Re: Lionheart's low rating

[kandb@ix.netcom.com (Ben Miller & Kris Lyons)]

Ralph Eiserman writes:
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>Most of TKI and Lh is teenage stuff,
>not so far away from the stuff some of us wrote at that age,  
>to, or at least is basing on this texts.
>Symphony in Blue is better than some other songs, but it  
>does describe a typical situation of teenagers.
>Now this bores me, except when having my blues (as now).
>TKI is better produced and contains better songs and a  
>better performance, IMO.
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>"O England my Lionheart" is childish patriotism to me,
> a piece of Kitsch (I hope IED does not read this),
> but I have no relation to any kind of patriotism or  
>nationalism. (O yes, my grandparents exaggerated a bit, and  
>you may see a relation between my view of patriotism and  
>history)
> I also see that patriotism has a liberal and civil  
>tradition in UK, France and many other nations, so I don't
> generalize this.
> But I love *Army* *Dreamers*
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>j>Sad to think that Lionheart is 15 years old, makes me feel old...
>;) I no longer see a future ;)
>;) She makes me feel like an old man
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>;) When I remember back to 85, when they played HoL in the  
>Radio, I am feeling old.
>In fact, I was a bit to young to get KT addicted, but that  
>changed around 1988.
>And now there is 1995!
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>Ralph
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I agree that Lionheart ss well as TKI are a product of teenage romanticism.  I 
tend to think less of Lionheart because it has a greater concentration of songs 
that don't grab hold of me the way most Kate songs do.  In the case of O England 
My Lionheart (my favorite song on the album) I don't see it as 
patriotism\nationalism which I am also opposed to but rather a romantic 
evocation English images, done one would assume out of love for those images and 
what they represent and not a political idea.  

Ben Miller -an admitted Anglophile,
kandb@ix.netcom.com