elllipsis

Because it's really nothing too revealing....
 
https://soundcloud.com/user47377559/tropico

I have an emotional attachment to Iggy's music :') <3 :')
 
 
 

Well, better one song than an entire career. *cough* AZEALIA *cough*
 
#SHOTSFIRED

suggestions are welcome!

 

 
 
 

She likes them rough tough strong and mean.

I fall asleep to them! hahaha. I was just listening to The Dreaming the other day. Still one of my favorite albums ever! I remember listening to Get Out of My House on the school bus every day when I was a teenager. I can't believe I've been listening to her that long!
 
My other favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBcDjeR_y7Q

Sat in Your Lap is SO good! So are There Goes a Tenner, The Dreaming, Night of the Swallow...okay, the whole thing is perfect! I would kill to see a Kate Bush concert!

Me too, sometimes!
 
 
 
 
I think my favourite one from The Dreaming is 'Sat in your lap'... But those 2 are definitely close favourites along with 'All The Love'!

Man, I can't tell you how happy I am to know that I'm not the only one who keeps interviews of some of my fave artists on my iPod!

Ahhhh I just found this thread!!!
 
 
ONE TRUE QUEEN.
 

 
 
Gosh, when did I first notice her? Well, I remember hearing Wuthering Heights when I was a child and being fascinated by those incredible high notes! Of course at the time I had no idea who she was... Much later, already in my late teens, I 'rediscovered' her via Pink Floyd. I'm a *HUGE* PF fan, and some of you may know that David Gilmour was basically the one who kickstarted her career when she was still 16 - he helped her record & paid for a 3-track demo, and Kate was eventually signed by EMI (which was also PF's label) soon after that.
 
As soon as I listened to the first album, I was sold!
My favourites are The Kick Inside, Lionheart and Hounds of Love. But her whole discography is flawless tbh, and I adored 50 Words for Snow!
 
@@deeth Really jealous of your tote bag!

I want us all to come together in this thread for our love of Bush!... Kate Bush, that is! Here we can discuss her career, successful highs, critical lows, her immaculate discography, post favourite photos/gifs and performances, discuss what's in the works for the future and just the all round grandiosely fabulousness of Ms Bush, her ethereal, passionate, original, electrifying music,that has always been so much more than that word can denote!
 
So firstly... when did you first notice this extraordinary woman? Was she always a presence growing up or did you discover her at a later age?
 
Or do you not have a clue who i'm jabbering on about?!
 

 
If that be the case... shame on you...
 
But let's all share the love!!

Sure she is, I think I didn't explain myself very well when I said that. What I mean is: while she's a huge artist that will sell out concerts pretty much anywhere (like any of the other 4 mentioned here), I get the impression that her status in the US is ridiculously untouchable: she's the perfect *everything* - the perfect star, the perfect performer, the perfect mother, the perfect wife, the perfect feminist; no one dares criticize her (not without receiving a lot of backlash anyway); and she & Jay Z are pretty much music's royal couple (a title that would imo belong to Kim & Kanye if she weren't utterly useless and so very unlikeable) and only second to the Obamas as far as powerful couples go. To me, that is absolutely crazy! Here she's a *huge* pop artist, but that's pretty much it.
 
About what I said re: lack of memorable songs -- I'm not a fan of either 5 & have never listened to a full album, so my knowledge of all of them is pretty much the same (= very limited). Yet off the top of my head I can easily think of 5 or 6 (if not more) Katy, Gaga, Rihanna and Britney songs respectively, and only 2 of Beyoncé's (Crazy In Love  - and Single Ladies, which I'd forgotten about in the previous post).
 
 
 

(read from the bottom up, like twitter)
 

Not that we can see.

I think Sirens is seriously underrated. It may not be as poetically articulate of an album, but there are so many beautiful songs from it. I love the simplicity, I love how it sounds like a beginner guitarist/songwriter. Hell, I disliked "Birds of a Feather" with a passion when I first heard it. Now I love it. There's so much to appreciate about Sirens. So much.

Christ, I feel the same way.
 
I think her discography is terribly overrated and overhyped, and her "saving grace" -- her ability to perform and put on a show -- really isn't all that great as it's been made out to be. She is NOT the female Michael Jackson, imo. While she is a great technical performer; hitting every mark, every note, carrying herself with the "perfect" amount of sass, etc, it all seems very calculated, and not at all genuine. Every move she makes seems so deliberate, the way she moves her body (not sure how to describe it, she's technically doing the moves correctly but doesn't move like an actual dancer), her voice, although brilliant, can be so affected in its delivery, portraying perfect amount of pain, the perfect amount of playfulness, the perfect amount of forcefulness. Perfect, perfect, perfect. I don't know. Her interactions with her fans and banter while on stage seem so insincere, right down to the way she smiles, throws her head back and laughs, and that single tear that falls as she looks off into the distance while performing something that "moves her". It's as though there's something kind of robotic that's holding her back. It's as though her fixation on her image and appearing a certain way transcends to the stage and effects her delivery. I just can't get into it, as much as I want to and as talented as she undoubtedly is. I've just never once gotten the impression that she gets truly lost in her performances. 
 
I feel like Britney at her peak, Freddie Mercury, two very different artists from one another -- are those on par with MJ for putting on a great fucking performance. Beyonce doesn't deserve to have her name mentioned in the same sentence as him. 
 
I touched a bit on her legendary, iconic status here. Basically, her team marketed her as a ~legend~ and ~iconic~; these were not bestowed upon her through the usual means of time passing and retrospection as they ought to be be. Funny how carefully worded press releases, demands for media outlets, and certain marketing can give someone a title and status that should only be earned in time and not as a hungry grab for a crown the public never set upon their head, if that makes any sense. 
 
ANYWAY, I said a lot more than I was meaning to and I only popped in here to mention a couple of op-ed pieces I feel hit the nail on the end in regards to both Beyonce's and Rihanna's career. The first touches on what @@elllipsis mentioned about her lack of notable songs despite her supposed status in music...
 
Beyonce: An Icon Who's Struggled to Make Iconic Music?
 
AND
 
Like She's the Only Girl in the World: The improbable, unstoppable success of Rihanna
  -- Choice quote:
          "Mariah, Whitney, Beyoncé, Gaga—these stars feel like stars. Rihanna feels like something else: a one hit-wonder several dozen times over."
 
(What is this accuracy? What a succinct way of putting it.) 

ALL MY ENVY.

Just got home, am a bit drunk.
 
Anyway, Arctic Monkeys put up a good show as per usual, but the acoustics really sucked (the guitars were drowned out & the bass was turned way up). I swear, 4 years ago Alex Turner was the shiest, most glum, shoegazer-tier rock performer I'd ever seen - and now he's a man of the people, a crowd pleaser. Bizarre. (Also bizarre: dude kept combing his hair back in the middle of the concert! Apparently, pompadours aren't concert-friendly.)
 
Beach House were very good too, but their show suffered from the same acoustics problem as AM's. Imo they're not a festival band anyway; their music befits small & intimate venues, not large Summer festivals. It was still very nice, and it was my first time seeing them live too. Oh, and Victoria looked so sexy in a leather jacket (idk how she managed to handle the heat tho?!!) & I adoooooooore her hair.
The Smashing Pumpkins aren't really my band but I enjoyed their concert way more than I'd expected tbh. Also, what kind of sexy bassist?!

Not that we can see.

Not that we can see.

She likes them rough tough strong and mean.

Not that we can see.