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You're The One -- NOT

From: nessus@mit.edu (Douglas Alan)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 22:02:05 GMT
Subject: You're The One -- NOT
In-Reply-To: 100276.2176@CompuServe.COM's message of Fri, 11 Feb 1994 16:36:20 -0500
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: Kate Bush and Butthole Surfers Fandom Center
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In article <940211211901_100276.2176_BHB92-1@CompuServe.COM>
100276.2176@CompuServe.COM (Marcel Rijs) writes: 

>   Jon Drukman claims:
>   > if you don't see a substantial difference in complexity between
>   > "you're the one" and "get out of my house" then i don't think we
>   > have any basis for conversation, as we're speaking entirely
>   > different languages.

>   Ho! "You're the one" not complex? Do you think it's easy writing
>   such a powerful, sad song? You're kidding, right? (I am moving the
>   discussion to a different level here - of course i _know_  GOOMH
>   sounds more complex, but achieving such sadness in a song like YTO
>   is as hard as achieving anger in GOOMH. Een andere taal, inderdaad.

Your reasoning explains exactly why "Under The Ivy" is such a great
song.  "You're The One", on the other hand, just sounds boring and
kind of cliched.  Sorry, Kate.

|>oug