Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!EDDIE.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.music.gaffa Subject: what happened? Message-ID: <8702030408.AA22840@sdc.uucp> Date: Mon, 2-Feb-87 23:10:00 EST Article-I.D.: sdc.8702030408.AA22840 Posted: Mon Feb 2 23:10:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Feb-87 07:20:50 EST Sender: daemon@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds Organization: Love-Hounds Anonymous Lines: 33 Approved: nessus@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: sdcrdcf!stephen@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU I got Lionheart on CD the other day. Wow, really disappointing after The Kick Inside. What happened anyway? Reasonably good production, but the song-writing (both music and lyrics) aches. As trapped in the seventies as HoL is in the eighties. |>oug, if you're serious about The Dreaming on CD, is it on import or domestic? Ko Tex [ *Lionheart* is widely recognized as being Kate Bush's least wonderful album. The record company forced Kate to rush it out shortly after the huge success of *The Kick Inside*. Because of this, few new songs were written for the album. Most of them are songs that Kate had lying around. (She had written more than 200 songs before recording *The Kick Inside*.) I disagree with you, however, that anything is wrong with the songwriting. It is in fact the production which mars the album. The songwriting is in several respects more adventuresome on *Lionheart* than on *The Kick Inside*. Despite its flaws, *Lionheart* has some absolutely brilliant songs on it: "In Search of Peter Pan", "Oh England My Lionheart", "Symphony in Blue", "In The Warm Room", and "Kashka From Bagdad". Reagrading *The Dreaming* on CD, I believe that it is available as both an import and domestic. I do not know at this point whether or not the domestic is just a repackaging of the import. This seems most likely to me. --Doug ]