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From: seismo!udenva!showard (Steve "Blore" Howard)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 87 17:35:29 mst
Subject: Despite IED's claims to the contrary, Kate Bush isn't God
Organization: Fawlty Towers
It appears that IED disagrees with my list of 24 albums which I feel are equal to or better than the work of Kate Bush in IED's four categories (thematic complexity, musical complexity, multi-level meaning, and some bullhonk about production that we won't go into right now). Unfortunately, his arguments against my list consist almost entirely of repeating certain titles followed by question marks. The point I was trying to make was that not only are IED's 4 criteria rather subjective as criteria, but naming Kate Bush as the epitome of them is equally subjective. I maintain that "Won't get Fooled Again" is more thematically complex than, say, "Wuthering Heights." There's more multi- level meaning in "Diamond Smiles" than in all of "Never for Ever." And "Jig of Life" is as close as Kate can come in musical complexity to "The Little Lieutenant of the Loving God." -- "The laws of nature don't work if there's nobody looking" Steve "Blore" Howard, Icon of Bad Taste {hplabs, seismo}!hao!udenva!showard or {boulder, cires, ucbvax!nbires, cisden}!udenva!showard