Under Ice.
And *COUNT* the drug references!
― pisces, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
ugh under ice is so hot
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i will not participate in this thread
― cutty, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
bump for bimble
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, cheers for leaving out the bonus tracks, Surmounter, I was going to recommend doing that.
― Bimble, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link
wow, i love this entire album, but am totally surprised by the fact that most people haven't chosen 'running up that hill.' i thought that would be the obvious winner!
― the table is the table, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link
not around here - i think ILM really likes The Ninth Wave.
running up that hill should not be underrated tho.
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
great album but the hits are the best!
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:14 (sixteen years ago) link
"Running Up That Hill" (with "Cloudbusting" napping at its heels).
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:47 (sixteen years ago) link
"The Big Sky" is sadly neglected!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 09:30 (sixteen years ago) link
This is so hard to pick. Could be Cloudbusting.
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 11:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I said I'd vote for "Hello Earth" and that's what I'm a gonna do!
― zaxxon25, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
word!
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
The Ninth Wave is the shit!
― butchy, Thursday, 23 August 2007 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
oh don't ruin it
― cutty, Thursday, 23 August 2007 00:42 (sixteen years ago) link
but am totally surprised by the fact that most people haven't chosen 'running up that hill.' i thought that would be the obvious winner!
I'm pretty sure it is when we get to see what all the lurkers have voted for.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 23 August 2007 10:12 (sixteen years ago) link
hmmmm
― Surmounter, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Running up That Hill is the most dull song on the entire album for me. Whenever I listen to Hounds, I start at track 3.
― butchy, Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i really hate you
― cutty, Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't hate you but that is unfortunate. those first three songs are pretty magical.
hounds of love in particular - or the end of Big Sky? nothin gets me movin like that.
― Surmounter, Thursday, 23 August 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
you don't hate anyone, you are sir mounter
― cutty, Thursday, 23 August 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i was going to say i don't hate anyone but then i thought of a couple of ppl
― Surmounter, Thursday, 23 August 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean, I like the first side too, but the songs sound a bit too much like each other. Plus those drum machine beats are kind of annoying.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 23 August 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
RONG
― cutty, Thursday, 23 August 2007 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I feel a bit prejudiced, because some songs have just aged more over time than others. If you'd asked me in 1985 or even in the 90's I would have said something different than today.
For me "The Morning Fog" is the one that has endured the most. Go figure.
― Bimble, Thursday, 23 August 2007 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i can do without the jig of life
― cutty, Friday, 24 August 2007 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I can now, but for a billion years that was my fave song on this album. So you're making a bold statement, there.
― Bimble, Friday, 24 August 2007 01:57 (sixteen years ago) link
certainly far from the worst on this album
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 24 August 2007 01:58 (sixteen years ago) link
wow.
jig of life = exclusion and The Morning Fog = best are 2 ideas that i just can't wrap my mind around.
Obv, the most classically amazing song is fucking Hello Earth, and the song the album could do without is The Morning Fog.
i'm sorry bimble. but jig of life, i must agree, is more than can be hoped for.
― Surmounter, Friday, 24 August 2007 03:25 (sixteen years ago) link
The Morning Fog is the perfect song to finish the album with; especially after Hello Earth.
― butchy, Friday, 24 August 2007 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
its true its a good contrast tool
― Surmounter, Friday, 24 August 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't dislike jig of life. i just could take it or leave it. too medieval times for me--i do like the guy talking at the end, that is funny
― cutty, Friday, 24 August 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
hilarious
― Surmounter, Friday, 24 August 2007 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Cutty what about "I put this moment.... here. I put this moment..... here. I put thos moment..... OVER HERE!!!!"
― Tim F, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
that's right before the guy start talking isn't it? love it
― cutty, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I love me some medieval shit. I mean that's kinda why Bertie works doesn't it?
― Bimble, Saturday, 25 August 2007 02:23 (sixteen years ago) link
ya
― Surmounter, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
"waking the witch" deserves respect here too. it's ridiculous, but also great.
― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
oh def
a highlight, even
― Surmounter, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
really, this title track is so wonderful.
― Surmounter, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i have a hard time disaggregating the ninth wave into individual tracks
SRSLY
Surmounter, I'm note sure if "The Morning Fog" is the best track on Hounds, but it's almost certainly among the finest coming-down tracks of all time.
― rogermexico., Monday, 27 August 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
After careful deliberation, I'm voting "The Big Sky" - the scream on the fade puts it over the top by a hair.
― rogermexico., Monday, 27 August 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
but it's almost certainly among the finest coming-down tracks of all time.
yes i know exactly what u mean!
― Surmounter, Monday, 27 August 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
"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.
― hobart paving, Monday, 27 August 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
it has that waterfall effect for me, the drums just cascade over...
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link
greatest work of the 20th century
― cutty, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 01:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Thursday, 30 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Truly disappointed. This should have ended with a tie between every song. And Mother Stands For Comfort definitely deserves better.
― Bus Driver Stu, Thursday, 30 August 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
So happy for Cloudbusting, thought I was the only one...
― iago g., Friday, 31 August 2007 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link
this fuckin album
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 September 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
indeed :)
love this too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQxEVhyvA0I
with the under the ice samples
― sweetheart of the Neo Geo (Ross), Monday, 24 September 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
^ I love this track, too. I've seen The Field live a bunch of times and he always plays it; particularly great with a live drummer. There's something super uplifting about dancing to these samples of Kate's voice.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 09:41 (five years ago) link
absolutely :)
― sweetheart of the Neo Geo (Ross), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWaj8wU_qRg
https://thequietus.com/articles/26096-kate-bush-under-the-ivy-official-music-video
― willem, Monday, 25 February 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
Pulled this up for a listen today and found that Spotify has a “2018 Remaster” version. Through headphones, the strings are much more distinct and the drums are intense.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link
how the hell did Big Sky only get two votes here?
― sleeve, Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:56 (four years ago) link
we never understood it
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 6 September 2019 00:02 (four years ago) link
Some surprises here, looking back;
And Dream Of Sheep 2The Big Sky 2Under Ice 2Mother Stands For Comfort 0
― piscesx, Saturday, 5 November 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
Not so strange, those are mostly subtle mood pieces on an album with a lot of tracks and several better-known songs. If someone told me their favourite song on the record was "Mother Stands For Comfort", I'd respond, "Oh, you don't like Kate Bush?"
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 5 November 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
sad no love for waking the witch that's when shit really gets going
― Left, Saturday, 5 November 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
So i guess i don't like Kate Bush :( Xpost
― nostormo, Saturday, 5 November 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
maybe I love Kate Bush AND Eberhard Weber
― fetter, Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
If someone told me their favourite song on the record was "Mother Stands For Comfort", I'd respond, "Oh, you don't like Kate Bush?"
i know, ILM is a safe space, it welcomes people saying daft shit in an authoritative register
but ffs
― wearing wraparounds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
Love the radio-type sounds on that song.
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
the fairlight? yeah particularly the very final flourish that ends the song (and cuts out rather than fades)
― akm, Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
Where, I ask, were all these supporters of "Mother Stands For Comfort" in 2007, when your vote counted?
I just think of it as the epitome of a breather/change-of-pace track. Also, for Bush/Weber fans, "Houdini" is a way more impressive song.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:13 (one year ago) link
"Mother" is maybe my third-favourite song on the album, but that won't earn it any credit if that's true for everyone. Mods, please implement first-past-the-post voting
― Vinnie, Sunday, 6 November 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link
there aren't any bad songs on that album, but Mother is definitely one of the more subtle ones... what chance does it have stuck between the Big Sky and Cloudbusting?
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Sunday, 6 November 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
it's a better song than the Morning Fog.
― akm, Sunday, 6 November 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
love "waking the witch" and "watching you without me"
― dyl, Sunday, 6 November 2022 20:05 (one year ago) link
A more controversial opinion is that this is the weakest of her first five records (though the best tracks on this are better than those on Lionheart.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 7 November 2022 05:04 (one year ago) link
this new reissue is ugly and preposterous, what on earth. I guess the prices are really for the artwork, but the artwork is...not good?
https://music.katebush.com/buy/hounds-of-love-lost-at-sea/
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 2 November 2023 03:56 (four months ago) link
Re the conversation about "Mother Stands For Comfort" above, it would only be like top 6 for me, but I used to include it on a lot of mixtapes paired with The Blue Nile's "Automobile Noise" as a kind of mini-suite of found-sound synth balladry.
― Tim F, Thursday, 2 November 2023 04:00 (four months ago) link
$300 for a vinyl reissue with no new songs or anything, that is pretty obnoxious... is it for charity or something?
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 2 November 2023 05:30 (four months ago) link
it's not clear at all. apparently she had a limited artwork like this as part of a War Child charity, and this is another go at that, but I don't think these go to War Child. Plus...it's not the full album! Most of these configurations are for like...1/2 the album
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 2 November 2023 13:23 (four months ago) link
more info on this page: https://www.katebush.com/hounds-of-love/
LED light. like PF's Pulse. c'mon Kate.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 2 November 2023 13:26 (four months ago) link
The Baskerville Edition is the first in the series of illustrated editions of the albums.
so she has a whole series planned
― ufo, Thursday, 2 November 2023 13:44 (four months ago) link
maybe this is to make the elevated prices of the colored vinyl reissues seem reasonable
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 2 November 2023 13:45 (four months ago) link
it's all tacky af
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 2 November 2023 14:03 (four months ago) link
No outtakes or 12 inch mixes (“The Big Sky” Meteorological Mix is outstanding)? Fuck this.
― beamish13, Thursday, 2 November 2023 14:36 (four months ago) link
big agree there, beamish. stop neglecting remixes and long edits!
(lotta other 80s acts guilty of this schitt, too)
it's missing some stuff from the period, but this version is pretty hard to beat: https://www.discogs.com/release/7727012-Kate-Bush-Hounds-Of-Love
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Thursday, 2 November 2023 18:37 (four months ago) link
(and ya, this new reissue is gimmicky af)
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Thursday, 2 November 2023 18:38 (four months ago) link