Y Kant Tori Read is an album by the 1980s synthpop band of the same name, fronted by then-unknown singer and songwriter Tori Amos. (More from Wikipedia)
Her first foray into music was to front a rock band called Y Kant Tori Read; their sole album release was also called Y Kant Tori Read (1987) and sold very few copies. (Remarkably, Tori Amos still didn't lose her recording contract with Atlantic Records). Many years later, I saw an original copy of the album at a record collectors show in San Francisco; it was priced at $115. After holding it awhile, I remembered coming across a copy at a used record store (also in San Francisco I think but before I moved there). It was priced rather high ($8 or $10), and I wondered why I had never heard of it. I passed on the purchase and thought of it (and others that got away) often over the years, but I don't dwell on it anymore: Y Kant Tori Read would have gone through Hurricane Katrina like all the rest.
In later albums like Under the Pink and Boys for Pele, Tori Amos brought rock embellishments back to her music that had not worked out successfully on her initial album, Y Kant Tori Read. In all, she has released 15 albums.
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