Tori Amos - Horses (1996)

[sarcee1960]

Love those tight jeans.

[happylilsunbeam]

This song is definitely my favorite. SO brilliant.

[greyroselonergirl]

I like this song

[RyanB429]

I want her to keep making music as long as she can, there will never be anyone like her, i love her so much she is an inspration to so many amd please don't forget she is a founder of RAINN, a charity that offers help to women and children in distress

[ccjmrable]

I want to know what she is singing before the official 'horses' part comes in

[APerfectDayElise]

I find some of her best songs to be her simplest....just her and a piano. This song used to make me cry. Some days it still does when I'm feeling down.

[glitterdust40]

@APerfectDayElise me too ~ ♥~ this whole album make me still cry when i am down ♥

[DAGROOVE1000]

brilliant, yo



[TheWOLFLORE]

lol mom jeans :)

yup! I'm a 90's kid :)

[Gplusrdsquared]

She is Bush.Sexy and skillful.

[iLoveBillHicks86]

I love Tori but I also love Marilyn Manson, Cradle of Filth, Beyonce, Fever Ray, Soundgarden, Tool, am I crazy? Or just very open minded? lol

[pacheco2506]

@iLoveBillHicks86 Or you just love the world.. lust for life.. whats the similitude between slayer, tupac shakur, mile davis or mars volta? passion

[4yellowRoad]

@iLoveBillHicks86 you'll be someone who is having fun with fun without flying through the narrow minds. I am a big fan of Christina Aguilera and Tori Amos at the same time. Music gets the best of me..

[ShanDevi1]

She's stellar! Too advanced for most earth-based minds. As for the jeans, they're designed to give Tori optimal grinding capacity. Hot!

[DidierMonot]

I saw this video for the first time on german tv in 2002 while working a night shift in a small hotel in Zermatt, Switzerland and fell in love with Tori's music. I never thought I would ever see it again until today :-) Beautiful!

[beenelosthesunset]

By far, the most amazing live Marianne I've seen. Hot Damn.

[thatSaori]

who the f*ck cares abut the fashion in those days? it's the music that matters.

in ten years you'll ask yourself why the hell you wore the clothes you're wearing right now

[amocksun]

How could anyone watch this and possibly. Notice. Her. Pants. ???

jesus christ.

[Sherri2008]

@amocksun

I agree with you. Those is some butt ugly jeans!

[koniczynkaL]

Ekhm, who could notice her jeans? Every person who was a teenager in 90's like me and miss the atmosphere of it. But I get your point : )

Tori, you sound and look gorgeous here!!

[Niamhdm7871]

I believe this song is about Neil Gaiman. They had a very close friendship and still are good friends. She wrote a few more with his name mentioned. Very good song. :)

[MacDragard]

Boys for Pele is probably my favorite Tori album. I love the baroque style of the songs.

[riotfacemcgee]

God this song is my soul to music. Every time I listen to it i feel whole again. I can't listen to it enough

[Imxoneofthefallen]

I'm learning this song on piano

and I don't even play piano.

Thats how much I love Tori Amos :D

Boys For Pele FTW!!!

[littlerainworm550]

ooo wow!!!!this song just have begun my favourite from her.I didn´t know it.

[littlerainworm550]

@littlerainworm550

oh sory I wanted to write became inst. of begun

[jonisong25]

Oh my god!! You are so right. I really do do that to a piano bench. Can't help it I guess. Thank you.

--So I got me some horses to ride on, to ride on. As long as your armies keep perfectly still. You know for me it's merely an exercise in futility to say ' this is one of my favorite Tori songs", but it really is. It's very special to me. Thank you!!

[astronoman11]

i really miss this tori. She's changed so much. I want this tori back again. Just her and her piano. no crazy electric guitar and crap rock.

[wsbsteven]

@astronoman11 I miss old tori also but I did like the drummer and bass player, just nothing recently.

[astronoman11]

horses is a very complicated song to play. I've been listening to tori for over 10 years and still havent learned how to play this damn song. Very hard progressions.

[astronoman11]

i dont know why and maybe its something about this song but it always makes me think of the planet neptune, and space. Truly an amazing song

[sarathebeast]

I love Tori :)

[anjatheguppy1]

so beautiful.. so. haunting..

[jesshaus]

I miss crazy Tori so much :/

[Keshiaaa]

Me, too.

[eirinbe]

She's still a bit loopy : )

[FloLiquiddiamonds]

Que d'émotions et de génie dans ce petit bout de femme... Je suis définitivement en addiction à ses chansons

[Mehrfachkeks]

Wow. That one was the first song of her that I ever heard. I froze in place and listened to this three times or so. It gave me heebie-jeebies. I like her. She´s not like the others. I admit it. For someone who only listen to the charts until now will find her not that good. But I think that is it. To learn to like her voice.

[takernotagiver]

I agree. It's almost as if Tori is an acquired taste, but once you listen for a while you realize she's a genius.

[neefafa]

@takernotagiver yea. I grew up listening to her so was very surprised to realize that people didn't really like her and that she's not that popular...it kinda hurt cause I always thought she was a genius and that her music is so beautiful. But I get it now that she's way too advanced, musically and emotionally for many.

[MySensualWorld]

@neefafa She is the world's greatest musical geniuses/artists, except for maybe a few classical/opera artists, perhaps.

[mellraizer]

stunning beautiful incredible..

[thierrrrrrry]

une des plus belles chansons...

[ActualSavory]

Will YOU find ME if Neil makes me a tree? ;]

[sh00per]

It is a reference to her very good friend and godfather to her child Neil Giaman 'making her a tree' in the book Stardust.

[ChipChipBreak]

i adore tori,

though it sounds lik

"i got me samosas"

i adore samosas also.

x

[tomitstube]

always

interesting.

[Darkshine42]

She is a gifted and talented singer but I HAVE to ask ... what is UP with her writhing all over the piano bench!!??

[PreciousEarthquakes2]

Just like a guitarist gets into their music by headbanging, she gets into her music by moving on the piano bench. It is really the only other part that can move when you play lol.

[Aradion15]

@PreciousEarthquakes2 It does look rather weird, though.

[bobsyouruncle666]

@PreciousEarthquakes2 Or you know by, moving your head. Elbows Raising hands during breaks and then bringing them back down. Like all the stuff stevie wonder does, Ray Charles all those people

[ladyloveliness]

@PreciousEarthquakes2 " I guess you go to far with pianos trying to be guitars" Northern Lad :-)

[Mehrfachkeks]

Ah she talked about that in a interview. I think it was because her father always ordered her to sit still while she´s playing.

I´ll send the link if I find it again

[justincrase]

No criptic lyrics here...you take each word at face value and then you know what the song is all about. as is the case for most of toris songs. You just have to be smart enough to catch what she is saying and know the true meaning of it.....

[nottheredbaron]

4 minutes

38 seconds

of perfection.

[amybm7]

Beautiful song...

[freddiethebassist]

I'm trying to find the music for this but can't find it anywhere.

[CelticRaE19]

i'm off with superfly ;)

[bbbask]

3:28... her eyes are so gorgeous

[dbx42dot1]

hey, boysforpele, i love how you said that, so cryptic...

[dbx42dot1]

@ohsinnaman: i`m obsessing over the video cause i have a not so secret love for tori and her not so cryptic lyrics. btw. who said i don`t like the video? your grandma?

[BoysForPele1989]

Actually her lyrics are exceedingly cryptic, however, based on your diction and grammar, I can see how it could have flown right away from your consciousness. Like a little fly, there it goes...

"Off with Superfly, sniffing a sharpie pen"

[dbx42dot1]

and "hey, been trying to meet you, must be a devil between us, or whores in my head, whores at my door, whores in my bed, but hey, where, have you, been, if you go i will surely die, we`re chained...." not my grammar and diction...y`know who said that? ...funny, this is from 1989.

[angstiosis]

You're great.

[dbx42dot1]

2, shut up, pleeeeaaaasssseee.

[ohsinnaman]

why are you obsessing over the video if you don't like it?

seems like someone has a secret love for tori and her cryptic lyrics.

[dbx42dot1]

if you are not satisfied with your partner, you get you some horses to ride on, don`t you? maybe he/she will get the point and try to find your spark...thx tori.

[dbx42dot2]

go and see a doctor, idiot!

[gustopheles]

BEST ugly jeans ever. i love and miss the 90s. this is a beautiful, powerful performance of one of her most stupendous compositions.

[nottheredbaron]

I agree 100%

with it all!

[uskokpravi]

@gustopheles LOL yeah best ugly jeans indeed however she is fucking sick man absolutely super fucking sick when it comes to the piano and vocals. She's one of a kind and they told her that the girl with the piano thang was dead. What a bunch of Gaga money making faggots they were.

[Mitholas]

@uskokpravi Your message was good til you got to the faggot part.

[dijana00]

great

[fairymagdalene]

"threads" that are golden don't break easily...not "threats"

[mexandxsasuke]

i love her i listen to her all the time^^

[hellojeaniejeanie]

but threats that are golden don't break easily

[pumpkinpjays]

One of my all-time favorites, from my all-time Tori era. Thanks for posting!

Brought me back to my college days; I remember wearing leotards with high-waisted jeans...yeah, we looked cool :>O

[ohsinnaman]

what is the part before horses begins? is it just an improv?

[NymphetamineOrchid]

I'm pretty sure it's just an improv, but the "sure can" part is from Twinkle.

[greyishblue666]

She might be a bit of a Diva now, but in the 90's (when every alternative artist seemed to be humble) she was a testament to the full grandeur and beauty of 'Woman' in artistic expression. She will always be a Goddess...too bad now she sorta DEMANDS praise! :(

[StoneRose555]

And why the heck shouldn't she 'demand praise'? When all her peers *expect* it...? Self-deprecation went out with grunge and ripped jeans and humble plaid shirts.

[digourworld2007]

my first time seeing this music artist, and she's pretty good.Kinda like an american Lorreena McKennitt isn't she??

[gustopheles]

i know right? i always wanted to see them duet.

[longhornwtf]

oh she does it so well

[coloursoundandmyself]

thank you......