cs225ax@UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU (Ken.") (03/18/90)
Has anyone been watching VH-1's history of music videos? I started
watching at A, waiting patiently for some Kate Bush stuff to record. They
were playing all of each group/person's videos, e.g. every David Bowie video,
but they went from The Boggles (?) to David Byrne (!). Since Bush should
appear between the two, I assume they are ignoring Kate.
After the special interview etc. a few weeks ago, are they totally
ignoring all her videos? They're only playing 80s stuff, but sheesh all of
the videos that I know of are in that time frame. Do they consider Kate to
be enough of a pseudonym to appear under the K slot?
I know Kate's stuff is not the most accessible stuff that VH-1 plays, but
they've played over a half a dozen videos made by artists I have never in my
life heard of! I would think she has enough of an impact to appear! Anyone
have any comments?
Ken.
ken-b@uiuc.edulazlo@ARIEL.UNM.EDU (Lazlo Nibble) (03/19/90)
> Has anyone been watching VH-1's history of music videos? I started > watching at A, waiting patiently for some Kate Bush stuff to record. > They were playing all of each group/person's videos, e.g. every David > Bowie video, but they went from The Boggles (?) to David Byrne (!). > Since Bush should appear between the two, I assume they are ignoring > Kate. They are most definitely *not* playing all of each group/person's videos. They're playing the ones that are best-known and most popular by each artist . . . not necessarily even that artist's best videos. (e.g.: they played "Satisfaction" and "Whip It" by Devo, but not "Beautiful World"; Thomas Dolby only got "She Blinded Me With Science".) That's "Buggles", by the way. Trevor Horn (Yes; producer of ABC, FGTH, Malcolm McLaren; cofounder of ZTT Records) and Geoff Downes (Yes, Asia). > I know Kate's stuff is not the most accessible stuff that VH-1 plays, > but they've played over a half a dozen videos made by artists I have > never in my life heard of! I would think she has enough of an impact > to appear! Anyone have any comments? The natural conclusion to draw is that in VH-1's estimation, Kate hasn't produced any historically significant videos. I would have liked to see them play "Cloudbusting", but quite frankly I'd be hard-pressed to think of any Kate vids that I could defend as important to anyone but a Kate fan, simply because her stuff never got any play in this country in the first place. That's *their* limited definition of a significant video, by the way -- not mine. I bet they ignored Ebn-Ozn, Mike Oldfield, They Might Be Giants, and Yello too. Lazlo (lazlo@ariel.unm.edu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EINSTEIN has made the Universe! But I can't tell you how long that will last.