This one just wrecks me. "The Beekeeper" was obviously not Tori's best-regarded album -- and yeah, it's my least favorite out of the current eight -- but between the celebration of a new life in "Ribbons Undone" and the tribute to an ended one in "Toast," I'm still sold.
I agree with itsALLprogramMUSIC. Whenever I start to want to know too much about the references in this song to her brother's life, the analytical part of my brain simply shuts down and says, "This is hers. Just listen and be moved by what it takes to do that." The only song I've heard that comes anywhere close to it, as a meditation on death and love and memory, is Vienna Teng's haunting a cappella song "Passage," which (go figure) has Tori's influence written all over it.
Wikipedia entry on Mr. Bojangles, with some interesting history:
This one just wrecks me. "The Beekeeper" was obviously not Tori's best-regarded album -- and yeah, it's my least favorite out of the current eight -- but between the celebration of a new life in "Ribbons Undone" and the tribute to an ended one in "Toast," I'm still sold.
I agree with itsALLprogramMUSIC. Whenever I start to want to know too much about the references in this song to her brother's life, the analytical part of my brain simply shuts down and says, "This is hers. Just listen and be moved by what it takes to do that." The only song I've heard that comes anywhere close to it, as a meditation on death and love and memory, is Vienna Teng's haunting a cappella song "Passage," which (go figure) has Tori's influence written all over it.
Wikipedia entry on Mr. Bojangles, with some interesting history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bojangles_%28song%29