Re: The album's cover + Melody Maker

[James Smith <munnari!cc.nu.oz.au!CCJS@uunet.UU.NET>]

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From: CCJS@cc.nu.oz (James Smith)
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Subject: Re: The album's cover + Melody Maker
Date: 5 Nov 89 15:11:37 -1000
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Jon Drukman writes:

> You betcha.  For my "walking around campus" cassette I programmed
> "Walk Straight Down The Middle" in place of "Reaching Out" and
> relegated Reaching Out to the very end of the tape.  Basically, I
> never listen to it, because I usually hit stop and rewind it after
> This Woman's Work.  IED can call me pathetic until he's blue in the
> face, but Reaching Out is a horrible song. 

Generally I have to listen to Kate's albums two or three times before
the beauty of the music starts to sink in.  The first few listens sort
of form a general background level against which the inherant beauty
of the various songs can stand out.  I guess the broadness the forest
has to sink in before I can start to see the actual trees.

I can only remember three of her songs that have actually stood out
from the rest of the tracks as being wonderful on first hearing.
On _The Dreaming_ it was _Suspended in Gaffa_, it stood out from the
rest of the songs, and I had to play it again before I could go on
with the album.  On _Hounds of Love_, the song that stood out for
me was _Waking the Witch_, and on _The Sensual World_ it's _Reaching
Out_.

For me the song has all the power and intensity of _This Woman's Work_,
with an added driving force that makes it just beautiful.  In fact,
this song, more than any other on the album, is just Kate.

How can you say it's horrible?

Jim

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