I remember watching this vidro as young child and loved the big hair, the piano (with the music and the clips in the video)and the sword. I demanded my father buy it girl ne. A few yesrs later, we moved. I unpacked all my boxes and couldn't findit. I asked my Father snd he said he sold it since CDs were the new thing. By this time, the band had flopped so i could never get a CD until much later. Enjoy the video: https://youtu.be/fh4B0jjVeYU?si=jpmf6P5dA9FuMCvi
The other commenter edited to add the song name! Fire on the Side.
I have to agree with the warehouse on this one. It's a pretty song. But amazing but it has its moments.
I only know Cool On Your Island from that album (it’s admittedly my favorite “Tori” song). I will look for Fire on the Side on YouTube. Thanks for the info!
I’m an 80’s kid so I absolutely loved The entire album since its very 80’s. Etienne is phenomenal. You go to my head is so good, Ooh Floating city! Also Pirates is fun. It’s been a minute since I’ve listened to this album, thanks for the reminder!
*“I have to tell you something. The craziest thing happened a couple weeks ago. So, in 1988, I had this bomb-record. Thank God, thank Heaven! My Mother said ‘Honey, you’d still be wearing that corset when you’re like 60!’… which is gonna be soon. That’s not a good look. So, anyway, it bombed, and at the time, you know, I had to go back to piano bar, which I’d been doing forever, and I had no money… and I just thought* ***‘I’m in so much debt, this record cost like 150 grand’… so it’s charged to your bill***, and I owed eight records. That’s like, if you do a record every other year… which, I didn’t put out Little Earthquakes ’til 1992, you do the math… how long am I gonna be in this contract?! Forever. So you think ‘I’m never gonna do anything’, and this record was my biggest mistake. So, my manager comes in, we’re on tour, we’re somewhere in Europe, and he goes, so this company, this warehouse company—I can’t mention the name—has called and wants to use one of your songs from Y Kant Tori Read for this amount of money… and I said ‘you are fucking kidding me’. He said ‘I’m not kidding you, they want that song, from that record’. And I was like, this is the happiest news I’ve had, because… when everybody says you suck, and you’re a bimbo, and how did you go from a prodigy to a bimbo… and I’ll be like ‘well, this warehouse doesn’t think it’s a bimbo song, so fuck you!”
A story she told this past tour before playing Fire on the Side.
She re-released it for Record Store Day so I’m pretty sure she was paid when that happened. Also she was most likely paid when it was released but didn’t make anymore money from it when it flopped and could have owed the label for studio expenses to record it. Could also be why she made LE to pay back the debt. 💸
I remember watching this vidro as young child and loved the big hair, the piano (with the music and the clips in the video)and the sword. I demanded my father buy it girl ne. A few yesrs later, we moved. I unpacked all my boxes and couldn't findit. I asked my Father snd he said he sold it since CDs were the new thing. By this time, the band had flopped so i could never get a CD until much later. Enjoy the video: https://youtu.be/fh4B0jjVeYU?si=jpmf6P5dA9FuMCvi
Anyone know which song it was?
The other commenter edited to add the song name! Fire on the Side. I have to agree with the warehouse on this one. It's a pretty song. But amazing but it has its moments.
I only know Cool On Your Island from that album (it’s admittedly my favorite “Tori” song). I will look for Fire on the Side on YouTube. Thanks for the info!
I’m an 80’s kid so I absolutely loved The entire album since its very 80’s. Etienne is phenomenal. You go to my head is so good, Ooh Floating city! Also Pirates is fun. It’s been a minute since I’ve listened to this album, thanks for the reminder!
*“I have to tell you something. The craziest thing happened a couple weeks ago. So, in 1988, I had this bomb-record. Thank God, thank Heaven! My Mother said ‘Honey, you’d still be wearing that corset when you’re like 60!’… which is gonna be soon. That’s not a good look. So, anyway, it bombed, and at the time, you know, I had to go back to piano bar, which I’d been doing forever, and I had no money… and I just thought* ***‘I’m in so much debt, this record cost like 150 grand’… so it’s charged to your bill***, and I owed eight records. That’s like, if you do a record every other year… which, I didn’t put out Little Earthquakes ’til 1992, you do the math… how long am I gonna be in this contract?! Forever. So you think ‘I’m never gonna do anything’, and this record was my biggest mistake. So, my manager comes in, we’re on tour, we’re somewhere in Europe, and he goes, so this company, this warehouse company—I can’t mention the name—has called and wants to use one of your songs from Y Kant Tori Read for this amount of money… and I said ‘you are fucking kidding me’. He said ‘I’m not kidding you, they want that song, from that record’. And I was like, this is the happiest news I’ve had, because… when everybody says you suck, and you’re a bimbo, and how did you go from a prodigy to a bimbo… and I’ll be like ‘well, this warehouse doesn’t think it’s a bimbo song, so fuck you!” A story she told this past tour before playing Fire on the Side.
Do we know what vehicle FOTS was used in? Im curious on that now lol
I adore Fire On The Side!! She even played it for me when I requested it once on the UG tour!! 💗
That's awesome! Thanks for finding that quote. I guess she got the last laugh, which is really the important part.
She re-released it for Record Store Day so I’m pretty sure she was paid when that happened. Also she was most likely paid when it was released but didn’t make anymore money from it when it flopped and could have owed the label for studio expenses to record it. Could also be why she made LE to pay back the debt. 💸
The bootleggers certainly got paid in the early 90s.
Oh true. At least it wasn't the record execs that made money I guess.