Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!think!mit-eddie!nessus From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: I finally heard Kate Bush! Message-ID: <251@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 06:41:27 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.251 Posted: Wed Oct 30 06:41:27 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 02:24:38 EST References: <134@intelca.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 28 > 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 nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)