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From: James Smith <munnari!cc.nu.oz.au!CCJS@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 89 15:11 -1000
Subject: Re: The album's cover + Melody Maker
Path: cc!ccjs From: CCJS@cc.nu.oz (James Smith) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: The album's cover + Melody Maker Date: 5 Nov 89 15:11:37 -1000 References: <8910231757.AA08057@GAFFA.MIT.EDU> <8911011547.AA22155@GAFFA.MIT.EDU> Organization: University of Newcastle Lines: 36 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 -- James Smith | When a man fell into his anecdotage Computing Centre | it was a sign for him to retire from Newcastle University | the world. ccjs@cc.nu.oz.au | -- Benjamin Disraeli