highly successful song just one year after. By doing it totally different. I remember first time hearing Amos' version and just laughed out load. So briliiant doing a piano based ballad of that loud rock song (which great riffs I instantly loved to play on guitar my self). Tori Amos is such a great musician, and God bless her heart.
There is not another living soul who can make a piano sound so haunting. I remember hearing a snippet from Little Earthquakes prior to it's release in a WEA marketing meeting and I was just floored. I grabbed a Pre-release cassette copy of the record and to this day it still sits in a safe as a prized treasure. The first time I saw her perform on the Little Earthquakes tour was one of the most moving experiences of my life. I walked away speechless. There were simply no words to describe what I had just witnessed. Just Tori and a Piano onstage and she managed to reach into the imaginations of the audience and conjure up a show within the mind of each viewer. It was absolutely magical.
this is an amazing example of a perfect cover, unique in a sense that it’s not literally karaoke, but still respecting the original source material for what it was. absolutely beautiful.
I remember hearing Tori sing this at Her Majesty's Theatre, the day after Kurt took his life. You could have heard a pin drop whilst she sang. Truly beautiful.
This is when I was totally in love and obsessed with her. Looking at it now I still see one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. It was of course her voice that mesmerised me as a teen but these performances, what a woman.
@@trashedbodomguy Quit being a troll on a 7 year old comment. Covers are not about being able to play it, it's about reinterpreting it while staying true to the spirit.
This makes me sad and grateful at the same time. Sad because no one is making music anymore and I was grateful I was a budding teenager when I found Tori and that I can pass her music down to my daughter.
I totally agree. Used to get funny looks from the record shop staff, when I'd buy a Bolt Thrower, Sabbat, Napalm Death etc epic and something by Tori at the same time. Love the energy and oh so subtle intensity from this lady. Her themes are so brutal too. Check out "Time does not heal" by Dark Angel. Two beautiful peas in a very disturbing pod.
Somewhere out there, is a guy (or a girl, who knows) who adamantly claims that Tori Amos locked eyes with them in a concert and nobody believes them :-P
Really impressive. Love when a song is covered in such a new and radical way. She nails it. There's just enough of the original song still in there. Beautiful.
I like her cover. It's artistic. One thing I really like about Tori is that she gets comfortable in front of people, and it makes her songs really deep in feeling.
Yes! And this version is so great because she still has so much of the emotion, but just in a different way. Some people probably wouldn't agree, but her cover is better than the original.
@@StanleyKubick1 just because you don't like it doesn't mean no one else should. putting a spin on a song shouldn't be a reason to invalidate real talent. Don't write people off as being idiots just because you have differing opinions over something as insignificant as a cover of a song
apparently she has synesthesia, it's a disorder where the brain can visualize music in the form of hallucinatory light waves, it often produces genius level musicians. :)
I love her voice and her interpretation here and her own songwriting of course, but what I do like the most about her is her unique style of piano playing. I just adore her almost always dark tone-style on the board.
Watching this performance is like getting lost in a strange nook of the city but enjoying every twist and turn of it. She's wild and intriguing without trying. She doesn't just sing; she speaks to you in melody and mean each and every line, and THAT IS SEXY.
Unbelievably creative, talented, original, mesmerizing, beautiful, haunting, emotional and brilliant. Tori Amos is one of the best singers and musicians in history, this is one of the greatest cover songs of all time, and Tori is simply one of the most beautiful women on this planet. Thank you, Tori. We all love you!
I remember the single for Crucify when it came out and when I looked at the track listing saw Teen Spirit. I skipped the cd to that track and I was just sent to another place and time with this cover. It was sublime. She is something else.
Always admired Tori's music ability, as a 90's grunge fan I totally missed this until lockdown 2021! So 2021 and sat in front of my PC (that's what us 40 somethings still do) drinking some beers and enjoying the music. You can tell she's totally in-tune with the song, accent raises and lowers with how she feels the song needs to be told. Love it!
The greatest difference of this cover when compared to the great original version, was the effect the lyrics had on me. Although I am a huge fan of the original version, I have to say that super Tori has done a great job reflecting the meaning of the lyrics with her voice. Excellent!
Her piano skills and in particular her rearrangement for this song is what I find the most incredible as the original version is not really explicit about the "colour" of the chords (guitar and bass only play fundalental + fifth) And damn it's freaking sexy ! Anyway, love it ! :D
Pianists ive known have always said "oh thats odd" but never elaborated. Thanks for saying whats so different about her composition. Sorry for this being years late
I heard that new version of this song and I needed to hear Tori instead. She really rocks those low 🎹. I remember playing it in piano class and my teacher was like what are u playing. I was impressed she recognized it.
How can anyone be there live and not be captured by this performance. I feel uneasy watching through a screen, as if she’s actively trying to steal my soul. Yet it’s so beautiful and I can’t look away. What a an enchanting woman she is.
It's cool to hear what a Hard Rocking song sounds like when it's mellowed out and played on piano. I'ts like it changes your perspective on how you think about the song as well.
Tori brought the talent and the tension needed for a song that defined a generation. I'm just proud to be apart of it, where all hope died within but we still shine through.
Interesting because when I saw Nirvana in Seattle in 1992 they started playing the Tori Amos version over the speakers, then Kurt cut it off and said “Yeah right”. I remember being really disappointed cuz I love Tori.
It’s amazing how a good cover can change how you feel about a song. I never really thought about how depressing these lyrics are before, since the song is originally so angry.
This is what separates Tori from all other singer's...how she looks at every single person in the audience and makes them feel special or she is singing to them...she always did!!
I had the chance to meet you at Jacobs recording studios in Farnham with my friend Rachel, when I was 15.... Unfortunately I bailed because I was too shy.. One of my biggest regrets 😔
I've always been a huge fan of her and her voice ... Tori makes melancholy sound so pretty and beautiful ... I've thought that a good singer let's you feel their emotions in there songs and for this reason she is truly my favorite female vocalist
Tori is one of those performers who can truly make the sound of the piano and her voice keep you hanging on each word and note , haunting and beautiful 🙏 she is amazing and love to hear her cover these classic songs.
Now I understand that Bob's Burgers episode with the food trucks...the red-headed songstress grinding lasciviously on her piano chair, breathing heavily. Spot-the-fuck-on!!!
About the same experience as the White Stripes doing Dolly Partons' 'Jolene', but then the other way around. Fascinating, how some can really add other layers to a song by covering it.
In 1992, Tori released a little EP called Crucify. It had 5 tracks on it including 3 covers: Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana) Thank you (Led Zeppelin) and Angie (Rolling Stones). The covers are all insanely brilliant and complement Crucify and Winter wonderfully. I'm really fond of her version of Angie.
Oh, the early 90's when Tori Amos was the sexiest woman alive. My heart was broken by a girl, I had my new driver's license, Tori's "Little Earthquakes" album and Smashing Pumpkins "Disarm" on repeat in my car, Marcus Schenkenberg's abs were everywere and all the guys wanted to look like Nuno Bettencourt in Extreme.
Wow probably one of the most talented people to walk the earth, this song actually made me cry, am a 50 year old man Tori wtf are you doing to me ❤️❤️❤️
Back in the 90’s, my alarm went off one morning and this is what was playing. I was half asleep and thought I was dreaming it. I became a big Tori Amos fan afterward. Lucky for Pittsburgh, we have a great independent radio station, WYEP
I think they wanted to show a new generation of young artists appreciating old ones so Tori was not chosen on the bright side,Lorde is not your average musician,her works are very well-received,especially Melodrama and Kim Gordon,Kurt's friend also performed.
@Dugganworks "After hearing this version, Kurt Cobain refused to ever perform the song again, stating that the way Amos did it was "the way it was meant to be done." Direct quote, man. Kurt liked Tori Amos and was flattered that she covered one of his songs. He said this outright in an MTV interview. Just because you think Kurt wouldn't like it, don't assume that's the truth.
First saw this on MTV in summer of '92 I believe while at a basketball camp. Even as a Nirvana teen at the time and not much of a T.A. fan, it stuck. Probably explains why I'm watching it on RUclips 30+ years later. Also worth noting, if memory serves, the mVideo was followed by Criss Cross' I Missed the Bus video..hmmm lol. Good stuff, thanks for post.
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The way she sits, speaks and looks at people while performing, she knows exactly what she is doing and the effects it is having.
A Box of Photons I said something very similar
Oh it’s affecting me alright
@cassl14 God, no. Pam Anderson wishes she was Tori.
Seriously, Tori Amos is an amazingly engaging performer. I'm sorry you don't get what she does in concert.
Maybe if you went to a show and experienced it from start to finish?.. Her eyes would find you at some point and she would notice you. She's a great one for actually seeing her audience.
Tori knows what she's about. I saw her live back in September of 1992 during the Little Earthquakes tour. It was a smallish venue and I was in the fifth or sixth row, right side, pretty close to Tori and her piano. She sat just like she's sitting in this video, legs askew, and her eyes constantly scanned the crowd. (She met my eyes several times, but as she was under hot lights and most of the crowd was in the dark I'm not sure how well she actually saw any of us. But she tried.)
As a performer she wasn't what I was expecting at all. Given her vulnerable lyrics and that aching soprano I thought she'd come off as shy and distant, even damaged. Anything but! She was warm and supremely confident, without a hint of stage fright. Her stage patter was bold and amusing...I remember her telling us a funny story about a sexual awakening she had while looking at a poster of Jim Morrison when she was young.
Her performance was flawless, too. She didn't sing a single note off key.
@@ziweiyuan I saw Tori in Phoenix in 2018 at the stupid Comerica theater. I was up in the nosebleed balcony section and I know she saw me and my buddy, Star. She even pointed right at us when she sang "Running Up That Hill". Probably because I am an old-school Kate Bush fan and I sorta popped a vocal cord when I recognized the first notes.
It was an amazing show and to hear her cover Kate was like frosting on top of a cake made of frosting. :)
I was there!!! She was amazing, and I was captivated the entire time she was on stage. I think maybe the best performance I have ever been to.
I would love to see her live!
So incredibly wonderful
What year was this?
She looks fairly pissed off at the front row?
Omg you are so lucky!!!!!!
When I was pregnant with my one and only child, I listened to Tori and Leonard Cohen every day. She is 21 now and a musician now and songwriter. I made sure she learned piano, but she taught herself guitar. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and politics, and is getting her master’s in Public Policy. She wants to work for an NGO. BUT her first love is music, and she told me yesterday that she’s dedicating two days a week to practicing and writing songs. I have encouraged her to never stop playing. She said it’s her fantasy to just be able to play and write songs every day, but she is a realist. It’s her life- and I can’t blame her for wanting a “normal” career. She’s goiMy to record an ep soon and shop it around clubs in London!
how's she doing?
As a parent, you win at life.
WOW. that’s beautiful.
Love hearing comments like this
Tell her to go into music. NGOs are crime syndicates that do more harm than good.
Tori Amos certainly has the Midas touch when it comes music. This performance is pure gold.
A nice example of what can happen when you put great song writing in the hands of a great artist.
That piano sounds so 'dirty' on the lower notes... Epic cover with a unique twist to it. No matter how much I love the original, this is almost as epic. Wow...
thats cos shes having sex with it 😆
she is good, but not even close to the original, for a great cover disturbed sound of silence
Disagree on the disturbed cover of sounds of silence. You can’t touch the original in my opinion
@@jeffblydenburgh5938 and I disagree deeply and profoundly with your disagree. the vocals on the original simply do not agree with the emotion of the lyrics thenselves. S and G were just 2 nice american boys singing sweetly. the lyrics are so far removed from this. With disturbeds cover the discontinuity is resolved, the vocals are now true to the lyrics. it has to be one of the finest covers ever, of any song
@@jukeseyable The dissonance between the sweet, simple singing in the original is perfect for the lyrics. Life is dissonant. We are tone deaf to the suffering of others and cannot and will not bear witness to it even as we cannot come to terms with our own. Cries for help are met with silence. Consonance is all we're trained to hear and to respond to.
I love both the original and the cover. Each performance has its own depth of message.
This is exactly how you do a cover. The first problem with many covers is the song choice, and once facet of that problem is the risk of covering an immensely iconic song that truly "belongs" to the original artist. This scenario for covering often ends in disaster, and yet Tori aced it. The second point is general criteria for an excellent cover: a fresh, new spin, adaptation to produce the covering artist's true style, and backstory: personal connection the song and possibly even portraying a new meaning than the original has. Check, check, and check.
Richard Tyminski
and you should take what's left of your brain and flush it, which isn't much since you don't have two braincells to rub together. fail troll idiot :)
Richard Tyminski
Honestly, people like you are just boring. You spout your bile without recourse and we live with it, and we will, not because of decency, but because there is hope for everyone.
Damn my friend, you need to get out into the world and actually live, but hey, I love you a little bit, not much, but some!
Good luck kid.
+Syvelocin Couldn't agree more. A lot of Tori's covers go overlooked, but not be other musicians.
Your Detractors are obviously trolls looking for reactions. You do use fancy words and phrases and that is what is putting people off. for
Tori Amos sang and recorded that song before NIRVANA, who were not big yet, as she was starting as well, they knew each other and they gave the song to her, and it was not a hit, more a B-Side, but she did it pretty much like this piano and voice, then Nirvana made it a grunge hit....
With the lights out. Tori Amos.
Here we are now. Tori Amos.
I feel stupid. Tori Amos.
Here we are now. Tori Amos.
MetalManiaAllTheWay genius !
😂😂😂
Finish it!
A rare YT comment legit LOL
Stupid af
She's always had bigger balls than most of the men in the industry but to tackle this takes the crown. She makes it her own.
Considering she wrote the lyrics too.
@@OloBustyoas no she didn’t.
Anyone here after Rick Beato’s vid on What Makes this Song Great? Forgot how good this is
Yup, the 2 second clip he showed intrigued me enough to come here, and I’m glad I did!
Yup
me 3
Yes I followed you here from Rick
I came straight here. And I am 62.
Everybody who says she's butchering the music honestly must not understand musical theory whatsoever. It's haunting and beautiful. The way she crescendos or moves from piano to fortissimo in an instant is fucking gorgeous.
I think there are people who say that because they don't like her for other reasons. Allegedly she's a Satanist and other things, etc. I think it's safe to say, though that whatever you think of Tori's character, she is an amazing performer.
What part is that at? I don't know much about music theory.
@@cmcgrew98 probably not a 'satanist',whatever that might actually be. outspoken, though, i think. some folks have trouble with semi-famous people speaking out-of-turn, especially if they disagree with them...
@@shnootch I think in this case, it has to do with some shallow Christians attempting to label people like Tori as Satanists, because people like her criticize Christianity. My response to that is that it's important to have things out in the open and not to lie in fear of such people like Tori even if they are "Satanists". It is true that Tori is talented, and the best thing to do is to debate certain issues rather than cowering in fear and downgrading one's obvious musical talent.
I have a pretty serious problem with shallow Christians myself having grown up with and around them. Christians who don't like Halloween, for example. I know of one family who won't let their son watch a single movie, not even a Christian one, because reasons. I really think this is a serious issue in the Christian community, and I certainly don't think that it really helps their case to remain ignorant and shallow in such ridiculous ways.
@@cmcgrew98 I myself drifted out of the church because of this pervasive shallowness. Just take note of who american evangelicals have embraced as their emmissary of truth on earth...
Seriously though, this has to be one of the best covers of any song done by anyone ever.
It's up there
Add Norah Jones cover on Black hole sun and Honey's Nobody loves an Alien
Until you hear her cover 'Angie' by The Rolling Stones
Idk I think I prefer Daisy Gray's cover of this cover myself.
It's definitely up there
This is exactly how you make a cover of a highly successful song just one year after. By doing it totally different. I remember first time hearing Amos' version and just laughed out load. So briliiant doing a piano based ballad of that loud rock song (which great riffs I instantly loved to play on guitar my self). Tori Amos is such a great musician, and God bless her heart.
This is a rip off of Patti Smith cover though
@@melovil9199yeah, lol Tori is a time traveller, she ripped of Patti Smith's cover from 2007 in 1992.
Who's listening to this in May 2020? What a wonderful cover of such a great song! I love this rendering!
Who cares who's listening
@@aintitso6310 I do.
@@aintitso6310 you sound nice lol
I am
Ambient Walking k
There is not another living soul who can make a piano sound so haunting.
I remember hearing a snippet from Little Earthquakes prior to it's release in a WEA marketing meeting and I was just floored. I grabbed a Pre-release cassette copy of the record and to this day it still sits in a safe as a prized treasure.
The first time I saw her perform on the Little Earthquakes tour was one of the most moving experiences of my life. I walked away speechless. There were simply no words to describe what I had just witnessed.
Just Tori and a Piano onstage and she managed to reach into the imaginations of the audience and conjure up a show within the mind of each viewer. It was absolutely magical.
Amy Lee comes close.
Fiona Apple: Hold my Beer..... :)
If someone looked at me the way she looks at the audience my life would be complete.
yap
That's the way I'd look at my soulmate or at my enemies, honestly...
funniest comment i have ever heard!
Lagganhen that’s pretty sad if this is the funniest comment you’ve ever herd...
With Tobey, maybe he's got a different sense of humour? :Eyes:
this is an amazing example of a perfect cover, unique in a sense that it’s not literally karaoke, but still respecting the original source material for what it was. absolutely beautiful.
Her voice is like silk
Her voice is a poem of dichotomized analogies that some poets dream about writing, even as I do so myself this very moment.
not only her voice
I remember hearing Tori sing this at Her Majesty's Theatre, the day after Kurt took his life. You could have heard a pin drop whilst she sang. Truly beautiful.
That is highly debatable.
@@davidalbro2009bro said "and everyone clapped"
According to setlist data for her Under The Pink tour, she was at that theatre on Sunday 06 March 1994. I thought Kurt Cobain took his life in April.
Bollocks
This is when I was totally in love and obsessed with her. Looking at it now I still see one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. It was of course her voice that mesmerised me as a teen but these performances, what a woman.
Yep, same here. As a young man, I had such a crush on her. One of the most beautiful and sensual women in music.
Das ist die mit Abstand unglaublichste intensivste und leidenschaftlichste version von smells like die ich je gehört habe thank you tori
I never thought i would hear a cover of this that was so good .
Same here : )
Patti Smith
Why? You think this is an impossible song to play?😂😂
@@trashedbodomguy Quit being a troll on a 7 year old comment. Covers are not about being able to play it, it's about reinterpreting it while staying true to the spirit.
This makes me sad and grateful at the same time. Sad because no one is making music anymore and I was grateful I was a budding teenager when I found Tori and that I can pass her music down to my daughter.
Not true at all, it's our there ya gotta look for it.
This works because it's the same feeling but so different. Kurt projected raw pain Tori has given it that sadness and sound of sorrow. Brilliant
This woman projects the energy and power of metal through a piano! Fucking amazing!
+TheHypernaught
Dude, dude... dude listen to me. Nirvana is not a metal band, my friend!
maximersk Grunge is a sub genre of rock and is very similar to Metal. Talk about pedantic
+TheHypernaught the reason I like her...she even has a coversong from 'reign in blood' by Slayer
I totally agree. Used to get funny looks from the record shop staff, when I'd buy a Bolt Thrower, Sabbat, Napalm Death etc epic and something by Tori at the same time. Love the energy and oh so subtle intensity from this lady. Her themes are so brutal too. Check out "Time does not heal" by Dark Angel. Two beautiful peas in a very disturbing pod.
It's a steinway piano so it sounds incredible :)
this is such an amazing version. instead of a loud rage its more a silent rage. both versions are amzing and unigue.
1:17 man she really locked eyes with someone in the audience and held it.
if only I could have been that person (sigh)
I wish i was that person lol
***** lmao better be prepared
stiimuli And again at 1;40.
***** I would have too!
Somewhere out there, is a guy (or a girl, who knows) who adamantly claims that Tori Amos locked eyes with them in a concert and nobody believes them :-P
Omg, this performance is amazing. What a control she's got in voice and play.
I don't have words for how perfect this is! No one makes me cry quite like Tori!
Really impressive. Love when a song is covered in such a new and radical way. She nails it. There's just enough of the original song still in there. Beautiful.
I like her cover. It's artistic. One thing I really like about Tori is that she gets comfortable in front of people, and it makes her songs really deep in feeling.
Why is it that when anyone takes a loud, and angry song and puts a soft clean spin to it that everyone loses their minds? It adds beauty to the song.
***** Well said.
Yes! And this version is so great because she still has so much of the emotion, but just in a different way. Some people probably wouldn't agree, but her cover is better than the original.
it adds nothing. people are just idiots who like new things
@@StanleyKubick1 just because you don't like it doesn't mean no one else should. putting a spin on a song shouldn't be a reason to invalidate real talent. Don't write people off as being idiots just because you have differing opinions over something as insignificant as a cover of a song
@Adelaide McGowan I’m afraid Foxtrot is right. If it wasn’t a cover, it would just be filler on one of her albums. Eminently forgettable.
Tori Amos, the most awe inspiring voice of her generation, or any generation. Love this cover.. Takes me to a better place..
She's so authentic and has a perfect voice and singing style.
Finally got the pleasure of seeing her live last month. Fantastic lady and artist.
The range on this.. The ivory tickling... Her voice. Gives me chills
apparently she has synesthesia, it's a disorder where the brain can visualize music in the form of hallucinatory light waves, it often produces genius level musicians. :)
I love her voice and her interpretation here and her own songwriting of course, but what I do like the most about her is her unique style of piano playing. I just adore her almost always dark tone-style on the board.
Watching this performance is like getting lost in a strange nook of the city but enjoying every twist and turn of it. She's wild and intriguing without trying. She doesn't just sing; she speaks to you in melody and mean each and every line, and THAT IS SEXY.
Absolutely! The part at 1:50, its just... dear lord!
@@ZekeThePlumber86 YEEESS CHILLS EVERYWHERE
Unbelievably creative, talented, original, mesmerizing, beautiful, haunting, emotional and brilliant. Tori Amos is one of the best singers and musicians in history, this is one of the greatest cover songs of all time, and Tori is simply one of the most beautiful women on this planet. Thank you, Tori. We all love you!
I remember the single for Crucify when it came out and when I looked at the track listing saw Teen Spirit. I skipped the cd to that track and I was just sent to another place and time with this cover. It was sublime. She is something else.
Always admired Tori's music ability, as a 90's grunge fan I totally missed this until lockdown 2021! So 2021 and sat in front of my PC (that's what us 40 somethings still do) drinking some beers and enjoying the music. You can tell she's totally in-tune with the song, accent raises and lowers with how she feels the song needs to be told. Love it!
Thanks for your love and support to my music, I have you all my fans to be most grateful for 🌹🌹♥️
Fun Fact: Kurt said her version was better than his.
She also does “Losing My Religion” which is also chillingly beautiful and AMAZING and it was actually featured in the movie “Higher Learning”.
Her version is insane ❤
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He also said nirvana would play this version and come out dancing I think in 1992 tour
I love that about him 😁 he was so modest
The greatest difference of this cover when compared to the great original version, was the effect the lyrics had on me. Although I am a huge fan of the original version, I have to say that super Tori has done a great job reflecting the meaning of the lyrics with her voice. Excellent!
Her piano skills and in particular her rearrangement for this song is what I find the most incredible as the original version is not really explicit about the "colour" of the chords (guitar and bass only play fundalental + fifth)
And damn it's freaking sexy ! Anyway, love it ! :D
Pianists ive known have always said "oh thats odd" but never elaborated. Thanks for saying whats so different about her composition. Sorry for this being years late
I heard that new version of this song and I needed to hear Tori instead. She really rocks those low 🎹. I remember playing it in piano class and my teacher was like what are u playing. I was impressed she recognized it.
Her piano literacy is insane. Some of her songs are incredibly odd. Reminds me a ton of early Kate Bush songs.
@@razrv3lc she was always compared to her and alot of people say she ripped bush off
Miguel Marquez nothing more painful than getting yer bush ripped off😱😱😱
How can anyone be there live and not be captured by this performance. I feel uneasy watching through a screen, as if she’s actively trying to steal my soul. Yet it’s so beautiful and I can’t look away. What a an enchanting woman she is.
She looked stunning in the 90s. :)
Great cover btw.
Almost everything was stunning in the 90s...( *sigh*
I love this kind of cover: original, professional and with great personality! Tory Amos Is really a great artisti!! Thanks a lot!!! 🎼❤
It's cool to hear what a Hard Rocking song sounds like when it's mellowed out and played on piano.
I'ts like it changes your perspective on how you think about the song as well.
what an absolute beauty. Amazing cover, i truly miss the 90s.
Tori brought the talent and the tension needed for a song that defined a generation. I'm just proud to be apart of it, where all hope died within but we still shine through.
this is an amazing cover. Kurt Cobain was star struck by Tori Amos just fyi. She captures the metal vibe through her piano.
I imagine that there was a reality where Kurt got with Tori instead of Love and they lived happily ever after
Interesting because when I saw Nirvana in Seattle in 1992 they started playing the Tori Amos version over the speakers, then Kurt cut it off and said “Yeah right”. I remember being really disappointed cuz I love Tori.
@@mentak2593 I think they played it in paris, france 1992
source: trust me bro
Im pretty sure ive heard Kurt saying this version was lame. 99%.
I never wanted to be a microphone so much in my life...
I preferred to be the piano chair!
Noxius Obvious 💀
@@noxiusobvious4239 My thoughts exactly....
Still better than being the tampax in her ...
@@zsuzsannacircleedge8416 Bonnie Prince Charlie likes them more horselike anyway...
If there's ever been a greater cover than Tori doing SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT, then I've never heard it.
If not better it's equal : Norah Jones on Black hole sun....Honey on No one wants an alien...
This! Tori is a true artist and very special talent…her voice captivates and the piano arrangement is just stunningly beautiful ❤️🎼🎵🎹
It’s amazing how a good cover can change how you feel about a song. I never really thought about how depressing these lyrics are before, since the song is originally so angry.
This is what separates Tori from all other singer's...how she looks at every single person in the audience and makes them feel special or she is singing to them...she always did!!
@Me Too ya do realize I'm talking from a personal experience...
Saw her do this in NYC the week before Kurt died. Still one of my favorite covers by anyone anytime anywhere. ❤
From the age of 14 when I first was overwhelmed with her talent... I, still at 43 think she is a musical genius!
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I had the chance to meet you at Jacobs recording studios in Farnham with my friend Rachel, when I was 15.... Unfortunately I bailed because I was too shy.. One of my biggest regrets 😔
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I've always been a huge fan of her and her voice ... Tori makes melancholy sound so pretty and beautiful ... I've thought that a good singer let's you feel their emotions in there songs and for this reason she is truly my favorite female vocalist
Tori is one of those performers who can truly make the sound of the piano and her voice keep you hanging on each word and note , haunting and beautiful 🙏 she is amazing and love to hear her cover these classic songs.
Now I understand that Bob's Burgers
episode with the food trucks...the red-headed songstress grinding lasciviously on her piano chair, breathing heavily. Spot-the-fuck-on!!!
Underrated comment.
Hahahaha! Underrated comment!
Same! Glad to see someone make this comment!
"Oiiiill.. spilllll...."
This is why I love reading the comments. The last sentence S T F O I almost spit out my gum!!!
Epic cover. Potentially the best of all covers!
It's amazing how Tori can make me feel emotions I've never felt before.
This is so immersive. Her audience engagement is so sensual.
I honestly loved Nirvana, but was so over this song until I heard Tori sing it. Beautiful
About the same experience as the White Stripes doing Dolly Partons' 'Jolene', but then the other way around.
Fascinating, how some can really add other layers to a song by covering it.
the only person which felt what curt cobain felt deep in his heart and performed it perfectly
*kurt
Qurt*
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*kalvin
Suddenly I'm a Tori Amos fan
to late
@@cocteautwinscocteautwins523 never too late to be a fan of an artist lol
Such a beautiful voice. Amazing eyes staring through the audience.
When I wanna cry in my bathtub with the candles lit, this version gets all those emotions out. Thank you Tori.
In 1992, Tori released a little EP called Crucify. It had 5 tracks on it including 3 covers: Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana) Thank you (Led Zeppelin) and Angie (Rolling Stones). The covers are all insanely brilliant and complement Crucify and Winter wonderfully. I'm really fond of her version of Angie.
Me too! I love that EP especially Angie
I love her version of Thank you ❤😭😭
Oh, the early 90's when Tori Amos was the sexiest woman alive. My heart was broken by a girl, I had my new driver's license, Tori's "Little Earthquakes" album and Smashing Pumpkins "Disarm" on repeat in my car, Marcus Schenkenberg's abs were everywere and all the guys wanted to look like Nuno Bettencourt in Extreme.
DIsarm.... what a song!! :)
Gorgeous, anyone that doesn't like this have no ears.
As I speak for millions of ladies and gentlemen, you , Mary Ellen, are the MOST SUPERB OF TALENTED TEACHERS!
simply the best. she fueled a generation of singer/songwriters with her light, passion, fierceness, fearlessness, and singularity. Viva Tori Amos!!
Thanks for your love and support to my music, I have you all my fans to be most grateful for 🌹🌹♥️...
i am sure Kurt is enjoying listening to u .. over and over again
RIP KURT ..
He's probably under a bridge in heaven. Doubting himself.
whisperienced actually,that’s false.kurt loved this cover
Too bad it's over when were dead
Greatest cover I've heard in an age! Her voice is really powerful, and still she's a master of soft singing! A rare and admirable combo, that is.
Beautiful woman, beautiful voice.
Wow probably one of the most talented people to walk the earth, this song actually made me cry, am a 50 year old man Tori wtf are you doing to me ❤️❤️❤️
Finally you got a great artist singing a tune with clear lyrics and piano great job Tori
One of the few covers to make my ears happy
Thanks Tori, it's because of you I actually know the lyrics ;)
Still my favourite version of this song...😍😍😍 ...
I agree. The original has been overplayed to infinity.. Nirvana had better songs and this sounds fresher.
This song made me cry!! it's like a teardrop for every stroke of the piano keys !!!
Back in the 90’s, my alarm went off one morning and this is what was playing. I was half asleep and thought I was dreaming it. I became a big Tori Amos fan afterward. Lucky for Pittsburgh, we have a great independent radio station, WYEP
they shouldve had HER perform instead of Lorde at the 2014 nirvana hall of fame. gorgeous performance
I think they wanted to show a new generation of young artists appreciating old ones so Tori was not chosen on the bright side,Lorde is not your average musician,her works are very well-received,especially Melodrama and Kim Gordon,Kurt's friend also performed.
What would Lorde know about Nirvana? Tori would have been much better.
She hasn’t really been good or relevant since the 90s. Every album Tori has made for the last 20 years has been mediocre to awful.
@Dugganworks "After hearing this version, Kurt Cobain refused to ever perform the song again, stating that the way Amos did it was "the way it was meant to be done."
Direct quote, man. Kurt liked Tori Amos and was flattered that she covered one of his songs. He said this outright in an MTV interview. Just because you think Kurt wouldn't like it, don't assume that's the truth.
And who wouldn't be flattered? This is magnifiscent!
I was 20 in 92 and had no clue this beautiful world existed.
First saw this on MTV in summer of '92 I believe while at a basketball camp. Even as a Nirvana teen at the time and not much of a T.A. fan, it stuck. Probably explains why I'm watching it on RUclips 30+ years later. Also worth noting, if memory serves, the mVideo was followed by Criss Cross' I Missed the Bus video..hmmm lol. Good stuff, thanks for post.
This rendition is so beautifully haunting, the way Tori looks out into the crowd also, there's something very sensual about it.
I looked up this video after watching an Amy Lee livestream. I must say, I don't regret it ❤
oh wow wonderful
My mother would harmonize to her voice.
Rrrrrruuuuuubecca
🖤🖤🖤
Much love to everyone digging this ❤
Tori isn't just playing the piano and singing awsome, she puts on a show, talking to you and express emotions with her all body, very amazing.
Thanks for your love and support to my music, I have you all my fans to be most grateful for 🌹🌹♥️
The way she slips into the song in the beginning, she changes the temperature of the song; even more haunting, chills.
One word:
Mesmerizing.
Pffftttt.. Someone said Patty Smith was best. Naaaah. Tori Amos.. come on!! Strong strong voice. Tori intensifies it!
Once every year or so RUclips actually suggests something that's really, really good. I mean, god damn, this might be the best suggestion ever.
Out of this world! What an amazing performer, TA!!!
Wow, never realized how pretty the melody of this song is until now.