Best song on Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love

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.

it's my #1 of all time, so not surprising

And Dream of Sheep is so pretty

The title track wuz robbed.

No.4 of the eighties, unless someone's done a follow-up poll really quick

i just know that something good is going to happen fyi.

every song should have got 100 votes

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"

Mother STands for Comfort deserved all 7 votes that went to Jig of Life

like, how do u feel when you've finished recording this album?

god i can't imagine.
must be amazing.
the satisfaction, relief, probably kind of like really good sex except a billion times better??!?

i just know that something good is going to happen fyi.

― ian, Saturday, December 5, 2009 5:05 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

hello lady

i just know that something good is going to happen tbh.

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?

Let me steal this moment from you now.

Pretty distressing that Spotify has many shitty cover versions of "Running Up That Hill", but not the original.

I don't really even hate Placebo that much, but theirs is pretty much the shittiest too.

I love this piece on 'Hello Earth' - there's something almost religious about that track

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.

The Chromatics' cover of "Running Up That Hill" is an excellent, cool treatment of the song.

that poem is beautiful - it brought the same tear to my as kate does

"The Morning Fog" is so beautiful and life-affirming
a perfect end to side 2

seconded

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.

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?

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.

fuck mrs. mcboing-boing

It was this album that made me love KB. Just seeing that video for Cloudbusting with Donald Sutherland, and thinking "I must have this"

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

eh?

alternative hounds of love is the song with different lyrics/hook

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

fuck mrs. mcboing-boing

Uncalled for.

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.

to be completely, totally honest, kate bush did not bring to mind tori amos when i first heard her.

she sounded like a wild banchee doing songs out of an ethereal place in her wacked out 80s mind. not tori amos.

i was listening to aerial the other day and my roommate asked if i was listening to tori amos u_u

yea i'm not saying it's a silly reaction. just doesn't happen to me.

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

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

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

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

:D

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.

...especially coming from soneone who might not be as invested in analyzing & discussing music as some of the people here.

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

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.

no, it's not ludicrous. and i didn't say it was. i just said it made me laugh.

the "just" means a lot there, and it's pretty LOLable