“I just was not expecting the look on people’s faces. It was really just vicious – the most shocking, awful things you could hear from people”: The powerful and controversial Tori Amos song that her record company hated – before the club remix hit No.1

Tori Amos.

In early 1994, eight months before she started work on her third album Boys For Pele, Tori Amos told Spin magazine how much she respected a certain quality in the work of her friend Trent Reznor.

“I love the screaming male aggression of his music,” enthused Amos, “because I’m not in touch with that part of myself so much.”