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From: clive@uk.mdis.com (Clive Backham)
Subject: Re: Rate Kate
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 17:32:19 GMT
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jennifer sherry (jsherry@hngorin.mhs.compuserve.com) wrote:

: also I believe 'The Ninth Wave' is an album in it's own right,

I was wondering when someone would say this. I agree completely
that it's a different album, but I certainly don't agree on
your ranking of it:

: 1) Hounds of Love
: ......
: 7) The Ninth Wave

I well remember rushing out to buy Hounds of Love on the day it was 
released. Quivering with anticipation, I put on side 1 and my heart
sank. "What is this top-40 shit?" and "Oh my god, what has she done?"
were my immediate reactions. I put the LP away in disgust. It was
several days before I decided to try side 2, and when I did so, sat
there transfixed, unable to reconcile how this *masterpiece*, this
veritable orgasm of wonderous sound, could have come from the same
artiste.

FWIW (not much, I know), here is my ranking:

1. The Ninth Wave (by a huge margin, nay, a chasm)
2. Never For Ever (a fantastic album overall)
3. The Kick Inside (simply a bunch of wonderful songs)
4. The Dreaming (for its daring)
5. Lionheart (gotta love that schoolgirl voice)
6. Hounds of Love (the beginning of the end; too much programmed drumming)
7. The Sensual World (too confused, apart from the sublime TWW)
8. The Red Shoes (too few moments of pleasure)

Clive Backham
McDonnell Information Systems, Hemel Hempstead, UK
email: cbackham@uk.mdis.com