Spark [MAXI-SINGLE] [Single]

Tori Amos | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 9, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single
• Label: Atlantic / WEA
• ASIN: B000007QDR
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #297,527 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Spark

2. Macthirstys Lounge B Sides

3. Last Stop on the Kurfurstendam

4. Purple People

5. Bachelorette

Editorial Reviews

The first single from her 1998 album. Pt.1 is backed with'Purple People', 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' &'Bachelorette'. The three are listed together under theheading 'MacThirsty's Lounge B Sides Stop On TheKufurstendam'. Full color picture di

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sweetly Tasteful, June 20, 2001

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corinne copeland (usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spark [MAXI-SINGLE] (Audio CD)

The singles on this CD are wonderful. Another addition to the collecters stash of her music, if haven't already included. Purple People is the second song that has a very mellow and sultry sound. One of which should listened to on a hot summer day, in a hammock, swaying in the breeze, to get the complete effect. The third is Bachlorette, an upbeat tune that even captures Tori's laugh at the end. You know she had fun singing this particular song. This single is one of my fav's. Topped off with Spark, it has Tori's powerful voice which flows from the sadness of Spark, to the sleepiness of Purple People, finished with the spunky with a dash of salsa in Bachlorette. The many sides of Tori in three songs... I like!!!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely, September 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Spark [MAXI-SINGLE] (Audio CD)

"Purple People" and "Bachlorette" should be known for their great lyrics and music, and like Tori does with many of her singles, they're added on because there's so much talent flowing through her fingers that she can't possibley include all of her performance. Recall "Pele"? Can you imagine how much better it might be if just put those simply okay 2 minute songs all on the one single (like "Lite Sneeze" did) and then it might be better. "Spark" is just like any other Tori single, and she's a marketing genius- plus she's got talent! take that britney spears!

- Bobbi

p.s. um, why'd you give "spark" 1 star if you liked it so much, green bay guy?

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Understanding is key, September 4, 2005

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9v (MI, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spark [MAXI-SINGLE] (Audio CD)

I'll probably get railed for this, but the pivotal point on this EP is the cover of the traditional "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas". What this entire Choirgirl-era orbited around was the miscarriage of Tori's child; all other problems she was having then were secondary, but amplified threefold because of this central issue. It's in the music; Cold, mechanical, sterile, yet wrought with outbursts of pain. It's in the imagery: a black null void, frozen in stasis. Numb. Very Decemberesque, which is what I think of when I listen to this particular era of Tori Amos. Winter. Dark, gray, sunless winter. Of course, this brings us to Christmas, which is focal on this particular single.

Purple People (Christmas In Space) is somber and reflective, whereas there is really something striking about the movement of the ambient sounds in the background to Have Yourself.., most notably in the last ten or so seconds. The steady mechanical hum and slow bubbling give me mental images of being underwater, having stray beams of light cross you and the stray bubble pass by you. This may come off as a little morose, but it sounds like being drowned. Stasis, again. Womb-like, maybe? I can't stop raving about this, particularly because I don't think there's another that could take a song like that and turn it into what she turned it into.

Trapsing in afterwards, Bachelorette feels like an afterthought, but keeps with the darker sound as to not seem too out of place. Not a bad song, but placement wasn't well thought out. It sounds like an unwanted happy ending.

All and all, top-notch offering. Shame about the newer material..