Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: re: Kate Bush cover versions Message-ID: <3528@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 03:57:54 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3528 Posted: Fri Aug 9 03:57:54 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 05:24:57 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 33 > From: mit-eddie!nessus (Doug Alan) > On Pat Benetar's debut album, there is a horribly butchered version of > KB's "Wuthering Heights". Oh, give me a break. I really think that your fanaticism for Kate Bush is interfering with your critical judgement. I will grant that the *music* for "Wuthering Heights" as played by Kate Bush is superior to that as by Benetar's band, but I think that Benetar's *singing* of the song is far superior to Bush's. First of all, Benetar (in my humble opinion) puts far more emotion into the song than Bush does. Secondly, the lower register of Benetar's voice is much more palatable. "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" (which precedes "Wuthering Heights" on THE KICK INSIDE, as you well know) proves that Bush can sing quite well in a lower register. That she then chooses to sing "W.H." in a shrill falsetto which is high enough to give one nosebleeds is especially irritating. There's certainly nothing wrong with you preferring Kate Bush's version over Pat Benetar's, but to call the latter "horribly butchered" is silly. Besides, it served what you might consider a useful purpose --- it was one of the reasons that tempted me to try one of Kate Bush's albums. :-) > there is nothing > more annoying than when you're playing "Wuthering Heights" on "The Kick > Inside" and someone walks by and says "Hey, you like Pat Benetar too?" Yes, I can agree on this point, and I'm willing to bet that this helped color your opinion on Pat Benetar's cover of "W.H." --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA