Drive All Night: The Songs of Tori Amos The Sideway Society

This podcast!! These guys, their team, their guests, and incredible wealth of knowledge of Tori will get you scratching your head wondering if you’re really as big of a fan as you thought you were! 😂 Extremely binge-worthy!!

Tori Amos is one of the most underrated geniuses of the music industry, and I love that this podcast takes up the task of collecting the historical evidence for her greatness. I especially appreciate the weight given to the evolution of her songs in live performance. In mid-2018, they mentioned an effort to bring more women’s voices in the analysis, which I hope they continue to do: the exclusion of women’s perspectives from some of the deep dives is the only real problem I have with the show. Not that their experiences and readings aren’t wonderful and valid, but there is rarely any engagement with the themes of sexual violence, for example, that are prevalent in Tori’s work. I appreciate that more voices and perspectives are brought in the longer the show goes on, though.

You guys are doing great work, but I feel like you’ve been c**k teasing me with Choirgirl since Twinkle and I’m having feelings!