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Contrast this song with her classic "Running Up That Hill", and it's easy to wonder whether Kate - the reclusive country girl, a star since her early teens - gets her ideas from life or from some very good books.
"Never Be Mine" restores some of the faith in her extraordinary talant. It's first verse - an account of walking home through the burning stubble and seeing her lover's face 'ghostly in the smoke' - could only be plucked from real life, and brilliantly underlines the sense of a love lost in the very moment that it's won. The vocal work of the Trio Bulgarka and the mournful tones of Spillane's Uilleann pipes combine quite beautifully here.
"The Sensual World" is a highly sophisticated musical tapestry which will take dozens of listenings to unravel and appreciate. At this stage, though, it seems to lack the edge and sheer musical power of "The Hounds Of Love", and depicts an artist, who for all her will to experiment, has become just a little too introverted and self-obsessed.
Martin Townsend
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 90 21:07:18 PST
From: ed@das.llnl.gov (Edward
Suranyi)
Subject: Dirty Linen
There's an article about Kate in the Winter issue of Dirty Linen, a magazine published in Baltimore. For those worried about copyright infringement, I should say that this magazine says, "Excerpts and entire reviews my be reprinted as long as credit is given to the author, artist, or photographer and Dirty Linen magazine." I intend to do that. Here's the article:
Kate Bush: In Focus
by John Anthony Wilcox
"Imagination sets in,
then all the voices begin."
-- from "Fullhouse"
Kate Bush. In the U.K. and Europe the name invokes memories of a seemingly endless string of hits. "Wuthering Heights," "Babooshka," "Sat in Your Lap," "Running Up That Hill," "Cloudbusting," the list goes on and on. But in the States, it's a different story. Here, La Diva Bush has only obtained a small, albeit devoted, audience. Her music is alternately wistful, folky, gutsy, and passionate. Perhaps it's the inability for the public to pigeonhole her into one concrete style of music that has let stardom elude Bush here. No matter. What Kate Bush the singer/songwriter/performer/producer presents has very little to do with stardom and quite a bit to do with substance and storytelling.
In a conversation I had with Kate Bush a while back, she mentioned that she seldom, if ever, wrote in an autobiographical context. She much preferred creating characters, and the songs were stories either about them or from their point of view. One need look no further than her introduction to the public -- the song "Wuthering Heights." She relates the story of obsessive love from the viewpoint ot the deceased Cathy and her beyond-the-grave love for Heathcliff. Bronte would surely find no fault in Kate Bush's homage to her timeless characters. "Wuthering Heights" was a prelude to Bush's debut album The Kick Inside. The album showcased a fragile, imaginative young woman and focused on delicate piano (played by Kate) and lush arrangements to counterpoint Bush's willowy multi-octave voice. Her sophomore album, Lionheart, was much in the same vein. Perhaps *too* much.
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