Re: red shoes song by song opinion

[woj@remus.rutgers.edu (the horizon you run to)]

Jon Drukman <jdrukman@us.oracle.com> sez:
>the trio bulgarka is completely wasted on this album - why bother with
>them at all?  it's like kate made a checklist of 'things that make an
>album kate bushy' and threw them in.  

heh. well, if she made a list, a lot of posters would say that she missed 
out on a lot of what makes a song bushy. 

>of course we're missing the digeridoo, but that's ok, 

ah, but we have the "musical bow" in "the red shoes" which sounds kinda
didjeriduish....

>'and so is love' is probably my favorite track just because it's so
>downbeat - "life is sad and so is love" basically sums up my entire
>existence right there.

maybe this is one of the reasons this song didn't click with me (besides
my hatred for cliched lyrics): my life ain't pretty but it's relatively
good at this point in time.

>i bought the most recent duran duran album at the same time, and as
>far as pure unadulterated pop muzik goes, i think it has many more
>moments of pop epiphany than the red shoes.  

i'll have to introduce you to my ex-roommate sometime.

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