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From: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen)
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Subject: Re: Kate Bush... Flamed once, or many times...
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 05:29:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 05:29:21 1985
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>            Even the AOR "dreck" stations seem to want no part in her.
>         WMMR,in Phila., was the world's first AOR station,and is con-
>         sidered a rather hip one,at that.In addition to the old dino-
>         saurs,they play music like "Tears For Fears" and "Simple Minds".
>         But do they play K--- B---???!!?? NOOOO!!!
>
>            WXPN,broadcasted as a public service out of Univ. of Penn.,
>         is the city's most "with-it" station;Do they play K--- B---?!!! 
> 
>                 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
>
>              The answer is this;K--- B--- is an ultra-gimmicky pop
>         singer whose ridiculous music is not considered palatable
>         to American audiences.This neatly explains why serious sta-
>         tions want no  part in her,and why only the must adventurous
>         pop venues sponser her.She is no more artistic than WHAM!


Wait a minute.  Who is it that considers KB not "palatable to American
audiences?  Since when do the program directors at commercial radio
stations have a monopoly on American taste?  I am an American and *I*
consider KB palatable.  Where does that leave you?  As a matter of fact
I am a DJ at a "with-it" radio station (KRRC Portland, The dirigible of
the Airwaves.  Radio Quartermile radius as one of my fellow DJs put it.)
And I sometimes play her.  This whole discussion is fast getting really 
stupid, but I resent being called un-American, or weird, or something
just because my musical taste does not conform to what some middle-aged
burn-out thinks my age group should listen to.  So the local AOR station
doesn't play her.  SO WHAT?

>             Do I need to hear her to come to all these brilliant con-
>         clusions?? NOOO,because so much has been written about her on
>         this net by people who have heard her,and I read it faithful-
>         ly!!


For once I agree.  My opinion of her was irreparably warped when I heard
her before I ever even heard of the net.  My ten page critical exposition
of the life and times of Toejam Jawallaby is forthcoming.

>      2- She is *NOT* an artist,nor worth the time he devotes to
>         her on net.music,which he has been asked to **CURTAIL MANY
>         TIMES***!!!!
>                                             Righteously yours,
>                                              Larry Palena


By me also, a time or two, you may recall.  
Baiting Doug is great fun, I've done it too, but can we all please SHUT UP?

				Have A Nice Day
					Soren Petersen