― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx says DANCE!! TAKE A CHANCE!!! are you ready for... TRUE ROMANCE (baa, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mika, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link
The sheer intensity of the slowburn builds in "Sunset" and "Nocturne" and "Aerial" is just incredible.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― bugged out, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― bugged out, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx says DANCE!! TAKE A CHANCE!!! are you ready for... TRUE ROMANCE (baa, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Hello? This is Kate Bush we're talking about! Since when has "cheese" been an optional extra?
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx says DANCE!! TAKE A CHANCE!!! are you ready for... TRUE ROMANCE (baa, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post exactly.
"Somewhere In Between" reminds me of Marillion's Afraid of Sunlight!
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost
― Baaderonixx says DANCE!! TAKE A CHANCE!!! are you ready for... TRUE ROMANCE (baa, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link
COMPLETELY otm... "naffness" is a great word, innit?
― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link
If she'd just released A Sea of Honey by itself I think I'd be a bit underwhelmed ... but... A Sky of Honey is a work of genius.
Tim OTM here, I think. (Based on one listen only, mind)
Despite the Don't Put Your Daughter On The Record Mrs Astley! moment on Sky, this could well be her greatest achievement.
"Bertie" the song is as awkward as I'd feared, the only song I actively disliked. Some other bits of Sea are a touch underwhelming. I do like the washing machine song though. And "Pi" is more genius. As others have said, Kate's not just singing numbers, it's how she sings them that's so striking.
― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
I was trying to think of what it reminded me of. The Blue Nile? Talk Talk? And then: of course! It's worthy of Bark Psychosis.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
there's a mournfulness to the whole record that belies the surface joy. it doesn't seem that naive once you look beneath the new-age stuff.
― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx says DANCE!! TAKE A CHANCE!!! are you ready for... TRUE ROMANCE (baa, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link
So, what of the people who don't happen to already like Kate Bush? How will this record speak to them?
― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
otm
― Baaderonixx says DANCE!! TAKE A CHANCE!!! are you ready for... TRUE ROMANCE (baa, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link
You want the honest truth? This thread makes me hope I never have to hear the bloody thing!
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
I find it hard to imagine a non-Kate fan listening to Aerial actually.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Yep
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
I haven't gone back and listened to her old stuff again. But I never found her cheesy before. And I am a Kate Bush fan. I agree with Jerry the Nipper re: eccentricity vs. mushy contentment. A track like Mrs Bartolozzi has that old quality for me. It's wonderful. Too much of the other stuff is bland.
― bugged out, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Dull and insipid: a bland little drama. Having little or no distinctive flavor: bland cooking.
I like a little irritant, a little stimulant, a little flavor, myself :)
― bugged out, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Going back to the discussion about comparisons with earlier LPs...
Most of, say, The Dreaming was Kate identifying a character and then writing a song around her (Houdini's assistant, the wife of an Irish terrorist, etc.)
Over successive later albums, the songs have become more and more about herself, her family and loved ones, I think. Consequently, fewer character studies. Aerial is clearly her least outward-looking record yet. I can understand why people might not respond to that.
― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
there's a word that could use a dictionary definition. pretty meaningless at this point.
― bugged out, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
And A Sky of Honey is so James/Woolf-esque it could be about anyone.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link
not the way i'm using it. i'm trying to challenge the taken-as-a-given belief that easy listening is bad!
― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― bugged out, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link
apparently SOME people here needed to be reminded.
― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
As I recall the diff b/w us Jerry is that I love Maria to bit.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link