gravende@epas.utoronto.ca (David Gravender) (05/16/91)
Having attempted and apparently failed to post here on Monday, I shall endeavor once more to do, although item the first must needs be abridged, as reconstituted from a less than verbatim memory. Observed in the Canadian paper Globe & Mail's weekly TV supplement _Broadcast Week_ (for 11-17 May) under the new video release column was a review of a film entitled _The Chocolate War_. The film concerns the "clandestine hazing" and other sundry such low and immoral acts carried on or around a young male teen at a Catholic prep school. It boasts, as the reviewer puts it, a "driving score" that includes contributions from peter gabriel, KATE BUSH and joan armatrading. This do be news to me. Might any of you out there have any further intelligence about this particular piece of cinema, such as, for instance, which song(s) of KaTe's was employed? Given the setting & plot (such as I could remember), Waking the Witch suggests itself strongly to me as a possibility. At any rate, judging by its title alone, the film seems an appropriate one for kate to be involved with, n'est-ce pas,given that particular predilection of hers that manifests itself so during her recording incarnations. A chocolate war indeed! And since I am here, allow me also to add my voice, off-key as it may be, to the present and continuing choric chime of praise for Happy Rhodes which is resonating through this network. Having just this Monday past received the CD _Warpaint_ and having had it in my ears the bulk of my waking hours since, might I say how much I have enjoyed it? I might. Her voice is quite a thing to behold--such range, and such facility in it. It is uncanny (as many others have observed) how her voice resembles kaTe's in the upper registers, both in timbre and inflection. The difference between this and the voice that comes out in the lower registers (which, I might add parenthetically, reminds of Annie Lennox) is so startling as to make one imagine there are two singers and not just the one--quite often, it is no difficulty to imagine that what is being heard is Happy with kate on BV's, or even Kate with Ms. Lennox. The music itself has its own peculiar enchantments, not the least of which are its elaborate vocal configurations and the idosyncratic tunefulness of them. It is regrettable (and not a little astounding) that Ms. Happy is yet without a recording contract. Should this oversight be rectified soon and this album subsequently become her first major release, however, might I suggest as a first single the opening track, Waking Up? I might. It seems an almost perfect choice for at least US radio (which, by the by, I have a feeling would've "gone for" Kate's Be Kind To My Mistakes, had anyone had the particular foresight to have released it as such and not relegate it to B-side status)--has the right "pop", methinks. At any rate, I am quite pleased to have made her acquaintance via Warpaint, and do thank Vickie Mapes, for bringing her to the attention of this net, and my friend Kim for urging us so to co-invest (the tape's on the way). As Elvis Costello might advise you all, "Get Happy!!" "napoleon dynamite" <gravende@epas.utoronto.ca> 'Now there's newsprint all over your face Maybe that's why I can read you like a book'
ed@das.llnl.GOV (Edward J. Suranyi) (05/16/91)
>Observed in the Canadian paper Globe & Mail's weekly TV supplement >_Broadcast Week_ (for 11-17 May) under the new video release column >was a review of a film entitled _The Chocolate War_. The film concerns >the "clandestine hazing" and other sundry such low and immoral acts >carried on or around a young male teen at a Catholic prep school. It >boasts, as the reviewer puts it, a "driving score" that includes >contributions from peter gabriel, KATE BUSH and joan armatrading. > >This do be news to me. Might any of you out there have any further >intelligence about this particular piece of cinema, such as, for >instance, which song(s) of KaTe's was employed? > >"napoleon dynamite" <gravende@epas.utoronto.ca> I saw the movie when it was first released in movie theaters, about two years ago. I was attracted to it precisely because of the line at the bottom of the ad which said, "Featuring music by Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush. . ." The Kate song is "Running Up That Hill", and it came on at the extreme end of the movie, so most of it is actually over the closing credits. It was very nice to hear, but it lost something because people were continually filing out while it was playing. The movie itself was pretty good, but not great. I'm surprised that it's just being released on video in Canada; I'm pretty sure it's been out for a long time (like a year) in the US. Ed ed@das.llnl.gov