she really is

[Mike Mendelson <MJM@ZYLAB.MHS.CompuServe.COM>]

I have just listened to 11 minutes of Kate Bush... the
This Woman Work CD5 from few years ago.  My impressions,
as I remember having bought this before the TSW CD came
out (I think) are:
a) This is a better CD5 than *any* of the ones I've bought
in the last month (i.e. RbG and ETM)
b) The attention Kate pays to production and tiny details
is incomprehensible for mortals (this includes all the
fairlight stuff, and little pieces of BVs here and
there, it's all amazing)
c) There is no one better than Kate at *realizing* a
given concept/idea/sound on record.  I don't know how
she does it, but to produce songs like that, so
complete, is just astounding -- to be able to have
that vision of the whole rather than getting lost
in the parts.  It's no wonder it takes so long
to produce these albums.

I think that TRS reflects this attention to detail just
as much as HoL or TD or TSW.  The songs are very different,
imo, much less obtuse musically, much more
straightforward [TSW had this feature for the most part as well]
(and that is probably why I'm not as entranced with them as 
I could be) but the production still distinguishes Kate from
all the other wannabes out there.  Nobody does it better.

-mjm