can't imagine loving hounds of love and not love the dreaming, that is extremely wacky
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 May 2016 01:06 (eight years ago) link
I was the same for a couple years.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 May 2016 01:14 (eight years ago) link
For me it's kinda impossible to choose between aerial, hounds of love and the dreaming.And I have great admiration for red shoes. Saw her singing lily in London was one of the best things that happened in my life.
― Nourry, Thursday, 5 May 2016 01:30 (eight years ago) link
The Dreaming is fine and an above average, even great, album in the bigger picture. But, as a Kate Bush record, it's just middle tier.
― Austin, Thursday, 5 May 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link
^^^^ Burn the witch
― Tim F, Thursday, 5 May 2016 02:13 (eight years ago) link
xp GET OUT OF MY HOUSE
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Thursday, 5 May 2016 14:27 (eight years ago) link
And next, on "Spot the Radiohead Fan", we have..
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 May 2016 14:31 (eight years ago) link
oh my god the performance of a sky of honey on before the dawn
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 15 December 2017 00:13 (six years ago) link
great flamenco drop in "sunset"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 15 December 2017 00:32 (six years ago) link
so I’ve done a bit of research and it turns out this album is amazing
― k3vin k., Sunday, 24 December 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
prob a controversial opinion but i think it’s her best work, hard to definitively say with a discography that includes never for ever, the dreaming, and hounds of love, but a sky of honey just flows in a way that i rarely hear an album flow, advancing gradually and almost unconsciously through its moods and motifs like a day advancing through its hours
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 24 December 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
a sky of honey is certainly my favourite thing she's done
― ufo, Monday, 25 December 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link
After Hounds of Love, I'd have no issue calling this her best work.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Monday, 25 December 2017 01:03 (six years ago) link
The Dreaming will always be my favorite, but I'd put Aerial with it and Hounds as her masterworks.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 25 December 2017 01:10 (six years ago) link
Haha I feel like 2017 is the year that Kevin fell in love with all my favourite white domestic music.
― Tim F, Monday, 25 December 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
"washing machine.... washing machine" <3 <3 <3
― brimstead, Monday, 25 December 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
album deserves a reissue and a repush IMO.
― akm, Monday, 25 December 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
(and a revised pfork review)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 25 December 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
listening to this right now!
this album came out right when I was first spending a lot of time on ILX, I remember it being a big deal that this thread got to 1000 posts.
I think you can make a good case for this being in her best album, top 3 at minimum.
― sleeve, Monday, 25 December 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
I worked in music retail when this album dropped and the roll-out was massive. Listening parties, tons of copies on the shelf, and it got on the store best seller list pretty quick. I imagine it was more massive in the UK, but it definitely brought out a lot of canadian fans, and some people who admitted blankly they didn't get kate bush too.
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 25 December 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
One of the last event albums released before downloading/streaming took over.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 December 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
did pfork pan this? you should correct that b nelson
― akm, Monday, 25 December 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
Now includes less RolF
http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/kate-bush-removes-rolf-harris-from-the-2018-remaster-of-her-album-aerial/
― piscesx, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
will be nice to listen to my favorite work of art and not think of rolf harris
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
yeah that's good news. actually i;d be fine just excising that voiceover entirely since it annoys me regardless of whether it's spoken by a pedo or not.
― akm, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
I had not heard abt that, good for Kate
― sleeve, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
will i be able to buy the aerial remaster individually? or do i need to buy the box..
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
It was only a matter of time before this happened - the fans have been generally been quite vocal about wanting to see these kind of changes being made!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
Is this sort of artistic revisionism common? Are there other examples of this happening?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
I've heard of things like Zappa overdubbing new bass and drums onto We're Only In It For the Money to "freshen" the album up (that version sounds weird to me now) or Sharon Osbourne having the bass and drum tracks replaced on Blizzard of Ozz in order to shaft the original performers out of royalties. I guess in both cases there were fans unhappy with the precious originals being fucked with, but in the case of Aerial it definitely feels like an exception to the rule. I can't think of many others albums where this has been done for similar reasons. Films or TV shows, maybe.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
*other
Genesis fans have wanted Jonathan King removed from their debut since before they knew he was a sex offender
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
From what I can gather, Genesis fans generally pretend that first album doesn't exist!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
Will she get rid of him from The Dreaming too i wonder?
― piscesx, Thursday, 8 November 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
She hasn't, apparently.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 8 November 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
he didn't have vocals on the Dreaming, just, uh didgeridoo?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 8 November 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
washing machine
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 September 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
tfw i first heard kate bush sing “washing machine” and i briefly believed humanity could save itself from oblivion
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 September 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
"A Coral Room" made me cry with joy this morning.
― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, November 2, 2005
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 September 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
Funny, I was listening to the Post episode of the Björk podcast earlier today and was delighted to hear her reference "Mrs. Bartolozzi":
This is the world where Kate Bush released an album around this time where she did one song about being heartbroken, and washing the clothes of her ex-lover, looking inside the washing machine, going in circles and circles, and circles. And I remember like reading—I should’ve kept that review by some rock guy—like, talking so down on it like it was third class music, just because she was writing about the washing machine, you know. It was so sexist, you know. But it was okay to write huge reviews about bands that were singing about tits and beer, and you know, or heroin abuse or—that was okay, you know, but the sort of the inner life of the woman, and the everyday life of a woman was a lesser area, somehow, or a lesser art form.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Friday, 2 September 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
This was one of the more educational threads on ILM. I'd been writing professionally for a few years, thought I was hot shit, shared twaddle about Aerial not "climaxing" and someone criticized me for thinking phallically. The comment astounded me, forcing me to reevaluate a lot of assumptions. Thanks, ILM.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 September 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
It’s quite an astonishing record in its way, the lines about the shirt on the line are so arresting and heartbreaking. Deepest admiration for her commitment to follow the muse absolutely. Although nothing can compel me to sit through “Bertie”.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 3 September 2022 04:24 (one year ago) link
twaddle about Aerial not "climaxing"
she clearly took your criticism into account for before the dawn
― ufo, Saturday, 3 September 2022 04:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_F6FS-SIM0
just noticed this cocteau song is on some proto aerial shit
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 27 March 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
ooh yeah that's very "king of the mountain"
― ufo, Monday, 27 March 2023 09:52 (one year ago) link
“Although nothing can compel me to sit through ‘Bertie’.”
I am exploring Kate Bush’s output chronologically, and already dreading reaching “Aerial” for this reason. Nothing is a bigger turnoff from an artist than them talking about their crotch goblins.
― Melomane, Monday, 27 March 2023 12:45 (one year ago) link
You needn't worry.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 March 2023 12:49 (one year ago) link
aerial is her best album, hardly something to dread
― ufo, Monday, 27 March 2023 13:09 (one year ago) link
i....agree
new katie gately is gonna be more superior mumcore, stoked
― imago, Monday, 27 March 2023 13:11 (one year ago) link
also never use that phrase again ever or else
― imago, Monday, 27 March 2023 13:17 (one year ago) link