Best song on Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love

Props to Turangalila for repping for Mrs. McBB, who indeed couldn't care less what you lot LOL at. She's a good sport with all the nonsense I make her listen to, and even quite likes some of it, INCLUDING KATE BUSH. Only on ILM would such an innocuous remark cause such a stir...

i don't expect her to care about what i find funny. if she did, i would be worried about you, and your wife. i was making a very simple point, not to be lumped in with the protests of Kate/Tori analogy haters everywhere. Turangalila, in a characteristic move, decided to get uppity about something that was more forgettable than he painted it to be. I do not claim that this album is too brilliant for reproach, and I do not think it's above comparisons made from a distance. I was merely expressing an opinion, one no more or less valuable than your wife's. After all, i am a firm believer in the perspective of the non-expert in any given arena (in this case, Mrs McBB, an avid mainstream-ist), and sometimes find such perspectives even more valuable than those entrenched in the field.

After all, i am a firm believer in the perspective of the non-expert in any given arena (in this case, Mrs McBB, an avid mainstream-ist), and sometimes find such perspectives even more valuable than those entrenched in the field.

This is a very good point. Given how little I've listened to pop over the last 20 years it's useful to hear folks with a different perspective comment on some of the things I listen to - it sometimes makes me reconsider my opinions.

sorry for all the words T. <3 u now and forever

i love what happened here

wow you guys can really be dicks about kate bush

also if you don't the average person would think kate bush was kinda like tori amos, as opposed to being more like, say, ac/dc or levert or georgia satellites or ma$e or miles davis or mahler or the strokes or boards of canada, well, yr wrong....they are gonna think...woah gothy witchy type chick who can sing crazy

true, true.

nothing wrong with that. i've just never really heard it.

kate is 1000000x better obv but that's what i thought when i first heard her cuz i guess tori was just more of a big artist when i was in HS and college and you didn't hear much kate bush in the u.s.

lol u young

or wait, am I old?

;_;

kate is 1000000x better obv

noooooo not obv

YES

NO

lol u young

or wait, am I old?

;_;

― he does NOT have the training (HI DERE), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 3:42 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wait? i thought we were around the same age...her first album wiki sez was 92, i graduated in 93

I graduated in 91 but was all up in Kate Bush's grill from when Hounds of Love came out in 86.

Hi! Can we talk about how good some of the B-sides are?

Under the Ivy is one of my favorite KT songs.

i've never heard it :/

Here you go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLaUgi1AzC0

Sorry about the shitty video though.

i love "be kind to my mistakes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaB8eUDkiX4

Love them both.

it's a 'the dreaming'-era b-side but i love her version of 'lord of the reedy river'

sorry for all the words T. <3 u now and forever

― janice (surm), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 13:23 (3 hours ago) Permalink

My apologies, too. There is certainly no hostility between us. I get a little carried away in responding sometimes.

haha! AND I DON'T

will listen to these b-sides as soon as my coworker turns off phil collins radio

I graduated in 91 but was all up in Kate Bush's grill from when Hounds of Love came out in 86.

― he does NOT have the training (HI DERE), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 4:27 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

probably just the difference between growing up in way southern minnesota and the relatively "cosmopolitan" hastings...

oooooooooo i just know that something good is gonna happen

COSMOPOLITAN HASTNFGS

"the South Beach of Central Minnesota"

under the ivy is beautiful

Burning Bridge is another fave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbw3X2LeaIw

this came out 25 years ago, yesterday

http://www.desicomments.com/graphics/belatedbirthday/13.gif

never fully appreciated the greatness of those lyrics about burying the YoYo in Cloudbusting until i read about the use of radium (radioactive) glow in the dark paint that used to be put on watch faces and novelty items.

i always forget how great this album is, like i know i like it a lot but i forget how gorgeous it sounds.

http://agrammar.tumblr.com/post/74942897102/hounds-of-love-with-scads-of-gifs-and-scads-of-gushing

It's a beautiful video. Great piece too.

I saw this just now while looking for director credits: http://www.katebushnews.com/index.php/2011/07/rip-gow-hunter-1960-2011/

Then Play Long reaches out to Hounds of Love: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/kate-bush-hounds-of-love.html

So I listened to this 12" version of "The Big Sky" for the first time in forever, and realized that midway through it has those same voices that show up in "Waking The Witch."

Which also made me think that Side One has always felt like a string of more conventional pop songs, while Side Two is this novella...but if this longer version of "The Big Sky" were on the album, it would make Side One just as much of a story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gemzegd0YZQ

better poll would've been what's the second best song lol

I've always preferred 'Cloudbusting' to 'Running Up That Hill', fwiw.

been really enjoying 'The Big Sky' lately. it works really well as a surprise drop in a DJ set

cloudbusting is the best song here. One of the finest uses of a minimal drum beat in a pop song ever and the train SFX ending is perfect

Are these the only 12" mixes she put out? Cause they're all damn good.

Cloudbusting (The Organon Mix) 6:33
The Big Sky (Meteorological Mix) 7:45
Experiment IV (12" Mix) 6:37

The 12" Extended Mix of Running Up That Hill is mainly louder drums and some dubby echo effects on the vocals. Probably of some use for 'club play' but loses atmosphere by bringing elements into sharper focus IMO. Actually the Instrumental on the other side works better and does retain some parts of the vocal.

Some of the Red Shoes singles had "12-inch" remixes, I think?

this is one of the finest kate bush remixes/covers i've heard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQxEVhyvA0I

(Under the Ice)

The 12" of "Hounds of Love" (the song) is close to being an entirely different song iirc?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R86V64GLq4