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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: "Hounds of Love" at number one!
Message-ID: <76@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 13-Oct-85 03:40:10 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 13 03:40:10 1985
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Keywords: Kate Bush

[Another school year begins and another bunch of twits appear on the net....]

> From: Larry Palena

>      I find the statement "quality does prevail" to be ridiculous in
>      this context.  So this woman outsold Madonna.  The same people
>      who put Madonna's album at the top of the charts put this "Hounds
>      of Love"

And what makes you think that the same people that buy Madonna albums
buy Kate Bush albums?  I'd say the intersection is relatively small
considering that Kate Bush does wonderful intelligent art rock and
Madonna does awful mindless insulting formula pop dreck.

Would you say that the same people that put Pink Floyd on the charts put
Madonna on the charts?  Oh, by the way, Pink Floyd are my second
favorite artists, and they are one of Kate Bush's biggest influences.
David Gilmour got Kate Bush her record contract, and one of Kate Bush's
songs was recorded at David Gilmour's home.

>    (that title just reeks of intelligence)

Go ahead, malign something you clearly haven't listened to!  (And
probably couldn't understand, anyway.)  Advertize your ignorance,
stupidity, and close-mindedness for all the net to see.  "We don't need
no education" -- those words just reek of intelligence, right?

Well if you listen to the song they do, and so does everything Kate Bush
does.  These are some lyrics by the person you are maligning:

	In Malta, catch a swallow
	For all of the guilty to set them free
	Wings fill the window, and they beat and bleed
	They hold the sky on the other side
	Of borderlines


>    up there,and you've got your nerve saying that quality has
>    prevailed.  Nothing new or interesting has prevailed.  The people
>    who stretched their minds with "Like A Virgin",in search of a "new
>    experience" have bought this album and made it popular.

And *you* have a lot of nerve talking about things of which you know
naught!  Go climb back into your hole!

>    In a month when their profound musical appetites seek new quenching
>    somebody else will take that coveted #1 position.

I'm sure you are right that Kate Bush will not hold the number one
position for long.  The pattern of her record sales is just like of
Peter Gabriel.  For both, their records enter into the British charts
very high, because their dedicated fans, who have had the release date
marked on their calenders for weeks in advance, rush out and buy the
album on the first day.  Then, because their albums have relatively
little pop appeal, drop very quickly out of the charts and settle to a
low but consistent position which will gurantee that their albums will
never go out of print.

For someone like Madonna, on the other hand, who sells records to kids
who like the sugar-coated crap they hear on the radio, the record rises
in the British charts slowly, then drops out slowly.  And in a couple of
years is totally forgotten (thank goodness!).

> Compare this to "Dark Side of the Moon" which has been on the charts
> for almost a decade.

Yeah, I guess this just proves your point that anything in the charts is
bought by Madonna fans.

Sometimes Pink Floyd fans, Beatle fans, etc., really annoy me.  It's like
music ended with them or something.  Good new music is being made all
the time -- you just gotta look and listen for it.  But clearly you've
made up your mind already and have closed your ears.

			"Narrow mind would perscute it
			 Die a little to get to it"

			 Doug Alan
			  nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)