It's Gotta Be Big: Tori Amos to Expand "Boys for Pele," 20 Years Later

It’s Gotta Be Big: Tori Amos to Expand “Boys for Pele,” 20 Years Later

October 10, 2016 By Mike Duquette — No Comments

In honor of its 20th anniversary, Rhino Records is expanding and reissuing Tori Amos’ third album, Boys for Pele, with a host of rare and unreleased bonus tracks.

Her first self-produced album after splitting with producer and partner Eric Rosse, Boys for Pele (named for the Hawaiian fire goddess) found Amos taking the power back from the male figures in her life. “I was at the point I could not answer to anybody,” she said of her bid for independence. “I’d been answering my whole life to some patriarchal figure.”

Recorded primarily in an Irish church, the record’s diverse musical palate (featuring Amos on vocals, piano, harmonium, clavichord and harpsichord, plus arrangements for strings, brass, church bells and even bagpipes) and hyper-personal lyrics attracted fans old and new (it became her first Top 10 album and, at No. 2, her highest-charting in the U.S.)–even as it polarized and confounded members of the critical establishment.

The expanded Boys for Pele will feature new liner notes penned by Amos and a 21-track bonus disc of demos, B-sides and alternate versions, four of which (“To the Fair Motormaids of Japan,” “Sucker,” a remix of “Talula” and an alternate take of “In the Springtime of His Voodoo”) are previously unreleased. The reissue will be out November 18; the same day, a double vinyl reissue of the original album will also be available.

After the jump, you’ll find order links and a full track list!

Tori Amos, Boys for Pele: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino R2 553145, 2016)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

Disc 1: Original album (Atlantic 82862, 1996)

Beauty Queen/Horses
Blood Roses
Father Lucifer
Professional Widow
Zebra
Marianne
Caught a Lite Sneeze
Muhammad My Friend
Hey Jupiter
Way Down
Little Amsterdam
Talula
Not The Red Baron
Agent Orange
Doughnut Song
In the Springtime of His Voodoo
Putting the Damage On
Twinkle

Disc 2: Bonus material

Hey Jupiter (The Dakota Version)
To the Fair Motormaids of Japan *
That’s What I Like Mick (The Sandwich Song)
Fire-Eater’s Wife/Beauty Queen (Demo)
Professional Widow (Armand’s Star Trunk Funkin’ Mix – Radio Edit)
Sugar (Live)
Alamo
Talula (M&M Mix) *
Professional Widow (Merry Widow Version – Live)
Frog on My Toe
Hungarian Wedding Song
Walk to Dublin (Sucker Reprise)
Toodles Mr. Jim
Sister Named Desire
Amazing Grace/Til the Chicken
This Old Man
Sucker *
Honey (Live)
Graveyard
London Girls
In the Springtime of His Voodoo (Rookery Ending) *

Disc 2, Tracks 1, 6, 9 and 18 from “Hey Jupiter” EP – Atlantic 82955, 1996
Disc 2, Tracks 3, 11, 13, 16 and 19 from “Caught a Lite Sneeze” CD single – Atlantic 85519, 1996
Disc 2, Tracks 4 and 12 from A Piano: The Collection (Rhino R2 77775, 2006)
Disc 2, Track 5 from Atlantic promo single PRCD-7040, 1996
Disc 2, Tracks 7 and 14-15 from “Talula” U.K. CD singles – EastWest A8512CD 1/2, 1996
Disc 2, Tracks 10 and 20 from “Talula” CD single – Atlantic 85504, 1996

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