Kate Bush

The beautiful rework of "Moments Of Pleasure" still chokes me up. Especially when the humming choir comes in. Man. I still really love
"Director's Cut".

Agreed. I think it's a terrific record. Production is fabulous.

New album :

http://www.katebush.com/news/kate-release-brand-new-album-50-words-snow-november

http://www.katebush.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/normal_size/wysiwyg_imageupload/1/50Small.jpg

Yesssssssssss!!!

“50 Words For Snow” will feature seven brand new tracks set against a background of falling snow. The total running time is 65 minutes and the track listing is:

SNOWFLAKE
LAKE TAHOE
MISTY
WILDMAN
SNOWED IN AT WHEELER STREET
50 WORDS FOR SNOW
AMONG ANGELS

Seven songs, 65 minutes... *drools*

Excited by the news, but eww at the cover.

Surely this is deserving of a new thread?

christ: the last six years have gone fassssst

It's a winter album, then.

WILDMAN

As done by Wild Man Fischer?

No reworked version of "December Will Be Magic Again"?

The snowman with lips makes me feel a bit nauseous. That's just wrong man

Snowman? I thought it was Alfred Hitchcock.

That nose is gonna have her eye out.

That cover seriously needs to go away forever.

The title is stupid too.

I love Kate Bush!

http://www.cross-stitch-corner.co.uk/ekmps/shops/brendahickling/images/a-kiss-for-snowman-1102-p.jpg

well this album art won't convert any of the 'Kate's artwork sucks' mob from upthread.

This will be a treat in winter, unless it's a grave disappointment. I'm optimistic though.

Two albums in one year from KB can only mean she's getting everything out before the 2012 apocalypse.

For many years, Stewart Avon Arnold has enjoyed intense conversations with Bush about a range of spiritual and philosophical matters. "We talk about different philosophies on the phone for hours," says Arnold. "She mentions karma a lot, and reincarnation, and witchcraft and paganism and Buddhism. We always end up in these conversations about life in general and spiritual life in particular. Both of us have a fascination about spiritual life; we used to question each other and we still do. She'll phone me and say, 'What do you think about this, Stewart?' It always comes down to the spiritual questions in life, Man's place on the planet and what we're doing to it. The other thing that I talk about with Kate is The End of Days. Not Revelation, because neither of us believe in the Bible as such, but in terms of what Nostradamus was saying about 2012. The Hopi Indians, too. We're in for a global meltdown of some kind, the planet will change drastically in the next 10, 15 years. That's something Kate and I talk about quite a lot."

She mentions karma a lot

:/

Yeah, idek. That's from the Under the Ivy bio.

I would've lived on perfectly fine without knowing that tbh

Then why didn't she contribute ANY songs to the 2012 soundtrack?

Filter did.

I would've lived on perfectly fine without knowing that tbh

― Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, September 12, 2011 5:16 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

yes this news has shattered my image of kate bush as a level-headed empirical sort

lol fair play

Stephen Fry did some spoken word on this new album. Weird.

That's on the extra secret track, "General Ignorance"

'50 words for snow' is just the sort of boring subject I can imagine him jibbering on about tbh.

I'm sure he's already done a 50 point penalty for someone saying there were 50 words for snow in the Eskimo languge.

Although, looking at Wiki, it seems it's not exactly a fallacy as such: There's certainly a lot of words for Rain in the eng lang.

You see I'm preemptively bored of his appearance already.

Rolf Harris was successfully recontextualised though, so you never know.

Rolf has always been gangsta

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/rolf-harris/images/rolf-on-art-2001_01_446.jpg
"Can you tell what it is yet, muthafukaz?"

http://www.barrylou.com/art/favoriteMusic/rolfHarris.jpg

"Yeah, this album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me
I'd never amount to nothin', to all the people that lived in the bush
I was hustlin' in front of that called the police on
me when I was just tryin' to make some money to feed my daughters,
and all the niggaz in the struggle, you know what I'm sayin cobber'?

only just listening to Director's Cut, the "Deeper Understanding" rework is absolutely brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzqF_gBpS84

Don't think the video ever got posted

i see Robbie Coltrane's as good an actor as ever

Is the Deeper Understanding rework the one with the robot voice? I thought I was the only person in the world who liked that.

no i looked upthread, there's you, me and at least one other guy

made me want a whole album of autotuned Kate Bush tbh, but i think i might just be trolling

God, I hope you are NV!

Can't stand that autotune. She damn well steer clear of that on the new album... :-/

But what do we expect? Big changes, like from Never for Ever to The Dreaming or just a continuation of the sensual, laid back and smooth sound of Aerial and Director's Cut? It has been stated that the new one has been recorded at the same time as Director's Cut. Also, the tracks on the new one seem fairly long. All music, or minutes upon minutes of falling snow and the crunchy sound of people walking in it? I have to admit I'm a bit fearful.

i'm the other guy.
isn't the autotuned voice her son?

It's an old-fashioned vocoder rather than autotune, right?

I don't know what to expect Sebastian, but the prospect of 7 songs in 65 minutes makes me highly anticipate it!