Re: Kate Bush Fans?

[reality@ucsd.edu]

Michael Clarke (ab173@cfn.cs.dal.ca) wrote:
>Hi, I have just discovered Kate Bush "A Sensual World" and think its 
>great.  I like it much better than "The Red Shoes".
> 
>Any comments?

[I'm cross-posting this to r.m.gaffa since there is more likely
a few KaTe fans there. :-]

Personally, I find RS to be a pretty unremarkable album. SW
is OK, but I find her earlier stuff (The Kick Inside, Hounds
of Love) to much more compelling.

I blame it all on Peter Gabriel.  Ever since he showed her how
easy it is to write a song with a drum-machine (later adding the
rest of the instrumentation and melody lines), her song-writing
has tended towards catchy, shallow, pop music[*]... not unlike
the recent work of Mr. Gabriel.  She used to write her songs
at the piano, and her earlier songs have a much richer melodic
and vocal quality.

* {This is, of course, KaTe-relative.  KaTe writing "shallow,
pop music" is still orders of magnitude more compelling and deep
than, say, Milli Vanilli or Peter Nesmith!}

Reality


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