Track Listing

1. New Age
2. 97' Bonnie & Clyde
3. Strange Little Girl
4. Enjoy The Silence
5. Rattlesnakes
6. I'm Not In Love
7. Time
8. Heart Of Gold
9. I Don't Like Mondays
10. Raining Blood
11. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
12. Real Men

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34217 in Music
• Released on: 2001-09-18
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Tori Amos's idea for Strange Little Girls was to present covers of men's songs from a female perspective. The concept is fairly unique--although Liz Phair had a similar idea with 1993's Exile in Guyville. But while Phair fashioned original lyrics in response to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, Amos sticks with the script when reciting lyrics from acts as diverse as the Velvet Underground, Depeche Mode, Neil Young, Tom Waits, and Slayer. She transforms the material, though, by singing in a pained tone, weighing the lyrics with heavy emotion and stripping most of the songs down to their simplest elements--often just a string section, a drum machine or a piano, leaving the original music almost unrecognizable. The most poignant of these tracks is definitely her cover of Eminem's "97' Bonnie and Clyde." The first-person story of a man dumping his lover's dead body takes on an ugly sickness and brutality with Amos's almost-whispered narration. As with most of these songs, Amos removes the pop façade and leaves the listener with a stark picture of the message behind the lyrics--whether that message concerns violence or male identity--in a statement both subtly political and stunningly beautiful. --Jennifer Maerz

Customer Reviews

It's like a vintage wine....precious....
When I first got this CD a few years ago I wasn't able to appreciate the substance and style of this CD....now I have matured so to speak into my 30s I really LOVE it! It's absolutely enchanting...her unique voice....takes me to another world! She's a great songwriter/singer!!!

Let's skip the large amount of BS, and say We Did!! 1 star.
I applaud this chick for making a remake of Bonnie and Clyde 97. But she wish it had half the Heart and Soul that Eminem possessed in early 2000s.

She tries to prove a point, but falls flat on her azz. She is one of the most well-known and "respected" quirky singer-songwriters, but I felt empty listening to the final throws.

Skip this, and say that You thoroughly Enjoyed it. Then get into deep Conversation, about how this particular album moved you, and re-arranged Neptune and Venus, in the pale, blue sky.

1 star. Piss-poor attempt.

Girls
I enjoy the creative value of this CD, though it's not one I listen to often. It just is not something I want to sit down and listen to, throughout. I do value her ability to cover a song and turn its original perspective on its ear. A gift all on its own, that.