Word: songs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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KATE BUSH: THE SENSUAL WORLD (Columbia). Well, it does have a lonely-hearts love song about a computer. Otherwise, the histrionics are so heavy and the passion so sham on this record that it would be wiser just to press DELETE...
...this is not something out of your old Math 1 b notes. They are the first few lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's athletic fight song...
Wonderfully under-orchestrated, "I Will Take You Home" is a sentimental song for voice and piano sung by Brent to his sleepy young daughter. Violins and music boxes provide the soothing musical texture which unites the piece and sets it apart from the rest of the album...
...fact that "I Will Take You Home" is a song that the Dead couldn't have written 20 years ago is exactly what sets it apart as something truly special. For music fans who have spent the summer listening to some of the other dinosaurs of rock and roll refusing to die before they get old, watching the Dead accept and acknowledge their age with grace and dignity through compositions like this one is a pleasure...
...records can turn up in such interesting places. When I was little I got a Chipmunks song on a red colored single in a Captain Crunch box, I found the Beatles' "Here Comes The Sun" in an issue of Time magazine, and they handed out copies of "Up Where We Belong" at a screening of An Officer and A Gentleman. Of Course, these were all soft and fragile pieces of vinyl not meant to last a lifetime, maybe only worthy of one smudgy play, but they were still nice surprise samplers in odd corners of culture. The soul...