Author Topic: Ping: Kate Bush (Read 3652 times)

clarion · « **on:** 31 July, 2008, 09:35:52 am »

[Please don't move this to Ping - it's not a real one!

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So Kate Bush was fifty yesterday, apparently.*

Radcliffe and Maconie last night played 'And dream of sheep' from 'Hounds of Love'.

I had forgotten how utterly beautiful a piece of music it is.

Left me wanting to listen to the whole thing.

Genius.

* My rough calculations disagree with this figure.

Pingu · « **Reply #1 on:** 31 July, 2008, 09:54:43 am »

50 according to Wikipedia.

Hounds of Love - best album of the 80s?

clarion · « **Reply #2 on:** 31 July, 2008, 09:57:19 am »

I prefer The Dreaming, but then I'm weird. HoL is sublime.

onb · « **Reply #3 on:** 31 July, 2008, 03:32:14 pm »

I like HoL a great deal however the Red Shoes is dire and the last one didnt impress me too much either.

rafletcher · « **Reply #4 on:** 31 July, 2008, 03:41:28 pm »

Oh I preferred The Kick Inside - in particular Man with the child in his eyes and James and the warm gun.

clarion · « **Reply #5 on:** 31 July, 2008, 03:59:25 pm »

I think James had a cold gun. Happiness Is A Warm Gun was on The Beatles' White Album

clarion · « **Reply #6 on:** 31 July, 2008, 04:00:57 pm »

I like whatever album has Saxaphone Song, Egypt, In The Warm Room & Feel It on*

* I think they were on the same one... TLTG

bobajobrob · « **Reply #7 on:** 31 July, 2008, 05:19:07 pm »

Wuthering Heights ftw, although I'm too young to remember the release. The vocals are awesome. Running Up That Hill is good too (reminds me of some 80s kid's TV drama series), and of course Utah Saints - Something Good.

Kate's Bush? Hmm? OOOH!

Mike J · « **Reply #8 on:** 31 July, 2008, 06:20:15 pm »

Brilliant songs and writer

Many happy returns,

Pingu · « **Reply #9 on:** 31 July, 2008, 06:35:56 pm »

Egypt is on Never For Ever.

cc93 · « **Reply #10 on:** 31 July, 2008, 06:51:35 pm »

I heard it last night too and remember thinking 'I'm sure it wasn't as good as that 20 years ago!'

a classic from a classic album.

nicknack · « **Reply #11 on:** 31 July, 2008, 08:34:01 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 31 July, 2008, 04:00:57 pm

I like whatever album has Saxaphone Song, Egypt, In The Warm Room & Feel It on*

Argghhhh!

Excuse me.

Saxophone!!!!!!

Quisling · « **Reply #12 on:** 31 July, 2008, 11:12:37 pm »

Hounds of love is a great album. I must head off to itunes or somewhere shortly since I recycled my old vinyl at Oxfam and haven't replaced it. "And dream of sheep" is indeed a work of sublime beauty.

Aerial is a bit odd but is expressly relaxing on long journeys.

Maladict · « **Reply #13 on:** 31 July, 2008, 11:25:58 pm »

For Kate Bush + Pink Floyd fans:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/vl9OKddQBRg&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/vl9OKddQBRg&rel=1</a>

It was David Gilmour that recommended Kate to EMI back in 1978 when she was 16.

hellymedic · « **Reply #14 on:** 31 July, 2008, 11:30:25 pm »

Andrew Br · « **Reply #15 on:** 31 July, 2008, 11:34:50 pm »

Running Up That Hill, Army Dreamers, Man With the Child In His Eyes are my faves (plus Don't Give Up with Peter Gabriel).
I think I'll have some "Kate" time tomorrow. I can turn it up loud 'cos the neighbours will be out.
The woman is a genius.
I loathe Wuthering Heights with a passion though

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #16 on:** 31 July, 2008, 11:37:36 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 31 July, 2008, 11:30:25 pm

<pedant>
She can't have been 16 in 1978 if she's 50 now.
Well, I'm 50 now and I wasn't 16 in 1978...
<pedant>

According to her own website, she was 19 in 1978 and according to Wiki she was 50 yesterday. That seems to add up but I am a maths dunce so possibly not.

Maladict · « **Reply #17 on:** 31 July, 2008, 11:39:22 pm »

quite right it doesn't add up

Quote

Bush was signed by EMI at the age of 16 after being recommended by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. In 1978, aged 19, she topped the UK charts for four weeks with her début song "Wuthering Heights", becoming the first woman to have a UK number one with a self-written song.

Obviously I read it too fast.

Andrew Br · « **Reply #18 on:** 31 July, 2008, 11:41:14 pm »

Quote from: Maladict(a) on 31 July, 2008, 11:25:58 pm

For Kate Bush + Pink Floyd fans:

It was David Gilmour that recommended Kate to EMI back in 1978 when she was 16.

Bloody hell- the bass player's mullet

Maladict · « **Reply #19 on:** 31 July, 2008, 11:46:31 pm »

Quote from: Chocolatebike on 31 July, 2008, 11:41:14 pm

Quote from: Maladict(a) on 31 July, 2008, 11:25:58 pm
For Kate Bush + Pink Floyd fans:

It was David Gilmour that recommended Kate to EMI back in 1978 when she was 16.

Bloody hell- the bass player's mullet

I have a feeling that's Guy Pratt.

If it is, his hair has improved since.

scott · « **Reply #20 on:** 04 August, 2008, 09:25:23 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 31 July, 2008, 09:35:52 am

So Kate Bush was fifty yesterday, apparently.*

Thanks for this--I was able to tell Robyn about it in time for her to play some KB songs on her once-a-month music-by-women radio show.

She's loved Kate Bush since the first few albums came out.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #21 on:** 07 August, 2008, 08:52:38 am »

I remember finding a cassette, lost by some previous tenant in I-can't-now-remember-which student house, with Talking Heads' 77 on one side and on the other, the Kate Bush album containing, err, well I can't remember but I think there was Babushka and Coffee Homeground and Hammer Horror. Anyway it was good.

Chris S · « **Reply #22 on:** 07 August, 2008, 08:57:11 am »

Quote from: Maladict(a) on 31 July, 2008, 11:25:58 pm

For Kate Bush + Pink Floyd fans:

It was David Gilmour that recommended Kate to EMI back in 1978 when she was 16.

Isn't she his cousin, or did I just imagine hearing that somewhere?

Woofage · « **Reply #23 on:** 07 August, 2008, 09:30:12 am »

Quote from: clarion on 31 July, 2008, 09:35:52 am

Radcliffe and Maconie last night played 'And dream of sheep' from 'Hounds of Love'.

I had forgotten how utterly beautiful a piece of music it is.

'And dream of sheep' is sublime.

I heard Cloudbusting on R2 on Tuesday and remembered that not having a copy of HoL must be rectified soon. IIRC the video featured Donald Sutherland.

CathH · « **Reply #24 on:** 07 August, 2008, 05:14:34 pm »

She's going from strength to strength too. Aerial gets better and better every time I listen to it. It's a permanent resident on the iPod now.

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