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

Add me to the wellers-uppers. TSW gets knocked a lot for its sound, but this track is one hell of a production job - that's how to build a climax imo.

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/5469/0003houndsoflove.jpg

3. Hounds Of Love
668 points, twenty-four votes, five no.1s
Hounds of Love (1985)
video

One of the reasons I suspect I didn't vote is that 'Ken' (a song written specifically for The Comic Strip) Is maybe my favourite and I would be crushed now it's not placing.

still getting excited!

i feel like this is over-rated in this context, but that cd be partly over-exposure. but nah, i don't buy it as the third best song of her career. still brilliant, obv.

aghhh. My #1. Great photo, IK! Would buy this single with that cover : )

Trying not to refresh this thread like it was an eBay auction ending.

This one was beloved of late voters. It had a terrible first third of the poll - joint ninth after twelve ballots - and thereafter went on a tear. When I went to bed on the brink of closing the voting it had climbed to fifth; the last three ballots lifted it into the top three.

Amazing photo!

Here's a cover version w/a choir (adorably) doing the "arf arf arf arf arf" backing vocals:
http://dudleybenson.bandcamp.com/track/hounds-of-love-the-awakening-live

and it had the most no.1s, so if I'd done a button poll instead then it's our winner

HoL was my #1 vote (and on certain days and in certain temperaments maybe just my favorite song, flat-out?)

that image is so perfect

This and the Bowie poll are the only ones I've voted in; two pop stars I grew up with (and KB was/is a star in the UK - that's the thing that perhaps isn't all that apparent to North American fans who discovered her by different means - she was Saturday morning kids' telly AND critical darling). I wonder if I'm the only 40something Brit to kind of ignore Aerial in all of this, just associating all her peaks with my own formative years. I mean, I do own the thing, and I'm definitely going to try again with it.

I think it's time

but first I want to say that it really was really close

(cue loud Linn drum roll )

( and Orch5 sample )

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/839/0002cloudbusting.jpg

2. Cloudbusting
790 points, twenty-eight votes, three no.1s
Hounds of Love (1985)
video

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i don't mean that. it's fine, they're all great. pull yourself together man.

Sterling work, IK. Big thanks. Great images throughout. Pleasure to participate.

but you don't know what's no.1 yet

It's Rocket's Tail!

"Heads We're Dancing"?

so that leaves "heartbrake" as the only possible #1, right?

The single with Peter Gabriel?

so many possibilities, but

http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/7124/0001runningupthathill.jpg

1. Running Up That Hill
800 points, twenty-nine votes, three no.1s
Hounds of Love (1985)
video

My number one, iirc. It's just perfect.

Fun poll! Glad to have added my two cents!

congratulations, you've just beaten the best song by anyone ever. i must admit i downgraded this a bit as i thought this may happen, how many points did my 11th place give it?

Kate's really big hits are also amazing songs that don't ever feel diluted by their exposure, IMO.

"Running Up That Hill" was played at a houseparty a few weeks ago and totally captivated the dancefloor.

brilliant poll!

and as this is the end, let's marvel at such an amazing video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM

This poll was an absolute pleasure, thanks very much to Ismael Klata for making it happen!

No, thanks to all of you - especially the early voters, it really took the pressure off

Some stats to emphasise just how close it was:

• the winning margin was ten points. That was actually relatively wide. As voting progressed, one or other opened up a larger gap on only eight of the last thirty-one rounds;
• at no stage did any track enjoy a forty point lead (i.e. a whole ballot's worth);
• these two traded the overall lead six times;
• they were tied after 32 of the 36 ballots;
• when I went to bed on the last evening, leaving voting open 'til morning, Cloudbusting led by two;
• had I been strict about closing voting at midnight, Running Up That Hill would've won it when balls' ballot came in with three minutes to spare;
• every single one of the 36 ballots could've been tweaked individually to give Cloudbusting the win.

We're all to blame, is what I'm saying

Wait - even if one didn't vote for "Cloudbusting"?

(referring to your last stat)

c'mon, who wouldn't vote for cloudbusting

I didn't and I kicked myself after turning my votes in. Total brain fart.

As was not voting for something like 15 other songs : )

The last stat - what I mean is, everyone could've either lopped eleven points off Running Up That Hill or given eleven more to Cloudbusting, and we'd've had a different winner. Nobody maxed out on C while ignoring R.

thanks ismael, fantastic poll.

(and i do actually love 'R.U.T.H.', it's a deserving winner, just not as much as 'cloudbusting'. i don't love anything as much as that tho tbh).

I just know that something good is gonna happen. Amazing poll/images! I'm fairly happy with my ballot, considering I threw it together in a panic (hopefully my vote for "Rubberband Man" instead of "Rubberband Girl" was counted, too much T.I. on the brain). I'm curious as to where "Under The Ice" and "The Morning Fog" placed, as I've been surprised by where the other The Ninth Wave tracks ended up ("Waking The Witch" was my #2, and I hadn't realised "And Dream Of Sheep"/"Jig Of Life" were so widely-loved).

When's cool to post our Picks?

I'm just about to put up the full list, then have at it

etc - nearly everyone mystified one of their tracks, you're not alone!

Full list. Asterisks are no.1 votes.

1. 800 Running Up That Hill (29 ***)
2. 790 Cloudbusting (28 ***)
3. 668 Hounds of Love (24 *****)
4. 663 This Woman's Work (26 ****)
5. 617 Wuthering Heights (22 ***)
6. 570 Get Out of My House (24 *)
7. 563 Suspended in Gaffa (23 *)
8. 503 Nocturn (20 ***)
9. 479 Breathing (22)
10. 439 Hello Earth (16 ****)

11. 414 The Sensual World (16 **)
12. 401 A Coral Room (17)
13. 362 Sat in Your Lap (14 *)
14. 346 The Dreaming (14)
15. 342 Army Dreamers (16)
16. 294 And Dream of Sheep (12)
17. 286 Night of the Swallow (11)
18. 272 Experiment IV (13 *)
19. 269 The Big Sky (13)
20. 264 The Man with the Child in His Eyes (11)

21. 257 Jig of Life (12 *)
22. 254 Leave It Open (10 *)
23. 253 Mother Stands for Comfort (12)
24. 238 Sunset (11)
25. 199 Moving (10)
26. 198 Babooshka (10)
27. 187 Houdini (9)
28. 178 Pull Out the Pin (9)
29. 175 Under the Ivy (8 *)
30. 172 Deeper Understanding (8)

31. 163 How to Be Invisible (8)
32. 162 Wow (9)
33. 145 The Wedding List (7)
34. 131 Hammer Horror (7)
35. 129 Snowflake (6)
36. 128 There Goes a Tenner (7)
37. 128 All the Love (7)
38. 127 Delius (Song of Summer) (6)
39. 126 Rubberband Girl (7)
40. 122 Moments of Pleasure (6)

41. 119 Somewhere in Between (6)
42. 117 The Infant Kiss (6)
43. 113 King of the Mountain (5)
44. 105 The Fog (6)
45. 104 Oh England My Lionheart (5)
46. 103 Waking the Witch (5)
47. 103 Misty (6)
48. 103 Lake Tahoe (5)
49. 102 Love and Anger (5)
50. 102 Aerial (5)

51. 099 Never Be Mine
52. 097 The Kick Inside
53. 095 π or Pi
54. 095 Rocket's Tail
55. 090 Blow Away (For Bill)
56. 087 L'Amour Looks Something like You
57. 077 Be Kind to My Mistakes
58. 076 The Morning Fog
59. 075 James and the Cold Gun
60. 067 The Red Shoes

61. 066 Mrs. Bartolozzi
62. 062 Egypt
63. 061 Wild Man
64. 061 Violin
65. 061 Them Heavy People
66. 057 The Song of Solomon
67. 055 Rocket Man (1991; from Two Rooms)
68. 054 Feel It
69. 053 Watching You Without Me
70. 053 Top of the City

71. 052 Why Should I Love You?
72. 050 Under Ice
73. 048 Big Stripey Lie
74. 042 Night Scented Stock
75. 041 Lily
76. 040 Joanni
77. 040 In the Warm Room
78. 038 Bertie
79. 031 Symphony in Blue
80. 028 Something Like A Song (demo)

81. 027 And So Is Love
82. 026 All We Ever Look For
83. 025 Prologue
84. 025 One Last Look Around The House Before We Go
85. 025 50 Words for Snow
86. 024 Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake
87. 024 Coffee Homeground
88. 024 An Architect's Dream
89. 023 Oh to Be in Love
90. 023 Lord of the Reedy River

91. 022 December Will Be Magic Again
92. 022 Constellation of the Heart
93. 018 Prelude
94. 017 Snowed in at Wheeler Street
95. 017 Aerial Tal
96. 015 Heads We're Dancing
97. 014 Kashka From Baghdad
98. 012 Ken
99. 012 Don't Give Up