You don't say. I said that in the context of my personal (hypocritical) red line. The attempted humor of that line clearly got lost.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
Yeah it definitely did. I thought u were saying kate bush was a varg type character which seemed ludicrous.
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 16:11 (five years ago) link
I like to think Kate Bush is reading this thread and it's made the whole thing worthwhile for her.
― Alba, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
Um, not cool to dox me
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
I wrote about how the price of gay acceptance in Kate's work is heterosexual pleasure: https://katebushsongs.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/kashka-from-baghdad/
― ballardiangorse, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
Oh. Followup: I also wrote about The Kick Inside. Next up is Wuthering Heights. https://katebushsongs.wordpress.com/2019/01/14/the-kick-inside/
― ballardiangorse, Monday, 14 January 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/kate-bush-announces-rarities-album-shares-rocket-man-cover-video-watch/?fbclid=IwAR234VxDYdjgIVRshsUkT3O6LcNUzb8Ud4G_K9hYwM_Gy501EGAIbYDBVYc
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 February 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
those are some short CDs!
― sold out in presale (sleeve), Friday, 22 February 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
That's pretty nice, we can snag the rarities if we don't want to shell out again for all the remastered albums from the box set... why does she hate Ken so much though?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 22 February 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
why does she hate Ken so much though?
Maybe just changed her mind about him over time?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 February 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
Maybe she'll include it on her upcoming disc of tracks she recorded for Fruitopia commercials
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 22 February 2019 22:39 (five years ago) link
if you mean "why isn't 'Ken' on her rarities sets," the rights are probably tangled up between Richardson and the BBC and Entertainment One and who knows who else
if you mean that she doesn't love Ken anymore, perhaps the reasons that he has been in the news the last 900,023 times are related.
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 22 February 2019 22:57 (five years ago) link
her song about Boris Johnson isn't nearly as good
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 22 February 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link
Wild Man?
― nashwan, Friday, 22 February 2019 23:07 (five years ago) link
If you like Room for the Life... well, sorry. https://katebushsongs.wordpress.com/2019/02/22/room-for-the-life/
― ballardiangorse, Saturday, 23 February 2019 01:01 (five years ago) link
Them Heavy People helped me in a soft spot. https://katebushsongs.wordpress.com/2019/02/28/them-heavy-people/ & http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/them-heavy-people/
― ballardiangorse, Thursday, 28 February 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
Realized I haven't updated here in a while, so... https://katebushsongs.wordpress.com/2019/05/10/symphony-in-blue/ & http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/symphony-in-blue/
― ballardiangorse, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
The Remastered CD Box Set Part 2 has dropped to $62 on Amazon US, that's tempting...
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
On "Wow." http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/wow/ and also at https://katebushsongs.wordpress.com/2019/06/07/wow/
― ballardiangorse, Saturday, 8 June 2019 00:36 (four years ago) link
(With apologies to anyone who's irritated by all the linking) Here's the Tour of Life. https://katebushsongs.wordpress.com/2019/06/28/the-tour-of-life/
― ballardiangorse, Friday, 28 June 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
Onto Never for Ever, starting w/ Egypt katebushsongs.wordpress.com/2019/07/05/egypt/ (somebody else talk about Kate. I feel like I'm spamming the thread.)
― ballardiangorse, Friday, 5 July 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Remasters of Lionheart, Never for Ever, The Red Shoes, Aerial, and 50 Words for Snow are finally available on Spotify now (not sure about other streaming services). In some cases they replaced the originals, in others they're doubled.
No idea if The Kick Inside, The Dreaming, Hounds of Love, and The Sensual World will soon join them.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Monday, 15 July 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
I've been listening to the re-done Red Shoes, I think I like it a bit more than the original. Or maybe I'm just coming around to the album regardless of mastering. The Aerial with whatshisname removed and replaced with someone else actually sounds worse to my ears.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 15 July 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
whatshisname removed and replaced with someone else
Wait what?
― octobeard, Monday, 15 July 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
Rolf Harris has a few voiceovers on the original Aerial but he turned out to be a pedophile so they removed his bits and replaced them with (I think) her son doing some narration instead. But it seems like the entire mix is slightly different to me... that could be my imagination though.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 15 July 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
They replaced Rolf Harris with Kate's son live vocals from Before the Dawn (he played the part of The Painter in the performance). So it's now a studio/live mash-up.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Monday, 15 July 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
i like bertie's voice more than Harris'.
― akm, Monday, 15 July 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
I've been listening to the re-done Red Shoes, I think I like it a bit more than the original. Or maybe I'm just coming around to the album regardless of mastering.
i listened to both last night and i almost prefer the director's cut version, but i think i have to replace 'lily' with the original version, something is lost in the new vox. i think i also prefer the orig 'rubberband girl.' but overall the sequencing and the addition/subtraction of tracks is an improvement.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 16 July 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
He's on The Dreaming as well, isn't he?
― fetter, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
yeah but just playing digideroo; could be anyone.
― akm, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
"i listened to both last night and i almost prefer the director's cut version, but i think i have to replace 'lily' with the original version, something is lost in the new vox. i think i also prefer the orig 'rubberband girl.' but overall the sequencing and the addition/subtraction of tracks is an improvement."
confused by this. You mean the versions of the songs on Director's Cut, or the version of Red Shoes that was released along with DC? Because the only difference there is that it was remastered. the versions on actual Director's Cut: that doesn't count as a new version of the album to me.
― akm, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
i thought of it as a reconfiguring of the red shoes since that's the album it has the most tracks in common with, but yeah i guess there was no real reason for me to think of it that way
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 16 July 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=MUSICOLOGY-ALL;e74bfbb1.1907
This Woman’s Work: A Kate Bush SymposiumThursday 12th - Friday 13th December 2019, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
Call for Papers
Over forty years into her career, Kate Bush continues to make significant contributions to various fields of culture. In recent months, her back catalogue has been re-released in remastered form, and a book of collected lyrics, How To Be Invisible, was published by Faber in 2018. The University of Edinburgh is pleased to announce that it will host a two-day symposium on Bush’s achievements. This event will mark and celebrate four decades of diverse productivity and offers a space for reflection on and discussion of this woman’s work. Despite her prolific creativity since the 1970s – covering the fields of music, film and video, literature, and performance – comparatively little scholarly work has been produced on Kate Bush. This symposium aims to start rectifying this omission: the organisers intend to produce an edited anthology collection developed from symposium proceedings.
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers, as well as pre-constituted panels of 2 or 3 papers, on any aspect of the career of Kate Bush. We also welcome more creative contributions in alternative presentation formats to the symposium.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
Oops that link got garbled. Try this one.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
confused by this. You mean the versions of the songs on Director's Cut, or the version of Red Shoes that was released along with DC? Because the only difference there is that it was remastered.
I think they used a backup analog master from the original recording sessions... so something more than remastered but not remixed either? It's for certain less compressed, which could be enough to explain the difference I'm hearing.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
oh yeah... the version of Red Shoes released along with Director's Cut is what I'm talking about it, which is likely the same version included on the new box sets.
Relieved Bush has taken Rolf Harris' voice off her albums. That alone justifies the remasters, although they're a welcome addition to her canon. Glad she doesn't have to do the same with Roy Harper as he's not on her albums.
Speaking of the bastard, https://katebushsongs.wordpress.com/2019/07/26/another-day/
― ballardiangorse, Friday, 26 July 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
(OK apparently Harper does backing vocals on Breathing. Never mind.)
― ballardiangorse, Friday, 26 July 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
before the dawn currently sits at 84 on metacritic and this causes me mild outrage.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 10 October 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
Such an irritatingly sanctimonious review on that Kate Bush blog above. Fortunately the kind Genesis blogger’s comment saves the day, only to be given the cold shoulder by the bitter moralist blog owner, whose further perspectives on Kate Bush music I won’t be in any rush to secure, that’s for sure.
I’m not relieved that Rolf Harris is erased from the newly remastered albums’ etiolated history because I liked his voice and the new versions are shit and the changes are done in a piss-poor manner. Also, I’m not relieved to know apparently Ballard was a sanctimonious moralist himself.
― Max Florian, Friday, 11 October 2019 07:43 (four years ago) link
I'm unsure what's sanctimonious about saying that child rape is bad. This seems like an uncontroversial view outside of Roy Harper and Jimmy Page fandoms.
It's also unclear what exactly themusicalfoxblog (who's not even a Genesis blogger - have you even looked at their site, which is devoid of blog posts?) salvaged when all they trotted out was a blustering and unconvincing case for Harper's innocence, the corollary of which is that guilty people are always convicted in court, and a frankly abominable claim that the safety of those accused of sexual assault is more paramount to justice than that of the victims. Try to find better touters for your argument, which consists of little more than "shhh, let people enjoy things."
It's also fucking hilarious of you to say you won't read the blog anymore after directly causing a spike in its traffic for the day. So thanks for the support. It's gained me readers. :)
― ballardiangorse, Friday, 11 October 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
before the dawn is very good?
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
very good indeed. much better than an 84.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 11 October 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
(shrug)
i was just wanting to revive this to big up before the dawn.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 11 October 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
wow I just discovered Christine's blog because of this post. Looking forward to digging into it more, I like all the posts I just read.
― akm, Friday, 11 October 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
Well, good for you Christine. I wish I cared for my superpower of spiking up your traffic as much as you do.
Moving on, I wish I liked Before the Dawn. The arrangements that sound like a 1986-87 Peter Gabriel tour, the boomy bass-heavy mastering she favours these days... I'll continue trying to like it from time to time, but I'm afraid the Kate I love stops at The Red Shoes (very much included!) with just some songs off Aerial, plus the entire 50 Words for Snow.
― Max Florian, Friday, 11 October 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
continuing to enjoy the Bush blog, ballardiangorse
― omar little, Friday, 11 October 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
with just some songs off Aerial, plus the entire 50 Words for Snow
this is a backwards opinion
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
they are both great
― akm, Friday, 11 October 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
i'm not a massive fan of the mix on BTD either but it's not bad