Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!think!mit-eddie!nessus From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: "Hounds of Love" at number one! Message-ID: <21@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 03:28:26 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.21 Posted: Mon Oct 7 03:28:26 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Oct-85 05:56:50 EDT References: <5410@mit-eddie.UUCP> <499@petfe.UUCP> <1841@pyuxd.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 78 Keywords: Kate Bush > From: evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) > I just want to express my condolences to Doug Alan and all the Kate > Bushers. Now that she has a #1 album, it's only a matter of time > until tickets to her concerts (she DOES perform, right?) Actually, not. She hasn't done a concert since 1979! > become hard to get (viz. Bruce Springsteen, Dire Straits, Phil > Collins), Back then she sold out every show and she never came to the U.S., so things couldn't get much more difficult. (Can you buy tickets for shows in England through Ticketron?) > or she starts to become very accessible, and mundane > (viz lots of people). She's been a big star throughout Europe since her first single in 78 and hasn't done that yet.... > I must admit to having never heard her music, but, s--t, now that she > has a number 1 album in the UK, I'll have to wait on line overnight to > get tickets to see her. Actually, this is her second number one album and all five of her albums were in the British top ten. In the U.S., though, none of her albums have ever risen any higher than "Dark Side Of The Moon" is right now.... > Or is she just going to become another Richard Clayderman? Who is Richard Clayderman? ..... [A long pause as Doug's memory cells click away furiously....] Hey, that was a pretty subtle allusion! There's an article on Richard Clayderman in the same issue of Keyboard magazine of which Kate Bush appears on the cover.... "The Julio Iglesias of the piano...." Evan, give me a break, please! > From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) > I wouldn't worry, Evan. Americans are usually at least a year behind > what's going on elsewhere in the world. In this case eight years! > It takes time for American marketing analysts to figure out how to > push a product, develop tie-ins, promote the sucker in a way that's > "acceptable" to the American market. Hey, they are already working on it! The album was released in the U.S. on colored "marbleized" vinyl. (The sticker on "The Dreaming" that said 'As seen on MTV' (Right! About twice, maybe!) didn't seem to do a whole lot of good, though.) What's really scary is that she's suddenly become a *huge* success in Boston! "Running Up That Hill" has been the number one song for a month on the commercial radio station I listen to sometimes (WFNX). It became the number one video within a week of appearing on WVJV, the music video TV station around here. They are playing it all over the stupid AOR station and the even worse disco radio station. I've seen TV commercials for "Hounds of Love"! I've seen TV commercials that use the music for "Running Up That Hill" as the background music! I saw a half-page ad for "Hounds of Love" in a newspaper with the slogan "A Rising Star"! The pop record chain store around here is having a special sale where they stay open past midnight for a week and "Hounds of Love" is their featured album! They even mentioned Kate Bush on Entertainment Tonight! I'm starting to get worried! "And dream of sheep" Doug Alan nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA) P.S. Then again, Boston might not be very representative of the U.S. in general. Tickets for The Cure went on sale here a few days ago, and there was already a line forming by 5PM the night before they did....