can we do The Sensual World (kate bush)?

title track

mmmmmmmmmmmmm yessss

def hard to beat

I've never actually heard this one, I was always under the impression it was kind of sub-par.

it is, but the highlights are pretty amazing. also, good work with the trio bulgarka

Voted for 'The Fog'

yes i said yes mmmmmmm yes

this woman's work

This Woman's Work

Just put your feet down child

this has some reputation as being sub-par, and that reputation is completely wrong. the album is a little bit slick sounding, but it's still incredible; this is one of my favorite kate albums because it's really almost all downbeat depressing ballads. Anyway it's either the title track, this woman's work, or never be mine...

in fact, this album might have the highest ratio of great songs on it. the only song on here I wouldn't rank as exceptional is head's we're dancing and even that has great bass playing

Christgau: "The title track would give Henry James a boner."

title track or love and anger...

this woman's work but i love deeper understanding

that song that mentions computers

Prince sampled that one nicely.

never be mine!

"This Woman's Work" very easily, up there with "A Dream" or "After The Gold Rush" or "Waterloo Sunset" as one of the all-time great melodies of the rock era. And very much her best song (although A+ to Maxwell for just loving that melody!!).

'reaching out' has always been my fave, sentimental climaxes get me.

...sentimental climaxes get me

And sweeping Michael Nyman string arrangements. It's the guests that make for my favorite songs on the album: Nyman, Trio Bulgarka, David Gilmour. Although "This Woman's Work" gets by on the fact that it's fucking genius.

'this woman's work' is so beautiful. "i know you have a little life in you yet..", the way it builds to "oh, darling, make it go away..."

I hate to be the party pooper, here, but there is no WAY that This Woman's Work isn't going to win this. No WAY.

I'm happy today because my friend is here - we finally have the same day off work! - but he has to meet his brother for awhile so he will be back later.

I know he will come back because I'm the one with Kate Bush videos and he can't resist that shit.

Also I have all the Kate Bush b-sides on my new iPod now. "Passing Through Air", "Under The Ivy"...

Anyway I promise that now I will try to decide what to vote for in this poll. Love & Anger is a mighty force to be reckoned with isn't it?

i think Love And Anger is my least favorite kate bush song of all time

the guitars are noisy, enough for a headache, and the arch of the song is so plodding and bizarre

this is very difficult, between the title track and The Fog

altho rocket's tail is pretty fekkin cool

oH ramzi I'm sorry for the Love & Anger hate you have. Sorry for that.

Reaching Out? Am I voting for Reaching Out? Look I have to go to the store now and get some more beer for me & my friend. I love him to death. And I think he understands how much his friendship means to me.

also Reaching Out i kind of hate

it's like, all the nuance of texture from Hounds of Love and The Dreaming was just obliterated by electric guitar and very, very odd production

Okay, I've given this some deep thought, and I decided to vote for Deeper Understanding: the song about the internet before there was an internet yet!

But I almost voted for "Never Be Mine" because that is what my man will vote for. But it's too emotional for me right now, I think.

Also what the fuck is happening on Rocket's Tail? Is she making some kind of rock and roll point there?

but Ramzi what trax do you like from this? You said you liked the title track right?

i like:
the sensual world
the fog
this woman's work
rocket's tail
never be mine
deeper understanding

and i kind of like "heads we're dancing"

or head's, whatevers

wish "the first minute and a half or so of 'rocket's tail'" was an option. such a gorgeous arrangement and then...that guitar. bleh.

"never be mine" way underrated btw

it is very good

u know i don't mind the guitar in rocket's tail, i mean it seemed era-appropriate. but yea the opening arrangement is unreal

The title track is in a league of its own here.

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this woman's work is making me cry really hard right now

ugh I couldn't listen to it tonight

this woman's work

always surprised by the lack of love for this one. It might be my favorite of hers. The electric bass on this somehow reminds me a bit of 'Hejira' but whereas that album was always about losing oneself on the infinite open roads, 'Sensual World' strikes me as such a claustrophobic album, where one loses oneself mostly in a suffocating intimacy

It's my favourite, but it's also the first Kate album I bought and my feelings toward it are all caught up in memories of an interesting time in my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av4PezYZoBk

the strinnnnnnngs

"Never Be Mine" is so perfect & underrated.

i think Love And Anger is my least favorite kate bush song of all time

the guitars are noisy, enough for a headache, and the arch of the song is so plodding and bizarre

― Surmounter, Monday, May 25, 2009 1:04 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

;_; it's such a dope song tho!!

^^ otm the slap bass is sooo killer

i'm not sure what to make of 'deeper understanding' it could either be the best thing i've ever heard or the worst thing
during the chorus i can't help but think of burns in the xfiles episode of the simpsons saying "i bring you peace"

so probably leaning towards the latter

IT WAS HITLER

Hi, I just listened to this for the first time, which marks the first time I've really listened to a Kate Bush album. Wowza

your gay card. give it to me.

IT'S JUST A PICTURE OF HITLER

weird design choice for a gay card imo but whateva

I'm listening to the whole thing again this morning. I knew this was good but never thought I'd enjoy it this much, pan flutes and all.

that album has special resonance for me because I was listening to it a lot when I moved to Boston, the first time I'd moved away from home — walking around after midnight, not knowing anyone.

yeah for somewhat similar reasons this is my fave KB album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fMOtFdcdh0

mmh yes

i know

Mmh yes, indeed. Sensual World 12" which plays either vocal or instrumental version depending on which concentric groove you put the needle on is so classic too.

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My favorite track got 0 votes :(

Walk Straight Down The Middle

tried to listen to the album yesterday but couldn't get through it. i love the title track so much, as well as the accompanying video (that dance/walk!) but a lot of the songs just drag on and don't reel me in in any specific way. still, mmmmmhh yes

I love the title track but overall I don't get much feels from this album. This album has taken me the longest to recognize each individual track. They always blended together like pretty wallpaper. However, when pressed to really focus on these tracks I was rewarded in the same way I've been rewarded with acquired taste albums. I still suspect that it will remain a pretty wallpaper but with a few more discovered moods that I didn't find on early listens.

I don't think this is merely a plain good album. That goes to Lionheart and 50WfS.

As someone who places Red Shoes near the top of the pack, I have no qualms with anyone putting this album near the top.

I prefer The Red Shoes, garish attempts at pop crossovers and all.

*(i wouldn't have qualms with anyone's choices among my favorite artists' albums)

Yeah, Red Shoes has a lot more going on tunes-wise. And in terms of her more atmospheric albums, I like Snow more than Sensual World.

But I'm happy to live in a world with all of these Kate Bush albums.

ugh such a good way to put it

this woman's work was honestly an icon of its time - written for a John Hughes movie no less - it sounds like icicles but yet so warm and her words are no less than astounding

I've been really enthralled by this album just lately.

This Woman's Work is so poised & majestic. It rises & arcs just enough to articulate the key, unraveling message of the song & then retreats just as quickly as if quietly shocked at the low-key head of team it has gathered.

I even really like some of the less celebrated tracks. Heads We're Dancing has a strange, refractory chorus that sticks with you against the odds & I do love how Never Be Mine collapses into that gentle, withdrawn funk upon delivery of the song's title.

The only track I really dislike is Rocket's tail, which is obviously spoiled by an awful, gaudy 80's solo from David Gilmour that misguidedly emerges as the centrepiece of the song.

shhhhh….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1yWe4FPwTM

Mhaw Keys • I Pray

listening to it now and the fog is just so immense

rocket's tail 3

deeper understanding 1
the fog 1

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“Heads We’re Dancing” and “Rocket’s Tail” are just stunning. The latter is an orgasm of emotion, and that solo from Gilmour might be his best ever