All You Cruisers - THE KATE BUSH VOTING THREAD (ilm artist poll #24: deadline Saturday 25 August)

I listened to "One Last Look Around The House Before We Go" as I left the house I sold last month for the last time. It'll be strange to vote for a Kate song without vocals, but I will.

Not that anyone'll be under a misapprehension, but I should've made clear: The Ninth Wave and An Endless Sky Of Honey do not count as single tracks. Cherry-pick your favourites from them - I expect every ballot to have at least one from each.

kind of wish you could vote for her re-recorded version of Wuthering Heights that's on The Whole Story

^^^

I intend to, though I expect all ballots for the song will be combined.

She was a better, deeper singer by the time of the re-recording.

I'll combine, but do highlight things like this, or if it's the Director's Cut versions or whatever, and I'll asterisk them. All knowledge gratefully received.

Ballot submitted but already regretting not voting for "Mother Stands For Comfort." It's like a lost vocal track from Another Green World, and a wonderful little moment of restraint and claustrophobia amid the spacious landscape of side 1 of Hounds. Devoted most of my ballot to what I think are some of her quieter and stranger songs, but neglected this one. In context I think it's weirder and more effective than about half of the Ninth Wave. Hope others will give it some love!

I intend to.

IMPOSSIPOLL.

tempted to post lots of youtubes to her early demos from when she was 15 which i love too.
you can grab them all from http://www.dongrays.com/kate-bush/mp3/

Ballot sent. This will be interesting.

Every other artist polled, except Depeche Mode oddly, has seen their late period shut out from the final countdown. There's absolutely no reason for that to happen to Kate.

I can't imagine people ignoring Aerial or Snow, but they might suffer from lack of consensus on which tracks are the favorites.

I'd think there's relatively strong consensus on Snow - there's only three good tracks to begin with.

I don't know yet what I think of Snow tbh. There's one track I'm certain I'll vote for, but I doubt it's the consensus pick.

I only voted for one track off Aerial - found it hard to single out anything from the second disc, it feels too much of a piece.

starting to listen through her discog now. Moving is a fantastic and underrated album/career opener, presents her fully formed.

I like most of Snow, but Snowflake is probably the only track I'll vote for.

the four keepers from the debut for me are Moving, Strange Phenomena, Man With The Child and Wuthering.

I only voted for one track off Aerial - found it hard to single out anything from the second disc, it feels too much of a piece.

i ran into the same difficulty w/r/t aerial but i think my solution might be to just vote for the entirety of aerial

the four keepers from the debut for me are Moving, Strange Phenomena, Man With The Child and Wuthering.

The original vocal on Wuthering is hard to listen to if you know the new vocal she recorded for the version on The Whole Story. The difference is Top 20 Kate and Top 5.

man, really? i love the OG vocal so much, how it swings from the rafters

i've never really cottoned to the re-recorded version but maybe i haven't given it a fair shake

On my fifth past and still have 34 left. This is after the "so only leave those you cannot live without" pass. And I have just had to lose Army Dreamers and that's just wrong!

For what it's worth, I too love the re-recorded Heights vocals.

On my fifth pass and still have 34 left. This is after the "so only leave those you cannot live without" pass. And I have just had to lose Army Dreamers and that's just wrong!

IKR. Getting down from 30 to 20 was painful. But it's done - ballot sent. And "Army Dreamers" survived. :) Most of the other hit singles had to be cut though - on the sole ground that they'll probably get enough love in others' ballots.

Lionheart is mega mega underrated.

also the OG wuthering >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> remake

i only really know her singles well. voting anyway because i think experiment iv needs my help too

Big ups for "Lily" from The Red Shoes, which also got a nice makeover on The Director's Cut.

Yeah, Lily's one of two or three from that album in serious contention for me. Haven't heard the Director's Cut version, but I've always loved the original.

Whoa my ballot has nothing from "Never for ever" on it

Oh wait, "Breathing" never mind. Hard poll.

Lionheart is mega mega underrated.

I agree.

The Red Shoes has really grown on me. I was sad to only have room for one cut, it's full of good stuff.

I'll def vote for "Rubberband Girl" or "Big Stripey Lie."

I might do a short ballot for this one after all. Probably 10 tracks instead of 20.

I was hoping Surm and Noodle Vague would turn up for this - give them a prod if you see them please.

love Top Of The City and Why Should I Love You... the rest not so much

I have to get this off my chest but I find 'The Hounds Of Love' massively over rated...''The Dreaming', 'Never For Ever' and 'Aeriel' piss on it from a great height...there I dun said it...so fuckin sue me...(Cloudbusting is about the best thing she did tho)...

I hope you feel better now. Asshole.

50 Words for Snow was a serious disappointment.

I actually love "Director's Cut" and "50 Words..." much more than anything before it post "HoL". Voted accordingly.

Her production got super slick and fussy from "Sensual World" on and didn't really get back to down to earth (or the Kate's version of Earth) until "Aerial" - and that's just the first side. Still have a hard time getting thru the 2nd half of that record.

^^ super slick and fussy for the most part. And "The Red Shoes" suffered from a terrible mix - or maybe bad engineering. Haven't heard the remasters.

"The dreaming" is a love-a-Fairlight-or-GTFO kind of record, isn't it

My favorite!

people better be voting for The Wedding List.

this is just omg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ymxgS4XHRA

The Dreaming rules and Get Out Of My House is top 3 kate songs ever territory

Now I have done it and sent it off to IK I am still startled at where I have put some of these tracks.

Obviously not given anything away, but if I have to rep for some tracks I think may be forgotten can I ask you all to listen to the beautiful Under the Ivy? And then crank up the volume and stick on the fantastic NIght of the Swallow? Thank you.

Night of the Swallow is definitely on mine. Celtic film noir.

I do love her use of celtic influences, it's pretty unusual for an act to employ them without seeming lame

"night of the swallow" is perfectly sequenced in the dreaming, too.

"jig of life" is fucking terrifying tbh

goddammit. i just realized i sent in a list of 22 songs. which i suppose just means that the bottom 2 get cut. thinking about losing those two makes me second guess the end of my list, which makes me second guess the rest of my list, but fuggit. what's done is done. just cut those last two off IK.

Sent in my ballot! Yay!

Wish Bimble would've still been around to take part in this, fuck :-(

xp yes, I just cut the last two off. Quite a few people have submitted five albums, rather than three, and I've done the same there

I'm going to sleep now. I'll close voting when I get up in the morning.

Wish Bimble would've still been around to take part in this, fuck :-(

sent!

the kick inside - 2
lionheart - 1
never for ever - 2
the dreaming - 3
hounds of love - 4
the sensual world - 5 (!)
the red shoes - 0
aerial - 2
director's cut - 0*
50 words for snow - 0

non-album - 1

damm you

ha genuinely didn't realize that breakdown until i typed it out up there - my top 25 had two from red shoes and one from 50 words of snow (the one about YETI). NEVER would've pegged me for a sensual world dork before this (still don't really - dreaming all the way), felt vaguely challopsy putting it in my top 3 albums.

Ballot submitted:

the kick inside - 1
lionheart - 0
never for ever - 2
the dreaming - 5
hounds of love - 6
the sensual world - 3
the red shoes - 1
aerial - 2
director's cut - 0
50 words for snow - 0
non-album - 0

mine btw:

kick inside - 3
lionheart - 1
never for ever - 3
the dreaming - 3
hounds of love - 2
the sensual world - 3
the red shoes - 0
aerial - 4
director's cut - 0
50 words for snow - 0
non-album - 1

Anybody else? Last chance to get one in

I'll try to get one in in the next hour.

Grand. I have one space left on my chart, so I'll wait for yours then I'll close things off.

So ... hard ...

There we are.

Okay, voting is now closed. Thank you everyone for your contributions.

wait, i've changed my mind, i wanna redo the whole ballot

kick inside - 2
lionheart - 1
never for ever - 4
the dreaming - 5
hounds of love - 4
the sensual world - 1
the red shoes - 0
aerial - 2
director's cut - 0
50 words for snow - 1
non-album - 1

actually, non-album should read 0

i wanna redo the whole ballot

I know. I've done the adding up and now I know exactly how I should've voted.

How long a countdown do we want? A hundred songs have received votes; there are natural breaks at nos. 15, 25 and 50.

how many ballots? i'd say 50

36 ballots

That's a pretty good turnout, I was worried there'd be fewer than 20.

Yes it's excellent, we did really well. Twenty was my basic target and I got twelve in the first few days, so I knew not to panic when I then went about three days with nothing. And I got eleven yesterday and three more overnight, so you really stepped up at the end, thanks.

And it was only nine days, no need to drag these out unduly.

OTM -- "Do or do not, there is no 'try'," saith the little swamp critter.

took a short road trip with a family of friends this afternoon and picked ipod tracks as we drove around. among other things, i played "violin" off N4E - mostly because i'm obsessed with it, but also cuz mr. friend is a "weird music" fan and had mentioned that he only knew kate bush through "don't give up." he dug it a lot, and mrs. friend thought the vocal swoops were hilarious, but man, their five-year-old daughter just HATED it. complained at first, then plugged her ears the way through. nothing else bugged her, either. she seemed to enjoy sonic youth, fall out boy (a lot), grimes and lindstrom. felt kinda bad for her, but it's good to learn young that art = suffering.

haha, i'm not surprised that a kid would dislike that song, it's pretty abrasive in it's own way

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