Best song on Kate Bush's The Dreaming

Voters were likely swayed by the presence of sampled donkey imitations.

I used to think Leave it Open was a weak spot, but I've fallen in love with her lithe and freaky glam vocal in the intro, totally perfect.

i agree with the top 3 :)

but yeah, for me its really hard to rank this album. i find it extremely even overall.

I'm glad I voted, or "Suspended in Gaffa" would have come in second!

haha

suspended in Gaffa is so rich.

okay so i'm doing the HoL poll w/out bonus tracks then. speak now or forever hold it.

without is more pure. besides, i haven't heard the bonus tracks :(

Interesting results indeed. I too would have picked Leave It Open last.

I'm shocked by the "get out of my house" love ... who knew? I guess people love donkeys. Or maybe mules?

oh ya i suspected that would cinch it

I'm shocked by the "get out of my house" love ... who knew? I guess people love donkeys. Or maybe mules?

they are just one of the 26 awesome things about that track

Oh go on then steve...

i just love the whole message, cuz i TOTALLY feel the same way about my house, and i suspect ppl who listen to the dreaming a lot are the types of ppl whose

houses are full of mistakes

this house has seen all i have done. GET OUT OF MY HOUSE.

she takes no prisoners.

there are few things as empowering as telling someone to get out of your house.

Now's about the time of day I like to change into the Mule.

the 'I am the concierge chez-moi, honey' bit is particularly beautiful

i know i can never resist chiming in with her there

it's funny cuz it's not obviously like an emotional song, but one day i was listening to it and i really got the emotional intensity of it - the intensity of what it is to be by yourself in your house.

thing i like abt "get out of my house" = the incredibly startling scream she lets out right before the male voice (ghost?) comes in

yay my fave tied for first and I didn't even vote

i tend to associate this album w/ a time when i was feeling anxious (in a bad way) about lots of things so i still get this sort of knot in my stomach whenever i hear that track in particular

xpost "get out of my house" i mean

suspended in gaffa fuiud

well, it is definitely a disturbed track, so it's no surprise you've attached it to a disturbed frame of mind

I don't know why I'm crying

it's funny cuz it's not obviously like an emotional song, but one day i was listening to it and i really got the emotional intensity of it - the intensity of what it is to be by yourself in your house.

― Surmounter, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:25 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not really sure how i could ever say that "get out of my house" isn't an obviously emotional song...

Yeah, I never really stopped to think what that song might be about, but I guess like many songs, it could be a lot of things. I just love the breathless back-and-forth, barely controlled intensity of the way she sings on that, and it makes it fun to sing along. So dramatic.

how did i miss this poll, what the hell

suspended in gaffa is easily in my top 3 songs all-thyme, right there with hunger strike and total eclipse of the heart

I don't know why I'm crying

LOL Kate threads

one of my fav lines on the album : "if you go

i'll let the law know"

suspended in gaffa fuiud

― cankles, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 1:34 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh, i DIDNT miss this thread

A Hounds of Love poll would be much more high-stakes for me: i'd be shattered if I was the only person to vote for "Hello, Earth", but curiously uncomfortable if it won.

― Tim F, Friday, August 10, 2007 4:11 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this post made me LOL for some reaason

we are waiting

we got the job sussed

n this shop's shut for business

the synths there are like a sea of questions.

(under "we are waiting")

Yeah, my buddy has decided he's totally in love with Kate on the basis of his recent discovery of Hounds of Love, but until he learns to appreciate this album he's not really a Kate fan at all in my book.

still a fucked up album

and still one of the best vocal deliveries ever on "if you go, i'll let the law know"

Pull Out The Pin, Leave It Open, Sat In Your Lap and There Goes A Tenner are my favorites. This or Aerial must be her best album.

wtf @ firstly, me missing this poll and secondly, "leave it open" coming last. easily my pick

Definitely. My #1 in the overall Kate Bush poll in Aug 2012!

missed this but it wouldve been "pull the pin" or something from side 2. such a great album.

yea leave it open is some modern next level shit

to this day i still can't really talk about pull out the pin bc she's too good on it

glad to see "all the love" represented here -- I mean I'd have voted for get out of my house obviously but that's one of kate's most underrated tracks

i RATE it! highhhhhly

i think i've played it after some especially bad social engagements

(at my house)

somehow the cover of this album captures so much of what I love abt Kate bush

this kind of humorous enchanted playfulness

that COVER