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From: sherouse@unc.UUCP (George W. Sherouse)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Kate Bush's 'The Dreaming', the best
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Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 13:42:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 29 13:42:57 1985
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Reply-To: sherouse@unc.UUCP (George W. Sherouse)
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Summary: 

>>
>>Frankly, I'm tired of people saying "This is the best, because *I* say it is".
>>Ever since I started reading net.music, I've seen people over and over again
>>claiming that what they like is the only thing that is good, and that 
>>everything else is trash.  What pompous, elitist attitudes!
>
>I don't feel I've wasted my money, at any rate. I'd say buy it, if
>you're interested in musicians who are at least trying to be
>innovative and have a few extra bucks floating around your pocket.

First, may I be the first to say that "The Dreaming" is neither the best
record ever or even the best Kate Bush album ever because *I* say so.
As the original slavering review pointed out the sound is highly
derivative of the Peter Gabriel sound which is highly derivative of
various third world artists' imitations of western music.  Kate's
*real* best work is her earlier stuff (literally) before her loss
of innocence.  In particular, check "The Kick Inside".

Second, if you really want to support innovation with your spare bucks,
run straight to your local wax purveyor and purchase anything by the
following groups/artists:

	Everything But The Girl
	Weekend
	The Gist
	Young Marble Giants
	Prefab Sprout
	Robert Ashley
	(and of course) The Residents

Good tunes to you,

George W. Sherouse
<decvax!mcnc!unc!godot!sherouse>

"If you examine the logistics and heuristics of the mystics
 You will find that their minds rarely move in a line".