Anyone recall a Kate Bush clone from a different language who had a video of herself ice skating or dancing?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
http://www.nomorebloodfromaclone.com/2017/04/following-in-footsteps-kate-bush.htmlhttp://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=67577
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
That Happy Rhodes song has really similar vocals but the one I was thinking of was totally trying to copy the whole thing
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
The best Kate Bush song that isn’t Kate Bush is probably “Stay” by Shakespeare’s Sister if not Tori Amos’s “Past The Mission.”
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
It wasn’t until I saw him talking on some Kate Bush doc that I took notice of her influence on Brett Anderson of Suede, specifically their ballads and such
― brimstead, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
something line “the living dead” or “the next life”, idk I’m probably reaching
― brimstead, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
Not at all. Brett indeed fully copped to the connection back in 93/94 interviews, almost singularly among dudes at that time.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
I always thought this Bat for Lashes song was super Bush-y:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEyWX6yspOM
Also, at least to my ears this song I heard today from these MOR dorks Bob Moses sounded like they had definitely been listening to "Running:"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OutlyuZFOWM
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
The last FKA Twigs album was very Bush-y. Dawn Richard has made some pretty explicit nods too.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link
Would a Bush head possibly enjoy Slapp Happy / Dagmar K.?
― Creature Catcher (Live) (morrisp), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 22:55 (one year ago) link
Informative mix re: Kate Bush -> Happy Rhodes -> etc. continuum (apologies to non-streamers): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ejysudtZL4OjEz8GMCmef?si=780af14b7ac84e0d
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
Kate speaks again!
Kate has posted yet again on her official site as the chart excitement just continues to mount. She sounds very excited. Us too, Kate! pic.twitter.com/vOyFHYidWl— katebushnews.com (@katebushnews) June 15, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
I always thought this track from Hopes and Fears by Art Bears was the closest thing to her that I'd ever heard. It's just a coincidence, though, because "Wuthering Heights" was issued while they were in the middle of recording the album, and the song was written beforehand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsPXDtB9oyo
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link
iirc young Kate professed a love for Robert Wyatt, claiming "Rock Bottom" as one of her desert island discs
Joanna Newsom was the Henry Cow fan
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 02:16 (one year ago) link
Am I reading it right? She’s #1 at the global billboard charts.
Also apparently the UK charts have weird rules against older songs getting penalized to avoid old songs climbing back (or for the first time) and RUTH had twice the plays they were allowing and was actually #1 quite some days ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61797012.amp
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link
yes, she is #1 on the billboard's global chart (which, it should be said, doesn't include airplay, b/c they don't monitor airplay globally)
in the us, the currents-based formats leading the way on adding it are adult contemporary and alternative (tho, tbh, both formats lean heavily on non-current music these days anyway). but it seems quite a few mainstream pop stations are starting to give it a try too -- and perhaps the classic hits stations, which are barely any different from adult contemporary anyhow, will start to add it in now. overall it is primarily a streaming/sales hit.
(the fairly faithful meg myers cover went to #1 at the alternative format a couple years back, so it's no surprise they are jumping on the original now)
― dyl, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link
It's very charming how excited she is about having a huge hit record, especially at the possibility that it may go to #1. It's like no matter what you do in rock n' roll, whether it's pop music, art rock whatever, having their very first #1 record (especially in a huge market like the U.S.) can still have that effect on anybody who attains it.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 05:50 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=515fqvIAGyg
I always thought this sounded stylistically like Kate Bush
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 08:23 (one year ago) link
Akiko Yano may be Japan's closest KB analogue.
Their careers more or less started at the same time too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHDUZMjnvs8
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 08:29 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7eF0q0eRyc
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 09:00 (one year ago) link
Dammit. Let's try this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci7PL3n9hu8
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 09:01 (one year ago) link
Some nice selections there! This is something that reminds me of Kate Bush in the arrangements (for parts of the song at least - and especially the fretless bass):
The Aldeberts - (Modaji) Mandarin Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDV2ZO0xDI8
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
Definitely get frequent Kate Bush vibes from early Kumiko Suyama, especially on this LP from 1986, which also gets a little chanson français at moments...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUOJ7Ykquvo
― atonar, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link
I guess I was probably thinking of Virjinia Glück after all
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
Rosalía’s “G3 N15” gives me “This Woman’s Work” vibes, a very rare thing to happen:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlNtBPvPUTM
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
Best KB cover right here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZjhMDPzlfs
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 16 June 2022 04:46 (one year ago) link
classical/functional rules of harmonic progression (which most Tin Pan Alley/Jazz Age-era pop music does), where predominant progresses to dominant to tonic with an authentic cadence etc
JRN, thinking back on this, I realized this may not have been clear - basically, broadly, in 18th and 19th century classical music, there is a kind of shared language where chords follow a certain syntax where every chord in a key is assigned a particular role (function) in a progression, like words have different grammatical functions, so there are tonic chords like I that connote stability and rest at beginnings and ends of phrases, dominant chords like V that connote tension and anticipation and seek resolution to I, and predominant chords like ii and IV that build towards dominant from tonic, and progressions move in a certain direction from one to the other; other chords can substitute for these, there are ways to prolong or elaborate on the various parts of a progression. Tin Pan Alley era pop still follows these rules for the most part a lot of the time but a lot of rock and contemporary pop doesn't, exactly, even when it uses these chords (though there is plenty that does!).
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 16 June 2022 11:28 (one year ago) link
Was this posted?
Every electronic festival for the next month. pic.twitter.com/TtYRAZTHma— Phantoms (@phantoms) June 14, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 June 2022 12:31 (one year ago) link
Just popping in to mention the name of a team in a pub quiz I go to: Kate Bush Did 9/11
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 June 2022 12:33 (one year ago) link
I beg to differ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So2SGCMztf8
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 June 2022 12:36 (one year ago) link
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/PeriodicCoolGecko-size_restricted.gif
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 June 2022 12:45 (one year ago) link
Not the best, but good and unexpected:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6cuWvLntLY
― birdistheword, Thursday, 16 June 2022 14:11 (one year ago) link
(though I guess technically it's Peter Gabriel but still, it was a surprise...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOmZLA4_LtU
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 17 June 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2QPkvvrRSQ
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 17 June 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link
I was talking to one of my kids about Kate Bush tonight, and for a brief few moments she was actually receptive. We watched some videos and stuff, and then I got to "Don't Give Up," and man, the comments here just wrecked me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjEq-r2agqc
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2022 02:00 (one year ago) link
Pretty damn intense stories in those comments.
― birdistheword, Friday, 17 June 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
the world needs to hear this song, because of the Covid 19 pandemic still going on, the war in The Ukraine, the back to back mass shootings, most recently, the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. I can’t help but to mention, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock in the face at the Oscar Awards. When will all this violence, anger and hate ever end? 😪🙏
― bule bulak oying (cat), Friday, 17 June 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
snot emoji applause, indeed
― bule bulak oying (cat), Friday, 17 June 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
Not a cover but this thread reminds me of that song that gave me Bush feels : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1Wevfw_Nxk
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 17 June 2022 04:55 (one year ago) link
Yeah mid-period Lorde is a good RIYL KB now that I think about it.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 17 June 2022 05:09 (one year ago) link
I bet teenage Kate was a big Linda Lewis fan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Sn1Dwi0Fk
― fetter, Friday, 17 June 2022 07:36 (one year ago) link
not sure if anyone has mentioned Virginia Astley as a RIYL KB,
was daydreaming about them doing a joint album of pastoral English folk pop recently.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 17 June 2022 09:30 (one year ago) link
Kate Bush set to make pop history today - by becoming the act with the longest gap between UK number ones. Her 44 year wait, will beat Tom Jones’ 42+ year record!1978: Wuthering Heights 2022: Running Up That Hill1966: Green Grass of Home 2009: (Barry) Islands in the Stream.— Sue Charles (@Sue_Charles) June 17, 2022
― groovypanda, Friday, 17 June 2022 10:11 (one year ago) link
I'm certainly not annoyed by this, I think it's great!
― Noel Emits, Friday, 17 June 2022 13:35 (one year ago) link
the best. i can't wait for the next update on how thrilled she is.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 17 June 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
is a US #1 in the cards?
I'm not sure - I read that they've changed the rules a bit to allow this to happen (I think as a result of realising the rules were flawed to begin with) and I think much as it's good to see RUTH at number one and the rules make more sense, I also think the tinkering with the charts of the past ~15 years has kinda devalued the achievement. I think this specific rule change will make for an even more static and unevolving rundown every week, even if nobody is paying attention the way they were when I was growing up.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 17 June 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
probably not, sadly. it's showing remarkable longevity in its streaming strength for the type of hit it is, but the us charts are based also in large part on airplay, and harry styles and jack harlow are far ahead in that department while also being still-strong streamers. lizzo's song is also in the midst of making huge gains in airplay while also streaming well. the fact that kate looked like a strong challenger for the top 3 with #1 not being totally out of the question despite that disadvantage is absolutely astonishing. i guess there is an outsize chance it could see yet another surge after the rest of the stranger things season drops in a few weeks, and i suppose its airplay will be a little better by then (radio in the us is remarkably slow + this is obviously a bit of a left-field choice for pop stations), but who knows
― dyl, Friday, 17 June 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
drake also dropped a new album and that usually means the top three songs are drake
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 June 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link