Performing at the Glastonbury festival in 2005 |
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Releases | ||
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↙Studio albums | 12 | |
↙Live albums | 2 | |
↙Compilation albums | 3 | |
↙EPs | 4 | |
↙Singles | 38 | |
↙B-sides | 65 | |
↙Video albums | 8 | |
↙Music videos | 27 | |
↙Soundtracks | 12 | |
↙Tribute and cover albums | 2 | |
↙Official bootlegs | 33 | |
↙Other contributions | 3 | |
↙Side projects | 7 |
Tori Amos is an American pianist and singer-songwriter whose musical career began in 1980, at the age of seventeen, when she and her brother co-wrote the song "Baltimore." The song was selected as the winning song in a contest for the Baltimore Orioles and was recorded and pressed locally as a 7" single.[1][2] From 1984–89, Amos fronted the synthpop band Y Kant Tori Read, which released one self-titled album with Atlantic Records in 1988 before breaking up. Shortly thereafter, Amos began writing and recording material that would serve as the debut of her solo career.[3] Still signed with Atlantic, and its UK counterpart East West, Amos' initial solo material was rejected by the label in 1990.[4] Under the guidance of co-producers Eric Rosse, Davitt Sigerson and Ian Stanley, a second version of the album was created and accepted by the label the following year.[5]
Amos' solo career began in October 1991 with the UK release of the Me and a Gun EP. The following month, after the first track on the EP was receiving more airplay than the title track, the label reissued the EP with the same artwork, but changed the title to Silent All These Years.[6] Although the second version of the EP reached only #51 on the UK charts, BBC Radio 1 picked it as "Record of the Week", which helped Amos get her initial exposure.[7] Her debut solo album, Little Earthquakes, was released two months later in January 1992. The album peaked at #14 on the UK Top 40 and at #54 on the Billboard 200.[8][9] Upon its release, the album received mostly positive reviews[10][11][12] and was labeled an important album that kick-started the female singer-songwriter movement of the 1990s.[10] Despite reaching only #54 on the Billboard 200, Little Earthquakes was a mainstay on the chart for 38 weeks and remains Amos' highest-selling album in the United States.[13][14]
Subsequent albums with Atlantic were released at approximately two-year intervals. Amos' sophomore effort, Under the Pink, co-produced with Eric Rosse, debuted in February 1994 at #12 on the Billboard 200 and #2 on the UK Top 40.[9][15] Boys for Pele, Amos' third solo album and the first album that was self-produced, debuted in January 1996 at #2 on both the US and UK charts, making it her highest simultaneous trans-Atlantic debut.[9][16] From the Choirgirl Hotel, Amos' first album written and recorded with band mates Matt Chamberlain on drums, Jon Evans on bass and Steve Caton on guitar, and her first album recorded at her in-home Recording studio, Martian Engineering, debuted in May 1998 at #5 on the Billboard 200 and at #6 on the UK Top 40.[9][17] The following year, To Venus and Back, a double album of studio and live material recorded with Chamberlin, Evans and Caton, debuted in September 1999 at #12 in the US and at #22 in the UK.[9][18] In September 2001, Strange Little Girls, a covers album recorded with Chamberlin on drums, Evans and Justin Meldal-Johnsen on bass and Adrian Belew on guitar, debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200 and at #16 on the UK Top 40.[9][19]
After working with Atlantic for the first 15 years of her career, Amos decided to seek another label upon fulfilling her contract with them due to professional conflicts.[20] Over the next five years, Amos released three albums through the Epic Records label: Scarlet's Walk in October 2002, The Beekeeper in February 2005 and American Doll Posse in May 2007. All three albums released through Epic were recorded with Chamberlin on drums, Evans on bass and Mac Aladdin on guitar, and debuted in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200,[21][22][23] placing Amos in an elite group of women who have secured five or more Top 10 album debuts.[24] Amos negotiated an end to her contract with Epic following the release of American Doll Posse, announcing in 2008 that she will be operating independently of record labels.[25] In early 2009, Amos signed a distribution, or joint-venture, deal with Universal Republic Records, a division of Universal Music Group, which granted her greater creative control over her work than traditional recording contracts.[26] Amos released two albums her first year under the contract: Abnormally Attracted to Sin in May 2009 and the seasonal album Midwinter Graces, featuring reworked Christmas carols and some original songs, in November 2009. Abnormally Attracted to Sin is Amos's seventh album to debut on the US Top 10 on the Billboard 200.[27] Amos followed up with her first classical music album, Night of Hunters, recorded with Andreas Ottensamer of the Berlin Philharmonic and the award-winning string quartet, Apollon Musagète. Night of Hunters was released in September 2011, through the Deutsche Grammophon label, the classical music division of Universal Music Group. With Night of Hunters, Amos made Billboard history by being the first female artist to have an album place in the Top 10 of the Classical, Alternative, and Rock charts simultaneously.[28]
To date in her solo career, Amos has recorded and released a total of 12 solo studio albums, multiple live releases, three compilation albums, one of which is a five-disc box set released through Rhino Entertainment, and numerous singles and EPs. Amos has contributed to numerous film soundtracks as well.
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Year | Album | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
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US [27] |
UK [29] |
CAN [30] [31] |
AUS [32] |
NZ [33] |
SWE [34] |
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1992 | Little Earthquakes | 54 | 14 | 49 | 14 | — |
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1994 | Under the Pink
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12 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 15 |
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1996 | Boys for Pele
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2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 4 |
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1998 | From the Choirgirl Hotel
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5 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 26 | 26 |
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1999 | To Venus and Back
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12 | 22 | 18 | 6 | — | 49 |
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2001 | Strange Little Girls
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4 | 16 | 8 | 7 | — | 32 | ||||||||
2002 | Scarlet's Walk
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7 | 26 | 13 | 20 | 45 | — |
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2005 | The Beekeeper
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5 | 24 | 16 | 20 | — | 26 |
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2007 | American Doll Posse
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5 | 50 | 15 | 20 | — | 24 | ||||||||
2009 | Abnormally Attracted to Sin
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9 | 20 | 15 | 28 | 39 | 14 |
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Midwinter Graces
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66 | 97 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
2011 | Night of Hunters
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24 | 27 | 38 | 42 | — | — | ||||||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart. |
Year | Album | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
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US [27] |
UK [29] |
CAN [31] |
AUS [32] |
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1999 | To Venus and Back
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12 | 22 | 18 | 6 |
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2008 | Live at Montreux 1991/1992
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"—" denotes releases that did not chart. |
Year | Title |
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2005 | The Original Bootlegs |
2007 | Legs and Boots
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2010 | From Russia With Love
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US [27] |
UK [29] |
CAN [31] |
AUS [39] [40] |
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1994 | More Pink: The B-Sides | 44 | |||||||||||||
2003 | Tales of a Librarian
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40 | 74 | 86 | 93 | ||||||||||
2006 | A Piano: The Collection
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"—" denotes releases that did not chart. |
Although all of Amos' singles released by Atlantic were in an EP-style format, only two of her releases are labeled as such. To date, Scarlet's Hidden Treasures is Amos' only EP completely comprising non-LP tracks.
Year | EP | Peak positions |
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US [41] |
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1992 | Crucify | — |
1996 | Hey Jupiter
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2004 | Scarlet's Hidden Treasures | — |
2005 | Exclusive Session | — |
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Year | Song | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||||||
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US [42] |
US Mod. Rock [43] |
US Adult [44] |
US AAA | US Dance Play [45] |
UK [46] |
CAN [30] [47] |
AUS [48] [49] [50] [51] |
FRA [52] |
IRE [53] |
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1991 | "Me and a Gun" | — | Little Earthquakes | |||||||||
"Silent All These Years" | — | 27 | — | 51 | — | — | — | — | ||||
1992 | "China" | 51 | — | |||||||||
"Winter" | — | — | — | 25 | — | 49 | — | — | ||||
"Crucify" | — | 22 | — | 15 | 74 | 83 | 17 | 25 | ||||
"Silent All These Years" (UK official release) | 26 | |||||||||||
1994 | "Cornflake Girl" | 107¤ | 12 | — | 4 | 30 | 19 | — | 9 | Under the Pink | ||
"God" | 72 | 1 | — | 44 | 87 | 65 | — | — | ||||
"Pretty Good Year" | 7 | — | 85 | — | 26 | |||||||
"Past the Mission" | 31 | — | — | — | 25 | |||||||
1996 | "Caught a Lite Sneeze" | 60 | 13 | — | 20 | 20 | 51 | — | 21 | Boys for Pele | ||
"Talula" | 119¤ | — | — | 22 | — | — | — | — | ||||
"Hey Jupiter" / "Professional Widow" | — | — | — | 20 | — | 17 ‡ | — | — | ||||
"Professional Widow" | 108¤ | — | — | 1 | 1 | 38 | 17 ‡ | 35 | 2 | |||
"In the Springtime of His Voodoo" | 120¤ | — | — | 6 | ||||||||
1997 | "Silent All These Years" (re-issue) | 65 | — | 26 | Little Earthquakes | |||||||
1998 | "Spark" | 49 | 13 | 32 | 18 | 16 | 25 | 50 | — | — | From the Choirgirl Hotel | |
"Raspberry Swirl" | — | 20 | 57 | — | — | |||||||
"Jackie's Strength" | 54 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
"Cruel" / "Raspberry Swirl" | 38₪ | — | — | — | ||||||||
1999 | "Jackie's Strength" (remixes) | 1 | — | 12 | — | — | ||||||
"Bliss" | 91 | — | — | — | 7 | — | — | To Venus and Back | ||||
"1000 Oceans" | 22₪ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
"Glory of the '80s" | 46 | — | 81 | — | — | |||||||
2000 | "Concertina" | 48₪ | — | — | 19 | |||||||
2001 | "Strange Little Girl" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Strange Little Girls | |||
2002 | "A Sorta Fairytale" | 114¤ | — | 11 | 1 | 41 | 6 | — | — | Scarlet's Walk | ||
2003 | "Taxi Ride" ∞ | — | — | 35 | 17 | |||||||
"Strange" ∞ | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
"Don't Make Me Come to Vegas" (12" only) | 6 | |||||||||||
"Mary" ∞ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Tales of a Librarian | |||
"Angels" ∞ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
2005 | "Sleeps with Butterflies" ∞ | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | The Beekeeper | ||
"Sweet the Sting" ∞ | — | — | — | 30 | — | — | — | — | ||||
"Cars and Guitars" ∞ | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
2007 | "Big Wheel" ∞ | 112¤ | — | — | 6 | American Doll Posse | ||||||
"Bouncing off Clouds" ∞ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"Almost Rosey" ∞ | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
2009 | "Welcome to England" | — | — | — | 10 | Abnormally Attracted to Sin | ||||||
"A Silent Night with You" | — | Midwinter Graces | ||||||||||
"—" denotes singles that did not chart. |
Early in her career Amos released an extensive catalogue of CD singles in conjunction with her albums. This catalogue of music collectibles is so vast that a book was published in 1997 entitled "Tori Amos Collectibles" which served as a thorough photographic journal detailing the variety of world-wide releases, test pressings and bootlegs to that date. One of Amos' best selling early releases is the five-track Crucify EP. Amos' penchant for including non-album B-sides on each of her singles played a major factor in her initial popularity, particularly her cover of the Nirvana song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from the aforementioned EP, which garnered significant press attention and critical lauds.[54][55] Many of Amos' B-sides are featured on the box set A Piano: The Collection (2006). With the production of CD singles becoming less common in the music business around the turn of the century, Amos has released far fewer B-sides since her contract with Epic Records began. As a result, B-sides for Scarlet's Walk were released through the internet and on an EP titled Scarlet's Hidden Treasures (2004), the sole B-side for The Beekeeper was released as on the DVD included in the album's limited edition version, and B-sides for American Doll Posse were distributed depending on packaging and place of purchase.
Below is an alphabetical list of all of Amos' known B-sides, including information on initial and subsequent releases.
Title | Initial release | Subsequent release(s) | Release date(s) |
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After All | "Strange Little Girl" single[56] | – | 2001 |
Alamo | "Talula" single[57] | – | 1996 |
All the Girls Hate Her | "Cornflake Girl" single[58] | "God" single | 1994 |
Amazing Grace/'Til the Chicken | "Talula" single | – | 1996 |
Angie | Crucify EP[59] | – | 1992 |
Apollo's Frock | Scarlet's Hidden Treasures EP[60] | – | 2004 |
Bachelorette | "Spark" single[61] | A Piano: The Collection | 1998, 2006 |
Beulah Land | "Jackie's Strength" single[62] | A Piano | 1998, 2006 |
Black Swan | "Pretty Good Year" single[63] | A Piano | 1994, 2006 |
Bug a Martini | Scarlet's Hidden Treasures EP[60] | – | 2004 |
A Case of You | "Cornflake Girl" UK single[64] | More Pink: The B-Sides | 1994 |
Cooling | "Spark" single[65] | A Piano | 1998, 2006 |
Daisy Dead Petals | "Cornflake Girl" single[66] | More Pink, A Piano | 1994, 2006 |
Do It Again | "Spark" single[65] | – | 1998 |
Dolphin Song | A Piano[67] | – | 2006 |
Drive All Night | digital download | – | 2007 |
Flying Dutchman | "China" single[68] | A Piano | 1992, 2006 |
Frog on My Toe | "Talula" single[69] | A Piano | 1996, 2006 |
Garlands | The Beekeeper DVD | – | 2005 |
Graveyard | "Caught a Lite Sneeze" single | – | 1996 |
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | "Spark" single | – | 1998 |
Here. In My Head | "Crucify" single | More Pink: The B-Sides, A Piano | 1992, 1994, 2006 |
Home on the Range (Cherokee Edition) | "God" single | A Piano | 1994, 2006 |
Honey | "Cornflake Girl" single[66] | More Pink, A Piano | 1994, 2006 |
Humpty Dumpty | "China" single[68] | – | 1992 |
Hungarian Wedding Song | "Caught a Lite Sneeze" single | A Piano | 1996, 2006 |
If 6 was 9 | "Cornflake Girl" UK single | – | 1994 |
I'm On Fire | VH1 Crossroads | – | 1996 |
Indian Summer | Scarlet's Hidden Treasures EP[60] | – | 2004 |
Landslide | Y-100 Sonic Sessions Volume 1 | – | 1997 |
Little Drummer Boy | More Pink: The B-Sides | – | 1994 |
London Girls | "Talula" single[69] | A Piano: The Collection | 1996 |
Mary | "Crucify" single | Tales of a Librarian, A Piano | 1992, 2003, 2006 |
Merman | digital download | No Boundaries compilation, A Piano | 1998, 1999, 2006 |
Miracle | digital download | – | 2007 |
Mountain | unreleased (streamed on Scarlet's Web) | – | – |
My Posse Can Do | American Doll Posse DVD | – | 2007 |
Never Seen Blue | "Jackie's Strength" single[62] | A Piano | 1998, 2006 |
Not David Bowie | A Piano: The Collection[67] | – | 2006 |
Ode to My Clothes | A Piano: The Collection[67] | – | 2006 |
Ode to the Banana King | "Silent All These Years" single | – | 1992 |
Only Women Bleed | "Strange Little Girl" single[56] | – | 2001 |
Operation Peter Pan | "A Sorta Fairytale" single | – | 2002 |
Over It | "Cornflake Girl" single | "God" single | 1994 |
Over the Rainbow (live) | Hey Jupiter EP | – | 1996 |
Peeping Tommi | A Piano: The Collection[67] | – | 2006 |
Pool, The | "Winter" single | A Piano: The Collection | 1992, 2006 |
Purple People | "Spark" single | – | 1998 |
Ruby Through the Looking Glass | Scarlet's Hidden Treasures EP[60] | – | 2004 |
Samurai | "Caught a Lite Sneeze" single | "Talula" single | 1996 |
Seaside | Scarlet's Hidden Treasures EP[60] | – | 2004 |
Sister Named Desire | "Talula" single | – | 1996 |
Sister Janet | "Cornflake Girl" single[66] | More Pink: The B-Sides, A Piano | 1994, 2006 |
Smells Like Teen Spirit | Crucify EP[59] | – | 1992 |
Song for Eric | "Silent All These Years" single | – | 1991 |
Strange Fruit | "Cornflake Girl" UK single | – | 1994 |
Sugar | "China" single[68] | More Pink, A Piano | 1992, 1994, 2006 |
Sweet Dreams | "Winter" single | Tales of a Librarian, A Piano | 1992, 2003, 2006 |
That's What I Like Mick (The Sandwich Song) | "Caught a Lite Sneeze" single | – | 1996 |
This Old Man | "Caught a Lite Sneeze" single | – | 1996 |
Tombigbee | Scarlet's Hidden Treasures EP[60] | – | 2004 |
Toodles Mr. Jim | "Caught a Lite Sneeze" single | – | 1996 |
Take Me With You | A Piano: The Collection[67] | – | 2006 |
Take to the Sky | "Winter" single | More Pink, A Piano | 1992, 1994, 2006 |
Thank You | Crucify EP[59] | – | 1992 |
Thoughts | "Silent All These Years" single | – | 1991 |
Tombigbee | Scarlet's Hidden Treasures EP | – | 2004 |
Upside Down | "Silent All These Years" single | "Winter" single, More Pink, A Piano | 1992, 1994, 2006 |
Walk to Dublin | A Piano: The Collection[67] | – | 2006 |
Zero Point | A Piano: The Collection[67] | – | 2006 |
Year | Video | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
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1992 | Little Earthquakes
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US: Gold[35] |
1998 | Live from New York
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Complete Videos 1991–1998
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US: Gold[35] | |
2003 | A Sorta Fairytale
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2004 | Welcome to Sunny Florida
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US: Gold[35] |
2006 | Fade to Red
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2008 | Live at Montreux 1991/1992
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2010 | Live from the Artists Den
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Year | Song | Album | Director(s)[70] | ||||||||||||
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1991 | "Silent All These Years" | Little Earthquakes | Cindy Palmano | ||||||||||||
1992 | "China" | ||||||||||||||
"Winter" | |||||||||||||||
"Crucify" | |||||||||||||||
1994 | "Cornflake Girl" (UK version) | Under the Pink | Big TV! | ||||||||||||
"God" | Melodie McDaniel | ||||||||||||||
"Pretty Good Year" | Cindy Palmano & Sam Riley | ||||||||||||||
"Cornflake Girl" (US version) | Tori Amos & Nancy Bennett | ||||||||||||||
"Past the Mission" | Jake Scott | ||||||||||||||
1996 | "Caught a Lite Sneeze" | Boys for Pele | Mike Lipscombe | ||||||||||||
"Talula" | Mark Kohr | ||||||||||||||
"Hey Jupiter" | Earle Sebastian | ||||||||||||||
"Professional Widow" | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
1998 | "Spark" | From the Choirgirl Hotel | James Brown | ||||||||||||
"Jackie's Strength" | |||||||||||||||
"Raspberry Swirl" | Barnaby & Scott | ||||||||||||||
1999 | "Jackie's Strength" | James Brown | |||||||||||||
"Bliss" | To Venus and Back | Loren Haynes | |||||||||||||
"1000 Oceans" | Erick Ifergan | ||||||||||||||
"Glory of the '80s"∞ | |||||||||||||||
2001 | "Strange Little Girl"∞ | Strange Little Girls | David Slade | ||||||||||||
2002 | "A Sorta Fairytale" | Scarlet's Walk | Sanji | ||||||||||||
2003 | "Mary"∞ | Tales of a Librarian | Unknown | ||||||||||||
2005 | "Sleeps with Butterflies" | The Beekeeper | Laurent Briet | ||||||||||||
"Sweet the Sting" | Alex Smith | ||||||||||||||
2007 | "Big Wheel" | American Doll Posse | Tori Amos & Blaise Reutersward |
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"Bouncing off Clouds"∞ | |||||||||||||||
2009 | "Welcome to England"∞ | Abnormally Attracted to Sin | Christian Lamb | ||||||||||||
2011 | "Carry"∞ | Night of Hunters | Bruno Centofani & Victor de Mello | ||||||||||||
"Nautical Twilight"∞ | |||||||||||||||
"Star Whisperer"∞ | |||||||||||||||
∞ denotes videos released as promotional only, not commercially released. |
Year | Contributed track(s) | Film | |||||||||||||
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1992 | "The Happy Worker"[71] | Toys | |||||||||||||
1995 | "Losing My Religion", "Butterfly"[72] | Higher Learning | |||||||||||||
"It Might Hurt a Bit"° | Don Juan DeMarco | ||||||||||||||
1996 | "Talula (The Tornado mix)"[73] | Twister | |||||||||||||
"Professional Widow"[74] | Escape from L.A. | ||||||||||||||
1998 | "Finn", "Siren",[75] "Paradiso Perduto"[76] | Great Expectations | |||||||||||||
"Me & You"‡ | Hand of Fate | ||||||||||||||
2000 | "Carnival"[77] | Mission: Impossible II | |||||||||||||
"1000 Oceans"[78] | Here on Earth | ||||||||||||||
2003 | "You Belong to Me", "Murder, He Says"[79] | Mona Lisa Smile | |||||||||||||
2008 | "Yo George"[80] | Body of War | |||||||||||||
° Duet with Michael Stipe of R.E.M., track unreleased[81] ‡ Film and soundtrack unreleased[82] |
Year | Contributed track(s) | Album | |||||||||||||
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1995 | "Famous Blue Raincoat" | Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen | |||||||||||||
1995 | "Down by the Seaside"° | Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin | |||||||||||||
° Duet with Robert Plant |
Year | Song | Album |
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1992 | "Ring My Bell" | Ruby Trax Compilation |
1996 | "I'm on Fire" | VH1 Crossroads |
1997 | "Landslide" | Y-100 Sonic Sessions Volume 1 |
1998 | "Spark" | MTV Fantastic Females Volume 1 |
Year | Album | Artist | Contribution | ||||||||||||
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1987 | Without You I'm Nothing | Sandra Bernhard | Backing vocals on "Little Red Corvette" | ||||||||||||
1988 | Last Days of the Century | Al Stewart | Backing vocals on "Red Toupee" and "Last Day Of The Century" | ||||||||||||
1989 | Mosquitos | Stan Ridgway | Backing vocals | ||||||||||||
1990 | Phantom Center | Ferron | |||||||||||||
1994 | The Lead and How to Swing It | Tom Jones | Backing vocals on "I Wanna Get Back With You" | ||||||||||||
1996 | Ima | BT | Vocals on "Blue Skies"‡ | ||||||||||||
2010 | Here Lies Love | David Byrne & Fatboy Slim | Vocals on "You'll Be Taken Care Of" and "Why Don't You Love Me?"° | ||||||||||||
‡ Single peaked at #1 on Billboard Dance/Club Play chart.[83]
° Duet with Cyndi Lauper |
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