I said I'd vote for "Hello Earth" and that's what I'm a gonna do!
― zaxxon25, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
word!
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
The Ninth Wave is the shit!
― butchy, Thursday, 23 August 2007 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
oh don't ruin it
― cutty, Thursday, 23 August 2007 00:42 (sixteen years ago) link
but am totally surprised by the fact that most people haven't chosen 'running up that hill.' i thought that would be the obvious winner!
I'm pretty sure it is when we get to see what all the lurkers have voted for.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 23 August 2007 10:12 (sixteen years ago) link
hmmmm
― Surmounter, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Running up That Hill is the most dull song on the entire album for me. Whenever I listen to Hounds, I start at track 3.
― butchy, Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i really hate you
― cutty, Thursday, 23 August 2007 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't hate you but that is unfortunate. those first three songs are pretty magical.
hounds of love in particular - or the end of Big Sky? nothin gets me movin like that.
― Surmounter, Thursday, 23 August 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
you don't hate anyone, you are sir mounter
― cutty, Thursday, 23 August 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i was going to say i don't hate anyone but then i thought of a couple of ppl
― Surmounter, Thursday, 23 August 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean, I like the first side too, but the songs sound a bit too much like each other. Plus those drum machine beats are kind of annoying.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 23 August 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
RONG
― cutty, Thursday, 23 August 2007 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I feel a bit prejudiced, because some songs have just aged more over time than others. If you'd asked me in 1985 or even in the 90's I would have said something different than today.
For me "The Morning Fog" is the one that has endured the most. Go figure.
― Bimble, Thursday, 23 August 2007 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i can do without the jig of life
― cutty, Friday, 24 August 2007 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I can now, but for a billion years that was my fave song on this album. So you're making a bold statement, there.
― Bimble, Friday, 24 August 2007 01:57 (sixteen years ago) link
certainly far from the worst on this album
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 24 August 2007 01:58 (sixteen years ago) link
wow.
jig of life = exclusion and The Morning Fog = best are 2 ideas that i just can't wrap my mind around.
Obv, the most classically amazing song is fucking Hello Earth, and the song the album could do without is The Morning Fog.
i'm sorry bimble. but jig of life, i must agree, is more than can be hoped for.
― Surmounter, Friday, 24 August 2007 03:25 (sixteen years ago) link
The Morning Fog is the perfect song to finish the album with; especially after Hello Earth.
― butchy, Friday, 24 August 2007 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
its true its a good contrast tool
― Surmounter, Friday, 24 August 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't dislike jig of life. i just could take it or leave it. too medieval times for me--i do like the guy talking at the end, that is funny
― cutty, Friday, 24 August 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
hilarious
― Surmounter, Friday, 24 August 2007 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Cutty what about "I put this moment.... here. I put this moment..... here. I put thos moment..... OVER HERE!!!!"
― Tim F, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
that's right before the guy start talking isn't it? love it
― cutty, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I love me some medieval shit. I mean that's kinda why Bertie works doesn't it?
― Bimble, Saturday, 25 August 2007 02:23 (sixteen years ago) link
ya
― Surmounter, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
"waking the witch" deserves respect here too. it's ridiculous, but also great.
― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
oh def
a highlight, even
― Surmounter, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
really, this title track is so wonderful.
― Surmounter, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i have a hard time disaggregating the ninth wave into individual tracks
SRSLY
Surmounter, I'm note sure if "The Morning Fog" is the best track on Hounds, but it's almost certainly among the finest coming-down tracks of all time.
― rogermexico., Monday, 27 August 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
After careful deliberation, I'm voting "The Big Sky" - the scream on the fade puts it over the top by a hair.
― rogermexico., Monday, 27 August 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
but it's almost certainly among the finest coming-down tracks of all time.
yes i know exactly what u mean!
― Surmounter, Monday, 27 August 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
"Hounds of Love" is my favourite song she's done by a huge, huge margin. That's not to say that the rest isn't great, just that this song does something amazing for me.
― hobart paving, Monday, 27 August 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
it has that waterfall effect for me, the drums just cascade over...
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link
greatest work of the 20th century
― cutty, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 01:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Thursday, 30 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Truly disappointed. This should have ended with a tie between every song. And Mother Stands For Comfort definitely deserves better.
― Bus Driver Stu, Thursday, 30 August 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
So happy for Cloudbusting, thought I was the only one...
― iago g., Friday, 31 August 2007 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link
My guess is half the people who voted for Running Up That Hill haven't heard the rest of the album and/or it's the only song of hers they're familiar with.
― Bimble, Friday, 31 August 2007 01:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Way too many votes for the first side here.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 31 August 2007 07:56 (sixteen years ago) link
mhmm
― Surmounter, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
PURGE LURKERS
― rogermexico., Friday, 31 August 2007 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
geir predicted it
― Surmounter, Friday, 31 August 2007 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
wish i'd voted Waking The Witch now. can yeh not see that little light up there?
― blueski, Friday, 31 August 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Jesus, this thread is impossible to find if you try the words Kate Bush on the search engine. Or if you try anything like "Hounds Of Love" just forget it. A ZILLION posts on ILE about Dubya will get in the way. Just type "Hounds" that is the way. Only the word "Hounds".
Anyway I wasn't planning to go all mental about this album in particular, but today I heard a few random passages in my head from the Ninth Wave side of the album and it gave me pause. So tonight I am listening to the entire album all over again from start to finish because of that and this thread. I think the songs I heard snippets of in my head earlier today were "Watching You Without Me" and "Mother Stands For Comfort", yes those were the two. And normally this doesn't happen to me at all. I honestly don't give any thought to this album anymore, not in many years. But I cherish a thread like this to show me the way to experience it one more time, almost like it was new.
― Bimble, Saturday, 8 September 2007 05:18 (sixteen years ago) link
amen.
― Surmounter, Saturday, 8 September 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
The Oct 23 Beats in Space uses "Running Up That Hill" or some remix thereof and does a killer job of it. I may pee myself. Oh ... there ... it happened. Oh.
― lukas, Thursday, 1 November 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
nice to see such a high placing for 'hello earth'
fun fact about the source of the choral piece she used for that song:
- A different recording of "Zinzkaro", the Georgian folk song performed on the film's soundtrack by the Vocal Ensemble Gordela, was used by Kate Bush in the song "Hello Earth" on her 1985 album Hounds of Love.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_the_Vampyre
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 1 November 2007 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
(I always thought she'd written it, but when it turned up again on "Tale 3 - Lento arabesco" from Goran Bregovic's 'Songs and Tales from Weddings and Funerals' it occurred to me it was a traditional, and then Herzog used the Vocal Ensemble Gordela version during the plague sequence of 'Nosferatu')
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 1 November 2007 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link
So i guess i don't like Kate Bush :( Xpost
― nostormo, Saturday, 5 November 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
maybe I love Kate Bush AND Eberhard Weber
― fetter, Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
If someone told me their favourite song on the record was "Mother Stands For Comfort", I'd respond, "Oh, you don't like Kate Bush?"
i know, ILM is a safe space, it welcomes people saying daft shit in an authoritative register
but ffs
― wearing wraparounds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
Love the radio-type sounds on that song.
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
the fairlight? yeah particularly the very final flourish that ends the song (and cuts out rather than fades)
― akm, Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
Where, I ask, were all these supporters of "Mother Stands For Comfort" in 2007, when your vote counted?
I just think of it as the epitome of a breather/change-of-pace track. Also, for Bush/Weber fans, "Houdini" is a way more impressive song.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:13 (one year ago) link
"Mother" is maybe my third-favourite song on the album, but that won't earn it any credit if that's true for everyone. Mods, please implement first-past-the-post voting
― Vinnie, Sunday, 6 November 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link
there aren't any bad songs on that album, but Mother is definitely one of the more subtle ones... what chance does it have stuck between the Big Sky and Cloudbusting?
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Sunday, 6 November 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
it's a better song than the Morning Fog.
― akm, Sunday, 6 November 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
love "waking the witch" and "watching you without me"
― dyl, Sunday, 6 November 2022 20:05 (one year ago) link
A more controversial opinion is that this is the weakest of her first five records (though the best tracks on this are better than those on Lionheart.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 7 November 2022 05:04 (one year ago) link
this new reissue is ugly and preposterous, what on earth. I guess the prices are really for the artwork, but the artwork is...not good?
https://music.katebush.com/buy/hounds-of-love-lost-at-sea/
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 2 November 2023 03:56 (seven months ago) link
Re the conversation about "Mother Stands For Comfort" above, it would only be like top 6 for me, but I used to include it on a lot of mixtapes paired with The Blue Nile's "Automobile Noise" as a kind of mini-suite of found-sound synth balladry.
― Tim F, Thursday, 2 November 2023 04:00 (seven months ago) link
$300 for a vinyl reissue with no new songs or anything, that is pretty obnoxious... is it for charity or something?
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 2 November 2023 05:30 (seven months ago) link
it's not clear at all. apparently she had a limited artwork like this as part of a War Child charity, and this is another go at that, but I don't think these go to War Child. Plus...it's not the full album! Most of these configurations are for like...1/2 the album
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 2 November 2023 13:23 (seven months ago) link
more info on this page: https://www.katebush.com/hounds-of-love/
LED light. like PF's Pulse. c'mon Kate.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 2 November 2023 13:26 (seven months ago) link
The Baskerville Edition is the first in the series of illustrated editions of the albums.
so she has a whole series planned
― ufo, Thursday, 2 November 2023 13:44 (seven months ago) link
maybe this is to make the elevated prices of the colored vinyl reissues seem reasonable
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 2 November 2023 13:45 (seven months ago) link
it's all tacky af
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 2 November 2023 14:03 (seven months ago) link
No outtakes or 12 inch mixes (“The Big Sky” Meteorological Mix is outstanding)? Fuck this.
― beamish13, Thursday, 2 November 2023 14:36 (seven months ago) link
big agree there, beamish. stop neglecting remixes and long edits!
(lotta other 80s acts guilty of this schitt, too)
it's missing some stuff from the period, but this version is pretty hard to beat: https://www.discogs.com/release/7727012-Kate-Bush-Hounds-Of-Love
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Thursday, 2 November 2023 18:37 (seven months ago) link
(and ya, this new reissue is gimmicky af)
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Thursday, 2 November 2023 18:38 (seven months ago) link