Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!nessus
From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Kate Bush's 'The Dreaming', the best
Message-ID: <3443@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 15:06:55 EST
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.3443
Posted: Thu Jan 17 15:06:55 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 06:11:21 EST
References: <40@ISM780.UUCP>
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 45

[We let the weirdness in.]

>	From: michaelf@ISM780.UUCP

>	Two excellent songs on her "Never For Ever" album are "The
>	Infant Kiss" and "Army Dreamers".

You're right "The Infant Kiss" and "Army Dreamers" are excellent, but
you forgot to mention the two best songs on "Never For Ever",
"Breathing" and "Egypt".  Also "Violin" is quite good.  The other songs
on the album are all good, but not incredibly so.

"Never for Ever" is a transition album for Kate Bush, where she starts
to expand her horizons.  The songs which she does this on are the best.
For her other songs on the album, she stays in the niche she was already
in, which was really great for her first two albums, but by "Never For
Ever" had worn a bit thin.

By the way, "Never for Ever" has a great cover, especially if you get
the Canadian pressing (original gatefold cover) rather than the U.S.
pressing (not a gatefold cover).  It expresses the nature of Kate Bush's
music very well, visually.

>	Her new album is much more balanced in terms of good and bad
>	songs. GREAT VOICE!

What does "balanced in terms of good and bad songs" mean?  There aren't
any bad songs on "The Dreaming"  every single one is a masterpiece of
experimental, innovative music that is also incredibly listenable.

>	But, if heavy guitars and great bass riffs are your thang,
>	fergit it!

Well if that's all you like, yeah.  But you can like both heavy guitars
and Kate Bush.  I do.  (Besides Kate Bush as a few songs with heavy
guitars.  Check out the end of "Breathing" or "James and the Cold Gun"
from "The Kick Inside" or, better yet, the live version from "Kate Bush
On Stage" or "Kate Bush" (EPs).)

				I drift with Dunes,
				I whisper of the tombs,

				Doug Alan
				  Nessus@MIT-MC
				  mit-eddie!nessus