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

the last time I listened to this song I was rushing to pick up my kid from preschool while my wife was having a miscarriage in the hospital and I cried like a fucking little girl. and now I will always associate this song with that moment.

"this woman's work" might be The Most Moving Song Ever

oh Shakey

Tremendously moving. She really tapped into something when she created this song. Love the Director's Cut version of this as well. Voted for that one.

toyed with voting Director's Cut versions of this and "Deeper Understanding" but in the end i didn't specify cos it seemed too challopian

This blew up recently due to some film or something iirc? It was a lot harder to find nice clips to choose from

Six albums already represented in the top 10, that's a wider spread than I would have expected. (Tho I'm guessing none of my Red Shoes faves are in the top 3.)

Yeah. I think I underrated this [Wuthering Heights] on my ballot as I figured it was a lock for the top three

i figured it would be much more drastically underrated, pleased to see it finish so high

The vastly underrated Lionheart is still going to be vastly underratted, isn't it?

Kinda wondering if the top three is all gonna be from side one of Hounds of Love.

amazing how TWW was written *specifically for* She's Having A Baby and directly inspired by the script! something else to thank John Hughes for.

was it?! that's remarkable. add me to those who can't listen to it without welling up a little.

aye. from NME: "It was written for John Hughes' film She's Having A Baby. Really light comedy about this young guy who gets married, very much a kid. His wife is pregnant and it's alright until they get to the hospital and the baby's in the breach position.
That's the sequence I have to write the songs about and it's really very moving, him in the waiting room, having flashbacks of his wife and him going for walks, decoration... It's exploring his sadness and guilt, suddenly it's the point where he has to grow up. He'd been such a wally up to this point."

still blows my mind!

If she called me a wally I would kill myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MZWrEfB_VM

Kinda wondering if the top three is all gonna be from side one of Hounds of Love.

:(

Add me to the wellers-uppers. TSW gets knocked a lot for its sound, but this track is one hell of a production job - that's how to build a climax imo.

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/5469/0003houndsoflove.jpg

3. Hounds Of Love
668 points, twenty-four votes, five no.1s
Hounds of Love (1985)
video

One of the reasons I suspect I didn't vote is that 'Ken' (a song written specifically for The Comic Strip) Is maybe my favourite and I would be crushed now it's not placing.

still getting excited!

i feel like this is over-rated in this context, but that cd be partly over-exposure. but nah, i don't buy it as the third best song of her career. still brilliant, obv.

aghhh. My #1. Great photo, IK! Would buy this single with that cover : )

Trying not to refresh this thread like it was an eBay auction ending.

This one was beloved of late voters. It had a terrible first third of the poll - joint ninth after twelve ballots - and thereafter went on a tear. When I went to bed on the brink of closing the voting it had climbed to fifth; the last three ballots lifted it into the top three.

Amazing photo!

Here's a cover version w/a choir (adorably) doing the "arf arf arf arf arf" backing vocals:
http://dudleybenson.bandcamp.com/track/hounds-of-love-the-awakening-live

and it had the most no.1s, so if I'd done a button poll instead then it's our winner

HoL was my #1 vote (and on certain days and in certain temperaments maybe just my favorite song, flat-out?)

that image is so perfect

This and the Bowie poll are the only ones I've voted in; two pop stars I grew up with (and KB was/is a star in the UK - that's the thing that perhaps isn't all that apparent to North American fans who discovered her by different means - she was Saturday morning kids' telly AND critical darling). I wonder if I'm the only 40something Brit to kind of ignore Aerial in all of this, just associating all her peaks with my own formative years. I mean, I do own the thing, and I'm definitely going to try again with it.

I think it's time

but first I want to say that it really was really close

(cue loud Linn drum roll )

( and Orch5 sample )

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/839/0002cloudbusting.jpg

2. Cloudbusting
790 points, twenty-eight votes, three no.1s
Hounds of Love (1985)
video

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i don't mean that. it's fine, they're all great. pull yourself together man.

Sterling work, IK. Big thanks. Great images throughout. Pleasure to participate.

but you don't know what's no.1 yet

It's Rocket's Tail!

"Heads We're Dancing"?

so that leaves "heartbrake" as the only possible #1, right?

The single with Peter Gabriel?

so many possibilities, but

http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/7124/0001runningupthathill.jpg

1. Running Up That Hill
800 points, twenty-nine votes, three no.1s
Hounds of Love (1985)
video

My number one, iirc. It's just perfect.

Fun poll! Glad to have added my two cents!

congratulations, you've just beaten the best song by anyone ever. i must admit i downgraded this a bit as i thought this may happen, how many points did my 11th place give it?

Kate's really big hits are also amazing songs that don't ever feel diluted by their exposure, IMO.

"Running Up That Hill" was played at a houseparty a few weeks ago and totally captivated the dancefloor.

brilliant poll!

and as this is the end, let's marvel at such an amazing video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM