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Path: shane
From: shane@inferno.peri.com (Shane Bouslough)
Subject: Re: vickie is happy
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.194015.21606@inferno.peri.com>
Organization: Periphonics Corp.
References: <9106201704.aa04642@fscott.sco.COM>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 19:40:15 GMT

>From article <9106201704.aa04642@fscott.sco.COM>,
	jondr@sco.COM (Vole Lotta Shakin' Going On):

>> Happy's music is absolutely nothing like Kate's.
> 
> Then I suggest you cease referring to her as "the closest thing we have to
> an American Kate Bush."

I'm not sure who wrote the first part of the quote, but I beg to differ.
I found the similarity between Happy and Kate striking, indeed, it's the
reason I bought all Happy's stuff. The epithet "the closest thing we
have to an American Kate Bush" is pretty good, I wish I'd thought of it :-).

>>Vishal writes:
>>> I am also tired of the endless postings by recent Happy convertee 
>>> basically saying "I just got my Happy tapes and she is like *AWESOME*.
>>> I feel *so* cool now that I am a Happy fan.
>>
>>This is so *unbelieveably* unfair!!!! What a rude thing to say! Have you
>>never heard music that you liked so much that you wanted to tell everyone
>>about it? Those people who have heard Happy's music and do like it are
>>only expressing their opinions. To say that the people who are saying
>>they like what they hear are only doing so to be "cool" is an insult to
>>them and to Happy (a fellow Katefan, remember).
> 
> Chill OUT!
> 
> I think what Vishal is saying is, "please tell us WHY you like it rather
> than just saying `it's too cool, buy it now.'"

The similarities that immediately come to mind are the vocal range,
the use of question/answer techniques where one (musical) phrase is
high pitched, the other low, the use of uncommon/unusual musical ideas
(i.e., not just 4/4 thumpa-thumpa music), and poetry based on personal
experience.

Thus, if you like those aspects of KaTe, I can't see how you would fail
to like Happy as well. Now that I've given some reasons WHY I like it,
I can say `it's too cool, buy it now.'

I'm surprized at the posts here that say "I listened to some Happy stuff
and I just don't see what the big deal is." I know people who find KaTe
too "screechy" as in Violin Song. They catch on eventually though. Give
Happy a chance, she's golden, just as KaTe is.

> Jon Drukman (space children intro mix)     uunet!sco!jondr      jondr@sco.com
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Always note the sequencer - this will never let us down.

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