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Love-Hounds Digest			Saturday, June 7, 1986, 19:47 EDT

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Date:     5-JUN-1986 12:14:46
From: SSUD3%UK.AC.SUSSEX.VAX2@AC.UK


Here are some miscellaneous bits from the latest issue of "Record Mirror":

1) "Hounds of Love" is holding steady at #36 on the charts for the
   second week in a row.

2) "The Single File" video collection moved up from #12 to #8 on the
    music video charts, where it has been near the top of the charts
    ever since the release of "Hounds of Love"

3)  The compact disc of HoL just re-entered at #8 on the CD charts, due
   to a new shipment/pressing of the CD, so that all the stores are now
   supplied with huge stacks of it once again. There are now mass quantities
   of "Lionheart" and "The Kick Inside" CD's once again, which appear to be
   yet another german pressing by Polygram. (I was hoping for a pressing from
   EMI's new Swindon CD plant in the UK, which is way overdue in opening)

4) The following is from the "Chartfile" section by Alan Jones:

   "Now more than eight years into her chart career, Kate Bush has
   singlehandedly written all 15 of her hit singles, a figure unrivalled by any
   other female singer/songwriter in the world.

   Kate Also shares the distingction of being one of only three women to pluck
   more than three top 40 hits off an album (Tina Turner and Madonna are the
   other two).
   Kate's "Hounds of Love" has been raided for "running up that hill" (#3)
   "Cloudbusting" (#20), "Hounds of Love" (#18) and "The Big Sky" (#37).
   In addition to spawning these hits, the "Hounds of Love" album has sold over
   400,000 copies in its own right, and is the fourth best selling compact
   disc ever released in Britain, lining up behind Dire Straits' "Brothers
   in Arms", and "Love Over Gold", and Phil Collins' "No Jacket Required".

Regarding the release of "the Dreaming" and "Never for Ever" on Compact disc,
in view of the above information, it is almost certainly legal hassles between
Kate and EMI (probably regarding royalty payments, like the Beatles) that
are causing the delay in release, rather than pressing plant limitations.
(After all, they managed to get repressings done of the first two albums...)
After all, HoL, according to the above, is EMI's largest selling compact
disc EVER, so they are probably dying to release the others on CD.

Speaking of releases, if there are any Elvis Costello fans out there,
"Trust" and "This Years Model" were just released on Monday via the independent
company Demon records, and pressed at the Nimbus plant in England.
However, "This Years Model" sticks to the original british album format,
which had "Night Rally" at the end, in place of "Radio Radio", and also
has the additional song, "I don't want to go to Chelsea" (which only
appears on the U.S. release, "Taking Liberties". (Oops - I just noticed
that I forgot to specify that I am talking about new CD releases here...)
Anyway, the interesting thing is that the British release of "Armed Forces"
on CD exactly matched the american CD and LP versions (i.e. it has "What'
s  so funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding" and leaves off "Sunday's
Best".)  This is getting confusing! Anyway, the point is that I'm going
to wait for the US release of "this year's model" on CD 'cos I'm more
used to that format - but be aware of the differences before you shell
out $18 bucks or so for the import CD.

Hugh


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Date:     5-JUN-1986 16:35:47
From: SSUD3%UK.AC.SUSSEX.VAX2@AC.UK



3 quick responses:

1) Sorry - Doug is right. Kate eats too many KIT-KATS, not cadbury's bars.
   It is the homeground crew that eats too many of the latter.

2) OK, so what was that cryptic message from IED0DXM (a.k.a. Andrew Marvick)
   supposed to mean:  "KATE BUSH - remember?..."? Huh? Am I missing
   part of the posting? Did I say something wrong?

3) Well, if not whats-his-name in Depeche mode, I wouldn't be surprised
   if some of the other members are gay (i.e. Martin Gore, whose favorite
   city is Berlin, and who is a leather fanatic, according to the last
   interview I read) - Also there's a big undercurrent of gay imagry in
   their videos and song titles ("Master and Servant", etc) (Although
   anyone seeing "9.5 weeks" knows that S&M isn't restricted to gays...)
   Not that it matters....it's fun to debate, though...

Hugh


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From: bu-cs!sam
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 86 12:48:21 EDT
Subject: KB videos


Hugh writes:

>Well, I really doubt that she purposely planned it to be random
>and somewhat incomprehensible, since she said in the last KBC newsletter
>that the thing she hates most about rock videos is how unstructured
>they are. I totally agree with this - unless the song is really
>unstructured and stream-of-consciousness to begin with.

>OK, "Hounds of Love" totally bit the dust in my eyes, 

I am one of the less fortunate souls who has not yet seen the video
for "Big Sky", but I have seen "Hounds of Love"...

I don't think that Hounds of Love is random or unstructured, though.
I like the word "intricate".  So what if it's distracting?  Videos
are a VISUAL medium, and by the time you see one, you already know
the song by heart anyway.  I could sing Hounds of Love backwards in
my sleep; in the video, I find all the overlapped and not-so-noticable
details refreshing.  

Isn't intricacy and organized randomness what we *liked* about the
music in The Dreaming?  So why isn't it okay to use the same strategy
in a video?

 	- Shelli

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From: SSUD3%UK.AC.SUSSEX.VAX2@AC.UK



Here's the letter that I just sent off in response to the SOUNDS
cover story on Kate:


"How ironic that Dicky Cook should pick out "The Big Sky" as his
least-hated Kate Bush song.  For someone [sic] who has so
OBVIOUSLY followed our "coddled Kate's" progress through the
years with Vermorellian*  fascination (Despite getting the lyrics to
"Feel It" wrong), I find it (as the saying goes) "Amazing" that the
oh-so-literal meaning of the song (i.e. lashing out at snotty-nosed
frustrated rock-star failures-turned sniping critics such as himself)
failed to pierce his Sugar-Walled brain.  Perhaps we should convince
Sheena Instant to cover it, and bring it down to his level.

-Hugh Maher
 Brighton

(*refers to Fred Vermorel)




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