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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Kate Bush and gender id
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 16:16:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 16:16:30 1985
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Dear Douglanessa,

	(With an opportunity like that I just couldn't resist ! :-)

	Actually, you've made a number of self-references which made it
fairly clear that you're male (or at least think you are !).
	But anyway, about Kate Bush. We have all but one of her albums,
including the American compilation (which is what I was thinking of as
a more recent album than "The Dreaming", primarily because several cuts
are re-mixed in a way as to greatly change their sound). I am not terribly
impressed by any of them. My impression of alot of her stuff is that it
sounds as if she just found this great new toy, the Fairlight CMI, and she's
just bound and determined to make every kind of strange noise she possibly
can with it. This often results in music that is either mechanistic or
coy. Not that i have anything against strange noises or whatever (I like
Harry Partch for example, and you don't find much stranger noises than his);
my complaint does not have to do with her *type* of music, but what she
does with it. I suppose a good test would be to see what she could come
up with if she were forced to rely only on acoustic instruments and no
fancy engineering in the studio.
	Also, as an aside, I noticed your list of groups and people she
says have influenced her. There are some name corrections necessary
here - Everheart Faber is Eberhard Faber, Bossie Band is Bothy Band,
and Jove and the Polar Bears are Jules and the Polar Bears (Jules is
Jules Shear). (there may have been others but I didn't notice) Yes, a
number of the names she gives are Irish or English folk groups or
individual musicians (such as Alan Stivell, the harpist, etc).
	Bush is (or was a couple of years ago) a big rage in England,
but has never been terribly popular here, except among a small group.
I've nevr cared for her music, and I'm not trying to piss anyone off !
(well, ok, maybe some Andreas Vollenwieder fans :-)) Actually, I did
receive a number of letters from folks who supported my plea for more
and different music in this news group (which was the real point of my
original note, and Kate Bush was totally ancillary to that). I also
received several replies that had headers but no innards, so if someone 
out there is waiting for me to write back and I haven't, it's probably
because yours was a non-message.
	Let's talk more about blues or something..........

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jcpatilla

"'Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill !'"