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it's a classic, though...... well deserved - Elizabeth Fraser is a phenomenal vocalist and her work on Mezzanine was orgasmic. Any idea on the sales for Kate Bush's 50 Words For Snow, please?

I plumped for the ghastly Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg.... just..... vile.

very true.... I'd really love to know what the actual sales of 50 Words were. Things are gearing up for Christmas, so number 5 isn't to be sniffed at, really, you're right.

Ah, I think Snowflake is absolutely beautiful. Not lacking anything at all. The beauty if this album is the way she's underplayed her hand at every turn.... there's no histrionics, it's sleepy, creepy and just a stunning collection of songs. If tori Amos had sung Snowflake, I think she'd have overdone it... I'm not sure she knows how to underplay anything... Well the album went in at number 5. Behind One Direction and Westlife. Shocking... and her lowest placing for an album ever, I think...

Come on people... A best of list featuring, gulp, Bruno Mars and the vileness that is Katy Perry? Great to see the appalling Jason Derulo out, though. Deeply rancid.

10 G 9 D 8 A 7 K 6 F 5 C 4 E 3 H 2 B 1 J

the best covers are very often the simplest ones, though..... ones where you find a perfect image that looks great with a certain font etc. I'm the biggest over-user of PhotoShop, but the covers of mine that do the best are the ones where I hardly use it..... so that's kinda telling ;)

Bruno Mars - a man so bland he makes a slice of white bread seem interesting.

These BJ polls should always be read in reverse order to see what the REAL best tunes are, let's be honest - if you read them the correct way you'd think BJ was being taken over by gay 13 year olds.....

...what's the Massive Attack track back in the charts? And how mortifying for Kate Bush set to enter below Westlife..... oh dear..... definitely the wrong week to release what is my album of the year... :(

Thanks for the votes last week - but it was Ryan's week in my eyes... loved his entry...... it's my album of the year this week... 50 Words for Snow.... http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/katebush50wordsforsnowf.jpg

Pass Out is an absolutely amazing, and classic, single. So of course Buzzjack would vote it out. Hilarious that that talentless oaf Katy Perry is still on this list - surely, surely, Buzzjack doesn't like this woman? A woman who wasn't only at the back of the queue when talent and star quality was being handed out. She was at the back of the queue in the wrong shop, love her.

:lol: I know what you mean... I love that cello sound.... kind of ominous sounding, and one she's used before (Ninth Wave).... One thing's for sure, she picked a terrible week to release this album - it's likely to be her lowest ever charting album, I reckon..... this week sees massive releases from Rihanna, err... Westlife, GaGa's remix CD and I'm sure there's something else, too..... :(

I love that in this era of desperate media whores, we have an artist like Kate Bush who simply refuses to take part, does everything completely on her own terms and lets her music do her talking. The more I play 50 Words, the more I think the genius standout track is Snowed In At Wheeler Street. Could be Elton John's career-best vocal... And the underlying creepiness of it gives me goosebumps every time. Snowflake, too, is a perfect album opener. Can music really conjure up feelings and images as vividly as this? What a talent to have.... 50 Words For Snow is my album of the year.... and I'm pretty sure it's an album I'll play throughout my lifetime. I absolutely adore it.

The appalling drake and Rihanna single gets my vote - I'm seriously puzzled Jason Derulo is still in this competition, too - surely THE worst male 'artist' around now. He makes even Bruno Mars seem interesting.

I've never been a fan of PJ Harvey - but Let England Shake... I think it's phenomenal. Don't you even like This Glorious Land? My only bugbear with 50 Words For Snow (apart from the dreadful Lake Tahoe) is the seriously ghastly artwork - what on EARTH was she thinking? Her last 3 albums have all appeared in sleeves seemingly designed by Stevie Wonder. A whole booklet of really naff 'snow sculptures'.... err... thanks, Kate.

That's a spot-on review, I think. Especially the line "While much of 50 Words for Snow conjures a whited-out, dream-like state of disbelief, it's important to note that Bush does everything in her power to make all the shadowy phantoms here feel real." This is a cold, creepy and at times unnerving piece of work, but all the while it is Bush's incredible talent of humanising what she writes about that holds it all together and makes it all work so well. tony - it definitely needs time - and sounds orgasmic on headphones. After repeated plays since yesterday, I can now state that it's in my top 3 Bush albums of all time.... and it's easily my album of the year (sorry PJ).

Rihanna and Drake - a song that sounds like it was written by simpletons - for simpletons.

:rolleyes: she decided to leave the jungle beats and hi hats off this one, I think. er....what were you expecting???? It's Kate Bush - the majority of her music is just ....her and a piano. Unless, of course, you only ever remember Babooshka and Wuthering Heights and have bypassed the rest of her career. As for The Dreaming similarities..... I think 50 Words is quite a dark album, for one thing. And also, it's really reminiscent of All The Love in parts. It's nowhere near as wild and trippy as The Dreaming - but it has the same claustrophobic kind of feel. And while we're making comparisons - whereas Aerial was sun-dappled and joyous, 50 Words is the other end of the spectrum - it's definitely its sister album, as someone mentions here. And tony - you had it on stream this morning - but did you sit? Did you listen? Or was it background music when you got on with a million other things? Because if it was, it's little wonder that 50 Words passed you by. This is an album for headphones on dark wintry nights. 50 Words is, to my ears, her most rounded and mature work to date, it's not my favourite album of hers - yet..... but give it time.....

10 C 9 F 8 D 7 E 6 A

The Brits have offered Kate the Lifetime Achievement Award twice..... both times she's turned it down. As for the album being aimless and overlong.... it's an album you need to bed-in with. To live with for a while. If anyone liked Kate's The Dreaming era, then 50 Words For Snow is for you.

with Kate, one listen is enough..... it's easy to spot greatness. And this is one of the greatest pieces of work I've heard in years.

Rihanna and Drake... just a really stupid, boring, dull song.

Ditto :heart: ... my favourite of yours in ages, stunning.

I love Joni..... as much as a painter as a singer, actually - her work is beautiful - I like how her voice has aged too, it's a lot huskier and smokier now, adds something else to it. It's the same with this new KB album - her voice is far deeper and huskier than previously. I listened once to the streaming of the album... and 50 Words For Snow is a masterpiece. After the career lowpoint of Director's Cut, to come back with something so startlingly original and beautiful as this..... mindblowing. In parts it reminds me of her previous best work - All the Love from The Dreaming, Under The Ivy, A Coral Room...... it's an album to immerse yourself in, very uncommercial and spacious. It's phenomenal.