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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: Fri, 18-Oct-85 19:50:14 EDT
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>>> ...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 beeing "pretty up on the music
>>  scene" are contradictions in terms.  (WHTZ?  Z-100?  A source of
>>  musical knowledge?

> Sorry Rich, WHTZ and Z-100 are one and the same.

Why do you think I put both names in the same parenthetical statement!

> I know Z-100 is
> top 40...I don't listen often, but WNEW plays more of a variation
> of the "music scene".

WNEW is to progressive music what oil is to vinegar:  they don't mix.
WNEW was ONCE a great radio station, but their motif since WPLJ died as
an AOR station is to pick up the slack by playing endless boring metal
music ad cesium and "oldies" for people living in the past.

> O.K, so maybe I'm not as "up" on music as
> I might have thought, I don't listen to the college stations.

My point is don't claim to be so if you're not.

> But for the "average" person out there who listens to the NYC
> stations, they've never heard of Kate Bush.

Whose fault is that?  In the 1960's (remember them?), all sorts of music
got airplay on all sorts of radio stations.  There was no "black music",
"metal music", "new wave", etc.  There was a wide variety of music played
on even mainstream radio stations.  Now you've got these stupid pigeonholes
for radio stations that play only what is "allowed" by market pressures
and playlists.  Why isn't Kate Bush on these playlists?  Why aren't a lot
of great artists making modern creative music on the playlists?  These geeks
are SO SURE no one will like them?

>>> finally got MTV...At last...KATE BUSH!  I still don't know much
>>> about her, except the music is 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.

> MTV has shown videos from many groups I've never heard of/seen before
> (embedded between the top hits)...and I *HAVE* watched U68.  It's
> good, and I *DID* see the real Kate Bush video (much better than
> the other version).  I don't, however, prefer one station to the
> other...it depends on what I'm looking for.

You're right.  If you're looking for extremely boring self-indulgent "VJ"s
playing a strict playlist of mainstream music in heavy rotation, then MTV
is for you.  If you're looking for something better, U68 offers it to a
degree.  (As does USA Night Flight, at least it did while I was still
watching it.)

> I wasn't looking for a flame when I wrote the first article, just
> stating some opinions.  But thanks, Rich, you've been the first
> to flame me since I've been on the net!  (I think it was a flame...
> even if only a "little" one. :-) )

No, it wasn't a flame.  (It's amazing how people "expect" certain submissions
to be flames based on presuppositions about certain things!)  It was intended
as information.  I hope it served that purpose, as I hope this one does.
-- 
"Wait a minute.  '*WE*' decided???   *MY* best interests????"
					Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr