Jop Tournament Qualifiers 4

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Another four showdowns, with Timberlake and his ex featuring prominently. In yesterday's second batch of polls, Madonna, Sister Sledge and Joy Division won convincingly, with Prince's "Kiss" sneaking up on Grandmaster Flash and R Kelly to take Group H by a single vote.


[Poll #912403]


Tomorrow - "Zigga-zig-ah!" "B-A-N-A-N-A-S!" "Woo-hoo!" and much more!

Comments

Tell Me About This Kate Bush Woman

[koganbot]

Tell me about this Kate Bush woman, whom you all like so well.

Re: This Kate Bush Woman

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Child prodigy, signed to EMI aged 15 months approx. Mentored by Pink Floyd, hit it big with very first Bronte-inspired single. Toured once in 1978, and has never played live since. A bona fide pop star in late 70s/early 80s. Now makes one album every 20 years - each one more idiosyncratic than the last - but is still nominated for Best Female at the Brits annually. National treasure.

Re: This Kate Bush Woman

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Also, pal of Peter Gabriel.

Re: Tell Me About This Kate Bush Woman

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Classic English eccentric; has settled into what is apparently a life of blissful domesticity, going to the supermarket and taking her son to school; says "I'm normal and boring" in interviews but goes "A-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAA" along with the birds in songs; adored by just about everyone including Tricky and Outkast; Tori Amos has been accused of being a K8 copyist (unjustly in my opinion, it is mostly due to a shared vocal range); has written songs about or based on Victorian novels, mad scientists, the plight of Australian aboriginals, witch trials, in-character meditations as a Vietnamese guerrilla fighter, incest, Elvis Presley and Joan of Arc, and got most of them in the top 20; national treasure.

Re: Tell Me About This Kate Bush Woman

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Her career is a series of dressing-up games, more successfully (IMO) than Bowie's cos she switches around between song to song more than album to album. Also cos Bowie's characters are all basically fucked-up aliens whereas Kate inhabits a whole series of skins (heroine of Wuthering Heights, mother of dead soldier, Molly Bloom, Australian bush ranger, mutant fetus, plus the less definable heroines of a hundred different other stories) and does so very well. But all the time you know it's Kate. So the aesthetic hook is her constructing these stories, and the emotional hook is often the joy of playing let's pretend and dress-up - and maybe the occasional fright as the dress-up reveals stuff you'd rather it wouldn't.

("Running Up That Hill" isn't like that particularly - it's good running music.)