KaTe media exposure report: Rumba 24/93

[mk59200@cs.tut.fi (Markku Kolkka)]

Sorry to interrupt the current flamefest, but the 10th anniversary
edition of Rumba, a Finnish musical tabloid, contains quite a few
mentions of KaTe and some other artists relevant to this group, so I
thought to report them. Press N to return to the regular flaming :-)

Translation, spelling and grammar errors are MINE, ALL MINE!

In the review of musical year 1993 Samuli Knuuti writes in chapter
titled "Women, those women": [my comments in brackets - MK]

[omitted a couple of initial paragraphs]
 
 The first one to be mentioned is of course Kate Bush, whose records
 have always been treated with a respect like they were carved in stone
 and carried to us from Mt. Sinai. Kate Bush is the last enigma of
 rock. She's the only musician whose next step we never know in advance
 and who hasn't ever failed our expectations [logic ?]. La Bush hasn't burned
 herself out on magazine pages but has saved her fire for the records,
 which are very paradoxical in their excellence: all Bush records sound
 totally different, but no other artist is as easily recognizable.

 Year 1993 released among us "The Red Shoes" whose reception confirmed
 the familiar rule: Kate's records can only be compared to her earlier
 records. Coming later is her directorial debut, a hour-long movie "The
 Line, The Cross, The Curve" and perhaps even a tour. The world, and
 Jukka Vddtdnen [editor of Rumba, and a KaTefan], is holding its
 breath.

[in the remaining stuff SK mentions among others Bjvrk, Aimee Mann,
Jane Siberry and Mazzy Star (isn't that the _band_, not the singer?)]


The staff of Rumba voted on the 20 best records of the year. Here's a few
placings:

Category foreign albums:
1. Bjvrk : Debut
3. Kate Bush : The Red Shoes
15. Aimee Mann : Whatever

Category foreign singles:
1. Bjvrk : Human Behaviour
5. Bjvrk : Venus As A Boy
20. Kate Bush : Rubberband Girl


In the list of all albums that have been given full points (5) in a
review during the 10-year history of the magazine, the only entry for
KaTe is "Hounds Of Love" in 1985. TRS got "only" 4.5 points.


In the charts section:
- TRS falls 10 places to number 18 on the album chart.
- Eat The Music climbs 3 to 11. on the RadioMafia "most played" chart
- Moments of Pleasure drops three places to 33. on the "Rumba 50 Hits"
  chart.

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	Markku Kolkka
	mk59200@cs.tut.fi