Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (07/28/89)
Really-From: rpk@goldhill.com (Robert Krajewski)
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 11:17 PDT
From: IED0DXM%OAC.UCLA.EDU@mitvma.mit.edu
Subject: Mailbag
... _The_Sensual_World_:
"Ack barf" (even though it's _plainly_ one of the greatest album titles
in the history of music); "The sheets are soaked by your tiny fish":
"Ack barf" (even though it's _clearly_ a line of pure genius, especially
as sung--two different ways--in the song); the "visuals" in _Hammer-
smith_: "laughably inane" (even though there can really be _no_question_
_whatever_ that Kate's performance is beyond any legitimate aesthetic
criticism of _any_kind_)...
Really, isn't the judgment that an instance of art is beyond
criticism itself an act of criticism ? If you can make that
judgement, I can make another. Even if it's the ``wrong'' one.
Actually, I *like* the title _The Sensual World_ -- hope the album
design lives up to it !