kate bush "aerial"

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.

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.

One of the last event albums released before downloading/streaming took over.

did pfork pan this? you should correct that b nelson

Now includes less RolF

http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/kate-bush-removes-rolf-harris-from-the-2018-remaster-of-her-album-aerial/

will be nice to listen to my favorite work of art and not think of rolf harris

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.

I had not heard abt that, good for Kate

will i be able to buy the aerial remaster individually? or do i need to buy the box..

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!

Is this sort of artistic revisionism common? Are there other examples of this happening?

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.

*other