mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu (03/01/90)
Hello again... I just got the latest Rolling Stone, and in it they review Sinead O'Connor's new one, _I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got_. They give it four and a half stars, which is between Excellent and Classic. I can't wait to pick it up, because RS usually isn't kind to music like that. Maybe Sinead does want to break into dance pop, which would be a shame, but I'm going to wait to hear the album before I pass judgement. Speaking of Rolling Stone reviews, why the HELL didn't they review TSW?!? Do they think they're above that sort of intelligentia, or something? Or did it just come out at a bad time, and all the albums that came out the week of the 1980's retrospective got ignored, too? Actually, I'm not giving up my fading hopes yet, because this latest issue contains a review for Galaxie 500's _On Fire_, which came out last December. And finally, although I've already e-mailed my reply to Ed, the two songs that simultaneously turned me into a Lovehound were "Running Up That Hill" and the version of "Wuthering Heights" on _The Whole Story_. After three years that song still puts me into near-convulsions, as any of my dorm-mates will tell you whenever I crank it up and introduce all of Wesleyan to Kate's incredible voice. The original version doesn't do the same thing for me, although I still like it, and it's the reason I bought TKI in the first place. Incidentally, anybody else been able to figure out what she's saying at the end of L&A? First one wins a prize!!! Meredith Tarr "Living in the gap between past and future..." mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu -KT
MTARR@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU (03/01/90)
Path: eagle!mtarr From: mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Rolling Stone reviews, Sinead, and Kate Message-ID: <8004@eagle.wesleyan.edu> Date: 28 Feb 90 17:38:58 GMT Lines: 32 Hello again... I just got the latest Rolling Stone, and in it they review Sinead O'Connor's new one, _I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got_. They give it four and a half stars, which is between Excellent and Classic. I can't wait to pick it up, because RS usually isn't kind to music like that. Maybe Sinead does want to break into dance pop, which would be a shame, but I'm going to wait to hear the album before I pass judgement. Speaking of Rolling Stone reviews, why the HELL didn't they review TSW?!? Do they think they're above that sort of intelligentia, or something? Or did it just come out at a bad time, and all the albums that came out the week of the 1980's retrospective got ignored, too? Actually, I'm not giving up my fading hopes yet, because this latest issue contains a review for Galaxie 500's _On Fire_, which came out last December. And finally, although I've already e-mailed my reply to Ed, the two songs that simultaneously turned me into a Lovehound were "Running Up That Hill" and the version of "Wuthering Heights" on _The Whole Story_. After three years that song still puts me into near-convulsions, as any of my dorm-mates will tell you whenever I crank it up and introduce all of Wesleyan to Kate's incredible voice. The original version doesn't do the same thing for me, although I still like it, and it's the reason I bought TKI in the first place. Incidentally, anybody else been able to figure out what she's saying at the end of L&A? First one wins a prize!!! Meredith Tarr "Living in the gap between past and future..." mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu -KT
eboneste@BBN.COM (Liz Bonesteel) (03/02/90)
In article <9002282240.AA26871@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> MTARR@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU writes: > >Speaking of Rolling Stone reviews, why the HELL didn't they review TSW?!? Speaking more of Rolling Stone, I heard a rumor they trashed HOL when it came out. Can anyone confirm this? Liz (who is looking forward to Sinead's new album in spite of the fact that RS liked it) ---- Just watch them swing with the wind out to sea...
ed@das.llnl.gov (Edward Suranyi) (03/02/90)
In article <52833@bbn.COM> Liz Bonesteel <eboneste@BBN.COM> writes: > >Speaking more of Rolling Stone, I heard a rumor they trashed HOL when >it came out. Can anyone confirm this? When _HoL_ came out, _Rolling Stone_ wasn't giving stars in its reviews. (They had stopped for some reason a few months earlier, and they just started again about a year ago.) So it's hard to tell what they really thought. The review was kind of non-committal. I remember they thought it was sort of childish, in some undefined way. Ever since then, though, Kate has been used as an example of a great alternative artist, when others are compared to her. Does this mean a change of heart on the part of _RS_? We'll never know for sure as long as they don't review _TSW_, but everyone I've heard who is connected to _RS_ has nothing but good things to say about the album. (The mention in the year-end issue, the article in the Feb. 8 issue, and Anthony DeCurtis's words on "All Things Considered".) Ed ed@das.llnl.gov
liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) (03/03/90)
eboneste@BBN.COM (Liz Bonesteel) writes: >Speaking more of Rolling Stone, I heard a rumor they trashed HOL when >it came out. Can anyone confirm this? Well the final line of a very short (400 line) mini-review was "...her vision will seem silly the those who believe children should be seen and not heard." The sad part of it was the reviewer offered no original insights and it was transparent that he gathered most of his information from other reviews he had read. -- Jimmy Liberato ...!amdahl!drivax!liberato
liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) (03/03/90)
In rec.music.gaffa eboneste@BBN.COM (Liz Bonesteel) writes: >Speaking more of Rolling Stone, I heard a rumor they trashed HOL when >it came out. Can anyone confirm this? Well the final line of a very short (400 line) mini-review was "...her vision will seem silly to those who believe children should be seen and not heard." The sad part of it was the reviewer offered no original insights and it was transparent that he gathered most of his information from other reviews he had read. -- Jimmy Liberato ...!amdahl!drivax!liberato
liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) (03/04/90)
>Well the final line of a very short (400 line) mini-review was "...
^^^^
Of course you must have meant 400 words, right? :-)
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Jimmy Liberato ...!amdahl!drivax!liberato