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
there was a really nice, well-written essay, in the last issue of the wire, on the song "cloudbusting."
― jeevves, Saturday, 4 December 2010 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
My hero: Kate Bush by David Mitchell
― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 January 2011 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Much as I love Kate and any deserved publicity she gets in this newfound diva era, I kind of read that and just found myself going "and you're point is?" towards the end. Is that a usual thing with The Guardian - random-esque articles in which some randomite (?) reminisces over why he likes such and such, their virtues, and then fin?
Anyways, that Razzamatazz video is mesmerizing and yet the whole thing with there being children in the background just made lusting slightly awkward.
― heh (kelpolaris), Sunday, 2 January 2011 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OLJFzNPBNg
― balls, Sunday, 2 January 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought maybe this would be about new songs. Ah well.
― katherine (katherinesta), Sunday, 2 January 2011 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
A lost voice of ancient Albion awoken in the modern age
that you NV ;)
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 04:15 (thirteen years ago) link
srsly that word is the twat alarm of 2KX
― Costco Chapel (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 January 2011 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
An ancient Greek poetess stranded in the vapid and empty 'culture' of celebrity
pretty sure this shtick does not work in Wetherspoon's of a Friday night but good luck son
― Costco Chapel (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 January 2011 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
dude wd appreciate the stoic romanticism of a thorough glassing imo
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
David Mitchell isn't a randomite. You could make a case for 'cloud atlas' being the kind of book Kate would write if she was a novelist. Mitchell adoring her makes perfect sense.
― Tim F, Sunday, 2 January 2011 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
His work on 'Peep Show' was pretty good as well...
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 2 January 2011 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i think this sounds very interesting and a bit crackers. maybe she doesn't think these 2 albums in particular were ver given their due. she'd be correct of course i guess. anyway...
KATE BUSH RELEASES “DIRECTOR’S CUT” A NEW ALBUM WHICH SEES HER RE-VISIT A SELECTION OF TRACKS FROM TWO OF HER CLASSIC ALBUMS.
London, 11 March 2011
Kate Bush releases an unusual new album “Director’s Cut” on May 16 on her own label Fish People, in conjunction with EMI.
On “Directors Cut” Kate revisits a selection of tracks from her albums “The Sensual World” and “The Red Shoes”, a process that presents a fascinating portrait of an artist in a constant state of evolution. She has re-recorded some elements whilst keeping the best musical performances of each song – making it something of a director’s cut but in sound, not vision.
A new version of “Deeper Understanding” will be released as a single in April. Although written some twenty years ago, the song may be more relevant today than ever…
Kate is currently working on new material although no release date has been set for this.
“Director’s Cut” will be released in the following formats:
Digital Album, Standard CD in a case-bound book, Deluxe CD (three disc package, including Director’s Cut, The Sensual Word and re-mastered The Red Shoes) in a case-bound book and two-disc vinyl.
Other digital and vinyl formats will be made available on katebush.com. Details will be published shortly.
http://www.katebush.com/
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amazing to think there's not been a decent Best Of / Greatest Hits album in almost 25 years. especially seeing as she's on EMI and all.
― piscesx, Friday, 11 March 2011 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
haha so it's not actually a new new album
sure it'll be nice but can't get excited about reissues really
― lex pretend, Friday, 11 March 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
ah, but she is very wise..
"The Red Shoes" got the most 'unexcited' reviews she ever had, and putting them in with "The Sensual World" which got the most (ahem) excited ones, sounds like all this stuff will get fashioned into something better.
(I don't own either, and really don't know either either)
― Mark G, Friday, 11 March 2011 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
And, of course, she won't feel the need to break cover and appear anywhere to publicise these, right?
― Mark G, Friday, 11 March 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah these are pretty much my least favourite Kate Bush records so hopefully something great will come out of it. The Sensual World in particular would benefit from being re-recorded and re-arranged Aerial-style.
― Matt DC, Friday, 11 March 2011 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Would be incredible to hear Wuthering Heights redone (not that there's anything wrong with it!). But imo those are pretty safe albums to re-sing... I'm still curious as to whether Kate can still belt or not. Aerial was fairly mellow, on the vocal range...
― yeah (kelpolaris), Friday, 11 March 2011 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
the sensual world is perfect and fine, red shoes is like, 1/2 good. so I hope for some improvement there but resent the fucking with Sensual World. Also, the three disc package: are both albums remastered or just red shoes? don't get it.
way to get all sylvian on us, re-recording and arranging things. ugly cover art too. bah.
― akm, Friday, 11 March 2011 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Would be incredible to hear Wuthering Heights redone (not that there's anything wrong with it!)
she resung it for the whole story i think - it's less shrill, i guess i'm used to the original though.
are there any examples of an artist redoing their back catalogue that are actually significant improvements (i'm talking "omg this is great" rather than "this is just nice") on the originals? when tori amos did it, it was pretty much entirely ignorable.
― lex pretend, Friday, 11 March 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost
tbh Kate Bush is in my top 5 regarded artists, but I've never liked any of her cover art. Hounds of Love looks like it was done in Microsoft Wordhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/eb/Hounds_of_love.jpg/220px-Hounds_of_love.jpg
― yeah (kelpolaris), Friday, 11 March 2011 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
but that's what you get when you're under EMI. I sorta doubt she has any authority over her covers at all. I mean, look at this one:http://pixhost.info/avaxhome/fa/88/000e88fa_medium.jpegGAWD
― yeah (kelpolaris), Friday, 11 March 2011 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
"My face is orbiting the sun!"
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Friday, 11 March 2011 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
cant wait to hear the new version of 'deeper understanding'the original is soo cringeworthily awesome
― throwing darts and eating pizza behind impenetrable walls (diamonddave85), Friday, 11 March 2011 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
editing myself, she's currently on Legacy records. Which strikes me as weird/unsurprising that some corporate schmuck from Sony would be getting paid $45/hour to take a picture of a film roll and overlay KB's name atop. What genius!!
― yeah (kelpolaris), Friday, 11 March 2011 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
lolwut @ that "and so is love" cover
― lex pretend, Friday, 11 March 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
xxp surely it's the Sun orbiting Kate's face? Damn you and your warped heliocentric views!
― a murder rap to keep ya dancin, with a crime record like Keith Chegwin (snoball), Friday, 11 March 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I've never liked any of her cover art
I love the cover of The Dreaming. Nothing wrong with Sensual World or Aerial either.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 11 March 2011 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
sensual world, dreaming, the kite version of the kick inside are all good. lionheart is good too in a cheesy 70's way.
― akm, Friday, 11 March 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Nothing wrong, but nothing great. Faces. The album art seems more like a chronology of her hairstyles than, like her music, works of art.
Aerial was at least a departure, altho again, the text is shoddy and the whole thing looks like it literally took about 25minutes.
― yeah (kelpolaris), Friday, 11 March 2011 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
just saying she deserves much better
― yeah (kelpolaris), Friday, 11 March 2011 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
can't believe the Bush cover art is getting dissed. The Dreaming is a classic and the Hounds photo is brilliant too!
― piscesx, Friday, 11 March 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
The Sensual World The Red Shoes in particular would benefit from being re-recorded and re-arranged
FTFY. The ugly, hollow production on The Red Shoes really spoils the album for me.
are there any examples of an artist redoing their back catalogue that are actually significant improvements (i'm talking "omg this is great" rather than "this is just nice") on the originals?
Raw Power, though I know some will vehemently disagree.
I feel a thread coming on!
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 12 March 2011 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.vinylsearcher.com/largeImages/23570976.jpg
If you don't like the cover for Never for Ever, I don't understand you! Kate as a bat lady on the back cover is also awesome.
http://www.bloodsprayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/kate_bush_bat-wings.jpg
― Buff Orpington (Abbbottt), Saturday, 12 March 2011 01:05 (thirteen years ago) link
^ actually, that would be 2nd favorite behind Lionhearthttp://991.com/NewGallery/Kate-Bush-Lionheart-275771.jpgand Eat The Music is a cool departurehttp://rsindex.pictures-hosting.com/2009-12-02/000e8868_medium.jpeg
but for the rest of them, it's always just some facial of Kate w/ a different costume/hair-do. They capture her personality, sure, but they're so damn boringhttp://gaffa.org/sensual/p_ruth2.jpg
and really I'm arguing for little cause here... apart from that I desperately hope that the Director's Cut album's artwork is only a conceptual. Because it's the biggest snooze I've ever possibly seen.
― yeah (kelpolaris), Saturday, 12 March 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i was going to post aerial to refute the original claim because i remembered it as being Cool but then i looked it up and saw the photoshop lens flare and sheepishly left the thread
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 12 March 2011 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.katebushnews.com/wp-content/uploads/directorscut2.jpg
― Mark G, Saturday, 12 March 2011 12:32 (thirteen years ago) link
and it's not like the stills within the film are any interesting. it's artwork from other albums.
bahhh whatever. guess i'll deal.
― yeah (kelpolaris), Saturday, 12 March 2011 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5UsjqXXcZ4
some of the old school fans are pretty pissed about this! lot of ranting about kate using a 'voice coder'. obviously not quite realising she's pretending to be a computer.
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Monday, 4 April 2011 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5100/5448294272_150c939581_m.jpg
― Mark G, Monday, 4 April 2011 10:52 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah not quite sure whats up with that
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Monday, 4 April 2011 11:05 (thirteen years ago) link
oh sorry yes its her new vanity isn't it?
Director’s Cut will be released 16 May and will be available for pre-order from iTunes tomorrow. There has been a lot of speculation about the track list with many people trying to guess which tracks will feature on the album. Well, we can now confirm that the final track list is...
Flower of the Mountain (previously ‘The Sensual World’)
Song of Solomon
Deeper Understanding
Lily
Red Shoes
This Woman’s Work
Moments of Pleasure
Never Be Mine
Top of The City
And So Is Love
Director's Cut will be released on 16 May 2011 and will be available to pre-order from iTunes from tomorrow (5th April). Anyone who pre-orders from iTunes will instantly receive the full length version of "Deeper Understanding" as a thank you!
― Sittin' Fran (donna rouge), Monday, 4 April 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
this is weird haha
― diamonddave85, Monday, 4 April 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
these are all really undemanding songs in terms of vocals. gonna be a really mellow album, this.
― kelpolaris, Monday, 4 April 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
im really stoked to hear 'flower of the mountain' as 'the sensual world' is one of my favorites
― diamonddave85, Monday, 4 April 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Serge Gainsbourg? Imaginez.
― fetter, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 20:02 (three weeks ago) link