A little sumpin' sumpin'.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
yay! thanks!
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 18:01 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
ha
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 02:00 (fifteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
"Big Stripey Lie"!
― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 12:39 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
What's this?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 August 2013 19:25 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
don't want your bullshitjust want your sexuality
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 12 August 2013 20:09 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
nah
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
What one's the Prince collaboration? <3 Constellation so much.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
"Why Should I Love You"
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
i like how ecstatic "why should i love you" is. fun to kinda flail around to
it doesn't live up to the idea of prince/kate but if you ignore that
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
the Prince song "My Computer" (dedicated to Kate Bush) is sweeter
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
i was reminded of "my computer" very recently by an incoherent piece about prince and computers in the awl. made the day great
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
why should I love you might have been better with Prince bothering to do the actual vocals instead of Lenny Henry pretending to be Prince. Maybe not.
― akm, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
promised I wouldn't do this but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbP-dapt09Q
― katherine, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
In Possessed Alex Hahn recounts Prince's conscientious, patient slaughter of Bush's demo.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:30 (ten years ago) link
katherine is killing it: http://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/tagged/kate_bush/chrono
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 August 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
katherine this is really amazing, holy crap
― -- A smile on a dog, Stephen answered, (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 16 August 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
why should i love you is definitely the takeaway here
― surm, Friday, 16 August 2013 22:59 (ten years ago) link
this is finished -- and thanks!
― katherine, Monday, 19 August 2013 02:49 (ten years ago) link
having never known about an alternate version until now, that demo is ten times better than what prince did. not sure why she even wanted prince to do anything to that song anyway.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 25 April 2016 10:08 (eight years ago) link
She didn't really want him to do much: http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/how-prince-met-kate-bush-and-made-why-should-i-love-you.
Bush asked Prince to contribute a few background vocals to a song called “Why Should I Love You”, which she had just recorded in full at Abbey Road Studios. But when Prince received the track, he ignored the intructions and dismantled the entire thing like a crazed mechanic taking apart old cars on his backyard. He wanted to inject himself into the very heart of it, weaving his sound amongst her sound, giving it a new soul entirely. As Koppelman explains, “We essentially created a new song on a new piece of tape and then flew all of Kate's tracks back on top of it… Prince stacked a bunch of keys, guitars, bass, etc, on it, and then went to sing background vocals.”
Maybe she was just too polite to turn it down? (I actually like both versions, even though the Prince one is a little bonkers.)
― A nationally known air show announcer/personality (tipsy mothra), Monday, 25 April 2016 14:19 (eight years ago) link
the timeline of this doesn't really match up, but I wonder whether it was prince or kate who was responsible for the album version not being about sex with jesus
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 25 April 2016 15:11 (eight years ago) link