RE: Kate's Studio and EMI

[Len Bullard <cbullard@HiWAAY.net>]

[Robb]

>That said, I was surprised to learn that NfE
>experienced a drop in sales from Lionheart.
>It's just trivia, really, but with NfE's three
>successful singles vs. Lionheart's one (Hammer
>Horror did not chart well), I had thought that
>NfE was the more commercially successful.

I don't track these things as I also don't care
much about the sales.  I either react emotionally 
to the album or I don't.  For Kate, I will usually 
buy anything she does because my experience is 
that I have to get used to some of her work before 
the impact is felt.  Items like The Women of Ireland, 
HOL, etc. are of course, exceptions.  Something in 
the voice and the music goes straight to the target 
and I am a captive to it.  The Dreaming leaves 
me cold to this day.  There is a lot of great 
recording there, but more anger and fascination 
with self than I like in music.  It is very good 
work, just emotionally unappealing.  We are all 
individual and private in these "aspects of the 
sensual world", to borrow a phrase.

len

"And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.  And what did you want?  To call myself beloved, 
to feel myself beloved of the earth."

- Raymond Carver -