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From: ed@DAS.LLNL.GOV (Edward J. Suranyi)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Subject: Life is beautiful today!
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Date: 24 Apr 91 06:18:51 GMT
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Today I went to that radio focus group I told you about a couple of
weeks ago.  I didn't get to personally tell a radio programmer to
play more Kate, but it was interesting anyway.

First, we filled out a survey about which radio stations we listened to,
and what we want from radio stations.  Then came the meat:  We listened
to ten-second snatches of 350 different songs, and rated them on how
familiar they were and how much we liked them.  This survey was clearly
sponsored by KITS; nearly all the songs were ones I'd heard on that
station.

Yes, they did include Kate:  "Running Up That Hill" and "Love And
Anger".  I gave them both a score of 6  (meaning I was familiar
with the song, and it was a favorite).

There was a girl sitting next to me, and we got to talking afterwards.
Her tastes and mine seemed vaguely similar, so I made the key remark:

"I was really glad they included some Kate Bush in this."

And she said --

"Yeah!  Every time she came up, I wrote '6' right away!"

Turned out she's a Kate fan!  She said that she's never met a guy who's
a Kate fan before!  All the other Kate fans she knows (of which
there are very few, apparently) are girls.  So I said I know lots
of guys who are, and I told her about Katemas, and about my enormous
collection, and she seemed VERY interested.

So we exchanged telephone numbers and, well, things are looking great!
I'm SO happy!!!!!!!!!!

Ed
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