― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 26 September 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 26 September 2005 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 September 2005 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 September 2005 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 00:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 07:25 (eighteen years ago) link
But yeah, my point was more that if you just heard the first three songs you'd think you were in for an utterly amazing album and instead it's just very good. Coming after The Dreaming and The Hounds of Love it really does feel like a shift down a gear.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 10:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Speaking of corny and trashy, "Heads We're Dancing" is a marvelous addition to her Corny and Trashy Canon; there aren't many songs about dancing with Hitler.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Tim may be right re. The Sensual World -- I'm still trying to get a grip on the whole thing, but the record opens very strong. On the whole, it still sounds a bit...overstuffed -- the video for "Love and Anger" indicated as much, featuring very LUSH optics, sparkly confetti and Dave Gilmour, who himself looks overstuffed. There's certainly some excellent music on here -- "Rocket's Tail", the She's Having a Baby OST, and the astonishing "The Fog", whose arrangement surely must be the late Michael Kamen's finest moment. And "Deeper Understanding"'s chorus is really compelling despite its dopey premise.
Somehow, it kind of feels like a loopy failure. But that's why we love her, I suppose.
More on The Red Shoes in a bit -- "Lily" I've always liked, though I feel much of the record deepens some of The Sensual World's worst transgressions.
Broadening things up a bit, how do we feel about her deployment of rock guitar on both these records and others?
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― bob abernethy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Jeff Beck's solo on "And So is Love" and Clapton's on "You're the One" are fantastic; she tamed these two tasteful menaces. It makes me wonder: what would a Kate Bush-produced album Clapton album sound like?
NB: Bush's own solo on "Big Stripey Lie" suggests she should play more guitar.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link
i thought i had commented on this thread?...
so at first i was like TSW, but now... i dunno.
The Red Shoes kicks ASS for these:
1. Moments of Pleasure 2. Constellation of the Heart 3. Why Should I love You? 4. Song of Solomon
2 and 3 are ridiculously amazing, and the "I'll be the rose of sharon for ya" in Song of Solomon makes me weak at the knees.
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
A little sumpin' sumpin'.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
yay! thanks!
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Dud. I was so let down when this came out and no matter how hard I tried to like it, it just seemed forced and awkward with some of her worst lyrics. I liked "Rubberband Girl" and nothing else. Long since sold.
― Mr. Odd, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link
it took me a really long time too. but RG is not one of my fave traks. im telling u, Constellation and Why Should I love U are magic.
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Wouldn't exactly call it classic although it has its moments. Still her weakest album though.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I remember this one mostly for the real tearjerker ones ("You're the One", "Moments Of Pleasure" [the 'dancing down the aisle of a plane' part gets me every time], "And So Is Love") despite the fact that much of the rest is great as well. Strange that though I like Aerial much more, only one song on all of Aerial does the same kind of thing to me.
But Alfred you had said in your review that with college radio in '93 it was an awkward time and I rather agree with that. I even think there is something undesirable about the production at times on this album (thankfully Aerial comes across much better, more straightforward in this regard). Your review had said "the last time deejays would tolerate the schizophrenic programming of yore" but it wasn't the DJ's who were to blame, it was program directors, major labels getting their sticky fingers into the mess, buyouts of stations by corporations. And hell, I've said before here music itself was in a state of flux. The rot was setting in.
― Bimble, Friday, 21 September 2007 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link
delving back into it!
― Surmounter, Thursday, 8 May 2008 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i think it's the kind of thing: it may be bad, but it's bad for her, which is actually pretty great for someone else
― Surmounter, Thursday, 8 May 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Exactly. Her big personal meltdown record. I'm really sorry more folks can't see why it's so great.
― Bimble, Thursday, 8 May 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
hey there bill
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 01:46 (sixteen years ago) link
ha
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 02:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Top Of The City is wonderful, but my brain wishes there was a version arranged in the style of Hounds Of Love era kate.
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Coming to this album for the first time after being a huge KB fan since I was 16. Not exactly a revelation on the level of finding another chapter of Ulysses, but more like hearing from an old friend you were really close to but hadn't heard from in a while. She could sing the alphabet in a certain tone of voice and I would listen.
Gonna give Aerial another listen as I kind of dismissed it when it came out as "boring".
― I like tv random anything (corey), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"Big Stripey Lie"!
― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 12:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I never warmed to this album for the same reason I never warmed to Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues--the thin, clattery production.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 01:58 (fourteen years ago) link
tho i will rep for some of the tracks on this in a huge way, i will never understand what happened to the production here, or on a lot of the sensual world. coming off the heels of the albums previous, i just don't get it. it's like she understood this making aerial, and turned around and produced something in the warmest, least clattering way possible.
― janice (surm), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
"moments of pleasure" is beautiful
i haven't listened to this album in over a decade and don't recall anything else on it :/
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:09 (fourteen years ago) link
not to overly toot my own horn but I'm covering this on OWOB this week.
― katherine, Monday, 12 August 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
I can't wait! I adore this record.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
What's this?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 August 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
i've said this elsewhere but "top of the city" is probably my favorite kate bush song
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
and this record >>>>>> the sensual world
^^^ my boo
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
It's as uneven but the ease with which I can jump around and find something for any mood ("Big Stripey Lie" for an old-school Bush fix, "Top of the City" for Side B-HOL intensnity, "Rubberband Girl" for heavenly pop hit) give TRS the nod imo.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
don't want your bullshitjust want your sexuality
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 12 August 2013 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
"and this record >>>>>> the sensual world"
no way. but I do like this album more these days than I did when it came out (or any time since).
― akm, Monday, 12 August 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
omigodit's a jungle out there
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 August 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
this sense of humor of mineit isn't funny at all
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
"uneven" i suppose but i think i love every song on this record at this point
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
LIKE A POMEGRANATEINSIDES OUT
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
currently assembling a queer identity theory of "eat the music"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
"constellation of the heart" is i guess poppy and funky but then she has a weird conversation with the choir
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
the Prince collab is one of the duds.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
nah
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
What one's the Prince collaboration? <3 Constellation so much.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, August 12, 2013 12:53 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh look
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 25 December 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
where just a couple of pigeons are livin'
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 December 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
I really enjoyed that katherine thanks for writing it
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 December 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
absolutely love moments of pleasure
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 25 December 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
I’ve often thought of doing a poll: This Woman’s Work vs Moments of Pleasure. I would be upset if Moments lost... so no go.
― Woon... Doopee Time (FlopsyDuck), Monday, 25 December 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
belated, thanks!
my favorite track from this at the moment's probably lily, which says a lot about 2017
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 28 December 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
album has aged better than I expected; I loved it when it came out then went through a long period of thinking it was really duff. but really the only duff track on this is Constellation of the Heart I think, now.
― akm, Thursday, 28 December 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link