Re: More DetraKTion; Breathing

[nessus (Doug Alan)]

> From: Bob Krajewski <lmi-angel!rpk>

>     One of the reasons why Kate's best songs are the best songs in
>     existence is because they are, at the same time, both beautifully
>     melodic and excrutiatingly dissonant.

> ??? By whose standards ?  Have you heard any Schoenberg ?  Or Alban
> Berg ?  Or five hundred drugged out Peruvian pan-pipers COMPETING
> with each other ?  I don't think it's as simple as mixing melody
> with ``dissonance,'' a rather vaguely defined term...

Well, of course it's not as simple as just throwing together melody
and dissonance.  It has to be done in the right way.  My comment is
just that very best music in my opinion is both beautifully melodic
and painfully dissonant.  Lovely, delicate little razor blades that
cut up your ears.  I don't mean to say that any music which has both
melody and dissonance will be good.

>  Sonic Minutiae Department:

> I got ``Breathing'' as a single back in 1980, and am pleased at its
> appearance on the Whole Story.  Now, the CD will sound different from the
> single, but I'm almost led to believe one is a different mix.  Comments ?

I believe that the album version of "Breathing" is slightly different
than the single version.  The single was released a bit before the
album, and I believe it was remixed for the album to make John
Carder Bush's narration more audible.  Is this right, Andy?

			|>oug

"What are we going to do without?
 Oh, leave me something to breathe!
 We are all going to die without!"