Ask most Tori Amos fans which album they prefer and you will most likely hear Little Earthquakes or From the Choirgirl Hotel. Like, ifeeldizzy, however, I prefer Boys and probably listen to it more than all the others combined.
The songs on this album have two different threads flowing through them (in addition to Amos's more familiar piano/singer sound; a sultry southern blues sound and a baroque/mystical sound. The blues feel is especially evident in Little Amsterdam and in In the Springtime of His Voodoo. The baroque is evident in the liberal use of harpsichord, played in a manner idiomatic for the instrument. We also hear contrapuntal textures in nearly every song, and in Father Lucifer a trumpet played in the typically baroque clarino range accompanies the bridge.
Incidentally, most copies of this album that are out there do not contain the original version of Talula, but a remix taken from the film Twister.