YOUNG_MI@CTSTATEU.BITNET (03/15/91)
I must agree with Jen (<kirsch33@snynewvm.bitnet>) that 'Hounds of Love'
is the best KaTe album. 'The Dreaming' is also very good, but the power
of 'The Ninth Wave' is something to be reckoned with.
-----Out of the cloud
burst the head of
the tempest...
Murderer, murderer of calm...
Micheletr@cbnea.att.COM (Aaron L Hoffmeyer) (03/17/91)
In article <9103150209.AA09990@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> YOUNG_MI@CTSTATEU.BITNET writes: > >I must agree with Jen (<kirsch33@snynewvm.bitnet>) that 'Hounds of Love' >is the best KaTe album. 'The Dreaming' is also very good, but the power >of 'The Ninth Wave' is something to be reckoned with. > > >-----Out of the cloud > burst the head of > the tempest... > Murderer, murderer of calm... > > >Michele I'm new to this group and I'm a new customer of Kate's music. I just bought my first cassette - and it happens to be _Hounds_of_Love_. Anyway, I consider _Hounds_ to be one of the finest albums I've ever heard. Funny thing, though. To me, the worst song on the album, and the only one I would have excluded is "Hounds of Love". Is there some reason or story behind the apparent value Kate places on this song? Also, one of the songs on the second side (I haven't associated the names with the sounds just yet - I listen to it while I work), has a section where Kate is saying, "Talk to me, Talk to me" and it is broken up. When I heard it, I immediately thought that the trick to the broken pattern of sound was undersampling, such as sampling the sounds at 2 or 4k Hz instead of the normal 44k, 88k - whatever. Anyway, a friend heard it and thought that it was simply someone flipping a switch or jiggling a connection to get the broken sound. Anyone out there have a clue? I guess my guess assumes that the recording is digital or that the masters, at least, are digital. The inside of the cassette gives no information, nor clues - it is just standard Capital garbage about how the crappy tape that they use and the crappy mastering process is sooooo gooood. Does the album/CD have more info included? Am I ever going to buy into CD? - nah. DAT is what I am waiting on. OK, so I might have to buy CD to make copies from if the industry never sells music on DAT..... Oh, I haven't bought a DAT machine yet either - waiting for the prices to come down. Aaron L. Hoffmeyer TR@CBNEA.ATT.COM 99.9% of statistics are made up. -- Jonathan Kamens
graham@UG.CS.DAL.CA (Michael Graham) (03/18/91)
In article <1991Mar17.104645.27661@cbnewsk.att.com> tr@cbnea.att.COM (Aaron L Hoffmeyer) writes: > >I'm new to this group and I'm a new customer of Kate's music. I just >bought my first cassette - and it happens to be _Hounds_of_Love_. >Anyway, I consider _Hounds_ to be one of the finest albums I've ever >heard. Funny thing, though. To me, the worst song on the album, and >the only one I would have excluded is "Hounds of Love". Is there some >reason or story behind the apparent value Kate places on this song? > >The inside of the cassette gives no information, nor clues - it is just >standard Capital garbage about how the crappy tape that they use and the >crappy mastering process is sooooo gooood. Does the album/CD have more >info included? Am I ever going to buy into CD? - nah. DAT is what I am >waiting on. OK, so I might have to buy CD to make copies from if the >industry never sells music on DAT..... Oh, I haven't bought a DAT >machine yet either - waiting for the prices to come down. ALthough I love all of Kate's albums, if forced to rank them _The Dreaming_ would be number one and HoL would be 3 or 4. Go out and buy _The Dreaming_ now :) don't wait for DAT - get cds - anything other than tapes - yuk. I've got HoL on vinyl and it includes the lyrics - very important, and 2 pictures - similar to the ones on the front and back of the cover. My favorite song on the album IS Hounds of Love. I can't put my finger on it, but I just love that song. It has a certain urgency to it. Maybe I feel that way from watching the video. I don't know. Anyway, keep listening, buy The Dreaming and all her other stuff - you won't be disappointed. (stay away from tape though :) mike -- Michael Graham | Baldrick, you wouldn't know a subtle plan if it graham@ug.cs.dal.ca | painted itself purple and danced naked on top of mgraham@ac.dal.ca | a piano singing 'Subtle Plans are Here Again'! - Black Adder.
mgates@entiat.UUCP (Michael Gates) (03/20/91)
In article <1991Mar17.104645.27661@cbnewsk.att.com> tr@cbnea.att.COM (Aaron L Hoffmeyer) writes: > > ...section where Kate is saying, "Talk to me, Talk to me" and it is broken > up. When I heard it, I immediately thought that the trick to the broken > pattern of sound was undersampling, such as sampling the sounds at 2 or > 4k Hz instead of the normal 44k, 88k - whatever. Anyway, a friend heard > it and thought that it was simply someone flipping a switch or jiggling > a connection to get the broken sound. Anyone out there have a clue? > I guess my guess assumes that the recording is digital or that the > masters, at least, are digital. Audible fastforward on some CD players produces this same effect.. -- et tu mgates?