Kate Bush

[tommie]

General Kate Bush discussion thread

Well, seeing as the woman only seems to do one album per decade these days I might as well start the thread here.

Anyway - she's a genius and Hounds of Love will forever remain one of the most important pop albums ever made. Agreed?

 

[xolondon]

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Yes! ;)

I am not sure what else to say!

 

[Ordon]

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What happened to the Complete Story greatest hits collection that was listed in the release schedule for release last November? I was hoping for a couple of new tracks.

Oh well. Not long now til 2017 and Kate's next album.

 

[Jackie Tyler]

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I lost a little bit of love for her over "Aerial". Not only did I find the album rather dull but the releuctance to promote if even in as much as releasing a second single really annoyed me. No one was asking for a 100 date stadium tour but surely one TV interview and a day shooting a second video wouldn't have ruined little Bertie's childhood?

The lack of DVDs and re-issued albums is another annoyance.

 

[youcanbuymewithonedrink]

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1. My auntie's best friend used to run her fanclub. I'm not sure if it's still the case. I think it's a good reason to re-establish links with my long lost relatives (who live a few miles away in Kent)

2. Wuthering Heights on karaoke goes down in history as one of the best performances I have ever seen. And it wasn't me performing, it was some Jewish guy.

3. When I worked at Butlins I came to be know as 'Kate' due to my unusual (drunken) dance style. I got quite famous.

 

[Former member 330]

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I was expected a huge EMI campaign after Ariel... a new singles colelction, DVD, remastered re-issues... it's not like them to miss the opportunety. I wonder how much power Kate has with her back catalogue? We so need a decent singles collection now... c'mon Kate! Oh, and Ariel is mad genius. I love it. A great album. Wipes the floor with The Red Shoes.

 

[jimbob1311]

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What would people put on a Best Of. If it was a 20 track bets of, mine would be (in chronological order)

Wuthering Heights
Man With The Child In His Eyes
Oh To Be In Love
Wow
Hammer Horror
Babooshka
Army Dreamers
Breathing
Sat In Your Lap
Runnign Up That Hill
Hounds of Love
Big Sky
Cloudbusting
Be Kind To My Mistakes
Sensual World
Love & Anger
This Woman's Work
Rubberband Girl
Moments of Pleasure
King of the Mountain
How To Be Invisible
King of the Mountain
How To be Invisible
Joanni

 

[jsd]

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Well, seeing as the woman only seems to do one album per decade these days I might as well start the thread here.

Anyway - she's a genius and Hounds of Love will forever remain one of the most important pop albums ever made. Agreed?

Yep, although I think I have slight preference for The Dreaming. Hard to believe that album is almost 25 years old.

 

[peppermintpig]

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Anyone heard the (slightly disturbing) rumour that Kate Bush is going to do Eurovision for us Brits this year, now that Morrissey`s decided not to?

I`ve been trying to find stuff out, and there`s nowt. Not very likely, is it? Just imagine though..... *smiles wistfully*

 

[RHOPJ]

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I loved Experiment IV so much I recited the lyrics at The Bakery (it was a festival for all the best new arty talent in Scotland) and did a little Kate jig. It led to an onstage discussion about how slimmer Dawn French looked in the video and how young House was in it.

Arty!


Seriously though, it is an amazing song.

 

[xolondon]

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Anyone heard the (slightly disturbing) rumour that Kate Bush is going to do Eurovision for us Brits this year, now that Morrissey`s decided not to?

I`ve been trying to find stuff out, and there`s nowt. Not very likely, is it? Just imagine though..... *smiles wistfully*

No, it's not happening!

 

[Victor Fairbanks]

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Kate Bush's Aerial is like Splenda, totally sacharrine, without the biting rot of real sugar. When people self indulgently start singing about their kids, they're goners.

 

[jsd]

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Kate Bush's Aerial is like Splenda, totally sacharrine, without the biting rot of real sugar. When people self indulgently start singing about their kids, they're goners.

I probably would have felt that way before I had a child of my own. However, I am a Dad and I think "Bertie" is fantastic. Anyway it's only 5 minutes out of a 2 hr album. "Aerial" is pretty fantastic, all things considered. (12 year absence, last two albums not really that great anyway...)

 

[undisco_me]

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Well I don't have a kid and I still manage to love Bertie: it's like saying you have to be anorexic or bullimic to really "get" Geri Halliwell.

My absolute favourites from the album are An Architect's Dream and Nocturn. When Kate gushes "it's just great" on the former I can't help but smile, she sings it as it is.

 

[tommie]

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I love the trio of Somewhere In Between/Nocturn/Aerial on the Sky part.

The Sea part of the album is okay, but soundwise it reminds me a bit too much of The Red Shoes.

 

[SeedySmith]

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'Nocturn' is fucking amazing. In my top three Kate songs, easily. The way it builds from nothing into the most incredible... noise.

Spellbinding.

 

[aethyrsprite]

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Well, seeing as the woman only seems to do one album per decade these days I might as well start the thread here.

Anyway - she's a genius and Hounds of Love will forever remain one of the most important pop albums ever made. Agreed?

Yep, although I think I have slight preference for The Dreaming. Hard to believe that album is almost 25 years old.

That was my first reaction as well -perhaps because i think that it is a very underestimated (practically unknown) album.
On the other hand, i also think thet Hounds of Love is more 'ballanced': the wild achievements of Dreaming are incorporated in a more 'humane', "Never For Ever"-like form. A fantastic feature in the 'Hounds...' expressive archtecture is that it is in fact two albums: note the radical difference berween side A and B of the LP -and the fact that she gave each a seperate title ('Hounds of Love', 'The Ninth Wave' -with the latter, the dark side, being clearly superior in my opinion).
This said, 'my favourite KB album' is an impossible question: 'Dreaming', 'Hounds of Love' or 'Kick Inside' -depends what side i get out of bed. And 'Lionheart', 'Never Forever' are fantastic ass well.

As for Aerial, it is definately her best album since the 'Hounds'. Totally amazing (except 'Bertie', i must confess).

 

[aethyrsprite]

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I lost a little bit of love for her over "Aerial". Not only did I find the album rather dull but the releuctance to promote if even in as much as releasing a second single really annoyed me. No one was asking for a 100 date stadium tour but surely one TV interview and a day shooting a second video wouldn't have ruined little Bertie's childhood?

The lack of DVDs and re-issued albums is another annoyance.

If you think the album was dull, whouldn't you be more annoyed if on top of that she was trying to push it?
Anyway, let's see the facts: she had not released an album for 12 years; before that (from 'Sensual World' to 'Red Shoes') she took another 7 or 8; and before (from 'Hounds of Love' to 'Sensual World') another 7. She has not done a single gig since 1982.
So please, don't take the complete lack of promo-work as snobbism addressed to you personally, nor as anything to do with the child. The first thing you come to know about KB is that she is PATHOLOGICALLY LAZY -and you take it from there.

 

[undisco_me]

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Anyway, let's see the facts: she had not released an album for 12 years; before that (from 'Sensual World' to 'Red Shoes') she took another 7 or 8; and before (from 'Hounds of Love' to 'Sensual World') another 7. She has not done a single gig since 1982.

1985 - Hounds of Love

1989 - The Sensual World

1993 - The Red Shoes

Where are these 7 year gaps?

And I know she did a mini-gig in 1987 performing Running Up That Hill and a cover of Let It Be.

 

[aethyrsprite]

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sorry! Grave dislexia, especially as i was posting late at night without having the records before me.

Still, 4 year gaps; and one (alleged) gig in over 20 years do not exactly argue against the 'pathological lazyness' thesis, do they?