Kate Bush was a child musical prodigy and when you consider she wrote " The man with the child in his eyes" when she was only 12 yrs old. You then begin to understand that she's a force of nature and a genius.
100% ...for me, there are/were a few artists who seemed to somehow transcend mere mortality and were more of a spirit or aura as an artist. Kate Bush, Prince, Sly Stone, Peter Gabriel, even Stevie Nicks are a few that come to mind. For me, out of all of them, Peter would be the most "earthly"--maybe because I had experienced him more in conversations than I ever did with the others I mentioned. Definitely Prince and Kate always seemed more like apparitions than human somehow. I know it may sound strange, but maybe others feel something like that as well...? At the very least, those artists are all iconic and geniuses in one way or another.
here it is 3 years later .... Kate has had what seems to be her final to do as it were with her concerts in England .... THEN, because of this song being used in the NETFLIX show Stranger Things ..... it became a springboard to revitalizing the music of Kate Bush ..... without that show .... so many young people would have never known who she was and is
Ooh yes, that's a really great song as well. Good video as well by Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) with Donald Sutherland. Gotta listen to this one for sure Justin!
The Dreaming is - imo - a jump into a deep end if you are starting to listen Kate Bush. She has herself stated that it went a bit far with the Fairlight sampler and self dependence. Hounds...is probably a return towards more digestible forms and did spawn hits. But that singing bass sound on Dreaming's "All The Love" is stunning.
The Dreaming takes you into a different dimension. There is not a lot to cling to during the listen. It's not there to get used to at all. It resonates with your subconcious life. With the Dreaming part of your brain.
@@razrv3lc Tbf it is one of her worst. Could have said Cloudbusting, Suspended In Gaffa, This Woman's Work. If he wanted something of off The Red Shoes, Moments of Pleasure is the best song off there in my opinion.
With this song about swapping sexes with another person. The final choruses of Kate screeching in the background vocals is to highlight the change is happening, then the creepy low harmony outro bit is once the change has happened (hence why her voice was edited down an octave.)
I love The Dreaming it’s definitely her most “out there” album a lot of fans and music critics thought she lost her marbles on that one. It’s a great lead into what she did on “Hounds of love” I think.
Everything Kate did from her debut through to this album is still touched with magic for me. She debuted this song on Terry Wogan's BBC TV show and it sold out everywhere the next day. That she released albums so sporadically, by the measure of the times, only made them more special. The Dreaming is a challenging album, but that makes it all the more rewarding when you get under its skin. I suppose I bought it at a time when I was able to devote time to an album, and listen to it over and over again, headphones on and lights out. I still "make deals with God," sometimes, even if they are not exactly what Kate was talking about.
The Dreaming and Hounds of Love are Kate's masterpieces. The Dreaming is all about mini stories to do with knowledge, crime, aboriginal Australia, smugglers, vietnam war, a cursed house etc. Whilst the Hounds Of Love's First 5 songs are to do with 'love' in some way whether it be with nature, partner or parental. The following 6 songs details the story of a woman stranded in the sea drowning.
The Dude Quote from kate Bush “I saw this incredible documentary by this Australian cameraman who went on the front line in Vietnam, filming from the Vietnamese point of view, so it was very biased against the Americans. He said it really changed him, because until you live on their level like that, when it's complete survival, you don't know what it's about. He's never been the same since, because it's so devastating, people dying all the time. The way he portrayed the Vietnamese was as this really crafted, beautiful race. The Americans were these big, fat, pink, smelly things who the Vietnamese could smell coming for miles because of the tobacco and cologne. It was devastating, because you got the impression that the Americans were so heavy and awkward, and the Vietnamese were so beautiful and all getting wiped out. They wore a little silver Buddha on a chain around their neck and when they went into action they'd pop it into their mouth, so if they died they'd have Buddha on their lips. I wanted to write a song that could somehow convey the whole thing, so we set it in the jungle and had helicopters, crickets and little Balinese frogs. (Kris Needs, 'Dream Time In The Bush'. Zigzag (UK), November 1982)
You might want to consider doing The Ninth Wave, a connected series of seven songs that makes up the entire second half of this album (Hounds of Love). For me, it's the height of her work as a singer, songwriter, producer and arranger.
YOU MUST WATCH THE VIDEO. It is much more than the music. It is a performance, presenting together the ideas she is presenting in her interpretive dance and the magic.
Hounds of love is probably her best album, artistically, critically, and commercially. She can write very accessible pop songs, that upon closer look are quite unorthodox.
That "sampled" part you refer to around 9:40 is a Fairlight (with a cello sample), an early, powerful sampling synth that she, Peter Gabriel, and a lot of other creative artists used back in the day. Some of the other strange voice-like effects you hear all over this record are her voice and other things sampled on the Fairlight. This is probably Kate's seminal work. In 2014 she did a 22 night run of performances (after not playing live for decades) based primarily around this record, Hounds of Love (and also songs from Aerial). If you're going to do Hounds of Love all as reactions, definitely do it in order. It's a concept album, and the flow is really important. Luckily, you started with the opening track, so you're good to go!
I've always thought that the sound is meant to symbolize the titular hounds. On the title track (the very next song) there it is again. And I wouldn't be surprised if those doggies pop up all over the first side. But I'll have to check because it's such a densely layered album.
What a treasure this woman's voice is. She's on a par with any of the greats, Ann Wilson, Annie Lennox, Stevie Nicks.... I have to "exchange the experience" whenever I hear her.
I first heard "The Dreaming " back in high school in the eighties and i initially found it disturbing to this pedestrian budding metal head! Many many listens later and i just love it. She is a unique artist. One of my favorites.
Its a different kind of disturbing, like ripples in water. Sure, the waters disturbed, but the ripples are beautiful in their own right. I don't know, its late lol :D
as a metalhead myself, Kate Bush is far sicker and far more intense than any metal band I have ever heard in my life and I have heard every metal. All the metals
Love this one 💜 We used to daaaaance to this and the many remixes in the club...such good memories! Thank you for this one ✌️She’s an original for sure.
"The Dreaming" is Kate's most experimental album, but "Hounds of Love" is more cohesive and accessible. Side 1 has all the singles but side 2 is a conceptual suite, probably the best thing she's ever done. Every song on this album is a masterpiece, she produced it. Her next couple of albums are also worth hearing but just collections of songs. After that she took a 12 year break to raise her son.
The whole album is a wonder! This song is the perfect intro to suck you into the whole thing and the first side gets better with every song right up to Cloudbusting, which is simply phenomenal. Then you turn the record over and all your expectations get turned upside down. Side two is a trip! All her Celtic influences are allowed their full expression and the whole side is much more abstract and expressionist than what went before. It’s a real album of two sides with no discernable relation between one and the other but both are sublime.
So haunting. I was on holiday in the Devon hills when this song was in the charts..... it reminds me of the Devonshire countryside in the sun. And rain. We rented out this spooky old cottage in the middle of some woods....miles from anywhere. This song fits so well.
@@JustJP Yeah, yeah....as soon as i hear this song, it takes me to Devon! It's a Devonly sound! Kind of eerie sounding? I love how certain songs can give us feelings of times gone. When Ive been smoking a bit of weed, I can play a song in my head and go back to that time. Not literally.....it's not like time travel. Or is it? hehe.
The Dreaming was the first album Kate produced for herself. She took the opportunity to really let it loose, and the result is a very strange, intense, interior experience. I love that album, and still find it strange after more than 30 years of listening to it.
That little sound is a Fairlight CMI "Cello2" sample that she manipulated (pitch bend etc.) and re-sampled back into the Fairlight. Almost all significant sounds in that tune are based on that sample.
Great review. Kate Bush' voice makes a lot of people happy. I, like a few of the other reactors, had the luck to be able to see her in 2014. One of the memories that will be with me for as long as I love (I hope).
This is the song that really turned me on to Kate Bush, it is such an amazing vocal arrangement and beautiful sound. By the way, the rest of this album is wonderful and you will LOVE it. Surprisingly, because of my living situation and where I was from, I didn't know Wuthering Heights until I heard it on Pat Benatar's 2nd album Crimes of Passion (awesome by the way). I really appreciate your abilities to break songs down. I like your reactions a lot, and I'll leave some messages on the other songs like Saga, On the Loose. Thank you for your labor of love ❤️.
That old Fairlight synth sounds awesome, The synth pads in the background carries you through the song and that's typical 80s style. Remembers me a bit of the synth pads in "Westend Girls--Pet Shop Boys" or "This is not America by Bowie and Pat Metheny" . Great song, amazing Kate...
Watching this now is just sublime. Stranger Things made this song resonate in a different level, and everybody is discovering Kate now. It's like a dream come true.
The Dreaming scared the crap out of me as a teen. Of course, listening to it in the dark, added to the strange sounds and images it conjured. My personal fav, Pull Out The Pin.
One day, something will change within you in the same way our taste buds mature and change over time. Eventually, you will after a number of sessions (especially when in the background) you will notice the sheer layers and melding of sounds that I believe no other artist has ever achieved. I understand that the album is not understood or liked by many but if you like Kate Bush then many of the songs (especially the first half albeit not exclusively) will catch you with moments that pique your interest pondering the genius of not just using her voice as an instrument but sound as an orchestrated symphony. This was the first album where she was in full control and produced, was recorded during the dawning age of computers in music. Kate was influenced greatly by Peter Gabriel's use of the Farlight for Sampling e.g. the breaking glass on Peter Gabriel's "Games without Frontiers" which includes Kate Bush for backing vocals, and The Dreaming was I believe her first chance to apply her mind's ear to reality in a way that she wanted and was finally able to do with significantly less compromise (and completely when she built her own studio which led to The Hounds of Love). The Dreaming may take you some time to acquire a taste for but in the same way that time ages great wine, watching the difference between critics then and now has a similar trajectory. If as you say "The Hounds of Love" is perfect, The Dreaming was her step that needed to be taken before perfection was possible.
Kate got one of the first Fairlights. Incredibly expensive and hard to get hold of, they were almost sold on merit. With it, musicians were able to sample and write their own sounds. As well as Kate being as unique as she is, all of these sounds were revolutionary, sounds we had never heard, and because she has created these sounds, they were straight from her mind to us, breaking the restrictions of the off the shelf instruments that musicians has previously been restricted to expressing themselves with
What a unique artist. She is a female voice that must be heard.....and I mean more than the sound. She is asking us a lot of questions if we take time to listen. An amazing artist.
This whole album is amazing, this is only the moneymaker song. Since 1985 I've loved this record. It's so strange and so captivating. Under Ice, Waking the Witch and Jig of Life. Wonderful to see someone react to her at all in this year. Hugs from Sweden.
The song was originally going to have "A Deal With God" as the main title but apparently the US label thought it would be too controversial for a pop single.
I would suggest her song "Army Dreamers", but you definitely need a lyrics sheet and wiki page to appreciate it fully. I was listening to that song for 25 years before I knew what BFPO meant. You also might want to watch the Official Music Videos for her songs. Sometimes the visuals can add to the meaning.
J'ai découvert cette chanson en l'écoutant sur mon vinyle acheté chez mon disquaire de quartier. La sublime pochette avec les chiens... ce blanc, ce rose, cette pose. Kate je la suivais depuis 1980 et là ce fut une claque... (déjà "The Dreaming" m'avait passablement impressionné par son radicalisme musical) ! ce disque est en équilibre parfait entre thèmes supposément pop (face 1) et titres expérimentaux et étranges (face 2). Un univers infini dans ce chef-d’œuvre qui ne prend pas une ride ! Kate je t'adore.
Love Kate and love The Hounds Of Love album. I remember my own first hearing of the album and how blown away I was. So glad you loved this track and can't recommend the rest of the album highly enough.
The song is about changing places with her partner so that one can see the other's perspective. The original title is A Deal With God but EMI told her that she had to change it, but she kept it in parentheses.
The second side of the "Hounds of love" album is twice as amazing. There is a trio of songs that act as one story, "and dream of sheep", "under ice" and "waking the witch'. They never charted, but if you want an insight into KB and her Irish roots, give them a listen together
What is interesting is that very few individual women artists managed to breakthrough to the very male centric prog rock genre. She is a unique talented artist.
I’m right with you here, JP. Good insights and observations and I like your honesty about saying what in particular you liked. This is definitely one of my favorite Kate Bush songs.
Yes. It’s a perfect album and it propelled her back into the spotlight and high up the charts. Others have mentioned The Ninth Wave and you should definitely listen to that in its entirety. She also reproduced it live and it became a little piece of theatre and it’s stunning. Before The Dawn is the live album title and this is one of the movements in it. Cloudbusting was perhaps even more special as a single. But this whole album deserves a listen. It’s stunning.
The band Placebo did a really great cover of this song, and it’s actually through that cover that I discovered Kate Bush. Placebo’s cover is a great example of a cover song done well, as it really puts ‘Running Up That Hill’ in a different light.
The Dreaming is a masterwork. "All the Love" catapults me into another dimension whenever I hear it. Hounds of Love is much in the same vein albeit a tad more commercial.
In my experience a desire to listen to new music a second time is the best sign of a long term relationship. Came for the sweet, stayed for the savory. BTW that whaa, whaa sound shows up everywhere in the 80s. Created by the Fairlight CMI and used by everyone from Yes to Herbie Hancock. The first commercially released album to incorporate it was actually Kate Bush's Never for Ever (1980)
Really enjoyed your rundown. Back in 1986-'87 (!) the "Hounds of Love" album and XTC's "Skylarking" showed me the sun didn't rise and set on Van Halen (whom I still love). Look forward to hearing your other reactions to the album, especially the title track and the "Ninth Wave" suite ("And Dream of Sheep" through "The Morning Fog"), all of which a Pink Floyd fan should appreciate. Enjoy!
Hey JP! I’ve discovered Kate Bush in 2017 and have been hooked since! Love how you fully embraced Kate Bush’s art, music, and lyrics! You should definitely react to someone very different her name is Poppy - she used to make generic pop songs due to her UA-cam character as a Barbie-like robot, but since she split up with her collaborator Titanic Sinclair she now focuses her sound on post genre or in simplistic words heavy metal with weird and interesting breakdowns. Some recs are X (where you see a change in the usual ‘Poppy’ sound), Concrete, I Disagree (the title track of her new album with the same name), or Play destroy! Love your channel and can’t wait to see more!!
"The Dreaming" may be a little odd, but it's probably my favorite Kate Bush album. 😁 An interesting song to check would be "Army Dreamers" - it's a little different, but very memorable, and a really nice tune.
@@JustJP Hard to say now. I first heard it in 1989 or 1990. Have always loved just how unique an album it is. There really is nothing like it, not even her other albums. Suspended In Gaffa is one of the big tracks for me. The album Never For Ever is the gateway drug, and you should definitely fully explore that one. Also as has been suggested, do the entire side 2 of Hounds Of Love, which is titled The Ninth Wave. It is perfection. One song from her later albums has a Dreaming vibe to it: Big Stripey Lie from her album The Red Shoes. However, my favorite song on The Red Shoes is definitely Lily.
Kate Bush used one of the first computer controlled sampling keyboards, called The Fairlight and that is the sound you hear... She created some early samples and one of then Orchestra 5 she made some serious money of of this sample...
First song I ever heard from Kate on MTV hooked me. She uses such an interesting sound Palette, and always a great/interesting drum track. Like Gabriel...
The 'strange' sounds are a fairlight synthesizer. An early way to record sounds and to convert them to notes. Peter Gabriel used it also on his third and fourth album
There's a very short song on the remastered edition of Hounds of Love called Under the Ivy that sealed Kate's place in my personal pantheon of music. Thrown away by her record company as the B side of Running Up That Hill but the reason I became a fan.
I totally get why you don’t but I really wished you watched the video for this song as I feel with Kate Bush a lot of her videos really go hand in hand with the song. Many music videos are completely redundant but her dancing is mesmerising and fits perfectly with this song.
Kate Bush somehow has a vocal remote control for my emotions. I feel like one of those dancing flowers in front of a speaker. Its brilliantly exhausting. Nuff said.
she is the best. this song is a gem. there is a great video of rapper Big Boi of OutKast talking about this song... maybe the video is on Pitchfork. He explains his relationship with the song (he listened to it riding his bike to work), and it is really inspiring.
Hey I just found this video, and as a fan of Kate's for 40 years I'd like to say you did a great job with your first-listen off-the-cuff review of this tune. Very insightful about how she uses her voice differently within the song, and also from song to song. I may have missed it but I'd like to hear your take on side 'B' on this album, the concept side "The Ninth Wave" which to me is one of her many masterpieces. Cheers!
The Dreaming in my opinion is a truly great work. First time Kate was the sole producer of her work and an experience that would result in the positively absolutely brilliant far seeing next album HOUNDS OF LOVE which I'm seeing the video now of you listening to it.
I had a very similar experience when it came to The Dreaming! I HATED it the first three or four times I listened to it, but now It's one of my favorite albums of all time haha
After thirty-five years listening to Kate Bush, The Dreaming is my favorite album, for many years it was more or less tied with Hounds of Love, but eventually edged it out. I also would put disc two of Aerial with either of those albums.
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Kate Bush was a child musical prodigy and when you consider she wrote " The man with the child in his eyes" when she was only 12 yrs old. You then begin to understand that she's a force of nature and a genius.
There can never be enough Kate Bush
True
Kate Bush is unique and a legend.
rbu83145 Oh yes too true
Period.
100% ...for me, there are/were a few artists who seemed to somehow transcend mere mortality and were more of a spirit or aura as an artist. Kate Bush, Prince, Sly Stone, Peter Gabriel, even Stevie Nicks are a few that come to mind. For me, out of all of them, Peter would be the most "earthly"--maybe because I had experienced him more in conversations than I ever did with the others I mentioned. Definitely Prince and Kate always seemed more like apparitions than human somehow. I know it may sound strange, but maybe others feel something like that as well...? At the very least, those artists are all iconic and geniuses in one way or another.
here it is 3 years later .... Kate has had what seems to be her final to do as it were with her concerts in England .... THEN, because of this song being used in the NETFLIX show Stranger Things ..... it became a springboard to revitalizing the music of Kate Bush ..... without that show .... so many young people would have never known who she was and is
If no one has suggested it, “Cloudbusting” is so lovely and such a great use of storytelling in song-Kate Bush is an ultimate artist.
Ooh yes, that's a really great song as well. Good video as well by Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) with Donald Sutherland. Gotta listen to this one for sure Justin!
One of my top ten songs, even better than Beatles. :)
Cloudbusting is sublime, ethereal, and joyous 'baroque pop' ❤️
The Dreaming gets better with each listen. Hounds of Love as well. Kate Bush gets better with each listen....
I can tell!
The Dreaming is - imo - a jump into a deep end if you are starting to listen Kate Bush. She has herself stated that it went a bit far with the Fairlight sampler and self dependence. Hounds...is probably a return towards more digestible forms and did spawn hits. But that singing bass sound on Dreaming's "All The Love" is stunning.
The Dreaming takes you into a different dimension. There is not a lot to cling to during the listen. It's not there to get used to at all. It resonates with your subconcious life. With the Dreaming part of your brain.
The Dreaming is my favourite album of hers. "Get Out Of My House" Awesome!
The best album ever. Listen again!
The best female singer songwriter ever
And remember Bush, wrote, performed instrumentation and PRODUCED THIS! GENIUS!
"The man with the child in his eyes" , "Eat the music", "hounds of Love". So so many great Kate songs.
Eat the Music? Really? Most people I know of consider it to be one of her worst songs lol
@@razrv3lc Tbf it is one of her worst. Could have said Cloudbusting, Suspended In Gaffa, This Woman's Work.
If he wanted something of off The Red Shoes, Moments of Pleasure is the best song off there in my opinion.
With this song about swapping sexes with another person.
The final choruses of Kate screeching in the background vocals is to highlight the change is happening, then the creepy low harmony outro bit is once the change has happened (hence why her voice was edited down an octave.)
Saw the title and cranked it up! Yay for more Kate Bush!
:D
every single Kate Bush song will grow on you, she is a true master artist
This is a flawless album. If anyone ever tells me 80’s Pop music wasn’t good I send them here 😃
Jeremy Adams
Kate Bush, Laurie Anderson and Talking Heads are the exception.
Jeremy Adams
And Riki Lee Jones.
I love The Dreaming it’s definitely her most “out there” album a lot of fans and music critics thought she lost her marbles on that one. It’s a great lead into what she did on “Hounds of love” I think.
The Dreaming is my favourite album of hers. It's Kate at her most bizarre and experimental and I just love it.
Everything Kate did from her debut through to this album is still touched with magic for me. She debuted this song on Terry Wogan's BBC TV show and it sold out everywhere the next day. That she released albums so sporadically, by the measure of the times, only made them more special. The Dreaming is a challenging album, but that makes it all the more rewarding when you get under its skin. I suppose I bought it at a time when I was able to devote time to an album, and listen to it over and over again, headphones on and lights out. I still "make deals with God," sometimes, even if they are not exactly what Kate was talking about.
The Dreaming and Hounds of Love are Kate's masterpieces.
The Dreaming is all about mini stories to do with knowledge, crime, aboriginal Australia, smugglers, vietnam war, a cursed house etc.
Whilst the Hounds Of Love's First 5 songs are to do with 'love' in some way whether it be with nature, partner or parental.
The following 6 songs details the story of a woman stranded in the sea drowning.
Appreciate the background SA
The Dude
Viet Nam war, really ?
@@stuarthastie6374 Pull Out The Pin
The Dude
Quote from kate Bush
“I saw this incredible documentary by this Australian cameraman who went on the front line in Vietnam, filming from the Vietnamese point of view, so it was very biased against the Americans. He said it really changed him, because until you live on their level like that, when it's complete survival, you don't know what it's about. He's never been the same since, because it's so devastating, people dying all the time.
The way he portrayed the Vietnamese was as this really crafted, beautiful race. The Americans were these big, fat, pink, smelly things who the Vietnamese could smell coming for miles because of the tobacco and cologne. It was devastating, because you got the impression that the Americans were so heavy and awkward, and the Vietnamese were so beautiful and all getting wiped out. They wore a little silver Buddha on a chain around their neck and when they went into action they'd pop it into their mouth, so if they died they'd have Buddha on their lips. I wanted to write a song that could somehow convey the whole thing, so we set it in the jungle and had helicopters, crickets and little Balinese frogs. (Kris Needs, 'Dream Time In The Bush'. Zigzag (UK), November 1982)
You might want to consider doing The Ninth Wave, a connected series of seven songs that makes up the entire second half of this album (Hounds of Love). For me, it's the height of her work as a singer, songwriter, producer and arranger.
Couldn't agree more. The Ninth Wave is her finest creation. A mind blowing headphones piece.
The Ninth Wave is astoundingly good. For me it's her masterpiece.
You nailed it,that is one of my all-time favorite albums, I am listening to it as I write this.icredibly awesome recording.right on!!!!!!
That album is a progressive masterpiece.you should check out marillions a misplaced childhood another prog.masterpiece that came out the same year.
Listen to the whole album then convert your friends.
She`s an artist in the true sense. Her music is art.
YOU MUST WATCH THE VIDEO. It is much more than the music. It is a performance, presenting together the ideas she is presenting in her interpretive dance and the magic.
Hounds of love is probably her best album, artistically, critically, and commercially. She can write very accessible pop songs, that upon closer look are quite unorthodox.
That "sampled" part you refer to around 9:40 is a Fairlight (with a cello sample), an early, powerful sampling synth that she, Peter Gabriel, and a lot of other creative artists used back in the day. Some of the other strange voice-like effects you hear all over this record are her voice and other things sampled on the Fairlight.
This is probably Kate's seminal work. In 2014 she did a 22 night run of performances (after not playing live for decades) based primarily around this record, Hounds of Love (and also songs from Aerial).
If you're going to do Hounds of Love all as reactions, definitely do it in order. It's a concept album, and the flow is really important. Luckily, you started with the opening track, so you're good to go!
I've always thought that the sound is meant to symbolize the titular hounds.
On the title track (the very next song) there it is again. And I wouldn't be surprised if those
doggies pop up all over the first side. But I'll have to check because it's such a densely layered album.
Ah, thanks for the info on the sample dig! Appreciate that
@@SpaceCattttt Not sure about this song. But definitley on Hounds of Love the backing vocals are meant to sound like dogs.
One of my all time favorite songs. It stopped me dead in my tracks the first time I heard it
I bet! It definitely has stopping power
What a treasure this woman's voice is. She's on a par with any of the greats, Ann Wilson, Annie Lennox, Stevie Nicks.... I have to "exchange the experience" whenever I hear her.
I first heard "The Dreaming " back in high school in the eighties and i initially found it disturbing to this pedestrian budding metal head! Many many listens later and i just love it. She is a unique artist. One of my favorites.
Its a different kind of disturbing, like ripples in water. Sure, the waters disturbed, but the ripples are beautiful in their own right.
I don't know, its late lol :D
as a metalhead myself, Kate Bush is far sicker and far more intense than any metal band I have ever heard in my life and I have heard every metal. All the metals
Love this one 💜 We used to daaaaance to this and the many remixes in the club...such good memories! Thank you for this one ✌️She’s an original for sure.
Those are great memories. I loved dancing to new wave tracks as a younger man.
This song always hits me right in the feels. I've felt like she feels in this song so many times.
"The Dreaming" is Kate's most experimental album, but "Hounds of Love" is more cohesive and accessible. Side 1 has all the singles but side 2 is a conceptual suite, probably the best thing she's ever done. Every song on this album is a masterpiece, she produced it. Her next couple of albums are also worth hearing but just collections of songs. After that she took a 12 year break to raise her son.
THank you Yog!
She actually released two more albums before that break -- The Sensual World in 1989 and The Red Shoes in 1993.
Kate is so unique and different from other artists. She is amazing👏👏👏👍👍👍
The soft plash of the drums, the way she bends her voice to provide fills for her main voice, magical
The whole album is a wonder! This song is the perfect intro to suck you into the whole thing and the first side gets better with every song right up to Cloudbusting, which is simply phenomenal. Then you turn the record over and all your expectations get turned upside down. Side two is a trip! All her Celtic influences are allowed their full expression and the whole side is much more abstract and expressionist than what went before. It’s a real album of two sides with no discernable relation between one and the other but both are sublime.
So haunting. I was on holiday in the Devon hills when this song was in the charts..... it reminds me of the Devonshire countryside in the sun. And rain. We rented out this spooky old cottage in the middle of some woods....miles from anywhere. This song fits so well.
That's a perfect setting for this
@@JustJP Yeah, yeah....as soon as i hear this song, it takes me to Devon! It's a Devonly sound! Kind of eerie sounding?
I love how certain songs can give us feelings of times gone. When Ive been smoking a bit of weed, I can play a song in my head and go back to that time. Not literally.....it's not like time travel.
Or is it? hehe.
Kate is a Literate, Visionary Genius.
The Dreaming was the first album Kate produced for herself. She took the opportunity to really let it loose, and the result is a very strange, intense, interior experience. I love that album, and still find it strange after more than 30 years of listening to it.
I don't even know how to describe it; its definitely unique
That little sound is a Fairlight CMI "Cello2" sample that she manipulated (pitch bend etc.) and re-sampled back into the Fairlight. Almost all significant sounds in that tune are based on that sample.
I saw Kate bush 1979 Saturday night live...loved her ever since
Great review. Kate Bush' voice makes a lot of people happy. I, like a few of the other reactors, had the luck to be able to see her in 2014. One of the memories that will be with me for as long as I love (I hope).
This is the song that really turned me on to Kate Bush, it is such an amazing vocal arrangement and beautiful sound.
By the way, the rest of this album is wonderful and you will LOVE it.
Surprisingly, because of my living situation and where I was from, I didn't know Wuthering Heights until I heard it on Pat Benatar's 2nd album Crimes of Passion (awesome by the way).
I really appreciate your abilities to break songs down. I like your reactions a lot, and I'll leave some messages on the other songs like Saga, On the Loose.
Thank you for your labor of love ❤️.
Thanks Jon! I appreciate you commenting and watching :)
That old Fairlight synth sounds awesome, The synth pads in the background carries you through the song and that's typical 80s style. Remembers me a bit of the synth pads in "Westend Girls--Pet Shop Boys" or "This is not America by Bowie and Pat Metheny" . Great song, amazing Kate...
Watching this now is just sublime. Stranger Things made this song resonate in a different level, and everybody is discovering Kate now. It's like a dream come true.
If you ever do a reaction to Babooshka by our Kate, WATCH THE VIDEO!! Oh yes!
The Dreaming scared the crap out of me as a teen. Of course, listening to it in the dark, added to the strange sounds and images it conjured. My personal fav, Pull Out The Pin.
One day, something will change within you in the same way our taste buds mature and change over time. Eventually, you will after a number of sessions (especially when in the background) you will notice the sheer layers and melding of sounds that I believe no other artist has ever achieved. I understand that the album is not understood or liked by many but if you like Kate Bush then many of the songs (especially the first half albeit not exclusively) will catch you with moments that pique your interest pondering the genius of not just using her voice as an instrument but sound as an orchestrated symphony. This was the first album where she was in full control and produced, was recorded during the dawning age of computers in music. Kate was influenced greatly by Peter Gabriel's use of the Farlight for Sampling e.g. the breaking glass on Peter Gabriel's "Games without Frontiers" which includes Kate Bush for backing vocals, and The Dreaming was I believe her first chance to apply her mind's ear to reality in a way that she wanted and was finally able to do with significantly less compromise (and completely when she built her own studio which led to The Hounds of Love). The Dreaming may take you some time to acquire a taste for but in the same way that time ages great wine, watching the difference between critics then and now has a similar trajectory. If as you say "The Hounds of Love" is perfect, The Dreaming was her step that needed to be taken before perfection was possible.
Kate got one of the first Fairlights. Incredibly expensive and hard to get hold of, they were almost sold on merit. With it, musicians were able to sample and write their own sounds. As well as Kate being as unique as she is, all of these sounds were revolutionary, sounds we had never heard, and because she has created these sounds, they were straight from her mind to us, breaking the restrictions of the off the shelf instruments that musicians has previously been restricted to expressing themselves with
What a unique artist. She is a female voice that must be heard.....and I mean more than the sound. She is asking us a lot of questions if we take time to listen. An amazing artist.
OMG - The Dreaming is pure unfettered genius. Night of the Swallow, Suspended in Gaffa... so glad you are intrigued by her.
This whole album is amazing, this is only the moneymaker song. Since 1985 I've loved this record. It's so strange and so captivating. Under Ice, Waking the Witch and Jig of Life. Wonderful to see someone react to her at all in this year. Hugs from Sweden.
The song was originally going to have "A Deal With God" as the main title but apparently the US label thought it would be too controversial for a pop single.
kate bush song running up that hill song and the video is beautifull amazing art :)
....a tender love letter sent on the breeze into the vortex of colliding universes...Kate Bush was the pen. She broke my heart.
I would suggest her song "Army Dreamers", but you definitely need a lyrics sheet and wiki page to appreciate it fully. I was listening to that song for 25 years before I knew what BFPO meant.
You also might want to watch the Official Music Videos for her songs. Sometimes the visuals can add to the meaning.
J'ai découvert cette chanson en l'écoutant sur mon vinyle acheté chez mon disquaire de quartier. La sublime pochette avec les chiens... ce blanc, ce rose, cette pose. Kate je la suivais depuis 1980 et là ce fut une claque... (déjà "The Dreaming" m'avait passablement impressionné par son radicalisme musical) ! ce disque est en équilibre parfait entre thèmes supposément pop (face 1) et titres expérimentaux et étranges (face 2). Un univers infini dans ce chef-d’œuvre qui ne prend pas une ride ! Kate je t'adore.
Love Kate and love The Hounds Of Love album. I remember my own first hearing of the album and how blown away I was. So glad you loved this track and can't recommend the rest of the album highly enough.
Thanks Rich!
Kate is a brilliant musician.
The song is about changing places with her partner so that one can see the other's perspective. The original title is A Deal With God but EMI told her that she had to change it, but she kept it in parentheses.
So many great songs she’s a one off. The Man with the Child in his Eyes
The second side of the "Hounds of love" album is twice as amazing.
There is a trio of songs that act as one story, "and dream of sheep", "under ice" and "waking the witch'. They never charted, but if you want an insight into KB and her Irish roots, give them a listen together
The whole second side of Hounds of Love is a story, not just those 3. The 6 songs detail as woman's spiral to insanity whilst drowning at sea.
What is interesting is that very few individual women artists managed to breakthrough to the very male centric prog rock genre. She is a unique talented artist.
Experiencing it with the video is the perfect art package. She also has to be seen as the music and dance is part of what makes her art complete.
I’m right with you here, JP. Good insights and observations and I like your honesty about saying what in particular you liked. This is definitely one of my favorite Kate Bush songs.
Yes. It’s a perfect album and it propelled her back into the spotlight and high up the charts. Others have mentioned The Ninth Wave and you should definitely listen to that in its entirety. She also reproduced it live and it became a little piece of theatre and it’s stunning. Before The Dawn is the live album title and this is one of the movements in it. Cloudbusting was perhaps even more special as a single. But this whole album deserves a listen. It’s stunning.
The band Placebo did a really great cover of this song, and it’s actually through that cover that I discovered Kate Bush. Placebo’s cover is a great example of a cover song done well, as it really puts ‘Running Up That Hill’ in a different light.
I would absolutely LOVE it if you would do live streams, and play requests!
MissAstorDancer I like the live stream idea, too! There'd be room for real-time chat on that platform, too.
@@jaybird4093 Absolutely! My thinking exactly!
Perhaps perhaps :)
Everyone can relate to this...my fav from Kate. What an immaculate woman.
The Dreaming is a masterwork. "All the Love" catapults me into another dimension whenever I hear it. Hounds of Love is much in the same vein albeit a tad more commercial.
She’s the best..this is her best song and it’s from her best album. Hounds of Love is my favourite album ever and nothing has surpassed it since 1985.
Iconic song.
Our Kate is a gift to the world. I also love ‘Under Ice’ from this album.
In my experience a desire to listen to new music a second time is the best sign of a long term relationship.
Came for the sweet, stayed for the savory. BTW that whaa, whaa sound shows up everywhere in the 80s.
Created by the Fairlight CMI and used by everyone from Yes to Herbie Hancock. The first commercially released album to incorporate it was actually Kate Bush's Never for Ever (1980)
Thanks Droopy! I totally agree about 2nd and subsequent listens
Ha! I misread it as BWA BWA aka inception sound till it clicked
Track and Field did an amazing cover of this song for the show Warehouse 13. Highly recommend it. It's beautiful.
The Chromatics also did a decent cover.
I really like the cover (and music video) that Placebo did, but the recent Meg Myers cover is pretty meh.
Fantastic song from an outstanding perfect album.
Master piece.
This is my favorite Kate Bush song, love it, Cloudbusting also great, see you.
Absolute genius that is Kate Bush. She wrote " The man with child in his eyes" when she was 12 yrs old.......!!! COME ON NOW PEOPLE !!
So good every time I hear it!
Really enjoyed your rundown. Back in 1986-'87 (!) the "Hounds of Love" album and XTC's "Skylarking" showed me the sun didn't rise and set on Van Halen (whom I still love). Look forward to hearing your other reactions to the album, especially the title track and the "Ninth Wave" suite ("And Dream of Sheep" through "The Morning Fog"), all of which a Pink Floyd fan should appreciate. Enjoy!
Thank you Britton!
Hey JP! I’ve discovered Kate Bush in 2017 and have been hooked since! Love how you fully embraced Kate Bush’s art, music, and lyrics! You should definitely react to someone very different her name is Poppy - she used to make generic pop songs due to her UA-cam character as a Barbie-like robot, but since she split up with her collaborator Titanic Sinclair she now focuses her sound on post genre or in simplistic words heavy metal with weird and interesting breakdowns. Some recs are X (where you see a change in the usual ‘Poppy’ sound), Concrete, I Disagree (the title track of her new album with the same name), or Play destroy! Love your channel and can’t wait to see more!!
Ty so much Yaz, appreciate the suggestion 😄
"The Dreaming" may be a little odd, but it's probably my favorite Kate Bush album. 😁
An interesting song to check would be "Army Dreamers" - it's a little different, but very memorable, and a really nice tune.
THanks J!
The Dreaming is my favorite KB album. Love all of it.
Nice! What were your initial thoughts upon your first listen?
@@JustJP Hard to say now. I first heard it in 1989 or 1990. Have always loved just how unique an album it is. There really is nothing like it, not even her other albums. Suspended In Gaffa is one of the big tracks for me. The album Never For Ever is the gateway drug, and you should definitely fully explore that one. Also as has been suggested, do the entire side 2 of Hounds Of Love, which is titled The Ninth Wave. It is perfection. One song from her later albums has a Dreaming vibe to it: Big Stripey Lie from her album The Red Shoes. However, my favorite song on The Red Shoes is definitely Lily.
Great work, thanks! She is wonderful.
Ty!
Kate Bush used one of the first computer controlled sampling keyboards, called The Fairlight and that is the sound you hear... She created some early samples and one of then Orchestra 5 she made some serious money of of this sample...
First song I ever heard from Kate on MTV hooked me. She uses such an interesting sound Palette, and always a great/interesting drum track. Like Gabriel...
The 'strange' sounds are a fairlight synthesizer. An early way to record sounds and to convert them to notes. Peter Gabriel used it also on his third and fourth album
More Kate Bush what a treat love love love good analysis as always
Ty ty David!
The outro to Big Sky where she screams in tune.
The fretless bass work on Mother
The concept behind Watching You Without Me...Brilliant
There's a very short song on the remastered edition of Hounds of Love called Under the Ivy that sealed Kate's place in my personal pantheon of music. Thrown away by her record company as the B side of Running Up That Hill but the reason I became a fan.
I totally get why you don’t but I really wished you watched the video for this song as I feel with Kate Bush a lot of her videos really go hand in hand with the song. Many music videos are completely redundant but her dancing is mesmerising and fits perfectly with this song.
Kate Bush somehow has a vocal remote control for my emotions. I feel like one of those dancing flowers in front of a speaker. Its brilliantly exhausting. Nuff said.
Heavily agreed Paul!
she is the best. this song is a gem. there is a great video of rapper Big Boi of OutKast talking about this song... maybe the video is on Pitchfork. He explains his relationship with the song (he listened to it riding his bike to work), and it is really inspiring.
I saw that video!
Your description of Kate is how i think of her. You nailed it. From down under.
The music videos always make her music sound sooo much better.
Great reaction. I love this album :) Hope you do the whole album !!
Thanks John :)
Hey I just found this video, and as a fan of Kate's for 40 years I'd like to say you did a great job with your first-listen off-the-cuff review of this tune. Very insightful about how she uses her voice differently within the song, and also from song to song. I may have missed it but I'd like to hear your take on side 'B' on this album, the concept side "The Ninth Wave" which to me is one of her many masterpieces. Cheers!
Thanks so much Jay! Definitely I've actually done her albums Hounds of Love and Sensual World
you said it best ….. it is very kate bush …… Kate is her own brand of music if you will, she does not belong to any genre, she is unique
The Dreaming in my opinion is a truly great work. First time Kate was the sole producer of her work and an experience that would result in the positively absolutely brilliant far seeing next album HOUNDS OF LOVE which I'm seeing the video now of you listening to it.
The video is pretty cool too!
I had a very similar experience when it came to The Dreaming! I HATED it the first three or four times I listened to it, but now It's one of my favorite albums of all time haha
It's a grower!
You MUST watch the video of this.It's exquisite!...She is so beautiful.
Kate Bush is an absolute genius
After thirty-five years listening to Kate Bush, The Dreaming is my favorite album, for many years it was more or less tied with Hounds of Love, but eventually edged it out. I also would put disc two of Aerial with either of those albums.