katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris Williams) (04/19/91)
Chris here,
A year ago I posted the following and, apparently, created a monster.
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We of the Parents Music Resource Center have recently had the music of one,
"Kate Bush", brought to our attention. Previously we have looked at the
"music" of such groups as "Ratt", "Twisted Sister" and "Mr. Frank Zappa".
This latest menace to the youth of America from a foreign land is more
pernicious than all the rest. The following is a list of Miss Bush's song
lyrics that we believe need warning labels:
All We Ever Look For: Explicit references to breasts, wombs, tombs and drugs.
All the Love: Death.
And Dream of Sheep: Drugs, specifically poppies - the source of opium.
Army Dreamers: Death.
Babooshka: Infidelity.
The Big Sky: Sacrilege.
Blow Away: Death and sacrilege; the very _thought_ that Keith Moon and Sid
Vicious could be let into Heaven!
Breathing: Anti-Nuclear propaganda.
Burning Bridge: Arson.
Cloudbusting: Quackery.
Coffee Homeground: Poisoning.
December Will Be Magic Again: Glorifying a known homosexual (Oscar Wilde).
Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake: Suicide.
The Dreaming: Alcoholism.
Egypt: References to demons and possible references to the female sexual
organs.
The Empty Bullring: Death and mutilation. Sacrilege.
Experiment IV: A sound that can kill; the avowed goal of every Heavy Metal band.
Feel It: A dirty, dirty song.
Get Out Of My House: "Devil Dreams", Human transmogrification into animals.
Hammer Horror: Occultism.
Heads We're Dancing: "They say the Devil is a charming man.." It isn't even
_backwards_! Appalling!
Houdini: Occultism, French Kissing, Sacrilege.
Hounds Of Love: Bestiality?
The Infant Kiss: Definite Pedophilia. This song is beyond redemption.
In The Warm Room: Another dirty song, this one about prostitution.
James And The Cold Gun: Gunplay. Alcohol. Gambling. Sex.
Kashka From Baghdad: Homosexuality and voyeurism.
The Kick Inside: Incest, suicide and Godless mythology.
Kite: Demonic entities; vis. "Beelzebub".
L'amour Looks Something Like You: Sex, sex and more sex. "...that feeling
of sticky love inside".
Leave It Open: Burglary, Satanic backwards messages.
The Man With the Child in His Eyes: Possible pedophilia.
Mother Stands For Comfort: Murderers.
Night Of The Swallow: Criminal activities.
Ne T'en Fui Pas: We don't know French, but it _sounds_ dirty.
Not This Time: Profanity (we think...)
Oh England My Lionheart: Death, Kidnaping, Sacrilege.
Pull Out The Pin: Violence and drugs (Hashish).
Ran-Tan Waltz: Alcohol, infidelity and a slang reference to the male organ.
Rocket's Tail (For Rocket): We couldn't figure this one out, but we don't
think we'd like it if we could.
Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God): Sacrilege, plain and simple. God
does not make _deals_!
Sat In Your Lap: "Some say that Heaven is hell..." Hum-m-pfh!
Saxophone Song: Reference to bowels.
The Sensual World: This song is beyond redemption. Based on a pornographic
novel by James Joyce.
Strange Phenomena: Menstruation, occultism.
Symphony In Blue: Death and sex; need we say more.
Them Heavy People: Yet more sacrilege.
There Goes A Tenner: Criminal activity.
Violin: Yet more satanic references.
Waking The Witch: Where to begin?
Warm And Soothing: Alcohol.
Watching You Without Me: Occultism.
The Wedding List: Murder and revenge.
Wow: Homosexuality.
Wuthering Heights: Occultism.
Please help us protect the morals of the youth of this God-fearing country.
Almost as shocking are the covers of her records. We would say more about
them but we are having trouble getting them back from our examiner.
Tipper Gore
tipper@pmrc.ica.fib
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I sent it in through a friend's account to cover my trail. Most folks
on .gaffa responded in the manner intended; i.e. amusement. A couple of
well-meaning, but credulous love-hounds responded with concern that our
beloved would be the target of a witch-hunt by senator's wives. I confessed
to reassure these people that it was, in fact, a joke.
Apparently the joke spread far further than the confession. Love-hounds
who found it funny printed it out and sent it to other people, including
the Home-Ground gang, who printed it a couple of issues ago. Some severely
humor-impaired people in Ohio read this and took it upon themselves to
_write_ the PMRC to protest the non-existent witch-hunt. The PMRC wrote
Home-Ground to state that they had nothing against Kate Bush. HG published
a disclaimer the next issue defining the word "parody" for those unfamiliar
with the concept.
I would presume that the story ended there, except that Ed tells us
that the Ohio crew is the same bunch who put on the recent convention and
is publishing this new fanzine. In their most recent issue they
start squeaking about lawsuits and insulting the fine folks at HomeGround,
apparently in a tizzy about being made fools of due to to the Tipper piece
and their over-reaction to it. Oh God. It sounds like the same sort of
socially retarded behavior infesting Science Fiction Fandom (see Dameon
Knight's "The Futurians") has leeked over into the Kate-speaking world.
Chris Williams of
Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago
katefans@chinet.chi.il.us