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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
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Subject: Re: I finally heard Kate Bush!
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 06:41:27 EST
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> From: kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker)

> I managed to catch her on Capital radio in London last week...they
> were even featuring her, imagine that.  In the part I caught they
> played all of her new single, and bits of the rest of her music
> (excuse me if I got them wrong, but I am not at all familiar with her
> music).  My impression?  Boring.

I dunno why people continue with these reviews like "I heard a Kate Bush
song once and didn't think it was all that great".  They are pretty
pointless.  Even if you were *exactly* like me, a potential
head-over-heels fanatical fan, you wouldn't like a Kate Bush song on
hearing it for the first time.  (And I've said this many times.)  I have
only very rarely liked one of her songs on hearing it for the first
time.  I didn't like *anything* on "The Dreaming" the first six or seven
times I listened to it, and the first time I heard "Running Up That
Hill" ("her new single", and far from her best song...)  I *hated* it.
I thought it confirmed my worst nightmares of Kate Bush losing all her
talent.  I wanted to fly to England and smash her drum machine and take
away her Fairlight.  And if I had reviewed "Running Up The Hill" on the
basis of one listen, instead of many, that's exactly what I would have
said.

So you don't need to say, "I finally heard a Kate Bush song and didn't
like it".  I've just said it for you.

				-Doug Alan
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