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A Piano: The Collection

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A PIANO: THE COLLECTION, is a five-disc, career-spanning box set by Tori Amos. Released on September 26, 2006 by Rhino Records, the set consists of classics, rarities, demos, B-sides and the unreleased songs: “Not David Bowie,” “Zero Point,” “Peeping Tommi,” “Ode To My Clothes” and “Dolphin Song.”

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The compilation’s first disc includes an extended version of Tori’s 1992 debut, Little Earthquakes. The original record has not only a different song sequence and alternate mixes but it features its four original b-sides “Upside Down,” “Take To The Sky (Russia),” “Sweet Dreams” and an alternate mix of “Flying Dutchman,” as well as the previously unreleased, unedited single version of “Crucify.”

Spotlighting music recorded between 1994 and 1996, the second disc includes songs from Under the Pink and Boys for Pele. The 18 tracks blend original and remixed versions of albums cuts with the b-side “Honey” and “Professional Widow” performed live. Also included is “Take Me With You,” an unreleased song intended for Little Earthquakes.

The third disc also includes songs associated with Boys for Pele plus 1999’s To Venus and Back and Tales of a Librarian: A Tori Amos Collection. The 15 songs feature original and remixed versions of album tracks as well as “Hey Jupiter” (Dakota Version) and “Professional Widow” (Armand’s Star Trunk Funkin’ Mix). Also featured is “Walk To Dublin (Sucker Reprise),” an unreleased track from the Pele sessions.

From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998), Scarlet's Walk (2002) and The Beekeeper (2005) are the focus of the fourth disc, which contains 15 songs including original and remixed versions of album tracks. Also featured is the unheard intro for “Marys Of The Sea” from The Beekeeper as well as five previously unreleased songs “Not David Bowie,” “Zero Point,” "Peeping Tommi," “Ode To My Clothes” and “Dolphin Song.” In the liner notes, Tori writes: “Some songs seem to have a timeline for when they want to be finished and put out to the world. At the time when we were working on ‘Dolphin Song,’ I had all kinds of ideas for her development after the basic tracking had been done. Instead she got set aside for a while. But once we started to go through the tape library we put ‘Dolphin’ up on the faders again, and I realized we didn’t need to record anything else; it was finished.”

The final disc features 22 tracks spotlighting Tori’s impressive list of renowned b-sides and includes the exclusive digital release “Merman” from 1999 (Merman would later appear on No Boundaries: A Benefit for the Kosovar Refugees). For what could be the most intriguing addition to the collection, Tori invites listeners into her artistic process with a medley of demos for the songs, “Fire-Eater’s Wife/Beauty Queen,” “Playboy Mommy” and “A Sorta Fairytale.” Amos explains in the liner notes: “I’m usually pretty reticent to expose the musical development process…The demo medley was a choice I made so that other songwriters can feel an affinity with the idea that songwriters have to push themselves and not just accept the first incarnation that you are presented with. Each of these three songs are presented here in their completed form somewhere within the box set so you can see conception to development.” [1]

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Leather" (Alternate Mix)
  2. "Precious Things" (Alternate Mix)
  3. "Silent All These Years" (Remastered)
  4. "Upside Down" (Remastered)
  5. "Crucify" (Unedited Single Version)
  6. "Happy Phantom" (Remastered)
  7. "Me And A Gun" (Remastered)
  8. "Flying Dutchman" (Alternate Mix)
  9. "Girl" (Remastered)
  10. "Winter" (Remastered)
  11. "Take To The Sky" (Remastered)
  12. "Tear In Your Hand" (Remastered)
  13. "China" (Remastered)
  14. "Sweet Dreams" (Remastered)
  15. "Mother" (Alternate Mix) (Remastered)
  16. "Little Earthquakes" (Remastered)

Disc two

  1. Cornflake Girl (Remastered)
  2. Honey (Remastered)
  3. Take Me With You
  4. Baker Baker (Alternate Mix)
  5. The Waitress (Alternate Mix)
  6. Pretty Good Year (Remastered)
  7. God (Remastered)
  8. Cloud On My Tongue (Remastered)
  9. Past The Mission (Alternate Mix)
  10. Bells For Her (Remastered)
  11. Yes, Anastasia (Alternate Mix)
  12. Blood Roses (Remastered)
  13. Mr. Zebra (Remastered)
  14. Caught A Lite Sneeze (Alternate Mix)
  15. Professional Widow (Merry Widow Version – Live) (Remastered)
  16. Beauty Queen/Horses (Remastered)
  17. Father Lucifer (Remastered)
  18. Marianne (Remastered)

Disc three

  1. Walk To Dublin (Sucker Reprise)
  2. Hey Jupiter (Dakota Version) (Remastered)
  3. Professional Widow (Armand’s Star Trunk Funkin’ Mix) (Remastered)
  4. Putting The Damage On (Remastered)
  5. Bliss (Remixed Version)
  6. Suede (Remastered)
  7. Glory Of The 80’s (Remastered)
  8. 1000 Oceans (Remastered)
  9. Concertina (Single Remix Version)
  10. Lust (Remastered)
  11. Datura (Remastered)
  12. Sugar (Live From Soundcheck) (Remastered)
  13. The Waitress (Live) (Remastered)
  14. Snow Cherries From France (Remastered)
  15. Doughnut Song (Remixed Version)

Disc four

  1. A Sorta Fairytale (Remastered)
  2. Not David Bowie
  3. Amber Waves (Remastered)
  4. iieee (Remixed Version)
  5. Playboy Mommy (Remixed Version)
  6. The Beekeeper (Remastered)
  7. Jackie’s Strength (Remastered)
  8. Zero Point
  9. Sweet The Sting (Remastered)
  10. Ode To My Clothes
  11. Spark (Remastered)
  12. Intro Jam/Marys Of The Sea
  13. Cruel (Remixed Version)
  14. Dolphin Song
  15. Gold Dust (Remastered)

Disc five

  1. The Pool (Remastered)
  2. Never Seen Blue (Remastered)
  3. Daisy Dead Petals (Remastered)
  4. Beulah Land (Remastered)
  5. Sugar (Remastered)
  6. Cooling (Remastered)
  7. Bachelorette (Remastered)
  8. Black Swan (Remastered)
  9. Mary (Tales Version) (Remastered)
  10. Peeping Tommi
  11. Toodles Mr. Jim (Remastered)
  12. Fire-Eater’s Wife/Beauty Queen (Demo)
  13. Playboy Mommy (Demo)
  14. A Sorta Fairytale (Demo)
  15. This Old Man (Remastered)
  16. Purple People (Remastered)
  17. Here. In My Head (Remastered)
  18. Hungarian Wedding Song (Remastered)
  19. Merman (Remastered)
  20. Sister Janet (Remastered)
  21. Home On The Range (Cherokee Edition) (Remastered)
  22. Frog On My Toe (Remastered)


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