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That's a bargain price - it's their most consistent album, I reckon, and Sun To Me is just.... fantastic, glad you liked it!

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.

I think it was Wild, yes..... and I can't see any Erasure album having many highs ;)

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It's definitely worth getting the remastered extended Hounds of Love - 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.... really, really brilliant. As an intro to Kate, it's probably the one to go for...... The Sensual World, too, which is excellent. I like the idea of getting one at a time, devouring that one, then getting a new one, much like when you find a new favourite author. If you fancy splashing out a few more spondoolies, the Japanese Kate re-issues are worth a look - the mini LP sleeve replica version - Never For Ever and Lionheart in particular are stunning - perfect replicas of the original artwork, even down to the labels and inner sleeves.

Little wonder - they've made about 36 of them! Talk about bleeding an idea dry... :rolleyes: And Scream? That's comedy horror, not proper horror.

Ellie's performing at the Kirsty MacColl tribute conceert in a few months - I think Kirsty's son is Ellie's manager....?

So is JJ Aston's fella then? If so, Aston's a lucky guy, despite having the worst plucked eyebrows in the history of the universe....

now that's the kind of chart that gives me hope ;) Basically my playlist these past few weeks....

Apparently it' 'very electro' with a 'typically wry and dry lyric' :lol:

Channel 5 is the Poundstretchers of broadcasting - cheap, nasty but popular with a certain audience. However, if the BBC are so anti-music that they refuse to bring back a national institution... then someone should do it for them. The BBC has a pitiful amount of music on its main channels - Jools being the biggest, I think, and OK, it's a brilliant, groundbreaking and always entertaining show - but compare the music on the station to the sport..... and I know which one I'd rather. The BBC only seem to remember popular music even exists when Glastonbury happens.

The artists include Alison Moyet, Johnny Marr, Amy MacDonald, Andrea Corr, Billy Bragg, Catherine Tate, Clare Maguire, David Gray, Eddi Reader, Ellie Goulding, James Walsh, Jackie Clune, Kim Wilde, Phill Jupitus, Omar Puente, Shane MacGowan. Apparently, Kirsty's son manages Ellie Goulding...? They're a musical family - apart from her late Dad Ewan, her nephew's in brilliant new band Bombay Bicycle Club.

The Sensual World is my second favourite album - the whole feel of it is warm, soothing and wintry. I remember being livid at the time because bloody Erasure beat it to the top spot.... Title track is one of the most gorgeously erotic pieces of music I've ever heard.... The Fog is just so beautiful and the imagery it conjures up - the trust a child puts in its parent whilst learning to swim juxtaposed with letting yourself go in a relationship - it's a reminder of why this lady is so important..... Deeper Understanding, too.... how true her words, now 21 years old, have become - people really have forsaken human contact for their computers. This Woman's Work will always be in my top 5 singles of all time - lyrically, it's genius, and it always reminds me of losing a relative... just one of those records that means so much, without sounding corny. One of the finest songs ever written. Rockets Tail is bonkers - but brilliant..... and Never Be Mine, again, lyrically just perfect.... the story of what might have been in a relationship so brilliantly told - the imagery in this makes you wonder how great a book by this lady could be..... however, Sensual World also includes my least favourite KB song ever - the dreadful Between a Man and a Woman - it's a clunking old mess.... and a day when her lyrical genius was having a break, I think. Love and Anger - love the video, but the song is like The Big Sky for me - the one I always skip. Beautiful video, though, but the song misses the mark for me, don't really know why. I worked in a record shop when this album came out and we went to one of the regional launch parties, in Bristol.... I remember EMF and Jesus Jones, label-mates, were there - very drunk on the free champagne. All raucous and laddy - til they title track started playing with the video on a huge screen - and the room fell silent, everyone caught up in the moment of the song, knowing this was the launch of something very, very special. I have a gorgeous huge card photo of the stunning cover image, too, a window display.... about 3 foot square, no text, just that beautiful photo.... one of my most treasured items, the thing I'd rescue in a housefire. Even before the cat :P

have a listen to 'Sun To Me' on YouTube - if you like Insomnia, you'll really like 'Sun To Me'...... Today... Eve Gallagher - Love Is a Master of Disguise Dollar - Videotheque (the Trevor Horn production is impeccable on this) Divine - Shoot Your Shot Morrissey - November Spawned a Monster

The mess-up on that album was that these 2 tracks should've been released as a double-A side (remember them?? With vinyl now back in fashion, perhaps it could've been possible?). I love these 2 tracks - as well as the title track from Aerial - but there's little doubt it could easily have been a single album - with no reference to her kid or bloody washing machines.... ugh. King of the Mountain was one of her worst ever singles.....

Number 2 it is then

Kate Bush is quintissentially English, I think - she's a little too wordy and dare I say intelligent for the American top 40..... she steadfastly refused to drop the 'A Deal With God' tag at the end of the songtitle, too, which EMI advised for the American release - she relented slightly because originally, Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)' was just called 'A Deal With God'.... she's an artist who rarely compromises to satisfy... something, especially in this day and age, that is wholly admirable I think.

what a brilliant album - the new album, 'Songs from the Red Room' is pretty excellent, too

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Not even Sunset and Nocturn? I find How To Be Invisible a bit of a plodder...

I'm entering a cover for 'I Feel You' in the Single Cover Design comp this week - which of the 4 do you reckon? :unsure: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...=0#entry3155430

Placebo for me this week.. but which one...? http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/placebod.jpg http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/placebob.jpg http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/placeboa.jpg http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/placeboc.jpg

Agreed on both points - Joise is showing herself up to be the bitchiest housemate of the lot (bar Ben of course).... she's two-faced and untrustworthy - obsessive over JJ.... and like I said before, any grown woman who sucks her thumb that often needs counsellling - she looks like a simpleton sucking her bloody thumb all day and night. Caoimhe was great with Keeley..... and it's a realshame she went... the straw that broke the camel's back was, yes, that name again, Josie.... Josie's REALLY messed up her chances of winning this series this week - she was right when she said people would hate her when they got to know her..... :angry:

The Sisters of Mercy - Marian Blondie - Living In The Real World Kate Bush - Sunset

I think those gorgeous rings she wears were by Vivienne Westwood.... a huge health hazard, but stunning all the same ;) The other two are in the video - not much, though. Great video - as was This Corrosion. I don't remember Candyland at all..... the only Candyland I know was the Ian McCulloch / Elizabeth Fraser single.... which was magnificent. I agree about the Depeche videos - whilst I think Anton Corbijn's work can be very dour, bland and samey, especially his grainy photography, some of the videos he did for DM were great. Other great Depeche videos... Only When I Lose Myself, Shake The Disease (one of my favourites by them) and It's Called A Heart.