Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Katechism XXXVI.7.xi Message-ID: <1990Jul13.040413.3666@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> Date: 13 Jul 90 04:04:13 GMT Sender: Love-Hounds-request@gaffa.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@gaffa.MIT.EDU Organization: Amnesia International Lines: 57 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner) IED: > Your premise is unsupported by evidence here, Richard. IED for one >dislikes your terminology. And I don't care much for pseudo-lawyerspeak. So? > Although IED would not try to argue that _TSW_ >is a "better" record than _The_Dreaming_ or _Hounds_of_Love_, he would >certainly not feel sanguine judging it a "worse" one. Such one-word >appraisals of Kate's albums seem to IED to have less than no practical >value. New Kids on the Block are worse than Kate Bush. Worse. One-word appraisal. No practical value? > Kate's albums--_TSW_ included--are so rich and multi-faceted >that to dismiss one over another in such cavalier fashion seems to IED >unwise, to say the least. So are Security, Skylarking and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. What's the point? > IED would answer, however, that _TSW_ is a >_departure_ from _The_Dreaming_, as it is from _Hounds_of_Love_. It's a worse album. >_ Kate >herself has explained that she was emphasizing a different side of her >aesthetic on _The_Sensual_World_. She was emphasizing a worse side of her aesthetic. > Therefore, simplistic "better-or- >worse" rating games serve no useful purpose in this context. Well-prepared duck a l'orange is better than a Spam sandwich. No useful purpose? > How does >such a valuation benefit us? Getting a $300 tax refund is better than paying $700. How does such a valuation benefit us? > What new insight do we gain from the >unsupported statement that one album is "better" than another? Such >judgements don't even begin to address the myriad artistic elements, >large and small, which make up the intricate and _unique_ fabric of >_The_Sensual_World_. Put a cork in it, IED. Bill Wisner Gryphon Gang Fairbanks AK 99775 "Put a cork in it, Wisner." -- Karl Kleinpaste