Best song on Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love

The who the what now?

I stuck this on earlier, and what really jumped out was Kate's sibilant 'ess'es, especially on the title track. I've never noticed it before, but she's quite hissy (also breathier than I'd thought). Is it maybe a treatment on the vocal, or even the limitation of mp3 as a format?

it's kate dude

she's always been a grand enunciator. her t's, c's and k's are pretty mean too

I'm cool with it

whatever man you said kate was a limitation of mp3 as a format

No I didn't. Don't be a dick.

XD

It's in the trees
it's coming

^^^^THIS

"Hounds of Love" and "Hello Earth" are probably my favorites? Love the whole album to death, though.

Night of the Demon is a classic film and worth watching, she sampled those lines for a reason

i need to do that

strongest 1-2 opening-songs punch ever, in the history of albums and opening songs and punches

<3 u kate

my life in the bush of kate

how dare u

I was just showed the video of This Woman's Work to the new girl I'm seeing and she talked the whole time???

Bad sign

god poor show for my 2 faves Under Ice and Dream Of Sheep.

wait aren't you the dude whose ex asked you if you still listen to kate?

Yes I am, none of the women I know are crazy about Kate Bush. I don't understand.

Running up That Hill is the most dull song on the entire album for me. Whenever I listen to Hounds, I start at track 3.

― butchy, Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:22 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

i really hate you

― cutty, Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:23 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

"Mother Stands for Comfort" should've got votes.

V. surprised to see this as ILX's No. 1 of the 80s. Not upset, by any means (Hounds Of Love is great), but surprised.

it's my #1 of all time, so not surprising

And Dream of Sheep is so pretty

The title track wuz robbed.

No.4 of the eighties, unless someone's done a follow-up poll really quick

i just know that something good is going to happen fyi.

every song should have got 100 votes

Just looked out the window and realised its a HoL day.
If I had to pick one track it would be Hello Earth, because it has to be one of the most moving pieces of music ever made.
Am also fond of the bit where she'll "pause for a jet" in The Big Sky, or the relentless trudge of strings in Cloudbusting, or those sntaches of voices like waking from a dream, or being ill as a child: "Look who's here to see you."
Incidentally, a friend of ours knocked up one of those Wilhelm Reich cloudbusting gizmos in our back garden. The conversation went like this.
"So Charles, is it supposed to make it rain, or prevent rain?"
"Well, er, it's supposed to promote balance..."
"So sometimes it'll make it rain, and sometimes it won't"
"Er, yes"

Mother STands for Comfort deserved all 7 votes that went to Jig of Life

like, how do u feel when you've finished recording this album?

god i can't imagine.
must be amazing.
the satisfaction, relief, probably kind of like really good sex except a billion times better??!?

i just know that something good is going to happen fyi.

― ian, Saturday, December 5, 2009 5:05 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

hello lady

i just know that something good is going to happen tbh.

Guys do you know how fucked up "Waking the Witch" can be if you unknowingly got dosed with some fucking weird drug at a party?

Let me steal this moment from you now.

Pretty distressing that Spotify has many shitty cover versions of "Running Up That Hill", but not the original.

I don't really even hate Placebo that much, but theirs is pretty much the shittiest too.

I love this piece on 'Hello Earth' - there's something almost religious about that track

If this thread will permit me a little indulgence, I've thinking about the song "Hounds of Love" and thinking of my nine-year-old daughter who will soon be chased by those hounds, and it reminded me of a favorite poem of mine, "Donegal (for Ellie)" by Robin Robertson. He is thinking of the hounds as well.

Ardent on the beach at Rossnowlagh
on the last day of summer,
you ran through the shallows
throwing off shoes, and shirt and towel
like the seasons, the city's years,
all caught in my arms
as I ploughed on behind you, guardian still
of dry clothes, of this little heart
not quite thirteen,
breasting the waves
and calling back to me
to join you, swimming in the Atlantic
on the last day of summer.
I saw a man in the shallows
with his hands full of clothes, full of
all the years,
and his daughter going
where he knew he could not follow.

The Chromatics' cover of "Running Up That Hill" is an excellent, cool treatment of the song.

that poem is beautiful - it brought the same tear to my as kate does

"The Morning Fog" is so beautiful and life-affirming
a perfect end to side 2

seconded

This album is really downright weird. I have no idea what made me love it at 18. Mrs. McBB said it just brings to mind Tori Amos but I've never cottoned to subsequent Kate wannabes.

lol @ the idea of reducing Hounds Of Love to the sentiment of "just bringing to mind tori amos"

do you typically not harbor love for weird music?