Re: Red Shoes Blues

[Alan Stonebridge <Alan.Stonebridge@durham.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 29 May 1996, Dave Watkins wrote:

> After reading all the posts about people's least favourite Kate songs, it
> occured to me that a lot of the songs on The Red Shoes were included in the
> lists.  Is it widely considered that The Red Shoes is Kate's worst album?
> I rather like it.

I like it too. I think it adds a bit of variety to her work. After all, 
the first two albums had a common style, NfE, TD and HOL all had some 
strange (well, non-commercial) sounding tracks, and TSW was sort of a mix 
of styles. Well, TRS, to me, sounds more like a development of "Love and 
Anger" and some of the B-sides like "Burning Bridge" and "Be Kind To My 
Mistakes". Some of you may say it's not as good as those B-Sides, but I 
like this more commercial sound. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't like it 
if Kate started to do music that sounded like TRS all the time, but I 
think it's a refreshing change, and shows a lighter side to her (not 
necessarily a less interesting one though; by 'lighter' I mean it shows 
the love (like that which she finds at the end of "The Ninth Wave") is 
really important to her).

Alan.