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From: rpk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Robert Krajewski)
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Subject: Re: Kate Bush's 'The Dreaming', the best
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Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 01:11:12 EST
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  First, may I be the first to say that "The Dreaming" is neither the best
  record ever or even the best Kate Bush album ever because *I* say so.
  As the original slavering review pointed out the sound is highly
  derivative of the Peter Gabriel sound which is highly derivative of
  various third world artists' imitations of western music.

The drum tracks for the Dreaming were recorded at the Townhouse in London
by Hugh Padaghm, who has also done engineering and producation for the
third Peter Gabriel album (surprise !), XTC, and Phil Collins.  I just
listended to the album for the first time yesterday, and my initial
reaction was that yes, it's very interesting, but I also noticed that there
is so much going on that the mix isn't very subtle.

On some of the groups:

Young Marble Giants: I really liked the only album they did (Colossal
Youth) -- I think there's also a ``Test Pattern'' EP by 2/3 of the group.

Prefab Sprout: British critics darlings -- I picked the single ``Don't
Sing'' out of curiosity -- it sounded like a parody of Elvis Costello with
200% too many chord changes.

Robert Ashley: Ashley is a very wordy performance artist type who is not
for everybody.  I found the little I heard of him before (the softness of
Automatic Writing, the density and random anecdotes of The Bar).  I saw a
performance of his at MIT and it was a disaster -- it was supposed to be a
``video opera,'' but evidently only a small part of the production was
actually there, and the material itself was utterly lacking in interest.
-- 
``Bob'' (Robert P. Krajewski)
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