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From: agb@reed.UUCP (Alexander G. Burchell)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Ok, guys, enough already. (KB)
Message-ID: <2032@reed.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 21:17:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 21 21:17:14 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 23-Oct-85 05:39:30 EDT
Reply-To: agb@reed.UUCP (Alexander G. Burchell)
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- EAT THIS -

Ok, Guys --

	I have been reading Kate Bush articles in net.music for the past, oh,
month or so, and I went out and bought "The Dreaming".  I dutifully listened
to it, expecting to hear music from the very mouth of Jesus (judging from the
hype that Doug Alan, and other rabid KateBushians have been dumping in
net.music).  Well, I heard *ok* music.  Not great, not even something I would
want to listen to again, just *ok*...  Technically very good, etc. but
nothing to inflame musical passions in me.
	Before I get 100 letters telling me to go back to listening to 
Madonna, let me tell you what music I do like:  Brian Eno, King Crimson,
Roxy Music, Peter Gabriel, early Pink Floyd, Elvis Costello, etc. etc. etc.
In my room there are 600 records to choose from, and very few mainstream
"pop" music.  Not to say that there is nothing worth listening to in that
category, as the KBsnobs (and sadly, too many others) would have us believe.
In ***every*** category of music, from Cajun music to Disco, there is the
good, and there is the bad.  In some, I will grant you, the proportions are
different, but there is still some great stuff, and some awful stuff.
	So, let me get to the point.  There is a mailing list for Kate Bush
and Kate Bush related topics.  I believe it is: "love-hounds@mit-eddie", and
to get on it, send to "love-hounds-request@mit-eddie" (correct me if I am
wrong, Doug Alan, as I am sure you will).  So please, Bushians, you have a
forum for your endless discussions about who invented the "Kate Bush
microphone", whether Kate Bush has "gone mainstream", etc. etc. ad.
infinitum.  ***PLEASE USE IT!!!***  I beg you.  I *love* net.music, and I
*don't love* Kate Bush enough to read 20 articles a day about here.  Sure,
I can hear it already: "Use your 'n' key!  Nobody forces you to read it!"
Well, let me respond to that right now.  There is a specifically distributed
mailing list for this.  There is no need to send every random BushMusing
to every bloody computer on the net (including Sweden, Japan, Australia,
etc.)!  I am sure I speak for many people when I say this.

		Please folks, there *is* other good music besides KB,

					Alexander G. Burchell
						
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