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Love-Hounds Digest			    Tuesday, January 28, 1986, 12:50

Today's Topics:

	     The Semi-Compleate Lyrics to Waking The Witch
			   Save the Madonna!
		      Cloudbusting - the video ...
			   Love-Hounds Digest
			   Name this tune...

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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 86 09:35:47 est
From: nessus (Doug Alan)
Subject: The Semi-Compleate Lyrics to Waking The Witch

> From Dave Fetrow:

>  On "Waking the Witch" my recording (which was in the tape machine at
> work while reading this) it is definitely: "Bless me father, Bless me
> father for I have sinned --- UH". However it also sounds a bit spliced
> up, so maybe that wasn't the original.

I meant the part right after that.  Here's that section a little more
acurrately, as I hear it:

	PRIEST: What child?  What Child?
	KATE: Bless me father, bless me father, for I have sinned -- UH!
	Simultaneously:
		KATE: Help me.  Listen to me, listen to me, listen to me
			come, baby -- UH!
		KATE: Red, red roses.
	Simultaneously:
		KATE: Help me, baby.  Talk too!
		KATE: Red, red roses
	JUDGE: I question your innocence.

Here's all the lyrics for the whole song as best as I can make them out.
If anyone has any different ideas about what's being said, please tell
me:

	VOICES: Wake up.
		A good morning m'am.  This is your early morning call.
			(Trivia note:  the above line was said by Paddy
			 talking through a phone.)
		You must wake up.
		Wake up.
		Wake up, man.
		Wake up, child.  Pay attention.
		Come on, wake up, my love.
		Wake up, love.
		They should make the night, but see your little light's
			a lie.
	   	[Simultaneously:]
			MAN: Sunday at nine and you're sleeping in bed?
				Get up!
			KATE: Your ma needs a shower.  Get out of bed.
		CHORUS: Little light.
		MAN: Can you not see that little light up there?
		KATE: Where?
		MAN: There!
		KATE: Where?
		Over here.
		You still in bed?
		Wake up sleepy head.
		The heirs of the water are trying to get out.
		We are water in the holy land of water.
		Don't you know you've kept we waiting!
		Look who's here to see you!

	KATE: Wake, wake up. Wake up. Wake up, baby. Wake up. Wake up.
		Wake, wake up dear.
	JUDGE: You won't burn.
	KATE: Red, red roses.
	JUDGE: You won't bleed.
	KATE: Pinks and posies.
	JUDGE: Confess to me girl.
	KATE: Red, red roses go down.
	KATE: [Indecipherable]
	JUDGE: Poor...
	KATE: Red, red roses.
	JUDGE: ... blackbird.
	KATE: Pinks and posies.
	JUDGE: Wings in the water.
	KATE: Red, red roses.
	BOTH: Go down.
	KATE: Pinks and posies.
	KATE: [Indecipherable.]
	PRIEST: What child?  What Child?
	KATE: Bless me father, bless me father, for I have sinned -- UH!
	Simultaneously:
		KATE: Help me.  Listen to me, listen to me, listen to me
			come, baby -- UH!
		KATE: Red, red roses.
	Simultaneously:
		KATE: Help me, baby.  Talk too!
		KATE: Red, red roses.
	JUDGE: I question your innocence.
	KATE: This blackbird -- there's a stone around my leg.
	JUDGE: Hah!  Damn you woman!  UH!  Hah!
	KATE: This blackbird -- there's a stone around my leg.
	JUDGE: What say you, good people?
	GOOD PEOPLE: Guilty!  Guilty!  Guilty!
	KATE: This blackbird.
	JUDGE: I am responsible for your actions.
	KATE: Auuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
	JUDGE: UH!  Hmm!  Ha, ha, ha.  Kill thee.  Burn!
	KATE: Help this blackbird.
	VOICE: Let go of the way.
	VOICE IN HELICOPTER: Get out of the waves.  Get out of the
		water.

-Doug

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Date:     Mon, 13 Jan 86 17:09:11 EST
From: Jim Hofmann <hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA>
Subject:  Save the Madonna!

Reprinted without permission from The Nuclear Times (Nov/Dec)

"Somewhere in Cincinnati there lives a young man, a comatose quadriplegic,
named Given, who is cared for by his sister Jaunita.

"One sumer day in the park a boy walked past Given carrying a cassette 
recorder, which was playing a song by pop star, Madonna.  For the first
time in years, Given became lucid, asking, "What beautiful music is that?"

"The next few days were happy ones for Given and family.  They showered him
with Madonnarabilia, and her album never left the turntable.  Given's health
and mood improved steadily.

"Seventeen days later, Given watched a video cassette of 'The Day After,' and
here the story takes a sad turn.  Fearing that Madonna might be killed or
forced to live in a post-nuclear world like the one portrayed in the film,
Given became seriously depressed.  His condition deteriorated until serveral
months later, he was comatose again.  Given's sister claims that his last words
were, 'Those eyes [Madonna's], must never see nuclear war.' He has not come
out of the coma since.

"In a press release, a spokesman for Juanita, Terrence Ross, tells us that
she has decided to honor her brothers last request.  She has appointed Ross
executive director of a new disarmament group, the Association to Save
Madonna from Nuclear War (ASMNW).  Ross is anxious to discuss the matter
with Madonna herself.  He is publicizing the story because he wants people to
think about nuclear war in different ways.  Everybody is so overwhelmed by
the concept that they cannot deal with it.  This story makes people think
about nuclear war by singling out one unique person, of all creation.  'It's
a newe approach.' Ross admits that one of the  chief reactions so far is
'disbelif, sometimes sardonic humor.'  Juanita has refused to be interviewed
to verify the story."

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Date:     Mon, 13 Jan 86 17:20:10 EST
From: Jim Hofmann <hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA>
Subject:  Cloudbusting - the video ...

Just my thoughts after seeing the video (Thanks, Doug) ...

Kate Bush seems to have the right idea about combining music with images -
which should be the goal of the "video" (Mikey Jackson now prefers to call
"videos" "films") and all to often the "video" (or at least the majority
shown on MTV and assorted other venues (Friday Night Videos, Radio 1990)
has merely been an excercise in making an extended commercial which can
be pretty boring after awhile.

"Cloudbusting" like its predecessors "Blue Jean" and yes, "Thriller" treats
the music as an integral part of the action but not the central point.  This
is good and should be encouraged!  Write MTV and tell them you want more
time devoted to this type of film ...

However, "Cloudbusting" suffers from Kate's complete lack of acting ability ...
alot of this blame must be put on the director's shoulders for not 
eliciting a convincing performance.  Kate should take her cue from other
singers/athletes/etc turned actor/actress and take a much less demanding
role.  To jump into a little boys shoes from modern dance slippers is way
too much for her.  To have a brillant performance by Donald Sutherland which
overshadows her attempts to be cute is utterly sickening (to my mind and stomach
at least) ... perhaps Kate should have hung ego on the front door and allowed
a more accomplished actor do the part, say Matthew Broderick or Henry Thomas ..
they certainly wouldn't have looked as ridiculous in a little boy outfit
as Kate does.  If anything, she should have made her acting debut as a character
closer to her own personna instead of tackling Cloudbusting as such.  Again,
the director is to blame for not finding the most convincing performance but
when the actor holds the purse strings and artistic control many directors
are hard-pressed to hurt ego.  Too bad ... as Sutherlands' performance was
magnificient ...

Hofmann

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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 86 04:51:51 est
From: nessus (Doug Alan)
Subject: Name this tune...

There's a really moby song which I have heard on the radio and for which
I have a video, but I don't know who does it.  It sort of sounds like
Gordon Lightfoot gone psychedelic punk industrial art noise rock.  It
has one distinctive phrase "Like talking to a stranger" that alternates
with other phrases.  Does anyone know who does it?

			"Like talking to a stranger"

			 Doug

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