BPK - Song Hunting Contest: Boys for Pele (Tori Amos)

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Congratulations to tortoise69 who prevailed in the contest. The answers are posted as annotations in the video itself. Comments are now enabled for this video. Feel free to discuss, lampoon, exalt, or say nothing at all. :-) T hanks to all who entered.

Rules:

This medley contains every track from Tori Amos' 1996 album, Boys for Pele. The first person who messages me at my account here listing all 19 songs in the order they appear is the winner. If there is no correct entry by the end of July 21, 2008, then the contest lapses. Note that Beauty Queen and Horses appear separately.

Prize:

"Bake the Baker"

I play a lot of Tori Amos on this channel. I didn't think I would do it at first, but I'm going to post a cover to honor every song on all of her eight studio albums (except The Beekeeper, which instead has a single medley that features everything). Most of them are done but there is one in particular I haven't gotten around to learning. That one is Baker Baker from Under the Pink. Everything else on that album is uploaded, but I don't even know what key Baker Baker is in.

So what to do?

I thought maybe I'd have a baking assistant.

There are a lot of different possibilities when it's time to play a Tori song. Sometimes I just play them on piano setting in their standard mold and other times I do more "fun" and experimental things. These include different voices (She's Your Cocaine), melding them with other songs (Smokey Joe), key changes (Another Girl's Paradise), tempo changes (Not the Red Baron), voice swaps (Hotel), total weirdness (Suede), and more. With all the options, there are limitless possibilities. So the winner gets to pick the ingredients for Baker Baker and tell me how to cook it. :-) You can pick standard style, faster, slower, on piano, electric piano, a "special voice," with a cross-hands section (Horses), in a different key, in a different time signature (Waltz? 5/4?). I'll do it. Be nice though. ;-)

For your convenience, below is the tracklist for Boys for Pele. I listed the first two tracks separately since they're both individual entries.

Boys for Pele

1. Beauty Queen
2. Horses
3. Blood Roses
4. Father Lucifer
5. Professional Widow
6. Mr. Zebra
7. Marianne
8. Caught a Lite Sneeze
9. Muhammed My Friend
10. Hey Jupiter
11. Way Down
12. Little Amsterdam
13. Talula
14. Not the Red Baron
15. Agent Orange
16. Doughnut Song
17. In the Springtime of His Voodoo
18. Putting the Damage On
19. Twinkle

Good luck and thanks for watching! -BPK
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[AyuStories]

im disappointed that i watched it through but you barely gave any time for Hey Jupiter, what you did was gorgeous but I would have loved to listen to more of the song especially a modified version, great job though

[wbarreguy]

@AyuStories Appreciate the feedback. I will play Hey Jupiter one day as a stand alone song.

[AyuStories]

OH MY GOD WHAT KIND OF GOD ARE YOU

[wbarreguy]

@AyuStories Thank you, you are very kind.

[TheFluffyLemon]

WHAT!? Putting the damage on and Beauty Queens?? Those arn't on my cd!! *throws chair* I'm sure I can find them though. Very cool contest btw. I would of totally won if it wern't for I'm a tad late and the fact I don't have those songs for some odd reason.

[wbarreguy]

@TheFluffyLemon Thank you. I know there are some alternate pressings of BfP with different versions of Talula. In the copy I have, Beauty Queen, Horses is the first track. Two songs (one arguably an intro to the other) one track.

[mouthofknives]

Damn good job! You use tablature or figure by ear?(supposing Tori sells tablature) Now i'm off to see if you make your OWN music!

[wbarreguy]

@daj4444 Thank you. At the time I uploaded this, there was a 10 minute limit. It's possible that they've changed it to keep up with an every changing world. :-D

[daj4444]

You did "Blood Roses" well, by the way, what "time limit" on Youtube videos? I didn't know there was one.

[utopirla]

YOU'RE AMAZING.