Well now - Chorus is one of the most consistent pop albums there has ever been. And their eponymous album contains Fingers and Thumbs which is one of my favourite pop songs by anyone. I think, instead of a Bush revival, I'll have an Erasure one :)

Edited July 25, 201014 yr by tonyttt31

Erasure were, to my ears, a diluted Yazoo - and I don't think Erasure ever released anything anywhere near as great as the clutch of Yazoo singles or the 2 albums, which were both classics - especially Upstairs at Erics.

 

As for Sensual World - I think most of the earlier Bush albums suffer from dated production as she was experimenting with the new stuff thatcame on the market... hence the Linn drums on Hounds of Love etc. But songwise, there's at least half of TSL which stands up among her best stuff, I think.

Erasure were consistent....

 

...much like Status Quo were consistent. Doesn't mean either of them were mind-boggingly amazing, which at least half of The Sensual World is.

 

The Dreaming will always be her best / most adventurous. Not a bad track on it, and it has the best song of her career: Night of the Swallow.

That's a bit of a stretch to say there's no bad tracks on it - the title track is not something I would consider to be good.

I wouldn't say there's a bad track on The Dreaming at all. I think the title track is great. Weakest track would be All The Love for me - too ordinary but it's still great.

 

As pointed out already, Night Of The Swallow is outstanding and certainly among her most accomplished pieces

 

Since somebody mentioned this in another thread I just had to watch this again

I'd forgotten just how spot on this was/is

 

Edited July 26, 201014 yr by Severin

I listened to The Dreaming yesterday.

 

I love the following

 

Leave it Open

Suspended in Gaffa

Sat in Your Lap

Get Out of My House

 

Only getting into Night of the Swallow really but I dont think I like it as much as the 4 above.

suspended in gaffa, there goes a tenner and night of the swallow are my favourites from the dreaming. i used to not really get night of the swallow but it's really grown on my and now i love it.

 

my all time favourite kate bush song is hounds of love though. i usually don't like the most popular songs by artists because they're usually either just overplayed or overrated but hounds of love is just amazing. it's my most played song on last.fm by anybody cos i keep going through phases where i just listen to it none stop. it's one of those songs that just never gets old for me. and that's another things i've noticed about kate bush songs i rarely ever like them on first listen whereas most songs these days i do, but most songs these days just get old and boring whereas kate bush songs just keep on growing on me and are timeless.

Wuthering Heights would probably be her most played/overplayed song and it's still the one I love most of all her singles - probably because it didn't kill ot off with overplaying myself. It took years and years to slowly rise into my Top 10 of all time.

 

That said I prefer Waking the Witch and Suspended in Gaffa (was it a single in some territories?)

Suspended in Gaffa (was it a single in some territories?)

All over Europe.

 

 

 

Although I don't think it is the best song on the album Leave It Open is my favourite right now. The last line practically sums up Kate's attitude to the whole album

Just gave Hounds of Love a spin. It seems to be an album full of 8/10 songs. Nothing blows my sock off like Leave it Open or Suspended in Gaffa....but nothing (well maybe Watching You Without Me) makes me want to skip to the next track.

Edited July 28, 201014 yr by tonyttt31

basically because it includes a song called 'Under The Ivy', which was the b-side of 'Running Up That Hill' - and it's one of her greatest songs....

 

 

:wub: :cry: :o

I heard on the radio that she is 52 today. Happy Birthday Kate!

 

Loz

I always forget that it's her birthday on the 30th!

 

Happy Birthday Kate

My Kate Bush Top 10 would be

1) Running Up That Hill

2) This Woman's Work

3) Under The Ivy

4) The Man With The Child In His Eyes

5) Under Ice

6) Breathing

7) Somewhere In Between

8) Oh England, My Lionheart

9) In Search Of Peter Pan

10) Wow

 

Thought a Top 10 should go in this thread

 

Mine is:

 

1. This Woman's Work

2. The Man With The Child In His Eyes

3. Feel It

4. The Infant Kiss

5. Army Dreamers

6. Cloudbusting

7. The Kick Inside

8. Pull Out The Pin

9. Love and Anger

10. Rocket's Tail

 

1. Waking the Witch

2. Suspended in Gaffa

3. Leave it Open

4. Wuthering Heights

5. This Woman's Work

6. Breathing

7. The Man with the Child in His Eyes

8. Under the Ivy

9. Moving

10. Song of Solomon

Edited July 30, 201014 yr by tonyttt31

1. hounds of love

2. suspended in gaffa

3. there goes a tenner

4. the big sky

5. running up that kill

6. kite

7. sexual healing

8. pi

9. jig of life

10. this woman's work

01 Wuthering Heights

02 Suspended In Gaffa

03 Leave It Open

04 The Man With The Child In His Eyes

05 Breathing

06 There Goes A Tenner

07 Ne Ten Fuis Pas

08 Experiment IV

09 Night Of The Swallow

10 Babooshka

This is a forgotten Kate classic - and possibly her last ever 'proper' live performance

 

This is a forgotten Kate classic - and possibly her last ever 'proper' live performance

 

 

she has done a few odd live appearances since.... I seem to remember one with her and Dave Gilmour from a few years back, there used to be a grainy video of it on YouTube.

 

As for a definitive Kate top 10...hmm... difficult.... mine seems to change with my mood... but I'll get scouring my Kate albums and get back on this one....