Re: Tori--What do you really think?

[as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (andrew david simchik)]

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In <1gd56nINN8e1@lns596.TN.CORNELL.EDU> dsr@lns598.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Daniel S. Riley) writes:


>In article <1992Dec11.181614.27853@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
>as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (andrew david simchik) writes:
>> Weeeeelllll, not a minority of one, anyway.  Kate's had some lame songs on
>> every album so far; Tori's produced an album with no lame songs. And I know
>> that some people here do agree with me on that.

>This is, again, pure opinion.  I happen to think there are *no* lame songs
>on the The Dreaming or Hounds of Love.  And that there are "lame songs" on
>Little Earthquakes.  What does either position (yours or mine) add to the
>discussion?

Um, well, a great deal, actually, since this *was* originally a discussion
of opinion.

>> True, but it doesn't take as much talent to use new equipment and sound
>> original as it does to use a piano and sound original.

>But Kate doesn't just "sound original".  There is far more to turning out
>an musically brilliant album like TD than setting up the latest equipment
>and making funny noises with it.  Both TD and LE show real mastery of the
>instruments used--and I don't see how you can claim that that command over
>those instruments is somehow easier for "new equipment" than it is for the

I don't and wouldn't ever make such a ridiculous claim.  Please reread the
above and try again.

>piano.  The talents and skills required are different, but I don't see one
>being lesser than the other.

True, but the key is perception.  The listener perceives the synth stuff to
sound more original, therefore it takes more ingenuity to get the same
originality out of a piano.

>> Kate's genius, I
>> think, lies more in her songwriting and lyrics than in her use of
>> instruments.

>I disagree completely with this.  Kate's use of instruments is as at
>least as brilliant as her songwriting and lyrics.

Yes, of course it is.  But I think it's the latter that truly sets her
apart.

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