Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/30/89)
Really-From: "Daniel S. Efran" <de0t+@andrew.cmu.edu> Sorry if these have been answered already, but... 1. In Breathing, they say "We are all going to die _without.....(something)_" What's the end of that line? They do it quite a few times. 2. Has Kate _ever_ been seen on a stage in the United States? 3. Is there a poster of the Kick Inside cover? 4. Is Kate's Ninth Wave related to Sting's (Love is the) Seventh Wave? If so, what's the reference to? (I assume it's literary) 5. Is there anybody on here who hasn't bought Enya's Watermark album yet? If so, go buy it immediately. Some of it's in English & some isn't, but it's all incredibly good and quite in the league of the Goddess. You've probably heard of the hit single Oronico Flow, but some of the other tracks are even better--Storms in Africa is my personal favorite. Anybody else have any comments on the album? 6. Is Kate Bush the female Peter Gabriel or is Peter Gabriel the male Kate Bush? 7. Either way, couldn't the two of them have come up with a better song than Don't Give Up? Two of the most imaginative (read: strange) songwriters of the century collaborate to produce one of the least interesting songs either one has ever written? I don't get it. 8. Has anyone heard Kate's guest vox on the song Sister and Brother on Midge Ure's album Answers to Nothing? It's pretty cool. 9. Does anyone know of any other KT guest vox that are worth having? 10. Can anyone help me think of a tenth question? I guess nine is enough--one for each wave. --The Sphere (aka Dan Efran) "Every little thing she does is magic, everything she do just turns me on." --The Police (note the deliberate grammatical error! Also, in the song Message in a Bottle, when Sting sings "anuzzer lonely day, no-one here but me-o" the sheet music actually says "anuzzer"! Weird.) P.S. What do people think about Tangerine Dream? Their newest stuff is almost as bad as their earliest, but from about 1978 to about 1986 (from Tangram to Underwater Sunlight, roughly) they were incredible. Does anybody know if they have a new third member yet, since Chris Franke left? P.P.S. Thank you so much for posting the lyrics to Kiew Mission (on TD's Exit album). I've been trying to figure that out for years. I figured it was russian, but I got stuck there since I don't speak russian. P.P.P.S. To me, saying that the new KT album is more like the first side of HoL than the second just means it doesn't have many songs about dead or dying people.
ed@das.llnl.gov (Edward Suranyi) (10/03/89)
In article <4Z96LXG00Uo140VERI@andrew.cmu.edu> Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU writes: >Really-From: "Daniel S. Efran" <de0t+@andrew.cmu.edu> >2. Has Kate _ever_ been seen on a stage in the United States? Well, sort of. She was on Saturday Night Live once in 1978 (I think). She was invited by Eric Idle of Monty Python, who was hosting the show, and she sang "Them Heavy People", and "The Man With the Child in His Eyes." As far as I know this show was only repeated once. >3. Is there a poster of the Kick Inside cover? Maybe, though I haven't been able to find one. The closest I've found is a black and white version of the poster that was up all over London to promote that album. You know, where she's wearing skin-tight clothes. >4. Is Kate's Ninth Wave related to Sting's (Love is the) Seventh Wave? >If so, what's the reference to? (I assume it's literary) I have no idea what Sting is refering to, but "The Ninth Wave" is a quote from a Tennyson poem. The complete quote appears on the back of the album. Kate has said that "A lot of people think that side was inspired by the poem, but really it was completely the other way around. I was just looking through books and magazines trying to find a title, and that particular quote seemed quite appropriate." >5. Is there anybody on here who hasn't bought Enya's Watermark album >yet? If so, go buy it immediately. Some of it's in English & some >isn't, but it's all incredibly good and quite in the league of the >Goddess. You've probably heard of the hit single Oronico Flow, but some >of the other tracks are even better--Storms in Africa is my personal >favorite. Anybody else have any comments on the album? I also this this album is terrific. I personally like "Cursum Perficio", which is sung in Latin. >8. Has anyone heard Kate's guest vox on the song Sister and Brother on >Midge Ure's album Answers to Nothing? It's pretty cool. I have this album, and I've even heard "Sister and Brother" on the radio once. It's pretty good, but IMHO it doesn't compare at all with Kate's own work. >9. Does anyone know of any other KT guest vox that are worth having? Well, since you've mentioned Peter Gabriel, I suppose you know that the very prominent female vocalist on his song "Games Without Frontiers" (from his third LP) is Kate. She also sings backing vocals on "No Self Control", from the same album. Also, she sings on Roy Harper's song "You (The Game), Part 2", if I've got the title right. > --The Sphere (aka Dan Efran) I've got a few more brief points to add: In the current issue of _Spin_ magazine, the results of a readers' poll are announced. Kate came in at number eight on the list of "Most Dateable Babes"! Steve Masters played TSW on his show "The Import Hour" last night, and called it "The most beautiful import single." Today another KITS DJ played it, and afterwards said, "That's the latest from Kate Bush, called 'The Sensual World'. Kate's a personality of near mythic proportions in the UK. She's not quite so big here, but -- we love her anyway!" I always love to hear people say good things about Kate, and I hope others who read this newsgroup do too. Ed ed@das.llnl.gov
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/03/89)
Really-From: jsd@gaffa.mit.edu (Jon Drukman) >Really-From: "Daniel S. Efran" <de0t+@andrew.cmu.edu> > >Sorry if these have been answered already, but... >1. In Breathing, they say "We are all going to die >_without.....(something)_" >What's the end of that line? They do it quite a few times. You're hallucinating. That _is_ the whole line, according to my ears and my CD booklet. >2. Has Kate _ever_ been seen on a stage in the United States? Badly phrased! I live in the US, and I watched the tour video, so I guess she's been seen on a stage in the US. To answer your question the way you intended it: she was on Saturday Night Live a million years ago. Does that count? >3. Is there a poster of the Kick Inside cover? I've never seen one. There may well be. Which cover do you mean? There are four different ones that I can think of. >4. Is Kate's Ninth Wave related to Sting's (Love is the) Seventh Wave? >If so, what's the reference to? (I assume it's literary) Hell No! It's from Tennyson's "The Coming Of Arthur" according to the back of the album cover. >5. Is there anybody on here who hasn't bought Enya's Watermark album >yet? Yes. >6. Is Kate Bush the female Peter Gabriel or is Peter Gabriel the male >Kate Bush? Neither. They are the same person using a lot of makeup and special sound processors on their vocal tracks. >7. Either way, couldn't the two of them have come up with a better song >than Don't Give Up? Two of the most imaginative (read: strange) >songwriters of the century collaborate to produce one of the least >interesting songs either one has ever written? I don't get it. The female vocal part was originally written for Dolly Parton. She didn't do it at the last moment, obviously. Kate stepped in. Check out the Bush/Gabriel duet "Another Day" (if you can find it!) if you don't like "Don't Give Up." Also, I'm sure you _do_ know that Kate sings backup on "Games Without Frontiers" and "No Self Control," both on PG's 3rd LP. >8. Has anyone heard Kate's guest vox on the song Sister and Brother on >Midge Ure's album Answers to Nothing? It's pretty cool. Dunno. Never heard it. Ure gives me hives. >9. Does anyone know of any other KT guest vox that are worth having? I may draw flames, but I like her appearance on "The Seer" by Big Country. She kicks ass, as she always does. >10. Can anyone help me think of a tenth question? I guess nine is >enough--one for each wave. You didn't ask what the significance of "gaffa" was! (NB: Do _NOT_ ask this question. People will not like you if you do. The line above was a rare example of my frivolity.) +---------------------- Is there any ESCAPE from NOISE? --------------------+ | | |\ | jsd@gaffa.mit.edu | "Please, Al, the fat and unattractive| | \|on |/rukman | jsd@umass.bitnet | have rights too!" -- Steve Rhodes | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/05/89)
Really-From: portal!cup.portal.com!Henry_Burdett_Messenger@apple.com subj: a few questions "Daniel S. Efran" <de0t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: > P.S. What do people think about Tangerine Dream? Their newest stuff is > almost as bad as their earliest, but from about 1978 to about 1986 (from > Tangram to Underwater Sunlight, roughly) they were incredible. Does > anybody know if they have a new third member yet, since Chris Franke > left? I'm kind of a Tadream-head, so my opinion is suspect. However, I think they're a "hugely important sociological phenomenon." By "their newest stuff" I presume you mean the two newest studio albums ("Tyger" and "Optical Race"). While I will admit that "Tyger" is very weak (didn't they learn anything from "Cyclone"? No vocals. enn-ohh-vee-ohh-cee-ay-ell-ess. NO VOCALS!), "Optical Race" isn't too bad, particularly "Mothers of Rain". On the other hand, they released another album in between "Tyger" and "Optical Race" called "Livemiles". "Livemiles" is a live recording: one side is the North American tour ("Underwater Sunlight") and the other side is a performance they gave at the 750th anniversary of the founding of Berlin. "Livemiles" is another incredibly brilliant live performance by the pioneers of synth-rock. They have also released several soundtrack albums in that timeframe: "Three O'Clock High", "Shy People", "Miracle Mile", "Near Dark" and others. I personally think that their soundtrack work is the weakest material they do, but I think that "Miracle Mile" and "Near Dark" are much better than "Tyger" and "Optical Race". Go figure. Yes, they have a new third member since Franke left -- I saw him on the "Optical Race" tour, but they never announced his name. Since Franke played the rhythm (not percussion) tracks, they're really missing that "crunch" he gave them... btw, Franke is working at a synthesizer company in Colorado. - hbm --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry B. Messenger henry_burdett_messenger@cup.portal.com Digital Equipment Corporation isn't responsible for anything I say on USENET
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/20/89)
Really-From: "Daniel S. Efran" <de0t+@andrew.cmu.edu> I agree, Livemiles is much better than Optical Race. Tyger is pathetically bad--and I even LIKED the lyrics on cyclone (although I don't understand them--I think "rising runner" is a reference to the slope of a line (rise over run), but I don't have a clue about "endless sender".) I thought the tour before Optical Race was better--they seemed more like they were doing something. I don't go to a concert to watch about 10 atari CRT's. The huge racks of equipment they had on the previous tour were much cooler looking. Does there exist a recording of the main theme to Legend? It's kind of on the soundtrack album, but not really (It's buried behind a meaningless vocal at the end of "Loved by the Sun" (the Jon Anderson song that sounds like all other Jon Anderson songs, only more so). They played it as an encore on the North America tour (the one before O.R.), so I ran out and got the album. Very frustrating. Part of the problem with their new stuff is the missing rhythm by Franke--the sequenced percussion tracks just don't measure up...they sound like sequenced percussion tracks. Also, the melodies (what's left of them) are sounding more ethnic and less alien. Compare a track on Miracle Mile or Optical Race with one on Exit or Ricochet. Besides, when all their synthesizers were analog, they relied more on music--it seems that now they put more attention on "sounds"--samples and synth patches--than on melody or harmony. Even Livemiles has this problem, although it's closer than Optical Race. By the way, I just noticed that I'm wearing my Optical Race tour t-shirt today. Even the clothing from the North American tour was better (it was unified...it all had the TD-circle logo from the Tyger album cover. The OR stuff was all different, and just had random colors and shapes). --The "Music of the" Sphere