nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) (08/05/85)
> From: nax@cornell.UUCP > Wonder if Kate has had cover versions -- Oh no! Now I've done it! On Pat Benetar's debut album, there is a horribly butchered version of KB's "Wuthering Heights". (Kate's version was one of the biggest hits ever in Europe). Of course, almost no one in the U.S. has ever heard of Kate Bush, and everyone knows who Pat Benetar is -- there is nothing more annoying than when you're playing "Wuthering Heights" on "The Kick Inside" and someone walks by and says "Hey, you like Pat Benetar too?" (Well, there's one thing that comes close: it's when you're playing Mike Oldfield's "Family Man" and someone comes by and says "Hey, who's this covering Hall and Oates?") There are some other covers I know of, but I've never heard any of them. There's a rock version of "The Kick Inside" by Julie Covington and there's a supposedly very strange version of "Wuthering Heights" by Jah Wurzel. Does anyone know who he is? Also, there are two comedians in England, Faith Brown and Pamela Stevenson, who nearly made their entire careers out of doing parodies of Kate Bush songs (accompanied, of course, with parodies of her dance routines). Kate was once asked what her favorite cover version of one of her songs is, and she replied "Poor Old Flea" by Madame Maria Nanky. Now Kate has no song entitled "Poor Old Flea", so I really wonder which song this is a cover of. Does anyone know who Madame Maria Nanky is? Kate Bush has only recorded one cover herself. The B-side to the single for "Sat In Your Lap" is a wonderful version of Donnovan's song "Lord of the Reedy River". Kate and Peter Gabriel did a wonderful duet version of Roy Harper's wonderful song "Another Day" (which was also recently covered by This Mortal Coil), but it was only on a BBC TV show and was never put on record (unless of course you're willing to buy bootlegs). "Oh let me have it, let me grab your soul away" Doug Alan nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)
jcjeff@ihlpg.UUCP (Richard Jeffreys) (08/05/85)
> > From: nax@cornell.UUCP > > Wonder if Kate has had cover versions -- Oh no! Now I've done it! > > ...there's a supposedly very strange version of "Wuthering Heights" by Jah > Wurzel. Does anyone know who he is? There is a band in England called the Wurzels, (who come from Somerset) they sometimes do parodies of hit songs in their own style. For example, one of their songs was a parody of Melanie's "Brand New Key" which the Wurzels entitled, I think, "Brand New Combine Harvester". If Jah (I question the name, as they do have very strong "West Country" accents, the name could have easily been misinterpreted) Wurzel is from this group, then it would indeed be a very strange cover of "Wuthering Heights" > Also, there are two comedians in England, Faith Brown and Pamela > Stevenson, who nearly made their entire careers out of doing parodies of > Kate Bush songs (accompanied, of course, with parodies of her dance > routines). > Doug Alan > nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA) Wrongo!! Faith Brown has made her career from doing impersonations of Margaret Thatcher, and she's very good at doing that. Though it is possible she has impersonated KB, once or twice, she certainly did not (even nearly) make it an "entire career" Pamela Stevenson ("Not The Nine O' Clock News"(BBC), but now on "Saturday Night Live" (NBC)) has also impersonated KB a few times, but is probably better known (in England) for her impersonation of Toya Wilcox, (a lisping singer/actress) on NTNOCN. Pamela Stevenson, like Faith Brown, DID NOT (even come close to nearly) make impersonating KB an "entire career". -- [ I'm bitten by the Rock and Roll disease; Oh, won't you help me make a record ? Please ? - Fanny ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ || From the keys of Richard Jeffreys ( British Citizen Overseas ) || || employed by North American Philips Corporation || || @ AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ || General disclaimer about anything and everything that I may have typed || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) (08/09/85)
> From: mit-eddie!nessus (Doug Alan) > On Pat Benetar's debut album, there is a horribly butchered version of > KB's "Wuthering Heights". Oh, give me a break. I really think that your fanaticism for Kate Bush is interfering with your critical judgement. I will grant that the *music* for "Wuthering Heights" as played by Kate Bush is superior to that as by Benetar's band, but I think that Benetar's *singing* of the song is far superior to Bush's. First of all, Benetar (in my humble opinion) puts far more emotion into the song than Bush does. Secondly, the lower register of Benetar's voice is much more palatable. "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" (which precedes "Wuthering Heights" on THE KICK INSIDE, as you well know) proves that Bush can sing quite well in a lower register. That she then chooses to sing "W.H." in a shrill falsetto which is high enough to give one nosebleeds is especially irritating. There's certainly nothing wrong with you preferring Kate Bush's version over Pat Benetar's, but to call the latter "horribly butchered" is silly. Besides, it served what you might consider a useful purpose --- it was one of the reasons that tempted me to try one of Kate Bush's albums. :-) > there is nothing > more annoying than when you're playing "Wuthering Heights" on "The Kick > Inside" and someone walks by and says "Hey, you like Pat Benetar too?" Yes, I can agree on this point, and I'm willing to bet that this helped color your opinion on Pat Benetar's cover of "W.H." --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA