Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (01/23/87)
Really-From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU > A partial list: > > Peter Gabriel: Ouevre > Talking Heads: Fear of Music, Remain in Light, Speaking in Tongues > King Crimson: Discipline > Pink Floyd: The Wall, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here > Alan Parsons: Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Pyramid > Shriekback: Big Night Music > Joy Division: Closer (Fact XXV) > Various Artists: Lost in the Stars: the music of Kurt Weill > Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps > Pete Townshend: All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, White City > The Who: Who's Next (you said early 70s) > XTC: Black Sea, The Big Express > Boomtown Rats: The Fine Art of Surfacing > >-- Steve "Blore" Howard How can you name a couple dozen! IED couldn't name twenty-four LPs made since, say, 1973, that are even classifiable as "very good", even without introducing comparative values. Hell, there haven't more than twenty-four classic rock (or rock-associated) LPs made period -- and five of those spots are already filled by Kate! Most of the records you've listed above are barely worth their weight in vinyl. Three or four are actually good: "Closer" is very strong, and one or two ("Remain in Light" -- thanks entirely to Eno; and "Dark Side of the Moon") are candidates for runner-up below Kate's most frivolous work to date. But "Speaking in Tongues"!? Peter Gabriel's entire oeuvre! Including this schlocky new one "So"!? Boomtown Rats!!?? "Who's Next"!!!??? IED shudders to think. >Though I agree with the above, there are two records that I think should be >mentioned as fitting the above mold better than any others, if one was to not >consider Kate's obviously superior work: EMERSON LAKE & PALMER's WORKS Volume >1 and GENESIS' THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY. Keith Emerson's Piano Concerto >No. 1 on ELP's WORKS Volume 1 will always be one of my favorites, no matter >how overwhelmed I become with Kate's music. > >Mark Kat(e)souros Well, though IED hates to disagree with Mark, who usually turns a sympathetic ear to IED's ravings about KT, he is inclined to agree with Bill's assessment of Emerson's concerto. Any kind of familiarity with the real thing will show up the awkwardness and structural poverty of the Emerson piece. As for "Lamb Lies Down", doesn't that still count as early seventies stuff? Anyway, in spirit it sure does. Thanks to Scott C. back at him, for the compliment and the record-by-record analysis of the boxed set. The general facts have been published in Homeground and the like, but not in so clear and well organized a way, and it is most welcome here. Pretty clearly Scott is either a Kate Bush fan in earnest or an unusually obsessive type (not that the two don't often go hand in hand). Whatever the case, here's hoping we hear more from him in future. >Okay, now that we've found the secret message in X4... what does it cmean? > > puo<| Well, it's more or less related to the theme, isn't it? As for the specific meaning, that's what's so great -- it's TOO specific to described! dei --