Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/03/87)
Really-From: sdcrdcf!stephen@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU
I got Lionheart on CD the other day. Wow, really disappointing after
The Kick Inside. What happened anyway? Reasonably good production,
but the song-writing (both music and lyrics) aches. As trapped in the
seventies as HoL is in the eighties.
|>oug, if you're serious about The Dreaming on CD, is it on import or
domestic?
Ko Tex
[ *Lionheart* is widely recognized as being Kate Bush's least
wonderful album. The record company forced Kate to rush it out
shortly after the huge success of *The Kick Inside*. Because of
this, few new songs were written for the album. Most of them are
songs that Kate had lying around. (She had written more than 200
songs before recording *The Kick Inside*.)
I disagree with you, however, that anything is wrong with the
songwriting. It is in fact the production which mars the album.
The songwriting is in several respects more adventuresome on
*Lionheart* than on *The Kick Inside*. Despite its flaws,
*Lionheart* has some absolutely brilliant songs on it: "In Search of
Peter Pan", "Oh England My Lionheart", "Symphony in Blue", "In The
Warm Room", and "Kashka From Bagdad".
Reagrading *The Dreaming* on CD, I believe that it is available as
both an import and domestic. I do not know at this point whether
or not the domestic is just a repackaging of the import. This seems
most likely to me.
--Doug ]