Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site mit-eddie.MIT.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!gds From: gds@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: mod.music Subject: Love-Hounds Digest Message-ID: <2212@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: Sat, 7-Jun-86 19:45:29 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2212 Posted: Sat Jun 7 19:45:29 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Jun-86 04:49:49 EDT Organization: MIT Lusers and Hosers Inc., Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 175 Approved: gds@eddie.mit.edu Love-Hounds Digest Saturday, June 7, 1986, 19:47 EDT Topics: KB videos [][][][][][][][][][] Return-Path: EMAILDEV%UKACRL.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA Via: UK.AC.SUSX.VAX2; 5 JUN 86 12:38:13 BST Date: 5-JUN-1986 12:14:46 From: SSUD3%UK.AC.SUSSEX.VAX2@AC.UK Here are some miscellaneous bits from the latest issue of "Record Mirror": 1) "Hounds of Love" is holding steady at #36 on the charts for the second week in a row. 2) "The Single File" video collection moved up from #12 to #8 on the music video charts, where it has been near the top of the charts ever since the release of "Hounds of Love" 3) The compact disc of HoL just re-entered at #8 on the CD charts, due to a new shipment/pressing of the CD, so that all the stores are now supplied with huge stacks of it once again. There are now mass quantities of "Lionheart" and "The Kick Inside" CD's once again, which appear to be yet another german pressing by Polygram. (I was hoping for a pressing from EMI's new Swindon CD plant in the UK, which is way overdue in opening) 4) The following is from the "Chartfile" section by Alan Jones: "Now more than eight years into her chart career, Kate Bush has singlehandedly written all 15 of her hit singles, a figure unrivalled by any other female singer/songwriter in the world. Kate Also shares the distingction of being one of only three women to pluck more than three top 40 hits off an album (Tina Turner and Madonna are the other two). Kate's "Hounds of Love" has been raided for "running up that hill" (#3) "Cloudbusting" (#20), "Hounds of Love" (#18) and "The Big Sky" (#37). In addition to spawning these hits, the "Hounds of Love" album has sold over 400,000 copies in its own right, and is the fourth best selling compact disc ever released in Britain, lining up behind Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms", and "Love Over Gold", and Phil Collins' "No Jacket Required". Regarding the release of "the Dreaming" and "Never for Ever" on Compact disc, in view of the above information, it is almost certainly legal hassles between Kate and EMI (probably regarding royalty payments, like the Beatles) that are causing the delay in release, rather than pressing plant limitations. (After all, they managed to get repressings done of the first two albums...) After all, HoL, according to the above, is EMI's largest selling compact disc EVER, so they are probably dying to release the others on CD. Speaking of releases, if there are any Elvis Costello fans out there, "Trust" and "This Years Model" were just released on Monday via the independent company Demon records, and pressed at the Nimbus plant in England. However, "This Years Model" sticks to the original british album format, which had "Night Rally" at the end, in place of "Radio Radio", and also has the additional song, "I don't want to go to Chelsea" (which only appears on the U.S. release, "Taking Liberties". (Oops - I just noticed that I forgot to specify that I am talking about new CD releases here...) Anyway, the interesting thing is that the British release of "Armed Forces" on CD exactly matched the american CD and LP versions (i.e. it has "What' s so funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding" and leaves off "Sunday's Best".) This is getting confusing! Anyway, the point is that I'm going to wait for the US release of "this year's model" on CD 'cos I'm more used to that format - but be aware of the differences before you shell out $18 bucks or so for the import CD. Hugh [][][][][][][][][][] Return-Path: EMAILDEV%UKACRL.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA Via: UK.AC.SUSX.VAX2; 5 JUN 86 16:45:06 BST Date: 5-JUN-1986 16:35:47 From: SSUD3%UK.AC.SUSSEX.VAX2@AC.UK 3 quick responses: 1) Sorry - Doug is right. Kate eats too many KIT-KATS, not cadbury's bars. It is the homeground crew that eats too many of the latter. 2) OK, so what was that cryptic message from IED0DXM (a.k.a. Andrew Marvick) supposed to mean: "KATE BUSH - remember?..."? Huh? Am I missing part of the posting? Did I say something wrong? 3) Well, if not whats-his-name in Depeche mode, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the other members are gay (i.e. Martin Gore, whose favorite city is Berlin, and who is a leather fanatic, according to the last interview I read) - Also there's a big undercurrent of gay imagry in their videos and song titles ("Master and Servant", etc) (Although anyone seeing "9.5 weeks" knows that S&M isn't restricted to gays...) Not that it matters....it's fun to debate, though... Hugh [][][][][][][][][][] From: bu-cs!sam Date: Thu, 5 Jun 86 12:48:21 EDT Subject: KB videos Hugh writes: >Well, I really doubt that she purposely planned it to be random >and somewhat incomprehensible, since she said in the last KBC newsletter >that the thing she hates most about rock videos is how unstructured >they are. I totally agree with this - unless the song is really >unstructured and stream-of-consciousness to begin with. >OK, "Hounds of Love" totally bit the dust in my eyes, I am one of the less fortunate souls who has not yet seen the video for "Big Sky", but I have seen "Hounds of Love"... I don't think that Hounds of Love is random or unstructured, though. I like the word "intricate". So what if it's distracting? Videos are a VISUAL medium, and by the time you see one, you already know the song by heart anyway. I could sing Hounds of Love backwards in my sleep; in the video, I find all the overlapped and not-so-noticable details refreshing. Isn't intricacy and organized randomness what we *liked* about the music in The Dreaming? So why isn't it okay to use the same strategy in a video? - Shelli [][][][][][][][][][] Return-Path: EMAILDEV%UKACRL.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA Via: UK.AC.SUSX.VAX2; 6 JUN 86 11:37:25 BST Date: 6-JUN-1986 11:36:32 From: SSUD3%UK.AC.SUSSEX.VAX2@AC.UK Here's the letter that I just sent off in response to the SOUNDS cover story on Kate: "How ironic that Dicky Cook should pick out "The Big Sky" as his least-hated Kate Bush song. For someone [sic] who has so OBVIOUSLY followed our "coddled Kate's" progress through the years with Vermorellian* fascination (Despite getting the lyrics to "Feel It" wrong), I find it (as the saying goes) "Amazing" that the oh-so-literal meaning of the song (i.e. lashing out at snotty-nosed frustrated rock-star failures-turned sniping critics such as himself) failed to pierce his Sugar-Walled brain. Perhaps we should convince Sheena Instant to cover it, and bring it down to his level. -Hugh Maher Brighton (*refers to Fred Vermorel) [][][][][][][][][][] -- It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under. Greg Skinner (gregbo) {decvax!genrad, allegra, gatech, ihnp4}!mit-eddie!gds gds@eddie.mit.edu