kate bush "aerial"

Have to admit that I listened to "Pi" on International Pi Day

I'm hearing this for the first time right now -- sweet Lord, it's good.

Isn't it just? The second half in particular gets better and better the more I hear it.

have been absolutely obsessed with "Nocturn" lately, over & over again

it's after she says the album's title & then the organ note comes in, just destroys. It's the sound of known finality, like if you could experience while sleeping the moment five minutes before your alarm sounds.

def hated joanni at first but there's something about the bass and synths i don't know

pulled me in

it's a very good album.

The piano line on 'Sunset' is maybe my favourite thing, how it never repeats. Every time I listen it's always a surprise.

This album has aged exceptionally.

it sure has

it was a big deal when this thread hit 1000 posts, my how ILX has grown

If you go to the album on Spotify, it has disc two of the album listed as one fourty minute track titled 'A Sea of Honey.' Interesting.

And Director's Cut isn't even on Spotify anymore. Hmph.

Spotify is right... it is bonkers to listen to only part of a Sea of Honey, you always listen to the whole thing!

Oh wait, Spotify is wrong... it's a Sky of Honey that's disc two, isn't it. That's the good one.

Indeed.

it's a Sky of Honey that's disc two, isn't it. That's the good one.

which makes Sea of Honey what? rude.

I never listen to Sea of Honey really.

maybe this is my favorite kate bush album

Hmm, Hounds of Love is too good to be anything other than #1. But, I would have no reservations about putting Aerial at or around the #2 spot.

currently fixated on how del palmer's (i assume) bass follows the ascending piano phrase in "prologue"

The Ninth Wave vs a Sky of Honey is a v. difficult call, may not be possible to rank.

i think what unites them is their tendency toward dreaminess or unstable realities but there's ofc a drama and terror in ninth wave that is completely absent from sky of honey which is more concerned with the integrity of its flow than ninth wave, which exploits its dissonances

in other words i think they do different things with equal efficacy

The Dreaming = Hounds of Love > everything else > The Red Shoes

as i have said in like five other kate bush threads i prefer the red shoes to the sensual world. the dreaming was always my favorite though

don't understand anyone who doesn't rank sensual world very high

although, I like the red shoes more now than I ever did. I was so disappointed when it came out.

listening to the sensual world right now, original vinyl release. incredible album imo.

mmmm yes

I will never understand the gushing love that The Dreaming receives.

^^^ hellish dystopian vision

. . .where The Dreaming is considered among her best work?

Yes, I agree.

can't imagine loving hounds of love and not love the dreaming, that is extremely wacky

I was the same for a couple years.

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.

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.

^^^^ Burn the witch

xp GET OUT OF MY HOUSE

And next, on "Spot the Radiohead Fan", we have..

oh my god the performance of a sky of honey on before the dawn

great flamenco drop in "sunset"

so I’ve done a bit of research and it turns out this album is amazing

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

a sky of honey is certainly my favourite thing she's done

After Hounds of Love, I'd have no issue calling this her best work.

The Dreaming will always be my favorite, but I'd put Aerial with it and Hounds as her masterworks.

Haha I feel like 2017 is the year that Kevin fell in love with all my favourite white domestic music.

"washing machine.... washing machine" <3 <3 <3

album deserves a reissue and a repush IMO.

(and a revised pfork review)

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.