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Love-Hounds Digest			    Thursday, March 6, 1986, 01:51

Today's Topics:

			   Various (2 msgs)
		   re: literary references in music

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From: Jeff Dalton <jeff%aiva.edinburgh.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 86 18:01:38 GMT
Subject: Various

I mailed this before but, as sometimes happens with X-Atlantic mail, it 
just vanished into the void.  Sorry if anyone gets it twice.

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(1) Thanks to tsung@aero for mentioning Liona Boyd.  (Warning: classical
guitar, but can be great ...)

(2) BMI Awards: According to the gossip on Radio 1, Kate was a replacement
for Sade, who was supposed to sing but couldn't do it given tour, &c.  At
least they got it right the 2nd time.

The award for best female artist went to Annie Lennox.

Also, it's just possible that Kate might not have been lip-sync -- she had
a cordless mic and was holding it in her hand even while being spun
around.  (Or at least it looked that way to me.)

(3) From NME, 15 Feb 1986:

   KATE BUSH releases the title track from her 'Hounds of Love' LP
   as her new EMI single next Monday, coupled with the traditional
   and unaccompanied 'The Handsome Cabin Boy'.  She's recorded a
   completely new vocal for the 12" extended version, which is called
   'Alternative Hounds of Love', and this also has the bonus of 'Jig
   of Life'.  And to complete the action, Kate has directed her own
   video of the single.



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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 86 16:10:57 EST
From: hsut@ec.purdue.edu (Tsun-Yuk Hsu)
Subject: re: literary references in music



Anyone ever finish Remembrance of Things Past? I gave up around page 20,
but then Christmas break has never been a good time for big reading
projects... Another big book I'll get to soon (I hope) is Pynchon's
Gravity's Rainbow, which is referenced in Laurie Anderson's "Gravity's
Angel" from the Mister Heartbreak album. Pynchon writes hilarious
fake lyrics in his books --- try Crying of Lot 49 for a great read
and some sharp lyrics. 

There are also lines from T.S. Eliot's Waste Land in another Laurie
Anderson song from Mister Heartbreak (I think it's Blue Lagoon). It's
the part that goes "...those are pearls that were his eyes...", about
a drowned man. I don't recall any quotes from Big Science (don't have
the lyrics with me); anyone has pointers?

Bill Hsu

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Return-Path: <bdmrrr!potomac!jsl>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 86 11:41:53 est
From: bdmrrr!potomac!jsl@seismo.CSS.GOV (John Labovitz)
Subject: Re: Various

On the subject of the BMI awards...

I got my brother to tape it, and when watching it later, I fast-forwarded
through *everything* except Kate Bush.  What a junky show.  Not quite as
bad as the Grammys, but pretty close (at least Kenny Rogers didn't host
BMI).

Kate looked bored as hell, and like she wasn't having much fun.  I think
she was lip-syncing, cuz otherwise the song would have sounded like shit
(no excitement or effort on her part).  She also looked pretty awful --
someone put about an inch of makeup on her.

Note that I'm not cutting down Kate, because I'm sure that it wasn't all
her idea.  Just that I wasn't very impressed, and I'm pissed that I had
to sit there for an hour fast-forwarding thru the shit to get to her.  Oh
well.  Such is life, and TV, and business, and...

John Labovitz		..!{rlgvax,seismo}!bdmrrr!potomac!jsl
--
I've got you under my skin where the rain can't get in
And if the sweat pours out, just shout,
I'll try to swim and haul you out.	-- The The

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