Now I always liked Tori Amos and she still fascinates but I don't think I discovered her soon enough to actually know where to start really getting into or actually buying her stuff. America's answer to Björk I always thought and both women have a genuine high creative output that reminds me of visual artists somehow. If you come to them late where do you start? I will listen to anything they do though. They interest me but somehow not enough to go buy anything. . . . what IS that all about?

On this day in music history: January 31, 1994 - “Under The Pink”, the second album by Tori Amos is released. Produced by Tori Amos and Eric Rosse, it is recorded at The Fishhouse in Taos, NM and Westlake Audio in Los Angeles, CA from Spring - Fall 1993. Following the positive critical and commercial response to her solo debut “Little Earthquakes”, her second release sees the North Carolina born songwriter and keyboardist take the next major step forward in her career. Working once again with producer Eric Rosse, the majority of the album is recorded in a hacienda in New Mexico outfitted with recording equipment, rather than working in a formal recording studio, though final overdubs and mixing is done in Los Angeles. Personally involved as well as professionally, it is the last collaboration between Amos and Rosse, with the couple splitting after the project is completed. Bolstered by the singles “Cornflake Girl” (#12 Modern Rock) and “God” (#1 Modern Rock), it is an immediate hit at Modern Rock radio and crosses over to the mainstream pop audience. The album is remastered and reissued as a two CD deluxe edition in 2015, with the first disc containing the original twelve song album. Disc two features fifteen bonus tracks, including live tracks. Originally issued on a very limited basis on vinyl in 1994, it is reissued as a 180 gram LP also in 2015. “Under The Pink” peaks at number twelve on the Billboard Top 200, and is certified 2x Platinum in the US by the RIAA.