Now's about the time of day I like to change into the Mule.
― blueski, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
the 'I am the concierge chez-moi, honey' bit is particularly beautiful
― blueski, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
i know i can never resist chiming in with her there
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
it's funny cuz it's not obviously like an emotional song, but one day i was listening to it and i really got the emotional intensity of it - the intensity of what it is to be by yourself in your house.
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
thing i like abt "get out of my house" = the incredibly startling scream she lets out right before the male voice (ghost?) comes in
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
yay my fave tied for first and I didn't even vote
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i tend to associate this album w/ a time when i was feeling anxious (in a bad way) about lots of things so i still get this sort of knot in my stomach whenever i hear that track in particular
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost "get out of my house" i mean
suspended in gaffa fuiud
― cankles, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
well, it is definitely a disturbed track, so it's no surprise you've attached it to a disturbed frame of mind
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know why I'm crying
― Poll Wall (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 09:25 (fifteen years ago) link
― Surmounter, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:25 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
not really sure how i could ever say that "get out of my house" isn't an obviously emotional song...
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I never really stopped to think what that song might be about, but I guess like many songs, it could be a lot of things. I just love the breathless back-and-forth, barely controlled intensity of the way she sings on that, and it makes it fun to sing along. So dramatic.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
how did i miss this poll, what the hell
suspended in gaffa is easily in my top 3 songs all-thyme, right there with hunger strike and total eclipse of the heart
― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL Kate threads
― lucked up (lukas), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
one of my fav lines on the album : "if you go
i'll let the law know"
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
― cankles, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 1:34 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
oh, i DIDNT miss this thread
― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
A Hounds of Love poll would be much more high-stakes for me: i'd be shattered if I was the only person to vote for "Hello, Earth", but curiously uncomfortable if it won.
― Tim F, Friday, August 10, 2007 4:11 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this post made me LOL for some reaason
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
we are waiting
― Surmounter, Friday, 10 April 2009 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link
we got the job sussed
n this shop's shut for business
― Surmounter, Friday, 10 April 2009 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
the synths there are like a sea of questions.
(under "we are waiting")
― Surmounter, Friday, 10 April 2009 10:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, my buddy has decided he's totally in love with Kate on the basis of his recent discovery of Hounds of Love, but until he learns to appreciate this album he's not really a Kate fan at all in my book.
― To Float Away On A Lifelong Song (Bimble), Friday, 10 April 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
still a fucked up album
― surm, Thursday, 27 March 2014 00:09 (ten years ago) link
and still one of the best vocal deliveries ever on "if you go, i'll let the law know"
― surm, Thursday, 27 March 2014 00:24 (ten years ago) link
Pull Out The Pin, Leave It Open, Sat In Your Lap and There Goes A Tenner are my favorites. This or Aerial must be her best album.
― jay., Thursday, 27 March 2014 08:29 (ten years ago) link
wtf @ firstly, me missing this poll and secondly, "leave it open" coming last. easily my pick
― lex pretend, Thursday, 27 March 2014 09:08 (ten years ago) link
Definitely. My #1 in the overall Kate Bush poll in Aug 2012!
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 27 March 2014 10:48 (ten years ago) link
missed this but it wouldve been "pull the pin" or something from side 2. such a great album.
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
yea leave it open is some modern next level shit
to this day i still can't really talk about pull out the pin bc she's too good on it
― surm, Friday, 28 March 2014 00:57 (ten years ago) link
glad to see "all the love" represented here -- I mean I'd have voted for get out of my house obviously but that's one of kate's most underrated tracks
― katherine, Friday, 28 March 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
i RATE it! highhhhhly
― surm, Friday, 28 March 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
i think i've played it after some especially bad social engagements
― surm, Friday, 28 March 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
(at my house)
― surm, Friday, 28 March 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
somehow the cover of this album captures so much of what I love abt Kate bush
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 28 March 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link
this kind of humorous enchanted playfulness
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 28 March 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
that COVER
― surm, Friday, 28 March 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
Leave It Open 1
No way!
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Friday, 31 March 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link
Suspended in Gaffa - which has one of the best internal monologues in any pop song ever
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 31 March 2017 21:07 (seven years ago) link
It's hard to say what I would have voted for, this is an incredibly strong album. Is it my favourite Kate LP, though? Nah, that would be Never For Ever.
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Friday, 31 March 2017 21:21 (seven years ago) link
It's tough but right now Leave it Open seems right.
things that decay things that rust
― JoeStork, Friday, 31 March 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
Houdini.
― Max Florian, Friday, 31 March 2017 22:41 (seven years ago) link
It feels wrong and crude to pick a favorite from this album, but I guess I'd go with "pull the pin" or the last track.
― a but (brimstead), Friday, 31 March 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link
Pull Out the Pin. Very easy choice. The album is a stunner, and it features probably the best use of the Farlight CMI ever
― beamish13, Friday, 31 March 2017 23:28 (seven years ago) link
I don't know if about best, but when it comes to albums where the Fairlight CMI played a huge role, then The Dreaming and Hounds of Love are definitely in there among the best examples.
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Friday, 31 March 2017 23:41 (seven years ago) link
This is impossible; LIO was robbed.
― chihuahuau, Saturday, 1 April 2017 09:13 (seven years ago) link
So Wild Beasts stole their entire Cockney-criminal art-pop schtick from "There Goes A Tenner," huh?
― goodoldneon, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
I am proud to have been the only vote for "Leave It Open"
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link