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Re: Questions

From: ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi)
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 94 09:30:25 -0700
Subject: Re: Questions
To: love-hounds@uunet.UU.NET
In-Reply-To: <1994Apr28.113026.29336@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: UC Davis Dept of Applied Science at LLNL
References: <NESSUS.94Apr27103955@twitch.mit.edu>

In article <1994Apr28.113026.29336@unix.brighton.ac.uk> you write:
<In article <NESSUS.94Apr27103955@twitch.mit.edu>, nessus@mit.edu (Douglas Alan) writes:
<>The reason MTV wouldn't play the real video for "Running Up That Hill"
<>is the same reason they wouldn't play the real video for "Rubberband
<>Girl" -- they're not lip-synced.  Kind of a lame reason, but MTV's
<>kind of a lame channel.
<
<Peter Chow from Brighton (UK) asks:
<
<Does that mean that they didn't show 'Cloudbusting', 'Hounds Of Love'
<or 'Experiment IV' either!!!?

Yep.  Actually, they did show "Cloudbusting" once, when the former
VJ J.J. Jackson interviewed her.  But it was certainly never in
regular rotation, and I'm not sure they EVER played either of the
other two videos you mentioned.

Maybe this will give you some idea of the reason Kate has been until
recently, and to a large extent still is, completely unknown in the USA.

Ed
ed@wente.llnl.gov