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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Kate Bush Live! (Almost)
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Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 17:02:19 EDT
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> From: rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone)

> Well, I watched this program with a pretty open mind in an attempt to
> appreciate Bushmania.  What I saw makes me still wonder why this
> condition exists.

Well I'm a Kate Bush fanatic, but I'm not particularly fanatic about her
early stuff (which is what you saw), so perhaps I'm not the best person
to ask, but I do think nearly everything she has done is excellent.  Her
early material bears little resemblance to her more recent material.  If
you want to hear what I'm fanatic about, listen to "The Dreaming".  You
probably won't believe it's the same person.

> I'm not implying she was bad or anything (I actually found most of the
> performence pleasent) but I really didn't see anything I hadn't seen
> before.

Well I find it hard to believe that you've seen anything similar
visually, since that aspect is quite unique.  Musically, I don't know if
anyone would say she was pushing any new boundaries at that time.  The
first time I heard her early material, I was very disappointed because
it just didn't compare to "The Dreaming" and I thought that it seemed
pretty ordinary -- just sung with a very unordinary voice.  Her music is
the kind of stuff that doesn't really set in until multiple listenings,
though, and after a while it became very apparent that her music was
extremely powerful and original.  And no one else can sing like KB.

Still, I'd throw away my entire record collection (including KB's early
albums) rather than throw away "The Dreaming".  (I hope they'll let me
keep "Hounds of Love" too....)

			"Moving stranger, does it really matter
			 As long as you're not afraid to feel"

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