― russ t, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
DJ Martian - interesting site....I think it'd be a colossal mistake to not release her album this year. What she must remember is that the age bracket who religiously bought her music has now grown up..... and rarely purchase CDs as such any more.... and she's not endeared herself to a new audience at all. Since her break, copyists like Amos, Harvey etc have appeared and cornered that end of the market. I've a feeling EMI will be very worried about this new album's release...
...great to see The Beloved still around, though.
― russ t, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 17:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jesse Fox (Jesse Fox), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
Even her b-sides are incredible - Under The Ivy, b-side to Running up that hill is another fine song.
Didn't like the Red Shoes album much at all (Eric Clapton?!),apart from Song of Solomon and Big stripey lie.
The Dreaming is a brave, dark record....hard to believe it's 20 years old.
Next month, it's 25 years since Wuthering heights hit number one, too!? Where did that go?
But my favourite album is Hounds of Love - Mother stands for comfort is like a warm blanket, and 9th Wave is breathtaking.
Kate Bush never ceases to amaze and fascinate me, though, and the new album, in this sterile music scene, will be so welcome.
― russ t, Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yes, The Beloved (jon marsh) is back and working on new material, however the Beloved listed via the link is a hardcore rock band.]
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― geeta, Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 23 January 2003 12:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 23 January 2003 12:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
I once had a dream with her "All the Love" as a soundtrack, I woke up completely creeped out and wondering where the words "I needed you - to love me too. I wait for your move" came from.
However her videos are unremitting pap. They are a complete embarrassment and I wonder why she doesn't hire e.g. Madonna's directors. I know it might all turn out horribly wrong and commercial and her delicate imagery and ideas wither but ANYTHING ANYTHING would be better than (god help me) "Army Dreaming" etc.
― M Chong, Friday, 24 January 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 24 January 2003 18:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
"When I heard Killing Joke broke up!"
**FACT**
Kate was a huge fan of the Joke. Youth even played bass for her on the HOUNDS OF LOVE album. Thus, KATE BUSH HONORS THE FIRE!!!
http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/youth/youth27.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 January 2003 19:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
(*goes to honour the fire in own kitch'': to strike match, light cig*)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 25 January 2003 01:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
Alex in NYC -- what's your fave Jaz'ed-up orchestra'vaganza then?
Jaz does Doors,Jaz ups Zep,Jaz goes Pink F ?
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 25 January 2003 01:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 January 2003 14:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
BTW, there ever been a separate thread on Anne Dudley?
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 25 January 2003 15:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
Surmounter, Is "The whole story" a good starting place?
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
to be honest, i haven't even listened to it.
i rly would start with the dreaming. i'm not a compliation person myself.
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Either am I.
It's just I managed to find it on rapidshare. I am listening now. I might leave it, I'm sure HMV will have it knocked down for January.
You must also listen to Arthur Russell pretty soon.
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
oh ya! thank you, almost forgot...
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I just pulled out _The Whole Story_ the other day and it's still a damn good place to start. Clearly she's due for a new retrospective as _TWS_ only goes through 1986! But it culls choice tracks from her early albums, enough to help you decide if you want to pursue them further.
― Mr. Odd, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Just another gratuitous revive of a random Kate Bush thread...*cough* *Ah HEM!* Move along, nothing to see here.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 28 July 2008 08:27 (fifteen years ago) link
It was raining and I was alone this week so I put on Hounds of Love and it made me cry. It's not an album to dip into, it has to be heard from start to finish, then again. For when those moments pop out at you and make you sit up, "pause for a jet", "look who's here to see you", "Murderer!".the key change when the Hello Earth theme returns. I put this moment here.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 11:42 (fifteen years ago) link
"Do you see that little light up there?""Where?""There""Where?"
gets me every time.
― sparkletuna, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
<3 <3
kate on a piano in dream of sheep is so perfect, so singer songwriter with something bigger, so crystal clear.
i'll wake up to the sound of engines. ::vrrrrooom::
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
i can't listen to hol or the dreaming without crying. it's like watching steve martin without smiling.
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
this one never fades. like a childhood dream.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
http://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e201127980c74f28a4-800wi
― When two tribes go to war, he always gets picked last (James Morrison), Thursday, 1 October 2009 06:20 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 <3 <3
― dudamel (get bent), Thursday, 1 October 2009 06:33 (fourteen years ago) link
YES
― ian, Thursday, 1 October 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e20111690c4295970c-800wi
― omar little, Thursday, 1 October 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
http://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e20111690c7fca970c-pi
― omar little, Thursday, 1 October 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e20111690c7984970c-pi
― omar little, Thursday, 1 October 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
that last one!
― surm, Thursday, 1 October 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
http://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e201127980e25628a4-800wi
― omar little, Thursday, 1 October 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e201127980dd1028a4-800wi
loolll. i love that mean expression that she can do. is that the RUTH video?
― surm, Thursday, 1 October 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not sure...i need to go watch a shitload of her vids
http://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e20111690c4ad4970c-800wi
― omar little, Thursday, 1 October 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Dry contact lenses there, I reckons.
― Mark G, Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i692.photobucket.com/albums/vv289/WeAdmire/KateBushApple-White.jpg
― omar little, Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
whoa thats dope
― xhuxk mangione (deej), Friday, 2 October 2009 10:02 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah where i can i exchange dollars for that
― ok star grumbles (lukas), Friday, 2 October 2009 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
ebay
― omar little, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOo916s2jTI
― omar little, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
watching kate bush interviews is very good for getting hypnotized
― omar little, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7KVdwYSX6A
oh my gosh thank you for these gifs omar
― existential eggs (Abbott), Friday, 2 October 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Have thought abt going as her in the Babushka video for Halloween, for years.
― existential eggs (Abbott), Friday, 2 October 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I hope #StrangerThings keeps going to be based in 1994 @Portisheadinfo pic.twitter.com/LueqgAnYVn— đ´ââ ď¸ Geoff Barrow đ´ââ ď¸ (@jetfury) August 2, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 13:21 (one year ago) link
Okay, "classic pop"-type radio stations are working this into their playlists as if this was really played on US mainstream radio in 1985. It was played on college radio and some album rock stations.
Which is bullshit everywhere except Hollywood's mind.
― I Met Mr. Mathis (I M Losted), Friday, 5 August 2022 09:03 (one year ago) link
It peaked at 30 but people weren't bopping to it with Cyndi Lauper and Huey Lewis.
― I Met Mr. Mathis (I M Losted), Friday, 5 August 2022 09:09 (one year ago) link
Although the trackâs streaming numbers have recently declined â down 12.5% in official U.S. streams since last week, according to Luminate â copious radio airplay has more than compensated for the dip, making âRunning Up That Hillâ an even bigger hit than it was during the peak of Stranger Things hype in May and June. For the Aug. 6 charts, the track held at No. 3 for a second week on the Hot 100, and climbed from No. 10 to No. 7 on Billboardâs Radio Songs listing, an increase of 17%, to 48.4 million impressions. The crossover to massive radio success is a rarity for recent viral catalog hits â from Fleetwood Macâs âDreamsâ on TikTok in 2020 to Nirvanaâs âSomething in the Wayâ from The Batman earlier this year to Metallicaâs âMaster of Puppetsâ in the same Stranger Things season last month, none of which have made it to Radio Songs this decade â making âRunning Up That Hillâ a sort of unicorn.
âSomehow weâve been able to traverse that Stranger Things moment,â Chester says. âItâs transcended and bridged to passive audiences.â Adds Michael Martin, Audacyâs senior vp of programming, as well as program director for pop station Alice@97.3 in San Francisco, which has played the track 1,100 times â more than any other station, according to Luminate â âThis is a rarity. This happens few and far between.â
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 August 2022 10:04 (one year ago) link
Also:
Between the latest season debut of Stranger Things on May 27 and the end of June, Bush earned an estimated $2.3 million in streaming royalties, Luminate, an independent company that provides data for Billboardâs charts, told Fortune, and Quartz originally reported.
A spokesperson for Luminate said the company calculated the $2.3 million figure by using a standard formula to convert streams into projected revenue.
âWe canât speak to who actually earns the money, as that involves taking a deeper dive into individual contracts/publishing/master ownership, and we donât track that with our data,â the spokesperson said.
But in a rarity for the music industry, Bush owns the entire copyright to original recordings of her songsâincluding âRunning Up That Hillââthrough her independent record label Noble & Brite, Quartz reported. As a result, Music Business Worldwide, a global music industry news site, estimates the singer retains the majority, possibly up to 80%, of royalties generated from her biggest hits. Many major artists do not own their original recordings, giving their labels the rights to distribution and therefore giving up a significant cut of any royalties.
https://fortune.com/2022/07/07/kate-bush-running-up-that-hill-stranger-things/
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 August 2022 10:06 (one year ago) link
It still amuses me every time I hear this on the radio sandwiched between Doja Cat and Jack Harlow.
― jaymc, Friday, 5 August 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
I heard it on the radio last Monday after "Levitating."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 August 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 5 August 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
hahahaha
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 5 August 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
But in a rarity for the music industry, Bush owns the entire copyright to original recordings of her songsâincluding âRunning Up That Hillââthrough her independent record label Noble & Brite
this keeps getting better and better
I'm going to remember this and Alex Jones as the interregnum high point
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 5 August 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
Seems like someone adding "Hounds of Love" or "Cloudbusting" to a playlist would do something with this momentum.
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Friday, 5 August 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
KROQ here in LA always being the odd exception. ROTH was in semi-heavy rotation - enough to get into the station's top songs of 1985 (in between "A View To A Kill" and Arcadia's "Election Day").
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 6 August 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
yeah alternative (or rather, 'modern rock') stations of the period clearly the outliers. I'm frankly rather surprised it ever got as high on regular charts in 1986 in the US as it appeared to; I can assure you I never heard it once on the radio here until sometime in 1987 when I lived in the bay area and had a modern rock station to listen to. even then I didn't hear it very regularly.
― akm, Saturday, 6 August 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
My kids have always been fans of "Stranger Things," and I remember the first season getting them to play "Should I Stay Or Should I Go," and the second season "Every Breath You Take." But of course neither of those songs took off (again) in the mainstream, I suspect because Tik Tok wasn't quite a thing yet (right?). Tik Tok appeared around 2017, the same year as the second season of "Stranger Things." (As my kids noted, there was no big breakout song moment of Season 3.) Curious what others songs will benefit from this new way of consuming/discovering music going forward. Saw someone post this well-edited fan movie giving a taste of things to come:
The Future of MarvelSong: Running Up That Hill*Headphones On* pic.twitter.com/vLVSojwkXY— Aaron (@ShangChiTheGOAT) August 5, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 August 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link
that was fan made, certainly?
― akm, Saturday, 6 August 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
oh duh as noted I should like actually read
― akm, Saturday, 6 August 2022 23:08 (one year ago) link
I'm frankly rather surprised it ever got as high on regular charts in 1986 in the US as it appeared to; I can assure you I never heard it once on the radio here until sometime in 1987 when I lived in the bay area and had a modern rock station to listen to. even then I didn't hear it very regularly.
The crazy story I have is that I first heard "Big Sky" when the video was in semi-heavy rotation on MTV. There was somewhat of a promo push behind The Whole Story comp - I think the video for "Experiment IV" was on the first episode of 120 Minutes.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 7 August 2022 00:03 (one year ago) link
i hear the song pretty much every time i put the radio on now. once after the adult contemporary station played it the on-air guy said that he hates the song, hated it back in the 80s, and doesn't like any of kate bush's music, but "we know you all like it so we're playing it anyway". rude! but i appreciate the honesty regardless since it's abundantly clear that most ppl who work for radio now couldn't give less of a shit about any of the music they play
― dyl, Sunday, 7 August 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
haha wow I can't believe there are still DJs on normal radio TBH. I haven't listened to anything but NPR in several years.
― akm, Sunday, 7 August 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
yeah and with inferior banter like that, they should be phased out by award season i would hope.
― ăđđ đ đ ¤ đ Ą đ đ đ彥 (Austin), Sunday, 7 August 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
I still listen to terrestrial radio and the patter's as lame as ever.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 August 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
This is a vision. (It's not a GOOD vision.)
Obsessed with this. Absolutely deranged. A complete massacre of the original. Each note more wild and unpredictable than the next. Ending with a cocky kiss, like she just fucking killed it.100% perfect. No notes. https://t.co/9oFbYPbCPV— Bradley Stern (@MuuMuse) September 14, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 13:55 (one year ago) link
It wasnât THAT bad, pretty much standard MPB interpretation isnât it? Also âno notesâ is apparently the newest completely meaningless catchphrase now?
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
as I have said before, all Kate Bush covers are terrible and should be illegal
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
the cycle will not be complete until it's on ukulele and it's selling a motor vehicle
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
If I only couldGet a deal from DodgeAnd get them to swap a trade-in
― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
Honestly would like to hear her do all of Hounds of Love now.
"I hid my Yooooooooo-yooooooooo"
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
Still wild to hear this on the Top 40 station between Doja Cat, Lil Nas X and Harry Styles.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
i'd make a deal with gyaaaayyyyaaaayyyyyaaaad
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 15 September 2022 04:05 (one year ago) link
It wasnât THAT bad
au contraire, mon frere
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 15 September 2022 04:09 (one year ago) link
initially read that as "i'd make a deal with gay dad"
x-post
― charlie rex, Thursday, 15 September 2022 05:53 (one year ago) link
xpost xpDo you really think EVERY note was off? I donât listen to much if any MPB these days but what Iâm hearing is a pastiche of what would be considered R&B and C&W tropes in the cultural context of the USA.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Thursday, 15 September 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
there is nothing, I mean nothing, of MPB (which is also... a pretty meaningless term btw) in her cover.
― fpsa, Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
A while back we were talking about acts that sound like Kate Bush, a friend of mine put me on to Li Garattoniâs âFind Out What I'm Dreamingâ LP from 1982 on the weekend, and some of the record fits the bill such as âFind Out What I'm Dreamingâ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZQXpqJvZK0
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 09:15 (one year ago) link
Re: Kate Bush covers, there are a few, very few. Some friends did an ambient noise cover utilizing elements from RUTH back in 2006â they were all computer music majorsâ and it remains excellent. Will upload if anyone wants.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Thursday, 24 November 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
can't even think of too many well known covers; Pat Benetar's Wuthering Hights (bad), maxwell's This Woman's Work (good but unnecessary) and that's about it?
― akm, Friday, 25 November 2022 09:47 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So2SGCMztf8
― Oh wouldn't it be rubbery? (Tom D.), Friday, 25 November 2022 09:52 (one year ago) link
has anyone else seen the all-woman KB tribute act Baby Bushka? i went into it expecting some theater-kid preciousness and..thatâs part of it to an extent but the costumes and choreography and performances are all terrific and done totally lovingly and sincerely. i actually teared up at a few points during their set.
― donna rouge, Friday, 25 November 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
The Futureheads cover of Hounds was how I discovered her. I posted here that discovering KB was like finding out that you'd been living next to a skyscraper without noticing. Bimble replied "please tell me that you have or are planning to buy The Dreaming" which was lovely, like having an older sibling with cool taste to nag you.
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 25 November 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
I missed baby bushka in the bay area earlier this year; I'd assumed they were from the UK but they're from San Diego! youtube clips of them are excellent
― akm, Friday, 25 November 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
Night of a Thousand Kates is just whew for me, what an incredible events
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Saturday, 26 November 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link
This one is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2QPkvvrRSQ
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 26 November 2022 06:28 (one year ago) link
Kate the amapiano way:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1yWe4FPwTMMhaw Keys ⢠I Pray
― I did see Xhaka crotchgrab (breastcrawl), Saturday, 3 December 2022 09:51 (one year ago) link
Gorgeous track, thanks for sharing.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 12:43 (one year ago) link
Wuthering cover from this year... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcSi-1XPuH0
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
Seems that Del Palmer has died
https://x.com/katebushnews/status/1743750710947196956?s=46&t=bJOqpCuQneT7ju08y55VSA
― piscesx, Saturday, 6 January 2024 22:07 (three months ago) link