Song · Tori Amos
“Bliss” by Tori Amos
From the album To Venus and Back (1999)
“Bliss” by Tori Amos appears on 9 radio countdowns from 8 stations in 1999. It was first released in 1999 on the album To Venus and Back. Its best result is #52 on the WBER Listener Countdown 1999. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #85 alternative song of 1999 and #7,673 alternative song of all time.
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"Bliss" throws open To Venus and Back, Tori Amos' fifth studio album, and she wrote, produced and performed every bit of it herself before it went out to American alternative radio in 1999. Mark Hawley and Marcel van Limbeek recorded and mixed it for Atlantic.
Amos has explained it as a song about guarding the inner life. Growing up, she learned to keep her private world secret from people who kept demanding to know what she was thinking, and sometimes the defense was pretending she'd destroyed her own imagination so nobody could dig through it. The opening line plays out exactly that, and the whole track sounds like a fortress with the lights on inside. It reached number seven in Canada and scraped onto the Billboard Hot 100 at 91.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 82 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1999 | 107 |
| 1999 | 71 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1999 | 101 |
| 1999 | 90 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1999 | 100 |
| 1999 | 65 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 99 Songs of 1999 | 99 |
| 1999 | 69 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 1999 | 107 |
| 1999 | 81 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 1999 | 89 |
| 1999 | 52 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1999 | 101 |
| 1999 | 55 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 1999 | 103 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1007 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
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