kate bush "aerial"

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

Genesis fans have wanted Jonathan King removed from their debut since before they knew he was a sex offender

From what I can gather, Genesis fans generally pretend that first album doesn't exist!

Will she get rid of him from The Dreaming too i wonder?

She hasn't, apparently.

he didn't have vocals on the Dreaming, just, uh didgeridoo?

washing machine

tfw i first heard kate bush sing “washing machine” and i briefly believed humanity could save itself from oblivion

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

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, November 2, 2005

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.

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.

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”.

twaddle about Aerial not "climaxing"

she clearly took your criticism into account for before the dawn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_F6FS-SIM0

just noticed this cocteau song is on some proto aerial shit

ooh yeah that's very "king of the mountain"

“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.

You needn't worry.

aerial is her best album, hardly something to dread

i....agree

new katie gately is gonna be more superior mumcore, stoked

also never use that phrase again ever or else

I thought "crotch goblins" were crabs.