Y Kant Tori Read (album)
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| Studio album by Y Kant Tori Read | ||||
| Released | 6 January 1988 | |||
| Recorded | 1987 | |||
| Genre | Synthpop | |||
| Length | 48:44 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Producer | Joe Chiccarelli | |||
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Y Kant Tori Read is an album by the 1980s synthpop band of the same name, fronted by then-unknown singer and songwriter Tori Amos.
The band consisted of Amos, singer-pianist Kim Bullard, and future Guns N' Roses drummer Matt Sorum, as well as long-time Amos collaborator guitarist Steve Caton and various studio musicians. Due to the title, some critics believed the album was a solo project by a woman named "Tori Read". This was compounded by the fact that Amos is billed simply as "Tori" in the liner notes.
The choice of producer in Joe Chiccarelli was that of Amos, who had liked some of the albums that he made previously. According to Chiccarelli in an interview with HitQuarters:
"[Toris Amos] had a very strong vision of what she wanted to do on her first album. And despite the lack of success of that album, it was an interesting process because she was very vocal and very passionate about how she wanted it to sound and what her influences were and the emotions she was trying to convey."
Although Amos has since gone on to effectively disown the album, Chiccarelli has said that she was very happy with it at the time.
The eponymous album was released in 1988 to dismal sales and the band split shortly after. Its lack of success and subsequent deletion has made it one of the most sought-after Tori Amos collectibles, fetching upwards of $1,000 in compact disc format in original longbox. At the height of Amos' career vinyl copies would often sell for between $300–500 but, due to the decline of music collectibles and the heavy bootlegging of the album, they now frequently sell for between $50–80.
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