From The Choirgirl Hotel
by Tori Amos

From The Choirgirl Hotel by Tori Amos
Year: 1998
Release date: 1998-05-04
Overall rank: 2,430th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 179 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1998 (47th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (421st)
Award Best albums of all time (2,430th)

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Tori Amos bestography

From The Choirgirl Hotel is ranked 4th best out of 30 albums by Tori Amos on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Tori Amos is Little Earthquakes which is ranked number 606 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,783.

Tori Amos album bestography « Higher ranked (1,933rd)
Boys For Pele
This album (2,430th)
From The Choirgirl Hotel
Lower ranked (4,434th) »
Scarlet's Walk

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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From The Choirgirl Hotel track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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From The Choirgirl Hotel rankings

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Overall rank: 2,430th | 1990s rank: 421st | 1998 rank: 47th

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From The Choirgirl Hotel ratings

Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 179 votes)
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05/30/2026 02:18 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  11,41470/100
 
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12/29/2025 18:21 mutant  Ratings distribution  1,67156/100
 
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12/05/2025 16:33 Araldo  Ratings distribution  1,47280/100
 
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08/06/2025 20:52 Hyggevinyl  Ratings distribution  4,40372/100
 
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02/25/2025 11:13 Dingerbell  Ratings distribution  4,05962/100

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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.6/100, a mean average of 76.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.

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85/100
From 05/04/2021 15:10 | #269348
Doloroso e belíssimo!
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Rating:  
80/100
From 08/16/2016 13:36 | #172974
Not as brilliant as her first three albums but still a decent record. Her fourth best album.
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Rating:  
75/100
From 11/23/2014 23:07 | #127821
Average electronic/baroque rock/pop album. I'm not really getting to like this, sounds too experimentally/strange. Only good song is dance-pop song "Raspberry swirl" 85/100.
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90/100
From 10/01/2013 21:06 | #87351
Best tracks: Jackie's Strength, Raspberry Swirl, Spark, Hotel.
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60/100
From 05/18/2012 01:13 | #42607
Much better than Boys for Pele. The songs are great and the alt-electronic sounds are completely welcome.
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100/100
From 01/10/2012 18:34 | #34958
After more than two years and nearly a hundred listens probably, this still feels extremely fresh and invigorating. Almost as good as immaculate Little Earthquakes, and a truly perfect album. If I didn't have my one-album-per-artist rule, this would be around #8 on my chart.
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From 03/14/2011 19:36 | #19185
Spark and Cruel were my favorite tracks.
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100/100
From 01/25/2010 09:19 | #8607
Personally, "iieee" was one of my faves, partially from the awesome industrial solo near the end, and partially because of this intro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8vyx5OPvcU).

I also loved "Cruel", "Liquid Diamonds", and "Spark" a lot. The tracks you guys named were cool, too, but they were just usual Tori fare. What makes this my 2nd favorite album from her (Little Earthquakes is my all-time fave) is the electronic influence.
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From 01/25/2010 07:44 | #8606
I always prefer Jackie's Strength, my favorite Tori Amos song.
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From 01/25/2010 07:01 | #8605
Meh, not by a long shot.

Still, this album owns. It's typical Tori mixed with Nine Inch Nails. How can you get more awesome than that?
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