why did i post Luv the cover completely out of the blue?
okay bump
― Surmounter, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
wow, they're all great songs.
i could almost go with 'sat in your lap'
but i'm not gonna.
NOT TILL I'M READY FOR YOU-HOO-HOOO
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
=)
― Surmounter, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
color me GAFFA
― The Macallan 18 Year, Thursday, 16 August 2007 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I would vote for "Hello Earth" as well ... then again I just voted for "All The Love"
― zaxxon25, Thursday, 16 August 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
oooh. well i'm on the HoL poll next
― Surmounter, Thursday, 16 August 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Good on you! Someone should do that.
― Bimble, Saturday, 18 August 2007 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
"sat on your lap" is my fave kate bush song
― Dominique, Saturday, 18 August 2007 04:17 (sixteen years ago) link
or in
― Dominique, Saturday, 18 August 2007 04:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Saturday, 18 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i love the lyrics to get out of my house.
― Surmounter, Saturday, 18 August 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
see the hackles on the cat - STANDING
― impudent harlot, Sunday, 19 August 2007 07:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Damnit the suspense is killing me with this poll.
― Bimble, Sunday, 19 August 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Sunday, 19 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
wow guyz. i do feel tho that night of the swallow and pull out the pin are underrepresented.
― Surmounter, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link
HoL poll question - should I include the bonus tracks? I haven't even heard them (Lagan Love etc), cuz they didn't come with my copy, so I'm thinking No.
― Surmounter, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
"Leave It Open" particularly hard done by.
This album ranked:
The Dreaming Leave it Open Night of the Swallow Suspended In Gaffa Pull Out The Pin Sat In Your Lap Get Out of My House All The Love There Goes A Tenner Houdini
― Tim F, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link
my choice wuz robbed! I am proud to represent.
― sleeve, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Voters were likely swayed by the presence of sampled donkey imitations.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I used to think Leave it Open was a weak spot, but I've fallen in love with her lithe and freaky glam vocal in the intro, totally perfect.
― Alex xy, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i agree with the top 3 :)
but yeah, for me its really hard to rank this album. i find it extremely even overall.
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 20 August 2007 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm glad I voted, or "Suspended in Gaffa" would have come in second!
― nabisco, Monday, 20 August 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
haha
suspended in Gaffa is so rich.
okay so i'm doing the HoL poll w/out bonus tracks then. speak now or forever hold it.
― Surmounter, Monday, 20 August 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
without is more pure. besides, i haven't heard the bonus tracks :(
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 20 August 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Interesting results indeed. I too would have picked Leave It Open last.
― Bimble, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 01:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm shocked by the "get out of my house" love ... who knew? I guess people love donkeys. Or maybe mules?
― zaxxon25, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
oh ya i suspected that would cinch it
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
they are just one of the 26 awesome things about that track
― blueski, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh go on then steve...
― Tim F, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i just love the whole message, cuz i TOTALLY feel the same way about my house, and i suspect ppl who listen to the dreaming a lot are the types of ppl whose
houses are full of mistakes
this house has seen all i have done. GET OUT OF MY HOUSE.
she takes no prisoners.
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
there are few things as empowering as telling someone to get out of your house.
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Now's about the time of day I like to change into the Mule.
― blueski, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
the 'I am the concierge chez-moi, honey' bit is particularly beautiful
― blueski, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
i know i can never resist chiming in with her there
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
it's funny cuz it's not obviously like an emotional song, but one day i was listening to it and i really got the emotional intensity of it - the intensity of what it is to be by yourself in your house.
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
thing i like abt "get out of my house" = the incredibly startling scream she lets out right before the male voice (ghost?) comes in
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
yay my fave tied for first and I didn't even vote
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i tend to associate this album w/ a time when i was feeling anxious (in a bad way) about lots of things so i still get this sort of knot in my stomach whenever i hear that track in particular
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost "get out of my house" i mean
suspended in gaffa fuiud
― cankles, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
well, it is definitely a disturbed track, so it's no surprise you've attached it to a disturbed frame of mind
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know why I'm crying
― Poll Wall (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 09:25 (fifteen years ago) link
― Surmounter, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:25 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
not really sure how i could ever say that "get out of my house" isn't an obviously emotional song...
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I never really stopped to think what that song might be about, but I guess like many songs, it could be a lot of things. I just love the breathless back-and-forth, barely controlled intensity of the way she sings on that, and it makes it fun to sing along. So dramatic.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
how did i miss this poll, what the hell
suspended in gaffa is easily in my top 3 songs all-thyme, right there with hunger strike and total eclipse of the heart
― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL Kate threads
― lucked up (lukas), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
one of my fav lines on the album : "if you go
i'll let the law know"
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
― cankles, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 1:34 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
oh, i DIDNT miss this thread
― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
A Hounds of Love poll would be much more high-stakes for me: i'd be shattered if I was the only person to vote for "Hello, Earth", but curiously uncomfortable if it won.
― Tim F, Friday, August 10, 2007 4:11 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this post made me LOL for some reaason
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
we are waiting
― Surmounter, Friday, 10 April 2009 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Suspended in Gaffa - which has one of the best internal monologues in any pop song ever
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 31 March 2017 21:07 (seven years ago) link
It's hard to say what I would have voted for, this is an incredibly strong album. Is it my favourite Kate LP, though? Nah, that would be Never For Ever.
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Friday, 31 March 2017 21:21 (seven years ago) link
It's tough but right now Leave it Open seems right.
things that decay things that rust
― JoeStork, Friday, 31 March 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
Houdini.
― Max Florian, Friday, 31 March 2017 22:41 (seven years ago) link
It feels wrong and crude to pick a favorite from this album, but I guess I'd go with "pull the pin" or the last track.
― a but (brimstead), Friday, 31 March 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link
Pull Out the Pin. Very easy choice. The album is a stunner, and it features probably the best use of the Farlight CMI ever
― beamish13, Friday, 31 March 2017 23:28 (seven years ago) link
I don't know if about best, but when it comes to albums where the Fairlight CMI played a huge role, then The Dreaming and Hounds of Love are definitely in there among the best examples.
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Friday, 31 March 2017 23:41 (seven years ago) link
This is impossible; LIO was robbed.
― chihuahuau, Saturday, 1 April 2017 09:13 (seven years ago) link
So Wild Beasts stole their entire Cockney-criminal art-pop schtick from "There Goes A Tenner," huh?
― goodoldneon, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
I am proud to have been the only vote for "Leave It Open"
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link