We Become Panoramic - THE KATE BUSH RESULTS THREAD (ilm artist poll #24)

Now this ... bliss.

Kate Bush and the Fairlight

And here is more than you need to know about the history of the Fairlight

Thank you. I'm all out of jpgs, that'll have to be it from me for the evening.

Thanks for all the hard work, IK. This is terrific stuff - I will now be watching KB fan videos for hours!

What is this Fairlight thing you're all going on about?

Awww, I'd hoped "Waking The Witch" would place much higher - I have no idea which parts of The Ninth Wave will get singled out. Fantastically demented Throbbing Gristle meets Fairport Convention vibe - "(YOU WON'T BURN) / Red red roses / (YOU WON'T BLEED) / Pinks and posies / (CONFESS TO ME GIRL) / Red red roses / Go down"

- great title
- two of my votes have placed so far, both off aerial
- cosigning the surprise at KOTM, aerial is mindblowing but every other song on it is significantly better than KOTM
- "waking the witch" juuust missed my ballot
- SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN SLEEP AND WAKING UP <3

i had "somewhere in between" on my ballot for ages. think i cropped it at the last minute in favour of "there goes a tenner".

my ballot was quite NFE heavy, but i couldn't find space for "the infant kiss" as much as i dig it.

I voted for KotM. I'll admit it doesn't have the depth of some other songs on disc 1 of Aerial. But (as the rest of my ballot will show) I much prefer K8 in that more simple, tell-the-whole-story-in-4-minutes mode. e.g. I don't care for The Ninth Wave at all; leave the Pink Floydisms to Pink Floyd.

My other placer so far is 'The Infant Kiss'.

I voted for Wheeler Street. I don't think I'm giving too much away if I say it was just me
If only I'd known! Seriously considered voting for this but assumed everyone else hated it.

Oh England and The Fog the only ones off my list so far. I didn't vote for anything off Aerial. I really need to give that record another go.

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40. Moments of Pleasure
122 points, six votes
The Red Shoes (1993)
Director’s Cut (2011) (two votes)
video

where are you getting these images from ismael? they work really well. they're not from anything officially k8-related are they?

Just letting my mind go for a wander and seeing what gis comes up with really, plus a couple of more personal snaps from my own collection - I'm hoping a sort of Kate aesthetic will emerge somehow.

The Lionheart tune I regretted leaving off my list was "In Search of Peter Pan".

i'd have probably included "moments of pleasure" if we'd had 25-track ballots.

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39. Rubberband Girl
126 points, seven votes
The Red Shoes (1993)
video

Despite knowing better, I read that title as "40 moments of pleasure".

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38. Delius (Song of Summer)
127 points, six votes
Never For Ever (1980)
performance

I didn't vote for it, but I really like "Delius" -- it has a very Duke-era Genesis feel to it.

"Rubberband Girl" = most underrated single

On US college radio at least it was the last bit of magic and weirdness before the post-grunge fog covered the landscape for the next 438 years.

I find the line "a rubberband holding trousers up" a very pleasing one

and she imitates a rubberband as well as she does a donkey

I always thought it was "A rubberband hold me trousers up."

It's "rubberband hold me trousers up", isn't it?

My main memory of that record is of it being premiered on Radio 1 and Simon Mayo saying something like "She's a bit mad, isn't she?" and then - HO HO - she walks into the studio.

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Maybe it is, though I'd be hoping to hear some strong cockney if it was.

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36. There Goes A Tenner
128 points, seven votes
The Dreaming (1982)
the marvellous video

Love the orchestral fretless interlude in this. As Savetherobot used to impress upon me when we were kids, Eberhard Weber is the secret weapon on The Dreaming and super important to the sound of this record.

Talking of accents!

"When we used to vote for him". One of my faves.

Xpost This album is what got me into Weber and ECM. So I'll always be grateful for that.

i love "there goes a tenner" though i'm not sure it quite made my ballot

a while back i realised that nicki minaj's english accent is performed in pretty much the same way as kate bush's cockney accent - like on surface it's a terrible terrible approximation of an "authentic" accent but these women know wtf they're doing and they are fucking with us because they can and it's fun, basically

(all of minaj's accents and bush's accents tbh)

I'm still on zero votes placing but it's a great list nonetheless!

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36. All The Love
128 points, seven votes
The Dreaming (1982)
pretty lady, moody film

i thought "all the love" was the worst track on the dreaming for about seven years after i first heard the album (maybe because it's the most straightforward moment?) but when it clicked it really clicked, and it was on my ballot

So far a bunch of mine have made it in which gives me hope!

Two of the four Dreaming cuts that didn't make my ballot, but happy to see them because I love the whole record. "All the Love" is a great song about friendship -- not just what it means, but how to do it.

(I love the line about how her friends think she's up to "something weird".)

and up rears the head of fear in me

such a memorable line

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35. Snowflake
129 points, six votes
50 Words For Snow (2011)
youtube

and there's the best track off '50 words...'. i imagine that means nothing else from that album is making it now?

agree, i voted for it

i was spellbound by "snowflake" a lot when the album came out but i could not listen to it much less vote for it in august

This next is kind of the end of the introduction, in that it's the last song that's within a ballot of not placing. The gaps now mostly get bigger as we go up. Anyway...

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34. Hammer Horror
131 points, seven votes
Lionheart (1978)
live version

great pic.

didn't know that abt Eberhard Weber!

and there's the best track off '50 words...'.

Yup. My only vote from the album (even though I like much of it).

I still don't own Lionheart...