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Off to the Aerial promo party in a couple hours. I am also excited!

Wow, she gave birth to her son at 41. Not that bizarre, of course, but cool nonetheless.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link

shit i got to get home ASAP

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link

got the runs?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link

shit has leaked
it seems you do have the runs, sorry to bring it up.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link

i wanna go to the aerial promo party!

3.2%

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link

are you only 3.2% interested in going to the party?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

oink!

― heywood jablomi (heywood), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link

no, 3.2% committed to thieving this album at the present moment

wait 12%

100% interested in party!

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, what I want for Christmas is a one-off live performance of "Aerial" (the song) with Gilmour on guitar. Pretty please?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link

On first listen, Aerial sounds like a good substitute for sleeping pills. I'm going to give it a second and third chance, 'cause, you know, respect to Kate and all, but this veers dangerously close to Windham Hill territory in places.

― John Hunter, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link

it's exactly what i wanted! so weird in places, like her growling on (i think) 'a coral room'...
i'm so excited that this album is not just good but great!

― heywood jablomi (heywood), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Someone's gotta hook up the YSI!! Or at least slsk...can't find it anywhere.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link

this veers dangerously close to Windham Hill territory in places

hmm, that NYT article used the phrase "soft jazz". well, I didn't expect her to come out rocking. i'm still looking forward to it.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link

shadowfax revival begins now

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I'M ABOUT TO LIGHT SOME INCENSE, SMOKE SOME WEED, AND BRO DOWN WITH KATE.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link

keep us posted, for reals

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:18 (eighteen years ago) link

it was on slsk for a while, i got PI and bertie. hmmm.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link

kate bush reads pi vs. ned raggett reads pi

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link

whatever review that said this album sounds dated is totally wrong.

"how to be invisible" is amazing.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm highly disappointed with "How to Be Invisible" because it's supposed to have Mick Karn on bass...doesn't sound like him at all! The bassist plays like 3 notes total...where are the slides?

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=27S115X0SP07O1UEHDNS6ANR2Q

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 01:33 (eighteen years ago) link

so far "nocturn" is the greatest.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:05 (eighteen years ago) link

hmm, actually the title track may be even better.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:08 (eighteen years ago) link

kate bush, do you like JONI MITCHELL?

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:13 (eighteen years ago) link

In 'Nocturn', the air is pushed out of your lungs as you cower helplessly before the crescendo. 'Aerial', meanwhile, is a totally unexpected ecstatic disco meltdown that could teach both Madonna and Alison Goldfrapp lessons in dancefloor abandon.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:14 (eighteen years ago) link

OTM.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:14 (eighteen years ago) link

kate laughing at a bird

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:34 (eighteen years ago) link

"Pi" is the first one I can't get enough of

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:48 (eighteen years ago) link

ok, so i am drunk and can't remember all the tracks i heard tonight and the party was wicked but kinda weird (dancers descending from the rafters of the uber-modernised warehouse, swinging around, etc), but i really liked this album! my first thought was: the single is easily the worst track i have heard so far. why did they pick "king of the mountain" as the single? i found it sooo weak compared with other really strong tracks... more thoughts later - off to listen to the whole thing now...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 04:02 (eighteen years ago) link

also can't believe how thick i am that i didn't clock the album art as an image of a sound wavefile right away.. duh

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link

After a couple listens, I'm convinced that this album is the Avalon of the decade.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link

this is better than i ever dared to hope for.

― bove, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 10:35 (eighteen years ago) link

also can't believe how thick i am that i didn't clock the album art as an image of a sound wavefile right away.. duh

otm!

― bove (bove), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link

-- cutty

360 posts new thread of EXCITEMENT!

Any Joni influence is absolutely fine by me.

― login name (fandango), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Is it okay with everybody if I just scream and roll around on the floor for a few days before I try and formulate an articulate response?

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 11:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Joni... Avalon... The comparisons are making me drool... A 'Hissing of Summer Lawns' for the noughties??
When is this coming out anyway?

― Baaderonixx says DANCE!! TAKE A CHANCE!!! are you ready for... TRUE ROMANCE (baa, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 11:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Monday.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 11:21 (eighteen years ago) link

winrar > repair archive. btw.

― helpful bastard, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link

(doesn't work. bugger.)

― helpful bastard, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Monday!

― helpful bastard, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link

i drifted in and out of sleep listening to this last night and as a result can't really tell what was real and what was imagined and dreamed, but it was awfully good

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I have to say that I'm very pleased with this album.
Nothing's ever going to be Hounds of Love but this is much better than her last two.

― Alex H (Alex Henreid), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link

"A Coral Room" made me cry with joy this morning.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm not so sure about it, it is awfully twee at times, isn't it? but I wasn't sure about the Sensual World at first either and that's now my favorite album. It is undoubtedly better than the Red Shoes though. I'm sure it will grow on me. My fear was that it's been so long I've kind of moved past her, but I don't think that's the case.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Right, the first side, well it's great, isn't it? Okay, "washing machine, washing machine", not so good, Kate, but the other songs are actually really good. "Bertie" actually works! "Pi" is fantastic! "A Coral Room" is beautiful! Oh, I am the small child who adored his Babooshka 45 again...

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

No way, the washing machine song is fantastic. Gave me a terrific "what the hell" moment this morning, especially the lyric about standing in the water with the waves between her legs.

Also digging the duets with the bird.

― save the robot (save the robot), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, the rest of the song's good, but it hasn't moved from being WTF into "really good wtf" yet.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I FEEL I WANNA BE UP ON THE ROOF
I WANNA BE UP UP ON THE ROOF

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link

the washing machine song is great actually. is this about a dead spouse?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks retort.

On first listen this hits me like a Robert Wyatt records, all space and voice and subdued yet gripping.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link

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― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link

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

three years pass...

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

six months pass...

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

I thought "crotch goblins" were crabs.

― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 March 2023 13:19 (one year ago) link

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