For most Tori fans - excepting those who somehow picked up on her dreadful 80s synthpop act Y Kant Tori Read - that love all began with 1992’s Little Earthquakes. “Little Earthquakes is my favorite Tori Amos album, and ‘Crucify’ is one of my favorite tracks,” says Dave at whywayup.org. “I can’t listen to ‘Winter’ without thinking about sitting around in my freshman dorm getting used to college and wondering what the rest of my life would be like. It’s often said that the music you hear growing up is the music you will love for the rest of my life — and I think this is the reason why. It’s not so much that your taste gets locked in at a certain age, but that you associate so much with the songs.”

For Jennifer at The Simian Line: Doin’ It Bloggy Style, Tori’s second record Under the Pink also conjures up many college-era memories. “The second half of the year was consumed by Tori Amos’s Under the Pink,” she remembers. “I’m sure I drove my dorm neighbor utterly batty that semester, but she was always listening to - and bellowing along with - Meatloaf and Celine Dion songs, so she deserved whatever punishment she got from me blasting Under the Pink and weeping.” (Oh, and an mp3 for one of the best tracks on that album, “Baker Baker,” is available for download over at lullabyes.net.)

But for ThisNexter roosoosh, the more recent release The Beekeeper is a top Tori fave. “Tori’s music is much of my creative inspiration,” she says. “This is her most recent album and has some amazing songs.”