She said come on, let me live girl
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 22 March 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
where on your palm is my little line
SHE SAID COME ON LET ME LIVE, GIRL
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 22 March 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― keythkeythkeyth, Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
No album can beat the opening two tracks on this
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Everytime I hear "Running Up That Hill" I snap into "omg best song evar!" mode
― turtles all the way down (Face of Wolf), Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Milton Parker, Monday, 23 March 2009 01:47 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/oct/11/popandrock
― Milton Parker, Monday, 23 March 2009 01:51 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks for that link jl.
― ian, Monday, 23 March 2009 02:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Monday, 23 March 2009 03:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― battlestar elastica (get bent), Monday, 23 March 2009 03:25 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― battlestar elastica (get bent), Monday, 23 March 2009 03:27 (fifteen years ago) link
right
miami vice??
― Surmounter, Monday, 23 March 2009 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
*CONTROVERSIAL*never forever and the dreaming are better than this
― velko, Monday, 23 March 2009 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
miami vice:
― battlestar elastica (get bent), Monday, 23 March 2009 03:34 (fifteen years ago) link
"i get outta my car" and the whole song breaks open
― Surmounter, Monday, 23 March 2009 03:46 (fifteen years ago) link
full episode is on hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/14849/miami-vice-bushido
― battlestar elastica (get bent), Monday, 23 March 2009 03:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I was a latecomer to this album and Kate Bush in general, but I wish I could time-travel back and burn a copy of this albu, for all for the many girl/friends I had in high-school and college who thought Tori Amos invented this shit (though some of them seemed to think that Tori invented music itself, and an attempt to convince them otherwise, however reasonable, would likely have resulted in denial and/or rage).
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Monday, 23 March 2009 03:48 (fifteen years ago) link
*sorry for the typing mess.
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Monday, 23 March 2009 03:49 (fifteen years ago) link
yawn.
― Tim F, Monday, 23 March 2009 03:54 (fifteen years ago) link
yawn kant tori read
― velko, Monday, 23 March 2009 03:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Were you bored by my post, Tim, or are you just sleepy? Please insert zing here ____________________.
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Monday, 23 March 2009 04:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't really be bothered getting into the argument now, but in brief, the whole "Woah Kate Bush is the OG Tori Amos" line is:
a) wrong;b) boring, lazy, overstated criticism along the lines of "Steely Dan is what punk was born to fight against" or "rap is nothing but bling and sexism" (albeit not as sweeping as those two examples); andc) leaving aside whether it's fair on Tori Amos, a massive distortion of what makes Kate Bush interesting, by implicitly reducing her to whatever falls within the stylistic venn diagram created by the two artists, which is not much: they're actually very different as songwriters, as arrangers and as singers.
― Tim F, Monday, 23 March 2009 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Fair enough. If it's a cliche to make the comparison, I wasn't aware of that, and I'm not really prepared for nuanced critical debate on the issue anyway, as I've never sat down and listened to them side by side. I have been listening to a lot of Kate Bush recently, and have been struck by the vocal resemblance, so I'll stand by that at least.
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Monday, 23 March 2009 04:40 (fifteen years ago) link
:)
― Surmounter, Monday, 23 March 2009 05:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I probably overreact when i see the comparison because it's made so often and in such sweeping terms from people who basically want an easy stick to beat one or both artists with - I'm sure a search of the ILM archives will yield any number of examples, many of which i've responded to in more detail.
What most annoys me about it is that it implies that there is only space for one of these artists, when the same claim would not be made about actually-more-similar groups and artists etc. It's as if "genre" is a prop reserved exclusively for male rock.
(plus Tori sounds more like Stevie Nicks crossed with Joni Mitchell)
Lex summed it up pretty concisely previously:
"They play the piano and their vocal ranges overlap and that is all they share. Their entire aesthetic foundations are completely different - they sing about wildly different subjects in wildly different ways. Tori has not professed any debt to Kate Bush - what she has said is that she was never aware of Kate Bush until very late because Kate Bush never really broke America to a great extent."
...
"Their vocal differences are more numerous and more important {than their vocal similarites}... Tori can rasp in a way Kate doesn't, and always sounds libidinous while Kate sounds asexual. Also, their vocals work in completely different ways - when Kate does kooky affectations, it's deliberate and controlled, almost like performance art; Tori, on the other hand, makes her mispronunciations and mannerisms sound natural by-products of her emotion.
― Tim F, Monday, 23 March 2009 05:11 (fifteen years ago) link
asexual otm
― Surmounter, Monday, 23 March 2009 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
one of the most obvious differences to me s the instrumentation. i guess i see more similarity when it comes to early kate, but later kate employed a variety of instruments/synths that tori never seemed to.
― Surmounter, Monday, 23 March 2009 05:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Alright, but we know that The Church have just covered Kate Bush's song Hounds of Love right?
I can't keep up with this thread. I'm too drunk just now.
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 23 March 2009 06:42 (fifteen years ago) link
The who the what now?
― Nhex, Monday, 23 March 2009 10:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I stuck this on earlier, and what really jumped out was Kate's sibilant 'ess'es, especially on the title track. I've never noticed it before, but she's quite hissy (also breathier than I'd thought). Is it maybe a treatment on the vocal, or even the limitation of mp3 as a format?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 23 March 2009 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
it's kate dude
― cutty, Monday, 23 March 2009 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link
she's always been a grand enunciator. her t's, c's and k's are pretty mean too
― Surmounter, Monday, 23 March 2009 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm cool with it
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 23 March 2009 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
whatever man you said kate was a limitation of mp3 as a format
― cutty, Monday, 23 March 2009 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link
No I didn't. Don't be a dick.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 23 March 2009 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
XD
― cutty, Monday, 23 March 2009 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
It's in the treesit's coming
― Fever Pitch, Bitch (Bimble), Monday, 15 June 2009 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^^THIS
― eat my pain away (i got problems) (Tape Store), Monday, 15 June 2009 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
"Hounds of Love" and "Hello Earth" are probably my favorites? Love the whole album to death, though.
― eat my pain away (i got problems) (Tape Store), Monday, 15 June 2009 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Night of the Demon is a classic film and worth watching, she sampled those lines for a reason
― Milton Parker, Monday, 15 June 2009 04:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i need to do that
― surm, Monday, 15 June 2009 05:32 (fourteen years ago) link
strongest 1-2 opening-songs punch ever, in the history of albums and opening songs and punches
― fleetwood (max), Sunday, 11 October 2009 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 u kate
― just sayin, Sunday, 11 October 2009 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
my life in the bush of kate
― a bleak, sometimes frightening portrait of ceiling cat (contenderizer), Sunday, 11 October 2009 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link
how dare u
― cutty, Sunday, 11 October 2009 01:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I was just showed the video of This Woman's Work to the new girl I'm seeing and she talked the whole time???
― Jacob Sanders, Sunday, 11 October 2009 01:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Bad sign
― Jacob Sanders, Sunday, 11 October 2009 01:55 (fourteen years ago) link
god poor show for my 2 faves Under Ice and Dream Of Sheep.
― piscesx, Sunday, 11 October 2009 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link
wait aren't you the dude whose ex asked you if you still listen to kate?
― cutty, Sunday, 11 October 2009 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link