Tori Amos "Cornflake Girl" (1994)

[madonnasponytail]

Tori Amos and John Waters?? Nice! Please tell me they met backstage.

[snatchviper]

I clapped a round of applause after i watched this vid. how many people can say that there are still people clapping nearly twenty years after a performance?

[Vavazelus]

In order to listen to the great Ms. Amos, I have to subject myself to this liberal moron David "shitbreath" letterman. Damn.

[andrea111292]

The trumpets just give a great vibe to a great performance of a great song by a great artist

[1974Qball]

Lov Tori soo much but this makes me feel old.

[bezerker5051]

@1974Qball: Ditto, 17 years ago now. I first heard this song while I was

working with Pink Floyd's keyboard player's sister in the UK. She was

knocked-out and amazed with the composition as well. Sadly, Richard

Wright is no longer with us. But anyway, yes, "Cornflake Girl" takes me

back many years to happy time. I saw Ms Amos perform in Australia

in 1994. Superb.

[TaylorRama]

Happy Birthday Mon Cheri Tori

[cantleysugar]

Always felt to me like she was ripping off Kate Bush.

[dudecosta]

@cantleysugar This is getting old.

[SapphireJesse08]

David Letterman. Had his coffee mug. Sitting on top. Of Under the Pink.

...blasphemous

[joshuagoymer]

@SapphireJesse08 haha!!

[theempiremelts]

So she is who Billy Corgan stole those ridiculous pants from...

[woundedhorse]

Tori and Kate Bush are definitely from the same planet many light years away.

[footprintsandsea]

This song and Tori Amos still rocks...standing the test of time. Love her...

[footprintsandsea]

This song and Tori Amos still rocks...standing the test of time.

[swergisfromoxford]

I hadn't seen this vid. Am trying to transcribe for guitar and this is, well a distraction. I keep looking at it. What a performance. Shall look at this again and again. The song is fabulous on every level and Tori performs it giving 100%. Was holding my breath at one point. I could watch this with one foot in the fire.

[IAmPlaysWithSquirrel]

@Sherri2008 She seriously is! I can't think of a better way to describe her piano skills.

[ArdineZakaria48]

Dowwnload the audio from this clip at speedyconversion doht cohm.

[Sherri2008]

theress really no other way to say this but ...she is a mother fucker on that piano!

[FeverRai]

"And the man with the golden gun thinks he knows so much, thinks he knows so much.."

[tigerpantss]

she is sooo stunning here i miss the old tori please get this natural hair back gorgeous!

[PoetProjekt]

She Is Wonderfull :O

Tori Amos ...Yeah ;)

German :D

[KristopheTheSaint]

Hey, look she stole Billy Corgan's pants.

[SirCreef]

16 years ago and i remember it like it was yesterday it left such a big impression on me :-)

[staciems21]

what the hell is he doing using tori's cd as a friggen coaster he needs to be hit

[ouchyg]

How long has it been since we had an artist like this? Too long.

[bossystop]

TORI my goddess. 

[oldnavy21]

Tori Amos and John Waters in one episode of Letterman?! A dream come true!!!

[TheseAreMySecrets]

I <3 Tori amos. I miss the days when she was like this.

[0586730O2]

tori amooose as letterman says..... good song

[mermaidofsuburbia]

Could she be cuter skipping out like that?

[9crapper]

Who is that host, am from oz, he is a dick......he under my coffe cup...Tori, love it...

[mermaidofsuburbia]

@9crapper  Where is Oz located, under a rock? It's Letterman.

[Rosapsico]

jezz quite an outfit.. everyone of them :D tori's great. back that time everyone used to be genually crazy, not crazy pretending like nowadays right.. it was authentic :D I miss the 90's...

[ruithael]

You know, I almost always love the Letterman versions of peoples' songs more than their other performances. Whatever your opinion of Letterman is, people play like their life depends on it when they appear on his show.

[Redline748]

she is not the same tori amos as she was then musically, her older music was so interesting, slightly strage and really captivating, something got lost somewhere, now sounds and I hate to say it, a bit boring. I know you'll all hate me for saying that but it's what I feel to the music

[SupernalOne]

@Redline748

Tori Amos losing her edge - yes and no, she's a mother, getting middle-aged now, but she still can turn in a Dionysian stage show - maybe less overt sexuality in her performance, but still a lot of passion - I saw her last year in DC, and was very impressed - but you're right, some of her recent compositions on CD cuts are a little underwhelming - but she always had that quiet streak, the girl and her piano - it's when she wails you can tell she's still got it

[Redline748]

@SupernalOne I totaly get what you say, It's just that it was the oddness and strange and haunting compositions that really caught my attention and led me to love the music, it was music you could get lost in, of course she is still a great talent, I guess I just miss the creativity of back then, just all a bit normal bodering pop now. but who knows what may come....

[SupernalOne]

Yes, true - I liked her take on Happiness is a Warm Gun, a psychic summoning of all the fear &horror that a woman could have re men with guns - & the Boys for Pele period, when she seethed with sexuality onstage, & was working out her demons - What is comparable in her recent work? Strong Black Vine is another protest song, in her last DC show she seemed to invoke her Pip punk-pixie persona & did a cursing rant against her mother, who was in the audience - so, some fire left in her yet -

[Preston2244]

Wow, she's brilliant.

[santiagosalvadore]

2:09 - this is the sexiest woman on the world...

[iriswigle]

Runaway blacks would run into the corn fields & occasionally the fields would be set fire...right? Cornfield is being KKK. KKK think it is normal to cut off ears, feet and legs...rite? The anger is like Jerry Lee but the fingering is like Benny from ABBA. God! If Tori was angry about Jerr ...one can only imagine what would transpire if the next one on the list was our Benny. Going to the other side is not sexually. This song is about anger. Tori & Kate Bush are just being playful

[deepgeek]

Tori : love ya

[Celltypewhatkind]

one of the best artist ever

[angievigilante]

Remember the background shaman drummer on Caught a Lite Sneeze?

They always do that to her!

[jrbflyme]

i love her still! andalways will!!!!

[thekidwithdog]

i prefer the jawbox version

[mariopinducciu]

che gnocca ragazzi

[sexybutterflybabe]

Not my favorite of her performances. She sounds shrill rather than her usually powerful. Also arrangement is not as exciting as some of the other live versions of this song which are off the hook.

[lp32862]

Pls some one take a vice to Dave's mouth and pry it open. Once open take a 2 pound crap in it. This mofo is a lib prick!

[SatansMullet]

god she is so beautiful lol

[ARCZI126]

Tori Amos has special and amazing voice. She is one of my favourite songs of 90s.

[dancingkike]

Yeah,cause that's what Tori Amos is. A popular song from the 90s :))

[askad01]

SO GENIAL

[KOALAsounds]

Brilliant

[darbet83]

wo he gad hair

[totanoxxx]

mi amor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[earswfeet29]

that was BADASS!!!

[thebeasters]

something about this song is just amazing

[countbloodula]

Why would Tori Amos even bother to show up & perform on a cornflake hosts show

[MWellyz]

I would

[00Thirdeyed]

oh yeah now it makes sense...strange how the lyrics had always touched me somehow even if i didn't quite know how to interpretate them

[CelticRaE19]

the guys on the trumpet and sax make me laugh so hard i don't know why

[00Thirdeyed]

yeah!

[CelticRaE19]

i think it was their hair that did it. lol

[nclgemini]

bahahaha sax guy is hella funny looking lmfao :)

[mcs0514]

i really like tori's early voice.

[tematumedad]

amazing as always, i simply adore her, she's a genius!

[samworldorder]

Nah, Tori always sits at her piano in one of those weird little positions. Just one of her many quirks. :)

[Just2pisUoff]

she looks like she's gotta piss really bad and didn't have time to go before coming on stage.

[bagyourface]

lol dammit that made me laugh a lot

[robeerotten]

why the fuck aren't there any official videos on this shit...?only the live and low quality stuff...it's gotta do something with MONEY...?

[maureenOWW]

I'd just also like to say, watching her in this, can you imagine what she'd be like in bed?

She'd snap it off.....(even a strapon...)

[maureenOWW]

Ok, someone please tell me what the chuff this song is about?

[MeMusicLifeAndDeath]

Brilliant as always. She even delivers on a t.v show :)

[amylh322]

I <3 Dave!! He's always been so sweet to Tori. So it's always nice to see her on his show. And i think he's the only person who could make me giggle so much at the "Coincidentally, it was under the coffee" line! :-D

[Sun15f]

interesting personality and beatiful song

[acdchristine]

i luv her...awesome talent...omg

[lesvegas5]

pretty much at the drive in cosmanaut and this ftw!

[sustersick270282]

majestuosa!!!

es estupenda esta cantante...

en verdad!

[shaktiunsui7]

non smetto di amarla..

[la16i]

Song sounds better live than on CD!

[elparrot]

she doesn't get the respect she deserves

she's amazing!

[neptunecello]

OMG, she blows everyone away. She is smokin.

[GDGspire]

I love the jerking movements she makes when she plays the middle section lol

[7byseven]

she's very sexyful

[BrandedSwordsman]

Ok , Yunz Guys, Whats your Tori Amos Fantasy?

[feedpele]

She is smokin hot!!!!!! And brilliant,powerful, and extremely enlightened.

[PessimistGas]

Why do people keep saying she's ugly? I would.

[bumbeez]

But we like the way she plays. I bet you can't play that way, no matter how beautiful you are, so fuck off, sweetheart.

[longhornwtf]

whoa shiny pants!

[sophiejanebailey]

WORLD'S BIGGEST AMOS FAN RIGHT HERE.

[HreNmyhead]

oh I think you may have competition

i am a MAD fan. like MADD my whole room is tori amos posters and i fucking look up lyrics in my spare time. lmao