Best song on Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love

it was the 1st song i heard on my own, like apart from my mom. but dude you need to listen to the title track.

uh, or CLOUDBUSTING

tiarnan you need to listen to cloudbusting now.

I can't I'm listening to Royal Trux and nothing is gonna tear me away!

ok i'll listen to it :D

you know what you should do, is burn me a copy of Tusk and mail it to me. that'd be fun for you!

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there's something so irresistibly blatant about that comment!

ramzi, whaaa? i've always loved this album! i just hadn't heard any other kate bush albums!

whew!

ur like my yoyo
that glows in the dark

now cloudbusting was definitely the first song that blew my mind

the strings in the 2nd verse are perfect

i wake up to the sound
of engines

wait, you haven't heard Tusk?

I keep telling him!

oh god people on the Kate Bush thread that haven't heard TUSK. Oh my god please go to your own corner and get the CD fast.

Surmounter, I don't know what to do with a "best song off Hounds of Love" thread. Sorry. But waking up to the fucking sound of engines is a damn good place to start!

Wish I had my radio...

Dammit ramz, send me your goddamn address then and we'll sort this out once and for all!!!

i will! :D

: P

ooh you're a meanie! Ramz! Conversing over email with people who aren't me! The nerve! hahahah

WISH I HAD MY RADIO

I don't have any words to describe the second side of this LP.

Side Two.

What a fucking perfect record.

even the songs that got no votes are totally awesome!

Ha, so true.

I listened to Morning Fog this sunny cold morning. Perfect.

I'm a Kate Bush newbie, but I've been totally obsessed with this album recently, so so great. Had I voted I'd probably go for "Cloudbusting" or "Running Up That Hill" because I am a newbie, but holy shit the coda of "Cloudbusting", the vocals, so majestic. The 12" mix of "Running Up That Hill" on the remastered album is fabulous too. I also love "Jig of Life" and "The Morning Fog". One off the way comment: Sinead's "Troy" makes more sense to me having heard this album; it has a bit more context, instead of being this "holy shit where did something this awesome come from?" song that it's been for me for 20 years.

Didn't we have a thread about which album was best for newbies? I thought we did, but I can't find it. Anyway, I recently lent my friend my CD of The Dreaming because he wanted to try her music out (he picked it from my stacks, not me). Well of course, he didn't like it (I tried to warn him as to the uh...odd nature of that fantastic album), so I sent him home with Hounds instead. We'll see how that works out.

Supposedly The Church are covering the song "Hounds of Love" on an EP coming out soon called "The Coffee Hounds EP". Well it was supposed to be out in February anyway...

Ha! The first Kate I heard was also "The Dreaming," which I borrowed from a friend because of the "recommended if you like Peter Gabriel" comparisons. I returned it with the comment "I don't really get this, but I have a feeling that in a year or two I'm going to love it." Which was exactly true.

Well I seem to remember meeting a boy one night when I was a teenager who only knew The Dreaming. We ended up doing some pretty freaky drugs and looking at the stars, and then I never saw him again. But he was totally crazy about The Dreaming. Go figure.

I have The Dreaming too and I'll give it a listen. A while back I got a bunch of Kate Bush (thanks, lala!) but haven't gotten around to listening to most of it. But Hounds of Love continues to blow me away so I guess it will soon be time to venture further into her oeuvre (but not yet, I am luxuriating in Hounds of Love for the indefinite future).

The Dreaming is ALMOST as good imho.

albums where the experimental side eclipses even the marvellous pop side #1

Well, my friend said that when he heard "Hello Earth", that did it for him. So we've got another convert folks!

don't think i voted 'Hello Earth' in this but would do now

Pinnacle of recorded music.

do you (or anyone for that matter) have any other recordings of the Georgian folk song it uses?

i have that Hamlet CD people told me to get -- Hamlet Gonashvili -- which has the song

it's very pretty

She said come on, let me live girl

where on your palm is my little line

SHE SAID COME ON LET ME LIVE, GIRL

i've been watching her old interviews all day, i like the one with desmond morris and the one on the kids show best although the cooking show one is great too. ah, youtube.

No album can beat the opening two tracks on this

Everytime I hear "Running Up That Hill" I snap into "omg best song evar!" mode

do you (or anyone for that matter) have any other recordings of the Georgian folk song it uses?

upthread here: Best song on Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love

still haven't bought the original recording on melodiya, but if 'Hello Earth' is your favorite track, you definitely want to buy yourself a copy of that Hamlet CD. I've listened to it a lot the last year.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/oct/11/popandrock

thanks for that link jl.

One of those rare albums in which pretty much every track is a contender. As such, I'm surprised that the poll results are so lopsided. I voted for the title track, as that bridge-to-chorus never fails to give me the blissful spine-chills.

i don't think i voted in this. "hello earth" might be my favorite, but it's also demanding listening, so when it comes on itunes random play, i sometimes skip past it.

it was used so wonderfully in that one miami vice episode.

i love demanding listening btw, i just need to make sure i can commit the time/attention to be able to hang with it. which is hard when i'm in the middle of running errands or whatever.