[mod.music.gaffa] eKsTra

Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (04/04/87)

Really-From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu

KT news trivia extra:
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IED was so excited by Phil Stephens's posting
that he forgot to mention this interesting (infuriating)
bit of news:

The new U.S. twelve-inch single of "Cloudbusting"
is not only backed by two completely superfluous tracks
("The Man With the Child in His Eyes" and "Sat In Your Lap",
both exactly the same mixes as are on the The Whole Story LP
already) instead of some of the hitherto still unreleased
KT tracks in the U.S.

It's also misidentified as the "Meteorological mix"!
That, as you all know, was the name of the twelve-inch mix
for "The Big Sky", NOT "Cloudbusting", which had a twelve-inch
title of "The Organon <sic> mix".

Those EMI-America executives have GOT to be the STUPIDEST
people in the record industry.

-- Andrew

Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (04/14/87)

Really-From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu

KT NEWS:
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As stupidly as one would expect of MTV, the evil television station
did not put "Don't Give Up" on their "New Video Hour" this week,
but DID put it on during normal programming. It was shown at least
once yesterday, between 5 and 6 p.m. Pacific time, and was listed
as an "MTV exclusive", meaning that the bastards are holding on
to it for upwards of two weeks so that no-one else can play it
even though they won't play it either...Just like those evil
U.S. record companies and their imports policy. BASTARDS!!!

Anyway, the video is very very low-budget, simple and minor,
but it works pretty well. Kate and Peter sing as though to each
other, while embracing each other. The video shows them standing
on a hill with the sun behind them. Then the camera zooms in
on their heads, and the sun gets much bigger. While they sing,
the sun goes into eclipse. During the bridge section
("Rest your head...I can't take anymore!" etc.), the eclipsed
sun has a bunch of sunstorms around the corona (?). At the end,
the camera backs off again to the shot of Kate and Peter standing
on the hill together. That's all there is to it. But Kate does a
good job of ignoring the camera and living her role. Gabriel does
a good job of neglecting to shave for a couple of days.

-- Andrew Marvick