kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker) (10/28/85)
It seems that none of the stations out here that I normally listen to have
seen fit to play her, not even KFJC, and with Doug's ravings, I have
really wanted to hear her. Fortunately, I managed to catch her on
Capital radio in London last week...they were even featuring her, imagine
that. In the part I caught they played all of her new single, and bits
of the rest of her music (excuse me if I got them wrong, but I am not at
all familiar with her music). My impression? Boring. The single they
played was incredibly uninteresting, in both the vocals and the beat
(and the beat and the beat...you certainly couldn't miss the beat in this one!)
On the other bits they played, it seemed the vocals picked up a bit, but
it didn't sound like anything new. As a matter of fact, to me, it sounded a
lot like Karla Bonoff (hmmm, Karla Bonoff, KB, Kate Bush..., but then again,
maybe she spelled it Carla). Anyway, just wanted to get my two cents in,
which are, if you haven't heard her, you ain't missing much.
--
yes, some uncomplicated peoples still believe this myth...
Ken Shoemaker, Santa Clara, Ca.
{pur-ee,hplabs,amd,scgvaxd,dual,qantel}!intelca!kds
---the above views are personal.nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) (10/30/85)
> From: kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker) > I managed to catch her on Capital radio in London last week...they > were even featuring her, imagine that. In the part I caught they > played all of her new single, and bits of the rest of her music > (excuse me if I got them wrong, but I am not at all familiar with her > music). My impression? Boring. I dunno why people continue with these reviews like "I heard a Kate Bush song once and didn't think it was all that great". They are pretty pointless. Even if you were *exactly* like me, a potential head-over-heels fanatical fan, you wouldn't like a Kate Bush song on hearing it for the first time. (And I've said this many times.) I have only very rarely liked one of her songs on hearing it for the first time. I didn't like *anything* on "The Dreaming" the first six or seven times I listened to it, and the first time I heard "Running Up That Hill" ("her new single", and far from her best song...) I *hated* it. I thought it confirmed my worst nightmares of Kate Bush losing all her talent. I wanted to fly to England and smash her drum machine and take away her Fairlight. And if I had reviewed "Running Up The Hill" on the basis of one listen, instead of many, that's exactly what I would have said. So you don't need to say, "I finally heard a Kate Bush song and didn't like it". I've just said it for you. -Doug Alan nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)