Best song on Kate Bush's The Dreaming

dude i don't know if Suspended in Gaffa will steal this! so tough

I voted for "The Dreaming" but I love everything on this album so I'm fine with whatever.

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.

um i would ABSOLUTELY vote for Hello EArth.

i think

YES. i would.

bumpermorgendorfer

went with title track

ballsy

Get Outta My House!

hee haww hee haww hee haw hee haw heee hawwwww

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.

and it was!

voted for houdini just because no-one else mentioned it

i do not like houdini

what??? those lush strings and her VOICE

"WITH YOUR LIFE

THE ONLY THING IN MY MIND

WE PULL YOU FROM THE WAAATTEEEERRRR!"

i love when that part comes on and i have friends over. they just kinda look at me weird.

that post was self-zinging

Have to vote for the title track here.

the only bad thing about this album is the rubbish black type on white background fucking up the cover

such a tough call, but there goes a tenner just to make sure it gets some love.

Heheh. I was just going to say that song should get some love.

One of the rabble
needs mummy...

luv the cover

why did i post Luv the cover completely out of the blue?

okay bump

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

=)

color me GAFFA

I would vote for "Hello Earth" as well ... then again I just voted for "All The Love"

oooh. well i'm on the HoL poll next

Good on you! Someone should do that.

"sat on your lap" is my fave kate bush song

or in

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i love the lyrics to get out of my house.

see the hackles on the cat - STANDING

Damnit the suspense is killing me with this poll.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wow guyz. i do feel tho that night of the swallow and pull out the pin are underrepresented.

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.

"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

my choice wuz robbed! I am proud to represent.

Voters were likely swayed by the presence of sampled donkey imitations.

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.

i agree with the top 3 :)

but yeah, for me its really hard to rank this album. i find it extremely even overall.

I'm glad I voted, or "Suspended in Gaffa" would have come in second!

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.

without is more pure. besides, i haven't heard the bonus tracks :(

Interesting results indeed. I too would have picked Leave It Open last.

I'm shocked by the "get out of my house" love ... who knew? I guess people love donkeys. Or maybe mules?

oh ya i suspected that would cinch it

I'm shocked by the "get out of my house" love ... who knew? I guess people love donkeys. Or maybe mules?

they are just one of the 26 awesome things about that track

missed this but it wouldve been "pull the pin" or something from side 2. such a great album.

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

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

i RATE it! highhhhhly

i think i've played it after some especially bad social engagements

(at my house)

somehow the cover of this album captures so much of what I love abt Kate bush

this kind of humorous enchanted playfulness

that COVER

Leave It Open 1

No way!

Suspended in Gaffa - which has one of the best internal monologues in any pop song ever

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.

It's tough but right now Leave it Open seems right.

things that decay things that rust

Houdini.

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.

Pull Out the Pin. Very easy choice. The album is a stunner, and it features probably the best use of the Farlight CMI ever

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.

This is impossible; LIO was robbed.

So Wild Beasts stole their entire Cockney-criminal art-pop schtick from "There Goes A Tenner," huh?

I am proud to have been the only vote for "Leave It Open"

I have decided this album will be my go-to answer for favorite album of all time for the following 3 years.

Incredibly accurate top 4 in this poll

Marvelous album. Can't believe I've never commented on this thread, I hope I voted in the poll. (Tho no idea how I did if I did, probably GOOMH but possibly the title track.) To me it sits separate even from her other work, it has a musical and psychological density that isn't like any other album.

I still like it a shade less than Hounds of Love. Maybe the only album in my collection about which I can apply admire-more-than-like.

But I can blast "Houdini" and especially "Get Out of My House" anytime.

Original mix of ‘..Lap’ still unavailable anywhere other than the original vinyl?? Baffling. I think I prefer it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4csr6pLZLg

Er this mix, rather

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puilMIQIPn0

I unequivocally adore this album...for me her crowning achievement...some days it could be my favourite ever album...talk about channeling "England's Hidden Reverse"...she was 23 years old when she made it...astonishing

A friend lent me this album when it came out; I had not heard any Kate Bush before. When I returned it a few days later, I remember telling him that it confuses and frightens me now, but I'll probably love it in a few years. Which was true.

Some songs scared me like hearing Meet the Residents for the first time.

At that point Kate had three top 10 hits in the UK charts. So yeah, selling this album as a pop album of a 23 year old “mainstream” artist blows my mind too. It’s one of those albums I can’t believe they exist.

It was a mistake releasing “suspended in gaffa” as the fourth single imho ruining its chances. It is by far the most accesible thing in here.

Also might be an insane suggestion but “get out of my house” should have been a single instead of “there goes a tenner”. Yeah it’s very nightmarish at points but it’s so catchy. It doesn’t seem too much of a jump from the other singles released tbh.

smoked a little weed before putting this on just now, and: hahaha hell yeah

every detail on this album is a diamond

Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Hee-haw!