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Love-Hounds Digest			    Friday, March 21, 1986, 06:29

Today's Topics:

			  Richman at the Roxy
			     Kate things...
			     Berlin lyrics
	       KB Mini-LPs, Sailors, Throwing Muses, etc.

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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 86 14:25:18 est
From: Knight of the Iguana <wicinski@nrl-css.ARPA>
Subject: Richman at the Roxy


Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers/The Roxy Club/March 13, 1986.

Since the first show was sold out tonite, I had to settle with seeing
only one set of Jonathan Richman.  While the rest of earlier Modern
Lovers have now grown up and are making money from their music,
Jonathan Richman is still a kid at heart.  The music he writes now is
identical to the music he wrote over ten years ago: its happy, sad, but
it will always make you smile.  His music is pure pop, and with his
music could become mainstream pop very easily, Jonathan himself has no
desire to have that happen to him.  In one of his conversations with
the audience tonite, Jonathan said he loves small clubs where he can
talk to the audience and they'll talk back to him.  It's a good sign
when musicians care more about the audience than making money.

There was only two other members of the Modern Lovers with him; both
played acoustical guitar and did a little harmonizing.  Jonathan now
carrys a saxaphone with him onstage; he uses it infrequently, but he
does a decent job of and playing it.  His songs now focus on the three
things in life he enjoys: nature, life, and romance.  All the songs
they performed were from his last two albums and his soon to be
released record on Twin-Tone records, and deal with the three important
ingredients in his life.  



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From: think!harvard!bu-cs!sam
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 86 18:12:12 EST
Subject: Kate things...


>I saw, at my local record store, a 12" Mini-Album by Kate Bush.  It's
>called "Kate Bush on Stage" and it's on Harvest records.  

A random observation:
I like some of the versions of songs on the EP/mini-album/whatever-it-is
better than the versions that appear on the albums on which they were
originally released.  I like the different chorus on "James and the
Cold Gun", and I like the different piano arrangement on "Don't Push Your 
Foot on the Heartbrake".  Agreements?  Disagreements?  Get well cards?
Question:
Is this recording from Kate Bush Live at the Hammersmith (or whatever...
Hammer-something, at any rate...like the video?) Did I ask you this
already, Doug?

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Recent convert Joe writes:
>1 - Picked up "The Dreaming". Kate Bush is the most extremely wicked
>pissah awesome artist I've ever heard.

And Doug says:
>Hey, it's great to see another convert to the One True Faith!

And he's obviously from Boston or thereabouts.  Wicked awesome.
 
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Doug at his sarcastic best:
>And about this erotic undercurrent that's always been there...  there
>are some things that have been puzzling me for a while.  Like in
>"L'Amour Looks Something Like You" Kate sings at the end "I find I'm
>living in that evening with that feeling of sticky love inside".  What
>is this feeling of sticky love inside?  She's not talking about
>*seamen* is she?  Gosh.  Is the feeling of old seamen inside you
>something that is fun to remember?  Perhaps some of the women on the
>list would like to elaborate.

No, I don't care to elaborate, but I'd like to correct your spelling:
semen.  Seaman is part of the punch line to the joke: What's the
difference between a JAP and the Bermuda Triangle?  (A: The Bermuda
Triangle swallows seamen!) (And no, I didn't cross-post to net.jokes.)

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"Spontaneity is our middle name."
          --Shelli


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From: think!harvard!bu-cs!sam
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 86 18:18:09 EST
Subject: Berlin lyrics


>Thje Berlin 'SEX' lyric is (to the best of my ability to discriminate using
>filters, speed translation and quantization techniques is "F*ck ME, F*ck ME".
>I wont get into thge reason I investigated ti (oops) it in the first place
>but would be glad to explain in detail if anyone really cares.
>
>John

Okay, John, now you have definitely aroused (no pun intended) the interest
of us all...now that your foot is in your mouth, you might as well start
explaining!
(Wait a minute..what am I talking about?  *I* was the one who asked about
the damn lyric to begin with!!)

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Did I wake up on the right planet this morning?
             --Shelli

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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 86 20:00:22 EST
From: nessus (Doug Alan)
Subject: KB Mini-LPs, Sailors, Throwing Muses, etc.

> Really-From: ROBB LEATHERWOOD

> I saw, at my local record store, a 12" Mini-Album by Kate Bush.
> It's called "Kate Bush on Stage" and it's on Harvest records.  The
> pictures and the 4 songs listed on the back are the same as the 7"
> single of the same name that I saw in Jim Lippard's boxed set of KB
> singles.  Now, this would be fine and dandy, but there's a sticker
> on the front that says that the EP contains 6 songs.  Either the
> sticker is lying or the list on the back is.  Does anybody know the
> answer to this?

KB has two EPs.  One is "Kate Bush On Stage", and has the four songs
listed on the back.  This one was never released in the U.S., but
might have been released in Canada, for all I know.  The other is
"Kate Bush" and is an EMI-America compilation album.  (It was never
released in England).  The U.S. version has five songs and the
Canadian version has six songs.

Don't always believe stickers.  "The Dreaming" has the sticker that
says "Contains 'Suspended In Gaffa' as seen on MTV'.  Right.  Maybe
MTV showed it twice.  And the most recent U.S. pressing of "Never for
Ever" has a sticker which says "Featuring 'Never for Ever'".

Now, there is *no* song "Never for Ever" on the album, but putting
that sticker on the album sure is a way to drive KB fans crazy,
because Kate *did* record a song called "Never for Ever", but she
decided to leave it off the album.

> And what is Kate doing on Harvest records?

KB was originally on Harvest in the U.S.  The first U.S. pressing of "The
Kick Inside" was on Harvest and had the Canadian cover.  She was very
shortly moved to EMI-America, however.  In Canada, she was probably on
Harvest for a longer period of time.

> Another Kate question:  Now that I have what I have, what should I
> get next?  Never For Ever?  Lionheart?  Or some singles or what?

Get "Never for Ever" and listen to mostly the second side.  Pick up
the "December Will Be Magic Again" single too.

> From: Shelli

> Is this recording ["Kate Bush On Stage"] from Kate Bush Live at the
> Hammersmith (or whatever...  Hammer-something, at any rate...like
> the video?)

Yup, it is.  "Recorded Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, 13 May 1979 --
Play it Loud".

>> She's not talking about *seamen* is she?  Gosh.  Is the feeling of
>> old seamen inside you something that is fun to remember?  Perhaps
>> some of the women on the list would like to elaborate.

> No, I don't care to elaborate...

Awww...  Cum on!

			"But you're not a swallow"

			 Doug

P.S. I saw The Throbbers, The Anti-Zeroes, Black Cat Bone, Uzi, and
Throwing Muses at The Rat last night.  It was a great show.  The last
three groups were awesome.  The main person in Throwing Muses was
incredibly PG, however (no she wasn't in a movie -- she was like, you
know, Mary with child expect that the father wasn't God, like you
know).  I was scared she might have the kid there on stage.  (All this
is pretty strange, because the last time I went to my dentist, she was
incredibly pregnant too.)

I wonder how much this will delay Throwing Muses album.  And whether
their music will become all blissful and starry-eyed.  Their encore
song had something in it about dying rabbits, so things look pretty
good.  With my luck if I asked the author about those lyrics, however,
and said "You're saying something about your pregancy when singing
about dying rabbits, right?", she'd probably say "No, I'm talking
about rabbits and about death.  You're pretty weird."

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-- 
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under.

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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