To Venus and Back

To Venus and Back
Studio album / Live album by
ReleasedSeptember 21, 1999
Recorded1998–1999
Venuevarious venues during her Plugged '98 tour
StudioMartian Engineering, Cornwall, England
Genre
Length123:22
47:50 (studio)
75:32 (live)
Label
ProducerTori Amos
Tori Amos chronology
From the Choirgirl Hotel
(1998)
To Venus and Back
(1999)
Strange Little Girls
(2001)
Tori Amos live chronology
To Venus and Back
(1999)
The Original Bootlegs
(2005)
Singles from To Venus and Back
  1. "Bliss"
    Released: August 24, 1999
  2. "1000 Oceans"
    Released: September 9, 1999
  3. "Glory of the 80's"
    Released: October 11, 1999
  4. "Concertina"
    Released: February 8, 2000

To Venus and Back (stylised in all lowercase) is a double album by American singer, songwriter and pianist Tori Amos. Released on September 21, 1999, it comprises her fifth studio album and first live album. The first disc, entitled Venus: Orbiting, shows Amos increasingly experimenting with elements of electronica and trip hop, and spawned the singles "Bliss" (which peaked at number 91 on the Billboard Hot 100), "1000 Oceans", "Glory of the 80's", and "Concertina". The second disc, Venus Live, Still Orbiting, was recorded mostly during her Plugged '98 tour in support of her previous album, From the Choirgirl Hotel.

  1. ^ "To Venus and Back". NME. September 12, 2005. Retrieved November 12, 2014. A two-CD set, one half is a live album and like all such self-indulgences it's mainly unremarkable. It does, however, with the addition of a full band, act as a compass for her new direction. Which mainly means trip-hop