Tori Amos - Mr Zebra

[jewelmic]

Love how she starts playing in the wrong key and then corrects herself. Such an amazing musician, even when she is in the wrong key.

[owlindlaeg]

After all these years still one of my absolute favourites.

[kava9326]

has the beat of a Halloween song and i LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ashina57]

fantastic



[Silverbirch4444]

Exactly like the album version!!! Brilliant!!!

[yeshhabbie]

@Silverbirch4444 O: What album is it on? :3

[Silverbirch4444]

@yeshhabbie One of my fav albums of hers - Boys for Pele! Brilliant album highly recommended. Its also on her best of - Tales of a Librarian.

[yeshhabbie]

@Silverbirch4444 Thank you ^-^ I've been meaning to buy some more albums, and I'm defiantly going to buy those two now :3

[Silverbirch4444]

@yeshhabbie If you do buy them I would be interested in what you think of them :)

[yeshhabbie]

@Silverbirch4444 I just bought Boys for ele :D So far I'm really enjoying it ^-^ I think my favourite so far will probably be Caught A Lite Sneeze :3 But everysong I've heard so far I've really enjoyed :P Thank you for recomending it to me ^-^

[Silverbirch4444]

@yeshhabbie Ha, no problem! My fav on that album has to be 'Hey Jupiter'!!!

[yeshhabbie]

@Silverbirch4444 I like that one as well :D They're all so good it's hard to choose a favourite XD

[kamnute97]

i want a sewater that say has a zebra saing "yo you want this well come and get it" ha ah jk i love tori's music :)

[Novelwit2000]

I LOVE this song. But, man if it were just longer!!!

[whodoyouthinkheare]

Her smile at 1:29 was priceless...

[BellahMel07]

wow AMAZING she would have more song in this kind..so pretty (L)

[musicResistances]

Anyone else got a boner at 0:06?

[mrconcept]

Kate Bush

[alavora]

Goosebumps!!

[honeyroserocks]

I want mr zebra.

[WojT161992]

she's Tori Amos

[JoseBerry]

WOW THIS WAS A TORI EPIC MOMENT!

[FTWCM]

Very beautiful song about someone who kills her husband. Nobody could put it more elegantly than Tori.

[PRINCE23062003]

@FTWCM Except Kate Bush! :D In my humble opinion!! Have a nice day y'all!!

[NinjaOutfitInTheWash]

Never heard this one before! One of her best, though

[Amuzmema]

genious

[MrZebraGamer]

No you may not have my sweater!

[mrzebra239]

@MrZebraGamer Its ok, i gave her mine.

[kkg76]

spectacular



[kraljicamrmota]

I'm addicted to this performance. Simply amazing.

[PatrickWeylandSmith]

I love how she's this so sexily...go Tori

[madsketcher]

Neato! I've never seen her perform it with the brass.

[TheDenisa1980]

super pesnicka!!!!

[cleverfool26]

i love that big bosey....

[jamMatther]

personally, i can't foresee anyone trying to deconstruct one of tori's scintillatingly ambiguous songs without making a bit of a wanker of him/herself.

[GrrrrlBruise]

great song

epic lyrics

[venuss424]

For those trying to figure out this song listen to the words.... "Ratatouille Strychnine" A stew pretty much of LSD..rat poison" She will blow your mind... "She thinks she's Kaiser Wilhelm" Queen Victoria's son of the UK with mental illness. "Civilized syllabub" civilized thickened wine..."Money Pennies rights" is about a bar" This girl was a party gal..or figure it out..she's a good time fellow. She got a little fund to fight for Money Penny's rights.

[venuss424]

nd for those that say she doesn't hit a note. I have listened to her for over 15 years...when she is live..this is what we old folks call free styling. She goes with the moment..it's not her messing up. She is feeling the music. She is a story teller...

[MothmanCometh]

@venuss424

To clarify, there is no strychnine in LSD nor is it used in the bonding process.

[bubbleapple13]

Im making a manga comic for this song, and it DEFINATLY isn't about that XD

but Tori Amos said (i think) that people can come up with their own meanings for her songs :3

[r10nx]

Hi friend *Waves*

[v1660]

@venuss424 i think the song is about ambivalence, not drugs, hence the zebra with the black and white stripes. ratatouille is a delicatesse, and strychnine is strychnine.

[FireThought]

Good God, look at that piano!!!! I heart Tori and her Bose!!!!

[mandaisme1]

this totally jus cheered me up :D

[Pheimos]

she's so amazing and beautiful.

[astronumerous]

Yeah this was on Boys for Pele--1996. Her first miscarriage didn't occur for a few more years. In an interview she stated "Mr Zebra can be who you want it to be, although you know that there are certain clear words - Strychnine, sometimes she's a friend of mine...And I'm sure the person, women that you know that are Ratitouille Strychnine, and we can kinda love those women...This is really the hidden sides of the feminine, the ones that get a little wicked, and the reasons that they're wicked. "

[walbatto]

She was far from having any child when she wrote that.

[fionasapple]

tori only has one kid. not even back then. y do you have to make stuff up? if you know anything about the lyrics you'd know they've nothing to do with kids.

[est1906]

I love you- you are my very favorite.

[tray3437]

SHE IS A LEGEND this song is so out of the ordinary

[johnnyblues777]

This is one of m favorite songs of here, just for that reason. It is out of the ordinary.

[smooth132]

SHE'S AMAZING!

[JohnFO5]

This is so much better then the album version, do not take this off youtube PLEASE!!!! Thanks, lol. Love the falsetto at the end.

[tray3437]

I love this song cos its different so is she.

[joasia989]

Wooow, it's better than the original one, I didn't think it would be possible ;)

[swisschick86]

Jools must have REALLY liked her, she was on his show like 6 times!

[riinareismaa]

I absolutely adore those pipes

[thepezdispenser]

long live retards :p

[AshenCynders]

My art teacher can't stand her. But I grew up listening to her because I was always tagging along with my sister and she listened to Tori Amos. So ya know... oh well.

[lilkkka]

why she cant stand her?

[ed21198]

she is the is unbelievable ,amazing, arousing, thearapu"dick", as in elevating , boldly vulnerable, charismatic, coy, every sinful contradiction you can condure. She is beyond consolidation.

I have appreiciated byproducts of thoughts but simply put she imbodies things that I doubt that she is even aware of.

[hershism]

is it wrong to want her to bite me?

[MuikuliWander]

Yes and no. :)

[mrmartinmartin]

Depends on where.

[valpalz]

no not at all. I also would fancy her teeth marks on my skin.

[xXVanillaBlueXx]

she is sooo awesome Live!! i wish i could have seen her :(

[somedguy]

To see it done live make me smile. most people just cheep out these days and get a cd played instead. I would love to shake her hand!!!

[tif70]

What a great version of this song!

[ElizabethTryon]

What a performer.

[peaceandparty]

i rated b4 hearing it....and i wish i could rate it twice!

[mariusursaciuc]

absolutly fantastic!!!

[guajiro70]

love tori though she is kinda a weirdo. (very talented, just strange in her own way)

[Nickalollyoff]

I think 'eccentric' is the word!

[SarahLeeAnn]

hahaha, cute.

[cecileyyy123]

hi there zebra =]

[donotrepeat]

tori <3

[xDrag77]

she's Schizophrenic

[pumpkinpjays]

@xDrag77 The best artists typically are, dear.

[Nikkita0616]

she is so lovely!!

[fearhasaglare]

she gives a big smile to the band after she restarts in the right key.

[edgarsalas]

Tori. Prettier than ever....

[BinGeDrinKer95]

AMO TORI AMOS!!!

[snurfboo17]

i love tori amos shes so full of life!!!!! go tori

[Leopardvixen369]

Tori is such a goddess!!!!

[xxxGeorgettexxx]

Owch...she disguised that mistake badly...usually she just has a joke about it. Still, a great performance from the amozing amos :)

[ohsinnaman]

who says it was a mistake. she is always doing things left of center so who's to say she didn't want to start the song in that key.

[bobbelibob]

Actually, the first time I watched this video I didn't know the song and I didn't know that she made a mistake - if she even did make one. I think the intro sounds great.

[Nickalollyoff]

Same here!

[Nickalollyoff]

Hmm...that was meant to be a reply to another comment...

:S

[bobbelibob]

But I've got to know a lot of her other music. Her earliest and her latest music is not that good. But then music in between is great. This song is greater in this version than the album version, though.

[GexeBerg]

great

[Richaod]

I like how she disguises starting the song at the wrong pitch. :)

[aleluvya]

cooooool

[ENeithneYA]

Love this version :)

Love Tori *.*...♥

[mariancho19]

She has a briliant voice. One of my favorite song of her

[portisheadnme]

does anyone know what this song's about?

i love this song but

i don't quite understand the metaphors

help~

[elparrot]

"In Mr. Zebra we pick up Ratatouille Strychnine, who we love because she's our little double agent who can poison people and get us out of trouble when they're hurting us! But she's tired, she's tired of the poisoning."

-- Tori; B Side, 05/96 (go to the hereinmyhead site for more :)

[smiles4UAlways]

She is such a sexy creature... I adore her..

[CCarmen]

I double that! God....*melts*

[Clavat03]

In this video she looks a bit like my favourite actress Marcia Cross as Bree in Desperate Housewives, which is quite funny to me. And I love how Tori handles her mistakes... noone's going to blame her for having little flaws =D I must thank her for these wonderful songs performed on the piano, which helped me through a lot...

[pumpkinpjays]

Marcia Cross is awesome; I remember her back when she was Dr. Kimberly Shaw on Melrose Place (yeah, I know, I'm showing my age). The woman's incredible--she nails the looneytune characters, and is just fascinating to watch! She's easily the best Bree Hodges is easily the best character on DH.

She and Tori do share that beautiful red hair and white skin. Stunning women, both of them :>)

[davidvonbarany]

Yes, because she is always playing a different setlist, so she has most of her songs in her head :). (and many other)

Amazing memory, but the most amazing is herself!!!!!!

[AvesOrpheon]

0:25... lol ^^

[pumpkinpjays]

Totally! I think she likes the band...

[TomModernMedia]

Brilliant!

[KleptHoeManiac]

that was so awesome how she fixed the song without making it obvious!!!

[murdemo]

this is one of the best songs and perfomances of tori.

[trinityforsaken]

i had NO idea she made a mistake in the beginning! HAHA she's adorable! <3

[mobbyplay]

Just a few can do the things that this woman does. She is a real music.

[pumpkinpjays]

You know what, this is my favorite version of this song--it's on my MTV unplugged boot, and I included it on mixed tapes (back in the day...) I never realized she IS off-key when she first starts--what a great mistake, because the piano intro is just classic! I always wondered where this performance was--thanks for posting this!

[lillimeabh]

HORNS! THE HORNS! Tori loves it! As do I!

[ellninoo]

marvel musical perception

[melitos22]

love Tori...

thank U for all emotions...

[stardappledgreen]

God, I love classic Tori

[natashaclaire]

me too! Man I wish she was still like this.

[enharmonic77]

having watched this video like eight times i can see any mistakes, just stage presance do you have to know the songs to see where she goes wrong? its amazing never heard her before, will dom again hehe!

[vkotis]

She is such an amazing musician/singer/songwriter...s­he looks very pretty in that outfit.

[Macnatty]

Ilove her small fuck ups shes awesome when she messes up cuz she will ad lib another song just to get back into it. its awesome! She did it at one concert while she sang Blood Roses, she ad libbed a song that went "Things fuck up sometimes...you know they do she rocks!

[enharmonic77]

hey there, where's the mistake, just out of interest!

[Macnatty]

when she starts singing it shes a little off key from where she has to start playing thats why she touches her chest and goes "mmmmm i say it again" cuz she has to be in the right key.

[natashaclaire]

you're totally right, she starts off flat or something, and then uses the piano to fix it. Some artist can't sing and play, but I think she really uses her piano to sing, like the two are inseperable.

[hugetorifan]

I love this video, and the whole mistake thing is understandable. I learned the song about a year ago, and I still can't play it close to perfect. The Octives make everything almost impossible, but nothing is impossible for Tori.

[euthaNadya]

oh she's awesome, i love her songs so much and i don't care if she makes a mistake, after all nobody's perfect

[pgy2000]

Who ever said she's off-key needs to get off whaever they're on. Absolutely pitch perfect.

[Luxgal]

She blows depression away like a gigantic foehn

[somevelvetgirl]

amazing! never seen her perform this live before, i love it!!

[runningforamsterdam]

toris great

great voice

and she always messes up on MR.zEbra

its normal for her

[labellamaffia]

all i can say is at least it shows she doesn't mime like most artists today!! real artists who can actually perform live DO make mistakes and you gotta love them for it

[toolbandsober]

Ah, all mistakes are flawless with her.

[Jooles99]

I love this song. Short and funny. Her hairdo looks fantastic too.

[CaptainGerBear]

haha.. I love how she's totally off-key and doesn't apologize for it. One of the most fun songs I've ever heard.

[badwhodo]

how can someone with perfect tone and pitch be off-key?

[CaptainGerBear]

She's human after all, and does make mistakes. She's perfectly on key.. several notes below where she's supposed to be. Then she plinks on the piano a bit and corrects herself =)

[FerretMIke]

She is deliberately trying to song like most people sound when they sing at the start. Remember, she is more then a singer songwriter, she's a great actress too.