IT'S DELICIOUS! Tori Amos - Raining Blood (Slayer cover) | UK REACTION

[@slivertoe]

I heard Tori's version before I heard Slayer sing it, so when I heard Slayer, I was obviously very surprised at how different it was. What I love about Tori's covers, though, is that she gets inside the beating heart of a song and sings it in a way that anyone who has heard that song before just gets it. Like I said, Raining Blood wasn't something I'd heard before Tori sang it. But your reaction reminds me of myself every time I've heard Tori cover a song that I did know before she covered it. It touches you down deep.

[@melvinthinks]

You just know she is going to do something COMPLETELY different and make it almost unrecognisable from the original. But I'd also love to hear her sing over the original track. Would be epic!

[@ArenMichael]

that rumbling sound is actually Justin Meldal-Johnsen on the bass guitar. in the liner notes it's listed as "bass painting" Tori quote: "Beck's bass player [Justin Meldal-Johnsen] suggested I do a cover of Slayer's 'Raining Blood.' I was reading about what was going on in Afghanistan -- the way women were being oppressed, the destruction of religious statues. And when I heard that song, I just imagined a huge juicy vagina coming out of the sky, raining blood over all those racist, misogynist fuckers." [Spin - October 2001]

[@melvinthinks]

Love this!

[@Cthugni]

Wow, so incredible! I havent heard Tori in 25-ish years, and here you bring her back with this incredible creative cover. And your particular brand of reaction sugaring the Amos-cake. Delicious 😀

[@melvinthinks]

Great isn't it! Glad you liked it. This cover seems to have divided opinions, but like you, I thought it was excellent.

[@MT-or7lv]

Only Mrs. Amos could pull something like that off. She's an incredible artist.

[@melvinthinks]

💯 👍

[@JukeboxJunkie7]

From The Choirgirl Hotel, To Venus and Back and Scarlet's Walk are 3 albums of hers to DEFINITELY not miss! Trust me. Love the Tori videos. Thanks.

[@melvinthinks]

Thanks mate! If there is ever evidence that discovering something a bit older can still sound fresh and 'new', Tori and my experience is the prime example!

[@joshfayne3591]

Welp this is going immediately on my Halloween playlist. This was haunting and beautiful. Cheers! 🥂

[@melvinthinks]

It's unrecognisable to the original, isn't it? She did a cracking job.

[@joshfayne3591]

@@melvinthinks part of me still wanted to belt that out at full speed but that's the beauty of it, how she performed it was such a tension builder which only added to its haunting sound. Boy never would've thought I'd say a Tori Amos song was haunting but here I am 😂

[@melvinthinks]

I know what you mean! But she made it something else which I didn't expect. I had to listen to the original afterwards to remind myself what it was like!

[@ArenMichael]

check out her cover of Eminem's 97 Bonnie & Clyde

[@melvinthinks]

@ArenMichael cool!

[@stevenjohansen3827]

I love Tori, and I'm an old school headbanger. Both versions are great. The vibe is where they differ, and some times I want one over the other, sometimes I listen to them back to back.

[@melvinthinks]

I'd have to agree with you. You can't really compare them, can you? Totally different

[@jameshotchkin8438]

I introduced my Irish neighbour to Tori Amos' music this afternoon and played her Little Earthquakes album. After he left this came up on my suggestions. Never heard this cover before. Amazing. As she always is.

[@melvinthinks]

Your phone is spying on you! 😱 But if it means it directed you to me and some new Tori Amos then then happy days 😁

[@wesbeuning1733]

Yes

[@melvinthinks]

Sometimes less is more. Like your comment 😁

[@justinsomething]

you should check out her cover of steely dan's do it again - she totally transforms it into a banger!

[@melvinthinks]

Sounds great!

[@sidhedanu]

My favorite cover, too

[@pkj77]

Tori Amos i remember her name from back in the 90´s dont remember her music this SLAYER i can recognize at all

[@melvinthinks]

Never too late to rediscover Tori. I'm living proof 😀

[@sillywhale]

This version always gives me the goosebumps.

[@melvinthinks]

I know! It's so haunting and different and "Tori" 😁

[@sillywhale]

@@melvinthinksbtw you’re adorable 😘

[@melvinthinks]

🤭

[@stephenwalsh8184]

👍👍👍👍

[@melvinthinks]

Only x4 thumbs? 😉

[@moscatodasti1]

It is such a good song, so haunting! Under the Pink is a great album! Glad you liked it!

[@melvinthinks]

Little Earthquakes is still my fav though, because it's still got that alternative rock backbone to most of the tracks.

[@moscatodasti1]

@@melvinthinks True, both are great albums.

[@TheEmpressIsIn]

@@melvinthinks From the Choirgirl Hotel is the lp if you're looking for that dark alt rock sound from her. Parts of To Venus and Back also rocks on many tracks (esp the live disc with muscular versions of songs from LE and UTP).

[@melvinthinks]

@TheEmpressIsIn Thanks buddy! 👍

[@jessicahimmel7867]

Absolutely love this one. Probably my favorite from her Strange Little Girls album

[@melvinthinks]

After my Smells Like Teen Spirit reaction, this was always gonna be my next Tori track! 😀 I think I'm gonna do one of her originals from Little Earthquakes next though. A live version so I can hear how one of the tracks translates to the stage.

[@jefflucas653]

When she does a cover (many of which she prepares hours before a show at fan requests) she somehow seems to nail paying a respectful homage to the original while turning it upside down and inside out and creating an original expression.

[@melvinthinks]

I 💯 agree with you. Some of the comments I've read for this cover seemed to have missed the point entirely. It's not meant to sound like Slayer. It's meant to sound like Tori 😁

[@hoodwinked215]

Boys for Pele is my favorite album, followed closely by Little Earthquakes. Choirgirl Hotel and To Venus and Back are also great. If you're into her covers, check out the Strange Little Girls album. Its a cover album of songs written and originally performed by men, reinterpreted by Amos from a female point of view.

[@melvinthinks]

It's genuinely like discovering a new artist for me. I've got a lot to catch up on!

[@sidhedanu]

Same same. BfP will never be topped.

[@melvinthinks]

I'm really looking forward to hearing that one. Assume it's not a concept album about the Brazilian football legend? 😉

[@hoodwinked215]

@melvinthinks more so a concept of feeding her lovers/men to Pele, the goddess of volcanoes and fire. It's also her first self produced album, her most experimental. I hope you enjoy it.

[@jessicahimmel7867]

Definitely my favorite is Pele too

[@LudoTechWorld]

My favorite album is probably Boys for Pele followed by Under the Pink then From the Choirgirl Hotel and Little Earthquake. I'm not a big fan of what she did after To Venus and Back, but all the albums are musically very interesting in a way or another. I agree that she's a genius, one of those very few artists who have a significant impact on the evolution of modern music.

[@melvinthinks]

Boys For Pele has been getting a few mentions in this comment thread. I think like you, some albums will connect with me more than others, but am certainly going to have a blast discovering them all.

[@Michaelr658]

My favorite Tori album is From the Choirgirl Hotel but they are all great in my opinion.

[@melvinthinks]

I've not got round to that one just yet. I've listened to her first three, and still Little Earthquakes for me. But I've still got a lot to get through!

[@mathewringle8444]

Looking forward to Angel of Death 😊

[@melvinthinks]

Can you imagine what she would do to that! 🫡

[@knossos574]

No I love a woman's voice, it's a beautiful track.

[@melvinthinks]

So beautifully haunting

[@TheWhitestOfFangs]

She should perform this live WITH Slayer

[@melvinthinks]

That would be some spectacle!

[@Kgula]

Slayer did a farewell tour about 5 or 6 years ago...

[@melvinthinks]

@Kgula true - but they've played shows in the last few months. So much for the "farewell" if they keep coming back due to demand 😁

[@OskarBosco-o2w]

Saw them in Ireland seven or eight years ago. What a band. Really hope to see them again some day. Nice channel. You are a very affable dude ✌️

[@melvinthinks]

@OskarBosco-o2w I assume you mean Slayer? Yeah - I've been fortunate to see them live a few times too. Download, Bloodstock & Alexander Palace if I remember. I'd love to have seen them in Ireland though. They keep coming out of retirement so fingers cross for ya, dude. And thanks for the compliments. You made me blush 😉

[@GabrielaZapataMusic]

I'm not familiar with the original version, this is enchanting to me on its own

[@melvinthinks]

The original is... erm... a little bit different...

[@sirex02]

Nothing Else Matters is a better cover and she does it live!

[@melvinthinks]

I did a VoicePlay reaction video (an A Capella group) of them covering that too. She should do Master Of Puppets!

[@vladimirmihnev9702]

Great song, but I don't think I would have been able to call it. Nothing in common with Slayer's original song! ❤ It. But I think at this point she is showing of😂

[@melvinthinks]

Dunno if she is showing off 😁 I think she is just being Tori and displaying her awesomeness 😄

[@godropkicks3219]

I can appreciate the talent, but I'll stick with the Slayer version. This version totally loses the feeling to me. Perhaps seeing it performed live many times has skewed me to expect that adrenaline rush. Her voice is amazing, but I think Tom's far from perfect voice is part of what makes it work. To each their own, though. We all like what we like. Thanks for the listen!

[@melvinthinks]

That's fine dude. I too prefer the Slayer version, but I simply loved what she did to it. They are both VERY different interpretations of the song. I also think if she were to sing over the original track at the same tempo it would sound KILLLER! I doubt we'll ever get to hear that, but I think it would kick arse!

[@mrgmac777]

As a Slayer fan, unless you told me this was a Raining Blood cover, I wouldn't believe you. Her voice is really nice, but not my cup of tea.

[@melvinthinks]

I know what you mean. I forgot how the original sounded when I first heard this so had to go and listen to the Slayer version straight afterwards! 🤣

[@mrgmac777]

@@melvinthinks Haha!

[@bryanlewis7755]

Pele

[@melvinthinks]

Yes. Pele album is splendid 😄

[@nikolakozhuharov1042]

Haven't check the dictionary for definition of "song cover" but in my book this doesn't qualify as such. Same lyrics, totally different music. I mean, absolutely nothing in common. I very much appreciate Tori's voice and artistic approach but tbh I'd never play this again, just not my sound.

[@melvinthinks]

Fair enough. Personally speaking, I like it when artists cover a song and make it their own. She could have just sung over a backing track but she has completely transformed it. I do still think it should be recognised as a cover, though.

[@Kgula]

You know there's "making it your own" while keeping some of the original melodic line and then there's having it as unrecognisable from the original as possible​, so much so that it doesn't even qualify as a cover, this is the latter... @melvinthinks

[@nikolakozhuharov1042]

@@melvinthinks as mentioned by Kgula, there's making it your own, like Metallica's "Whiskey in the Jar" or Marilyn Manson's "Tainted Love"; and then there's Tori's song which has the same lyrics as Slayer's but absolutely different rhythm, melody and emotion. I'm not against doing that, it's totally fine and Tori's take on it is as art as it gets, I just don't see it as a cover.

[@melvinthinks]

We can all agree to disagree then 😀👍

[@NonTypicalRacing]

Umm.....this guy commenting Slayer? 😅 and delicious is an adjective best used for describing taste...actual food or drink. NEXT!

[@melvinthinks]

Thanks babes 😘

[@NonTypicalRacing]

@@melvinthinks yep...I thought so! 😆

[@Rei_and_Miyu]

We're not exactly fans of Tori Amos, but we were interested to see how she covers an iconic thrash metal song. The song was nice and dark and the voice was also quite good, although in our opinion the song would have needed a little more aggressive piano playing and singing in the second half, or at least in the last third. It was a bit as if the song had been building up to a climax the whole time that never came.

[@melvinthinks]

I think that's her intention. She keeps building it which makes you almost nervous and anxious, but it doesn't break out into what most of us would expect. That's what makes it even more dark and haunting.

[@Rei_and_Miyu]

@@melvinthinks No “heart” for our honest feedback? 😜😅

[@melvinthinks]

Here you go 😁

[@Rei_and_Miyu]

@@melvinthinks Thank you 😁

[@lukefurnell2613]

Shithouse and an insult to the world's best band

[@melvinthinks]

Bit harsh! 😔

[@chriswicecarver3715]

Ruined a good song

[@mvl71]

6:05 Pity it's your voice as well every 5 seconds. Skipping this video.

[@melvinthinks]

You will be sorely missed. I love you too x

[@OskarBosco-o2w]

Tough crowd 😂

[@melvinthinks]

@OskarBosco-o2w Tell me about it! But If it was genuinely my voice every 5 seconds, surely the video would have been about 6 hrs long? At least they watched 06:05. Clearly didn't want to climax though.