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

This and Wild Man seemed like disappointing singles at their respective times, but what else could they have issued? It's not like Lake Tahoe or A Coral Room would have been burning up the airwaves.

I like how it has a bit of the Fairlight feel to it in the intro. And was it Marcello who wrote that great piece about how you've been waiting for Kate to come back for a dozen years and then when she finally does, you get this mysterious intro followed by a totally SKANK reggae guitar? I can't remember.

What is this Fairlight thing you're all going on about?

Yeah - just sounds like a cheap synth! Production on "Wild Man" is so good. Disarmingly mellow until that bonkers chorus.

Very surprised KotM made it! o_O

Loving all your your work IK, and am glad to be a part of the whole thing <3

(I don't think my #01 will place tbh)

Yes, thanks again IK!

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42. The Infant Kiss
117 points, six votes
Never For Ever (1980)
a rather splendid short

"programming the fairlight" is, for me, shorthand for kate bush doing whatever magical stuff she did all through the 80s. since I have no real idea what it entails.

Experiement IV, live on Wogan, backing band included TWO FAIRLIGHTS

infant kiss is so crepey

one of my favorites

love king of the mountain, too

live on Wogan is so Kate

but did anyone vote for the french version?

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41. Somewhere In Between
119 points, six votes
Aerial (2005)
youtube

Now this ... bliss.

Kate Bush and the Fairlight

And here is more than you need to know about the history of the Fairlight

Thank you. I'm all out of jpgs, that'll have to be it from me for the evening.

Thanks for all the hard work, IK. This is terrific stuff - I will now be watching KB fan videos for hours!

What is this Fairlight thing you're all going on about?

Awww, I'd hoped "Waking The Witch" would place much higher - I have no idea which parts of The Ninth Wave will get singled out. Fantastically demented Throbbing Gristle meets Fairport Convention vibe - "(YOU WON'T BURN) / Red red roses / (YOU WON'T BLEED) / Pinks and posies / (CONFESS TO ME GIRL) / Red red roses / Go down"

- great title
- two of my votes have placed so far, both off aerial
- cosigning the surprise at KOTM, aerial is mindblowing but every other song on it is significantly better than KOTM
- "waking the witch" juuust missed my ballot
- SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN SLEEP AND WAKING UP <3

i had "somewhere in between" on my ballot for ages. think i cropped it at the last minute in favour of "there goes a tenner".

my ballot was quite NFE heavy, but i couldn't find space for "the infant kiss" as much as i dig it.

I voted for KotM. I'll admit it doesn't have the depth of some other songs on disc 1 of Aerial. But (as the rest of my ballot will show) I much prefer K8 in that more simple, tell-the-whole-story-in-4-minutes mode. e.g. I don't care for The Ninth Wave at all; leave the Pink Floydisms to Pink Floyd.

My other placer so far is 'The Infant Kiss'.

I voted for Wheeler Street. I don't think I'm giving too much away if I say it was just me
If only I'd known! Seriously considered voting for this but assumed everyone else hated it.

Oh England and The Fog the only ones off my list so far. I didn't vote for anything off Aerial. I really need to give that record another go.

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40. Moments of Pleasure
122 points, six votes
The Red Shoes (1993)
Director’s Cut (2011) (two votes)
video

where are you getting these images from ismael? they work really well. they're not from anything officially k8-related are they?

Just letting my mind go for a wander and seeing what gis comes up with really, plus a couple of more personal snaps from my own collection - I'm hoping a sort of Kate aesthetic will emerge somehow.

The Lionheart tune I regretted leaving off my list was "In Search of Peter Pan".

i'd have probably included "moments of pleasure" if we'd had 25-track ballots.

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39. Rubberband Girl
126 points, seven votes
The Red Shoes (1993)
video

Despite knowing better, I read that title as "40 moments of pleasure".

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38. Delius (Song of Summer)
127 points, six votes
Never For Ever (1980)
performance

I didn't vote for it, but I really like "Delius" -- it has a very Duke-era Genesis feel to it.

"Rubberband Girl" = most underrated single

On US college radio at least it was the last bit of magic and weirdness before the post-grunge fog covered the landscape for the next 438 years.

I find the line "a rubberband holding trousers up" a very pleasing one

and she imitates a rubberband as well as she does a donkey

I always thought it was "A rubberband hold me trousers up."

It's "rubberband hold me trousers up", isn't it?

My main memory of that record is of it being premiered on Radio 1 and Simon Mayo saying something like "She's a bit mad, isn't she?" and then - HO HO - she walks into the studio.

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Maybe it is, though I'd be hoping to hear some strong cockney if it was.

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36. There Goes A Tenner
128 points, seven votes
The Dreaming (1982)
the marvellous video

Love the orchestral fretless interlude in this. As Savetherobot used to impress upon me when we were kids, Eberhard Weber is the secret weapon on The Dreaming and super important to the sound of this record.

Talking of accents!

"When we used to vote for him". One of my faves.

Xpost This album is what got me into Weber and ECM. So I'll always be grateful for that.

i love "there goes a tenner" though i'm not sure it quite made my ballot

a while back i realised that nicki minaj's english accent is performed in pretty much the same way as kate bush's cockney accent - like on surface it's a terrible terrible approximation of an "authentic" accent but these women know wtf they're doing and they are fucking with us because they can and it's fun, basically

(all of minaj's accents and bush's accents tbh)

I'm still on zero votes placing but it's a great list nonetheless!

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36. All The Love
128 points, seven votes
The Dreaming (1982)
pretty lady, moody film

i thought "all the love" was the worst track on the dreaming for about seven years after i first heard the album (maybe because it's the most straightforward moment?) but when it clicked it really clicked, and it was on my ballot