The sound she makes, when saying "hmmmm yes", is so enchanting to me. It takes me to other places. Like all of her music. There's always something special. This woman IS art.
Although: Maybe I have a filthy mind, but it's very hard for me to hear that and not imagine myself as being her husband, and hearing that. Forget "WAP". This has got to be the sexiest song ever. And when she strips off that hat........
In 1989, ten year old me couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Here I am now. What a privileged child I was to have this calibre of music readily available to me in my youth.
That happened in 1978 to me when l was 18. I came in taking my jacket and helmet off while this song was playing and immediately put it back on and went to the record store and bought "The Kick Inside" album. I have all of her albums some many times over on vinyl, cassette and CD. Now all on Digital
@@mrtimtremmel8465 This was the first album of hers that I bought on the first day of release. I heard her after rRunning up that Hill was released in America, and that was it, life changed. She is the greatest.
...and the bells at the beginning, of course, reminding me of when I lived in Amsterdam. All of her songs always remind me of something beautiful as well as being beautiful themselves.
Kate Bush. Her music has informed a significant part of my aesthetic and ethos, and thus part of who I am as a human being in similar ways to Nick Drake, The Smiths and Nina Simone. Kate's music speaks directly to my strange, magical, Queer, elusive, golden-hearted rascal self. All my love and respect from Texas!
@@lm5730, I don't know how she identifies, though I know she's a longtime ally. I was referring rather to the feeling of "otherness" her music involves, which speak very much to me due to similar experiences and perspectives.
What an artist this beautiful woman is. I don't think I've ever seen anyone combine song and movement in such a sublime and bewitching manner. Her performance here verges on the supernatural.
@isobeljames1328 thank you. Yes, I've followed her career and music since I first saw her on Top of The Pops performing Wuthering Heights when she was just 19 years old. What talent she has.
@@plong6246 #StopSexismInMusic I'm just sayin'.... that the world would be wonderful if the comments were not only about her body but also about her capacity as a songwriter composer FEMALE PRODUCER to create music.... Cos she's a musician.... Peace
@@isobeljames1328 my reference to her as a "beautiful woman" had absolutely nothing to do with the physical appearance of her body - I'm more than a little surprised and puzzled that you took it as such. My comment was clearly referring to the extraordinary artistry of her song and movement. I am fully aware of all aspects of her artistic accomplishments and possess several of her vinyl albums. Nonetheless I do appreciate your efforts to "educate" me. Feel free to have the last word as I feel you might need to. I won't respond unless you say something consequential. Have a wonderful day 🙂
It is based on the final chapter of the James Joyce novel Ulysses as Molly mastrubates herself into a near psychedelic state to sounds of the church bells of Victorian Dublin as the morning sun rises.
The trilogy of albums she made in the mid to late 80s (The Dreaming, Hounds Of Love, and The Sensual World) are absolute pop rock masterpieces. Each one unique yet bearing all her individual stamp of Kate-ness: abstract, defiant, empowering, emotional, theatrical, sensual and spiritual. She is completely original and brave, queer (in the true sense of the word), surreal, and always subversive and yet... never less than human. She is one of the greats.
Yes! I'd say Never For Ever deserves some praise as well. It was the start of Kate's ventures into production and has some killer songs from her. The 80s were a glorious period for Kate's artistic growth.
The only time I can say thank you to Netflix... They exposed a whole other generation to an amazing artist. Her music got me through the 90s. I'm hoping the same can happen with the young now. God knows they need something to get through this life.
Music is so bland these days I would have hoped the youth of today would have seeked out real music anyway. We all need something to get us through life and it's always the simplest of things. It's often making the effort to search it out that is the problem. You obviously made the effort and the World can add another plus to justify it's existence. Take care.
To anyone reading who might not be aware of what this song is about: Kate wrote this song from the perspective of Molly Bloom, the heroine of James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses. Specifically, this song adapts parts of Molly Bloom's famous internal monologue in the novel's very last chapter. That's why it appears to have neither a beginning nor an end; it flows uninterrupted like stream of consciousness, punctuated only by her seductive chants of "mmm yes." Molly Bloom, in a post-coital daze after having just committed adultery, breathlessly reveals her sexual desires through her innermost thoughts. However, far from being ashamed of having slept with another man behind her husband's back, she proclaims her right to feel pleasure. She also blames her husband's inability to have intercourse for their sexually dysfunctional marriage. Her situation is especially frustrating to her because she does have love for her husband and fondly remembers the time when they could please each other. As she drifts off to sleep, her mind gets occupied with a vivid memory of the day he passionately kissed her on the Howth Head peninsula and lovingly called her a mountain flower. As they lay there making love to each other in the lap of nature, he proposed to her, and in an ecstatic moment of sexual and marital consent, she replied, "yes I will yes." This is the memory that Kate's song captures. It shows Molly Bloom literally stepping out of the pages of the book and sensing the physical (or "sensual") world as she sings about making love to her husband in the mountains, wishing for a world where such sensual pleasures were easier to experience.
As someone who loves a forest, the sunset, and the moon this music video is lovely to watch! And there is something so enchanting about watching Kate Bush just sort of glide her way through these scenes. And the song itself sounds very much like the title, sensual!! I’m Really enjoying discovering what Kate Bush has gifted to the world!
I agree. I've spent this morning searching the web to find out about the musicians playing on this track and if they composed their parts or if they were given to them by Kate. Turns out the Irish instruments were arranged by Bill Whelan and his Wiki entry doesn't even mention it in his discography.
"Musically, one of the main hooks in the chorus of The Sensual World was inspired by a traditional Macedonian piece of music called 'Nevestinsko Oro' ('Bride's Dance'). A recording of this piece of music was sent to Kate by Jan Libbenga. As in the traditional version, the melody is played on uilleann pipes, in this case by Irish musician Davy Spillane."
Better late than never my friend. She is beyond amazing. There is no one like her.... I am also American but I was lucky enough to be the right age when Hounds of Love and The Sensual World came out. Both were a big deal in my band/dance/theater/circles. Also MTV and VH-1 played her videos shockingly enough.
I cant stop playing this over and over. She is amazing! Takes me to a fairy wonderland of sensual pleasures. It has awoken me to all my creative energies. How she portrays the words with her movements..so exquisite and dreamlike....wow.....wow...
There will be so many female artists to come but nobody can be like Kate Bush, she is simply a gift from heaven with her so fantastic voice and additionally her looks, a beautiful combination of both brings magic to the world. She is a symbol of romance.
@@hasten_ftc Hi! So sorry I never responded. I left the message unread in my inbox so I wouldn't forget. Excuse my bluntness, but I liked the music, however didn't love it. I didn't get Kate vibes either, really! In terms of quality.. But to each his own :) thanks for the rec!
I think she is a genius. The way she uses the music and her vocals to project emotion, sensuality and the meaning behind the song. She doesn't just spew out the lyrics from the page....every word is thought about and from her soul. Nobody can touch her for innovation and artistry, and her writing is like beautiful poetry... just so, so intelligent. She makes all of the little pop tarts with their auto tune, arses hanging out and little else look like halfwits (which arguably, they are)....plus she does all of that with class and dignity, and without selling out just to chart. Love her.
Nobody can touch her innovation and artistry? Lol Get the hell out. I don't care if this comment is 4 years old! It's infinite and its overhyped nonsense so its relevant enough for me to comment in 2019. You got Bjork and you got Willow. Mind you, Willow is 18 years old making FIRE music! Kate Bush is great but she's not the best. Don't get it twisted. P.S. Bjork has a voice made from the hand of God -- a melodious, otherworldly, and ethereal voice of unfathomable beauty and surreal mystery that even Satan himself envies her voice.
I'd agree if you were only refering to The Kick Inside and Lionheart. The former was, in my humble opinion, one of, if not, the debut albums of all time. It was genius, indeed. The way she used her voice to keep her narritive in the songs was so original and her hooks were amazing. I was a punk who loved a bit of heavy but I loved Kate's music at the same time. My new taste in music, symphonic rock was toitally inspired by her, especially my favourite band, Within Temptation - who do the absolute worst cover of a song - Going Up That Hill - in music histoty :). I think after Lionheart she lost her way and became just another singer. Her later work has nothing of those first two albums but not many singers or bands have two absolutely incredible albums before they rely on fans buying anything they produce...
The very definition of womanhood summed up in 3 minutes and 53 seconds. I had this poster in my room as a student. The girl I was with at the time asked me why and I told her: she taught me everything about women through listening to her songs. 30 years later, still married, children, still deliriously in love. All down to us and that moment, and Kate Bush, my muse. That is the power of this wonderful woman's music.
Well it was really James Joyce just as she did with Wuthering Heights getting inspired by something read or seen, but I agree with you. To this day I can still sing all the lyrics to this album without even thinking about it. She blew me away with this one....then The Red Shoes came out after this...wow...
What do you mean 'ahead'? 99% of today's music is cheap trash for quick consumption. This was composed in one of the two greatest decades for music - 70s and 80s.
The night my Mum passed away I walked for hours with this song on repeat. Simply love everything about this song. Souns simple but many different layers and rythms. Amazing production and of course.. the voice. Always relaxes my mind in times of stress.
I like the fact that with the line "do i look for those millionaires like a Machiavellian girl would, when i could wear a sunset" she made a connection to her first song, Wuthering Heights, and the differences between the female main protagonists of Ulysses (Molly Bloom) and Wuthering Heights (Catherine Earnshaw). Catherine chose to marry Edgar Linton above Heathcliff in an opportunistic manner - something Molly would never have done, because all she lives for is sensuality.
My mind is being blown right now, can't put my finger on it. I feel like I'm peeking into another dimension the visuals the music man this women is amazing. Oh my dam yes, she a real life siren I feel like I'm being hypnotized
I remember when this was. There were a lot of things going on in music, and Kate Bush was already old news. Don't get me wrong, it's brilliant, but MTV was hyping other stuff.
I wouldn't underestimate Kate. The key to this song is what that desire arouses, which is unbridled lust; and Kate offers herself up as an object of someone else's desire. This song is a tribute to her utter genius in that respect.
@AB CD Good comment. I feel there's an overload today of shallow, literal things everywhere and we are overwhelmed by that on a daily basis. Many younger people might never have experienced the more subtle, poetic way to consider things. Hence they might be fed up with the former. Just a thought.
Kate Bush is a one off. THE greatest singer songwriter musician producer of her time. I sadly fear that at 60 going on 61,yes she is of that age now,will we be hearing more from her? The last album she put out was in 2011.
Yes there have been fantastic female artists bjork, tori Amos(who is epic) ect.... But they all have one thing in common, they all aspire to Kate Bush. She's the Queen by far... Simply untouched amazingness😍
She has captured so many of us with her delightful and otherworldly heart. She is a whisper and a ghost that we interpret. I always feel like I’ve taken a flight with her. I am glad to know her through her music. I feel more complete every time I listen to her.
This is Kate connecting with her Irish roots (her mother was from Waterford in Ireland). Such a delight to see this gorgeous lady traipsing, dancing and singing through an ancient forest where fairies, leprechauns and elves dwell as the uileann pipes played by the great piper Davy Spillane ring out. Tolkien would have loved this. Simply sublime!
her mother was irish - her father english but yes her love for ireland and celtic culture rings true in a lot of her art....she even sang a song in gaelic - "mna na eireann - women of ireland "- a beautiful rendition!
It's been a good moment (or approximately 300,000,000) since I visited this music. This woman is simply genuine genius in physical form. Kate is wonderful.
If artists are sensitive souls among us, then Kate Bush is the most sensitive artist I've ever encountered. And she's certainly the youngest "old soul" as well. What's even more incredible is that her music (and much of the great 80s artists, I think her accomplice Peter Gabriel, in particular) KEEPS GETTING BETTER OVER TIME. This music is now nearly 40 YEARS OLD. AND IT WAS INCREDIBLE BACK THEN!! This is true artistry and a God given gift to the world. God must have loved the 80s in a special way.
I've only started listening to Kate Bush a few weeks ago when i first heard RUTH on radio. I'm 41. If you've been listening to KB since 70s and 80s, you are truly blessed.
Can’t believe I’m only just discovering her now and my new found love is her and for the single female artist category…I mean she’s now sitting with the likes of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison right now in my eyes !!! I’m absolutely blown away by her. My life has changed. ❤️ KB
Keep growing mate - look to the other weird and wonderful ones hidden in the mists of time. Artists like Annie Lennox, David Bowie, Prince, Seal etc. A world of music awaits.
That sums her up really. She has always been in a league of her own. I like many things about her, but what usually struck me, was how over the decades she's never shown any sign of any ego. She was always a consummate artist who worked hard on her art. She never became arrogant. She was always if anything, really shy. I don't care what anybody says, I believe she's the most talented artist to have come out of the UK.
This song is an absolute masterpiece as is the video. The instrumentation is so otherworldly, Davy Spillane's performance on the Uillean Pipes is simply superb, reaches your deep into your soul, Kate's incredible vocal performance and the inspiration from Joyce's Ulysses just makes the song magical. Kate, you obsessed for years over not getting the rights to Molly Bloom's speech, yet the lyrics you wrote here are arguably more flowing and evocative. This is a better song than Flower of the Mountain. How many rock songs have smoothly used the word "Machiavellian"? I consider myself blessed to have grown up in the time you were alive and creating your wonderful music, this one is one of my all time favorite KB songs and it should be one of yours too, it gives me chills up and down my spine. Masterpiece.
I’m 65 (the same as Kate) and I’ve never heard of Stranger Things. I “found” her about a month ago from a You Tube channel I subscribe to. I don’t know where I’ve been all these years. She is one of the greatest performance artists I’ve ever seen. I’m totally obsessed with her music and can’t stop listening to her. What a joy she is ! Thank you Kate.
Born in 1985, my first memories are from my mom dancing on Kate Bush in the living room. While my mother kept her old-time 'coming of age' memories tied to KBs first LPs, I have bought her albums since. Kate Bush has been my number one artist, source of inspiration and life energy. My friends and loved ones have always teased me with my "witch music" - honestly making me feel sorry and sad at once. When I was watching ST and Running up that Hill was played for the first time, my partner giggled as I instantly got up and started dancing across the room 🙆 I'm truly moved to see that her music and soul have been discovered once more.😍💞
I've always felt that Kate Bush was like an old English folk singer / dancer brought into the modern age. This instrumentation in this track sums that image up perfectly for me.
Never been a fan of dance of any kind. This negativity goes back as far as grade school - and the Virginia Reel. Then I found Kate. Just don't know why I find her videos with dance the very top of the mountain in every way. I simply have to watch her make dance fun. She is so sublime.
Because she is an extraordinary dancer, maybe not in her technical ability, but certainly in her fluidity and grace. She was probably not as over-trained on acrobatics and endurance as a professional has to be for their own safety during rehearsals and the actual performance of extreme choreographies. She could afford to do less but with more ease and expression. She also had very good choreographers and videographers. These are all very professionally shot videos of her. These people knew how to make her look her best.
The way Kate composes herself ,dances with such grace and passion and enthusiasm,her writing skills are mind blowing and she is such a unique and talented gift to our world ❤️
First time hearing this Kate bush song and seeing this music video...its absolutely magical...no, its extraordinary. I swear this woman is some kind of mystical being.
I have always loved this video, it is so entrancing and fairytale like. She indeed was (is) a flame and beacon. The vibrato in Mmmmm is so captivating and love the celtic instruments blend into it. The video is almost witchy and hypnotizing. Lush, as most of her music. I was not familiar with all of her music at those years (songs like this of course were part of my childhood) but as a singer I am today, I went down the road of rediscovering her work, and she's absolutely mesmerizing. She paved the way for many women artists (including myself) to be OURSELVES and daring.
I appreciate this much more now that I am (a lot!) older. When it was released in ‘89 I did not take to this first single at all and preferred other songs on the album. The video seems more beautiful.
I so much loved her songs back then. And all my friends were teasing me for that. What do they say now she’s back in the charts all over the planet ? Aerial and angelic voice!!!
One of the few musical geniuses of pop music.
WHAT A GIFT TO HUMANITY THIS WOMAN IS
Tru Fact's 😌
But men are more
Let's get married in California. I'm in Chico
She sure is and brightens my life!🙏💚☀️✨
She's a pop singer not the saviour
The sound she makes, when saying "hmmmm yes", is so enchanting to me. It takes me to other places. Like all of her music. There's always something special.
This woman IS art.
Well said!
🎯
True!
Although: Maybe I have a filthy mind, but it's very hard for me to hear that and not imagine myself as being her husband, and hearing that.
Forget "WAP". This has got to be the sexiest song ever. And when she strips off that hat........
I could listen to her say hmmmm yes all day, every day, on repeat. Makes my heart burst
She could teach a cat to purr.
mmmmmm.....yes
👌💯❤️
Almost yes 😊
And some😊
It's like a late medieval pop song. Its incredible.
Perfect description
Eight Years before Loreena McKennitt's "The Mummer's Dance"
Must be modal then
it's based on traditional macedonian folk music
mmmmm yesss
In 1989, ten year old me couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Here I am now. What a privileged child I was to have this calibre of music readily available to me in my youth.
I was a huge fan by the time this came out, 16 I think. Played it on a loop for weeks.
That happened in 1978 to me when l was 18. I came in taking my jacket and helmet off while this song was playing and immediately put it back on and went to the record store and bought "The Kick Inside" album. I have all of her albums some many times over on vinyl, cassette and CD. Now all on Digital
you can comment i return to see the video
@@mrtimtremmel8465 This was the first album of hers that I bought on the first day of release. I heard her after rRunning up that Hill was released in America, and that was it, life changed.
She is the greatest.
❤
Her voice, the lyrics, her beauty, her movements, the visuals. All a perfect storm.
The words are a tad twisted if ur a WASP like we are....look harder. 😎😎😎
artistic and magical soul!!!👍
Voice!👌
If Mother Earth was a actual human form I envision she looks, moves and sings like Kate Bush 💕💜💕💜
...and the bells at the beginning, of course, reminding me of when I lived in Amsterdam. All of her songs always remind me of something beautiful as well as being beautiful themselves.
What a charming beautiful witch I've found! 💃🏼🔥🌸 Bravo!
Kate Bush. Her music has informed a significant part of my aesthetic and ethos, and thus part of who I am as a human being in similar ways to Nick Drake, The Smiths and Nina Simone. Kate's music speaks directly to my strange, magical, Queer, elusive, golden-hearted rascal self. All my love and respect from Texas!
Nick Drake is top tier.
mmmmmmm.....yes
yeah, no. There' nothing "queer" about her
@@lm5730, I don't know how she identifies, though I know she's a longtime ally. I was referring rather to the feeling of "otherness" her music involves, which speak very much to me due to similar experiences and perspectives.
My god Kate, how can I explain how much of my heart you have filled with your music.
mmmmmm....yes
Kate Bush is simply a musical genius. You can't put her into any catagory. SHE is her own catagory.
The best artist in music ever.
mmmmmmm....yes
Yeh we are blessed, a force of nature quite amazing really she had a freeness about her
*category
What an artist this beautiful woman is. I don't think I've ever seen anyone combine song and movement in such a sublime and bewitching manner. Her performance here verges on the supernatural.
She's Also a songwriter composer, female PRODUCER... A musician. If it helps.
@isobeljames1328 thank you. Yes, I've followed her career and music since I first saw her on Top of The Pops performing Wuthering Heights when she was just 19 years old. What talent she has.
@@plong6246 #StopSexismInMusic
I'm just sayin'.... that the world would be wonderful if the comments were not only about her body but also about her capacity as a songwriter composer FEMALE PRODUCER to create music.... Cos she's a musician....
Peace
@@isobeljames1328 my reference to her as a "beautiful woman" had absolutely nothing to do with the physical appearance of her body - I'm more than a little surprised and puzzled that you took it as such. My comment was clearly referring to the extraordinary artistry of her song and movement. I am fully aware of all aspects of her artistic accomplishments and possess several of her vinyl albums. Nonetheless I do appreciate your efforts to "educate" me.
Feel free to have the last word as I feel you might need to. I won't respond unless you say something consequential. Have a wonderful day 🙂
@@plong6246#StopSexismInMusic
everyone here knows, but I still feel not enough people understand the greatness and genius of Kate Bush
preaching to the choir, bub ;)
Hey Jay Paul, is you diissin' us all as being dumbos?🤪
That's their loss!, don't worry about the losers of this world !
Agreed! I loved this entire album! BRILLIANT! SIMPLY BRILLIANT !
She's a sensual woman and her music show's that.
This is painfully beautiful, like the memory of a first passion.
Damn this comment hurt me that’s perfectly said
absolutely
Exactly and she's totally immersed in it , I like that some men properly see this
It is based on the final chapter of the James Joyce novel Ulysses as Molly mastrubates herself into a near psychedelic state to sounds of the church bells of Victorian Dublin as the morning sun rises.
So beautiful it is almost painful. I have so many emotions listening to this song but there aren’t words to explain how I feel.
The trilogy of albums she made in the mid to late 80s (The Dreaming, Hounds Of Love, and The Sensual World) are absolute pop rock masterpieces. Each one unique yet bearing all her individual stamp of Kate-ness: abstract, defiant, empowering, emotional, theatrical, sensual and spiritual. She is completely original and brave, queer (in the true sense of the word), surreal, and always subversive and yet... never less than human. She is one of the greats.
Yes! I'd say Never For Ever deserves some praise as well. It was the start of Kate's ventures into production and has some killer songs from her.
The 80s were a glorious period for Kate's artistic growth.
*art rock/progressive pop
and no such thing as "in the *true* sense of the word".
Don't forget Lionheart!
@@ankihansen2489 Don't forget every album!
Definitely Never For Ever needs to be included
God, I'd love to spend sunrise to sunset walking and dancing through a forest with Kate Bush.
I'd love to spend sunset to sunrise ...
mmmmmmm.....yes
❤😊
Count me in
Is anyone familiar with a Kate Bush song where she sings about about a woman named Mari?? Cant find it anywhere!
Her music is literal magic. Incantations. Spells in song format. They’re prayers. It’s completely mesmerizing.
What a brilliant way of describing her music, agreed she’s wonderful!
this is like, the best description of Kate's music I've ever heard.
Same impressions. You say it just right
'Spells in song format' yes... yes!!
Well Said ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Year 1989 : The Song was ahead of its times.
Year 2020 : The Song is still ahead of the times.
Yep....Actually it's a great Vid 2....Moon,trees...Awesome.
Come back 2040 I'll say the same thing
Mmmm, yessss
If this was brought out now I actually think it would shoot up the charts.
Kate bushfires
Ohh, mhmmm how wonderful! This woman creates music like no one else. Can't express my feelings...
Its anbelievibl. I love Kate music from 1991. Thanks.
The only time I can say thank you to Netflix... They exposed a whole other generation to an amazing artist. Her music got me through the 90s. I'm hoping the same can happen with the young now. God knows they need something to get through this life.
I discovered Kate Bush thanks to Netflix, and this song thanks to Bloomsday. I'm so grateful!
😢
You made me cry.
For reals.
The tunes of Kate Bush and Annie Lennox / Eurythmics were the songs of my soul.
@@moogamouth9807 I think the same. Every storie from ig now have her songs. Oversaturate.
People that are into good music find Kate Bush regardless.
Music is so bland these days I would have hoped the youth of today would have seeked out real music anyway.
We all need something to get us through life and it's always the simplest of things. It's often making the effort to search it out that is the problem.
You obviously made the effort and the World can add another plus to justify it's existence. Take care.
To anyone reading who might not be aware of what this song is about:
Kate wrote this song from the perspective of Molly Bloom, the heroine of James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses. Specifically, this song adapts parts of Molly Bloom's famous internal monologue in the novel's very last chapter. That's why it appears to have neither a beginning nor an end; it flows uninterrupted like stream of consciousness, punctuated only by her seductive chants of "mmm yes."
Molly Bloom, in a post-coital daze after having just committed adultery, breathlessly reveals her sexual desires through her innermost thoughts. However, far from being ashamed of having slept with another man behind her husband's back, she proclaims her right to feel pleasure. She also blames her husband's inability to have intercourse for their sexually dysfunctional marriage. Her situation is especially frustrating to her because she does have love for her husband and fondly remembers the time when they could please each other. As she drifts off to sleep, her mind gets occupied with a vivid memory of the day he passionately kissed her on the Howth Head peninsula and lovingly called her a mountain flower. As they lay there making love to each other in the lap of nature, he proposed to her, and in an ecstatic moment of sexual and marital consent, she replied, "yes I will yes."
This is the memory that Kate's song captures. It shows Molly Bloom literally stepping out of the pages of the book and sensing the physical (or "sensual") world as she sings about making love to her husband in the mountains, wishing for a world where such sensual pleasures were easier to experience.
I've heard her in interviews say she gets a lot of inspiration for her music from books
Thanks for the context/insight
How beautiful you write and express yourself. Thank you.
Thanks
That nearly brought me to tears, how beautiful ❤
As someone who loves a forest, the sunset, and the moon this music video is lovely to watch! And there is something so enchanting about watching Kate Bush just sort of glide her way through these scenes. And the song itself sounds very much like the title, sensual!! I’m Really enjoying discovering what Kate Bush has gifted to the world!
such a beautiful comment.
@@canaryinacoalmine7267 thank you!🙏🏽
Yessssssssss I could live in nature. I am of nature I am one with nature. The sunset is absolutely beautiful
right, her movements are not from this earth, can't take my eyes of her flowing along that path
Not only Kate’s beautiful voice but the other worldly musical arrangement is simply divine❤️❤️❤️
I agree. I've spent this morning searching the web to find out about the musicians playing on this track and if they composed their parts or if they were given to them by Kate. Turns out the Irish instruments were arranged by Bill Whelan and his Wiki entry doesn't even mention it in his discography.
Kate Bush is my queen and has been since i was 14. I'm 57 now and this is my favourite song by her hand ❤
"Musically, one of the main hooks in the chorus of The Sensual World was inspired by a traditional Macedonian piece of music called 'Nevestinsko Oro' ('Bride's Dance'). A recording of this piece of music was sent to Kate by Jan Libbenga. As in the traditional version, the melody is played on uilleann pipes, in this case by Irish musician Davy Spillane."
Brilliant Sara! These things are important!
Yes inspired by our Bride's dance 🤘❤
Brilliant information. Many thanks.
Thanks for sharing that! Kate is one of the most unique and creative artists... ever.
Thank you for the information, I'm just getting to know her a bit better only now!
I adore that warble she puts into her humming, it's as beautiful as hearing a blackbird or a nightingale on a summer's morning.
Kate Bush in a red, velvet dress, dancing in a forest on fire. Doesn't get any better than this, folks.
Yes, so beautiful.
Haunting. Love the velvet on her. Just perfect.
Agree. My name is Forrest. Just a kid from Oklahoma 1989 and I fell in love. Running up that Hill first. Then this.
I'd rather she wasn't on fire.
mmmmm......yes
Kate Bush has the most sensual female voice ever heard in pop culture.
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mmmmmmm.....yes
And the most erotic song ever in pop music
Being American, I only recently discovered her music and I'm bewitched.
Better late than never my friend. She is beyond amazing. There is no one like her.... I am also American but I was lucky enough to be the right age when Hounds of Love and The Sensual World came out. Both were a big deal in my band/dance/theater/circles. Also MTV and VH-1 played her videos shockingly enough.
Not many things come out of the UK but we have had the best musical exports
@@chris55068……..nothing much comes out of the uk……...what Rubbish
chris b Music, Fashion, Art, Writers......
How did I miss her all those years?!! Don't remember any of her music on American radio. We were cheated!!! I love her!!
I cant stop playing this over and over. She is amazing! Takes me to a fairy wonderland of sensual pleasures. It has awoken me to all my creative energies. How she portrays the words with her movements..so exquisite and dreamlike....wow.....wow...
I remember first seeing this video when the song was first released and I’ve been obsessed with ever since, I also play it over and over again !❤
There will be so many female artists to come but nobody can be like Kate Bush, she is simply a gift from heaven with her so fantastic voice and additionally her looks, a beautiful combination of both brings magic to the world. She is a symbol of romance.
I've been looking for this video for over thirty years. UA-cam, you've done it again.
WOW! What an artist. We don’t have performers with this level of artistry anymore. She’s one of a kind.
Caroline Polachek its the only one that gets close to her
@@hasten_ftc Omg, I'm not familiar with her. Song recs for a first time listener?!
@@tylershelby9 “Crude Drawing of an Angel”, “Welcome to my Island”, “Smoke”, “Believe”, “Door” tell me when u hear her!! Want to know your opinion
@@hasten_ftc Hi! So sorry I never responded. I left the message unread in my inbox so I wouldn't forget. Excuse my bluntness, but I liked the music, however didn't love it. I didn't get Kate vibes either, really! In terms of quality.. But to each his own :) thanks for the rec!
Wow! Unbelievable! mmmmmmmm......yes
I think she is a genius. The way she uses the music and her vocals to project emotion, sensuality and the meaning behind the song. She doesn't just spew out the lyrics from the page....every word is thought about and from her soul. Nobody can touch her for innovation and artistry, and her writing is like beautiful poetry... just so, so intelligent. She makes all of the little pop tarts with their auto tune, arses hanging out and little else look like halfwits (which arguably, they are)....plus she does all of that with class and dignity, and without selling out just to chart. Love her.
Nobody can touch her innovation and artistry? Lol Get the hell out. I don't care if this comment is 4 years old! It's infinite and its overhyped nonsense so its relevant enough for me to comment in 2019. You got Bjork and you got Willow. Mind you, Willow is
18 years old making FIRE music!
Kate Bush is great but she's not the best. Don't get it twisted. P.S. Bjork has a voice made from the hand of God -- a melodious, otherworldly, and ethereal voice of unfathomable beauty and surreal mystery that even Satan himself envies her voice.
Totally agree Dee H, when I said the same I got a whole load of grief
@@danielsmithiv1279 None of them would be here without Kate, she was the pioneer, the first female artist to have full control over her art work.
She’s a Leo sun with an Aquarius moon she trying to elevate us to her realm 😉😏
I'd agree if you were only refering to The Kick Inside and Lionheart. The former was, in my humble opinion, one of, if not, the debut albums of all time. It was genius, indeed. The way she used her voice to keep her narritive in the songs was so original and her hooks were amazing. I was a punk who loved a bit of heavy but I loved Kate's music at the same time. My new taste in music, symphonic rock was toitally inspired by her, especially my favourite band, Within Temptation - who do the absolute worst cover of a song - Going Up That Hill - in music histoty :). I think after Lionheart she lost her way and became just another singer. Her later work has nothing of those first two albums but not many singers or bands have two absolutely incredible albums before they rely on fans buying anything they produce...
Perfection. Pure perfection on all levels. Brings something up from the very depths.
All the cool kids are listening to "Running Up That Hill" right now... all the REALLY cool kids will find their way to this song....
Hopefully!
Mmmm... Yes.
Absolutely
I'm here 😂
arleady there
The very definition of womanhood summed up in 3 minutes and 53 seconds. I had this poster in my room as a student. The girl I was with at the time asked me why and I told her: she taught me everything about women through listening to her songs. 30 years later, still married, children, still deliriously in love. All down to us and that moment, and Kate Bush, my muse. That is the power of this wonderful woman's music.
Mmm yesss! :D
You're a poet.
😎
Well it was really James Joyce just as she did with Wuthering Heights getting inspired by something read or seen, but I agree with you. To this day I can still sing all the lyrics to this album without even thinking about it. She blew me away with this one....then The Red Shoes came out after this...wow...
Wtf?
I can't believe this music is from 1989. Kate Bush is REALLY an artist ahead of her time.
Marcelo B - HER time!
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I can believe it. Today’s mainstream music is garbage
She always was.
What do you mean 'ahead'? 99% of today's music is cheap trash for quick consumption. This was composed in one of the two greatest decades for music - 70s and 80s.
all 80s are and glad she met deadline at 89
The night my Mum passed away I walked for hours with this song on repeat. Simply love everything about this song. Souns simple but many different layers and rythms. Amazing production and of course.. the voice. Always relaxes my mind in times of stress.
she had a forest, some uilleann pipes, a sexy velvet outfit, her flawless vocal timbre, and a DREAM!
I like the fact that with the line "do i look for those millionaires like a Machiavellian girl would, when i could wear a sunset" she made a connection to her first song, Wuthering Heights, and the differences between the female main protagonists of Ulysses (Molly Bloom) and Wuthering Heights (Catherine Earnshaw). Catherine chose to marry Edgar Linton above Heathcliff in an opportunistic manner - something Molly would never have done, because all she lives for is sensuality.
Great connection.
I like that.
@@fausty150 thank you :)
@@cloudyswildride thx :)
Genious
Her ability to shape and control her music,as well as her image, is why this song and video still resonate.
As of September 2019 this song is now 30 years old and still sounds fresh as ever! Love the overall vibe and way the video was filmed.
OMG you're right - 30 years gone and her work has lost nothing from the magic.
Most erotic song i ever heard
Has it been that long?
You're right. It still sounds fresh.
The video looks like it could've been shot yesterday.
Great zvideo the weirworld needs it now
Hounds of Love is such a spectacular artistic achievement, but this… this is my favorite Kate Bush song, ever. She exceeds the source material.
Undoubtedly one of her most mesmerizing performances, the lyrics in this one are enough to put any man under her spell! A totally incredible artist!!
I'd say any man, woman or beast... I'm under her spell.
mmm yes!
Kate Bush and church bells = audial bliss. Her wispy whispery shimmering voice does it to me every time. Gorgeous
"Wispy whispery shimmering voice"? Very well said, sir! Those adjectives describe Kate perfectly!
Without doubt THE sexiest song I have ever had the privilege to hear
My mind is being blown right now, can't put my finger on it. I feel like I'm peeking into another dimension the visuals the music man this women is amazing. Oh my dam yes, she a real life siren I feel like I'm being hypnotized
Why exactly wasn't this a huge hit? I like Running Up That Hill but, man, this is on another level.
Speechless
Exactly,...she's too damn deep. Goddess!
It wasn't exactly a flop, it did get it's share of presence on MTV.
Try "Words" by The Christians. Now that's a forgotten gem.
I remember when this was. There were a lot of things going on in music, and Kate Bush was already old news. Don't get me wrong, it's brilliant, but MTV was hyping other stuff.
@@Borderline_BaS I see your Words and raise you Women of Ireland ua-cam.com/video/Vb2lHME4tkI/v-deo.html
Of all the masterpieces she's created, I think this one's my favorite.
Simply a 'one off' a genius in the music industry... You don't just listen to her music, you become entranced by it.
I come back to this music video every time! The visuals and the music! Enchanting
Yes!
A woman celebrating her desire without losing her elegance. I´m melting away....
Nice observation. And she does it without appealing.
I wouldn't underestimate Kate. The key to this song is what that desire arouses, which is unbridled lust; and Kate offers herself up as an object of someone else's desire. This song is a tribute to her utter genius in that respect.
Same, and I'm not even gay, antonio gonzalez.
@AB CD Actual sex might not be elegant.
@AB CD Good comment. I feel there's an overload today of shallow, literal things everywhere and we are overwhelmed by that on a daily basis. Many younger people might never have experienced the more subtle, poetic way to consider things. Hence they might be fed up with the former. Just a thought.
Such a rare combination of class, style, femininity, beauty, sensuality And Great songwriting....
You're watching perfection across every musical category here. The best female artist this country has EVER produced.
You mean this planet
To be honest, any country has ever produced!
Alan Elliott, you forgot Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Bjork, and Joanna Newsom.
Kate Bush is a one off. THE greatest singer songwriter musician producer of her time. I sadly fear that at 60 going on 61,yes she is of that age now,will we be hearing more from her? The last album she put out was in 2011.
Yes there have been fantastic female artists bjork, tori Amos(who is epic) ect.... But they all have one thing in common, they all aspire to Kate Bush. She's the Queen by far... Simply untouched amazingness😍
She has captured so many of us with her delightful and otherworldly heart. She is a whisper and a ghost that we interpret. I always feel like I’ve taken a flight with her. I am glad to know her through her music. I feel more complete every time I listen to her.
This is Kate connecting with her Irish roots (her mother was from Waterford in Ireland). Such a delight to see this gorgeous lady traipsing, dancing and singing through an ancient forest where fairies, leprechauns and elves dwell as the uileann pipes played by the great piper Davy Spillane ring out. Tolkien would have loved this. Simply sublime!
Spillane's evocation of a musical erection via the pipes made me laugh out loud - sheer genius.
Her mother was from New Ross, Wexford. Her dad was from Waterford. And of course this is a song about Molly Bloom from Ulysses - another Irish woman.
her mother was irish - her father english but yes her love for ireland and celtic culture rings true in a lot of her art....she even sang a song in gaelic - "mna na eireann - women of ireland "- a beautiful rendition!
@Mark Weaver that goes without saying - she is english after all :)
@Mark Weaver I stand corrected; her father was indeed British.
51 now, so many memories linked to her wonderful music. Thank you Kate.x
Kate Bush The Sensual World is one of my unheard and personal favorite song
Kate is exquisite!!
It's been a good moment (or approximately 300,000,000) since I visited this music. This woman is simply genuine genius in physical form. Kate is wonderful.
If artists are sensitive souls among us, then Kate Bush is the most sensitive artist I've ever encountered. And she's certainly the youngest "old soul" as well. What's even more incredible is that her music (and much of the great 80s artists, I think her accomplice Peter Gabriel, in particular) KEEPS GETTING BETTER OVER TIME. This music is now nearly 40 YEARS OLD. AND IT WAS INCREDIBLE BACK THEN!! This is true artistry and a God given gift to the world. God must have loved the 80s in a special way.
I absolutely concur with your beautiful statement. She was the first music artist I was infatuated with as a child since the 70s.
Her song with peter gabriel is a masterpiece as well..
Such beauty, creativity and genius. A true gift to the world. Thank you, Kate!
I've only started listening to Kate Bush a few weeks ago when i first heard RUTH on radio. I'm 41. If you've been listening to KB since 70s and 80s, you are truly blessed.
Can’t believe I’m only just discovering her now and my new found love is her and for the single female artist category…I mean she’s now sitting with the likes of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison right now in my eyes !!! I’m absolutely blown away by her. My life has changed. ❤️ KB
Keep growing mate - look to the other weird and wonderful ones hidden in the mists of time. Artists like Annie Lennox, David Bowie, Prince, Seal etc.
A world of music awaits.
Lame way to consume music.
better late ...than...
Every day is a school day x
@@TheOldskoolVideoGamer Like Sarah McLaughlin, Jane Siberry, Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel
My gosh, why haven't I heard of her until now?!? She is such a wonderful artist! So happy to know about her now. 😃
Where have u been living under a stone 😂
Kate op zyn best.ja ja.
....... Timeless and Quality ******
The eye contact with the camera at 3:47.
Queen.
Kate Bush is a living, loving singing, dancing goddess & such a pure channel to the divine feminine🌹💃
God I love her & this video!🥰
I always feel like Kate Bush is in her own league, and makes me feel like the whole pressure of fitting in just falls off my shoulders
That sums her up really.
She has always been in a league of her own.
I like many things about her, but what usually struck me, was how over the decades she's never shown any sign of any ego.
She was always a consummate artist who worked hard on her art. She never became arrogant.
She was always if anything, really shy.
I don't care what anybody says, I believe she's the most talented artist to have come out of the UK.
Poignancy
This song is an absolute masterpiece as is the video. The instrumentation is so otherworldly, Davy Spillane's performance on the Uillean Pipes is simply superb, reaches your deep into your soul, Kate's incredible vocal performance and the inspiration from Joyce's Ulysses just makes the song magical. Kate, you obsessed for years over not getting the rights to Molly Bloom's speech, yet the lyrics you wrote here are arguably more flowing and evocative. This is a better song than Flower of the Mountain.
How many rock songs have smoothly used the word "Machiavellian"? I consider myself blessed to have grown up in the time you were alive and creating your wonderful music, this one is one of my all time favorite KB songs and it should be one of yours too, it gives me chills up and down my spine. Masterpiece.
plus the buzuki she uses in this song .. discrete but wornderful.
Mmmmm, YES! Kate Bush OUTWROTE James Joyce! I've always prefered her lyrics as well.
I’m 65 (the same as Kate) and I’ve never heard of Stranger Things. I “found” her about a month ago from a You Tube channel I subscribe to. I don’t know where I’ve been all these years. She is one of the greatest performance artists I’ve ever seen. I’m totally obsessed with her music and can’t stop listening to her. What a joy she is ! Thank you Kate.
Better late than never!
Welcome but I have questions... Where were you? 😊
@@catethornton3270 haha
@@catethornton3270 Obviously not listening to Kate Bush
you too? I'm also in your insurance bracket. mmmmmmm....yes
Born in 1985, my first memories are from my mom dancing on Kate Bush in the living room. While my mother kept her old-time 'coming of age' memories tied to KBs first LPs, I have bought her albums since. Kate Bush has been my number one artist, source of inspiration and life energy. My friends and loved ones have always teased me with my "witch music" - honestly making me feel sorry and sad at once. When I was watching ST and Running up that Hill was played for the first time, my partner giggled as I instantly got up and started dancing across the room 🙆 I'm truly moved to see that her music and soul have been discovered once more.😍💞
That voice rumble she does whe she sings "mmmmm" is something else, never heard anything else like it.
Its pure bliss
Recently Dimash Qudaibergen did it (in Passione). But he's the first in 30 years.
that's called 'vibrato' :). She did another version later and that's missing. Shame
No One like her! She keeps me coming back after all these years,
My brother, who is a hophop musical maestro, sent me this magical song, today, to soothe my soul. Nothing to say. Perfection..❤❤❤
I've always felt that Kate Bush was like an old English folk singer / dancer brought into the modern age. This instrumentation in this track sums that image up perfectly for me.
It is sooooo hard to say which song is Kate`s best song. She´s got so many BEST songs. It´s impossible to name just one!!
Or albums, seriously it's impossible
Best song is the Ninth wave, I'm cheating... :)
@@stephanemignot100 What a stunning concept piece that is. Truely amazing.
This still rocks! The composition is amazing!
We don’t have artists like Kate anymore I’m afraid.
Never been a fan of dance of any kind. This negativity goes back as far as grade school - and the Virginia Reel. Then I found Kate. Just don't know why I find her videos with dance the very top of the mountain in every way. I simply have to watch her make dance fun. She is so sublime.
Because she is an extraordinary dancer, maybe not in her technical ability, but certainly in her fluidity and grace. She was probably not as over-trained on acrobatics and endurance as a professional has to be for their own safety during rehearsals and the actual performance of extreme choreographies. She could afford to do less but with more ease and expression. She also had very good choreographers and videographers. These are all very professionally shot videos of her. These people knew how to make her look her best.
Best female artist in the world ever. What a talent and beautiful woman.
Tori Amos is a distant second.
Absolutely. No other female artist has a body of work anywhere close to Kate's. She is literally in a league of her own.
Nope. There's Joni Mitchell and Joanna Newsom.
Elizabeth Fraser (of Cocteau Twins glory) deserves to be mentioned in the same angelic breath.
@@gavinyuangao4366 good point !
The way Kate composes herself ,dances with such grace and passion and enthusiasm,her writing skills are mind blowing and she is such a unique and talented gift to our world ❤️
Fabulous track. Brilliant artist at the top of her game. Stunningly beautiful woman.
What's your favourite Kate's album ?
Beautiful Woman. Love the music❤
I remember the first time I heard Kate Bush in 1978 at the time old age of 14. I was amazed by her talent. She still gives me goosebumps.
She's like a fairy from mystic world ❤
I could listen to this song forever...
just discoverd this song today, man i love this vibe. and i love how she dances and struts through the woods like she owns that place.
First time hearing this Kate bush song and seeing this music video...its absolutely magical...no, its extraordinary. I swear this woman is some kind of mystical being.
I have always loved this video, it is so entrancing and fairytale like. She indeed was (is) a flame and beacon. The vibrato in Mmmmm is so captivating and love the celtic instruments blend into it. The video is almost witchy and hypnotizing. Lush, as most of her music. I was not familiar with all of her music at those years (songs like this of course were part of my childhood) but as a singer I am today, I went down the road of rediscovering her work, and she's absolutely mesmerizing. She paved the way for many women artists (including myself) to be OURSELVES and daring.
Ahhh yessss!!! Those "Mmmmmmm"s are delicious. And she's like a goddess prancing through the forest.
This Lady is incredible and unique.She is a very original artist full of creative inspiration and originality.
Her music is so unique. What a genius.
Kate, you're the best and don't ever forget that! I love your music and hope you will perform live again someday. 🥰
Only Kate Bush, simultaneously, can be magical, audibly perfect and one brick short of a full load. I love this lady for being who she is.
I have loved this woman since I was 5....bought this album.... Loved it, love the Irish influence and the pipes, Kates heritage🍀🍀❤️
I appreciate this much more now that I am (a lot!) older. When it was released in ‘89 I did not take to this first single at all and preferred other songs on the album. The video seems more beautiful.
best song ever made in the history of human kind
❤
This song takes you to another world, so magical. Kate Bush is an absolute gem
I so much loved her songs back then. And all my friends were teasing me for that. What do they say now she’s back in the charts all over the planet ? Aerial and angelic voice!!!
Same here..only me in my circle who loved her music in the 80's!!
Her Irish influences really shines through here.
She's English, get over it
wow.....everything ok at home, Messylin?
Yes, she is russian princes!
JameGumbsMigraines. she is half Irish I think
her mother was irish.
I have listened to her since I was a child. This song is one of her most sensual and I get chills every time I hear it