ed@DAS.LLNL.GOV (Edward Suranyi) (02/27/90)
You know all those people who were so disappointed with _The Sensual World_? Well, I've finally been able to look at the love-hounds archives. Guess what. _Hounds of Love_ produced much the same sort of reaction initially! Even I didn't like it that much the first time I heard it. But now I think every song on that album is perfect, with the possible exception of "The Big Sky", which is only excellent. So draw your own conclusions about rushing to judgment. I'm particularly amused by the first comments about "Runnng Up That Hill" -- it was felt by many to be "too commercial", "too disco", "with too strong a beat". Well, so what? I've heard that song hundreds of times (at least) and I still melt every time I hear the lines "You/You and me". I'm sure that a lot of people who are now big Kate fans got into her through this song -- after all, it was actually played on the radio! Ed ed@das.llnl.gov
cs225ax@UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU (Ken.") (02/28/90)
My intro to Kate was _The Big Sky_. It never left my mind, but I never
bought any of her albums. I heard _Love and Anger_ and decided that her stuff
was good. So I got _TSW_ for Christmas and liked the songs better than
_The Big Sky_. I promised myself I'd only buy one or two more of her CDs
because I wasn't sure about her earlier stuff. That's why I now have all
seven of her "official" albums. :-)
_TSW_ is actually third in my list, tying with _TKI_. I guess I've
listened to _TSW_ enough to really enjoy it. _TSW_ has taken me longer to
delve into than Kate's earlier stuff; that may be part of what's holding the
album down in relation to her other works that have been around for years.
On the subject of "Murmurs behind the glitter" or whatever that was,
the line at the end of _Love and Anger_ is, as accurately as I can tell from
the CD, something. It's just too mumbly even on CD to tell, even at full
volume. It could be anything really. The video might have a clearer version
of the end, because I thought I remember hearing her say something compre-
hensible. Oh well.
Ken.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~nessus@MIT.EDU (Doug Alan) (02/28/90)
> You know all those people who were so disappointed with _The Sensual > World_? Well, I've finally been able to look at the love-hounds > archives. Guess what. _Hounds of Love_ produced much the same sort > of reaction initially! Even I didn't like it that much the first > time I heard it. But now I think every song on that album is > perfect, with the possible exception of "The Big Sky", which is only > excellent. So draw your own conclusions about rushing to judgment. Except that no one ever criticized "The Ninth Wave". The only negative comments were that the first side is two commercial. Even those who were hesitant about the first side, agreed that "The Ninth Wave" is every bit as good as *The Dreaming*. The problem with *The Sensual World* is that it does not have a "Ninth Wave" on it -- it's only as good as if both sides of *Hounds of Love* had been like the "Hounds of Love" side. This still is damn good, of course -- it just doesn't reach the orgasmic peaks of *The Dreaming*. |>oug L is for LIBBENGA who screamed "Fraud!" in vain