[mod.music.gaffa] IED: yet another theory

Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (01/14/87)

Really-From: brandenberg%star.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM  (bleakness...desolation...plastic forks...)


> [|>oug quotes IED in response to queries about the reason for the moniker]
>
>	Partly out of a feeling of empathy for such a means of
>	justifying one's obsessions, I have chosen to adopt Reich's
>	pedantic forms and ponderous style in dealing with the work of
>	Kate Bush, since this kind of obsessive interest in another
>	person's life and work is better disguised, I think, when
>	couched in the dry-as-dust language of the Orgonotic scholar.
> 

    Actually, like a Kate Bush song, it's meant to be played backwards to
    get the hidden meaning, thus becoming the object of several of her
    songs.  Conclusion:  compensatory neurosis.

					ytnoM