Tori Amos is an American pianist and singer-songwriter whose musical career began in 1980, at the age of seventeen, when she and her brother co-wrote the song "Baltimore." The song was selected as the winning song in a contest for the Baltimore Orioles and was recorded and pressed locally as a 7" single. From 1984-89, Amos fronted the punk-rock band Y Kant Tori Read, which released one self-titled album with Atlantic Records in 1988 before breaking up. Shortly thereafter, Amos began writing and recording material that would serve as the debut of her solo career. Still signed with Atlantic, and its UK counterpart East West, Amos' initial solo material was rejected by the label in 1990. Under the guidance of co-producers Eric Rosse, Davitt Sigerson and Ian Stanley, a second version of the album was created and accepted by the label the following year.

Amos' solo career began in October 1991 with the UK release of the Me and a Gun EP. The following month, after the first track on the EP was receiving more airplay than the title track, the label reissued the EP with the same artwork, but changed the title to Silent All These Years . Although the second version of the EP reached only #51 on the UK charts, BBC Radio 1 picked it as "Record of the Week", which helped Amos get her initial exposure. Her debut solo album, Little Earthquakes , was released two months later in January 1992. The album peaked at #14 on the UK Top 40 and at #54 on the Billboard Top 200 . Upon its release, the album received mostly positive reviews and was labeled an important album that kick-started the female singer-songwriter movement of the 1990s. Despite reaching only #54 on the Billboard 200 , Little Earthquakes was a main-stay on the chart for 38 weeks and remains the highest-selling album of Amos' in the United States.

Subsequent albums with Atlantic were released at approximately two-year intervals. Amos' sophomore effort, Under the Pink , co-produced with Eric Rosse, debuted in February 1994 at #12 on the Billboard 200 and #2 on the UK Top 40 . Boys for Pele , Amos' third solo album and the first album that was self-produced, debuted in January 1996 at #2 on both the US and UK charts, making it her highest simultaneous trans-Atlantic debut. From the Choirgirl Hotel , Amos' first album written and recorded with band mates Matt Chamberlain on drums, Jon Evans on bass and Steve Caton on guitar, and her first album recorded at her in-home recording studio, Martian Engineering, debuted in May 1998 at #5 on the Billboard 200 and at #6 on the UK Top 40 . The following year, To Venus and Back , a double album of studio and live material recorded with Chamberlin, Evans and Caton, debuted in September 1999 at #12 in the US and at #22 in the UK. In September 2001, Strange Little Girls , a covers album recorded with Chamberlin on drums, Evans and Justin Meldal-Johnsen on bass and Adrian Belew on guitar, debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200 and at #16 on the UK Top 40 .

After working with Atlantic for the first 15 years of her career, Amos decided to seek another label upon fulfilling her contract with them due to professional conflicts. Over the next five years, Amos released three albums through the Epic Records label: Scarlet's Walk in October 2002, The Beekeeper in February 2005 and American Doll Posse in May 2007. All three albums released through Epic were recorded with Chamberlin on drums, Evans on bass and Mac Aladdin on guitar, and debuted in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 , placing Amos in an elite group of women who have secured five or more Top 10 album debuts. Amos negotiated an end to her contract with Epic following the release of American Doll Posse , announcing in 2008 that she will be operating independently of record labels. To date in her solo career, Amos has recorded and released a total of nine solo studio albums, multiple live releases, three compilation albums, one of which is a 5-disc box set released through Rhino Entertainment, and numerous singles and EPs. Amos has contributed to numerous film soundtracks as well.

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilations

Extended plays

Although all of Amos' singles released by Atlantic were in an EP-style format, only two of her releases are labeled as such. To date, Scarlet's Hidden Treasures is Amos' only EP completely comprising non-LP tracks.

Singles

B-sides

Early in her career Amos released an extensive catalogue of CD singles in conjunction with her albums. This catalogue of music collectibles is so vast that a book was published in 1997 entitled "Tori Amos Collectibles" which served as a thorough photographic journal detailing the variety of world-wide releases, test pressings and bootlegs to that date. One of Amos' best selling early releases is the five-track Crucify EP. Amos' penchant for including non-album B-sides on each of her singles played a major factor in her initial popularity, particularly her cover of the Nirvana song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from the aforementioned EP, which garnered significant press attention and critical lauds. Many of Amos' B-sides are featured on the box set A Piano: The Collection (2006). With the production of CD singles becoming less common in the music business around the turn of the century, Amos has released far fewer B-sides since her contract with Epic Records began. As a result, B-sides for Scarlet's Walk were released through the internet and on an EP titled Scarlet's Hidden Treasures (2004), the sole B-side for The Beekeeper was released as on the DVD included in the album's limited edition version, and B-sides for American Doll Posse were distributed depending on packaging and place of purchase.

Below is an alphabetical list of all of Amos' known B-sides, including information on initial and subsequent releases.

A-F

G-L

M-Q

R-Z

Videos

Music videos

Soundtracks

Tributes

Official bootlegs

Other contributions

Side projects

References

1. ^ Rogers, Kalen (1994). Tori Amos All These Years - The Authorized Biography . London, New York, Paris, Sydney: Omnibus Press, p. 21. ISBN 0.8256.1448.1.  
2. ^ St Michael, Mick (1996). Tori Amos . Carlton Books, p. 27. ISBN 502-7626701727.  
3. ^ Rogers, Kalen (1994). Tori Amos All These Years - The Authorized Biography . London, New York, Paris, Sydney: Omnibus Press, p. 41. ISBN 0.8256.1448.1.  
4. ^ St Michael, Mick (1996). Tori Amos . Carlton Books, p. 41. ISBN 502-7626701727.  
5. ^ St Michael, Mick (1996). Tori Amos . Carlton Books, p. 44. ISBN 502-7626701727.  
6. ^ St Michael, Mick (1996). Tori Amos . Carlton Books, p. 52. ISBN 502-7626701727.  
7. ^ St Michael, Mick (1996). Tori Amos . Carlton Books, p. 55. ISBN 502-7626701727. &#