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From: robertsl@stolaf.UUCP (Laurence C. Roberts)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Hounds of Love and twits
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 11:45:29 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 15 11:45:29 1985
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> These are some lyrics by the person you are maligning:
> 
> 	In Malta, catch a swallow
> 	For all of the guilty to set them free
> 	Wings fill the window, and they beat and bleed
> 	They hold the sky on the other side
> 	Of borderlines
	borderline
	feels like I'm gonna lose my mind
	'cause you keep on pushin' our love
	over the borderline...

(ok, so Madonna didn't write those herself, big deal.)

Geez, Doug, I think the guy had more valid points than invalid ones.  I
really can't defend the Hounds of Love side of the record.  Listen to those
sooo repetitive drums on Deal with God, the Lauperesqe hiccoughs on HoL, etc.
I am willing to bet that many of the people buying the record will listen to
side 2 once and then shrug and flip it back, never to listen to anything but
the hit singles.  True, your argument about the rush of fans to buy the record
catapulting it to number one is probably valid too.  And the guy is wrong in
saying that it isn't an enduring classic.  However, it probably won't stay as
high as Pink Floyd has.  OK, so break it up, guys.

The thing with HoL is that side one is composed of songs which are pop songs
and no more, and side two is art songs (ok, I stretched the definition, but
you know what I mean) and NOT pop songs.  Formerly, KB's songs could be
interpreted either way, but this time she chose to try another route, which
makes some much more accesible, and some less accesible.  It took me a while
to figure out how to listen to this record in a way that made it work for me.

So Doug, don't flame people just because they seem to have said something
stupid.  (hint, hint)

-- 
			   Laurence Roberts
			   ...ihnp4!stolaf!robertsl

	St. Olaf - built on a bluff and operated on the same priciple.