FOR PROCRASTINATING LHS ONLY: THE POLL ONE LAST TIME!

[Norman Buchwald <jbuchwald@huey.csun.edu>]

I've got good news and bad news!

     The good news is that this is the last time you'll see this poll 
(which you've seen posted a few times before).  The bad news is that 
after Wendsday (as far as sending is concerned) this is it!  So look at 
your discographies one last time, say to yourself, okay this is it, and 
write down that question, (you don't have to see her face to face in your 
mind, you know, when asking it).  A special thank you to all those who 
voted.  I've had fun reading your results, and chatting with some of you 
as well.


From: jbuchwald@huey.csun.edu (Norman Buchwald)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Subject: Only 14 Days Left!  (For the Poll)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 17:36:11 -0500
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                  "Whoever you are out there, thanks for listening.  

                  And please be kind to my mistakes.  Because I'm not."



                                  --Kate Bush (from TWW)









Hi, Lovehounds.



     I just wanted to let all of you out there know there's only 14 days 

left until the polls close for the Kate Bush Questionnaire.  The value of 

this poll that I've given to you all just for fun (and which I've been 

more than happy to count) is to demonstrate not only that we are "kind" 

but we hardly consider these tracks "mistakes."  And while only a 

"baker's dozen" of us have voted so far, we've come up with 88 different 

songs, and almost everybody has come up with a different least liked 

song, showing we hardly think of any of her music (or videos, etc.) to be 

"mistakes" but rather "works of art."  (And there's hardly any agreement 

for "weaknesses" or "turn offs," demonstrating her strength as an 

artist).  So to get those who really wanted to think about this (as a 

couple of you have indicated) and for those that have not made up their 

mind whether or not to vote, and to those who were not planning to vote 

but want to see the results and want the results to be all the more 

representative, the time is NOW!  



Please email to me or post here.  I haven't heard from Robert Little for 

awhile, and I have a sneaking suspicion that someone, (maybe trying to 

foil this poll) has given him a pair of red shoes and he's unable to be 

reached!   :)  (Either that or he got trapped underneath the Ninth Wave! 

 And is now Under Ice!   :)   )   So anyone who has sent their votes to 

Robert should send them to me as well.  People's friends or family who 

are also Lovehounds (Like Marc Bengston and Bryan's daughter) are 

welcome, but I would prefer they write their messages, themselves.  While 

you can't change your votes, any songs that you later send to me that 

you've forgotten will be given (first one half a point if you voted a top 

20) an asterisk that will count if it is tied with another song.







Okay, here's the poll:



1)  What is your top 20 of Kate Bush songs?  (Number one gets twenty 

points, number twenty one.)  Or what are your 20 favorite songs?  (In no 

particular order.  Each song gets ten points.  You can vote for less, if 

you wish.  But strive for twenty, if you can.)



2)  What is your top three Kate Bush videos?  (or 3 favorite.)



3)  What is your favorite album or mini-album?  (This Woman's Work does 

not count, and Hounds of Love and The Ninth Wave are seen as mini-albums 

in this question.  Demos, and various bootlegs and greatest hits, etc. 

can be voted on.)



4)  If you could ask Kate one question, what would you ask?



5)  What is your least liked song?  (The one you love, but just not as 

much as the others)



6)  What is your favorite Kate Bush cover?  No.  Let me rephrase that!  

:)  What is your favorite song that Kate Bush has covered?



6a)  Since most of you thought I meant this.  What is your favorite Kate 

Bush album/single cover?



---There are too few covers of Kate Bush songs and even less that we've 

seemed to have heard.  So rather than have Pat Benatar win by default, I 

won't count those answers.  Also Utah Saints' "cover" (sampling, really) 

can be selected as a Kate Bush guest appearance, if you really like that 

song.  And no Tori Amos jokes, please.  (She is an artist in her own 

right, whether influenced or not!)---



7)  What is your favorite Kate Bush guest appearance?  (Guest can include 

guest vocals or concert or video as well.  But on the concert or video 

you have to pick one particular song.  The Fruitopia answer is okay, for 

example.  But please, let's try to keep her singing in mind on this one.)



8)  How much would you pay to see Kate Bush in concert?  (And for those 

in the U.S. (like me) the only chance you ever had to see her live, here, 

 was at Saturday Night Live in 1978!  So keep that rarity in mind!)



9) (To post only.  Just because I have so much to do as it is).  Bryan 

Dongray's Question:  What is your favorite Kate Bush line?



10)  And finally, what are your raves?  This is the question that's the 

most directly about ourselves, the Lovehounds.  Mention favorite 

recording artists books, poetry, fiction, tv shows, films, other types of 

raves.  To reveal not only what we have in common, but more importantly 

how diverse we all are!



If you only want to answer parts of the poll, that's okay, too.



The "polls" will close on the fifteenth.  This is just for fun.  (I'm a 

Creative Writing major, not as Bryan once accused me:  someone working 

for Kate to see if I can charge the hell out of all of you for a KB 

concert!  (I wish))  I will stop collecting votes on the seventeenth (to 

give the messages time, as well as taking time differences into 

consideration.)   I will give you the results at the end of the year.  

This is not a pernament "written in stone" poll, not really scientific or 

statistical, (just adding up on a calculator and checking the results 

over and over again), this poll would be different if the same peoplee 

voted one year from now, let alone two months.  It's a poll of 

appreciation and revelation of what the Lovehounds really like.  (There 

are critics out there who have written "The Dreaming" or "Red Shoes" as 

bad, for example.  But they're not necessarilly people who have time to 

read, hear, and know about Kate Bush.  Like us!)  And thanks to everyone 

who has voted and who have communicated with me on the internet.  It's 

wonderful for me, especially here in the U.S. where Kate Bush is not as 

much a household name!  





                                               Keep "Eat[ing] the music,"



                                                Stormin' Norman

                                                jbuchwald@huey.csun.edu