Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/06/89)
Really-From: ed@das.llnl.gov (Edward Suranyi) Hi everybody! As you can see, I'm back. Let's see if Love-Hounds is working again, as |>oug claims. I've got a bunch of little items you may (or may not) be interested in: 1) Kate will soon be played on _Rock Over London_. _Rock Over London_ is a one-hour weekly syndicated radio show from Westwood One (I think.) It is broadcast on many US radio stations, including KITS in San Francisco. Over the last few months they've played "Sister and Brother", and Hue and Cry's version of TMWTCIHS, so they are quite familiar with Kate. I was listening to Sunday's show, and the (female) co-host said the following, in her news summary: "The female singer we've been getting the *most* questions about recently is Kate Bush. Yes, she does have a new single and album coming out, both called _The Sensual World_. And yes, we will be playing them just as soon as we can get our mitts on them. By the way, David Gilmour plays on a few tracks. It seems that he's got his hands on everything, nowadays." After the rest of the news was read, the male co-host said, "So David Gilmour's got his hands on Kate Bush now. Hmm." So for all you people who can't ordinarily hear Kate on the radio, but who live someplace where RoL is broadcast, this is your chance! RoL is usually pretty up-to-the-minute. They played RUTH within a week of its British release. I'm pretty certain that that was the first time that song was played on American radio. 2) Kate gets position on radio countdown. On Memorial Day Weekend, KITS played the "Top 300 Modern Rock Songs of All Time", as voted on by the listeners. RUTH came in at number 192. On the Labor Day Weekend which just passed, KITS played the "Top 105 Modern Rock Artists of All Time", again as voted on by the listeners. Kate came in at an incredible number 40, much better than I would have expected. She beat such heavyweights as Peter Gabriel, The Pretenders, and Duran Duran. The station played "Hounds of Love", RUTH, and "Wuthering Heights," all in a row! Remember, KITS is a COMMERCIAL station. It is neither a college station nor any other non-profit station. This is what is so amazing, to me. I don't think there are more than a half dozen commercial stations in this whole country that play Kate regularly. 3) The war between IED and |>oug about interpretation. These guys' differing opinions reminds me of a story told by Isaac Asimov. An English professor at a university once wrote a paper about one of Asimov's stories, describing in great detail his interpretation. Asimov saw that paper, and was flabbergasted because the professor's ideas were not even close to what he himself was thinking when he wrote the story. Asimov wrote to the professor, saying, "You're completely wrong. Nothing like what you said was in my mind when I wrote that story." He soon got a letter back from the professor, who said, "What gives you the gall to believe that, just because you wrote the story, you have the faintest idea of what it contains!" I guess this actually takes |>oug's point of view, although I'm really slightly in favor of IED on this issue. I just thought this anecdote was hilariously appropriate. 4) A CD storage box. I've noticed a 30 CD storage box on sale at many record store chains (Tower, Musicland, etc.). It's model TCD-30, made by Case Logic. The packaging shows a picture of the storage box about one third full. One of the CDs in the box is _The Whole Story_. It's right between _Whitney_ and _Heart_! 5) Kate makes Desert Island Disks again. In the current issue of _Pulse!_ magazine (the in-store magazine of Tower Records), another person has listed _The Whole Story_ among his Desert Island Disks. 6) I'm going to Montreal. I will be in Montreal from Sept. 14 through Sept. 28 -- exactly when the first single will be released. I lived in Montreal for many years, so I'm quite familiar with the city overall, but I'm not familiar with the current record store situation. Can anybody tell me if there are some record stores there that might have the single as an import? Thanks in advance. Please e-mail responses. Well, that's it. Once again, hi to everybody. Ed ed@das.llnl.gov
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/07/89)
Really-From: Mark Anderson <manderso@ugly.cs.ubc.ca> ed@das.llnl.gov (Edward Suranyi) writes: >On Memorial Day Weekend, KITS played the "Top 300 Modern Rock Songs of All >Time", as voted on by the listeners. RUTH came in at number 192. On the Labour Day weekend, CFMI in Vancouver played the "Top 1000 Songs of All Time". Kate wasn't on the list at all :-( But that's just what I'd expect from the local commercial stations. I literally cannot remember the last time I heard a Kate Bush song on the radio. -- Mark