Best song on Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love

After careful deliberation, I'm voting "The Big Sky" - the scream on the fade puts it over the top by a hair.

but it's almost certainly among the finest coming-down tracks of all time.

yes i know exactly what u mean!

"Hounds of Love" is my favourite song she's done by a huge, huge margin. That's not to say that the rest isn't great, just that this song does something amazing for me.

it has that waterfall effect for me, the drums just cascade over...

greatest work of the 20th century

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Truly disappointed. This should have ended with a tie between every song. And Mother Stands For Comfort definitely deserves better.

So happy for Cloudbusting, thought I was the only one...

My guess is half the people who voted for Running Up That Hill haven't heard the rest of the album and/or it's the only song of hers they're familiar with.

Way too many votes for the first side here.

mhmm

PURGE LURKERS

geir predicted it

wish i'd voted Waking The Witch now. can yeh not see that little light up there?

Jesus, this thread is impossible to find if you try the words Kate Bush on the search engine. Or if you try anything like "Hounds Of Love" just forget it. A ZILLION posts on ILE about Dubya will get in the way. Just type "Hounds" that is the way. Only the word "Hounds".

Anyway I wasn't planning to go all mental about this album in particular, but today I heard a few random passages in my head from the Ninth Wave side of the album and it gave me pause. So tonight I am listening to the entire album all over again from start to finish because of that and this thread. I think the songs I heard snippets of in my head earlier today were "Watching You Without Me" and "Mother Stands For Comfort", yes those were the two. And normally this doesn't happen to me at all. I honestly don't give any thought to this album anymore, not in many years. But I cherish a thread like this to show me the way to experience it one more time, almost like it was new.

amen.

The Oct 23 Beats in Space uses "Running Up That Hill" or some remix thereof and does a killer job of it. I may pee myself. Oh ... there ... it happened. Oh.

nice to see such a high placing for 'hello earth'

fun fact about the source of the choral piece she used for that song:

- A different recording of "Zinzkaro", the Georgian folk song performed on the film's soundtrack by the Vocal Ensemble Gordela, was used by Kate Bush in the song "Hello Earth" on her 1985 album Hounds of Love.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_the_Vampyre

(I always thought she'd written it, but when it turned up again on "Tale 3 - Lento arabesco" from Goran Bregovic's 'Songs and Tales from Weddings and Funerals' it occurred to me it was a traditional, and then Herzog used the Vocal Ensemble Gordela version during the plague sequence of 'Nosferatu')

http://vinyluniverse.gemm.com/item/GORDELA/GEORGIAN--FOLK--SONGS/GML1415517606/
http://www.discogs.com/release/1072318

hmmm

pressing of 500 copies on Melodiya

Apparently the remix of Running Up That Hill that floored me was the Ashley Beedle re-edit. You can stream it here:

http://discofromouterspace.blogspot.com/2007/09/kate-bush-running-up-that-hill-beedle.html

or (shh!) download it here:

http://www.pinglewood.com/2007/September/Raising_Hell.html

http://d332.com/posh/2007/02/20/ten-degrees-of-separation-the-global-search-for-vok-ansambl-gordela-ensemble-gordella-ensemble-gordelas-tshintsharo-zinskaro-zinzkaro-cin-skaro-from-kate-bushs-richard-hickox-singers-version-of-werner/

"Thanks to Werner Herzog" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4GKEnScx54

Hamlet Gonashvili - "Cincyaro" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCevhoumT0E

Holy hell, no way, man. That is...I don't have any words for that. The Nosferatu clip alone is...holy jesus of atheism if that isn't the most amazing thing I've seen/heard in my life. I struggle with why I have not yet seen that film. Surely I know who Werner Herzog is and would have seen it in his section at the store, but the only Nosferatu I've seen is the one from the 1920's or whatever. I shall make a trip the video shop on Saturday for sure.

I read the whole story you linked, too, even though I don't normally have the patience to read that kind of thing. Very rewarding ending.

In other news, I recently ordered the This Woman's Work box set. I've never owned it in all these years! I feel like a virgin, I do!

Also, Surmounter to thread PRONTO!

Ok I'd have never seen this coming but Mother Stands For Comfort is my favorite Kate Bush song

weird! about that research, milton. cool. i'd love to explore more stuff along those lines, that piece is absolutely beautiful.
the clip of the movie is way creepy.

I'd better buy that Gordela LP soon.

I did buy the Hamlet Gonashvili CD 'Hamlet', it's on Amazon. The version of 'Tsintskaro' is beautiful. About a third of the songs actually use the same traditional chord sequence that Kate borrowed for 'Hello Earth' -- it keeps coming back, with different vocal lines spun over it, threading the album together. The continuity also reminds me a lot of early plainchant -- but unlike many recordings of Perotin or Chant Cistercien, it's closer to song form and the performance is closer to living folk music as opposed to 'early music' performed with historical reverence (not that I don't love the 2 CDs I linked)

if you like that kind of choral music & you like Herzog, this is in my top 3 favorites of his: http://www.amazon.com/Gesualdo-Death-Voices-Pasquale-DOnofrio/dp/B00005UQ8L

'Watching you without me' was always my favourite. Not too popular on here.

It was two different albums too. God, how dull am I?

that song is brilliant, love the lyrics about the ghost

tonight's sleep playlist:
Under Ice
Mother Stands For Comfort
The Fog

i'm buying Hamlet now. so

excited

i'm sitting in my office with the window wide open. gorgeous gray day, cool, with a breeze. suddenly i hear a chorus of men's voices. i go to the window, trying to make them out in the wind, and listen for a few minutes. finally, i realize, Hamlet's been playing very softly in iTunes.

this album

yes?

lol i kept telling chris to make it past running up that hill

actually isn't that the problem for both of you?

I think that song accounts for 90% of my Kate Bush listening, at least.

it was the 1st song i heard on my own, like apart from my mom. but dude you need to listen to the title track.

uh, or CLOUDBUSTING

tiarnan you need to listen to cloudbusting now.

I can't I'm listening to Royal Trux and nothing is gonna tear me away!

ok i'll listen to it :D

you know what you should do, is burn me a copy of Tusk and mail it to me. that'd be fun for you!

http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/ani060.gif

there's something so irresistibly blatant about that comment!

ramzi, whaaa? i've always loved this album! i just hadn't heard any other kate bush albums!

whew!

ur like my yoyo
that glows in the dark

now cloudbusting was definitely the first song that blew my mind

the strings in the 2nd verse are perfect

i wake up to the sound
of engines

wait, you haven't heard Tusk?