Song 82 - Pretty good year - Tori Amos

For the third song of this year; I turn to one of my favourite female singers, Tori Amos and her single from her second album; Pretty good year. I think this is the time when people start coming down from new year celebrations and start to reflect on what they want to do for the upcoming year and this song is both uplifting and melancholic in its own right. I think the progression into a new year is both happy and sad for many people and Amos's lyrics fit both moods.

Taken from her album, Under the Pink, it reached number 7 in the UK single chart in March 1994 and was the follow up to Cornflake Girl. Amos's haunting voice and inspired lyrics often created a loving or hating of her work. I love her music and she is one of those artists which I would take a chance on after hearing only a couple of songs. I have actually surprised myself that it has taken me this long to put one of her songs in the jukebox; especially as her first album Little Earthquakes is a classic and probably in my top twenty of favourite albums.

As I was thinking about this blog; I was getting carried away with the idea of using Tori Amos's music as a soundtrack to a Alice in Wonderland type adventure as it has a mysterious quality to it and you could imagine someone exploring other worlds and having Amos's music in the background. There is also a retro aspect to this song as the lyrics And Greg he writes letters and burn his CDs they say you were something in those formative years... Burning CDs is so last century and it is frightened to think how much has changed in terms of technology in my lifetime. Sometimes I feel old, but sometimes I think I've been lucky to witness such a change in technology. Anyway I am beginning to get sidetracked into something else.

So lets get back on track with a listen to the song
Pretty good year by Tori Amos


Written by Tori Amos
Album - Under the Pink, 1994
Performed by Tori Amos