Tori Amos - Spark

[starsweet4]

awesome performance but i miss the background singing

[rickso12]

I don't see any comparison to kate Bush,they are both very talented but very different from each other-----

[TheBethany1991]

Made me miss Kate Bush...So much more than I was! So Kate! And Yet so Tori, No dis to Tori!

[yesmeetoo]

Weight does not make a true artist.... just look at Nancy Wilson, who still sounds sooo very amazing.... or KD Lang, who has some real pipes!!! ... it should not even be an issue.... If this were a guy, would we still be having the same conversation? NO!!! Tori Rocks!!!

[yesmeetoo]

Weight does not make a true artist.... just Nancy Wilson, who still sounds to amazing.... or KD Lang... it should not even be an issue.... If this were a guy, would we still be having the same conversation? Tori Rocks!!!

[funkytown74]

this is the first tori amos song i ever heard back in 98' i actually bought this album and im a guy. who isnt gay. i see how the parallels between her and tools' music cross since her and maynard are such good friends. the beginning sounds just like a tool song

[calmtides]

@funkytown74 what the hell does being a heterosexual male have anything to do with liking her music?

[derailedbicycle]

I know Tori's said "the ice cream assassin" refers to God but does anyone have any theory as to how she arrived at that particular term? What could ice cream possibly signify in relation to God?

I adore the song by the way and I adore Tori, love the lyrics as well but the part mentioned above was always somewhat of a mystery for me.

[BelMagick]

@derailedbicycle In short, Ice cream assassin was a nick name the press gave to a group of child kiddnappers in the 90s who used to lure children to them using ice cream vans. This song is about Tori's miscarriage, so she's calling God an ice cream assassin because he took her baby away.

[johnnycrit]

Good god this woman is unbelievable!!!

It's hard for me to hear this song without the harmony in the chorus. Still amazing, but that harmony is genius. I just sing it myself when watching live performances.

[eriramizi]

i wish she would still be able to sing like this; i blame the plastic surgeries, for some reason her voice has become a little annoying; just my opinion

[spagzs]

This song has some great phrases in it ... it changes from 6/8 to 6/7 in a flowing way and the drummer does some awesome fills

[pederbrunen]

the verses are way better than the chorus

[TheBells4her]

Tori is beautiful in all ways.

[123pinkmary]

This is amazing

Her live performance is so brilliant that I almost can't believe this is a live show

[BmoreBuddha]

@allthingsfeist Thank you. I really needed that. Its just that with the pressure of finishing school and the pressure that everyone else at school is putting on me that I sometimes feel like I can't go on. I really felt like I was at my end last night.

[allthingsfeist]

@BmoreBuddha anytime. if you ever need to talk, my inbox is always there. keep your chin up! <3

[BmoreBuddha]

@allthingsfeist If you have yahoo hit me up on there. I just inboxed it to you

[allthingsfeist]

buddha, it does get better :)



[BmoreBuddha]

Today, I tried to commit suicide and I was unsucessful. The reason is because of school pressure and its my senior year and the pressure is really coming down on me hard. This song is therapeutic. Thank you Tori.

[bkchrome]

@BmoreBuddha I've been there. Glad this helped. It can always get better.

[martianboy]

Wow great performance - as usual. I can't believe someone is having a go at her because of her weight????? What the fuck??????! She isnt some skinny talentless whore bitch that has only got her looks to make her famous! SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU CUNT whoever it was that said that.

[undelete88]

I adore you. It's my favourite live, and I didn't know a video even existed. Thank you, it's just THE BEST live.

[ElectricShark]

Such a beautiful yet sad song.

[RAPISTNEAR]

It really doesn't matter what she weighs, she's so ridiculously beautiful either way. She's changed my life greatly. <3

[hiraethchild]

Thank you again, Tori, for your medicine.

[asmailrabbit]

We can't all be wasp-waisted bombshell super vixen skinny sluts -all- the time, can we? 

[chickenblaster]

This song is so fucking greaT, FUCK ALL THE ASSHOLES TALKING SMACK ABOUT HER WEIGHT!

[kbfirepagan]

flawless performance breathtaking!!!!!!!! Tori still rocks!!!!!!!!

[Rivalum]

2:36 - 2:44 was just... WOW! She really CAN do anything. x)

[1Librazhd]

best song.....nr1...

from Albania

[FrozenMermaid666]

Just perfect! When she started singing, I thought it was the studio track playing, hehe! She sounds so amazing live! She has one of the best and most beautiful voices ever! Unfortunately, the official video for ''Spark'' is not on YouTube, but I have it on a DVD! :)

[chetumalkid]

Leo, ya sabes que en México en el centro y norte del país hay mucha más apertura a los movimientos musicales internacionales, desafortunadamente aquí en Quintana Roo éso está muy limitado. Aquí, de verdad la gente se deja llevar por completo por las dos grandes televisoras y la "música" que ellas difunden. Lástima que la mayoría de ésa "música" no tiene la calidad de Tori. De hecho, yo me enamoré de su música porque vivía yo en Vancouver y ahí la escuché. Saludos desde Playa del carmen!

[chetumalkid]

I´m a 42 year old guy from the south of México near Cancún and, I have listened to Tori since she released Little Earthquakes a long time ago, sometimes I listen to her for days at a time, maybe is her passion when she sings, maybe is her sadness but her music always relaxes me and relieves me. I don´t know anyone here who´s ever heard of her but myself I think she´s a true talented artist that trascends borders and genders and that opens up her feelings to her listeners.

[Ad3nial]

@chetumalkid

[leogadget]

@chetumalkid creo que te sorprenderías al saber cuanta gente la sigue por todo México, saludos.

[KendrixTermina]

I DO love that song... she puts so much emotion in it, too.

[blisslilly1]

i love how she makes love to the mic. She is a true artist, a musical genius.

[makemarker]

I guess the double chin says she's addicted to midnight snacks now.

[jtcarc]

you idiot, she was just pregnant.

[makemarker]

You are calling me an idiot and you don't even know me , anyway I did not realize she was pregnant and to me she really just looked a bit hooked on Twinkies.

[jtcarc]

you were judging her without knowing her situation. how is that any different?

[makemarker]

Dude seriously, are you an android or do you not understand the concept of making a joke.

[justinbcat]

GENIUS ! X

LOVE YOU TORI

[silkbreeze]

The raw emotion that just perspirates from the uneasy harmony and the honest lyrics is enough to make this a song that stands out. And Tori's voice is unique. This is one of my favorite songs.

[eugeneonegin09]

she is one of the few who has an amazing voice whether live or recorded

[cemorym]

Tori is one of the most beautiful people on earth. Blind or def...... if she is near or far, she makes the world a better place.

[disturbedman360]

see has a depressed look something has recently happend what happend to her

[bigblonde26]

@disturbedman360 She had been having mis-carriages: (

[DarkXSayuri]

It's different...very different....

I agree with Daarkdestiny...

It makes chills run down my spine....

[StrangeLittlePoet123]

this song is my favorite. as of yesterday i have the numbers "6.58" on the inside of my wrist. For my lost children.

[alltherobinsbring]

What a beautiful tribute. I'm so sorry for your loss. This song speaks to me as well...

[klimpensonice]

That's beautiful ..

[Javier2146]

es una mujer increible

[125spirit]

i like very much so talented women

[125spirit]

super!!!!!!!!

[christinapapcat]

impeccable

[tayries]

No one preformes better live than Tori! Atleast no one I've heard...

I have to close my eyes when I listen to her music, it just makes you melt.

[davidamarat]

Yeah I almost agree with you. Soda Stereo from Argentina sounds perfect (or most) as their album records. Please check this band.

[DaarkDestiny]

This is my all time favorite, of Tori Amos. It is so personal, and so original. I have never heard anything like this, it gives me chills.

[neal1960]

Wow

[nordicy]

When I was a teenage, I luv listening to "Spark" autistically and with the max volume my ears could possibly stand...

She really help me thru the 90's.

[DigitalGhost94]

does anyone know where abouts in dartmoor the original video to spark was filmed?

[dannyjoecarter]

One of the most amazing and moving pieces of music ever written. I love Tori's work!

[yamagoof]

Exceptional! :) This is an amazing live version. 5 stars!

[tajkver]

120%

[ColorsBright]

This has to be one of the better live versions of this song. This is much better than the letterman performance.

[Venustarr]

I love this song.

[IceysMoment]

she is soo amazing

[SuzumiyaHaruhi0]

AYA HIRANO

[gypsy27]

I think I forgot how much I loved Tori until I saw this. Shes so amazing.

[ToastAug07]

She is so beautiful...in her self her own way...

[depechemodehome]

Favorite song by Tori!!!

Thanx......... (:-))

[BerryDeew]

she`s worst version of Kate Bush

[RiotAdiposity]

kate who?

lol

[BerryDeew]

KATE BUSH :)

lol

[queenscha]

her heart out*

[queenscha]

I can feel her pain. She oozes passion and she really sings her heart. <3

[dbatram]

WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT HER WEIGHT...Listen to her sound, embrace her words. She is amazing...

[sighyourhero]

Yep, that's why the music industry is in such sorry shape. Musicians have to look like models now, thanks to shallow people.

[sptica]

She is like sun.

[allonoddy]

It's pretty callous of someone to make weight comments when she was struggling with her weight after miscarriages.

As other people have correctly observed, it doesn't matter what the f*ck a true artist like her ever weighs anyway. It's so massively irrelevant.

[sebayetset]

I could not agree more, allonoddy!

Tori is beautiful...and weight is irrelevant!!!

We live in such a shallow world.

[SexVampireBite]

funny since a lot of Tori fans miss THIS version of Tori! I thought she looked her best during the Choirgirl era!

[SatansMullet]

@allonoddy i think she is beautifual as hell regardless 

[elky25]

@allonoddy sososo true its just that most people are close minded assholes :(

[DRDNIBOY]

I was at this event ...I was about 20 years old then lol.

[allonoddy]

Looks (And sounds) like it was an amazing one - you're lucky!

When was it exactly?

I'm Irish, but I'm hoping to see her in San Diego this summer, because I'll be over in that part of the world. I'll have to be really on the ball when those tickets go on sale, because I am desperate to get to this gig!

[DRDNIBOY]

This was May of 1998. Day after her last Club tour show in losangeles. It was in the parking lot of The Palace. It was also free. We were there at 1 am waiting LOL

[allonoddy]

Ah, I wish I'd seen her in the 90's!

Too young :(

I suppose there will be other legendary artists who will emerge over the coming years, but there's a ticking clock on the ones we already have. I really need to address the fact that Neil Young came here and I did not go to see him for some reason...

[icompoze2]

I was there too. This is the album she went from 'girl' to 'woman' on. A total masterpiece, and this performance was the perfect capitulation from the plugged tour.

Glory of the 90s...

[11Beirut22]

I agree this is a superb song and performance!!! As she switches between the keyboard and piano, change of voice; you can feel the fascinating tension, flipping between cynicism and hope, rising to a crescendo and then ending with a realization that it will never go away despite the appearance of triumph, seconds before. Lot of emotions. The whole song makes my spine tingle and haunts my brain for a while.

[ALFIEAJAPAN]

My favourite Tori Amos song. Great performance. The recording technicians could have given her piano playing more emphisis, though. By the way, that's a Bosendorfer; as good as it gets.

[gabymortem]

I'm in love with Toriiiiii, she is awesome :):):):)

[crzy4flight]

Just close your eyes and listen. She thinks on a level most of us only dream of and watching her perform live is like seeing straight into another person's soul. Her lips and hips are are almost distractions. (however pleasant :)

[acusticadam]

more woman=more magic!

[missclareremembers]

Keep your brainless weight comments to yourselves. The main thing is that her look doesn't change the music..and this is what you should care about!

[PinkWerewolf1]

Fat-thin comments are for britney,c'mon

[lambywinkle]

She's awesome live!

[serialhag76]

She's soooo thin now...she seems unhappy in her new shows & interviews. WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR TORI?

[4U2LoveMe4Ever]

are you kidding??? she is absolutely perfect.. she was MUCH thinner when she was younger.. check out videos from before her Little Earthquakes album release.. I've been a Tori fan since 1991. Tori was and always will be beautiful....

[4U2LoveMe4Ever]

oh and to add.. this song reflects her feelings about her miscarriages... why should she portray her happiness.. "shes convinced she could hold back a glacier, but she couldn't keep baby alive, doubting theres a woman in there somewhere" AND in here video.. the name Skeeter carved in the tree is what she called her unborn child. I totally relate.. I've miscarried and I know what it is to loose a child and how less of a woman I felt. Give this incredible woman a break, she is sharing her soul.

[ENeithneYA]

Seeing her smiling at the very end made my day. (:

[rhjeanne]

i think she looks better this way

[natashaclaire]

agree 100%. I used to look at Tori Amos and think "Yay! A famous woman musician who's not insanely thin" & that part of her image to me was almost as inspiring as her music. I'm sad I can't say it anymore:(

[likufanele2001]

I don't care if she's fat either... or if she looks like an african... I was just saying...

[brokebackcowgurl]

well, i can say this. u r brainwashed.

how do feel when u gain a little pound or two??

[indrakamala]

Fat? You're crazy... this is probably the reason why she NOW looks like one of these African children you see on the news. I can get really angry at these remarkes. WHO CARES how fat (or NOT) she looks like... AS LONG AS SHE KEEPS PERFORMING LIKE SHE DOES, I LOOOOVE HER ANYWAY! (Sorry: just quit smokin' so am bit on the defensive side... grrr)

[zontyr6]

fat,thin...I love her

[Philippians4thirteen]

she's not fat

[gustopheles]

Her weight had been fluctuating because she was pregnant, actually. Of course, she'd miscarried, because it wasn't till a few years later that she gave birth to her daughter.

[VanityInPerson]

This song is sooo amazing.

[Lostolto]

"If the Divine master plan is perfection, maybe next I'll give Judas try, trusting my soul to the ice-scream assassin"

Awesome Song. Beautiful Tori!

[JayGAYJulie]

Of course the lyric is "trusting my soul to the ICE CREAM assassin..."

[76special]

OMG! She's so freakin' talented it hurts. My goodness, I just love her.

[suncame]

yeah, that is true, it hurts ;d but it's not like you don't like her because she's so much talented but she shoots this talent ^^ loooooooove her

[andthnwat]

love her

[suncame]

my favourite*. I mean the preformance, but..maybe song too, I've got a few more

[madziulek77]

I don't know why this is also my favourite performance:). Maybe because I prefer live videos.I've watched your channel & you're also from Poland :)

[suncame]

my farorite ;]

[TheEphrem]

I hop nobody revives this song... leave it as it is... when ever I hear this song I feel like... staying in one place and get stoned... Nice song

[teresagabriel]

ohh she is a goddess

[vivatornado]

i was so half asleep for this. brings back memories. palace parking lot! woo hoo!

[dorkslashloserrr]

OhmyGOD, this is SUCH a good performance. This is easily my fave song by her and I've heard it like 5000000 times, but I swear I almost broke down listening to this (: Thanks so much for posting (:

[Cornflakegirl1981]

But she couldn't keep baby alive.. But now she have little Tash' :-) I think - when she made this song - she had a feeling that she wasn't able to get pregnant, but now she have her lovely daughter :)

[springhaze01]

sad but true. she had miscarriages and this ist the song about that... that made her "appreciate what life is". again: she´s really amazing.

[StrangeLittlePoet123]

i think that's what she means by "finding her spark".. or something.. it definitely helped me through when i miscarried (a year after this was released). i miss my daughter 10 years later. especially the "she's convinced she could hold back a glacier, but she couldn't keep baby alive" line

[mobbyplay]

Tori forevah

[Burgocapello]

marvelus song and marveloous voice

[isaglow]

Tori is so great! I love her music !

[sonjaevanescence93]

Awesome performance! <3

[coloursoundandmyself]

thank you!!!

[comatoselucy]

She looks so happy at the end :)

[jesslin22]

Love this song to pieces.. Ain't it amazing how she changing piano and mic?! Tori is a goddess!! *bows*

[roschlau]

This is GREAT!

[tenderbloodrose]

There is so much sadness in this song and performance.

Beautiful.

[omegakyo]

Great, gives me chills anytime i see a live performance...

[emosag]

I believe this performance was just after one of her miscarriages, hence why she doesn't connect as much as usual. She still does a great job though.

[shannonkringen]

LoVe it...

[MuseOfSin]

Awesome performance of Spark. Thank you!

[allthingsfeist]

thanks to panteli for sharing :)