Re: The Red Shoes

[mdean@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael W. Dean)]

In article <9510251846.aa28433@srvwingb.sco.com>,
Craig Heath <craig@sco.COM> wrote:
>> From: mdean@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael W. Dean)
>> Date: 24 Oct 1995 01:12:35 GMT
>
>>     Let's look at it this way:  who here thinks of The Red Shoes as Kate's
>> absolute best work ever?
>
>Actually, I do.  While it's probably not the most adventurous album*, I find
>it the most moving.  I am constantly astonished at the emotional resonances
>Kate manages to conjure up, as much with the music as the lyrics.  Some of
>it can be analysed (like the "Whiter Shade of Pale" references), and I think
>it helps being "of an age" with Kate, i.e. thirty-something, but for the
>most part, how and why this happens is a complete mystery to me.
>

    It was almost inevitable that to someone out there, The Red Shoes
would be tops.  Hell, there's folks out there to whom Lionheart is the
leader.  Reading this group, however, I get the feeling that The Red Shoes
is a little more middling, while Hounds and Dreaming are more favored (I
don't know if anyone did a tally of the old "Rate Kate" thread, but that's
what I remember).

Mike
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