This Woman's Work : Kate Bush Reviewed
 

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It always suprises me the amount of people that are not familiar with her music, as she is probably the most talented female artist to have ever come out of the UK.

I still think her early material on her 2nd and 3rd albums to be unsurpassed, especially the weirder sounding stuff, so will be looking forward to the reviews. :thumb:

One of my heroes, also the sexiest woman ever. Looking forward to this.

You KNOW that I look forward to this :)

I am just starting to listen to Kate Bush, but thought that The Dreaming was absolutely brilliant. I'd be receptive of a suggestion as to which album I hit next.

I've downloaded quite a few of her albums but not had a chance to listen to the bulk of it, so I'm definitely looking forward to getting your take on each album. Love the idea of relating each album to what was going on in her life at the time too. Hopefully it will give me some idea of which album would be best to start with.

I can't believe I still haven't got hold of any of her albums yet. Reminds me of something I should post in the MB most wanted thread...

Looking forward to this. If she's alright with John Lydon, she's alright with me :D

I'm such a horrible liar :p:

I really tried and I did leave a lot out, but I realize it's still quite a bit to read. Hopefully, it won't be too much!

I recently listened to Hounds Of Love for the first time, and loved it.
So I'll be keeping an eye on this thread.
One small criticism, a mark out of 10 would be good.
Despite what you write expressing how much you like/dislike the album, a nice score would round it up nicely.

I'll think about it! I've done so in the past because then I intended my reviews to be rather quick reads (despite the fact they were often lengthy), but this time, I'm liking the idea that people actually have to read what I've written. I'm not a professional writer and I'm sure that shows, but this is the most ambitious review project I've undertaken so far on this site and I don't think I've ever written so lovingly about anything. Hence, I am a bit weary of summing it all up with a number.

Wow, a comment! I was a little disheartened by the lack of feedback since I started writing, so this is a nice little morale booster :D Thanks!

I've tended to like her earlier work the most.

I've only heard Hounds of Love, Aerial and The Dreaming plus the singles

will be torrenting the rest of her discography soon

The Dreaming is my fave of the lot and Hounds even if poppy, does have the engaging The Ninth Wave

I'm not sure she has been much appreciated in some places like America.

Best albums for me are The Kick Inside, The Dreaming and Hounds of Love. Good tracks on other albums too of course.

Great thread. I love The Dreaming best although I have massive affection for The Sensual World.

I've gone off The Dreaming a bit, some great songs but others that I like less. The Kick Inside is definitely my favourite now.

The Dreaming is an amazing album, on par with Peter Gabriel's Security in terms of weirdness.

Hounds Of Love was her commercial breakthrough, but it also has an experimental vibe.

The Kick Inside and Aerial are two albums that I can play over and over again, though. Especially The Kick Inside. That debut album is highly underrated.

Weirdness doesn't always mean consistent greatness though.

and PG4 is more world music than "weirdness"

Her debut was her commercial breakthrough. Kate was never more popular than during the late 70s after the release of her debut album.

i think that was only in the UK and certain parts of Europe

the song that really broke her through was Running Up That Hill

Well, Wuthering Heights from her debut album is her biggest selling single. It was the first single by a female solo artist to reach #1 on the UK singles charts and made her famous and commercially successful over night. If I had to point out one commercial breakthrough with importance to her career, that would definetly be it.

She had a Japanese no1 in the late 70s, and had been successful in other places like Australia as well. She was probably more famous in America from Hounds of Love on but they were a bit behind on things. :)

She was certainly popular in Japan after her debut. She appeared on japanese television and even did a commercial there (featuring the song "Them Heavy People" from the debut), the only one she's ever done.



So she was already successful outside Europe before Hounds of Love and I think that if you also add the fact she never really wanted to be famous (she's a famous recluse), then the point that Hounds of Love may have extended her famousness to new corners of the earth seems less relevant to me.

Tore have you got around to hearing this yet?
BBC - Music - Review of Kate Bush - Director's Cut

It is not essential by any means but it is certainly worth a listen and given Kate's reticence for being in the studio, it is a great little curio.

Yes, I have :) I don't like everything about it, but it is interesting to hear the reinterpretations and I felt like some of them worked while some of them didn't. The reworked version of Deeper Understanding (originally from 1989 release The Sensual World) f.ex was rather good and I also really liked the video for it.



As is sometimes typical in my relationship with Kate, she sometimes dares things in such a way that I'm not always sure whether I think an idea she's had was good idea or bad, f.ex the very auto-tuned computer voice in the new version of this song :p: But that's fascinating in a way and I usually end up liking it.

What's also good is that the version I got also included The Sensual World and The Red Shoes with better sound quality than the previous releases!

Her latest album '50 Words for Snow' might well be her most consistent album since Hounds of Love. Possibly her 3rd best behind that and The Kick Inside. Ariel I thought was rather overrated but this one sounds much more successful as a whole for me right now. Of course my opinion could change, but this is my initial impression. The style itself is quite minimalist and dependant on the emotional grip of the vocals so there is probably a bit of an emo influence. Though the tracks can be long they generally last out ok, maybe the title track could have faded out during the instrumental section near the end.

oh, where have you been, starrynight?

Ah good someone noticed me. :D Well I guess my interest just got took up with some other things. But I've just started to look through 2011 albums seriously now so back here to see what is happening.

^^I ought to be acquiring 50 Words for Snow soon

as soon as it hits the stores here

50 Words For Snow sounds very nice indeed and, although I've yet to hear all of it, I have a feeling it may be one of her best releases. Her son contributing vocals to the first track, Snowflake, was very special.

It's ironic that you've posted here, though! I just removed the reviews from this thread thinking it was largely dead, forgotten and only collecting dust. By removing them from here, I could post them on my own forum without copying content which is something google doesn't like when assigning google ratings.

It would perhaps be better to move general discussion on Kate to the Kate Bush artist thread instead of having it here in my broken review thread.

http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...kate-bush.html

I can ask a mod about it.

Has anyone mentioned her work with Peter Gabriel in "Games Without Frontiers"? She was the one who sang "Jeux sans frontiers" for the chorus.

Hmm I think I need to check kate bush out I love that song.

I can guarantee she sounds a lot nicer most of the sime!

Listening to The Kick Inside now. Can tell straight away I'm going to really like this album and the rest of her albums. She's bloody good.

http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/q...ula/ayvn8m.gif

Tore I enjoyed those reviews man. Really good, learned a few things as well, thanks. Will you finish the other albums off?

ATM for me:

The Kick Inside > Never For Ever > Hounds of Love > The Dreaming > Lionheart

I'm sure it will change. Delius (Song Of Summer) is my favourite track I've discovered this year.