kate bush "aerial"

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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

And I love that she's still channelling James Joyce like crazy.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link

kate bush is bugfuck insane. i believe in britain they call it "mad."

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 November 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link

We call it "slightly eccentric". In my local pub we call it "being a regular".

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Thursday, 3 November 2005 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link

ha, in all her interviews she is like, "i'm normal, i really am, look!"

it's like in a film where a superhero has retired and is pretending to be someone else. she IS bugfuck insane!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 3 November 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link

"i am normal! slooshy sloshy!"

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 November 2005 00:13 (eighteen years ago) link

it's not until the final song where her insanity is brought to the surface, i would say probably when she starts laughing maniacally with the birds.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 3 November 2005 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link

"Slooshy Sloshy" is Finnegans Wake, I'm sure. Probably from "Anna Livia Plurabelle". She def'nitely (mis)quotes FW in "Bertie" when she sings "Here Comes Everything". And if the second disc really is a cyclical night-story/dream-story then it's structured like FW too.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Thursday, 3 November 2005 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link

And now I've gone back to "Bertie" to check that lyric and just noticed for the first time the whole "hey-nonny-no" madrigalesqueness of it, and the little micro-accelerations and decelerations it keeps making.

Okay. She's bugfuck insane.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Thursday, 3 November 2005 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Curiouser and curiouser

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Thursday, 3 November 2005 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link

"Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) composed his final three solo piano sonatas in
London from 1794 to 1796. Of the three, the E-flat major sonata holds a
special place in both popularity and influence. The manuscript shows the
three sonatas dedicated to Theresa Jansen, a young and talented pianist,
not yet thirty years old. Miss Jansen (soon to be Mrs. Bartolozzi), who was
a star student of Clementi and a good friend of Haydn's, received more
dedications from the composer than anyone else. Strangely enough the Eflat
sonata was first published by Artaria & Co., Vienna, in December 1798
with a dedication to Mademoiselle Madalaine von Kurzbock while Mrs.
Bartolozzi was living in France. It is not known if Haydn had provided the
manuscript, but if he did he may have expected the chaos of the
Napoleonic wars to prevent word from getting around. However, Mrs. Bartolozzi made an
unexpected trip to Vienna around the same time, and upon seeing her sonata already printed
acted very quickly to announce and publish, 'A New Grand Sonata for the Piano Forte composed
Expressly for Mrs. Bartolozzi by Joseph Haydn, M.D. Op. 78.'"

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Thursday, 3 November 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, I'm loving this.

Getting a strong whiff of Stevie Nicks off of "How To Be Invisible" - what Fleetwood Mac song is it reminding me of? "Sisters of the Moon"? Think it's the "oooooohh, ooohh, oooohhh" backing vox.

Did Richard Thompson play on this? Some of the guitar work is very reminiscent. Side B reminds me of The The, incredibly.

Also: Rolf Harris!

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 3 November 2005 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I hate to keep comparing it to other things, 'cos this album is Kate Bush thru and thru, but: the first half of 'Nocturn' is very Janet Jackson.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 3 November 2005 03:17 (eighteen years ago) link

like i said, joni mitchell!

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 November 2005 03:56 (eighteen years ago) link

So it's basically just another one of those Robert Wyatt-meets-James Joyce-meets Janet Jackson-meets-Joni Mitchell-meets-Fleetwood Mac-meets-The The-meets-Roxy Music sort of records?

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 3 November 2005 04:01 (eighteen years ago) link

dime a dozen, those things.

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 November 2005 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link

She's obviously been listening to The Streets as well, NO I'M KIDDING

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 3 November 2005 04:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Why does the bass playing on "How to Be Invisible" NOT SOUND LIKE MICK KARN AT ALL? I mean what's the point of getting him to play on the track if he plays those simple lines?

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Thursday, 3 November 2005 05:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Perhaps Kate was trying to challenge your expectations of Mick Karn? aaahhhh

Failing that, maybe it's not really Mick Karn playing the bass on that track?

In any case, you seem to be obsessed with Mick Karn. Jesus man, why don't you just marry Mick Karn? (Forgive me, I'm just foolin')

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 3 November 2005 05:48 (eighteen years ago) link

:)))

― Mick Karn (Øystein), Thursday, 3 November 2005 06:27 (eighteen years ago) link

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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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