Re: The eternal Kate-Tori debate

[Rolf.Peukert@Theoinf.TU-Ilmenau.DE (Rolf Peukert)]

Marcel F G Rijs  wrote:
> I dunno much about the US marketing, but in this part of the world there
> was no specific marketing for "Little earthquakes".

Here she was constantly compared to Kate, since the end of 1991 when
"Silent All These Years" came out. I don't have any promo material to
prove it, but I'm quite sure this was coined by the record company.

> [...] Fact is, no marketing concept is big enough to
> disguise the Fact  that Tori Amos is one damn fine musician. The question
> is not if Tori Amos is as good as Kate Bush, I'd go so far as to ask if
> Kate Bush is as good a musician as Tori Amos???

I'm not sure what you mean here with "musician". No-one doubts that
Tori is an excellent pianist. She had five or six years of formal piano 
training and that shows. But unfortunately her singing, esp. her 
singing while playing piano, isn't up to par. That woman has a serious 
breathing problem.
Yes, Tori is a better pianist than Kate. But a better artist? naahhh

And while I'm nagging at other people's favourites: 
I hope Manu Katche's work on the new Kate album is better than
his insensitive drumming on "Professional Widow"!


masternag Rolf