We Become Panoramic - THE KATE BUSH RESULTS THREAD (ilm artist poll #24)

ok - I'll stop with the annoying play by play. Back to work.

I have never heard that. It's really nice.

oh man!

I had no idea this would chart so high – one of my top fifteen.

it was the last entry to make my top 10. pretty devestating.

I see this was on the HoL reissue, is it collected anywhere else?

on the This Woman's Work box set but that's looooooong out of print

It really is gorgeous. I had it on the Hounds reissue but I didn't really think it worked there. Alone, though, it's devastating.

That's my little 'un rocking those dungarees btw - I figured that if Bertie gets to appear on Kate's albums, then Ismaelito should get to grace this poll.

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28. Pull Out The Pin
178 points, nine votes
The Dreaming (1982)
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The sample of a truck driving past in this track has always made me scratch my head. It seems random but somehow fits perfectly within the dense aural jungle of the song.

Pull Out The Pin was another late victim in my cull to get down to 20 tracks. It was probably my favourite Bush track for a couple of years after the album came out.

Now wishing I had put Under The Ivy even higher than I did. It's a startlingly beautiful song.

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27. Houdini
187 points, nine votes
The Dreaming (1982)
with Tony Curtis

i think i only voted for one from 'the dreaming' in the end, looks like they're all going to show at this rate.

Pull Out The Pin way too low.

"Houdini" was super high on my list. Kind of a perfect example of why "The Dreaming" is so great : Fairlight textures blending seamlessly with organic instruments (including Weber's lovely melancholy basslines) and KB putting her voice into the service of several personalities/mindstates. Outstanding and still awes me to this day, almost 20 something years after first hearing it.

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26. Babooshka
198 points, ten votes
Never For Ever (1980)
performance

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25. Moving
199 points, ten votes
The Kick Inside (1978)
live in Tokyo

"Pull Out the Pin" and "Babooshka" both potentially dodgy concepts turned into great little stories on the strength of her writing and singing.

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24. Sunset
238 points, eleven votes
Aerial (2005)
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If noöne's got anything to say about this one, I give up. It's the most gorgeous.

I wish I could, but I really find the second disc of Aerial to be very anemic. If Nocturne would have been added to the first disc, Aerial might've been the best thing Kate has ever done.

That being said, happy with how this poll is working out til now :)

Great work with the pictures and all too!

Great pics Ismael!!

Adore "Sunset" so much.

I love the piano fills in the first half, how every one's a slightly different variation

TBH I really need more smooth jazz vibes in my life.

Have we ever done a Sea of Honey vs a Sky of Honey? Because I think I've always been for Sky.

one of my favorite songs from Aerial

This was my no.2, and I was tempted to put it higher.

"sunset" and "pull out the pin", two more of my votes. the latter really is one of those songs you feel ONLY kate could pull off - she skirts parody so much, with the vocal treatment and the odd orientalisms and so on, but she takes it so seriously and executes the concept with such focus that you're right there with her.

"sunset" is absolutely gorgeous, it's where aerial starts to become really transcendent - a sky of honey is such an incredible achievement. her use of language on that disc is so satisfying, the way the words and rhymes slot together.

I feel like I'm only just getting to know it, it's so rewarding on every listen

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23. Mother Stands For Comfort
253 points, twelve votes
Hounds of Love (1985)
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Have we ever done a Sea of Honey vs a Sky of Honey?

hahaha, I think I've listened to a Sea of Honey maybe twice... Sky of Honey fifty or sixty times now, by my music player's count. Apparently the current CD/iTunes release has merged the entire suite into one track called An Endless Sky of Honey... would have totally made it my #1.

xpost YES.

Hooray. Another one!

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22. Leave It Open
254 points, ten votes, one no.1
The Dreaming (1982)
contemporary dance
alternate
backwards

I remember erstwhile ilxor lj calling this something like 'the weirdest thing possible within a conventional song structure', and I think he had a point.

Aw, my #1.

oh awesome, I didn't think this was in contention - always got the impression it was fairly overlooked. it was in my top 3, certainly my #1 non-Aerial track. so out-there.

'Leave It Open' is brilliant...contains everything I love about KB...mad, funky and completely OTT...genius...

It was my no.4. I was surprised to have it so high, but it'd've been even higher had something else not edged it out on a whim.

One more for the evening, and it's one I was really disappointed to see fall just shy of the top twenty.

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21. Jig Of Life
257 points, twelve votes, one no.1
Hounds of Love (1985)
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I put this moment here

Surely all 10 of the tracks from The Dreaming will chart? I can't see any of the remaining 5 tracks missing the list.

in an ass-backwards way, "leave it open" reminds me of tricky

My #10. Over... HERE!

I was the no. 1 for Jig. I have sometimes played that song 5 or 6 times in a row.

At first I thought it was basically a joke song, the kind of massive misstep that I might find charming but that objectively is kind of embarrassing. Kate's 'The Crunge', if you like.

But its power has only grown and grown, it's like a terrifying monster now.

so many amazing bits of this track. fucking love it.

Love the way the fiddle mirrors and chases her vocal lines.

i could imagine stevie nicks singing 'jig of life'.