Kate Bush

I once had a dream with her "All the Love" as a soundtrack, I woke up completely creeped out and wondering where the words "I needed you - to love me too. I wait for your move" came from.

However her videos are unremitting pap. They are a complete embarrassment and I wonder why she doesn't hire e.g. Madonna's directors. I know it might all turn out horribly wrong and commercial and her delicate imagery and ideas wither but ANYTHING ANYTHING would be better than (god help me) "Army Dreaming" etc.

"When I heard Killing Joke broke up!"

**FACT**

Kate was a huge fan of the Joke. Youth even played bass for her on the HOUNDS OF LOVE album. Thus, KATE BUSH HONORS THE FIRE!!!

http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/youth/youth27.jpg

(*goes to honour the fire in own kitch'': to strike match, light cig*)

Alex in NYC -- what's your fave Jaz'ed-up orchestra'vaganza then?

Jaz does Doors,
Jaz ups Zep,
Jaz goes Pink F ?

BTW, there ever been a separate thread on Anne Dudley?

Surmounter, Is "The whole story" a good starting place?

to be honest, i haven't even listened to it.

i rly would start with the dreaming. i'm not a compliation person myself.

Either am I.

It's just I managed to find it on rapidshare. I am listening now. I might leave it, I'm sure HMV will have it knocked down for January.

You must also listen to Arthur Russell pretty soon.

oh ya! thank you, almost forgot...

I just pulled out _The Whole Story_ the other day and it's still a damn good place to start. Clearly she's due for a new retrospective as _TWS_ only goes through 1986! But it culls choice tracks from her early albums, enough to help you decide if you want to pursue them further.

Just another gratuitous revive of a random Kate Bush thread...*cough* *Ah HEM!* Move along, nothing to see here.

It was raining and I was alone this week so I put on Hounds of Love and it made me cry.
It's not an album to dip into, it has to be heard from start to finish, then again. For when those
moments pop out at you and make you sit up, "pause for a jet", "look who's here to see you", "Murderer!".
the key change when the Hello Earth theme returns. I put this moment here.

"Do you see that little light up there?"
"Where?"
"There"
"Where?"

gets me every time.

<3 <3

kate on a piano in dream of sheep is so perfect, so singer songwriter with something bigger, so crystal clear.

i'll wake up to the sound of engines. ::vrrrrooom::

i can't listen to hol or the dreaming without crying. it's like watching steve martin without smiling.

this one never fades. like a childhood dream.

http://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e201127980c74f28a4-800wi

<3 <3 <3

YES

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that last one!

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loolll. i love that mean expression that she can do. is that the RUTH video?

i'm not sure...i need to go watch a shitload of her vids

http://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e20111690c4ad4970c-800wi

Dry contact lenses there, I reckons.

http://i692.photobucket.com/albums/vv289/WeAdmire/KateBushApple-White.jpg

whoa thats dope

yeah where i can i exchange dollars for that

ebay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOo916s2jTI

watching kate bush interviews is very good for getting hypnotized

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7KVdwYSX6A

oh my gosh thank you for these gifs omar

Have thought abt going as her in the Babushka video for Halloween, for years.

there was a really nice, well-written essay, in the last issue of the wire, on the song "cloudbusting."

My hero: Kate Bush by David Mitchell

Much as I love Kate and any deserved publicity she gets in this newfound diva era, I kind of read that and just found myself going "and you're point is?" towards the end. Is that a usual thing with The Guardian - random-esque articles in which some randomite (?) reminisces over why he likes such and such, their virtues, and then fin?

Anyways, that Razzamatazz video is mesmerizing and yet the whole thing with there being children in the background just made lusting slightly awkward.

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

I thought maybe this would be about new songs. Ah well.

A lost voice of ancient Albion awoken in the modern age

that you NV ;)

srsly that word is the twat alarm of 2KX

An ancient Greek poetess stranded in the vapid and empty 'culture' of celebrity

pretty sure this shtick does not work in Wetherspoon's of a Friday night but good luck son

hahahaha

But in a rarity for the music industry, Bush owns the entire copyright to original recordings of her songs—including “Running Up That Hill”—through her independent record label Noble & Brite

this keeps getting better and better

I'm going to remember this and Alex Jones as the interregnum high point

Seems like someone adding "Hounds of Love" or "Cloudbusting" to a playlist would do something with this momentum.

Okay, "classic pop"-type radio stations are working this into their playlists as if this was really played on US mainstream radio in 1985. It was played on college radio and some album rock stations.

KROQ here in LA always being the odd exception. ROTH was in semi-heavy rotation - enough to get into the station's top songs of 1985 (in between "A View To A Kill" and Arcadia's "Election Day").

yeah alternative (or rather, 'modern rock') stations of the period clearly the outliers. I'm frankly rather surprised it ever got as high on regular charts in 1986 in the US as it appeared to; I can assure you I never heard it once on the radio here until sometime in 1987 when I lived in the bay area and had a modern rock station to listen to. even then I didn't hear it very regularly.

My kids have always been fans of "Stranger Things," and I remember the first season getting them to play "Should I Stay Or Should I Go," and the second season "Every Breath You Take." But of course neither of those songs took off (again) in the mainstream, I suspect because Tik Tok wasn't quite a thing yet (right?). Tik Tok appeared around 2017, the same year as the second season of "Stranger Things." (As my kids noted, there was no big breakout song moment of Season 3.) Curious what others songs will benefit from this new way of consuming/discovering music going forward. Saw someone post this well-edited fan movie giving a taste of things to come:

The Future of Marvel

Song: Running Up That Hill
*Headphones On*
pic.twitter.com/vLVSojwkXY

— Aaron (@ShangChiTheGOAT) August 5, 2022

that was fan made, certainly?

oh duh as noted I should like actually read

I'm frankly rather surprised it ever got as high on regular charts in 1986 in the US as it appeared to; I can assure you I never heard it once on the radio here until sometime in 1987 when I lived in the bay area and had a modern rock station to listen to. even then I didn't hear it very regularly.

The crazy story I have is that I first heard "Big Sky" when the video was in semi-heavy rotation on MTV. There was somewhat of a promo push behind The Whole Story comp - I think the video for "Experiment IV" was on the first episode of 120 Minutes.

i hear the song pretty much every time i put the radio on now. once after the adult contemporary station played it the on-air guy said that he hates the song, hated it back in the 80s, and doesn't like any of kate bush's music, but "we know you all like it so we're playing it anyway". rude! but i appreciate the honesty regardless since it's abundantly clear that most ppl who work for radio now couldn't give less of a shit about any of the music they play

haha wow I can't believe there are still DJs on normal radio TBH. I haven't listened to anything but NPR in several years.

yeah and with inferior banter like that, they should be phased out by award season i would hope.

I still listen to terrestrial radio and the patter's as lame as ever.

This is a vision. (It's not a GOOD vision.)

Obsessed with this. Absolutely deranged.

A complete massacre of the original. Each note more wild and unpredictable than the next. Ending with a cocky kiss, like she just fucking killed it.

100% perfect. No notes. https://t.co/9oFbYPbCPV

— Bradley Stern (@MuuMuse) September 14, 2022

It wasn’t THAT bad, pretty much standard MPB interpretation isn’t it?

Also “no notes” is apparently the newest completely meaningless catchphrase now?

as I have said before, all Kate Bush covers are terrible and should be illegal

the cycle will not be complete until it's on ukulele and it's selling a motor vehicle

If I only could
Get a deal from Dodge
And get them to swap a trade-in

Honestly would like to hear her do all of Hounds of Love now.

"I hid my Yooooooooo-yooooooooo"

Still wild to hear this on the Top 40 station between Doja Cat, Lil Nas X and Harry Styles.

i'd make a deal with gyaaaayyyyaaaayyyyyaaaad

It wasn’t THAT bad

au contraire, mon frere

initially read that as "i'd make a deal with gay dad"

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Do you really think EVERY note was off? I don’t listen to much if any MPB these days but what I’m hearing is a pastiche of what would be considered R&B and C&W tropes in the cultural context of the USA.

there is nothing, I mean nothing, of MPB (which is also... a pretty meaningless term btw) in her cover.

A while back we were talking about acts that sound like Kate Bush, a friend of mine put me on to Li Garattoni’s ‘Find Out What I'm Dreaming’ LP from 1982 on the weekend, and some of the record fits the bill such as ‘Find Out What I'm Dreaming’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZQXpqJvZK0

Re: Kate Bush covers, there are a few, very few. Some friends did an ambient noise cover utilizing elements from RUTH back in 2006– they were all computer music majors— and it remains excellent. Will upload if anyone wants.

can't even think of too many well known covers; Pat Benetar's Wuthering Hights (bad), maxwell's This Woman's Work (good but unnecessary) and that's about it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So2SGCMztf8

has anyone else seen the all-woman KB tribute act Baby Bushka? i went into it expecting some theater-kid preciousness and..that’s part of it to an extent but the costumes and choreography and performances are all terrific and done totally lovingly and sincerely. i actually teared up at a few points during their set.

The Futureheads cover of Hounds was how I discovered her. I posted here that discovering KB was like finding out that you'd been living next to a skyscraper without noticing. Bimble replied "please tell me that you have or are planning to buy The Dreaming" which was lovely, like having an older sibling with cool taste to nag you.

I missed baby bushka in the bay area earlier this year; I'd assumed they were from the UK but they're from San Diego! youtube clips of them are excellent

Night of a Thousand Kates is just whew for me, what an incredible events

This one is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2QPkvvrRSQ

Kate the amapiano way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1yWe4FPwTM
Mhaw Keys • I Pray

Gorgeous track, thanks for sharing.

Wuthering cover from this year... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcSi-1XPuH0

Seems that Del Palmer has died

https://x.com/katebushnews/status/1743750710947196956?s=46&t=bJOqpCuQneT7ju08y55VSA