really, this title track is so wonderful.
― Surmounter, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i have a hard time disaggregating the ninth wave into individual tracks
SRSLY
Surmounter, I'm note sure if "The Morning Fog" is the best track on Hounds, but it's almost certainly among the finest coming-down tracks of all time.
― rogermexico., Monday, 27 August 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
After careful deliberation, I'm voting "The Big Sky" - the scream on the fade puts it over the top by a hair.
― rogermexico., Monday, 27 August 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
but it's almost certainly among the finest coming-down tracks of all time.
yes i know exactly what u mean!
― Surmounter, Monday, 27 August 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
"Hounds of Love" is my favourite song she's done by a huge, huge margin. That's not to say that the rest isn't great, just that this song does something amazing for me.
― hobart paving, Monday, 27 August 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
it has that waterfall effect for me, the drums just cascade over...
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link
greatest work of the 20th century
― cutty, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 01:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Thursday, 30 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Truly disappointed. This should have ended with a tie between every song. And Mother Stands For Comfort definitely deserves better.
― Bus Driver Stu, Thursday, 30 August 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
So happy for Cloudbusting, thought I was the only one...
― iago g., Friday, 31 August 2007 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link
My guess is half the people who voted for Running Up That Hill haven't heard the rest of the album and/or it's the only song of hers they're familiar with.
― Bimble, Friday, 31 August 2007 01:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Way too many votes for the first side here.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 31 August 2007 07:56 (sixteen years ago) link
mhmm
― Surmounter, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
PURGE LURKERS
― rogermexico., Friday, 31 August 2007 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
geir predicted it
― Surmounter, Friday, 31 August 2007 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
wish i'd voted Waking The Witch now. can yeh not see that little light up there?
― blueski, Friday, 31 August 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Jesus, this thread is impossible to find if you try the words Kate Bush on the search engine. Or if you try anything like "Hounds Of Love" just forget it. A ZILLION posts on ILE about Dubya will get in the way. Just type "Hounds" that is the way. Only the word "Hounds".
Anyway I wasn't planning to go all mental about this album in particular, but today I heard a few random passages in my head from the Ninth Wave side of the album and it gave me pause. So tonight I am listening to the entire album all over again from start to finish because of that and this thread. I think the songs I heard snippets of in my head earlier today were "Watching You Without Me" and "Mother Stands For Comfort", yes those were the two. And normally this doesn't happen to me at all. I honestly don't give any thought to this album anymore, not in many years. But I cherish a thread like this to show me the way to experience it one more time, almost like it was new.
― Bimble, Saturday, 8 September 2007 05:18 (sixteen years ago) link
amen.
― Surmounter, Saturday, 8 September 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
The Oct 23 Beats in Space uses "Running Up That Hill" or some remix thereof and does a killer job of it. I may pee myself. Oh ... there ... it happened. Oh.
― lukas, Thursday, 1 November 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
nice to see such a high placing for 'hello earth'
fun fact about the source of the choral piece she used for that song:
- A different recording of "Zinzkaro", the Georgian folk song performed on the film's soundtrack by the Vocal Ensemble Gordela, was used by Kate Bush in the song "Hello Earth" on her 1985 album Hounds of Love.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_the_Vampyre
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 1 November 2007 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
(I always thought she'd written it, but when it turned up again on "Tale 3 - Lento arabesco" from Goran Bregovic's 'Songs and Tales from Weddings and Funerals' it occurred to me it was a traditional, and then Herzog used the Vocal Ensemble Gordela version during the plague sequence of 'Nosferatu')
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 1 November 2007 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link
http://vinyluniverse.gemm.com/item/GORDELA/GEORGIAN--FOLK--SONGS/GML1415517606/ http://www.discogs.com/release/1072318
hmmm
pressing of 500 copies on Melodiya
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 1 November 2007 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Apparently the remix of Running Up That Hill that floored me was the Ashley Beedle re-edit. You can stream it here:
http://discofromouterspace.blogspot.com/2007/09/kate-bush-running-up-that-hill-beedle.html
or (shh!) download it here:
http://www.pinglewood.com/2007/September/Raising_Hell.html
― lukas, Friday, 2 November 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
http://d332.com/posh/2007/02/20/ten-degrees-of-separation-the-global-search-for-vok-ansambl-gordela-ensemble-gordella-ensemble-gordelas-tshintsharo-zinskaro-zinzkaro-cin-skaro-from-kate-bushs-richard-hickox-singers-version-of-werner/
"Thanks to Werner Herzog" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4GKEnScx54
Hamlet Gonashvili - "Cincyaro" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCevhoumT0E
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 13 March 2008 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy hell, no way, man. That is...I don't have any words for that. The Nosferatu clip alone is...holy jesus of atheism if that isn't the most amazing thing I've seen/heard in my life. I struggle with why I have not yet seen that film. Surely I know who Werner Herzog is and would have seen it in his section at the store, but the only Nosferatu I've seen is the one from the 1920's or whatever. I shall make a trip the video shop on Saturday for sure.
I read the whole story you linked, too, even though I don't normally have the patience to read that kind of thing. Very rewarding ending.
In other news, I recently ordered the This Woman's Work box set. I've never owned it in all these years! I feel like a virgin, I do!
― Bimble, Friday, 14 March 2008 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, Surmounter to thread PRONTO!
― Bimble, Friday, 14 March 2008 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Ok I'd have never seen this coming but Mother Stands For Comfort is my favorite Kate Bush song
― Bus Driver Stu, Friday, 14 March 2008 09:09 (sixteen years ago) link
weird! about that research, milton. cool. i'd love to explore more stuff along those lines, that piece is absolutely beautiful. the clip of the movie is way creepy.
― Surmounter, Saturday, 29 March 2008 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd better buy that Gordela LP soon.
I did buy the Hamlet Gonashvili CD 'Hamlet', it's on Amazon. The version of 'Tsintskaro' is beautiful. About a third of the songs actually use the same traditional chord sequence that Kate borrowed for 'Hello Earth' -- it keeps coming back, with different vocal lines spun over it, threading the album together. The continuity also reminds me a lot of early plainchant -- but unlike many recordings of Perotin or Chant Cistercien, it's closer to song form and the performance is closer to living folk music as opposed to 'early music' performed with historical reverence (not that I don't love the 2 CDs I linked)
if you like that kind of choral music & you like Herzog, this is in my top 3 favorites of his: http://www.amazon.com/Gesualdo-Death-Voices-Pasquale-DOnofrio/dp/B00005UQ8L
― Milton Parker, Sunday, 30 March 2008 06:36 (sixteen years ago) link
'Watching you without me' was always my favourite. Not too popular on here.
It was two different albums too. God, how dull am I?
― Fer Ark, Sunday, 30 March 2008 10:59 (sixteen years ago) link
that song is brilliant, love the lyrics about the ghost
― cutty, Sunday, 30 March 2008 11:40 (sixteen years ago) link
tonight's sleep playlist: Under Ice Mother Stands For Comfort The Fog
― Bus Driver Stu, Sunday, 30 March 2008 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm buying Hamlet now. so
excited
― Surmounter, Sunday, 30 March 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm sitting in my office with the window wide open. gorgeous gray day, cool, with a breeze. suddenly i hear a chorus of men's voices. i go to the window, trying to make them out in the wind, and listen for a few minutes. finally, i realize, Hamlet's been playing very softly in iTunes.
― Surmounter, Friday, 4 July 2008 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
this album
― Tape Store, Saturday, 23 August 2008 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
yes?
― I know, right?, Saturday, 23 August 2008 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
lol i kept telling chris to make it past running up that hill
― Surmounter, Saturday, 23 August 2008 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
actually isn't that the problem for both of you?
I think that song accounts for 90% of my Kate Bush listening, at least.
― I know, right?, Saturday, 23 August 2008 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
it was the 1st song i heard on my own, like apart from my mom. but dude you need to listen to the title track.
uh, or CLOUDBUSTING
tiarnan you need to listen to cloudbusting now.
― Surmounter, Saturday, 23 August 2008 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't I'm listening to Royal Trux and nothing is gonna tear me away!
― I know, right?, Saturday, 23 August 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
ok i'll listen to it :D
― Surmounter, Saturday, 23 August 2008 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
you know what you should do, is burn me a copy of Tusk and mail it to me. that'd be fun for you!
― Surmounter, Saturday, 23 August 2008 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/ani060.gif
there's something so irresistibly blatant about that comment!
― I know, right?, Saturday, 23 August 2008 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
ramzi, whaaa? i've always loved this album! i just hadn't heard any other kate bush albums!
― Tape Store, Saturday, 23 August 2008 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link
whew!
― Surmounter, Saturday, 23 August 2008 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link
ur like my yoyo that glows in the dark
now cloudbusting was definitely the first song that blew my mind
― Surmounter, Saturday, 23 August 2008 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
the strings in the 2nd verse are perfect
― Surmounter, Saturday, 23 August 2008 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link