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!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!nessus
From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Will the real Kate Bush please stand up?
Message-ID: <122@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 14:39:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.122
Posted: Thu Oct 17 14:39:27 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Oct-85 06:07:04 EDT
References: <1140@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 49
Keywords: Kate Bush, WVJV, WBCN

> From: Dan Rose (rose@UCSD)

> I know this is going to sound silly, especially in light of all the
> attention she's getting on the net, but WHO IS KATE BUSH???

British artrock singer/songwriter/producer/performer.  Household name in
England since 1978.  Famous throughout Europe.  Relatively unknown in
U.S.  (I won't say here greatest musician ever or someone might flame at
me.)

> I listen to almost all kinds of music, including new wave, progressive
> rock, avant garde, and lots more, and I've never heard anything by
> Kate Bush.

You should hear her then!

> Can someone clue me in on her music?  Judging from the taste of people
> who post here, I'd have to guess that she's a cross between Laurie
> Anderson, the Beatles, and Pink Floyd, whatever that would sound like!

She defies description, but hey, that's not too bad if you have to come
up with one, though you should throw in a lot of Peter Gabriel and maybe
a bit of Patti Smith and a tiny bit of Sex Pistols for spice.  She's
very Lennon/Gabriel/Pink Floyd influenced.  If you are adventuresome,
start with her previous album, "The Dreaming" (the very best!).
Otherwise, start with her new album "Hounds of Love", if you can
tolerate a couple (excellent) pop tunes.  (A U.S.  review I just read
says "On 'Hounds of Love', Kate Bush shows that she is capable of making
hit music for the public.  But you will never catch her compromising her
imagination for us.  It's too powerful."  5 stars.)

Her earlier albums are also quite excellent (though not nearly as good
as the two albums mentioned above), but wouldn't match the above
description very well, since she's been strongly metamorphosing.

> By the way, I just spent the summer in the Boston area and turned on
> WVJV-TV (V66) for part of almost every day, and I never heard her
> mentioned in any way, nor did I ever hear anything of hers played on
> WBCN.  If she's Boston's latest musical star, I don't think most of
> Boston knows about it.

Were you here from mid to end September?  Her new album was released on
September 20th.  Before September, not a peep.

			"Don't think it over, it always takes you over
			 And sets your spirit dancing"

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