First time on vinyl reissue of Amos’ acclaimed 2001 concept album adds rare and unreleased recordings.<\/p>\n
(December 10, 2025 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA) Tori Amos’ daring 2001 concept album Strange Little Girls returns February 20 in an expanded edition that adds rarities and previously unreleased recordings. The GRAMMY\u00ae Award-nominated album finds Amos reinterpreting a dozen songs written by men, shifting them to a female perspective and performing each through one of 12 personas she created for the project.<\/p>\n
Strange Little Girls (Expanded Edition) combines the original album and B-sides with two unreleased covers from the sessions. One, Bruce Springsteen’s “Growin’ Up,” is available digitally today. The vinyl version is available with one of 12 different covers, each showing a different character Amos embodied on the album.<\/p>\n
Celebrating 25 years this September, Strange Little Girls remains one of Amos’ most striking and conceptually ambitious works. To bring the concept to life, she collaborated with renowned makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin, who helped transform her into 12 different women\u2014each with her own backstory. Photographs of those characters appeared in the original liner notes along with their stories. Amos recorded the album at her Martian Engineering studio in Cornwall, England, joined by longtime collaborators Matt Chamberlain (drums), Jon Evans (bass), Adrian Belew (guitar), and John Philip Shenale (arrangements).<\/p>\n
She chose a diverse group of songs to cover, ranging from the Beatles and Depeche Mode to Tom Waits and the Velvet Underground. The album delivered some truly unforgettable interpretations, turning Eminem’s “’97 Bonnie & Clyde” into a chilling monologue of maternal rage and reimagining Slayer’s “Raining Blood” as a slow, eerie meditation. The expanded edition also restores two standout B-sides: moving renditions of Alice Cooper’s “Only Women Bleed” and David Bowie’s “After All.”<\/p>\n
The project debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200\u2014one of Amos’ highest chart entries\u2014extending the chart success that began with her 1992 debut. It also earned her two GRAMMY\u00ae nominations: Best Alternative Music Album and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for her version of The Stranglers’ “Strange Little Girl.”<\/p>\n
LP One: Side One<\/p>\n
“New Age” \u2013 Originally by Velvet Underground
\n“’97 Bonnie & Clyde” \u2013 Originally by Eminem
\n“Strange Little Girl” \u2013 Originally by The Stranglers
\n“Enjoy The Silence” \u2013 Originally by Depeche Mode<\/p>\n
Side Two<\/p>\n
“I’m Not In Love” \u2013 Originally by 10cc
\n“Rattlesnakes” \u2013 Originally by Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
\n“Time” \u2013 Originally by Tom Waits
\n“Heart Of Gold” \u2013 Originally by Neil Young<\/p>\n
LP Two: Side One<\/p>\n
“I Don’t Like Mondays” \u2013 Originally by The Boomtown Rats
\n“Happiness Is A Warm Gun” \u2013 Originally by The Beatles
\n“Raining Blood” \u2013 Originally by Slayer
\n“Real Men” \u2013 Originally by Joe Jackson<\/p>\n
Side Two<\/p>\n
“Growin’ Up” \u2013 Originally by Bruce Springsteen *
\n“Hoover Factory” \u2013 Originally by Elvis Costello *
\n“After All” \u2013 Originally by David Bowie
\n“Only Women Bleed” \u2013 Originally by Alice Cooper<\/p>\n
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