James Chapman
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James Chapman
@jamesmchapman.bsky.social
Director of PR firm Soho Communications. Former director of comms at HM Treasury. Former political editor, occasional columnist for @cityam.bsky.social. Views my own. www.sohocommunications.co.uk
It’s supposedly about Courtney Love…
“Don’t blow those brains yet / we gott be big, boy”.
December 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
You might appreciate my best of Tori playlist.

open.spotify.com/playlist/2Xf...
Spotify – Web Player
open.spotify.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Let’s see your Spotify Wrapped so we can all have a good laugh.
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I can only assume you aren’t remotely familiar with her catalogue, or have zero taste.
December 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Incredible take
December 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
In a good or a bad way? She totally merits it imho. She has at least four or five 10/10 albums and has seen a major return to form on the last couple.
December 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Isn’t she? She obviously has a devoted fanbase but she deserves so much more.
December 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I was a bit behind you
December 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
In that case let me introduce you to my best of Tori playlist ❤️
open.spotify.com/playlist/2Xf...
The Best of Tori Amos
open.spotify.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Have you kept up with her underappreciated later work? Songs like Reindeer King, Forest of Glass, Climb, Metal Water Wood, Weatherman, Star Whisperer, Bats, Bang, Flowers Burn to Gold… all as good as the 90s stuff.

open.spotify.com/playlist/2Xf...
The Best of Tori Amos
open.spotify.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
1= Boys for Pele
1= Scarlet's Walk
3 From the Choirgirl Hotel
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
That would be hilarious
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
No point in half measures and being a 'rule taker not a rule maker': let's rejoin as a full member of the EU. It will happen in my lifetime; the politics and demographics are inevitable. It will be interesting to see which of our many opt-outs we can renegotiate.
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
If the albums don’t hit you could maybe give my intro to Tori playlist a go:

open.spotify.com/playlist/0oG...
An introduction to Tori Amos
open.spotify.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I prefer her to all three (though I love Kate and Fiona dearly; never could get into Joanna even a little bit) but as Tori herself once said: “I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.”
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
yes definitely; she also sang about "burning CDs" in that song way before it was a thing.
November 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
she also claims to have been visited by eleven muses (actual spiritual entities) since she was a child who gift her songs or fragments of songs. Love her.
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM