Kate Bush

I love albums. Even uneven albums. Especially uneven albums?

I'm with you. But it doesn't seem to be how it works these days!

albums are for the 70s

Reached its peak as an artform in that decade, but still culturally important as a mode of consumption until the early noughties

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Is that 1970s or 70 year olds?

Same thing I guess.

I love albums. Even uneven albums. Especially uneven albums?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, June 7, 2022 5:52 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

if we’re complaining about the youngs, i’d like to register my distaste for the entire concept of “no skips”

to take it back to the thread topic, hounds of love is an obviously brilliant album, but do i listen to “waking the witch” every single time? no, but i wouldn’t erase it from existence, and its presence on the album doesn’t make it anything less than incredible!

maybe this will also result in a proper revival of "experiment iv." if forced to pick a single favorite tune of hers, it's my frontrunner.

― I'm ANTIFA and I vote. (Austin),

hi!

stealing moka's playlist idea, but with "experiment iv"

OH WAIT IT'S NOT ON SPOTIFY

I've never heard my neighbors playing loud music until last night when they were blasting this.

It’s really something when a song connects like that / has a big cultural moment

I do hope a lot of people discover the album as a result of RUTH's success. I was thinking yesterday that there are very few moments in pop music as chilling as when Kate sings:

"Watching storms start to form
Over America
Can't do anything
Just watch them swing with the wind out to sea"

I’m of the opinion that Bush’s best albums are Sensual World, The Red Shoes (Rubberband Girl incl) and Aerial

I have to skip when it’s an early song sung with a funny accent

Except her cover of “sex-you-wool healing” which I sometimes listen to when I want a laugh

I don't see "Heads We're Dancing" or "Between a Man and a Woman" being given prominent placing in a TV show anytime soon.

There is no greater sound than Kate coolly singing pi numbers over that Eberhard Weber bassline

"Heads We're Dancing" and "Big Stripey Lie" are often my favorite Kate songs.

Side 2 of Hounds of Love was the first time I found a set of songs that worked as literature. (Maybe The Wall did it for other people.)

The most subtle touch in this song, which I never noticed until I was teaching someone to sing it, is that sometimes when she sings the phrase "If I only could...", the downbeat comes on "if", and other times comes right after "could".

I had never heard "Cloudbusting" - it's a fucking jam

Eberhard Weber
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, June 7, 2022 7:11 PM

Eberhard Weber - C or D? + S&D

xpost: "cloudbusting" 12" version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MazbES_VMEY

having a sudden urge to listen to utah saints

When I heard the Futureheads do Hounds of Love I had never heard the original and didn’t realize it was a cover. I remember thinking it was way better than their other songs. HOL is probably my fave Bush jam.

Heh. Bush jam.

I had never heard "Cloudbusting" - it's a fucking jam

― subject matter expert (morrisp)

Yessss. Top 10 song of the 80’s for me. “Running up that hill” is obviously a classic but Cloudbusting and Hounds of Love are such underrated singles - but then again, even RUTH was also underrated at the time - hopefully this renaissance makes more people discover this album because it is fucking spectacular.

It's bizarre, it's Jubilee week, there was some story that the Sex Pistols "God Save The Queen" was going to be number one, but in actual fact it looks like its going to be held off by Kate Bush!

The most subtle touch in this song, which I never noticed until I was teaching someone to sing it, is that sometimes when she sings the phrase "If I only could...", the downbeat comes on "if", and other times comes right after "could".

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, June 8, 2022 2:32 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yes! This is one of my favourite things about it.

My intro to "Cloudbusting" was thanks to Utah Saints, both singles still among the most exciting I'd ever heard.

"Cloudbusting" was probably the first KB song I heard. I remember the video being a big deal for CBC's Video Hits and MuchMusic, maybe bc Donald Sutherland was in it? Probably still my OPO.

“Wuthering Heights” was the first Kate Bush song I heard, after a year of intense Tori fandom and reading the comparisons, and then I heard “Wuthering Heights” and it’s squeaky insanity and thought “are you all blind in your ears”

The fact she wrote a song like “wuthering heights” when she was 18 is still impressive to me.

I think she wrote The Man With The Child In His Eyes when she was 15/16?

Or even 13, I've read. It's my favourite Kate Bush song.

Is it wrong to prefer the recorded WH from '86? OK fine. It's wrong.

nah, the Whole Story version is the first one I heard and I kinda prefer it

I also prefer it.

In general though I'm kinda a hater of pre-Hounds Kate. I like "Sat In Your Lap" and "Breathing" and a handful of other deep cuts but most of it does not appeal to me even remotely. Hounds onward is some of my favourite music that exists

I remember picking up The Dreaming on vinyl and listening for the first time to the entire album and thinking "Get Out Of My House" was an apt final track for a record that I wanted to throw goodbye off the balcony and never see again

the dreaming is fantastic but i have little use for the first two albums

aerial is her best though

I struggle with The Dreaming, but it remains a listenable working-shit-out album: listening to her figure out how to adapt her visions to Fairlights produces 3/4ths of a good album. "Get Out of My House" is one of my keepers, actually.

I also have problems with the albums before it.

but then I love The Red Shoes dearly.

I had just been getting into A Kick Inside for the first time when the Stranger Things news broke, so I scooped up a copy. I've tried a number of times to get into Kate Bush, but hadn't made much progress beyond Running Up That Hill and Cloudbusting.

And of course, like most people, the early pandemic days for me were soundtracked by this dude's cover of Wuthering Heights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1fd8tbSa50

i get issues with her earlier vocals but i think the kick inside still slaps from front to back

I'll always have time for the first three albums since hearing my sister blasting them in her bedroom was how I came to know that Kate Bush was a worthy focus for my young attention

The Whole Story really is one of the tightest comps ever.

Should've had "Hammer Horror" on there, but otherwise it's great.

a Kate Bush ballot poll would be awesome (unless it was done, the search only shows album polls)

“Running up that hill” is obviously a classic but Cloudbusting and Hounds of Love are such underrated singles

lol this was basically my FB post about the RUTH phenomenon — along the lines of, "Good news kids, it's only the third-best single on the album!"

We Become Panoramic - THE KATE BUSH RESULTS THREAD (ilm artist poll #24)

thank you, i was including "ballot poll" in the search which is why it didn't show up

i love when a revival like this happens and i think it should be a lot more common for catalogue music to be treated with the same prestige as "new" music. play it on the radio, boom it in your jeep, etc.

what's funny is how kate bush was introduced to me as a hiphop/r+b fan when maxwell covered "this woman's work." then a few years later, outkast starts saying they've always been huge fans, etc. i loved her instantly when i first heard hounds of love ~2007 and "running up that hill" easily resonated as deeply as any contemporary music. amazing when something is so undeniably classic and just keeps transcending.

I love her early voice a lot and of course the donkey shouting is one of the things that places her above other artists. I wish there was more songs doing whatever she was doing on Wuthering Heights, it sounds like some posh medieval mystic rather than the period she's singing about. There should be some quasi-power metal Kate out there.