collecting guide introduction rare tori affordable tori online stores rmta price guide uk price guide discography y kant tori read little earthquakes under the pink boys for pele choirgirl hotel venus and back strange little girls scarlet's walk tales of a librarian welcome to sunny... other appearances b-sides list miscellaneous about this site contact me	TO VENUS AND BACK bliss juarez concertina glory of the 80's lust suede jospehine riot poof datura spring haze 1000 oceans precious things cruel cornflake girl bells for her girl cooling mr zebra cloud on my tongue sugar little earthquakes space dog waitress purple people [ uk releases ] - [ us releases ] - [ rest of the world ] - [ promos ] released: 1999 the singles: glory of the 80's, bliss, 1000 oceans, concertina   comment: initially the plan had been to release a compilation album with one disc of live tracks and another of b-sides, but tori got on a roll in the studio and ended up writing a whole albums worth of new material.  so the b-sides idea was dropped and a new album was born.  although the first single from the album 'bliss', is about a regular theme in tori's songs, the relationship between father and daughter, many of the songs on the album reflect tori's more contented state of mind since marrying sound engineer, mark hawley last year quotes: "i have no idea what happened. i just... sometimes i don't think you can control when you create. i mean, you'd like to be able to control when you do it, but... i was going to do a b-side record and just do a few extra songs and it just became a whole album.  it just grabbed me by the throat, really. we ended up working around the clock and putting it together pretty quickly."  "no one event shaped this record, i just let my observations take over. i sort of became a camera orbiting around venus's heart. you have to keep taking adventures and exposing yourself."