Kate Bush 'Hounds Of Love' Album Reaction "Side 2" The Entire Ninth Wave Suite
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- From the full album reaction for Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love exclusively on Patreon, here is the entire 2nd side "The Ninth Wave Suite)!
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Kate is an f---n genius! She is always experimental, taking chances and leaps without worrying about "fame". There is no one like her. "Hello Earth" is my very fav from the ninth wave. It's like she is feeling like she is "fading" and seems to 'rise above and look down on earth", maybe becoming "part of the universe" just for a wee bit, then she is rescued and the "Morning Fog" song states as such "I tell my mother I tell my father how much I love them"..
Kate performed "The Ninth Wave" in full during her 2014 "Before The Dawn" shows in London. Her first live performances in 35 years. I was there. Incredible.
Lucky!!
Mee too, Thomas. Absolutely loved it.
Kate's imagination running wild! Who comes up with the idea of a woman in distress having these nightmares, hallucinations, fears and total loss of reality while drifting alone at sea. Only accompanied by the little flashlight on her lifevest. And then to translate this situation into seven different settings and topped with musical greatness? There is a video on YT of The Ninth Wave as it was performed in 2014. It is wild!
A perfect album from front to back. The best production work she’s ever had. Been listening to it for 36 years now.
Stood in line to get this when it came out when I was 17. Wore it out! Still, once I start "The Ninth Wave," I won't interrupt it, must listen start to finish even if it means being late for something.
it's definitely like top 10 albums of 80s.
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I'll tell you my experience of the Ninth Wave. I was a huge fan since the week Wuthering Heights appeared in 78, I must have listened to her first 4 LPs more than any other artist between then and 1985, when the HoL dropped, I was at Uni by this time, and by 1985 was on the verge of a mental breakdown and dropping out (both happened later in the summer, but that's another story) We were, everyone I knew at Uni, very excited for Hounds of Love. When it came out, I had been 'giving cause for concern' and had a lovely bunch of friends, around a dozen of whom had, purely coincidently of course, decided to drop round for coffee the afternoon it appeared, my recollection is that there were people everywhere, on the beds, on the floor, all around, and the doorbell kept coming, and I was sat in the middle of the room, surrounded by people, with my headphones on (the music was also playing out loud, don't worry, but I was 'cut off') and I had a lump of resin the size of a baby's fist and was constantly rolling and passing... the air was thick.
To this day, I'll never forget my first hearing of Under Ice. A few years before, when I was a stupid teenager, I had 'walked out' on the ice of the loch I used to live beside, I was with a friend, and I'm still not sure exactly why we did it, we went well beyond the limits of safety or sanity... but that's yet another story, back to me stoned out of my tits, depressed to a scary point, sittiing with headphones on in a crowd of people... "it's me"... "something, someone, help them" "It's me!"... it was a transcendental moment... the whole piece is, I think it's one of the pieces of 20th century music, I'm glad I lived in its time, and so glad to be still here seeing Kate and her music being appreciated for everything it has.
Thanks for the reaction, and the space to share, I love to share the meaning of music. tx.
That is incredible, thank you for sharing! It’s crazy awesome how different music can affect different people. It’s just the best ❤️
Top 5 album for me of all time. Just incredible.
she's a genius definitely my favourite female artist.
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While there are many songs of Kate that I love, the sonic landscape of "Watching You Without Me" is my favorite.
30:00 I love this quote from Elton John:
"I'll tell you a story, when I had my civil partnership nine years ago in 2005, we invited Kate and we didn't think she'd come but she did and came with her husband Danny ... and there were a lot of very famous people in that room, there was like 600 people, and all anybody wanted to meet was Kate Bush ... I mean musicians, anybody, they couldn't believe that Kate Bush was there. She's kind of an enigma,"
You wont be disappointed it's an experience you'll love
You'll love Sky of Honey. There's a song, "Nocturne" where Kate goes back to the sea at night as a safe, ecstatic setting for a pair of adventurous lovers, not as a place of nightmares.
It starts with her already washed overboard in the sea and she's not been found so she has the prospect of staying in the water in the dark of night. She becomes tired (And Dream of Sheep) and falls into nightmarish sleep (Under Ice) and becomes slightly helucingenic perhaps wondering why this has happened to her, is she a bad person? (Waking the Witch). After a time she starts wondering what her loved ones might be thinking doing while she's lost out here (Watching You Without Me). She then gets some renewed strength with (Jig of Life) where her future self is telling her to fight for her life otherwise that future self wont exist if she dies. I think (Hello Earth) is her near the end of her tether when she's feeling at her lowest and she's having an out of body experience (seeing herself up in space looking down at the earth). Then with (The Morning Fog) she's made it through the night and is found and rescued and has a new appreciation for her loved ones. That's my take on it.
That’s how I see it.
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Prog is a great way to describe Kate's music. Not in an Emerson Lake and Palmer sort of way but someone who's quite unique
I want to argue that point, but I really cannot. Pretty much sums it up.
she definitely was prog she was pushing music to new boundaries.
@@pinkbeatle2012 no doubt whatsoever about pushing the boundaries
She's my hero I got to see her live which was a dream come true. The theatrical thing you might be talking about maybe "the red shoes" she's a genius. She was the first live artist to wear a headset Mike during a performance. They all doing it now. Of course I love all her work and have been a fan since she first came onto the music scene. Beacsue of being a life long fan we were lucky enough to get pre sale tickets for her concert. A godsend as they sold out immediately on release. My favourite album is the red shoes which has an accompanying mini theatrical performance 😊 vide available of the whole album. She's simply a musical genius. Thank god her record company gave her complete artistic control from the beginning.
As I understand it, the jig of life is..while hallucinating as she nearly drowns she seas her future self as an old woman. She pleads for her to live, that life is still out in front, and not to forget, the old woman is her life yet to be. "Hello old lady I know your face well". This is her now gaining the strength to hold on, to stay alive to await rescue and live to be old.....Genius.
6:00 She originally wanted to do a short movie of NW but it didn't materialize. As someone already stated, she did do it as a part of her 'Before the Dawn' shows.
Kate performed the entire "Ninth Wave" it was one of her acts during her "Before The Dawn" 22 date concert residency in 2014.
For "And Dream Of Sheep" Kate was filmed singing wearing a life jacket in a large tank of water - Kate had to be treated for hypothermia afterwards, you could certainly say that she suffered for her art - it was that video which was projected onto a large screen, the video can be seen here:
ua-cam.com/video/_256xd9N27o/v-deo.html
So the character that Kate's portraying knows that she must keep awake, because if she falls asleep she could roll over and drown, at the end of "And Dream Of Sheep" she does indeed fall asleep and until "The Morning Fog" the following tracks are the character suffering various hallucinations.
So as some examples "Watching You Without Me' she imagined visiting her house as a ghost. In "Jig Of Life" her future self urges her not to give up.
You are right about "The Morning Fig" she has survived the night adrift in the ocean and I think she's ultimately rescued since she has a new found appreciation of life and all those that love her.
The "Before The Dawn" concert was an absolutely amazing experience,- when tickets went on sale for all 22 dates they sold out in under 15 minutes. People travelled from all over the world to see Kate perform, I know because I talked to a few people when I was queuing to go into the venue. To see the concert is an experience that I will never forget, it was groundbreaking in the same way that her 1979 "Tour Of Life" concerts were described, a benchmark for other artists to follow.
There's a recording of Kate's concert performance on Vinyl or CD.
Some filming did take place during one performance but that has never been released yet.
Great comments. Here's my take: The Ninth Wave is a major MASTERPIECE of progressive/conceptual music. This seven song suite is the story of a shipwrecked woman who is floating alone at sea in the night, struggling to survive. She tries to stay awake, but slips in and out of consciousness. Most of the songs are her hallucinations / nightmares concerning her peril during her periods of unconsciousness. "Dream of Sheep" is her struggle to stay awake. You should check out her video that Kate did of this song for her 2014 "Before The Dawn' concerts (Kate did the entire Ninth Wave suite as Act II of her show). It was filmed in a large studio tank of water and Kate was in the tank so long that she got mild hypothermia, which added to the realism of her performance. In the second song, as she succumbs, "Under Ice" is a nightmare about seeing herself trapped under the ice. As she tries to wake up "Waking the Witch" is a nightmare where she is being accused of being a witch, when they used to tie chains around the accused's legs and throw them in the water to see if they would float (if they sank and drowned they were guilty). The inquisitor part is actually Kate with her voice electronically altered. Kate loved old English sea shanties when she was a child and her lyrics about "pinks and posies...red, red roses, go down" is from a well known sea shanty and refers to the blood pouring out of a harpooned whale. Fun fact, the helicopter sounds on this track are from Pink Floyd's album The Wall, which Floyd let her use. "Watching You Without Me" is her hallucination of seeing her family at home doing their everyday things, while they are thinking she is just late getting home and are unaware of her life and death struggle. "Jig of Life" is another dream where Kate's future self tries to tell her to stay alive and to fight for her life and for her future children that will not exist if she gives in to death. "Hello Earth" is the lowest point of her struggle where she looks up at the night sky and imagines herself looking down upon the black vastness of the ocean where she is only a tiny speck - she beings to accept her fate, when....."The Morning Fog" is her helicopter rescue and redemption from near death, where she has a new appreciation of life and reaffirms her heightened love for her family. Kate has always wanted listeners to have their own interpretations of her music, but she said in an interview that in her mind the shipwrecked woman survives. And as to your comment on her notoriety, it is true that she was not that well known by the American public (prior to Stranger Things), but in Great Britain, throughout most of Europe, Australia, and Japan, Kate is an icon (ten top 10 albums and 25 top 40 singles in the U.K. charts, as well as all kinds of music industry honors and awards)
Kate has always been a reader of novels and her music is just her translation of her interpretations, see also her Sensual World, and red shoes albums, evocative and sometimes surreal with her music being almost pictorial. 50 words for Snow being a case in point
She was well known in Europe and Japan but mostly ignored in America, sadly.
SatanicMechanic Plus Australia and New Zealand.
You asked a very deep question on 'Hello Earth'! 'Is she coming back from the grave as a ghost to confront her killers?' My thoughts: Considering reincarnation is a reality, Kate Bush could really be a fucking witch in the middle ages being burned at the stake or something. And now, when the coast is clear in this time and age, she's back as this genius musician expressing all these things from her unconscious mind. Maybe it's just all real. ❤ Kate Bush forever.
Lol I LOVE that idea
I believe the concept is that the main character is lost at sea after a boating accident (Dream of Sheep) and undergoes several hallucinations (Under Ice, Waking the Witch, etc.) before being rescued (Hello Earth, The Morning Fog.) She is bloody brilliant.
Yes, there was IMHO just one misunderstanding, that the middle of the suite were just dreams and/or halluzinations, not her death. So she's eventually rescued (we can discuss, if it's DURING or AFTER "Hello Earth", I think, it's just before "The Morning Fog").
We have a main bracket from "And Dream Of Sheep" (floating) and "The Morning Fog" (rescue).
Then we have an inner bracket from "Under Ice" (drawning) and "Hello Earth" (dying).
The inner three songs are said to represent the past ("Waking The Witch"), the present ("Watching You Without Me"), and the future ("Jig Of Life").
"Hello Earth" is for me the central song, and all elements of the songs before reappear in this (long) song.
Most of the explanations in the posts are basically correct.
She stranded at sea. The cold and the exhaustion, the fear start to take their toll on her. And she just wants to sleep. (And Dream of Sheep)
As she loses conscientiousness she slips beneath the surface and starts to dream she's trapped under ice.
That turns into a nightmare of being drowned for being a witch.
This turns into an out of body experience where she encounters her future self. ( Jig of life) as her out of body experience continues she visits her husband in their home but he can't hear her or sense her presence she travels up and sees Earth from above. She wakes and fights her way to the surface as the day breaks, she is rescued, she now has a profound appreciation for life and her loved ones.
It's a work of genius and I think people can get what they want from it. Basically it is a story of renewal and rescue, but also rejection of male dominance along the way also.
There was IMHO just one misunderstanding, that the middle of the suite were just dreams and/or halluzinations, not her death. So she's eventually rescued (we can discuss, if it's DURING or AFTER "Hello Earth", I think, it's just before "The Morning Fog", which is, as you rightly mentioned, a very releasing song, very upbeat).
We have a main bracket from "And Dream Of Sheep" (floating) and "The Morning Fog" (rescue).
Then we have an inner bracket from "Under Ice" (drawning) and "Hello Earth" (dying).
The inner three songs are said to represent the past ("Waking The Witch"), the present ("Watching You Without Me"), and the future ("Jig Of Life").
"Hello Earth" is for me the central song, and all elements of the songs before reappear in this (long) song.
Can you react to "Moments of pleasure"? The video simple but worth watching because Kate is captivating.
Completely off topic but when is the Biffy Clyro Puzzle reaction happening? You are still doing that discography, right?
Yessir, I'm going to try and get the Missing Pieces reaction done and uploaded hopefully by the end of the week. Maybe even tomorrow. Going in chronological order, so Puzzles will be up after that sometime. Thanks for asking, man! Just trying to find time to get all the tings done lol
Too fidgety for me. But thumbs up for Kate, anyway.
If there’s one thing I am… it’s fidgety lol
So, you want to watch a video of someone reacting to an album ... without, erm, moving? O--kay ....
Suggestion: don't watch the video.
most people fidget especially music reactors, nothing wrong with it, you’re on camera different then listening off camera, plus they need to offer commentary on the music
Yiu totally ruined the feel of hello earth by fiddling with yoyr bloody mic stand!! 😢