From: Greg Hatmaker, gregh@mpinet.net
Subject: Re: AENT review [long] [ spoilers]
Date: 2/2/2002 10:42:11 PM
To: sleepycat@eudoramail.com


At 03:12 PM 02/03/2002 +1000, Kevin J. Bonham wrote:
>Radiance: I'll be honest here, I really can't stand this at all.  I still
don't get what he's trying to do here - just tell a straight story or make
some kind of comment, and if so what is it?  I am also still not sure about
the pace of this song. It could have been exciting I find much of it
drunken and creaky. It has pretty patches, but I doubt I'm ever going to
really like it.  I guess this song and I just don't get on.

What I like about Radiance is that it is a bit of a parable. I can imagine
Steve singing this bedside to his daughters. It has the fairy tale quality
of It's No Reason, but it's a fairy tale us adults can listen to and not
feel guilty about...because it's about us. I find Radiance simple and
dreamlike and something I like to listen to with the lights off at the edge
of consciousness maybe followed by the last few songs of Ghost in the Machine.

g!








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