“Boys for Pelé is just all over the place and it's jazzy and it's fun and oh my gosh the anger in 'Professional Widow' is so vivid and so real.”
Boys for Pele
Tori Amos
Boys for Pele is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter and pianist Tori Amos. Preceded by the first single, "Caught a Lite Sneeze", by three weeks, the album was released on January 22, 1996, in the United Kingdom, on January 23 in the United States, and on January 29 in Australia. Despite the album being Amos's least radio friendly material to date, Boys for Pele debuted at number two on both the US Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart, making it her biggest simultaneous transatlantic debut, her first Billboard top 10 debut, and the highest-charting US debut of her career to date.
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39 tracks · 149:53 · click to previewDisc 1
1
Beauty Queen / Horses
6:08
2
Blood Roses
3:56
3
Father Lucifer
3:42
4
Professional Widow
4:31
5
Mr. Zebra
1:07
6
Marianne
4:09
7
Caught a Lite Sneeze
4:25
8
Muhammad My Friend
3:49
9
Hey Jupiter
5:11
10
Way Down
1:13
11
Little Amsterdam
4:29
12
Talula
4:08
13
Not the Red Baron
3:50
14
Agent Orange
1:25
15
Doughnut Song
4:20
16
In the Springtime of His Voodoo
5:33
17
Putting the Damage On
5:10
18
Twinkle
3:13
Disc 2
1
Hey Jupiter (The Dakota Version)
6:05
2
To the Fair Motormaids of Japan
4:18
3
That's What I Like Mick (The Sandwich Song)
3:00
4
Fire-Eater's Wife / Beauty Queen (Demo Version)
3:15
5
Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix) [Radio Edit]
3:49
6
Sugar (Live)
5:32
7
Alamo
5:12
8
Talula (M&M Mix)
4:07
9
Professional Widow (Merry Widow Version) [Live]
4:38
10
Frog On My Toe
3:45
11
Hungarian Wedding Song
1:02
12
Walk to Dublin (Sucker Reprise)
5:27
13
Toodles Mr. Jim
3:09
14
Sister Named Desire
5:32
15
Amazing Grace / Til the Chicken
6:49
16
This Old Man
1:45
17
Sucker
2:52
18
Honey (Live)
3:46
19
Graveyard
0:54
20
London Girls
3:21
21
In the Springtime of His Voodoo (Rookery Ending)
0:56
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