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Originally Posted by David
People who lump Tori Amos with Kate Bush have cauliflower eyes & ears -- & probably minds. Amos needs to get a sense of humor, for one thing. Nowhere in her crybaby music does one find the exotic, sophisticated irony & wit that suffuses "Kashka from Baghdad," "Violin," "Babooshka," "There Goes a Tenner," "Suspended in Gaffa," & on & on.
"Leave It Open" alone is about the best response imaginable to the dissembling politicos & their plebs in our hallowed halls of Congress.
Unfortunately, Kate's more recent work -- from, say, The Sensual World to the present -- mostly avoids British humor & scatology in favor of traditional feminist themes & music that's too precious & wispy & lush (though still often very gorgeous). It's probably Kate's more recent music from 1989 till now that makes silly girls think she's in any way equivalent to Tori Amos.
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I'm not sure if Kate ever resorted to using scatological humor in her lyrics. If she has, please let me know about them! I (and Howard Stern) would be interested!
I do have to disagree that she has lost her sense of humor. For example, don't you love how she does her own Elvis impersonation in the verses of "King of the Mountain?" Or the absurdity of singing nothing but the first 150-ish decimals of pi in "(Pi)"? But I agree that shallow hacks like Tori Amos, et al. tend to grasp onto just one facet of the Kate oeuvre- what would appear to be precious girl-angst to some.