Kate Bush- Them Heavy People (REACTION & REVIEW)
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- Song Link: • Them Heavy People
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This was her third single in The Netherlands, after Wuthering Heights and The Man With The Child In His Eyes. Curious to what else was on her debut album, because the songs were so different, I bought it. I could not have done anything better. The small Kate Bushworld I was invited into with that purchase, appeared larger than life! 13 songs of great quality and an urge I had only experienced with the greatest of greatest: Pink Floyd, ELO, Supertramp, Led Zeppelin, Yes. Where did she come from? Although my English was still rather basic after two years of English lessons (I am Dutch and 14 years old at the time), I could sense the depths she explored, but did not get the full meaning of them. In fact it influenced me to study harder for my English lessons! So thank you miss Bush! From that point on I also used lyricsheets included in lp's to study their 'poetry' and that way enriched my English.
So the rolling of the ball applied here as well.
Yes Justin, that bass..... ❤
This was my introduction to Kate , she performed this on SNL
Mine, too. It was love at first listen.
One of two songs Kate performed on Saturday Night Live in 1978 (which I believe has been her only live appearance in the US). The other song was "The Man With the Child in His Eyes" with Paul Shaffer on piano.
"I was hiding in a room in my mind" - I guess we've all done this at times
Just a little non sequiter here: the video from her Hammersmmith Odeon concerts in 1980 have some delightful choreography on this song. In that concert, Kate does a lot of dancing with a wireless headset fashioned out of a wire clothes hanger. She is widely regarded as the first artist to perform using a wireless headset. Kate felt it was a necessity because her performances combined dance, mime, and stage magic along with the music. While Todd Rundgren was probably the first artist to tour using wireless microphones, Kate was apparently the first to adapt it to a headset. If you can find the video of her in those concerts, this song is a fun one to watch.
Back in the late 60s and early 70s, heavy was used to describe ideas and people who were important... weighty. It also could refer to bad guys (heavies).
Another (less famous) woman singer-songwriter has a very similar song about how the musicians she listened to affected her, and about “passing the baton,” so to speak: Happy Rhodes, “Feed the Fire.” There’s even a special “tribute version” that she did live on the radio where she references a couple of her own inspirations: David Bowie and Kate Bush.
I adore Happy Rhodes I just listened to her a few minutes ago! She's one of my favs I just discovered her this year! Feed the Fire is a masterpiece. She has so many amazing songs.
Great track, love the almost reggae lilt to it. Heavy in the sixties and seventies meant something that was deep, or profound or difficult to bear. Here a still teenage Kate is seeking to open herself up to learning about the world, different cultures, ideas, religions, etc, and seizing the opportunity to embrace knowledge while she's still young.
This was my favourite track on the album when I first heard it, and it's still enjoyable.
I love this song, it's just so fun but it has deep lyrics at the same time. The music video is just as silly you have to watch it!
Hi Justin. Dave from Somewhere In Between. One of my favourites from this album, which was a hit single in the UK, and love her TV performances of it, although it's difficult to watch them without remembering comedien Pamela Stephenson's parody. Check out Not The Nine O'Clock News - England, My Leotard.
P.S. my song ref Somewhere In Between is from Kate's later album Aerial.
Ah and wouldn’t an album reaction of Aerial be nice eh? Both discs have some beauties
One of my faves of her early work. So glad you got to it. Dervishes are religious practitioners of the Sufis, which is found in Eastern Euope, parts of Asia and parts of North Africa. Sufis reach into driving the body into a state of ecstasy. One of those ways is the whirling dancing. Theres Sufi music and other Sufi rituals performed to reach that pinnacle of euphoria to bring your self closer to God. Kate really is intrigued by ecstatic states of being. The song Lily is a great example. It's one of the qualities I adore about her music and storytelling.
The Kick Inside is a great album from start to finish.
A comedy sketch show called 'Not The Nine O'clock News' did a spoof of this track. Worth checking out for a giggle
It was called "England My Leotard". A brilliant parody, and a perfect impression by Pamela Stephenson
@@SpuddySpud that's the one
Would love for you to dip back into the work of Kate Bush with a couple videos of her songs that showcase her theatrical, creative nature.
An early song "Hammer horror" which is Kate having fun being camp and from her 7th album Red Shoes (I think) "Moments of pleasure" which I adore.
Hah, funny! 😄 That song had popped into my mind only on Friday, while I was volunteering at the local community centre! 😀
La mejor versión de este tema es un especial navideño
Kate's best album! I loved this song and always will☺ for me it's about mental help/therapy etcetera
Gurdjieff was an esoteric teacher from Prussia in the early 20th century. He is a great example of 'heavy'. Jesu is a reference to gnostic Christian teachings from the Greek cycle of scriptures. The name 'Jesus' was the later Romanized or Latin version. The Dervishes are of course the devotees of the mystical Sufi branch of Islam. How and why a 17 year old girl would be familiar with, or interested in any of this is baffling to me, Lol....but of course it is Kate....
Gurdjieff was a philosopher who developed a school of thought called The Work dealing with self-observation and the extinguishment of egoism. Fripp was and is a big studier of this process.
Because this song was a big hit single, many UA-camrs have reacted to it. It is nice, however, to see a reaction which is purely about the music and lyrics. I find the promotional video and the dance routines more of a distraction than a help. Great review of a great pop song !
♫ Them heavy people could eat a sasquatch, them heavy people can eat...♪
There's a way in which Dervishes would be "Turkish", yes, but "Ottoman" would be more like it. (The Ottoman Empire - Turkey, Crimea, Romania, Greece, most of the Balkans, Saudi, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Libya ... and some others). All over the Empire there would've been a certain proportion of "Dervishes". They're the same people referred to as "Sufi", today. They would spin round and round wearing wide skirts that would flatten out into a disk, in a kind of "prayer dance". (I think maybe they still do, but I don't think it's all Sufis that do it. Take all of the above with a fair-sized _Maybe_ , BTW.)
I think there were some Dervishes in India and Persia, too. Before the Ayatollah took over there was quite a lot of religious freedom in Iran/Persia. You had new cults popping up, there, for instance. There was something like the "church and state divide" they have in Saudi today, there. (Saudi has one family that does the governing, and another that does the religion, AFAIK.) The Shah left religion to the Descendants of Ali, and they left the governance to him. There were Shahs who hinted at being ready to convert to Catholicism in exchange for French help in times of crisis, even. (Maybe. Might have heard that all wrong, or read it all backward.)
There was "freedom of religion" but people like Jews and Christians were always a bit vulnerable / had no power. Clerics that went radical could pretty much do what they liked to people not in line with their dictats. When it came to religious matters, the descendants of Ali were a law unto themselves. (But that's just from one book I remember, where the author was a Victorian era Christian convert - by Americans, actually. Looks like the main missionary effort there was American.)
Anyway, nice to hear Heavy People again.
If you'd like to hear a good song about those days where the *Devils Gate* is opening on you, *The Angels* have got you covered. ua-cam.com/video/BrMdroQA2Eo/v-deo.html
(It's nice and energetic. Gives great vigour to one's futile strugglings.)
Dervishes also make an appearance in the video for "Sat In Your Lap"
reading this comment to the accompaniment of Godspeed You Black Emperor was symmetrically fitting (see below)
@@HippoYnYGlaw I've listened to tracks of theirs on UA-cam (maybe even more) and seem to remember enjoying it. Since I've not been back there so long, I'd guess it was an album or EP, and looked "too long" for too long. Must go and listen to them again.
@@HippoYnYGlaw Update on previous response. I believe I have found it, and it's ancient. *Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven* was what I listened to. (And it's long enough to be "too long" on the wrong day.)
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Classic artist. If you want to listen to a bit more of an updated version of Kate Bush ( certainly not a copy ) try Marina and the Diamonds. The first album in particular ' The Family Jewels '. Give ' Hermit the Frog ' a spin. Such talent , and to this day continues it. Thanks JP. 😍
You don't need to react to this but after listening to this you should watch Not The Nine O'Clock News - England My Leotard
Kate Great! Thanks. I always thought Jesu meant Jesus, but jezuits is a refreshing idea😊
I first saw this on, I think it was, SNL. Freaked me out but I loved her.
A fun song. And even more fun when listened to with the music video.
Fun song, but I can't help but think of Bernadette from Big Bang Theory when I hear her old singing style. 😆
Pick any song from this wonderful debut album, it's bound to be superb!
Please do more of The Smiths stuff
One of those people was Dave Gilmour
Gotta say. Justin, you’re my favorite reactor, but it’s a little frustrating that I see certain artists (like Kate Bush) being reacted to a lot in your channel while 99% of the stuff I request or mention seemingly gets ignored. I know you probably don’t get a ton of requests for the stuff I would like to see, so of course you have to give the people what they want. Just frustrating as I know you would love a lot of my stuff. Ok, got that off my chest, LOL.
hello U! please list 'em here & we'll back u up accordingly - C'mon chaps & chappettes - let's choose our fave CW recommendation and boycott the channel unless JP chooses one of 'em. (I jest re: that last bit hof course...)
Now I wanna hear what songs you wanna watch Justin react to : )
Mostly I’d like to see him do some more Todd Rundgren. Anything off the album Initiation or the Todd album. I’d like too him do more Joe Jackson (anything off of Big World or Laughter and Lust). Some Tubes, solo Pete Townshend stuff, Barenaked Ladies, maybe some more XTC or The Beatles. Thanks for your support, peeps! 😜
@@courtneywallace871 ah! Ok, i knew this would backfire on me! Nah only jokin.
Early xtc
Need 2 hear it
Todd
Always different?
BNL
Give me Stephen Duffy anytime of the day but Page’s voice does nuttin 4 me
(Beatles free zone over here)
But the winner 4 me by a short neck is.......
@@courtneywallace871 ...the Joe Jackson L&L coz I ain’t heard that jj lp!
I don't remember the bass being this loud, is this a remixed cut? This is one of the songs Kate performed on SNL. It was the first I'd heard of her and didn't get the mime dancing but the songs haunted me.
I'm pretty sure there's never been a "remixed cut" of this at all. The single version was a live performance I believe (certainly that's a different version),but this the normal album version.
@@normandavidtidiman9918 well. I remember-maybe wrongly- too after the second verse a ‘rolling the balletc ‘ before turning to ‘rollingtherollingetc’
@@jerkedevries Like I said,you might know the single version rather than the LP version here. It's never been "remixed".
@@normandavidtidiman9918 yes I get it 😊
Tommy still on the list? ;-)
You should certainly listen to Godspeed you black emperor 😊
@@Katehowe3010 Takes me back to the early days when a guy wrote just "Genesis - Mama" for months and months. I wonder if he's still around here? :>)
Along with Idlewild, The Cooper Temple Clause, Mercury Rev, Train , We are Scientists, The Raconteurs and The Tears , Godspeed You Black Emperor preside on my newly purchased from the Charity Shop for 25p CD shelf. The significant difference being that thanks to this Mr Hislop's persistence, I've started playing a very atmospheric track one from a CD dating from 1998, dedicated to the Rev Gary Davis....the title of which I'm unable to decipher from the cover. Full review to follow, gentlemen!
Track 1 is still goin after 14 mins as I write and it just done a false endin again. I need yer input regardin this! Is it an LP? It's great btw
@@HippoYnYGlaw i actually purchased that ep (their second release following the amazing F#A#) on vinyl, amazing album
wow track 2 is stunning
and it's only eight mins in
One of her better ones
Oh and still no-one has reacted to Roy Harper, David Gilmour. AND Kate Bush on the sublime “Once” sad to say. Cos it’s a masterpiece
ua-cam.com/video/4FCZaRSaOTw/v-deo.html
Yuck! Kate bush makes my ears hurt 😢