Question re Kat Bush "Aerial"

[david counter]

Thanks Greg
you've saved me from having to buy it, I'll stick with her earlier stuff,

[Global]

The Wagner who wrote 'Parsilfal' was equally reviled by the lovers of 'Lohengrin'. Few listeners like Beethoven's 9th at first audition.

The girl who wrote 'Hounds' grew up. 'Aerial' is a product of artistic maturity.

By all means dislike it but for heaven's sake don't refuse to buy it unheard because someone else dislikes it!

The pressing quality has been variable but it it worth persevering.

....and I think the Rolf Harris thing is brilliant!

So there!

Mark

[David Mccallum]

I thank you for the advice on ordering this album.

I have come across a vinyl supplier called Sweet Memories which can supply me with Kates back catalogue. I agree that Hounds of Love was an amazing album but i prefer Never for ever. Army dreamers is quite apt right about now!

[Shane]

Originally Posted by Global

The Wagner who wrote 'Parsilfal' was equally reviled by the lovers of 'Lohengrin'. Few listeners like Beethoven's 9th at first audition.

The girl who wrote 'Hounds' grew up. 'Aerial' is a product of artistic maturity.

By all means dislike it but for heaven's sake don't refuse to buy it unheard because someone else dislikes it!

The pressing quality has been variable but it it worth persevering.

....and I think the Rolf Harris thing is brilliant!

So there!

Mark

Mark, I would argue with you totally if it wasn't for one thing. Despite my reservations, I keep finding myself listening to it!

[Allen]

I've heard this album more times than I would really choose to, a work colleague is a big fan.

I have to agree with Greg's opinion, where once there was whimsical eccentricity there is a kind of humdrum, vacuous tweeness, musically it sounds like a watered down version of a mid nineteeneighties Peter Gabriel project and the lyrics are just like a fairly dull housewife's blog.

Nothing on this album can match the unhinged brilliance of 'Violin' from the Never for Ever album the magnificent 'Wow' or the sublime Wuthering Heights.

I heard her interviewed at the time of release, she didn't seem to know who Sylvia Plath was, let alone that she published a collection of poems also called Aerial, bad mistake, doing an interview.

[Global]

Hi Allen

You've listened and you don't like it - Fine!

I've listened and I think it brilliant although stylistically utterly different from what went before.

Both our views are completely valid.

What I don't like is the idea that you shouldn't listen to something because someone else says so.

If I had taken that view I might have missed 'The Da Vinci Code.' - errr, hang on, that can't be right..............

Mark

[Allen]

Originally Posted by Global

If I had taken that view I might have missed 'The Da Vinci Code.' - errr, hang on, that can't be right..............

Oh God, don't get me started on that, I read the book and that was bad enough, a kind of dumbed down Foucault's Pendulum. Even the prospect of leering at Audrey Tautou couldn't induce me to go and see the film unless of course they've written in a bathing costume scene.

[Global]

Now, as I've said, no-one should avoid the film on my say-so.

HOWEVER - I was taken to see it by the family and it was DIRE!

Avoid at all costs - but don't believe me, see for yourself.

And - NO gratuitous nudity, so even that small crumb of comfort denied!

Mark

[Shane]

I haven't seen the film, but I read the book. I'm ignorant as far as religion goes, so I had no idea how much of what was claimed to be true actually was. Then I read one of his other books (glutton for punishment, me) in which an 800-ton meteorite was freed from the Greenland ice cap using a semiconductor laser. That told me all I need to know about Dan Brown's depth of research. If there's an ounce of truth in either book then I need to put my cd player in a bunker somewhere to stop it blasting passing 747s out of the skys!

[nikki]

Hi there

As a newbie to this forum i have had fun looking thru previous replies. Like Shane, i have read ThAT book which has caused more debates than the Iraq war, unlike him though i refused to read any more of them. Think i will stick to Cussler, more realism!