Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!gateway!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: abm4@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Andrew B Marvick) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Mailbag Message-ID: Date: 22 Apr 91 18:13:43 GMT Sender: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 86 Approved: Love-Hounds@hayes.ims.alaska.edu Hi, everyone. IED is sorry to have been silent during the last week. Seems while he was away a lot of fuss was stirred up by this woefully suspicious and spectacularly humorless new bunch of "fans" out in Ohio. IED can only express thanks to Ed Suranyi and Chris Williams for showing the kind of patience with these people that IED is incapable of. At the risk of offending others out there, IED is compelled by conscience to say that, in his opinion, anyone who could possibly have taken Chris's piece seriously--is seriously deficient. IED fully supports "Homeground" in its coverage of this issue, and in fact he thinks this "new American fanzine", as well as the PMRC, got fairer treatment from "Homeground", Ed, Chris--and above all, Kate!--than they deserve. Love-Hounds--and any other party, for that matter--could probably manage to extort an acknowledgement from Kate on tape if they went about it as relentlessly and obnoxiously as these Ohioans evidently saw fit to do. But even Love-Hounds has some sense of decorum. To answer a couple of questions posed by other Love-Hounds: first, Kate's brother John Carder Bush _does_indeed_ appear in a Kate Bush video--two, in fact. Have another look at the astronaut(s) in "The Big Sky"; and check out the staff at that lovely little shop, Music For Pleasure... As IED interprets the video of "Hounds of Love", Kate (who directed the clip herself) wanted to make a tribute to Hitchcock's British films of the 1930s, particularly "The Thirty-nine Steps". Far from having no story, "Hounds of Love" is an organized little tale of love and trust. In the beginning Kate's heroine is a demure and withdrawn loner, visiting a museum (of a rather odd sort--perhaps a museum of science and industry?). (By the way, keep an eye out for Hitch himself in this early scene.) The hero, who plays Robert Donat's character (or a parallel thereof) in "The Thirty-nine Steps", comes in looking for a way to escape the clutches of the law. He clamps Kate's character to his wrist with handcuffs and rushes off into the night with her, with the authorities hot on their heels. The reference here is to Richard Hannay's ploy of fettering Madeleine Carroll to him with a pair of handcuffs, whereupon he takes her off with him into the night, on the Scottish hills and dales. They take refuge at a pub (or dance hall of some kind) where a conga dance is taking place--a typical Hitchcock crowd scene. By the end of this scene Kate's character, who was initially resentful of the dangerous stranger, has warmed to the freedom from solitude and convention that he represents, and (following the hero's recapture and momentary second escape from the police) she herself snaps the handcuffs back on between them before she leads them out into the darkness to renew their flight. The video also recalls (at least in the outdoor scene and the first few seconds of the video itself, before the song begins) the introductory reference to the movie "Night of the Demon" (aka "Curse of the Demon"). Also note Paddy's dual role (at the museum and in the public house), and a great many other fascinating little details worth discovering. IED's personal view is that this video has been badly underrated, and it's about time it got the attention it merits. Ron Hill: Your friend suggests that Wilhelm Reich might have suffered from Alzheimer's disease or "some kind of problem" during the last years of his research? Well, he certainly suffered from a problem--namely, severe clinical psychotic delusions. His last papers deal primarily with the activities of unidentified flying objects, the proliferation of blue orgonotic energy rays and any number of equally lunatic subjects. What is so remarkable--even beautiful-- about these late writings, given their patently insane arguments, is the appearance they give of being thoroughly documented. (That most of Reich's footnotes are self-referential by this time is understandable--outside of the Orgone Institute there weren't too many independent scientific experiments being conducted on the effects of Deadly Orgone Radiation!) Just a note about "Be Kind to My Mistakes": the original version, which appeared on the soundtrack album of the movie "Castaway", is considerably different from the version which came out as a b-side in support of "The Sensual World" album. The early version is a little rougher, a little more "live" in sound quality, and is a good deal longer in playing-time. Kate edited out some twenty-four bars of music (not verses, but instrumental passages) when she prepared the recording for release in 1989/90. There are some wonderful moments of playing by Kate's musicians on the original, and the extra length gives the song a much different atmosphere than its later CD mix. On the other hand, the "dryer" sound of the CD version, as well as some tinkering with the rhythm track, make it fascinating to listen to as well. Finally, a big thankyou to Andy Semple for his news about _HG_ #41. As wonderful as it sounds (about Kate's continued plans to concertize, and about the plan to put out a single by year's end), IED cannot help but remind himself and others that _we_have_heard_this_sort_of_thing_ _before_! Nevertheless... -- Andrew Marvick ..."It is happening again. It is happening again!"