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It absolutely kills me to give a new record from Tori Amos~~especially a record that is meant to celebrate her 20 years since the release of Little Earthquakes~~a lukewarm review, but I'm afraid I must. Of course, the music, engineering and Tori's voice and piano sound great. The problem lies within the song choices: most of which were already given an accompaniment of beautiful arrangements by her long-time collaborator, John Philip Shenale...so most of the original releases already had beautiful orchestral arrangements. Why not give classic Tori songs like Caught a Lite Sneeze, Crucify, A Sorta Fairytale With You, Spark and so many others the full-on orchestral treatment since they never had one before? When listening to this record, which streamed for a week on a Polish radio station (I think), I literally could not tell the difference between this new rendition of Jackie's Strength and the original that came out of From The Choirgirl Hotel. And the ending of Precious Things sounds like a cacophony of loud horns and Tori moaning and screaming...and it just sounds bad. And, as LOVELY as Star of Wonder sounds, this song has no place on a Tori retrospective (it's off a 2-year-old release called Midwinter Graces and is a riff off of the Christmas carol We Three Kings of Orient Are)...except this Star already had a beautiful orchestral arrangement. It sounds lovely...and exactly like the original release from MidWinter Graces. It, along with Snow Angel or Our New Year would have made a nice B-Side, and another more important song like Baker, Baker, Cooling (recently voted Tori's greatest song, ever) or Northern Lad could have made the cut on the main record. Even though I think that MidWinter Graces is the most beautiful holiday record I own, I only listen to it for about a month a year. A full-on Christmas song from Tori's least-well-known record simply just doesn't have a place on a career retrospective. For me, a holiday song in the middle of a non-holiday record is like the whole flow just screeches to a stop...since everyone has such strong feelings about that time of the year. I don't want to think about Christmas in June. Plus, aside from Star of Wonder, all the rest are complete originals. If she was going to do one of her "re-imagined" songs, couldn't it had been Rattlesnakes or one of the other fantastic songs that Tori has literally made her own? Even towards the end of his life, when people asked Kurt Cobain to play Smells Like Teen Spirit, he is quoted as saying "Ask Tori Amos to play it... it's her song now". There is a feeling of laziness surrounding this record that makes me sad. All but two of the songs (Flavor~~which sounds amazing and Cloud On My Tongue~~which has a tempo change somewhere in the middle and sounds too fast) already had orchestral arrangements both for a concert Tori performed with the Metropole Orchestra in 2010 and these songs already have the orchestral treatment on their respective records. A radio show was made from this show and bootlegs of both shows are widely available. This just sounds exactly like that...except for the groan-inducing decision to take one of our most beloved Tori songs, Yes, Anastasia from Under the Pink and chop it in half. I guess as curiosity value goes, one may want to listen to this new, shortened version of this amazing song....which is now about half as amazing as it used to be. Really, the only two songs to buy off this record are Flavor and Marianne... those two songs sounded the best to my finely-tuned Tori ears. Even the title track, Gold Dust, which should have completely blown me away sounded tepid to my ears. I own every single record, boxed set, authorized Boots, B-sides and other retrospectives from Tori Amos. I will own this record, too... but I doubt it will get played very often. The only thing I really like about it is that on some of the songs, Tori does some excellent over-dubbing with her voice...something that, for me, has been missing off her last several releases. So I am delighted to welcome that sound back, but on some songs, the orchestra overwhelms Tori and I'm not crazy about that. Of course, all devoted Tori Amos lovers, including me, will own this record. I'd say if you are a huge fan of rock musicians doing an orchestral "greatest hits" then you will want to own this record. But if you are one of the people who doesn't follow Tori's carer as much as you used to, you will probably not love this record. But maybe you will..... It will be interesting to see what people think about this record... and as I write this, there aren't any other reviews from customers, yet, so we'll see how this record is embraced. I hope it goes Platinum, for Tori's sake, but I don't think it will be a super brisk seller. Time will tell.. this is my Gold Dust [CD+DVD, Deluxe Edition] reviews

Gold Dust [CD+DVD, Deluxe Edition] Specs

• Audio CD (October 2, 2012)
• Original Release Date: 2012
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: CD+DVD, Deluxe Edition
• Label: Deutsche Grammophon
• ASIN: B008RZHC7Y
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Music
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