― RickyT, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sarah, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tim, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Matt Riedl (veal), Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I hate her. Hate hate hate.
― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 4 October 2002 06:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 4 October 2002 07:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 4 October 2002 07:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alfie (Alfie), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 7 November 2002 14:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
(My very-personal thing about The Dreaming: I simply cannot listen to it without strongly associating it with the abridged and illustrated version of Oliver Twist I read over and over as a child. This wouldn't be significant except that The Dreaming is the only Kate Bush record I do that with; I think it's the theft aspect of "There Goes a Tenner.")
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 7 November 2002 17:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jeff W, Thursday, 7 November 2002 17:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
And I am listening to my first ever Kate Bush (sure, she's been on in the background and parties but that's not the same) - 'Running Up That Hill' is brilliant. Every time she starts into the chorus my forearms just jelly up ("if I only could make a deal with God") - the weird-strange pronunciation of God, giving it more portent than it should, reminding me of Sophie Ellis Bextor, and all the while the drums rumbling away underneath, carrying her along. I'm about to go and put on the Hounds of Love.
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
Where should I (and if you know my tastes, bear those in mind), go next to find more Kate Bush stuff? I like the more pop song deals than the more freakish stuff like that song "The Dreaming" (if I'm thinking of the right song).
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
I hope she will soon escape from the spaceship which has kidnapped here and taken her to outer space, and return to Mother Earth to start working on some new music.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
The new album's in the can, too, apparently.
― russ t, Wednesday, 9 April 2003 15:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Wednesday, 9 April 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
When I want to get weepy-eyed, I play Kate Bush. "This Woman's Work" is a heartbreaking song, as is "Cloudbursting" ("we're cloudbursting, daddy" *sob* *sob*) and "Running Up That Hill". I think some of her material is a bit quirky, but all of it is flavored with a tiny bit of melancholy (or sensitivity) that make the songs absolutely lovely in a "reach your heart with a feather light touch that manages to shatter it in thousands of tiny pieces" sort of way.
*sighs* Once again, classic.
― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 15:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 15:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
At the moment The Dreaming stands as my absolute big favorite, in fact, completely and utterly coincidentally, I'm listening to it right now! Wooh!
She manages to bring together quirkiness, pure pop niftyness and, ah, yeah, I guess that's it. I wish one of these so-called "Kate Bush wannabes" would be remotely near as good. Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes was good for a few listens, but it faltered under closer scrutiny. Some of these later girls, who seem to in turn be influenced by Amos, just plain suck. Damn them all!
Even if she does a mediocre album, I'd LOVE to see Kate Bush return to music. Hopefully the rumours of a new album are true this time. And hopefully frigging Nelly or whoever won't be guesting! Her voice still sounds pretty good, judging by the crap-quality MP3 I have of her guest spot on some Gilmour show last year.
― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
(also new FT articles shockah)
― zebedee, Wednesday, 9 April 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
Tori Amos - if I were Kate, I'd sue. Hideous woman.
― russ t, Wednesday, 9 April 2003 16:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― axl rose, Wednesday, 9 April 2003 18:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kevin shields, Wednesday, 9 April 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 10 April 2003 00:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― russ t, Thursday, 10 April 2003 09:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mentalist (mentalist), Sunday, 4 January 2004 12:15 (twenty years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 4 January 2004 14:24 (twenty years ago) link
― zemko (bob), Saturday, 7 February 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago) link
I wonder if this thread revival will finally see Tom's opinions on The Dreaming...
― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 7 February 2004 00:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Russell Dixon (Skinny), Saturday, 7 February 2004 10:29 (twenty years ago) link
― mentalist (mentalist), Saturday, 7 February 2004 10:45 (twenty years ago) link
Some of my favorites are "Breathing," "Night of the Swallow," "Suspended in Gaffa," "Houdini," "Get out of my House," "Sat on my Lap," "Cloudbusting"... ah, I could go on and on.
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Saturday, 7 February 2004 20:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Sunday, 8 February 2004 10:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 8 February 2004 11:06 (twenty years ago) link
― mentalist (mentalist), Sunday, 8 February 2004 11:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 8 February 2004 12:35 (twenty years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 8 February 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Sunday, 8 February 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 9 February 2004 00:41 (twenty years ago) link
Also, what's the usual interpretation of 'Woman's Work'? I can't decide if's about giving birth or being by the death bed of a loved one.
― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:13 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:16 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
On a lighter note, I like the secret military one on The Whole Story a lot, too. Also, is that remastered EMI anniversary edition of Hounds of Love actually better sounding than the regular issue of it? I always thought it sounded a little thin...
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link
just read the penman essay, it's typically great but I can't really hang with the iconoclazzzm here, as with the michael jackson piece where he indulges in similar tropes of the sole clear-sighted non-kool aid drinker: part of me can't help wondering, admit it, let's face it, &c. It's annoying when lesser challop-merchants do it and it's annoying from a writer as thoughtful and incisive as penman. That said, I agree with a lot of what he says, I just draw different conclusions (I adore aerial)
― forum enthusiast (wins), Thursday, 17 April 2014 09:50 (ten years ago) link
tbh felt relief reading his assessment of Aerial. I never managed to see what others saw in it
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 17 April 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
well nobody has to like anything! but defaulting to "risk" and "edge" as intrinsically valuable allegedly missing qualities is a bit lazy I think
― forum enthusiast (wins), Thursday, 17 April 2014 16:59 (ten years ago) link
I mean ok, punk orthodoxy would have an automatic antipathy towards certain moves yet some of those same critics now love kate for doing similar - maybe that's cause they were wrong and they now realise it! And the whole sting hypothetical, where if he wrote a song like "bertie" "we" would dismiss it out of hand - this is probably true, but that's a more trenchant criticism of "us" than the song imo.
And this is coming from a guy who very recently wrote a beautiful essay defending apparently "cosy" (but often unsettled) music, in the scott walker book. Or, you know, everything he says here could equally be applied to robert wyatt or whoever. I think he's getting at something, but it reads as empty contrarianism whether it is or not.
― forum enthusiast (wins), Thursday, 17 April 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
TPL reaches The Whole Story and wonders who's really listening: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/kate-bush-whole-story.html
― agincourtgirl, Monday, 6 October 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
Currently reading "Under The Ivy". It's breezy enough - like an extended Mojo artist bio but with great detailed descriptions of her recording process on each album. I also didn't know she was such a pothead haha.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 15:07 (eight years ago) link
15 years
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 05:31 (seven years ago) link
But what the fuck do YOU think of the lass?
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 06:03 (seven years ago) link
The accuracy
In honour of the fact that there is now one week left until the Oscars, here is Kate Bush as each of the ten Best Picture nominees. 🧵— 𝕋𝕠𝕞𝕒𝕤 (@cinema_gay) March 5, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 March 2023 19:18 (one year ago) link
Rest In Peace Del Palmer.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 8 January 2024 18:33 (four months ago) link