Little Earthquakes

I have heard of Tori Amos before, but I had never purposefully listened to her music. I was surprised how much I loved this album. Just beautiful. Full marks.

Not for me at all

Some of the piano parts are actually pretty good/interesting, but mostly this feels like a template for all of the overwrought and stomach-churningly sappy pop that unfortunately became popular in subsequent years.

1.5/5.0: Bad

the songs on here are very well written, unfortunately it seems like she lost most of the sheet music on the way to the studio and all that was left was piano. ive always found that its hard to carry an entire song on the back of a piano, much less an entire album. the sparse instrumentation makes it hard to justify the length of the songs for me.

Beautiful voice, quite unique in some ways, but the songs themselves didn't capture me and I was a little bored halfway through. The sparse arrangements and production didn't help. Her name on the album cover looks a bit like it's poop.

Silent all these years still gives me goosebumps, but the rest of the album has always weirdly left me a bit cold.

Overall a 3

Beautiful and emotive

Ground breaking at the time.

Utterly ridiculous that this is Amos' debut album

Lyrics are often the last thing I think about when I listen to music - if the music behind the words isn't good enough, then I don't bother - but here the lyrics are incredibly poetic, often complex, always moving in one way or the other. Her piano playing is superb and her singing even better.

The one that hit me the most was Me and a Gun. That song alone could have its own entry on this list.

I'm not giving it a 5 because it's not something I would enjoy all the time and there are a couple songs I think are weaker than the rest. It was tough to decide between a 4 or 5 with this one

I knew I was going to like this before I started listening but holy shit!!!!

The only song by her I'd heard before was her cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit (which I need to know how she came up with) from the deluxe of this album. Just a hauntingly beautiful album.

Ahh, Tori … how I’ve missed you. Listening to this was like opening an old love letter to look back at something special from so long ago. I’m still struck by the brilliant songwriting, the piano-tinged edginess which landed perfectly between my love of Billy Joel and Ben Folds and the fierce independence of her voice.
Admitting this bias, the album is full of powerful songs to me, which seem to have gotten better with time. Crucify, Girl, Silent All These Years, Winter, Happy Phantom, China, Leather - I’ve known and loved these songs for decades. I’m fine without the final third of the album, which drones and gets self indulgent, as Tori does, but the opening run is so solid I can forgive it.
This is a great debut and core to the explosion of 90s folk rock and the wave of female singer/songwriters.

I've heard a bunch of songs off this album, but I don't think I've ever listened to the whole thing start-to-finish.

I just don't really like Tori Amos' singing. If she made an instrumental album, I'd probably enjoy it more.

This is still as different and fresh to me as it was when it came out. Tori Amos was absolutely not the kind of music I was listening to in the early 90s, but she still somehow always made it into my rotation. This is the first time I have listened to this particular album on good equipment, and I'm very impressed. It's very well-recorded, and her unique stylistic choices make this an album I regret not paying more attention to.

I love the singer/songwriter with a piano combination, generally sparse arrangements with such changes to more dense segments, the occasional soaring strings run, and her her unique voice. Great album, and honestly a bit unexpected to see here

I'm not huge on singer-songwriters. She has a nice voice and these songs felt varied enough to be interesting, but also kind of vanilla at the same time. I got bored. Annoyed at me and a gun.
Don't need to listen to this again. 2*

Fantastic album, I have listened to it off and on over the years, but never as closely as I have now. I love her piano playing, melodies and lyrics. Not a bad song on here really, and even after many listens, several of these songs still give me chills.

Better than Coldplay

I liked this well enough at the beginning but as it progressed I had less patience for it. I liked the slower songs least. She also has a few vocal idiosyncrasies I'm not super fond of.

The Good: For once little is better than much!
The Bad: Much Earthquakes does not sound correct…
The Ugly: Earthquakes…

If my memory is correct, than many moons ago Rick Beato mentioned this album in one of his hour and a half talk about something or another. If I am not mistaken, while Rick and a friend were doing something or other, one of the songs off of this album came on the radio—because people still listened to the radio back in the ‘90s—and they knew that they were listening to something special…

Me, I probably heard the same song around that time, also via the radio, but it was not something that my ear was ready to listen to as I was more into rock and grunge and roadhouse blues at the time…

Today, marking roughly 3 weeks since this album showed up on my 1001 list, I can understand how this album is something special.
I’ve listened to it 4 times in the past weeks, and upon each listen I am starting to like the album more and more.

For now, 4* easily granted to Tori!
Maybe, just maybe, I will have to come back and numb it up to 5* at some point...

Pretty voice, kinda boring

Powerful songs and performances.