Re: Various Items

[greg@irl.ise.ufl.edu (Greg O'Rear)]

"Karen L. Newcombe" <kln@crl.com> writes:
>Fourth, this album is going to blow you away.  It is very, very wonderful,
>rich and strange and wild.
I hope so, since the two singles I have (Eat The Music and Rubberband Girl)
are really pretty bad.  Each of the singles has the same B-side--Big Stripey
Lie--where she uses her David Bowie voice, as opposed to her "constipated"
voice she's been using lately.  One of the singles also included her awful
performance of Candle In The Wind.  Are the other tracks you heard better
than these?  And do they also have interminable indulgent Hey Jude/Big Sky-
length fade-outs?  I'm not hopeful from what I've heard so far.

With regard to her Sunday Times interview, Kate may well have been snippy,
especially if she's just gone through a breakup with Del.  But, it seems
(in general), the British music press are way more nasty than their US
counterparts.  Usually the American interviewers try to make themselves
look important, as opposed to the British who try to make their interviewees
look bad.
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Greg O'Rear (orear@ise.ufl.edu)
Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida