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!mhuxr!ihnp4!mit-eddie!rpk From: rpk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Robert Krajewski) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Kate Bush's 'The Dreaming', the best Message-ID: <3614@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 01:11:12 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.3614 Posted: Tue Feb 12 01:11:12 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 02:51:03 EST References: <40@ISM780.UUCP> <1093@houxm.UUCP><135@unc.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 34 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) ARPA: RpK@MC MIT Local: RpK@OZ UUCP: genradbo!miteddie!rpk or genradbo!miteddie!mitvax!rpk