Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/09/87)
Really-From: Vulture of Light <trainor@CS.UCLA.EDU>
Hounds of Love:
Cumulative SQ Rating: 3.194
Notes: A fair album at best. Maybe if she took _Running up That Hill_
and made it a whole album or something... This can't be an example
of "...Tangerene Dream (said that Kate Bush is the person currently
doing the most interesting work with synthesizers)..." The _Kick
Inside_ still remains a better piece of work.
Other: I listened to b. head's CD. I also tried to review _Lionheart_,
but the music was axed just after "Wow" by the other parties in
the house.
Breakdown:
R(i) song
---- ----
1.00 Running up That Hill (A Deal With God)
0.11 Hounds Of Love
0.33 The Big Sky
0.56 Mother Stands For Comfort
0.22 Cloudbusting
0.17 And Dream Of Sheep
0.00 Under Ice
0.67 Waking The Witch
0.11 Watching You Without Me
0.22 Jig Of Life
0.11 Hello Earth
0.33 The Morning Fog
...Douglas
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For those of you not familiar with SQ, it is a relative system with
1.0 best and 0.0 worst. My interpretation of the algorithm follows:
R(i) = "rating of each song on a linear scale"
R(i) = R(i) - MIN(R(I))
R(i) = R(i) / MAX(R(i))
Cumulative SQ = 10 * average(R(i))