Bonus Song Thursday - Tori Amos "Raining Blood"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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It's Bonus Song Thursday! This week, Bill and Brian break down Tori Amos' cover of Slayer's "Raining Blood," and wonder whether or not it started the trend of rock songs getting turned into haunting ballads to accompany certain films. Along the way, Bill discusses a new podcasting trend happening in the month of March while Brian shares his first experiences with Tori Amos and other badass female artists via his very first girlfriend. All this and more on this week's Bonus Song Thursday episode of The Great Albums podcast!

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello. Welcome to the Great Albums podcast, bonus song Thursday. I'm Bell. And I'm Brian.
0:42.8	And what were we just listening to right there, Brian? That was Raining Blood by Tori Amos from her record Strange Little Girls. it came out in September of 2001.
0:55.5	What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
1:00.7	But then we follow it up with a bonus episode where we talk about either the same artist or something tangentially related where just a single song, but kind of get into it a little bit the same
1:11.5	we do on our main episode. And maybe later on we'll have some other things to talk about too.
1:17.7	But this is interesting because earlier this week, we were talking about Slayers,
1:23.2	rain in blood, which the final track on the album is called Raining Blood. Yeah.
1:29.4	And Tori Amos of all people
1:31.3	decided to take a Slayer
1:33.3	track to cover.
1:34.9	Well, it was
1:36.2	this album was
1:38.8	a bit of a concept album
1:40.9	where she took
1:42.6	material originally written and performed by men and tried to reinterpret
1:50.9	this material from a female perspective.
1:54.5	And view it with a femininity.
1:56.6	Yeah, okay.
1:57.4	That was also a much more articulate way to say that.
2:02.9	Which is really intriguing. I'm not sure how that really works, because wouldn't you have to, like, change some lyrics or is it just like a rearrangement, you know?
2:15.6	Well, this song is a stark rearrangement.
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