Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!cjbiggin From: cjbiggin@watmath.UUCP (Colin Biggin) Newsgroups: net.music,net.flame Subject: Re: Kate Bush vs. Pat Benetar Message-ID: <16311@watmath.UUCP> Date: Sat, 31-Aug-85 00:10:27 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.16311 Posted: Sat Aug 31 00:10:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 31-Aug-85 09:15:39 EDT References: <5129@mit-eddie.UUCP> Reply-To: cjbiggin@watmath.UUCP (Colin Biggin) Followup-To: net.flame Distribution: net.music Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 103 Xref: watmath net.music:9048 net.flame:11755 Doug Alan spews on: > > Hey, how about this: For every message I see telling me to shutup about > Kate Bush, I'll post another article, that I wouldn't have otherwise, > about her. This message I am posting is an example. > > "Ooh, let me have it -- > Let me grab your soul away" > > Doug Alan > nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA) Doug, we're not telling you to shutup about Kate Bush, we're telling you to go seek professional help. You have the dreaded disease known as 'Bush On the Brain'. It manifests itself by a proliferation of repetitious, boring, fanatical, pointless articles in net.music. Not only do you constantly talk about Kate Bush, but every article you post on another topic has references to Kate Bush in it. Eg: " Well, I'd rate this horrid piece of dog-shit vinyl a 0.00000000000000001E-30000 on the KB scale of poetic/prose/literature in esoteric meanderings of the criminally brilliant." And of course when anybody tries to criticize Kate, they are met with a torrent of abuse. Eg: Joe User: Well I think KB's 'The Dreaming' doesn't stand up to close scrutiny when viewed against the works of Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert, etc.... Doug Alan: Where does this pansy-ass over-sensitive nerd from Bell Labs come off saying this blatant piece of record-company hype. Anybody who knows anything recalls that all of those artists are in the back-pockets of the swine record companies and in league with the bitch of vinyl, Madonna....ramble ramble... And now on the topic of Madonna. Doug has declared himself the messiah of music. He has instigated war on Madonna and the pop industry for a variety of reasons. Eg: "Oh come on, do you really believe this sexually aroused nymphette has the quality of music on her mind. We all know she's a publicity tease out to stroke the wallets of dumb consumerism. She has the morals of a gutter-rat and pales in comparison with the virginal, godlike, upstanding KB who glows with freshly new-born ideas and is in rapture with all that is lovely and beautiful. Madonna is a whore with a microphone while KB is a maestro with the Fairlight (god's gift to music)..." Whoops, he's onto Kate again... He just can't get off the topic (or should I say gets off on the topic).... Another annoying thing Doug does is incessantly break up every article into a million pieces. Eg: >> First sentence + 3 words from second sentence... DA:Criticizes the author's family and heritage and begins frothing at mouth. >>completion of second sentence + 2 words from third sentence... DA:Denies any complicity with A&M/RCA revolutionaries and begins a discourse on the wonders of KB record covers... Starts foaming at mouth... >>completion of fourth sentence + 2 WHOLE other sentences.... DA:Misinterprets (deliberately?) what author is saying and then once again starts litany on the quality of KB vs Everything&Everybody. >>completion of several more sentences and whatever... DA:calls author names and then blames British Press for world hunger and the threat of nuclear war... Fanatic gleam develops in left eye... etc.... etc... etc.... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, this is getting really long and probably longer than it deserves. In conclusion, Doug, I would ordinarily send you a letter telling you what a twit you are but that obviously will have positively no effect. You are obviously a zealot who will not be satisfied with anything. You refuse to accept anybody else's opinion (on anything) and get nasty and abusive when others criticize. You recently started your own newsletter about KB, great, we'd all love to hear the occasional discussion in it. But that won't do... You have to continually abuse us with your endless stream of invective defending each and every action of KB. What you said at the beginning goes to show what a brat you are. Well, go ahead, post another article in response to this one telling you to shutup about KB... cheers, Colin Biggin cjbiggin!watmath! {allegra|clyde|ihnp4|utzoo} University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario PS: This is cross-posted to net.flame with follow-ups to net.flame ONLY.