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List Price: $7.98 | | Label: Atlantic / Wea
Salesrank: 46243
Released: September 18, 2001 |
| Our Price: $1.99 |
| Used Price: $0.09 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Strange Little Girls Track Listing:
1. New Age
2. 97' Bonnie & Clyde
3. Strange Little Girl
4. Enjoy The Silence
5. Rattlesnakes
6. I'm Not In Love
7. Time
8. Heart Of Gold
9. I Don't Like Mondays
10. Raining Blood
11. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
12. Real Men
Editorial Review:
Tori Amos's idea for Strange Little Girls was to present covers of men's songs from a female perspective. The concept is fairly unique--although Liz Phair had a similar idea with 1993's Exile in Guyville. But while Phair fashioned original lyrics in response to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, Amos sticks with the script when reciting lyrics from acts as diverse as the Velvet Underground, Depeche Mode, Neil Young, Tom Waits, and Slayer. She transforms the material, though, by singing in a pained tone, weighing the lyrics with heavy emotion and stripping most of the songs down to their simplest elements--often just a string section, a drum machine or a piano, leaving the original music almost unrecognizable. The most poignant of these tracks is definitely her cover of Eminem's "97' Bonnie and Clyde." The first-person story of a man dumping his lover's dead body takes on an ugly sickness and brutality with Amos's almost-whispered narration. As with most of these songs, Amos removes the pop façade and leaves the listener with a stark picture of the message behind the lyrics--whether that message concerns violence or male identity--in a statement both subtly political and stunningly beautiful. --Jennifer Maerz
Strange Little Girls Reviews:
It's like a vintage wine....precious.... 
2007-11-13 - When I first got this CD a few years ago I wasn't able to appreciate the substance and style of this CD....now I have matured so to speak into my 30s I really LOVE it! It's absolutely enchanting...her unique voice....takes me to another world! She's a great songwriter/singer!!!
Let's skip the large amount of BS, and say We Did!! 1 star. 
2007-11-03 - I applaud this chick for making a remake of Bonnie and Clyde 97. But she wish it had half the Heart and Soul that Eminem possessed in early 2000s.
She tries to prove a point, but falls flat on her azz. She is one of the most well-known and "respected" quirky singer-songwriters, but I felt empty listening to the final throws.
Skip this, and say that You thoroughly Enjoyed it. Then get into deep Conversation, about how this particular album moved you, and re-arranged Neptune and Venus, in the pale, blue sky.
1 star. Piss-poor attempt.
Girls 
2007-08-01 - I enjoy the creative value of this CD, though it's not one I listen to often. It just is not something I want to sit down and listen to, throughout. I do value her ability to cover a song and turn its original perspective on its ear. A gift all on its own, that.
Vastly underrated concept album... 
2007-05-03 - StrangeLittleGirls is, no doubt, an oddity in Amos's ever-growing career, and it's also probably her least known work. Moderate Tori fans have been disillusioned with this album, more than likely because instead of containing original material, it's an album of covers.
To be more specific, it's an album full of covers of songs that were written by men (and for men, perhaps). The variety of the songs is impressive. Everyone from Velvet Underground to Eminem to Neil Young to Slayer gets covered here, admittedly, some better than others.
The concept of the album was to completely reinvent each song and sing it from a feminine perspective. Every song is like a lost "strange little girl." The album seeks to serve as a refuge for these girls.
So does the album succeed its goals?
It very much wins in its attempts to give old songs new meanings and new perspectives. Tori has tried to take each song, strip it to its essentials, distill it, and then sometimes redress it in brand new clothes. Some of the more outstanding covers on the album (which Tori truly makes her own) include Eminem's "'97 Bonnie and Clyde," Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence," Boomtown Rats' "I Don't Like Mondays," and Slayer's "Raining Blood," among others.
There are a few mediocre covers on this album, as well, even if some of them do achieve total reinvention.
Many critics and fans have completely dead-panned her manic-punk-rock cover of Neil Young's "Heart of Gold," but I personally think it fits and works. The only song I feel that absolutely does not work is her cover of "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" -- which she completely mutilates by trying to give it an anti-gun edge.
Overall, SLG is a mixed bag, but it's worth the price if only for its few spectacular songs and its great photography work (it includes a different "Tori" along with accompanying text for each song, illustrating the different "girls" each song represents). SLG generally succeeds in its goals as a whole, and critics and fans have been a little too hostile towards this vastly underrated concept album.
This is certainly not a good place to start if you're a first-time Tori listener, but if you like her classics (such as Little Earthquakes and from the choirgirl hotel), you will find something to like here.
A covers album as only SHE can do it!
2007-03-27 - I believe one of the FEW artists out there that can pull off a covers album is Ms. Tori Amos. Before the release of this album, she already proved her witty talent to reinvent old numbers with a fresh vibrant energy. So I wasn't surprised that this Strange Little Girls album would be great. And it is!
The highlight for me is her rendition of Eminem's Bonnie & clyde. There she proves how worthy she is of taking other people's songs and recreating them.
