Best song on Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love

ugh under ice is so hot

i will not participate in this thread

bump for bimble

Yeah, cheers for leaving out the bonus tracks, Surmounter, I was going to recommend doing that.

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!

not around here - i think ILM really likes The Ninth Wave.

running up that hill should not be underrated tho.

great album but the hits are the best!

"Running Up That Hill" (with "Cloudbusting" napping at its heels).

"The Big Sky" is sadly neglected!

This is so hard to pick. Could be Cloudbusting.

I said I'd vote for "Hello Earth" and that's what I'm a gonna do!

word!

The Ninth Wave is the shit!

oh don't ruin it

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.

hmmmm

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.

i really hate you

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.

you don't hate anyone, you are sir mounter

i was going to say i don't hate anyone but then i thought of a couple of ppl

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.

RONG

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.

i can do without the jig of life

I can now, but for a billion years that was my fave song on this album. So you're making a bold statement, there.

certainly far from the worst on this album

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.

The Morning Fog is the perfect song to finish the album with; especially after Hello Earth.

its true its a good contrast tool

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

hilarious

Cutty what about "I put this moment.... here. I put this moment..... here. I put thos moment..... OVER HERE!!!!"

that's right before the guy start talking isn't it? love it

I love me some medieval shit. I mean that's kinda why Bertie works doesn't it?

ya

"waking the witch" deserves respect here too. it's ridiculous, but also great.

oh def

a highlight, even

really, this title track is so wonderful.

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.

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.

indeed :)

love this too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQxEVhyvA0I

with the under the ice samples

^ 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.

absolutely :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWaj8wU_qRg

https://thequietus.com/articles/26096-kate-bush-under-the-ivy-official-music-video

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.

how the hell did Big Sky only get two votes here?

we never understood it

Some surprises here, looking back;

And Dream Of Sheep 2
The Big Sky 2
Under Ice 2
Mother Stands For Comfort 0

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?"

sad no love for waking the witch that's when shit really gets going

So i guess i don't like Kate Bush :(
Xpost

maybe I love Kate Bush AND Eberhard Weber

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

Love the radio-type sounds on that song.

the fairlight? yeah particularly the very final flourish that ends the song (and cuts out rather than fades)

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.

"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

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?

it's a better song than the Morning Fog.

love "waking the witch" and "watching you without me"

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.

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/

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.

$300 for a vinyl reissue with no new songs or anything, that is pretty obnoxious... is it for charity or something?

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

more info on this page: https://www.katebush.com/hounds-of-love/

LED light. like PF's Pulse. c'mon Kate.

The Baskerville Edition is the first in the series of illustrated editions of the albums.

so she has a whole series planned

maybe this is to make the elevated prices of the colored vinyl reissues seem reasonable

it's all tacky af

No outtakes or 12 inch mixes (“The Big Sky” Meteorological Mix is outstanding)? Fuck this.

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

(and ya, this new reissue is gimmicky af)