![]() To Venus and Back (1999) [ larger cover art ] |
i was electromagnetically sucked back
into a party going on that night
it was the glories of the 80's
with karma drawn up in lines
and two bugle boy models saying, 'baby,
it's free-bee you sure look deprived'
i had the 'story of o' in my bucket seat
of my wanna be mustang
auditioning for reptiles in their
racquel welsh campaign
in the glories of the 80's
you said, 'i'm not afraid to die'
i said i don't find that remotely funny
even on this space cake high
and then when it all seemed clear
just then you go and disappear
silicone party barbies to the left and
joan of arcs to the right
no one feeling insecure we were
all gorged and famous in our last lives
and the glories of the 80's you said
'the end is nothing to fear' i said
blow the end now baby
who do i gotta shag to get outta here
and then when it all seemed clear
just then you go and disappear
sure you're out there orbiting around
wish i had you back now
i met a drag king call venus
she had a velvet hologram she said
'my husband ran off with my shaman
but they love me as i am'
in the glories of the 80's
i may not have to die
i'll clone myself
like that blonde chick
that sings betty davis eyes
and then when it all seemed clear
just then you go and disappear
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Mar 09, 2013 - 12:34 Everybody in my church loves this song... |
| merrickw (New York) | Posted: Dec 05, 2012 - 11:43 Make's me think Madonna's Ray of Light |
| MinMan (Bay Area, CA) | Posted: Mar 27, 2012 - 23:18 Makes me think of Joni Mitchell singing to Peter Gabrial rhythms. Not that it's a bad thing. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 20:16 love this song... |
| shutter (You can't get here from there) | Posted: Oct 21, 2011 - 12:31 Daaaaaannnnnggggg! Tori!!!??? Not bad! |
| ddbz (The Midwest) | Posted: Oct 21, 2011 - 12:30 Not a big fan of Tori, but this was excellent. |
| MiracleDrug (Earth) | Posted: Oct 21, 2011 - 12:29 trissi wrote: yes, what a treat! I think I might like one other song by her, too. |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Oct 21, 2011 - 12:27 Oh shit. I must have a fever. I actually am liking this. I do not like any Tori amos songs ever. Until this. I don't want to , but I do. |
| trissi (allupinya) | Posted: Oct 21, 2011 - 12:27 planetclare wrote: Wow, a Tori Amos song I can stand... yes, what a treat! I think I might like one other song by her, too. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 19, 2011 - 20:34 I'll dance to this... |
| StoneyG (Just east of The Rockies; north of the 49th) | Posted: May 16, 2011 - 20:33 Nice Matt Chamberlain drummage there. |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Apr 15, 2011 - 06:56 romeotuma wrote: ![]() Nice! {Romeotuna supplies the dancing silicone party Barbie desribed in the lyrics!} By the way, this is the first time I've (knowingly) heard Tori Amos. Lyrics are great, music is good. |
| ReneeB | Posted: Feb 11, 2011 - 11:15 Thank you for playing Tori! Such a great song too! This is why I listen to Radio Paradise... never know what I'll hear next, but I love it all! |
| Baby_M (a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio) | Posted: Feb 11, 2011 - 11:07 Her two kids, in high school, They tell her that she's uncool 'Cause she's still preoccupied With nineteen, nineteen eighty-five... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Feb 11, 2011 - 11:04 We be dancing... love it... |
| LowPhreak (United Corporate States of Neo-Feudal Amurika, Inc.) | Posted: Jan 11, 2011 - 04:44 One of her best tunes. |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Dec 10, 2010 - 14:48 You are excuse - Bill! Nobody is perfect! PS Tori certainly does not belong here! PPS FREE JULIAN...! |
| planetclare | Posted: Nov 08, 2010 - 19:49 Wow, a Tori Amos song I can stand... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 06, 2010 - 08:00 This really is a great song... we be dancing in memory... I took a taxi from LA to Venus In 1985 I was electromagnetically sucked Back in to a party going on that night It was the glory of the 80's With karma drawn up in lines And two bugle boys models saying "baby It's a freebee you sure look deprived" I had the Story of O in my bucket seat Of my wanna be Mustang Auditioning for reptiles in their Raquel Welsh campaign In the glories of the 80's You said, "I'm not afraid to die" I said, "I don't find that remotely funny Even on this space cake high" And then when it all seemed clear Just then you go and disappear Silicone party barbies To the left and Joan of Arcs to the right No one feeling insecure We were all gorge and famous in our last lives In the glories of the 80's You said, "the end is nothing to fear" I said, "blow the end now baby Who do I gotta shag to get out of here" And then when it all seemed clear Just then you go and disappear Sure you're out there orbiting around Wish I had you back now I met a drag king call Venus She had a velvet hologram She said, "my husband ran off with my shaman But they love me as I am" In the glories of the 80's I may not have to die I'll clone myself Like that blonde chick That sings "Bette Davis Eyes" And then when it all seemed clear Jut then you go and disappear I took a taxi from LA to Venus in Nineteen eighty- nineteen eighty- nineteen eighty- 1985. |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Sep 06, 2010 - 07:58 GIRLI HYPE! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Aug 05, 2010 - 07:40 This song is glorious... love it... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jul 04, 2010 - 10:44 Very groovy... love it... |
| lysisphere (largest contiguous ponderosa forest) | Posted: Jun 02, 2010 - 14:40 I've loved Tori Amos since I was 16. Some of her old tunes pluck the strings of my soul. Now that I'm "all grown up," I can access all the tenderness and sensitivities I used to hold via her music. Timeless. |
| ptooey | Posted: Feb 27, 2010 - 15:19 annie_fannie wrote: i've loved Tori since i was 14. everyone kept making these kate bush references, so i decided to check her out. blech! i don't even know how that comparison got started?? women who sing emotionally with piano accompaniment are automatically all grouped together? does anyone consider content? kate's lyrics are far less poetic & more simplistic...and the melodrama in her videos...puhleeeeze. Really? I like both artists, but I've definitely never considered Kate's lyrics to be simple in any way. She's written some pretty amazing ones - Like this, for instance. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Feb 27, 2010 - 15:14 ![]() |
| annie_fannie (Iowa) | Posted: Nov 25, 2009 - 08:07 Rick_V wrote: Exactly. i've loved Tori since i was 14. everyone kept making these kate bush references, so i decided to check her out. blech! i don't even know how that comparison got started?? women who sing emotionally with piano accompaniment are automatically all grouped together? does anyone consider content? kate's lyrics are far less poetic & more simplistic...and the melodrama in her videos...puhleeeeze. |
| Vandy005 (dreaming of Jeanie in Cocoa Beach) | Posted: Nov 25, 2009 - 08:00 jbunniii wrote: I don't usually like Tori Amos, but this is not bad at all. She can't restrain herself from yodeling a few times, which lowers the rating a bit... Now that's funny... I don't care who you are. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Nov 25, 2009 - 07:58 love it... |
| Exene (Boulder, CO) | Posted: Oct 24, 2009 - 22:21 What language is she singing in? |
| Rick_V (New Orleans) | Posted: Sep 23, 2009 - 08:47 brighthue wrote: Not bad but, I prefer the real Kate Bush. Exactly. |
| jbunniii (San Jose, CA) | Posted: Sep 23, 2009 - 08:39 I don't usually like Tori Amos, but this is not bad at all. She can't restrain herself from yodeling a few times, which lowers the rating a bit, but for the most part it's pretty chill. |
| newwavegurly | Posted: Sep 23, 2009 - 08:38 I keep waiting for her to break into the chorus from "I Have The Touch" by Peter Gabriel. |
| DaveInVA (In a crumbling Queen Anne mansion in Damnville, VA) | Posted: Sep 23, 2009 - 08:38 Never thought I'd be rating a Tori Amos song a 3. Haven't heard a good song off this album yet. She must be losing her touch. |
| Mandible | Posted: Sep 23, 2009 - 08:37 "Mainly the honesty of the decadence of that decade. There's the line and then, just when it all seemed clear you go and disappear. I knew a lot of great people in the eighties but at the time I didn't always understand them. Now, there's such a void in the art world, people with vision have physically passed on. It's also a stab at political correctness - you can't say this, you can't say that; now everybody has to be called a Spanish American, an African American and I mean... Oh bloody, fucking hell!!! I understand the abuses that have happened and I absolutely think recompense should be paid, but you don't do it just on a surface level. Everybody thinks that the debt has been paid to the 'quote unquote' Indians who had their land taken away from them because we call them Native Americans. It's hard when everything is so eggshell, eggshell, eggshell. I do miss the eighties. It was great, knowing that friends were on one hand dialing a charity and on the other hand doing a line of blow — but not lying about it, being honest. None of us are this light and dark fantasy. What's dark to you may be light to me and vice versa." -Tori Amos |
| jadewahoo (Beautiful Earth) | Posted: Aug 22, 2009 - 20:37 goldberry wrote: One of the few really good songs from what was an otherwise disappointing album. Unfortunately, that dissatisfaction was a taste of what was to come from Ms. Amos. But if it means she's sober and happy, then I'm happy for her. |
| annie_fannie (Idaho) | Posted: May 19, 2009 - 16:53 one of the best songs off this album, imho. kate bush? come on, Tori is a much more prolific songwriter and performer. |
| brighthue (MetroWest, MA) | Posted: Mar 17, 2009 - 13:20 Not bad but, I prefer the real Kate Bush. |
| derekd (Here) | Posted: Mar 17, 2009 - 13:19 I believe her bass player (on the albums) is Justin Meldal-Johnsen of Beck and NIN fame. |
| nagsheadlocal (North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 07:10 pedro wrote: that bass line got me Good catch - know who it is by chance? |
| anotherlistener | Posted: Oct 10, 2008 - 12:42 I think she's impressive as singer, songwriter, and musician. |
| goldberry (Tonopah Snow) | Posted: Oct 10, 2008 - 12:42 One of the few really good songs from what was an otherwise disappointing album. Unfortunately, that dissatisfaction was a taste of what was to come from Ms. Amos. But if it means she's sober and happy, then I'm happy for her. |
| aquadonia (My own private underwater world...) | Posted: May 20, 2007 - 01:29 dsr15 wrote: It's hard not to like Tori
6 I love Tori, but this song is a 4 for me. Just doesn't grab me like the rest do. *shrugs* |
| pedro (Durham, NC) | Posted: Aug 07, 2006 - 21:12 that bass line got me |
| dsr15 (My Own Private Littleton, CO) | Posted: Jul 09, 2006 - 12:38 It's hard not to like Tori 6 |
| meloman (Warsaw, Poland) | Posted: Jun 10, 2006 - 06:44 Dylan76 wrote: Male Tori lover here. Here too. |
| aquadonia (My own private underwater world) | Posted: May 29, 2006 - 12:27 xsrossiter wrote: The backup musicians are a lot better than she is.
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| xsrossiter (So Cal) | Posted: May 12, 2006 - 02:51 The backup musicians are a lot better than she is. |
| Kite_Flyer (Massachusetts) | Posted: May 12, 2006 - 02:50 tangent wrote: While I have to be in the mood for Tori Amos, when I'm in the mood for her, she's excellent. When I'm not in the mood for her, she is grating. This song is just such a departure from her standard that it is refreshing and can be listened to even when not in a Tori mood. :)
Took the words right out of my (mind) mouth... I agree. This is a different side of her.. Like it. |
| maLeFunKtion (Scotland) | Posted: May 12, 2006 - 02:48 Dylan76 wrote: Male Tori lover here. Here too On a side note, isn't there just a smattering of an Alanis vibe going on? Doesn't bother me. Like it. |
| Dylan76 (government office cubicle) | Posted: Apr 27, 2006 - 13:27 hippiechick wrote: Do you think there's a line: Tori haters are men, Tori lovers are women?
Male Tori lover here. |


