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

if this poll happened a week ago i would've been mondo annoyed at running's placement. it always left me cold. but i happened to hear it on the radio while driving last night and i was like 'damn this owns doesnt it' so i guess it finally clicked. still think wuthering not being #1 is mild challops (i might've voted for gaffa tho)

Very belated thanks to IK for running this and for the beautiful rollout.

My ballot:
Tracks
01 The Sensual World
02 The Dreaming
03 Rocket's Tail
04 The Man with the Child in His Eyes
05 Sat in Your Lap
06 King of the Mountain
07 Army Dreamers
08 Leave It Open
09 The Infant Kiss
10 The Red Shoes
11 Get Out of My House
12 All the Love
13 Moments of Pleasure
14 Delius (Song of Summer)
15 Suspended in Gaffa
16 Nocturn
17 Deeper Understanding
18 Houdini
19 Them Heavy People (On Stage EP version)
20 Ken

Albums
01 The Dreaming
02 Aerial
03 The Sensual World

Many thanks to Ismael forSam great poll. A bit late to followup, but...

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*5. Wuthering Heights
617 points, twenty-two votes, three no.1s
The Kick Inside (1978) (two votes for The Whole Story (1986))
debut performance*

On the original, the way she phrases "It's me/Cathy, I've come home" leaves her running out of breath by the time she reaches "I'm" (it's already an odd phrasing, putting the "I'm" in the line with "home" instead of "So cold" but the clipped way she sings it makes it even odder). But on the remake, her superior breath control allows her to extend the "ee's" of "me" and "Cathy" so that she can go straight into a hugely powerful "Co-o-o-ollld." That in turn allows her to use the line "Let me in-a-your window" as the climax of the chorus instead of the kind of tag it serves as in the original.

Not altogether unlike Sinatra ca. the Capitol recordings, the skill of her singing by this time was at its absolute peak. And on this, it allows her to fundamentally transform not just the feel of one of her best-known songs into something even more powerful and natural -- but the melody itself. It's amazing.

Yeah, but a) the original sounds like a crazy person singing alien music whereas in '86 it just sounds like Kate Bush, b) there's a MIDIVerb or something on the '86 version that makes it sound as if she's singing in a bathroom instead of on a wild and windy moor, c) one needs to hear how untamed her voice was on those early singles to really appreciate the subsequent "soft focus" approach to her singing on "Lionheart" moving into the high drama of "Never For Ever".

I'm 100% in favour of remixing and revising and think more people should do it. Even when it creates crap, which it does, like 90% of the time, having a polished-up crap version only sharpens the ingenuity of the original

(Not calling '86 "Kick Inside" vocal takes crap, mind)

I love her. My revised list of her best.

Great list, A+

Yep, excellent list, Alfred.

alfred you don't own the Kick Inside or Lionheart???

I own TKI but not Lionheart, don't relish playing the former except as exceptional demos

Lionheart is worth picking up for a few choice songs (Kashka, coffee homeground, the title track).

The Kick Inside is awesome.

Her catalog is awesome.

I like the love you showed for Aerial, but I don't think I will ever understand the gushing that the Dreaming receives. It's a weird dynamic; most casual fans don't rate it at all, but of the more serious fans that do rate it, the overwhelming majority seem to overrate the ever-loving hell out of it. It's a pretty good album, but considering the next two records she released after it, it's very mediocre in comparison.

A Sky of Honey is the greatest thing ever

Trying to imagine a world in which The Dreaming sounds mediocre compared to The Sensual World.

It's not a terribly sensual one, to be honest.

Given how much of a favourite it is of Kate's, having been picked for the live shows, it's surprising how badly Lily did.

didn't rank '50 Words for Snow'?

Trying to imagine a world in which The Dreaming sounds mediocre compared to The Sensual World.

― Tim F, Tuesday, September 11, 2018 12:43 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm with you. Or any record of hers after HoL for that matter.

A Sky of Honey is the greatest thing ever

― ufo, Monday, September 10, 2018 8:56 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i won't hear any sensual world slander, idk how anyone can not get immediately enveloped in it, the way its textures sprout up & spread out like a landscape in the fog

to use the ready-made image lol

I like the love you showed for Aerial, but I don't think I will ever understand the gushing that the Dreaming receives. It's a weird dynamic; most casual fans don't rate it at all, but of the more serious fans that do rate it, the overwhelming majority seem to overrate the ever-loving hell out of it. It's a pretty good album, but considering the next two records she released after it, it's very mediocre in comparison.

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, September 10, 2018 11:12 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this, except for Hounds of Love

tbh same

A Sky of Honey is the greatest thing ever

― ufo, Monday, September 10, 2018 8:56 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, September 11, 2018 1:39 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

I think The Sensual World is great but The Dreaming is monumental.