How do you type that frenzied shriek that a crowd of rabid fans made at a Beatles concert?

My first impression is that it’s “Eeeeeeeeeeee,” with maybe a lot of exclamation points at the end, but that seems rather dull and leaden, somehow, there on the screen. If you look at film of the crowds at those concerts, they’re shouting “John! Paul! George! Ringo! I looove you!” and other things. “Eeeeeeeeeeee” doesn’t really do it justice.

At Bruce Springsteen concerts, people shout “Bruuuuce!” and it sounds like they’re booing. Now, that must have taken some time to get used to. If his audience ever turns against him, Bruce won’t know until he sees incoming rotten tomatoes and other produce.

“Aiiieeeeee” has some energy, but it sounds like something a guy would say as his still-beating heart is plucked from his chest in an Indiana Jones movie — there is a strong negative vibe that doesn’t really work for the Beatles’ fan sound. “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!” as repeated by ten thousand screaming teenagers might actually be close, but it just looks silly there in type.

“Aaaarrrggghhh!” — well, that’s not even close, is it? “Eeeeeeyaaaaa!” looks promising, but it seems kind of hostile. This is harder than it looks.

Aw, heck. I’m gonna go with my original instinct.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kate Bush is finally releasing a new album! After twelve years! Eeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

I guess this news is almost six months old, but I just heard about it. Eeeeeeee!!!

Kate Bush, if you’re not familiar with her work — eeeee!!! — is a singer/songwriter from England. She was phenomenally popular in Europe during the 1980s and early 1990s. She gained a cult following in the United States, and I was one of the cult.

I first heard her on November 7, 1977 — eeee!! — on Saturday Night Live. She must have made some sort of impression — eee! — because it was more than three years before I heard her again, on December 17, 1980, and I remembered her name and the title of one of her songs. I put a Kate Bush page on my cobweb site (it’s old and dusty, see, because it hasn’t been updated for a long time) and told the story of how I got hooked on the music of Kate Bush.

In the years since Kate went silent, I sorrowfully searched for other singers to take her place. I found Sarah McLachlan and Loreena McKennitt and Sinéad O’Connor and Tori Amos and the Roches and others, all wonderful. But I’ve always hoped to hear more from Kate Bush. Now, at long last, my wish may come true. Wooooohoooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

“Wooooohoooooo” is pretty good.