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

Love Jig of Life but regretfully left it off my ballot on account of feeling that 6 songs from HOL was probably enough.

i wish i'd been able to chime in on this as it unfolded. enjoying the spread of choices so far - a few of mine have placed, but my list is at home so i'm not wholly sure which. for once i don't really feel like taking issue with anybody else's choices :) tho i feel like some of the HoL tracks are probly gonna be a little over-rated as ever.

for once i don't really feel like taking issue with anybody else's choices

^ this. About 5 or 6 of these appear in my ballot, but I have absolutely no argument with the rest.

xp NV expresses my sentiments exactly.

Lots of things showed up in the 40-21 group that I agonised over having to cut, which is great.

The best thing about this thread though is it makes you want to go listen to K8! Which I will do now.

the time has come

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20. The Man With The Child In His Eyes
264 points, eleven votes
The Kick Inside (1978)
1979 Christmas special

I figured this would be a lock for the top 10. Though IIRC it was around #20 on my ballot.

TOO LOW

the tune and phrasing on the line "his love to eternity" alone is better than most songwriters's careers

this just missed my ballot too, though more because i happen not to be in the mood for it around now than because it wouldn't be a top 10 lock in another month

I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE WROTE IT WHEN SHE WAS 13, etc

also the fact that this song has managed to mean something to me at 10 and at 40 even tho i'm no closer to getting it now is pretty neat

she found her voice ridiculously early, melodically and thematically. something about the specificity within archetypicality of dreams.

Top 5 for me. (Reinforced by having recently watched that amazing SNL performance.)

She wrote it when she was thirteen?!

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19. The Big Sky
269 points, thirteen votes (one vote for the Meteorological Mix)
Hounds of Love (1985)
video
meteorological mix

"the big sky" is about the only kate song i'll hate on. it's always, always felt pointless coming after "running up that hill" and "hounds of love" to me.

i like it well enough but it does feel a bit fluffy and inconsequential, surprised at its placing this high, it's definitely no "Mother Stands for Comfort" if we must place every HoL track

I basically agree with that. 'Sustained euphoria' is not something I can really get with in pop, with the possible exception of rave.

nb "fluffy and inconsequential" aren't really critiques but maybe this wd work better as an endless looping dance track than a fully formed Kate song

don't think i know the "Meteorological Mix" so maybe that fixes it

it's definitely no "mother stands for comfort"

my issue was that it always seemed to do what the two tracks before it did but...a million times less effectively

like for once kate's "ee-yeah ee-yoohhh" vocalisations seem a bit forced

"Pause for the Jet".

Love this, for me one of the highlights on HOL, love it's cluttered feel. One of the only times when she got the extended 12" mix right.

at this point i mourn the fact that nobody has made a fully KB sampled proper dance album ever

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18. Experiment IV
272 points, thirteen votes, one no.1
The Whole Story (1986)
video

Yes! i was a bit worried this had missed out.

I was surprised to spot Hugh Laurie in the video, then I realised it also had Dawn French in a wig. Then I started looking for other celebrity comedians - pretty sure the guy in the straitjacket is Rory McGrath.

19. The Big Sky
269 points, thirteen votes (one vote for the Meteorological Mix)

hello!

the only downer about 'experiment VI' is that i only just discovered it and it was through the video so now i'm always going to associate it with dawn french in a wig.

xxpost

She was well in with the Comic Strip crowd, hence her supplying 'Ken' on the 'Comic Strip Presents...GLC'.

A close friends considers "Experiment IV" the best song she's ever created. I voted for it, and it's on my short list for best new songs on a comp.

Did The Whole Story invent that? To my mind it only became standard in the late 90s, before that Greatest Hits were greatest hits only.

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17. Night Of The Swallow
286 points, eleven votes
The Dreaming (1982)
youtube

i've resisted posting this for too long now, but the Man With The Child In His Eyes makes me have to i'm afraid.

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

Did The Whole Story invent that? To my mind it only became standard in the late 90s, before that Greatest Hits were greatest hits only.

Sly Stone's greatest boasted a couple new ones in 1969 or 1970.

Here's a spinoff treat: Mná na hÉireann, an Irish song Kate did with Donal Lunny, who played on Night Of The Swallow

Dylan did that too on Greatest Hits vol 2 in 71, xp

ADORE "Night of the Swallow".

SPOILER: Mná na hÉireann didn't make the top sixteen

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16. And Dream Of Sheep
294 points, twelve votes
Hounds of Love (1985)
youtube

ok that was my "9th Wave" representative. it's lovely is my only justification tbh

Sometimes that's all you need.

when Bush sings "LITTLE LIGHT....shiniiiingg..." it's goose pimple time.

;_; my number 5.

One of my favourite moments in recorded music:

"oh-oh I'll wake up!... to any sound... of engines..."

The tremulousness of that line gets me every time.

heh, night of the swallow was my #2... thought it would place a bit higher, to be honest.

was feeling a bit, er, sensitive the other night and i couldn't even think of 'and dream of sheep' without filling up.

whole track is so delicate and resigned and faintly indignant

it sits in my head waiting for those moments too