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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Will The Real Kate Bush Please Stand Up
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 20:22:38 EDT
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> Dan Ross asks:
> > I know this is going to sound stupid, but WHO IS KATE BUSH?
> 
> For the past few months that I've been reading net.music, I
> have been asking myself the same question.  I'd always been
> pretty "up" on the music scene, and never heard of Kate Bush...
> even on the NYC stations (WNEW, WAPP, WHTZ, WPLJ, etc.)

Listening to mainstream radio and being "pretty up on the music scene"
are contradictions in terms.  (WHTZ?  Z-100?  A source of musical knowledge?)

> Well, I finally got MTV installed in my new apartment, after
> a lapse of 4 months.  One of the first videos I saw was the
> "Americanized" version of the "Running Up That Hill" video.
> At last...KATE BUSH!  I still don't know much about her, except
> the music is a little different, but she didn't seem to strike
> me as anymore than any other "new" group/artist on MTV.

"Running Up That Hill" 'different'?  May I humbly suggest listening to some
serious college radio (like WRSU and WPRB locally) to get really "up" on
the music scene.  There's a whole world out there where Kate Bush is just
typical of a large output of creative music rather than "a little different".
(MTV is probably even less of a source of musical knowledge, unless you watch
the Cutting Edge on Sunday nights.  Try U68 instead.  There you'll get to see
the REAL Kate Bush video.)
-- 
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						Rich Rosen   pyuxd!rlr