Re: Does Kate Bush read news?

[hui@joplin.mpr.ca (Michael Hui)]

In article <23019@ut-emx.UUCP> walt.cc.utexas.edu!amadeus@cs.utexas.edu
(Susan Harwood) writes:
>The sarcastic tone I took about your relative's work was not due to
>any action on her part but arose from your exclusive attitude about
>music-- which by the way had little to do with the question at hand.
>It's attitudes like that that make "serious" music inaccessible, not
>the music itself.  

Your last sentence struck me as especially true, and may explain why I
have always had difficulty reconciling "composition students'" opinions
about pop music and fans' opinions about pop music.

Yes, the attitude does matter. It certainly does matter a whole lot.

But why did you say my attitude was exclusive? Allow me to restate my
point, for the last time:

There is a lot of other exciting music going on out there. I do find
some of them to be more substantial, more interesting, and more
emotionally intense than stuff written by Kate Bush. Where Kate stands
in my own "scale" is a moot point. I simply do not put Kate miles
above everyone else simply because I do not see evidence to justify it.

But just to put things into perspective, I do have a complete collection
of Kate's work. My entire album/CD/cassette collection is around 200. So
that's not too bad as far as percentage goes?

Can we calm down now?