MisK.

[IED0DXM%MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU@mitvma.mit.edu]

   As many times as this has happened to IED before, he will probably
never be able to accept with complete equanimity the recurrent
phenomenon of sketchy reports in Love-Hounds about new and highly
intriguing Kate Bush products, posted by contributors who seem,
inexplicably, not to appreciate the importance of the information they
report. The latest such occurrence involves a vague mention of a
new bootleg CD collection called "Practice Makes Perfect: Kate Bush
Piano Demos No. 1".  It was described as being 72 minutes long,
having "all" the piano demos on earlier collections except for
the so-called "Organic Acid" track--and totalling twenty-_six_
tracks! Since there are only twenty-_two_ known "piano demos"
aside from "Organic Acid", IED is left breathlessly asking an
empty room, "What are the other four tracks on this new CD?....????!!!"
   Could the owner of this new disk please post the titles of
_all_ twenty-six tracks, as printed on the CD itself, and describe
the sound quality--is the sound clearer than or muddier than that
on the two previous CDs, "If You Could See Me Fly" and "Passing Through
Air"?  Have the tell-tale sounds of Kate moving around at the piano
bench in between songs been restored in this edition of the demos?
     Most interesting of all is the description of this disk as
"No. 1" in an implied prospective series of CDs said to contain
"piano demos".  Since this first volume in the series contains
all but one known "piano demo", one is left salivating over the
possibility of hearing yet more bundles of hitherto unknown
masterpieces from Kate's pre-EMI days...

-- Andrew Marvick (IED)