Thirty Years of 'Little Earthquakes'

[Cerro de Casa]

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Crucify
Girl
Silent All These Years
Precious Things
Winter
Happy Phantom
China
Leather
Mother
Tear In Your Hand
Me And A Gun
Little Earthquakes

 

[Loufoque]

I haven't listened to it in years but it is wonderful. I will give it an MC30 celebratory spin.

Winter is one of the best songs ever written.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

10 Crucify
10 Girl
10 Silent All These Years
11 Precious Things
10 Winter
07 Happy Phantom
08 China
08 Leather
10 Mother
09 Tear In Your Hand
09 Me And A Gun
10 Little Earthquakes

 

[TiShh]

Phenom

10 Crucify
09 Girl
10 Silent All These Years
11 Precious Things
09 Winter
07 Happy Phantom
09 China
08 Leather
08 Mother
10 Tear In Your Hand
09 Me And A Gun
10 Little Earthquakes

 

[RS]

It’s a formidable ”debut”, and by her standards almost all killers, no fillers!


10 Crucify
10 Girl
10 Silent All These Years
10 Precious Things
08 Winter
07 Happy Phantom
10 China
08 Leather
08 Mother
07 Tear In Your Hand
11 Me And A Gun
08 Little Earthquakes

 

[Say Sheena-na-na]

10 Crucify
10 Girl
10 Silent All These Years
08 Precious Things
11 Winter
09 Happy Phantom
08 China
10 Leather
07 Mother
07 Tear In Your Hand
10 Me And A Gun
09 Little Earthquakes

It's a 10/10 overall though. A stunning piece of work.

 

[Marilyn]

10 Crucify
10 Girl
11 Silent All These Years
10 Precious Things
10 Winter
08 Happy Phantom
10 China
08 Leather
09 Mother
10 Tear In Your Hand
10 Me And A Gun
10 Little Earthquakes

One of my favourite albums of all time

 

[Beverley]

It’s obviously EVERYTHING. One of my all time faves too.

 

[Ig Komme]

It's obviously GROUNDBREAKING but suffers for me simply because what came later was EVEN BETTER so I have to do this comparatively against her whole '90s catalogue. I also find the production quite sub-par, which is corrected somewhat in the various remasters.

09 Crucify
08 Girl
09 Silent All These Years
11 Precious Things
10 Winter
07 Happy Phantom
07 China
08 Leather
09 Mother
07 Tear In Your Hand
07 Me And A Gun
10 Little Earthquakes

 

[Cerro de Casa]

It's obviously GROUNDBREAKING but suffers for me simply because what came later was EVEN BETTER so I have to do this comparatively against her whole '90s catalogue. I also find the production quite sub-par, which is corrected somewhat in the various remasters.

"Oh."

 

[krang]

it's great, obviously, and a very important record to me.

10 Crucify
10 Girl
09 Silent All These Years
09 Precious Things
10 Winter
07 Happy Phantom
10 China
08 Leather
07 Mother
10 Tear In Your Hand
09 Me And A Gun
09 Little Earthquakes

 

[RS]

It's obviously GROUNDBREAKING but suffers for me simply because what came later was EVEN BETTER so I have to do this comparatively against her whole '90s catalogue. I also find the production quite sub-par, which is corrected somewhat in the various remasters.

09 Crucify
08 Girl
09 Silent All These Years
11 Precious Things
10 Winter
07 Happy Phantom
07 China
08 Leather
09 Mother
07 Tear In Your Hand
07 Me And A Gun
10 Little Earthquakes

7 for Me and a Gun?!

 

[jivafox]

It suffers slightly by following up the TITAN that is Y Kant Tori Read, but obviously still an amazing album.

 

[Ig Komme]

7 for Me and a Gun?!

 

[BoysForSeles]

Although I may have given some of the girls less than 10, the album was astonishing and a full on 10.

09 Crucify
10 Girl
10 Silent All These Years
10 Precious Things
11 Winter
07 Happy Phantom
07 China
08 Leather
08 Mother
10 Tear In Your Hand
07 Me And A Gun
09 Little Earthquakes

 

[Cerro de Casa]

This was the rejected initial submission to Atlantic by the way

 

[Ig Komme]

I definitely prefer how the album subsequently turned out. Although Take To The Sky in its live iteration can be MINDBLOWING

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I think I definitely prefer the final version although I like the idea of a 'China'-less LE

 

[krang]

i love take to the sky.

china is essential for me.

in your eyes, i saw a future together, but you just looked away in the distance...

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Originally called "Distance", a recurring lyric and theme in the song. It was originally submitted to the Library of Congress in 1987.

From WIKI

 

[Ig Komme]

I definitely have had MOMENTS to China. It just feels a little bit of a drag on the album (and live shows). But the lyrics are really beautiful.

 

[TiShh]

This was the rejected initial submission to Atlantic by the way

Interesting that Little Earthquakes wasn't initially the closer when it sounds so much like one? Maybe this was an earlier edit without the AND-I-I-I-I-I's

I'd have probably kept Flying Dutchman and Russia and removed Happy Phantom.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Interesting that Little Earthquakes wasn't initially the closer when it sounds so much like one? Maybe this was an earlier edit without the AND-I-I-I-I-I's

I'd have probably kept Flying Dutchman and Russia and removed Happy Phantom.

Yes - but I guess it would have been the first song on Side B of the vinyl. Which kinda works franchement .

 

[Cerro de Casa]

And also 'Flying Dutchman' would have worked as a closer! Queen of Alternate Album Tracklists.

 

[Ig Komme]

And there is also the 'extended version' that's on A Piano. NOT SURE about Leather an an opener... It seemed a bit 'different for different's sake'. However, I do much prefer the audio mixing.

1. Leather
2. Precious Things
3. Silent All These Years
4. Upside Down
5. Crucify
6. Happy Phantom
7. Me and a Gun
8. Flying Dutchman
9. Girl
10. Winter
11. Take To The Sky (Russia)
12. Tear In Your Hand
13. China
14. Sweet Dreams
15. Mother
16. Little Earthquakes

 

[Phoenix]

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