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harryh
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: south of Seoul
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Hounds of Love! Great album!
Personal favourites include Running up that hill and Cloundbusting from the A side and Jig of Life (my all time fav Bush tune) on the flip. |
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skinhead
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 1:10 am Post subject: |
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| A bit of triv: she was discovered by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. After they were spent, he produced her record and made her famous. True story. |
After they were what!? I've never heard that they were romantically involved. He was astounded by her imaginative songwriting abilities.
Whilst I've always admired Kirsty - I have to say that Kate Bush is in a class of her own. I suspect you've never heard much more than Wuthering Heights and Babooshka. Don't forget they were done right at the beginning of her career. She got much better after that. She wrote Wuthering Heights when she was 14 or something. Dreaming came out in her mid-twenties; Hounds of Love in her late 20s.
Go and spend some serious time listening to the albums Dreaming and Hounds of Love (especially the B side). Some of the most creative pop music ever written. See if you change your mind. Friends of mine who are serious musicians are in awe of her. |
Never knock sound advice about music from posters here. I'm not a huge fan of pop, but I'll get into some Bush this weekend, then I'll get back to ya.  |
Cool! Just remember, you'll need to listen a few times before it gets its hooks into ya. It's like Beethoven's ninth, or Hendrix - it's not (usually) immediately accessable to the listener - but when it grabs you, yer hooked! I bought Hounds of Love when I was 15 or 16 - and I was just flabbergasted. I played it over and over again. It was like magic. It was like a drug. I'd never experienced anything like it before. I'd entered a new sound world. I didn't experience anything like it again, until a year later when I discovered Led Zeppelin II!  |
 Well done .
I just DL'ed Wuthering Heights. She is unique, isn't she. It's her pitch and timbre. Like a finely cast bell. I still think Vera Lynn's laryingial sob is without peer amongst British singers. |
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hojucandy
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
Location: In a better place
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Greekfreak
Joined: 25 May 2003
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I've always admired her work, and even more so when Tori Amos came along and basically copped her entire style and became so successful.
"Wuthering Heights" is great, but that song "This Woman's Work" is as good as they come.
As far as comparisons go, I'd put her up there with Annie Lennox, Toni Halliday, Rachel Goswell, and whoever else you want to mention. |
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waggo
Joined: 18 May 2003
Location: pusan baby!
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| Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 3:03 am Post subject: |
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| "Woman's work" gives me the chills everytime i hear it...which isnt often.I think it was a B-side ...cant remember. |
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waggo
Joined: 18 May 2003
Location: pusan baby!
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| Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 3:46 am Post subject: |
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| Bugs has no Bush!!...can someone suggest a similar site where I might be able to listen to her? |
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skinhead
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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Try here, waggo.
Anybody heard the new album? A mate gave me a copy and it is very very sweet. She's still got it. |
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stumptown
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Paju: Wife beating capital of Korea
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| I'm a big fan of Kate's bush. Love it |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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I see Skinhead has already mentioned the new album (first in 13 years)- it's a double CD for the price of one ($16 in Canada) and it is HOT. I don't listen to the radio much but a buddy told me that King of the Mountain is getting heavy airplay. The other day they I heard it playing over the theatre speakers while waiting for Harry Potter to start.
It's a fantastic album, and if you're plannng on checking PtoP for songs before buying then I'd recommend, along with King of the Mountain (a song about Elvis, btw):
Pi (i.e. the math symbol) -
only Kate Bush could put such emotion into singing a string of numbers. A song you truly have to hear to believe, and it's in my top 10 for best songs this year.
Joanni -
'traditional' Kate Bush pop (and you'd swear it was manu katche on drums and tony levin on bass with peter gabriel warming up somewhere in the background)
Nocturne
How to be invisible. |
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