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Subject: Re: Kate Bush's "The Dreaming", the best album ever or ever to be
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Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 22:07:22 EST
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> [We let the weirdness in.]
> 
> Hi!  Do you like artistic rock such as Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, King
> Crimson, or Laurie Anderson?  If you do please read on.  If on the
> other hand you think that Michael Jackson, Asia, and Culture Club
> represent the ultimate in musical experience, please swallow two
> cyanide tablets (not enclosed) or just skip to the next message.  Both
> actions will violate the true meaning of life.
> 
> My purpose here is tell you about the best album recorded or that ever
> will recorded.  It is "The Dreaming" by Kate Bush.  I am spending the
> time to tell you about this album because unlike the Pink Floyd, Peter
> Gabriel, etc., Kate Bush is little known in the U.S. and needs the
> advertisement.  I am also spending the time because unfortunately if
> "The Dreaming" does not get more success, Kate Bush may never produce
> anything nearly as good as "The Dreaming" ever again.
> 
> "The Dreaming" is Kate Bush's fourth album.  She became very popular
> in England with her first three albums "The Kick Inside", "Lionheart",
> and "Never for Ever", which are on a bizarre fringe of Pop.  With "The
> Dreaming", though she totally departed from Pop to create her own area
> of music.  Unfortunately, "The Dreaming" was not well-received at all
> in England, but strangely enough has created a small but incredibly
> dedicated cult following in the U.S.  It seems likely that if "The
> Dreaming" does not gain in popularity, Kate Bush's record company will
> pressure her to produce again more commercial stuff.
> 
> "The Dreaming" is a perfect album.  That is why I said it is the best
> album recorded or that ever will be recorded.  You can't get any
> better than perfection.  Perhaps there is an album I don't know of or
> an album yet to be that is as good, but there is none nor will be none
> better.
> 
> The biggest influence for "The Dreaming" seems to be Peter Gabriel's
> third album (which is also a great album).  In fact Kate Bush sings
> background vocals for two songs on the album, "No Self-Control" and
> "Games Without Frontiers".  (Kate Bush hangs around with a good crowd.
> Besides being a good friend of Peter Gabriel, she is also a good
> friend of David Gilmour, who "discovered" her and also does some
> background vocals on "The Dreaming".)  Though similar in some ways to
> Peter Gabriel's third album, "The Dreaming" is also very different.
> The lyrics, while being even stranger than Peter Gabriel's, hit closer
> to home.
> 	Man:	Woman, let me in
> 		Let me bring in the memories
> 		Woman, let me in
> 		Let me bring in the Devil Dreams
> 	Woman:	I will not let you in
> 		Don't you bring back the reveries
> 		I turn into a bird
> 		Carry further than the word is heard
> 	Man:	Woman, let me in
> 		I turn into the wind
> 		I blow you a cold kiss
> 		Stronger than the song's bit
> 	Woman:	I will not let you in
> 		I face towards the wind
> 		I change into the Mule
> 		Hee-Haw
> 		Hee-Haw
> Kate Bush's voice is amazing.  It ranges from a piercing
> high to a powerful bass, and she uses it perfectly.  The music is all
> very layered.  Every song with the exception of one required two 24
> track tapes to record.  The album takes two or three listenings at
> first to overcome the sensory overload, but after that listening to
> the album is bliss.  Every time I listen to the album, I can hear
> something new that I didn't hear before.  Every time I like the album
> even more.  This is opposed to most albums, which I get tired of after
> listening to them for a while.
> 
> Here is a review of "The Dreaming" by Kurt Loder from Musician
> (Copyright 1983) included without permission:
> 
> 	This is what progressive rock might have become had it
> 	actually progressed, rather than congealing into the massed,
> 	lumbering cliches that came to distinguish its latterday
> 	forms.  Oblivious to all fashions, Britain's Kate Bush has
> 	advanced into a musical area that's unquestionably her very
> 	own -- a kind of mystic and semi-inscrutable artsong that
> 	slowly draws you in and keeps you marvelling at her unending
> 	invention and oblique, multilayered meanings.
> 
> 	Although well appreciated in her homeland, Bush has been a
> 	source of continuing puzzlement for her American record
> 	company: how to promote a female performer who's neither a
> 	chirrupy sex doll nor a punked-out doom-shrieker?  Her
> 	problems with popular acceptance -- aside from the fact that
> 	she's a gifted musician, songwriter and producer who happens
> 	to be a beautiful woman to boot -- are once again apparent on
> 	"The Dreaming", as is her extraordinary artistry.  "Sat In
> 	Your Lap", the lead song here, is a furiously percussive track
> 	that considers -- of all things -- the difficulty of obtaining
> 	true wisdom without work ("Some say that knowledge is
> 	something sat in your lap," she trills).  Likewise, when was
> 	the last time you heard a surreal, faintly political song
> 	about bank robbery ("There Goes a Tenner") or a Vietnam War
> 	retrospective written from the point of view of a stalking
> 	guerrilla ("He's big and pink and not like me / He sees no
> 	light / He sees no reason for the fighting")?
> 
> 	"Night Of The Swallow" considers another clandestine
> 	operation, this one airborne and apparently ill-fated ("Wings
> 	fill the window / And they beat and bleed"); "All The Love"
> 	considers life's eternally underpondered transience ("All the
> 	love we could have given / ... 'I needed you to love me too.
> 	I wait for your move'").  And on "The Dreaming", the albums
> 	most startling and unsettling track, Bush brings in Rolf ("Tie
> 	Me Kangeroo Down, sport") Harris on digeridu [an aborigine
> 	instrument] for a frightening rumination on the rape of native
> 	culture in Australia: "Bang' goes another Kanga / On the
> 	bonnet of the van / ... Erase the race that claim the place
> 	and say we dig for ore."
> 
> 	Throughout all of this, Bush layers dense musical textures and
> 	elliptical catch-phrases into an elsewhere unexampled work of
> 	disturbing art.  The production is thick and rich, her
> 	high-pitched vocals often astonishing in their wayward
> 	inspiration, and her arrangements -- based largely on her own
> 	keyboard playing [Piano, Fairlight, and CS80] -- offer
> 	surprise at every turn.
> 
> 	You're not likely to see "The Dreaming" much advertised or
> 	otherwise promoted in these days of parlous record-company
> 	finances -- even though this is her first LP to be released in
> 	this country in four years.  My advice to seekers after artful
> 	rock: get her while you can.
> 
> So, now you have no excuse.  You can't say that you never heard of
> Kate Bush.  Go buy the album!  If you don't won't you feel empty
> knowing that you haven't listened to the best album ever or ever to
> be.
> 
> 			Remember to treat the gelignite tenderly for me,
> 
> 			Doug Alan
> 			genrad!mit-eddie!nessus
> 			Nessus@MIT-MC

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Hi Doug!!!!!!
I'm glad to hear that there is still someone making good music. I really like Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel, King Crimsom and I looking for something new. I tried to find the album you mentioned but I couldn't find it. Do you know where I can get