agreed. so epic.
― blueski, Friday, 10 August 2007 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
+ donkey mentalism
― blueski, Friday, 10 August 2007 12:49 (sixteen years ago) link
dude i don't know if Suspended in Gaffa will steal this! so tough
― Surmounter, Friday, 10 August 2007 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I voted for "The Dreaming" but I love everything on this album so I'm fine with whatever.
― Tim F, Friday, 10 August 2007 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
A Hounds of Love poll would be much more high-stakes for me: i'd be shattered if I was the only person to vote for "Hello, Earth", but curiously uncomfortable if it won.
― Tim F, Friday, 10 August 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
um i would ABSOLUTELY vote for Hello EArth.
i think
― Surmounter, Friday, 10 August 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
YES. i would.
bumpermorgendorfer
― Surmounter, Saturday, 11 August 2007 00:52 (sixteen years ago) link
went with title track
― impudent harlot, Saturday, 11 August 2007 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
ballsy
― Surmounter, Saturday, 11 August 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Get Outta My House!
― Bimble, Saturday, 11 August 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
hee haww hee haww hee haw hee haw heee hawwwww
― cutty, Saturday, 11 August 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i remember buying the single of "sat in your lap" and being totally enamoured of it for weeks on end. it just seemed like such a leap from her previous work.
― drone/a/sore, Sunday, 12 August 2007 04:41 (sixteen years ago) link
and it was!
― sleeve, Sunday, 12 August 2007 06:59 (sixteen years ago) link
voted for houdini just because no-one else mentioned it
― akm, Sunday, 12 August 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i do not like houdini
― cutty, Sunday, 12 August 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
what??? those lush strings and her VOICE
"WITH YOUR LIFE
THE ONLY THING IN MY MIND
WE PULL YOU FROM THE WAAATTEEEERRRR!"
― Surmounter, Sunday, 12 August 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i love when that part comes on and i have friends over. they just kinda look at me weird.
that post was self-zinging
― bobby bedelia, Sunday, 12 August 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Have to vote for the title track here.
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 12 August 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
the only bad thing about this album is the rubbish black type on white background fucking up the cover
― akm, Monday, 13 August 2007 03:52 (sixteen years ago) link
such a tough call, but there goes a tenner just to make sure it gets some love.
― shanissey, Monday, 13 August 2007 04:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Heheh. I was just going to say that song should get some love.
One of the rabble needs mummy...
― Bimble, Monday, 13 August 2007 04:07 (sixteen years ago) link
luv the cover
― Surmounter, Monday, 13 August 2007 04:18 (sixteen years ago) link
why did i post Luv the cover completely out of the blue?
okay bump
― Surmounter, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
wow, they're all great songs.
i could almost go with 'sat in your lap'
but i'm not gonna.
NOT TILL I'M READY FOR YOU-HOO-HOOO
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
=)
― Surmounter, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
color me GAFFA
― The Macallan 18 Year, Thursday, 16 August 2007 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I would vote for "Hello Earth" as well ... then again I just voted for "All The Love"
― zaxxon25, Thursday, 16 August 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
oooh. well i'm on the HoL poll next
― Surmounter, Thursday, 16 August 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Good on you! Someone should do that.
― Bimble, Saturday, 18 August 2007 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
"sat on your lap" is my fave kate bush song
― Dominique, Saturday, 18 August 2007 04:17 (sixteen years ago) link
or in
― Dominique, Saturday, 18 August 2007 04:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Saturday, 18 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i love the lyrics to get out of my house.
― Surmounter, Saturday, 18 August 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
see the hackles on the cat - STANDING
― impudent harlot, Sunday, 19 August 2007 07:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Damnit the suspense is killing me with this poll.
― Bimble, Sunday, 19 August 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Sunday, 19 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
wow guyz. i do feel tho that night of the swallow and pull out the pin are underrepresented.
― Surmounter, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link
HoL poll question - should I include the bonus tracks? I haven't even heard them (Lagan Love etc), cuz they didn't come with my copy, so I'm thinking No.
― Surmounter, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
"Leave It Open" particularly hard done by.
This album ranked:
The Dreaming Leave it Open Night of the Swallow Suspended In Gaffa Pull Out The Pin Sat In Your Lap Get Out of My House All The Love There Goes A Tenner Houdini
― Tim F, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link
my choice wuz robbed! I am proud to represent.
― sleeve, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Voters were likely swayed by the presence of sampled donkey imitations.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I used to think Leave it Open was a weak spot, but I've fallen in love with her lithe and freaky glam vocal in the intro, totally perfect.
― Alex xy, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i agree with the top 3 :)
but yeah, for me its really hard to rank this album. i find it extremely even overall.
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 20 August 2007 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm glad I voted, or "Suspended in Gaffa" would have come in second!
― nabisco, Monday, 20 August 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
haha
suspended in Gaffa is so rich.
okay so i'm doing the HoL poll w/out bonus tracks then. speak now or forever hold it.
― Surmounter, Monday, 20 August 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
without is more pure. besides, i haven't heard the bonus tracks :(
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 20 August 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Interesting results indeed. I too would have picked Leave It Open last.
― Bimble, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 01:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm shocked by the "get out of my house" love ... who knew? I guess people love donkeys. Or maybe mules?
― zaxxon25, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know why I'm crying
LOL Kate threads
― lucked up (lukas), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
one of my fav lines on the album : "if you go
i'll let the law know"
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
suspended in gaffa fuiud
― cankles, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 1:34 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
oh, i DIDNT miss this thread
― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
― Tim F, Friday, August 10, 2007 4:11 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this post made me LOL for some reaason
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
we are waiting
― Surmounter, Friday, 10 April 2009 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link
we got the job sussed
n this shop's shut for business
― Surmounter, Friday, 10 April 2009 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
the synths there are like a sea of questions.
(under "we are waiting")
― Surmounter, Friday, 10 April 2009 10:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, my buddy has decided he's totally in love with Kate on the basis of his recent discovery of Hounds of Love, but until he learns to appreciate this album he's not really a Kate fan at all in my book.
― To Float Away On A Lifelong Song (Bimble), Friday, 10 April 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
still a fucked up album
― surm, Thursday, 27 March 2014 00:09 (ten years ago) link
and still one of the best vocal deliveries ever on "if you go, i'll let the law know"
― surm, Thursday, 27 March 2014 00:24 (ten years ago) link
Pull Out The Pin, Leave It Open, Sat In Your Lap and There Goes A Tenner are my favorites. This or Aerial must be her best album.
― jay., Thursday, 27 March 2014 08:29 (ten years ago) link
wtf @ firstly, me missing this poll and secondly, "leave it open" coming last. easily my pick
― lex pretend, Thursday, 27 March 2014 09:08 (ten years ago) link
Definitely. My #1 in the overall Kate Bush poll in Aug 2012!
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 27 March 2014 10:48 (ten years ago) link
missed this but it wouldve been "pull the pin" or something from side 2. such a great album.
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
yea leave it open is some modern next level shit
to this day i still can't really talk about pull out the pin bc she's too good on it
― surm, Friday, 28 March 2014 00:57 (ten years ago) link
glad to see "all the love" represented here -- I mean I'd have voted for get out of my house obviously but that's one of kate's most underrated tracks
― katherine, Friday, 28 March 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
i RATE it! highhhhhly
― surm, Friday, 28 March 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
i think i've played it after some especially bad social engagements
― surm, Friday, 28 March 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
(at my house)
― surm, Friday, 28 March 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
somehow the cover of this album captures so much of what I love abt Kate bush
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 28 March 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link
this kind of humorous enchanted playfulness
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 28 March 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
that COVER
― surm, Friday, 28 March 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
Leave It Open 1
No way!
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Friday, 31 March 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link
Suspended in Gaffa - which has one of the best internal monologues in any pop song ever
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 31 March 2017 21:07 (seven years ago) link
It's hard to say what I would have voted for, this is an incredibly strong album. Is it my favourite Kate LP, though? Nah, that would be Never For Ever.
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Friday, 31 March 2017 21:21 (seven years ago) link
It's tough but right now Leave it Open seems right.
things that decay things that rust
― JoeStork, Friday, 31 March 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
Houdini.
― Max Florian, Friday, 31 March 2017 22:41 (seven years ago) link
It feels wrong and crude to pick a favorite from this album, but I guess I'd go with "pull the pin" or the last track.
― a but (brimstead), Friday, 31 March 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link
Pull Out the Pin. Very easy choice. The album is a stunner, and it features probably the best use of the Farlight CMI ever
― beamish13, Friday, 31 March 2017 23:28 (seven years ago) link
I don't know if about best, but when it comes to albums where the Fairlight CMI played a huge role, then The Dreaming and Hounds of Love are definitely in there among the best examples.
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Friday, 31 March 2017 23:41 (seven years ago) link
This is impossible; LIO was robbed.
― chihuahuau, Saturday, 1 April 2017 09:13 (seven years ago) link
So Wild Beasts stole their entire Cockney-criminal art-pop schtick from "There Goes A Tenner," huh?
― goodoldneon, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
I am proud to have been the only vote for "Leave It Open"
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link