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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL Kate threads
― lucked up (lukas), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:00 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
we are waiting
― Surmounter, Friday, 10 April 2009 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
we got the job sussed
n this shop's shut for business
― Surmounter, Friday, 10 April 2009 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
the synths there are like a sea of questions.
(under "we are waiting")
― Surmounter, Friday, 10 April 2009 10:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, my buddy has decided he's totally in love with Kate on the basis of his recent discovery of Hounds of Love, but until he learns to appreciate this album he's not really a Kate fan at all in my book.
― To Float Away On A Lifelong Song (Bimble), Friday, 10 April 2009 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
still a fucked up album
― surm, Thursday, 27 March 2014 00:09 (ten 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
This is impossible; LIO was robbed.
― chihuahuau, Saturday, 1 April 2017 09:13 (six 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