Kate Bush: Klassik or Dudd

I still need Kick Inside and the latter 4 albums. Total bummer that you can't get the 2 bonus discs of b-sides/rarities of This Woman's Work by themselves or even on mp3. That collection costs a fortune.

Even though it isn't nearly the best, Lionheart is probably my favourite, my appreciation of her really deepened with that album. Particularly for the utterly incredible "Wow"; "In The Warm Room" is great too.

That "Running Up That Hill" is a lot better in paper than in reality. Yikes.

On paper.

"I still need Kick Inside and the latter 4 albums. Total bummer that you can't get the 2 bonus discs of b-sides/rarities of This Woman's Work by themselves or even on mp3. That collection costs a fortune."

you can find them illegally easily enough, or if you send me a personal message.

It's not really a priority right now but it annoys me that those two discs don't have their own collection. How many people shelled out for that who didn't already have the studio albums in the box? I bet there is a YouTube playlist somewhere. Kind of hoping if I wait, a more complete collection will come out (I think it might have just been a alternate versions left off and I'm not really one to get excited about different mixes).

How much of it is worthwhile?

I've heard contrasting opinions on Cathy's Home Demos. Anyone here think it's worth getting?

I've also heard that the Japanese editions of her albums have superior remastering. Is this just collector bragging nonsense?

I have the japanese box set. It's been ages since I had the original US pressings but I don't remember there being any earth shattering difference.

Think it was the difference between the American CDs and the British EMI reissues with the bonus tracks. Sound on the American CDs is pretty awful – HoL in particular.

If you're a fan of her music the B-Sides/rarities are a must listen, I think. there are often some wonderful diversions from what she was doing on her albums of the time as well as surprisingly deep yet minimal pieces ("Under The Ivy", Donovan cover "Lord Of The Reedy River").

Penman on the return

I take a different view from his reading of Bertie, its a very well realized idea and the only thing I would listen to again from Aerial

Probably agree on the majority of the piece - not that bothered to check the records. It may reflect on both Kate and the piece too. Or myself.

It's the best, most on-the-money thing I think I've read about her. Thanks for the link!

the only thing I would listen to again from Aerial

seriously wtf

I've heard contrasting opinions on Cathy's Home Demos. Anyone here think it's worth getting?

it's definitely worth a download. there are a bunch of different editions of the same material, but the best sounding version I've heard online is Alone At My Piano (hope it's ok to link to that). that particular download is sped up slightly — every other version I've heard sounds unnaturally slow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ5ouR6p-gM

^probably my favorite unreleased demo track

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)

tbh felt relief reading his assessment of Aerial. I never managed to see what others saw in it

well nobody has to like anything! but defaulting to "risk" and "edge" as intrinsically valuable allegedly missing qualities is a bit lazy I think

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.

TPL reaches The Whole Story and wonders who's really listening: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/kate-bush-whole-story.html

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.

15 years

But what the fuck do YOU think of the lass?

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. 🧵

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Rest In Peace Del Palmer.