Best song on Kate Bush's The Dreaming

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

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

Oh go on then steve...

i just love the whole message, cuz i TOTALLY feel the same way about my house, and i suspect ppl who listen to the dreaming a lot are the types of ppl whose

houses are full of mistakes

this house has seen all i have done. GET OUT OF MY HOUSE.

she takes no prisoners.

there are few things as empowering as telling someone to get out of your house.

Now's about the time of day I like to change into the Mule.

the 'I am the concierge chez-moi, honey' bit is particularly beautiful

i know i can never resist chiming in with her there

it's funny cuz it's not obviously like an emotional song, but one day i was listening to it and i really got the emotional intensity of it - the intensity of what it is to be by yourself in your house.

thing i like abt "get out of my house" = the incredibly startling scream she lets out right before the male voice (ghost?) comes in

yay my fave tied for first and I didn't even vote

i tend to associate this album w/ a time when i was feeling anxious (in a bad way) about lots of things so i still get this sort of knot in my stomach whenever i hear that track in particular

xpost "get out of my house" i mean

suspended in gaffa fuiud

well, it is definitely a disturbed track, so it's no surprise you've attached it to a disturbed frame of mind

I don't know why I'm crying

it's funny cuz it's not obviously like an emotional song, but one day i was listening to it and i really got the emotional intensity of it - the intensity of what it is to be by yourself in your house.

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not really sure how i could ever say that "get out of my house" isn't an obviously emotional song...

Yeah, I never really stopped to think what that song might be about, but I guess like many songs, it could be a lot of things. I just love the breathless back-and-forth, barely controlled intensity of the way she sings on that, and it makes it fun to sing along. So dramatic.

how did i miss this poll, what the hell

suspended in gaffa is easily in my top 3 songs all-thyme, right there with hunger strike and total eclipse of the heart

I don't know why I'm crying

LOL Kate threads

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!