Re: Official Delurk

[Peter Byrne Manchester <PMANCHESTER@ccmail.sunysb.edu>]

Oohlalune@aol.com loomed up today:

> Subject: Official de-lurk

I would just like to say that this first post, followed by a volcanic series 
of additional unburdenings, is the most spectacular de-lurk I have seen in 
several seasons, and I call for:

*A Round of Applause!*

Oohlalune, we can take it!

She volunteers her list of albums in favored order, and the first is mine 
also:

> Albums:
> 1 The Ninth Wave/Hounds Of Love:    i've got massive reasons for this, and
> will not bore Gaffans with the whole story unless  badgered incessantly.
> suffice it to say that it is brilliant!!  :)

In my view, this is correct.  I couldn't package my preferences in the 
KateRate protocol, because my second after HoL/9th Wave is not another album, 
but the Hammersmith video.

And after that is not so much another album, as a whole set of mutually 
influential treasures:  TKI, but not apart from Hammersmith, and as given 
context not so much by the Cathy Demos as by John Carder Bush's photographic 
monograph,  Cathy .

That next-to-last photo, of Cathy at 10 or 11 at the piano, is the first in 
which I see the intensity of the performer she was going to become.  The 
overhead shot two pictures prior also makes me wonder:  is that proper 
fingering on the left hand?

Anyway:  Moon Maiden, Welcome!  (And yes, thank you, for your comment on 
"Suspended in Gaffa."  I can't watch her mime tears in the choral breaks 
without having real ones, either.)

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                                                            Peter Manchester
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