Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekecs.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!pesnta!hplabs!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw
From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Fuel for Kate Bush haters (really critical silliness)
Message-ID: <5614@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 13:50:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekecs.5614
Posted: Mon Aug 19 13:50:35 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 07:56:50 EDT
References: <4991@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Distribution: net.music
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
Lines: 32

>    by Helen Fitzgerald of Melody Maker (Hey, Jim Hofmann, you'll
> probably find this review "interesting", but sad...):
> 
> 	Does Kate buy Beauty Without Cruelty lipgloss?  Are her nipples
> 	real?  Does she wax or shave her legs?  I mean, is this lady
> 	real?  What sorcery does she possess that turns normal,
> 	reasoning anti-sexist men into slavering, rampant and primitive
> 	devotees who'd trample their grandmothers for one glimpse of her
> 	nether regions?  It's okay Barry, I've turned the record off
> 	now, down boy, down I say.  Is it the voice (yeuch), her cute
> 	balletic pirouettes or that little girl lost expression that so
> 	easily stirs this bestial transformation?  This woman is either
> 	a witch or a hallelujah merchant, though either way she's
> 	precocious, dated and dull.  This record is dismally
> 	uninteresting, she caterwauls something about making a deal with
> 	God -- ho hum.
> 
> 	In olden times they burned people at the stake for less than
> 	this.
> 
> How could anyone call such an unjustified hateful attack, a review?

If it's any comfort to you, Doug, I'm still trying to figure out how
someone can be both precocious (~ ahead of her time) and dated (~ behind
her time) at the same time. And even if she were, it's hard to imagine
such a paradoxical combination being dull. Perhaps Ms. Fitzgerald has 
a random review generator online. 

Those who can, do. Those who can't, become critics.

					who is Kate Bush, anyway?  :-)
						Jeff Winslow