you hit the mood and the intent perfectly,, the story behind the song is about Wilhelm Reich who was a psychoanalyst and spiritualist, he believed humans were influenced by what he called "orgone" energy organon is the name he gave to his farm house where he did his research. he was famous for building a "cloudbuster" rain making machine, this song is based on the book "the book of dreams" written by his son and tells the story about the adventures and hardships of living with his controversial eccentric father.
When this album came out, I played it constantly. My girlfriend liked it, but thought Cloudbusting was "monotonous". Then one day she called me, all giddy & gushing at how she now absolutely loves the song. Why? She had seen the video on MTV & now "got it". ua-cam.com/video/AJll-eF5zUA/v-deo.html
this is a magical album - i just love Kate Bush but you have to do side 2 as one - side one are brilliant single songs and side 2 is a unit that has to played together - a masterpiece. Also the video is really good with Donald Sutherland - this quote from DS about the video " Barry Richardson, who was the hairdresser on Nic Roeg’s 'Don't Look Now', asked me if I’d do a music video with Kate Bush. I told him no and we went on to other conversations. A couple of days later there was a knock on my door. I lived in the Savoy Hotel (in London). On the river. Suite 312. I loved it there. So cosseted. So private. Only the floor butler rang the door. I opened it. There was no one there. I heard a voice saying hello and I looked down. Standing down there was a very small Kate Bush. Barry had told her where I lived. What can you do? She wanted to explain what her video was about. I let her in. She sat down, said some stuff. All I heard was ‘Wilhelm Reich’. I’d taken an underground copy of his 'The Mass Psychology of Fascism' with me when I went to film (Bernardo) Bertolucci’s 'Novecento' in Parma. Reich’s work informed the psychological foundations of Attila Mellanchini, the character Bernardo had cast me to play. Everything about Reich echoed through me. He was there then and now he was here. Sitting across from me in the person of the very eloquent Kate Bush. Synchronicity. Perfect. She talked some more. I said OK and we made ‘Cloudbusting’. She’s wonderful, Kate Bush. Wonderful. I love that I did it. (What do I remember) about doing it? I remember being in the car and the hill and them taking me, taking Reich, away and looking back through the back window of the car and seeing her, seeing Reich’s son Peter, standing there. And I remember the first morning on set seeing her coming out of her trailer smoking a joint and I cautioned her, saying she shouldn’t smoke that, it’d affect her work, and she looked at me for a second and said she hadn’t been straight for nine years and I loved her."
Great Song, and great analysis as always! The original music video Kate produced to go with this song is like a mini movie outlining the narrative, with Donald Sutherland playing the inventor father, and Kate as his young son. It has a very steampunk vibe to it. I always liked the line about the yoyo that glowed - special and dangerous - referring to the fact they used to paint toys and watches with radiumluminescent paint to make them glow in the dark.
This album was actually released in 1985, and it kind of saved my life...no shit.. I will never forget when I read the reviews..the only time I have ever encountered a speechless journalist....it was something like, " Oh my #@$$" God!!! This woman is a @#$$% genius!!! Oh my God...oh my God!!!!" Yeah.. .probably the greatest album of the 80s,...Prince, Michael Jackson and Madonna were nervous.
The whole song is in March time which gives the feeling of moving toward something and you're so right how Kate "weaves" her voice through that marching toward... feeling. It's full of a sense of elevating as if the march is somehow skyward maybe in just looking up. I recall very fondly of leaving Claymont Court one fall with three fellows where we had all been studying with Mr. Fripp and I was taking 2 to Dulles Airport and another to Union Station in D.C. and they hadn't heard this album yet and I had it on cassette and a nice sound system in my car and I put it on once we got on the highway on an intensely bright and coloful blue sky day driving through mountainscapes and not one word was spoken by anyone the whole time till it was over when one fellow in back only said, "Wow." And we drove on in more quietness. One day drive with this album in such a landscape. It's indescribable.
I love Kate Bush. She won't tour as she doesn't like to fly. Music critics used to containerize her into 'art rock'. Her videos are certainly artistic. If you like what you here, definitely take a look at how she expresses her work visually. Her live performances were also something else. Too many favs to mention, but... Sat in your Lap Suspended in Gaffa The Dreaming Breathing Wow Them Heavy People This Woman's Work ...so many. Have fun JP.
Just after 5:00, when the backing harmonies come in, I know that reaction. The backing vocals are kind of a callback throughout this album. Glad you're enjoying it and sharing it.
Kate is really one of a kind. You need to see the video for it, too. It's a piece of art on it's own. She got Donald Sutherland to play the role of the father.
Kate Bush is one of those artists that made sure that the videos for her songs ALWAYS added to the experience. so if you get the chance, you should give them a view. Especially the videos for "Breathing", "Army Dreamers", "Experiment IV" and this one.
Experiment IV's video is an interesting scary song about the military developing a sound weapon that can kill people. And in true Outer Limits tradition, the experiment goes out of control.
She, like Peter Gabriel (who almost like her male alter-ego), are perfectionists of the highest order. LOVE this song... But the NINTH WAVE? omg. The BEST.
I appreciate the high quality of the audio with your UA-cam pieces. It makes possible to just enjoy the song before hearing your comments. Not all similar channels bother.
Kate Bush's 'Cloudbusting' entered the UK Top 40 on the 26th October 1985 and peaked at no.20. The top 10 this week was: 1 - Jennifer Rush - Power of love 2 - A-ha - Take on me 3 - Colonel Abrams - Trapped 4 - Madonna - Gambler 5 - John Parr - St Elmo's fire 6 - Elton John - Nikita 7 - Jan Hammer - Miami Vice theme 8 - Simple Minds - Alive and kicking 9 - Arcadia - Election day 10 - Level 42 - Something about you The climbers and new entries this week included: Grace Jones - Slave to the rhythm Billy Idol - Rebel yell Fergal Sharkey - A good heart Echo & the Bunnymen - Bring on the dancing horses Kate Bush - Cloud busting The Thompson Twins - King for a day UB40 - Don't break my heart ZZ Top - Sleeping bag Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities in the dust Talking Heads - Road to nowhere Hope you enjoyed my UK chart run down 😊
@@JustJP Thank you for you're great content too. I was 18 at the time of this top 40 and too busy with my social life to appreciate just how many fantastic artists were present in just one week in one month of one year. It wobbles me head 😊
Masterpiece by Kate beginning to end What would be side 2 (The Ninth Wave ) is a concept and really should be listened to all at once Jig of Life is my favorite
I think you were right the first time... it is camp, in the best tradition, (if in doubt, watch the official video!); but it is still has a melancholy beauty that's head and shoulders above what some other artists have achieved in their most serious works.
This in my opinion is Kate's best song. A master in story telling. It perfectly describes and existing story and somehow allows you to overlap it with your own life.
I think you are exactly right about Kate's sincerity. Any hint of campness or cheesiness in her work belongs solely in the eyes of the beholder. Like David Bowie, she also studied with mime artist Lindsay Kemp, but where there is always something calculated and self-conscious about Bowie, Kate seems gauche and naive in comparison. I don't thing there is anything in her albums with which I'm familiar, up to and including this one, where she was anything other than passionate and whole-hearted about what she was doing.
As amazing as Kate's songwriting and singing are, her live performances (rare finds) and videos are spectacular! She is so talented as a dancer, choreographer, and cinematographer it is incredible to see. As much as I love Hounds of Love, I think The Sensual World is equally great.
"The Sensual World" and "The Red Shoes" are superior, I think. So is "The Dreaming". "Never Forever" and "The Kick Inside" are the equals of "Hounds of Love".
It's strange that I haven't listened to that song without the video for so many years. I am very familiar with it but in the last few years, have usually been watching the video on UA-cam at the same time. I noticed a few subtle moments while listening to it with you. A great song, and thanks for the review. Although the narrative has a dark heart, there IS a sense of adventure, mixed with an emotion of hope and optimism.
Programmed drums are the Linn LM1 drum machine, the kick drum had that kind of gated sound and you'll hear it on quite a few 80's albums. Kate Bush originally played the main strings part on the Fairlight sampler and then later replaced them with real strings. reverbmachine.com/blog/kate-bush-synth-sounds/ This album was the first album she recorded in her home studio and so had time to freely experiment. People who worked on previous albums with her said she was so happy to not have the constraints of the clock ticking in a paid studio environment and that there was this amazing creative energy not seen before on previous albums, a unique moment in time. You always wonder when an artist self-produces how much are they really producing and how much is just great musicians. I read an interview with the drummer on this album and he said the first day he came in to the studio he started setting up his kit and she told him not to unpack his cymbals or hi-hat. He was surprised and she explained there would be no cymbals or hats on the record, it was to have a dark mood. This was definitely a self-producing artist with a vision who was fully steering the ship. So many interesting stories about this album around, I've looked into it a lot b/c it's my personal favorite. Her previous album The Dreaming was the first album she self-produced and it wasn't a commercial success, people found it way too strange. I saw an interview where she said her record label reluctantly agreed to let her try self-producing again on the Hounds of Love but this time they said, they really needed some "hits". She said okay, I'll give you some hits but of course those hits were in her own weird, inimitable style :)
Yes, 1985, and the video with Donald Sutherland is beautiful. My favorite song from "Hounds of Love" is "Hello Earth". When you have time, check out Jane Siberry and the album, "The Walking". Sort of Kate Bush meets Laurie Anderson but Jane is unique.
For me Kate Bush is the perfect example of what can happen when an artist is just left alone to create. Everything that she did up to Hounds of Love lead up to this peak. Like Pink Floyd on previous albums she was able to venture out to creative extremes and eventually distill them all into this jewel. It will come as no surprise that all of her albums are recommended. If you ever are more curious about her creative formation, I recommend the excellent BBC documentary The Kate Bush Story (available in it's entirety on UA-cam). I would love to see you explore some of her earlier work like Never Forever. I do not think that you will be disappointed.
Have all the albums - She's brilliant - Try "Rocket's Tail" from "The Sensual World". Stunning vocals from Kate and the Trio Bulgarka and a scintillating unexpected twist!
Thank you JP, I only had to nag you 3 times to make this happen. You are a man of your word and I will go through every song you done so far and like them all. If I like them or not is moot, if it gets you a penny I help you bud. Great review btw, stellar.
Have you ever seen the videclip, Justin. It really shows the sensations around the success she (he in the video) and the father in the story achieved. Donald Sutherland featuring as the father.
This is a perfect pop song for me, with a catchy rhythm and a beautiful video clip with Donald Sutherland. Great album with a more than excellent b-side.
If you listen to the live “Before The Dawn” album version you will just be drawn right in to it. The audience participation at the end is a release and is just brilliant. You could also listen to the live segment of the whole of the Ninth Wave. There is no applause between each song and she added a theatrical element to it. It’s sublime. The album version is great too. But the live experience takes it one step further.
@@silgen Definitely a very special moment. Literally everyone who was present there participated in that. My boyfriend at the time, who traveled with me to London but didn't attend the concert, said he could hear the audience singing loud and clear from outside the venue!
Written after she read "The Book Of Dreams" by Peter Reich about growing up with his father Wilhelm who had radical thoughts and ideas in his day. Two of which were "Orgone Energy" and "Cloudbusting" (seeding clouds to rain). Worth reading up on. Also: Please consider doing "The Dreaming" album some day.
Justin! Wow! I discovered your channel because this popped up in my feed. Probably because Kate Bush is my favorite artist. i love your videos! Spent nearly 2 hours last night watching a whole bunch of your vids. I love the thoughtful way you explore new music, and how you appreciate different things. Can't wait until you get to the B-side of the Hounds of Love album. (Big fan of Heart as well, and loved your Crazy on You listen) I know a while back you asked for suggestions for more female artists, and all my favorites are female artsts. I would recommend giving Canadian artist Chantal Kreviazuk a try, particularly her song In My Life. I'd love to hear what you think.
Back in 85 i lived on the same street as her in SE London and got to hear the demos that were mostly put together on a fairlight computer aided synth- the first in the country I believe. I was gobsmacked along with the rest of us.
Thanks JP - your treatment of this song brightened my day. My favorite part of CB is Kate seeking to make a small victory out of the little boy's loss of his father (better demonstrated in the video). There is lots and lots of trivia related to this song. As far as I know, it's the only adaptation of the "Book of Dreams" by Peter Reich, in which the author recalls his boyhood life with his father, Dr. Wilhelm Reich. This book was on the NY Times bestseller list, and I first knew of it from a high school buddy, who pointed out the part of the boy pointing the orgone energy machine toward UFOs to keep them away. This isn't in the song, but it does include the boys' mysterious glowing yo-yo (the machine collects orgone energy, which might have been absorbed by a metal object?), and he later buried in the backyard. Wilhelm Reich is a real person, who was arrested by the FBI for trumped up charges. It is easy to compare his fate to Nikola Tesla, because he also invented a device for collecting energy radiating from the Earth, and who also died in seclusion of a heart attack. But the naive childish recollections in the book and song make the story even more poignant.
There's nothing mysterious about the glowing yo-yo, it's painted with radioluminecent paint, i.e. containing Radium 226, which makes it glow in the dark but is also a source of radiation - special and dangerous.
@@silgen Mystery solved - I found a digital book on Google books, and it is "radioactive stuff" he put on his Duncan yo-yo, and his Dad instructed him that he had to bury it - thanks!
Hi Bob. Interesting fact: "Cloudbusting" is not the only adaptaptation of "A Book of Dreams" by Peter Reich. Patti Smith, in her debut album "Horses" (10 years ahead of "HoL") dealt with the same story in her song "Birdland". It's also a great song allthough both sound very different. Justin, some day, try to react to Patti Smith's "Horses", another great great album! The song "Land" is an incredible piece with an astounding intro! Don't expect it to sound like Kate Bush though, they're very different artists, but both admire each other a lot. Can't wait for you to react to "The Ninth Wave"... Such a brilliant work!
@@cuckoofan I heard of "Horses" in an NPR radio program - I'll have to give Patti Smith's "Birdland" a listen. JP has a full schedule with doing the half dozen songs of Ninth Wave (or side two of HOL) at once - wishing him well!
Hi. I just discovered your channel and really like it. Your opinions are really well thought through and interesting. Keep up the good work - you’re helping me get through lock down x
Thanks so much for trying this album out! Once you've finished with it, I highly recommend jumping ahead to her album Aerial, from 2005. It would be interesting to hear what you think about the change in her style and how her voice has matured. Also, the second disc of Aerial is a concept album, not dissimilar to The Ninth Wave.
If you listen to side 2 "the Ninth Wave" of Hounds of Love, you have to listen to it all in one go. It is a conceptual suite made up of 7 songs that tell a story. Its incredible. So yeah, from And Dream of Sheep on you have to do one big listen!
Each song on HOUNDS has its own story, individual scape, context, and yet, it is a cohesive compilation, a complete album, from beginning to end, and you never get lost on that journey. It's multilayered, multivocaled composition/compilation of her ultimate masterpiece.
I'm sure other people have said it but the remainder of the album is basically one song split into sections. You obviously can react however you choose, but if you listen to them all back to back you'll probably get a better picture of the story. Great reaction as always!
You can give a try to a beautiful, a bit proggy, song called Rocket's tail... David Gilmour plays electric guitar and the rest of the band is excellent as well
I remember seeing the video for the first time a LONG time ago. Freaked when Donald Sutherland appeared. Epic. This one really tugs at the heartstrings.
you should search up the song meaning to whatever kate bush song you are reacting to after listening because almost every one of her songs have an amazing strange story behind them, this is what sets her songwriting skills so high
Hounds was released in 1985, not 1982. Love the Fairlight CMI synth. And eventually you'll no doubt find Kate can quote the digits of pi - and it'll be interesting as well!
Yay-yay-yo! Great analysis Justin. It's funny you mentioned how she would be able to read a telephonebook and make it interesting. In fact she wrote a song called Pi and guess what...yes indeed 😉
Probably my favorite KB song. I have this CD but have not relistened to it so I can hear it here. I remember the MTV video also. Song was very enjoyable, really gives you a positive happy push forward out the door. Liked it. Liked it. Finished The Epic by Kamasi Washington, man, very nice. Claire de Lune is awesome! Just saying... Take care you two, Peace and Music
I suggest you to listen on your own to all of the b-sides from Hounds of Love (album), like “Under the Ivy”, “Not this Time”, “Burning Bridge”, My Lagan Love”, “The handsome Cabin Boy”. And of course to all of the 12” mixes of the main singles of the album, they’re so good!!
this song is amazing, and so is this album! And i cant get enough of it. Its so hard to pick a favorite song but I feel like al lot of people dont talk about “Waking the Witch” ! Id definitely check that out! It goes from beautiful and serene to intense and a little frightening
Back in the day, most of us were introduced to new Kate Bush songs via the videos. That was the way they were intended to be. Please do a second video with you watching the official video. I think that with each of her songs you should try watching as well as listening.
She doesn't sing the phone book but she does sing Pi on her Arial album. Ninety percent of the lyric is singing the number Pi to (off the top of my head) let's say, the hundredth decimal point. I'm sure someone out there will know the exact number.... See what I did there? 😀
My grandson on the autism spectrum is fascinated by pi. When I played this song he completely got it and now plays it frequently. The counting out of those numbers just enraptures him.
I like how you dont watch the music videos to distract from the music but I hope you are watching some of them later. The one for this song is like a little movie w Kate playing the boy.
Kate's masterpiece. It doesn't get any better than this. Just as she did with Wuthering Heights, she perfectly adapted Peter Reich's "A Book of Dreams" and set it to brilliant music.
This is a great reaction. . Glad you play it through without the constant pausing as some others do? End up missing things and don't get the true feelings of it..
I did not hear this song for a long time although I do not only like the music but the video as well what is not very often the case. But I cannot but like any movie Donald Sutherland is participating. I assume that Fever Ray's "When I Grow Up" is a direct descendant of this song. Not stolen but heavily inspired.
That was the closing song every night of the concert series in 2014, and I have never experienced such focused, pure unity and joy in my life. It was beyond words - beyond any other moment of the year. A lifetime highlight.
One other interesting thing about this album, perhaps a minor point but still indicative of her genius (ugh, I hate using that word because it's so overused but I can't think of anything else right now and I'll be sitting here all night trying) is Kate's production. Side one, where all the singles are, is, it seems to me, more densely packed production wise, while side two, "The Ninth Wave," is noticeably more open sounding, like you could climb inside and walk around in it.
Kate originally wrote the lyrics that "something bad is going to happen," but she was sitting at her piano composing when a big wasp flew in the window and came straight at her. She said she thought for sure it was going to sting her, but it turned around at the last second and went right back out the window. She immediately changed the lyrics to "something good is gonna happen."
As many others say: Check the official music video. It’s one of the best in it’s genre! Great short film.
starring Donald Sutherland.
One of the best? It's bally epic!
And the song is longerer 🥰
Yes! I love that Donald Sutherland plays the father!
Evokes emotions in me. Kate’s delivery is so sincere and real. It’s like hyper reality. Amazing.
you hit the mood and the intent perfectly,, the story behind the song is about Wilhelm Reich who was a psychoanalyst and spiritualist, he believed humans were influenced by what he called "orgone" energy
organon is the name he gave to his farm house where he did his research.
he was famous for building a "cloudbuster" rain making machine, this song is based on the book "the book of dreams" written by his son and tells the story about the adventures and hardships of living with his controversial eccentric father.
I do love the fact she put your suns coming out into the song, Peter was Gay and came out.
The First Lady of Prog. Truly one of a kind.
When this album came out, I played it constantly. My girlfriend liked it, but thought Cloudbusting was "monotonous". Then one day she called me, all giddy & gushing at how she now absolutely loves the song. Why? She had seen the video on MTV & now "got it". ua-cam.com/video/AJll-eF5zUA/v-deo.html
this is a magical album - i just love Kate Bush but you have to do side 2 as one - side one are brilliant single songs and side 2 is a unit that has to played together - a masterpiece. Also the video is really good with Donald Sutherland - this quote from DS about the video " Barry Richardson, who was the hairdresser on Nic Roeg’s 'Don't Look Now', asked me if I’d do a music video with Kate Bush. I told him no and we went on to other conversations. A couple of days later there was a knock on my door. I lived in the Savoy Hotel (in London). On the river. Suite 312. I loved it there. So cosseted. So private. Only the floor butler rang the door. I opened it. There was no one there. I heard a voice saying hello and I looked down. Standing down there was a very small Kate Bush. Barry had told her where I lived. What can you do? She wanted to explain what her video was about. I let her in. She sat down, said some stuff. All I heard was ‘Wilhelm Reich’. I’d taken an underground copy of his 'The Mass Psychology of Fascism' with me when I went to film (Bernardo) Bertolucci’s 'Novecento' in Parma. Reich’s work informed the psychological foundations of Attila Mellanchini, the character Bernardo had cast me to play. Everything about Reich echoed through me. He was there then and now he was here. Sitting across from me in the person of the very eloquent Kate Bush. Synchronicity. Perfect. She talked some more. I said OK and we made ‘Cloudbusting’. She’s wonderful, Kate Bush. Wonderful. I love that I did it. (What do I remember) about doing it? I remember being in the car and the hill and them taking me, taking Reich, away and looking back through the back window of the car and seeing her, seeing Reich’s son Peter, standing there. And I remember the first morning on set seeing her coming out of her trailer smoking a joint and I cautioned her, saying she shouldn’t smoke that, it’d affect her work, and she looked at me for a second and said she hadn’t been straight for nine years and I loved her."
Great Song, and great analysis as always! The original music video Kate produced to go with this song is like a mini movie outlining the narrative, with Donald Sutherland playing the inventor father, and Kate as his young son. It has a very steampunk vibe to it. I always liked the line about the yoyo that glowed - special and dangerous - referring to the fact they used to paint toys and watches with radiumluminescent paint to make them glow in the dark.
This album was actually released in 1985, and it kind of saved my life...no shit..
I will never forget when I read the reviews..the only time I have ever encountered a speechless journalist....it was something like,
" Oh my #@$$" God!!! This woman is a @#$$% genius!!! Oh my God...oh my God!!!!"
Yeah.. .probably the greatest album of the 80s,...Prince, Michael Jackson and Madonna were nervous.
Best kind of accolade from a review tbh🤭
They’d’ve been toast if she toured. 😜
The whole song is in March time which gives the feeling of moving toward something and you're so right how Kate "weaves" her voice through that marching toward... feeling. It's full of a sense of elevating as if the march is somehow skyward maybe in just looking up. I recall very fondly of leaving Claymont Court one fall with three fellows where we had all been studying with Mr. Fripp and I was taking 2 to Dulles Airport and another to Union Station in D.C. and they hadn't heard this album yet and I had it on cassette and a nice sound system in my car and I put it on once we got on the highway on an intensely bright and coloful blue sky day driving through mountainscapes and not one word was spoken by anyone the whole time till it was over when one fellow in back only said, "Wow." And we drove on in more quietness. One day drive with this album in such a landscape. It's indescribable.
the marching is the authorities coming to take father
Then overcoming and finding optimism
My all-time favorite Kate Bush song! Kudos to whoever requested it.
I love Kate Bush. She won't tour as she doesn't like to fly.
Music critics used to containerize her into 'art rock'. Her videos are certainly artistic.
If you like what you here, definitely take a look at how she expresses her work visually. Her live performances were also something else.
Too many favs to mention, but...
Sat in your Lap
Suspended in Gaffa
The Dreaming
Breathing
Wow
Them Heavy People
This Woman's Work
...so many. Have fun JP.
Ty I will😁
Just after 5:00, when the backing harmonies come in, I know that reaction.
The backing vocals are kind of a callback throughout this album.
Glad you're enjoying it and sharing it.
Ty Britton, I really am
Kate is really one of a kind. You need to see the video for it, too. It's a piece of art on it's own. She got Donald Sutherland to play the role of the father.
Kate Bush is one of those artists that made sure that the videos for her songs ALWAYS added to the experience. so if you get the chance, you should give them a view. Especially the videos for "Breathing", "Army Dreamers", "Experiment IV" and this one.
All great videos, but the one for The Sensual World, with Kate dancing in the woods like a beautiful dryad, is my favourite.
Experiment IV's video is an interesting scary song about the military developing a sound weapon that can kill people. And in true Outer Limits tradition, the experiment goes out of control.
She, like Peter Gabriel (who almost like her male alter-ego), are perfectionists of the highest order. LOVE this song... But the NINTH WAVE? omg. The BEST.
Looking forward to it!
I appreciate the high quality of the audio with your UA-cam pieces. It makes possible to just enjoy the song before hearing your comments. Not all similar channels bother.
Ty! That was one thing I wanted to make sure of
Kate Bush's 'Cloudbusting' entered the UK Top 40 on the 26th October 1985 and peaked at no.20.
The top 10 this week was:
1 - Jennifer Rush - Power of love
2 - A-ha - Take on me
3 - Colonel Abrams - Trapped
4 - Madonna - Gambler
5 - John Parr - St Elmo's fire
6 - Elton John - Nikita
7 - Jan Hammer - Miami Vice theme
8 - Simple Minds - Alive and kicking
9 - Arcadia - Election day
10 - Level 42 - Something about you
The climbers and new entries this week included:
Grace Jones - Slave to the rhythm
Billy Idol - Rebel yell
Fergal Sharkey - A good heart
Echo & the Bunnymen - Bring on the dancing horses
Kate Bush - Cloud busting
The Thompson Twins - King for a day
UB40 - Don't break my heart
ZZ Top - Sleeping bag
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities in the dust
Talking Heads - Road to nowhere
Hope you enjoyed my UK chart run down 😊
Ty ssps! I do, as it helps me understand the music's contemporaries
@@JustJP Thank you for you're great content too. I was 18 at the time of this top 40 and too busy with my social life to appreciate just how many fantastic artists were present in just one week in one month of one year. It wobbles me head 😊
I am so enjoying watching you discover this album and what you're taking from it, none of which I disagree with. And on to the Ninth Wave. Can't wait.
Ty!
At sixty three years old, I can honestly say that you are a good dude.
Your channel does much for the younger generation.
Thats incredibly kind of you Richard, thank you for that
Masterpiece by Kate beginning to end What would be side 2 (The Ninth Wave ) is a concept and really should be listened to all at once Jig of Life is my favorite
I've been posting that in every one of his videos off of this album. Hope he heard us.
Itll all be done in one video🙃
@@JustJP cool hope you love it
I think you were right the first time... it is camp, in the best tradition, (if in doubt, watch the official video!); but it is still has a melancholy beauty that's head and shoulders above what some other artists have achieved in their most serious works.
Love how you articulate what I think about it too!
Ty!
Yes!
This song is my second favorite song of her. ALWAYS makes me feel optimistic. Pure genius.
This in my opinion is Kate's best song. A master in story telling. It perfectly describes and existing story and somehow allows you to overlap it with your own life.
Look at the official video... You will see your "adventurous" feeling. And there is a musical extension in the middle of the video
I think you are exactly right about Kate's sincerity. Any hint of campness or cheesiness in her work belongs solely in the eyes of the beholder. Like David Bowie, she also studied with mime artist Lindsay Kemp, but where there is always something calculated and self-conscious about Bowie, Kate seems gauche and naive in comparison. I don't thing there is anything in her albums with which I'm familiar, up to and including this one, where she was anything other than passionate and whole-hearted about what she was doing.
I've always loved the urgency of this song. Just saying it could even make it happen.
This song has so many layers, it's a gift every time I hear it. Nicely done, JP!
Ty!
As amazing as Kate's songwriting and singing are, her live performances (rare finds) and videos are spectacular! She is so talented as a dancer, choreographer, and cinematographer it is incredible to see. As much as I love Hounds of Love, I think The Sensual World is equally great.
I like all her albums but Aerial is my favourite - especially disc 2 - Sky of Honey.
Don't forget she a producer as well. Gifted ain't even close
"The Sensual World" and "The Red Shoes" are superior, I think. So is "The Dreaming". "Never Forever" and "The Kick Inside" are the equals of "Hounds of Love".
Kate Bush is a human chameleon. She has so many colors in her voice, and every color is fantastic!
It's strange that I haven't listened to that song without the video for so many years. I am very familiar with it but in the last few years, have usually been watching the video on UA-cam at the same time. I noticed a few subtle moments while listening to it with you. A great song, and thanks for the review. Although the narrative has a dark heart, there IS a sense of adventure, mixed with an emotion of hope and optimism.
My favourite Kate Bush song.
Programmed drums are the Linn LM1 drum machine, the kick drum had that kind of gated sound and you'll hear it on quite a few 80's albums. Kate Bush originally played the main strings part on the Fairlight sampler and then later replaced them with real strings. reverbmachine.com/blog/kate-bush-synth-sounds/
This album was the first album she recorded in her home studio and so had time to freely experiment. People who worked on previous albums with her said she was so happy to not have the constraints of the clock ticking in a paid studio environment and that there was this amazing creative energy not seen before on previous albums, a unique moment in time.
You always wonder when an artist self-produces how much are they really producing and how much is just great musicians. I read an interview with the drummer on this album and he said the first day he came in to the studio he started setting up his kit and she told him not to unpack his cymbals or hi-hat. He was surprised and she explained there would be no cymbals or hats on the record, it was to have a dark mood. This was definitely a self-producing artist with a vision who was fully steering the ship.
So many interesting stories about this album around, I've looked into it a lot b/c it's my personal favorite. Her previous album The Dreaming was the first album she self-produced and it wasn't a commercial success, people found it way too strange. I saw an interview where she said her record label reluctantly agreed to let her try self-producing again on the Hounds of Love but this time they said, they really needed some "hits". She said okay, I'll give you some hits but of course those hits were in her own weird, inimitable style :)
Yes, 1985, and the video with Donald Sutherland is beautiful.
My favorite song from "Hounds of Love" is "Hello Earth".
When you have time, check out Jane Siberry and the album, "The Walking". Sort of Kate Bush meets Laurie Anderson but Jane is unique.
For me Kate Bush is the perfect example of what can happen when an artist is just left alone to create. Everything that she did up to Hounds of Love lead up to this peak. Like Pink Floyd on previous albums she was able to venture out to creative extremes and eventually distill them all into this jewel. It will come as no surprise that all of her albums are recommended. If you ever are more curious about her creative formation, I recommend the excellent BBC documentary The Kate Bush Story (available in it's entirety on UA-cam). I would love to see you explore some of her earlier work like Never Forever. I do not think that you will be disappointed.
Thx Scott!
@@JustJP my pleasure. Cheers.
Have all the albums - She's brilliant - Try "Rocket's Tail" from "The Sensual World". Stunning vocals from Kate and the Trio Bulgarka and a scintillating unexpected twist!
That's a MUST.
Can't wait for that one to be judged!
Ty!
Thank you JP, I only had to nag you 3 times to make this happen. You are a man of your word and I will go through every song you done so far and like them all. If I like them or not is moot, if it gets you a penny I help you bud. Great review btw, stellar.
Absolutely enjoyed this reaction .. your analysis is so good
Thanks Christine!
you´ve got to watch the video!One of the best music videos ever!!
Have you ever seen the videclip, Justin. It really shows the sensations around the success she (he in the video) and the father in the story achieved. Donald Sutherland featuring as the father.
Wonderful Kate Bush she is our national treasure
This is a perfect pop song for me, with a catchy rhythm and a beautiful video clip with Donald Sutherland.
Great album with a more than excellent b-side.
It’s Kate Bush. What’s not to love? ❤️
True!
If you listen to the live “Before The Dawn” album version you will just be drawn right in to it. The audience participation at the end is a release and is just brilliant. You could also listen to the live segment of the whole of the Ninth Wave. There is no applause between each song and she added a theatrical element to it. It’s sublime. The album version is great too. But the live experience takes it one step further.
One of the best memories of my life, standing up and singing along to the end of Cloudbusting.
@@silgen Definitely a very special moment. Literally everyone who was present there participated in that. My boyfriend at the time, who traveled with me to London but didn't attend the concert, said he could hear the audience singing loud and clear from outside the venue!
Her 2005 double album 'Aerial' is her masterpiece. She took a 12 year hiatus to compose it.
That track "The choral Room" floors me everytime.
Such a fantastic song, one of her best.
Many great songs, A Coral Room being one to try.
Good album. Another of my favourite songs off the album, is The Big Sky.
Such a unique sound that Kate created...
Written after she read "The Book Of Dreams" by Peter Reich about growing up with his father Wilhelm who had radical thoughts and ideas in his day. Two of which were "Orgone Energy" and "Cloudbusting" (seeding clouds to rain). Worth reading up on.
Also: Please consider doing "The Dreaming" album some day.
thank you! at last ,the essential nod to Wilhelm Reich and his cloudbuster.
Justin! Wow! I discovered your channel because this popped up in my feed. Probably because Kate Bush is my favorite artist. i love your videos! Spent nearly 2 hours last night watching a whole bunch of your vids. I love the thoughtful way you explore new music, and how you appreciate different things. Can't wait until you get to the B-side of the Hounds of Love album. (Big fan of Heart as well, and loved your Crazy on You listen) I know a while back you asked for suggestions for more female artists, and all my favorites are female artsts. I would recommend giving Canadian artist Chantal Kreviazuk a try, particularly her song In My Life. I'd love to hear what you think.
My favorite on the album 👍🏻🎻🥁
Back in 85 i lived on the same street as her in SE London and got to hear the demos that were mostly put together on a fairlight computer aided synth- the first in the country I believe. I was gobsmacked along with the rest of us.
"I feel you can never be bored listening to Kate Bush". And suddenly, I felt I no longer had anything to add :P.
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Wow! I’ve always felt that way about this song, but never really put it into words! Thanks JP! 😃👍🏻
Thanks JP - your treatment of this song brightened my day. My favorite part of CB is Kate seeking to make a small victory out of the little boy's loss of his father (better demonstrated in the video). There is lots and lots of trivia related to this song. As far as I know, it's the only adaptation of the "Book of Dreams" by Peter Reich, in which the author recalls his boyhood life with his father, Dr. Wilhelm Reich. This book was on the NY Times bestseller list, and I first knew of it from a high school buddy, who pointed out the part of the boy pointing the orgone energy machine toward UFOs to keep them away. This isn't in the song, but it does include the boys' mysterious glowing yo-yo (the machine collects orgone energy, which might have been absorbed by a metal object?), and he later buried in the backyard. Wilhelm Reich is a real person, who was arrested by the FBI for trumped up charges. It is easy to compare his fate to Nikola Tesla, because he also invented a device for collecting energy radiating from the Earth, and who also died in seclusion of a heart attack. But the naive childish recollections in the book and song make the story even more poignant.
There's nothing mysterious about the glowing yo-yo, it's painted with radioluminecent paint, i.e. containing Radium 226, which makes it glow in the dark but is also a source of radiation - special and dangerous.
@@silgen Mystery solved - I found a digital book on Google books, and it is "radioactive stuff" he put on his Duncan yo-yo, and his Dad instructed him that he had to bury it - thanks!
Hi Bob. Interesting fact: "Cloudbusting" is not the only adaptaptation of "A Book of Dreams" by Peter Reich. Patti Smith, in her debut album "Horses" (10 years ahead of "HoL") dealt with the same story in her song "Birdland". It's also a great song allthough both sound very different.
Justin, some day, try to react to Patti Smith's "Horses", another great great album! The song "Land" is an incredible piece with an astounding intro! Don't expect it to sound like Kate Bush though, they're very different artists, but both admire each other a lot.
Can't wait for you to react to "The Ninth Wave"... Such a brilliant work!
I found a video about Wilhelm Reich's weather machine re-enactment - don't know the source of it. ua-cam.com/video/G53HYqOhkAE/v-deo.html
@@cuckoofan I heard of "Horses" in an NPR radio program - I'll have to give Patti Smith's "Birdland" a listen. JP has a full schedule with doing the half dozen songs of Ninth Wave (or side two of HOL) at once - wishing him well!
Hi. I just discovered your channel and really like it. Your opinions are really well thought through and interesting. Keep up the good work - you’re helping me get through lock down x
this is one of the best songs ever written,,by anybody , period
and it's a true story,,,
Thanks so much for trying this album out! Once you've finished with it, I highly recommend jumping ahead to her album Aerial, from 2005. It would be interesting to hear what you think about the change in her style and how her voice has matured. Also, the second disc of Aerial is a concept album, not dissimilar to The Ninth Wave.
Thanks for doing that one! This album and the Dreaming are desert island lps for sure.
Pretty cool! Definitely an uplifting song.
Please, do a reaction for one of her songs, "Get out of my house"!
My absolute favorite KB track. And I love Kate. Kate reading the phonebook? Wait til you hear ∏. (Pi)
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If you listen to side 2 "the Ninth Wave" of Hounds of Love, you have to listen to it all in one go. It is a conceptual suite made up of 7 songs that tell a story. Its incredible. So yeah, from And Dream of Sheep on you have to do one big listen!
Ty, it will be😁
One my favourite videos ever. Kate with the short red hair and Donald Sutherland !
Each song on HOUNDS has its own story, individual scape, context, and yet, it is a cohesive compilation, a complete album, from beginning to end, and you never get lost on that journey. It's multilayered, multivocaled composition/compilation of her ultimate masterpiece.
I'm sure other people have said it but the remainder of the album is basically one song split into sections. You obviously can react however you choose, but if you listen to them all back to back you'll probably get a better picture of the story.
Great reaction as always!
You can give a try to a beautiful, a bit proggy, song called Rocket's tail... David Gilmour plays electric guitar and the rest of the band is excellent as well
I remember seeing the video for the first time a LONG time ago. Freaked when Donald Sutherland appeared. Epic. This one really tugs at the heartstrings.
Oh wow, props to you for listening to "mother stands for comfort" & not just the big names
you should search up the song meaning to whatever kate bush song you are reacting to after listening because almost every one of her songs have an amazing strange story behind them, this is what sets her songwriting skills so high
Super. Video was filmed at the neolithic Uffington Hill Fort with it's ancient white horse.
Excellent!
Hounds was released in 1985, not 1982. Love the Fairlight CMI synth.
And eventually you'll no doubt find Kate can quote the digits of pi - and it'll be interesting as well!
Hiya dude... yes the strings are what makes this song.. absolutely stunning...
Gotta just ❤️ Kate
Yay-yay-yo! Great analysis Justin. It's funny you mentioned how she would be able to read a telephonebook and make it interesting. In fact she wrote a song called Pi and guess what...yes indeed 😉
Haha sounds like an interesting one
It sure is!
She does sign the number Pi in her 2012 album, and it sounds good!
2005.
Probably my favorite KB song. I have this CD but have not relistened to it so I can hear it here. I remember the MTV video also. Song was very enjoyable, really gives you a positive happy push forward out the door. Liked it. Liked it.
Finished The Epic by Kamasi Washington, man, very nice.
Claire de Lune is awesome! Just saying...
Take care you two,
Peace and Music
Nice, glad you enjoyed the album!
Please consider experiment IV by Kate. It's not particularly well known but it offers so many different bush elements in one incredible song
The drums on this always remind me of The Cure, great song!
So, Cloudbusting is probably my favorite Kate Bush song! I just love it so much. You should react to Jig of Life :-) That's a runner up.
Ty!
One of her best
I suggest you to listen on your own to all of the b-sides from Hounds of Love (album), like “Under the Ivy”, “Not this Time”, “Burning Bridge”, My Lagan Love”, “The handsome Cabin Boy”. And of course to all of the 12” mixes of the main singles of the album, they’re so good!!
this song is amazing, and so is this album! And i cant get enough of it. Its so hard to pick a favorite song but I feel like al lot of people dont talk about “Waking the Witch” ! Id definitely check that out! It goes from beautiful and serene to intense and a little frightening
Ty! The Ninth Wave will be coming in the near future
Love this song Justin. It has such a cool outro. I hope you review ‘The Sensual World’ album.
Back in the day, most of us were introduced to new Kate Bush songs via the videos. That was the way they were intended to be. Please do a second video with you watching the official video. I think that with each of her songs you should try watching as well as listening.
She doesn't sing the phone book but she does sing Pi on her Arial album.
Ninety percent of the lyric is singing the number Pi to (off the top of my head) let's say, the hundredth decimal point.
I'm sure someone out there will know the exact number....
See what I did there? 😀
My grandson on the autism spectrum is fascinated by pi. When I played this song he completely got it and now plays it frequently. The counting out of those numbers just enraptures him.
*Kate Bush - "This Woman's Work"*
That video with Tim McInnerny...
I like how you dont watch the music videos to distract from the music but I hope you are watching some of them later. The one for this song is like a little movie w Kate playing the boy.
Kate's masterpiece. It doesn't get any better than this. Just as she did with Wuthering Heights, she perfectly adapted Peter Reich's "A Book of Dreams" and set it to brilliant music.
The Dreaming was released in 1982, Hounds of Love was released in 1985.
Enjoy!
This is a great reaction. . Glad you play it through without the constant pausing as some others do? End up missing things and don't get the true feelings of it..
Thank you Carol :)
I did not hear this song for a long time although I do not only like the music but the video as well what is not very often the case. But I cannot but like any movie Donald Sutherland is participating. I assume that Fever Ray's "When I Grow Up" is a direct descendant of this song. Not stolen but heavily inspired.
Sloooooooowly you are getting to Jig of life :)
Very slowly 🤭
That was the closing song every night of the concert series in 2014, and I have never experienced such focused, pure unity and joy in my life. It was beyond words - beyond any other moment of the year. A lifetime highlight.
so.. you really need to watch the video for this.. takes it to another level..! do it.! :-)
One other interesting thing about this album, perhaps a minor point but still indicative of her genius (ugh, I hate using that word because it's so overused but I can't think of anything else right now and I'll be sitting here all night trying) is Kate's production. Side one, where all the singles are, is, it seems to me, more densely packed production wise, while side two, "The Ninth Wave," is noticeably more open sounding, like you could climb inside and walk around in it.
Kate originally wrote the lyrics that "something bad is going to happen," but she was sitting at her piano composing when a big wasp flew in the window and came straight at her. She said she thought for sure it was going to sting her, but it turned around at the last second and went right back out the window. She immediately changed the lyrics to "something good is gonna happen."
I enjoyed the entire album when it was released in 1985, and still do. Please continue listening to the entire album. I'm sure you will enjoy it too.