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The Irish Times (Ireland)
December 24, 1992
Star tracks and pet hates
Joe Jackson nominates eight successful acts from 1992 and asks them to name the
first album they'd choose were they stranded at home alone with a CD player on
Christmas Day - and the last album they'd want to encounter in such an enclosed
space
TORI AMOS - Best new singer/songwriter of 1992. Album Little Earthquakes:
The Parliament Funkadelic Collection on Christmas day would be my idea of
heaven. As a very suppressed Christian girl having to go to church on Christmas
Eve and Christmas Day, and, having endured those services, to hear Bootsy
Collins and his like being wonderfully nasty in those songs, would be the
perfect counterpoint. It's a Christian girl's dream for Christmas day. In fact
I'd love to go to a service and be really subversive by bringing a tape of that
album with me.
Likewise, the last album I'd want to hear would be one of Church music! When
you go to Church four times a week for 20 years that's a lot of hymns to have
absorbed. So please keep away from me those songs by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
where they sing about Jesus. The Jesus I believe in would be listening to
Parliament Funkadelic, trying to reconcile the masculine and the feminine, the
bad and the good in his soul rather than being boringly "good" and bland.
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