Re: sad-songstress

[ag@sics.se (Anders G|ransson)]

In article <930520182732_555063.0_FHI64-2@CompuServe.COM> MJM@ZYLAB.MHS.CompuServe.COM (Mike Mendelson) writes:


   > Why can't Kate make some such songs with some sad content?
   > Her songs are almost always 'out in the space' as it were. 
   > I mean they doesn't speak directly. (Of course I have nothing to
   > say about how Kate Bush performs her miracles, it only that
   > it is something I miss from her songs.) Am I alone in this?

   Army Dreamers?  Breathing?  Mother Stands for Comfort?
   Empty Bullring?  Blow Away?  All the Love?  Never Be Mine?

   These certainly qualify as sad in my book, though that's probably
   not the first adjective that comes to my mind when I think
   of them.  If you're really into sad songs, check out the new
   Aimee Mann album "Whatever."  Brilliant stuff, but I wish 
   she'd write a couple of happy tunes once in a while just to mix
   it up.

Thank you for your answer. To take 'Mother Stands for Comfort'
as an example; this text is, *as I experience it*, far to short and
unspecific to transfer any emotion at all. If not taken as a
confession of a fullblown psychopatic it is the sentiments of
puberty that is hinted at (small difference perhaps?). But it is
*as I see it* no more than this: a nonspecific 10-liner on this 
subject, very unpersonal. 
Finally, I do understand that this is entirely my own
impressions of Kate's lyrics.


best regards Anders

   -mjm


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