Great cover. I am a huge fan of Little Earthquakes, Under the Pink, and Boys for Pele. She is one of the few artists of the last 20 years with a large canon of EPs and singles, and those are loaded with covers and B-sides that contain much of her best work. I have probably a dozen of these, Winter and Cornflake Girl are among the best.

Thanks for the vid!

Good point about her songwriting. Her dirge-like cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is spooky and wonderful.

Jeff B, you Toriholic, is there a B-sides/EP collection for her yet? (Insert plug for Belle & Sebastian's collection of EP's on one album, Push Barman to Open Old Wounds -- my favorite B&S album.)

Tori is great. I love a lot of her original music as well but she certainly does do a fantastic job with covers. I also agree with Jeff B that some of the EPs and single B-sides are some of her best stuff. I don't think there is a straight B-side compilation yet but there are a fair number included in the box set she released recently if I remember correctly

In addition to how well she does covers I think it is also impressive how many different covers she performs live, particularly on her last tour. She had a portion of the show that she called Tori's piano bar where she played a couple songs that had been requested by fans emailing her website. There was some duplication of these covers but there was also a suprising amount of variety. A while back I ran across a web site that had all of set lists from the tour and totals across the whole tour. Over something like 75 tour dates I think that there were over 80 songs that she only performed once (a few being her own, but most being covers). I think she did over 200 distinct songs (originals and covers) over the course of the tour.

She released 6 "official bootlegs" from that tour that have 12-13 covers across the six shows. I think they are all up on itunes.