Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!ihlpg!jeand From: jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Kate Bush Message-ID: <1090@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 01:48:02 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.1090 Posted: Fri Aug 16 01:48:02 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 03:30:43 EDT References: <3664@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 38 > Since I wasn't sure that I had ever heard Kate's music I went out to > get a copy of "The Dreaming". Boy, nobody up here in the north woods had > a copy. Neither did they have a copy here in Naperville, 1/2 hour from Chicago! Neither did they have a copy in the record stores on the Loop! Moral of the story is: if you want to try it, you're going to have to order it. I did. (I don't regret it.) > However, I heard "Running up the hill" the other night on the radio. > Nice song, but I guess I'm not cut out to be a Kate Bush fanatic. > I have no specific criticisms of what I heard and it's probably not > representative of her total musical output. Seems to me it is just another > synthed up song with a female singer. (I have nothing against synths, I own > one) Have I missed something important? Please be honest, flames and > sarcasm are not constructive. > > Dave Bottom I have not yet heard "Running Up That Hill." However, as Doug Alan has pointed out various times, and I concur, it is very difficult to hear all the neat things that Kate Bush manages to put into a tune in only a few listens. It took me three solid days of playing THE DREAMING over and over and over and over again, before my musical comprehension hit 80%. Not until Doug so kindly sent me a copy of the lyrics (thanks again!) (the lyrics are *not* included in the cassette version. And you *need* them. So, be warned!) did I really begin to appreciate the gestalt of music and words. Summary: to really give her a fair chance, give the album a few listens. If you`re reluctant to go to all the trouble of ordering an album you`re afraid you may not like, tape 'Running' and play it until you're really sure that you know what it is you're deciding to ignore.... NOT a drooling KB fan.... AMBAR Until August 16 --> {*ANYTHING*}!ihnp4!ihlpg!jeand "I told you when I *MET* you that I was crazy, and you weren't listening!"