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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 6:29 am Post subject: What's your favourite KATE BUSH album/song/leotard/whatnot? |
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Once upon a time, I used to hear the name 'Bush' and think 'Kate.'
Sadly, I now associate 'George' and 'Monkey' with that surname. 
Kate Bush, one of those artists highly esteemed by other musicians,
but somehow underated by the public at large.
Probably one of the most inventive/imaginative song writers to
come out of Britain - ever.
My favourite album has got to be....
all of them...OK...if pushed I'd have to choose "Hounds of Love"
(actually for the B side "The Ninth Wave")
followed by "Dreaming"...
Oh it's like taking a kid into Baskins and Robbins and asking them
which is their favourite icecream....
Well, I was just meandering around the web for something
to do while feeding my boy, and I stumbled across a
video of the Futureboys doing a cover of Kate's Hounds of Love .
I thought "Sacrilege" but found myself rather enjoying it.
Any other Bush afficiendos out there?
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the_beaver
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 6:38 am Post subject: Re: What's your favourite KATE BUSH album/song/leotard/whatn |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
| Any other Bush afficiendos out there? |
I don't know what an affciendo is, but I'm definitely a big fan of some bush. |
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skinhead
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 6:40 am Post subject: |
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She used to be a hornbag. Sorry to appear uncouth. It's my manner.
I liked Wuthering Heights, and Babooshka was a strange one to dance to at the blue light discoes. 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. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 6:44 am Post subject: |
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| I'm a big fan. Best British female artist IMO. |
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skinhead
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 6:50 am Post subject: |
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 I can't think of a good comeback to that, eamo. My first thought was, "no way". Buuuut not a lot of competition is there? Maybe Charlotte Church. Sinead...? Joking.
I think Kirsty MacColl (RIP) is better, but is she British? |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| skinhead wrote: |
| 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. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 8:05 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| I'm a big fan. Best British female artist IMO. |
me too I love Kate BUSH..
best album HOUNDS OF LOVE
best SINGLE..
Wuthering Heights
that songs always gets me I love that song.. |
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Konundrum
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Boston
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 9:04 am Post subject: |
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Was "Wuthering Heights" on "The Kick Inside" or something like that?
My sister played that album to death...I don't know if I liked it or not, but it would incite violence (on my behalf) on the third or fourth time through. |
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Cthulhu
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 11:34 am Post subject: |
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| I enjoyed Kate Bush a long time ago and bought her Wuthering Heights single on 45 when it came out. She's a great songwriter even though her fashion sense reminds me of a cross between Cher and Siegfried & Roy. |
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Travelingirl68
Joined: 12 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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Wow - this thread has brought back memories of high school! (Yes, I have just given away my age) Hounds of Love...
Any other fave artists from the 80's? Sorry to the OP, I don't want to hijack your thread, but I am just happy to find posters who even know who Kate Bush is! |
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skinhead
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
| skinhead wrote: |
| 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.  |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| skinhead wrote: |
| Big_Bird wrote: |
| skinhead wrote: |
| 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!  |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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I never thought she was pretty-- I didn't like that soft-focus frizzy-hair look even when it was cool in the 80s-- but Wuthering Heights still gives me the chills every time I hear it. And it's an interesting video with her dancing and the ghosting effect in the video (in 1979 this was something!)
She never had a lot of play in Canada other than on Much-Music, but I think she might be remembered well in the future. How many musicians write songs about Victorian novels nowadays? Shame.
Ken:> |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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Yeah, I'm totally into her. Bought a cd in Japan last visa trip, grew up with her music. I always felt caught up in her magic, the wonder she makes happen. Life as mysterious as it actually is.
Last time I was back in Canada I saw a giant cloth litho print, framed and wall-sized, of her promoting an album. Ten bucks they wanted for it. You would have loved it. |
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