Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (03/30/87)
Really-From: hofmann@nrl-css.arpa (James B. Hofmann) Somehow, I think IED is using camp psychological tricks on me to reinforce my manners, etc... hmmm... >Not for the first time, IED finds himself praising Hofmann's >latest posting. He agrees with your theory that Kate's voice >seems silly (to Americans, mind you) in the context of the >(increasingly agressive) music she sings. Ironically, her >contribution on Gabriel's "Don't Give Up", now a U.S. single, >will probably only alienate many American listeners, since it I don't think so. I think people will listen to it as a P. Gaberiel song and most people won't even know that Kate Bush is singing with him. Over here in America, there seems to be NO END to the sappy male-female duets and I'm afraid the Gabriel song will fit into that category. We can blame Dionne and Lionel for this. >in any case with U.S. listeners -- in a song which was clearly >designed to reflect and appeal to American culture (or lack thereof). Ooh, hitey-titey. Let's all break out the tea and scones and be bored. From: P. J. Alfke... Re: Jesus and Mary Chain... >This will certainly alienate the >noise freaks out there, but will they make the Top 40? Will teenage girls >gush over how cuuute Jim Reid is? Will he turn and face the audience to >reveal lipstick and eyeliner? Or will they just resurrect the spirit of >Phil Spector and be a generally Groovy Thing? Hurm. Ut! Most of the "noise freaks" I've run into rejected J & M C as nothing more than the SEx PiSToLS/FRANKIE/ Sigue Sigue Sputnick Anglo-sham that they are and professed to be early in the game. They did have a following among the post-hardcores, though and no telling where those allegiances will go. Hell, CREEM likes 'em, so I don't know. "I can't stand the itching but I don't mind the swelling!" JAyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyymssssssssss..... ~P :V