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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 110023
Released: February 22, 2005 |
| Our Price: $7.40 |
| Used Price: $3.47 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Beekeeper (Special Limited Edition) Track Listing:
1. Parasol
2. Sweet the Sting
3. The Power of Orange Knickers- Featuring Damien Rice
4. Jamaica Inn
5. Barons of Suburbia
6. Sleeps with Butterflies
7. General Joy
8. Mother Revolution
9. Ribbons Undone
10. Cars and Guitars
11. Witness
12. Original Sinsuality
13. Ireland
14. The Beekeeper
15. Martha's Foolish Ginger
16. Hoochie Woman
17. Goodbye Pisces
18. Marys of the Sea
19. Toast Album
Editorial Review:
The limited edition package with a bonus DVD - footage includes a candid conversation with Tori Amos talking about the inspiration and theme for The Beekeeper and the bonus track "Garlands".
The limited edition package groups the 19 songs into 6 different gardens- Roses and Thorns, Herbs and Elixers, The Desert Garden, The Greenhouse, The Orchard and The Rock Garden. To complement this garden theme the package includes a "Beekeeper" mix of flower and plant seeds.
Description of The Beekeeper (Special Limited Edition):
After Scarlet's Walk, Tori Amos' 2002 ambitious sonic travelogue that took her to all 50 states, penning love letters to America along the way, the fiery earth-sprite has fashioned another high-minded concept album, tying her 19 songs--and one not-so-hidden track--into a garden motif that's part a retelling of Alice In Wonderland, another A Little Shop of Horrors. The Beekeeper chronicles her rather autobiographical protagonist's journey through what seems to be an overgrown labyrinth of the subconscious as she experiences a series of life-altering events and emotions. In addition, living in Cornwall for the past decade has certainly had an effect on Amos, she even takes inspiration from Daphne Du Maurier's classic novel Jamaica Inn, which takes place on that rugged seacoast, but the greatest change is the grit in her voice; on a song like "Hoochie Woman," she sounds like she's channeling Chrissie Hynde--a welcome change from some of the preciousness of her earlier work. She also surprises with the steely, eloquent resolve on a song like "Goodbye Pisces" one of the better break-up songs in recent memory. The Beekeeper returns the quirky singer to the same whimsical terrain of 1992's Little Earthquakes, but with much stronger storylines, and a much more assured and nuanced voice. Her best yet. --Jaan Uhelszki
Recommended Tori-phernalia
Tori Amos: Piece by Piece |
Tori Amos - Welcome to Sunny Florida |
Little Earthquakes |
Under the Pink |
Tales of a Librarian |
Scarlet's Walk |
The Beekeeper (Special Limited Edition) Reviews:
Love it! 
2008-11-10 - Tori fans will love this one. Definitely a time-piece for a specific period in my life. The Power of Orange Knickers is one of my favorites. They are all great and very different from one another.
If you can overlook it's flaws, a good album lies beneath 
2008-10-27 - Being Tori's eight studio album, some are surprized (and sad) to find that's it's mostly a step backwards... a big step backwards, especially for long time fans.
The worst part is, that it's really not a bad album. The problem with the Beekeeper is the production and it suffers from being too long. The untapped potential can be seen in the live versions of many of these songs where Tori's performances, rooted in improvisation, give huge amounts of life to this songs.
And that's what fans are used to, out-of-the-box Tori. And The Beekeeper is very formulaic. There are many gems in it though, Parasol, Jamaica Inn, the title track, Marys of the Sea, Original Sinsuality, Witness, Garlands, Toast, Barons of Suburbia... and another track found in A Piano, Not David Bowie leave no doubt that a shorter, better produced and not so formulaic Beekeeper would have been an amazing album.
Tori, come to your senses! 
2008-10-20 - After "Scarlet's Walk" proved that Tori's fans are still with her, she turned to creating another uninspiring album in summer of 2004. Some things have happened in the past few years before the album's release. Amos' brother died and her daughter started growing up. You'd expect her to start making more vital music, but she kept doing what she seemingly does best now--churning out accessible, unfinished, not-thought-through material for her most obsessive fans. There's no one else who could enjoy this level of self-indulgence from Amos. The melodies are pure clichés, the production is flat and the songs are simply bland. Amos is producing too much material, she's losing a lot of her inspiration and she's not too keen on self-editing. I blame motherhood.
"The Beekeeper" isn't as bad as much as it's boring. There's not much room for originality and she didn't work enough on these songs to make them good. You've heard material like this a hundred times before. Her lyrics are becoming extremely trivial and this just ended her downfall as a musician. Certain songs manage to be pretty, but they're pure mediocrity when compared to her early material. There's not much room for her to express herself vocally and instrumentally--things she used to be captivating at. Which brings us to the main point: Amos is losing her creative spirits and falling short on all her artistic levels. You can't believe that this is the same woman who made stark, powerful material such as "Little Earthquakes" and "Boys for Pele".
One of her best
2008-07-30 - Okay, anyone who shops on Amazon knows that Marcel Marceau could read a phone book onto a CD and still get four stars, maybe five. So five means something might be okay and four or less is the kiss of death. But, five here, because although Beekeeper doesn't have the drama of earlier CDs, which sometimes featured great songs surrounded by filler, it's the most uniformly enjoyable thing she's done in ages and can be listened to many times over. Not many weak spots on it, and as usual, good value with well more than an hour's worth.
not autographed 
2008-06-05 - I am pretty sure this is the right one ...only ordered one ever that i can think of came un-autographed seller / amazon NEVER contacted me after a while it just was like ok as bad as FYE for rippin ya off
