“Pretty Good Year” by Tori Amos

"Pretty Good Year" comes from Under the Pink, Tori Amos's second album, and East West sent it out in Britain in March 1994 as the record's second single; Australia got it later that year, while America never did. Amos wrote it and sits at the piano, with Domenic Genova on bass and a full string section of violins, violas and cellos around her. Eric Rosse produced and Kevin Killen mixed.

Following "Cornflake Girl", she chose not to repeat herself: Music & Media heard a sensitive piano ballad where an easier single might have gone, and Music Week's Alan Jones called it alluring, lilting and introspective, though he gave it less pull than its predecessor. Britain took to it anyway, sending it to number seven, her second top 10 single there.

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