Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: stevev@greylady.uoregon.EDU (Steve VanDevender) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Funny how these things go . . . Message-ID: <9106191840.AA00730@greylady.uoregon.edu> Date: 19 Jun 91 18:40:43 GMT Sender: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 9 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Excerpted from a chronology of Kate Bush distributed with Ron Hill's _Cloudbusting_: [ Kate's early self-made demo tapes are sent to major record companies. ] >All the major companies are approached. None accepts. >Kate's songs are described as "morbid", "boring" and "uncommercial". ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hmm, there's been much the same reaction to another artist's early work in some places lately. But I won't name names :-).