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>Really-From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu >IED, however, is highly skeptical that the song is a new >Kate Bush track, Sue. He's been burned before so many times >by third-hand accounts of new KT product >So, until he hears it himself, please don't be offended if he hesitates >to take your Katefan friend's word for it. But it is true! It is it is it is! My friend has been a fan since the very first, and is a fervent collector of Katiana! He would not err. Besides, he told me the title and even I didn't recognize it... but I'm *so* embarrassed, I forgot it! I promise -- I'll call him tonight and get it! This should make up for my little lapse, though, IED -- a brand-new Kate Kollectible is on the market. A CD single of "Cloudbusting," produced by good ol' EMI America. There's only one li'l hitch -- it's promo-only. Which means that they are scarce and expensive. Music Machine had a copy which they wouldn't part with; they'd only gotten a couple in and the first one had immediately sold for $20. I told them to pleeease hold one for me if they got another one in, but they could make no guarantees about their availability. Some artifaKT, eh? >And besides, IED kind of liked "The Breakfast Club"! The ending wasn't TOO improbable, was it? It had a few good moments, but not enough. >Those EMI-America executives have GOT to be the STUPIDEST >people in the record industry. Yeah, otherwise they'd put the damn CDs on the market! And now, reviews.... SUZANNE VEGA, "Solitude Standing" (A&M) Release Date: 27 April Track Listing: Tom's Diner, Luka, Ironbound - Fancy Poultry, In The Eye, Night Vision, Solitude Standing, Calypso, Language, Gypsy, Wooden Horse, Tom's Diner (Reprise). Suzanne Vega is inspired by the unlikeliest things. Poultry, for instance. She sings wistfully, "Fancy poultry parts sold here...breasts and thighs and hearts. Backs are cheap and wings are nearly free...nearly free." Odd, yes, but the beauty and sadness in her voice never fail to move, no matter what the lyric is. In "Luka," she sings, in first-person, the tale of an abused young boy, without making it maudlin; she also becomes a "Wooden Horse" who springs to life. Fortunately, "Solitude Standing" is not the "rawk-and-roll" album many feared; once again, the arrangements are as simple, lovely and unadorned as her voice, heavy on the acoustic guitar. "Solitude Standing" is just as wonderful as the debut, and reaffirms Suzanne's rare talents. WIRE, "The Ideal Copy" (Enigma) Release Date: 28 April Track Listing: The Point of Collapse, Ahead, Madman's Honey, Feed Me, Ambitious, Cheeking Tongues, Still Shows, Over Theirs. The return of Wire inspired delight and a bit of trepidation. These "reunion" gigs are seldom true to the original spirit of the band, but when this quartet (Newman, Gilbert, Lewis, Gotobed) got together again, they played like they'd never been away. And here is "The Ideal Copy" -- it's hard to believe that it's been eight years since "154." "Ahead" is soaring, splendid; "Feed Me" slow and fierce, built around one penetrating guitar riff, while the voice is heavy with doom -- map ref., the darkest Roxy Music, circa "Triptych." "Ambitious" is a marvelous machine, as detached vocals spit out long lists of initials...I.R.A., K.G.B. From dancefloor glory to the depths of the abyss -- Wire will take you everywhere. Those who missed out on them the first time 'round should not make the same mistake again. --Sue Personal lyric to Dave Juitt: "Mr. Kite is soaring, Conky's *still snoring*"