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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Ok, guys, enough already. (KB)
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 11:10:18 EDT
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> From: agb@reed.UUCP (Alexander G. Burchell)

> 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

No, it was from a much more important god.

> (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.

You're going to dismiss an album on the basis of one listen???  That's
rediculous.  Even I thought "The Dreaming" was irritating noise the
first several times I listened to it.  It didn't really start setting in
until 7 or 8 listens.  Some songs didn't set in for much longer.  But
the effort was quite worth it!

>	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.

Well, congratulations on being the first Peter Gabriel fan I have ever
met, who didn't like "The Dreaming".

> 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).

No, that is correct, and I run it.  But be forewarned that it's
bandwidth often exceeds net.music.*.

> 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.

So, if you don't want to see anymore about KB in net.music, why did you
post something here about her that was sure to incite comment?

Also, most of the people involved the the aforementioned discussions
either weren't Kate Bush fans or weren't big enough fans that they'd
want to be on the mailing list.

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

And I don't recall anyone saying otherwise.  (Though I do remember
someone implying that about Steve Morse.... maybe you should flame at
him?)

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