this album will always have a special place in my heart.

on her Boys For Pele tour, she stopped in my city and I, on a lark, decided to go down and wait to see if she'd be outside by the tour bus (the venue she played at had lax enough security that calm fans could wait around to snag an autograph). boy howdy! I got down there and there were a couple of other people down there as well and we waited and talked and got to know each other while we waited to see if Tori would come out and talk to us/maybe give us an autograph each.

Long story short, I got to see both shows for the price of one ticket (one of the people I was hanging out with gave me their extra ticket) and I'd been thinking during the shows that her next album should sound darker and have more guitars.

This is that album.

Then I was thinking that she should do a live album when I saw her on the tour for this album.

Then To Venus And Back came out.

Then I thought she should do a covers album.

You see where I'm going with this? Fortunately, it stopped there because I moved to California and she did Scarlet's Walk, but it started with FtCH.