"Mother Stands for Comfort" should've got votes.
― SBanned of Brothers (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 December 2009 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
V. surprised to see this as ILX's No. 1 of the 80s. Not upset, by any means (Hounds Of Love is great), but surprised.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 5 December 2009 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
it's my #1 of all time, so not surprising
― la monte jung (cutty), Saturday, 5 December 2009 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
And Dream of Sheep is so pretty
― Do you love me now? (surm), Saturday, 5 December 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
The title track wuz robbed.
― Vast Halo, Saturday, 5 December 2009 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
No.4 of the eighties, unless someone's done a follow-up poll really quick
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 5 December 2009 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i just know that something good is going to happen fyi.
― ian, Saturday, 5 December 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
every song should have got 100 votes
― jabba hands, Monday, 7 December 2009 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Just looked out the window and realised its a HoL day. If I had to pick one track it would be Hello Earth, because it has to be one of the most moving pieces of music ever made.Am also fond of the bit where she'll "pause for a jet" in The Big Sky, or the relentless trudge of strings in Cloudbusting, or those sntaches of voices like waking from a dream, or being ill as a child: "Look who's here to see you." Incidentally, a friend of ours knocked up one of those Wilhelm Reich cloudbusting gizmos in our back garden. The conversation went like this. "So Charles, is it supposed to make it rain, or prevent rain?""Well, er, it's supposed to promote balance...""So sometimes it'll make it rain, and sometimes it won't""Er, yes"
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 7 December 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Mother STands for Comfort deserved all 7 votes that went to Jig of Life
― akm, Monday, 7 December 2009 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
like, how do u feel when you've finished recording this album?
― Do you love me now? (surm), Monday, 7 December 2009 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
god i can't imagine.must be amazing.the satisfaction, relief, probably kind of like really good sex except a billion times better??!?
― ian, Monday, 14 December 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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― Joint Custody (ian), Saturday, 9 January 2010 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
hello lady
― plaxico (I know, right?), Saturday, 9 January 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i just know that something good is going to happen tbh.
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Saturday, 9 January 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Guys do you know how fucked up "Waking the Witch" can be if you unknowingly got dosed with some fucking weird drug at a party?
― girl moves (Abbott), Saturday, 9 January 2010 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Let me steal this moment from you now.
― Euler, Thursday, 21 January 2010 12:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty distressing that Spotify has many shitty cover versions of "Running Up That Hill", but not the original.
― Bill A, Thursday, 21 January 2010 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't really even hate Placebo that much, but theirs is pretty much the shittiest too.
― Bill A, Thursday, 21 January 2010 13:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I love this piece on 'Hello Earth' - there's something almost religious about that track
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 21 January 2010 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link
If this thread will permit me a little indulgence, I've thinking about the song "Hounds of Love" and thinking of my nine-year-old daughter who will soon be chased by those hounds, and it reminded me of a favorite poem of mine, "Donegal (for Ellie)" by Robin Robertson. He is thinking of the hounds as well.
Ardent on the beach at Rossnowlagh on the last day of summer, you ran through the shallows throwing off shoes, and shirt and towel like the seasons, the city's years, all caught in my arms as I ploughed on behind you, guardian still of dry clothes, of this little heart not quite thirteen, breasting the waves and calling back to me to join you, swimming in the Atlantic on the last day of summer. I saw a man in the shallows with his hands full of clothes, full of all the years, and his daughter going where he knew he could not follow.
― Euler, Thursday, 21 January 2010 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
The Chromatics' cover of "Running Up That Hill" is an excellent, cool treatment of the song.
― Lawn Cheney (u s steel), Thursday, 21 January 2010 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
that poem is beautiful - it brought the same tear to my as kate does
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 21 January 2010 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
"The Morning Fog" is so beautiful and life-affirminga perfect end to side 2
― WEB SHERIFF (LOLK), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
seconded
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link
This album is really downright weird. I have no idea what made me love it at 18. Mrs. McBB said it just brings to mind Tori Amos but I've never cottoned to subsequent Kate wannabes.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ the idea of reducing Hounds Of Love to the sentiment of "just bringing to mind tori amos"
do you typically not harbor love for weird music?
― janice (surm), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Well Mrs. McBB has decidedly mainstream tastes, so...
I do love 'weird music', I fell for Danielle Dax in college as well, it's just compared to the alternative staples I was listening to at the time, Kate stands far apart.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck mrs. mcboing-boing
― cutty, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
It was this album that made me love KB. Just seeing that video for Cloudbusting with Donald Sutherland, and thinking "I must have this"
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i recently found the 'alternative hounds of love' single for a buck and while i think it's really cool that kb can just riff off the subject and make entirely new lyrics, the original is soo much better
― butthurt jeff daniels (LOLK), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
eh?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
alternative hounds of love is the song with different lyrics/hook
― butthurt jeff daniels (LOLK), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnpNYAdvrAs
― butthurt jeff daniels (LOLK), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Uncalled for.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
but i mean she does "bring to mind" tori amos when you first listen to her!
its only after a few listens that u don't hear anyone else but kate bush, you know? i've listened to the first three on here over and over so many times. they're... in a league of their own. "the big sky" needed a few more votes. love the rest too obviously.
― what if "middlebrow" is pubes? (Matt P), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
to be completely, totally honest, kate bush did not bring to mind tori amos when i first heard her.
― janice (surm), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
she sounded like a wild banchee doing songs out of an ethereal place in her wacked out 80s mind. not tori amos.
― janice (surm), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i was listening to aerial the other day and my roommate asked if i was listening to tori amos u_u
― tori anus (LOLK), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yea i'm not saying it's a silly reaction. just doesn't happen to me.
― janice (surm), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
in particular, a lot of the tracks on this record sound nothing like tori to me: running up that hill, big sky, cloudbusting, jig of life, under ice, waking the witch
don't hear it
― janice (surm), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
we're totally on the same page: the very first time i heard kate bush i heard the work of genius. i've heard tori amos countless times and have never ever been drawn into her music
― tori anus (LOLK), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ the notion that people outside ILM have to have this hyperdetailed, aspie-level perception of similarities between musical artists or else they're LOLable
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think anybody really said that in the span of this conversation. i think all that was suggested is that Hounds of Love and Aerial are 2 albums that are pretty different than "tori amos."
but i guess not to a lot of people LOL
― janice (surm), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
― janice (surm), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
They *are* very different, I agree; but "brings to mind Tori Amos" isn't equal to "reducing" the album to "is a direct Tori fascimile" and isn't that ludicrous a statement considering the obvious signifiers involved, really.
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
...especially coming from soneone who might not be as invested in analyzing & discussing music as some of the people here.
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know what the last part of your statement means, really
but the original statement was actually "just brings to mind Tori Amos"
the "just" means a lot there, and it's pretty LOLable
― janice (surm), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
That the statement "just brings to mind Tori Amos" coming from someone who isn't invested in analyzing music so much isn't ludicrous as a casual remark. But w/e.
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
no, it's not ludicrous. and i didn't say it was. i just said it made me laugh.
― janice (surm), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link