Kate Bush

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An absolute tour de force of storytelling and atmosphere:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAvraxlQcFw

 

Oh, Kate. You were the love of my life at 14. I remember being on the school bus every afternoon and playing Get Out of My House on repeat. It spoke so clearly to alienated, outsider goth boy me. It still does! I still can't believe she spoiled us with two records last year. She made one of my dreams come true by finally re-recording The Sensual World with Molly Bloom's soliloquy. She also managed to make The Red Shoes more tolerable for me! The new Moments of Pleasure makes me cry like a little bitch. Now, if only she'd do some shows before she dies, I would gladly spend all my money to go to the UK to see her. Please, Kate, pleeeease?

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Ugh, the Dreaming is AMAZING. I love the shift from Pull Out the Pin to Suspended in Gaffa, it highlights just what you're talking about!! And Houdini is so beautiful! "wiiiith a kiiiisss I pass the key"

 

"And feel your tongue

 

Teasing and receiving...

 

 

With your spit

 

Still on my lip,

 

You hit the WAATEEERRRRRR!!!"

 

 

All the Love is a highlight for me. It's just stunning, and mournful, and one of her most personal I feel, That young male vocalist <3 <3 <3

 

Oh, Kate. You were the love of my life at 14. I remember being on the school bus every afternoon and playing Get Out of My House on repeat. It spoke so clearly to alienated, outsider goth boy me. It still does! I still can't believe she spoiled us with two records last year. She made one of my dreams come true by finally re-recording The Sensual World with Molly Bloom's soliloquy. She also managed to make The Red Shoes more tolerable for me! The new Moments of Pleasure makes me cry like a little bitch. Now, if only she'd do some shows before she dies, I would gladly spend all my money to go to the UK to see her. Please, Kate, pleeeease?

 

Arghhhh! Get Out of My House was my anthem too! I used to play it full blast with the windows wide open haha! No one dared enter

 

"I will not let you in!

 

Don't you bring back the reveries

 

I turn into a bird,

 

Carry further than the word is heard"

 

 

We most definitely have been spoilt recently! I know what you mean regarding Moments of Pleasure. I feel the same about the new Woman's Work. The original was harrowing enough, but while it reveled in it's intense melodrama, the new version evokes a deeper resonance through it's subtlety. It's fair to say I've cried playing it... on the bus!

 

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What's your favorite track(s) on each album?!

Kick Inside- The Kick Inside (the melody ) "I will come home again, but not until the sun and the moon meet on yon hill"/Feel It/Oh To Be In Love

Lionheart- Kashka From Baghdad/In the Warm Room

Never For Ever- Delius/Army Dreamers

Dreaming- Suspended in Gaffa/Houdini/Get Out of My House

Hounds of Love/The Ninth Wave-Hounds of Love/Morning Fog/And Dream of Sheep/Running Up That Hill

Sensual World- The Sensual World/Deeper Understanding

Red Shoes (I actually love this album, don't fully get the hate)- Red Shoes/You're the One/Moments of Pleasure

Aerial- Pi/Joanni/How To Be Invisible/Aerial/Mrs. Bartolozzi

Director's Cut- Lily/Song of Solomon (the best change, I LOVE this version)/This Woman's Work

50 Words for Snow- Wild Man

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Arghhhh! Get Out of My House was my anthem too! I used to play it full blast with the windows wide open haha! No one dared enter

 

We most definitely have been spoilt recently! I know what you mean regarding Moments of Pleasure. I feel the same about the new Woman's Work. The original was harrowing enough, but while it reveled in it's intense melodrama, the new version evokes a deeper resonance through it's subtlety. It's fair to say I've cried playing it... on the bus!

I used to rage around my room screaming, "NO STRANGER'S FEET SHALL ENTER MEEEEEEEEEEEEE."

 

Oh, yes, that one too! I was hysterical the first time I heard it. I love how both are taken to a much more subtle, sombre place than the originals. Moments of Pleasure is almost funereal. I do miss the, "Just being alive, it can really hurt," lyric from the original, but I can't listen to it very often because I don't like the string arrangement at all.

 

The Kick Inside: Feel It/James and the Cold Gun

Lionheart: Fullhouse/Coffee Homeground/Kashka

Never For Ever (this one is tough because it's one of my favorites): Army Dreamers/The Wedding List/Breathing/Babooshka

The Dreaming (REMASTER IT, FFS): Get Out of My House/Sat In Your Lap/Pull Out the Pin

Hounds of Love: Running Up That Hill/Cloudbusting/And Dream of Sheep/Watching You Without Me

Sensual World: TSW/The Fog

Red Shoes: And So Is Love

Aerial: A Coral Room/Aerial

Director's Cut: Lily/Moments of Pleasure/Song of Solomon

50 Words For Snow: Misty

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PFFFFFFT Bush lovers.

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Oh so hard to pick a favourite!

 

 

The Kick Inside - James and the Cold Gun (Those highs notes! I just manage to pull it off...)/Man with the Child in His Eyes/Moving

Lionheart - Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake/In The Warm Room (absolutely stunning!)

Never For Ever - Everything from The Wedding List to Breathing - just pure perfection. I've yet to skip a single track!

The Dreaming - Sat in Your Lap/Get Out of My House/All the Love/Leave It Open/Suspended in Gaffa - the whole album actually. Her Masterpiece!

Hounds of Love - this is always changing but for now these are my faves - Hounds of Love/Cloudbusting/Hello Earth/Jig of Life/Under the Ivy

The Sensual World - This Woman's Work/The Sensual World

The Red Shoes - And So is Love

Aerial - King of the Mountain/Aerial

Director's Cut - This Woman's Work

50 Words For Snow - Snowflake (my bedtime tune )

 

And, yes The Dreaming needs a top notch remastering! as Kate would say... The thought of it sends me shivering!

 

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PFFFFFFT Bush lovers.

 

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Arrgggghhhhhhhh! Love it!!!

Have you seen this interview made before The Dreaming? She talks about her ideas and gives the kids some of the props and costumesvfrom the Sat in Your Lap video! Lucky bastards!!

 

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^Yes! I love that. I also have a pretty lengthy interview from that time on my iPod, as well as one from the Hounds of Love era. I just love listening to her speak!

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She is the essence of elegance and womanhood when interviewed! She captivates!! And oozes sensuality.

 

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She has the most lovely, stilted speaking voice and yet she can wail at the top of her lungs when she's singing!

 

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I got this today and it brings me infinite amounts of joy.

 

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I got this today and it brings me infinite amounts of joy.

 

SO JEALOUS.

 

PS OMG Joanna looks so pretty in your avatar!

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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!

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^Yes! I love that. I also have a pretty lengthy interview from that time on my iPod, as well as one from the Hounds of Love era. I just love listening to her speak!

 

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!

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I really don't know much about her, but I remember Gaga did a cover of this really beautiful song as a tribute to her.

 

http://youtu.be/_KZjvlKjeXI

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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!

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

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I fall asleep to them! hahaha.

 

Me too, sometimes!

 

Mostly to those of Julian Casablancas. :$

 

 

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

 

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'!

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Me too, sometimes!

 

Mostly to those of Julian Casablancas. :$

 

 

 

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'!

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!