Boys for Pele

by Tori Amos

Boys for Pele cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 22 January 1996
  • Label: EastWest
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 2:29:53
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 11 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Boys for Pele' is an intensely passionate, highly demanding art pop masterpiece that finds Tori Amos utilizing harpsichords and complex baroque arrangements. The incredibly long, eclectic album is driven by her deeply poetic, cryptic, and fiercely introspective lyricism.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, atmospheric, piano, confessional, female vocalist, female-vocals, dynamic, theatrical

Tracklist

  1. Beauty Queen / Horses (6:08)
  2. Blood Roses (3:56)
  3. Father Lucifer (3:42)
  4. Professional Widow (4:31)
  5. Mr. Zebra (1:07)
  6. Marianne (4:09)
  7. Caught a Lite Sneeze (4:25)
  8. Muhammad My Friend (3:49)
  9. Hey Jupiter (5:11)
  10. Way Down (1:13)
  11. Little Amsterdam (4:29)
  12. Talula (4:08)
  13. Not the Red Baron (3:50)
  14. Agent Orange (1:25)
  15. Doughnut Song (4:20)
  16. In the Springtime of His Voodoo (5:33)
  17. Putting the Damage On (5:10)
  18. Twinkle (3:13)
  19. Hey Jupiter (6:05)
  20. To the Fair Motormaids of Japan (4:18)
  21. That's What I Like Mick (The Sandwich Song) (3:00)
  22. Fire-Eater's Wife / Beauty Queen (3:15)
  23. Professional Widow (3:49)
  24. Sugar - Live (5:32)
  25. Alamo (5:12)
  26. Talula - M&M Mix (4:07)
  27. Professional Widow (4:38)
  28. Frog on My Toe (3:45)
  29. Hungarian Wedding Song (1:02)
  30. Walk to Dublin (5:27)
  31. Toodles Mr. Jim (3:09)
  32. Sister Named Desire (5:32)
  33. Amazing Grace / Til the Chicken (6:49)
  34. This Old Man (1:45)
  35. Sucker (2:52)
  36. Honey (3:46)
  37. Graveyard (0:54)
  38. London Girls (3:21)
  39. In the Springtime of His Voodoo - Rookery Ending (0:56)

Credits

  • Tori Amos - primary artist, liner notes, producer [produced by], songwriter [all songs written by], piano [b枚sendorfer through leslie cabinet], vocals [vocal], piano [b枚sendorfer], harpsichord [harpsichord through marshall], harmonium [harmonium organ], vocals [vocal], piano [b枚sendorfer], vocals, harpsichord, piano [b枚sendorfer], vocals [vocal], piano [b枚sendorfer], harmonium [harmonium organ], vocals, piano [b枚sendorfer], clavichord, vocals, harpsichord, vocals, piano [b枚sendorfer], harpsichord, vocals, producer
  • Cindy Palmano - art direction, photography by, photography
  • Vincent Cooper - art direction
  • Walter Campbell - art direction
  • George Porter, Jr. - bass
  • Metro Imaging - cgi artist [electronic manipulation]
  • Julie Larson - coordinator [production co-ordination and pa-kerri manuell project co-ordination]
  • Alan Friedman - drum programming, effects, organ, programmed by [programming]
  • Manu Katch茅 - drums
  • Paddy Cramsie - graphic design
  • Paul Chessell - graphic design
  • Arthur Spivak - management
  • Dave Brock - management [travel]
  • Bob Ludwig - mastered by, mastering
  • Bob Clearmountain - mixed by
  • Marcel van Limbeek - mixed by, recorded by, bells [delgany church bells], mixed by [coda: mixed by], recording
  • Mark Hawley - mixed by, recorded by, mixed by [coda: mixed by], recording
  • Rob van Tuin - mixed by [assisted by], recorded by [assisted by], performer [dutch pilots], additional recording
  • Ryan Freeland - mixed by [assisted by]
  • Declan O'Regan - mixed by [jacobs studios, assistance], assistant mix
  • Lin Gardiner - mixed by [jacobs studios, assistance], assistant mix
  • Rail Rogut - mixed by [record one, assistance]
  • John Witherspoon - project manager [project director], tour manager
  • Melissa Caldwell - promotion [fan clubs: really deep thoughts]
  • Richard Caldwell - promotion [fan clubs: really deep thoughts]
  • Steve Jenkins - promotion [fan clubs: take to the sky]
  • Tom Richards - promotion [fan clubs: upside down]
  • Jim Albert - recorded by [additional recording assistance], assistant recording
  • Robinson Mills - recorded by [additional recording assistance], assistant recording
  • Tania Staite - technician [harpsicord and piano technician]
  • Steve Caton - guitar, instruments [swells], electric guitar, mandolin, guitar [guitars], mandolin [mandolins], guitar [all manner of guitars], guitar [ha ha guitar], 12-string acoustic guitar
  • James Watson - trumpet, conductor
  • Bull - other [bull]
  • The Black Dyke Mills Band - brass
  • John Philip Shenale - arranged by
  • Peter Willison - music director [musical director]
  • Steven Scott Smalley - orchestrated by, conductor
  • Rupert Coulson - recorded by [the sinfonia of london, assistance], assistant recording
  • Sinfonia Of London - strings [strings performed by]
  • Clarence J. Johnson III - soprano saxophone [soprano sax], tenor saxophone [tenor sax]
  • Darryl Lewis - choir [gospel choir]
  • Gus McField Jr. - choir [gospel choir]
  • Jack Trimble - choir [gospel choir]
  • James Crawford Jr. - choir [gospel choir]
  • Mark Sterling - choir [gospel choir]
  • Marvin Sterling - choir [gospel choir]
  • Sammy Berfect - choir [gospel choir]
  • Brian Graber - flugelhorn
  • Tracy Griffin - flugelhorn
  • Mark Mullins - horns [horns arranged by], arranged by [horns arranged by], trombone
  • Mino Cinelu - percussion
  • Craig Klein - sousaphone
  • Marcel - performer [dutch pilots]
  • Bernard Quinn - bagpipes
  • Michael Deegan - bagpipes
  • Beene - vocals [additional vocals]
  • Nancy Shanks - vocals [additional vocals]
  • Rail Jon Rogut - assistant mix

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