| "Peeping Tommi" | |
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 Outtake from Under the Pink | |
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Recorded |
1993 |
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Released |
2006 (A Piano) |
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Length |
4:19 |
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Label |
Rhino Records |
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Writer |
Tori Amos |
"Peeping Tommi" is an outtake from Tori Amos's 1994 album Under the Pink.
Background[]
"Peeping Tommi" was written, recorded and mixed in 1993. The song had gained a reputation as a 'lost song' prior to its official release on the boxset A Piano: The Collection in 2006 from lyrics written in a notebook that was later sold on eBay.
When Tori discovered the song while putting A Piano together,
Live performances[]
"Peeping Tommi" was first performed live during the 2007 American Doll Posse World Tour and has occasionally been played on Tori's tours since.[1]
A live recording of the song was included on Legs & Boots.
Critical reception[]
Peeping Tommi was praised.
Joe Vallese of PopMatters praised "Peeping Tommi" as one of Tori's best non-album tracks, calling the song "the missing narrative link" between "Me and a Gun" and "Baker Baker". Vallese further claimed that "[c]oupled with those much-heard classics, “Tommi” both sheds new light on and falls right into place beside them with aching familiarity".[2]
Lyrics[]
Personnel[]
Credits taken from A Piano liner notes.[3]
- Bosendorfer and vocals — Tori Amos
- Mixed in 1993 by Ross Cullum
- Recorded in 1993 by John Beverly Jones
References[]
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