Kate Bush - Hounds of Love ALBUM REVIEW
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
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FAV TRACKS: RUNNING UP THAT HILL, HOUNDSOF LOVE, THE BIG SKY, MOTHER STANDS FOR COMFORT, CLOUDBUSTING, WAKING THE WITCH, JIG OF LIFE, HELLO EARTH
LEAST FAV TRACK: THE MORNING FOG
KATE BUSH - HOUNDS OF LOVE / 1985 / EMI / ART POP, BAROQUE POP, SYNTH POP
classic/10
Y'all know this is just my opinion, right? What did you think of this album? Love it? Hate it? Why? What should I review next, eh?
Nice to see Eleven reviewing her friend’s favorite album
I’m dead 💀
this comment 😭😭
The power of Stranger Things
🤣🤣🤣
AHAHAHAHAHS
This video is over 3 years old but please rank the Kate Bush albums
yes, I second that
Yes
Indeed
rankings are useless, every albums feels different to each person. the album/listener connection is intimate and personal.
@@conjured_up_skeletons6178 yea but the worst to best videos are some of his most enjiyable to watch, talking for a long time about an artist that you like, even if he has different opinions
The strangest thing is Anthony’s hair
It fell out quick
I'm very pleased to see literally every comment agreeing that Kate Bush is a god
Well of course. That's like agreeing water is wet. 😊
Goddess
Her voice is just mindblowing
We need a Kate Bush tier list. This album gets praise but the rest of her discography is very overlooked imo
Everyone rates the Dreaming and this album, they're awesome. However her first three albums are all wondrous and filled with vocal dexterity and gorgeous lyricism. Can't tier them, it's like roses, lotus blooms and daffodils. Each its own world.
@@narasimha7187 My personal faves are the sensual world and red shoes, along with hounds of love of course. All her work is so underrated though!!
@@narasimha7187 I agree. The kick Inside and Never for Ever are so underrated compared to Kate's behemoths like Hounds of Love, The Dreaming, The Sensual World, Aerial and 50 Words for Snow.
the red shoes is great too (moments of pleasure, top of the city)
It’s because Kate Bush kicks ass
This album is so brilliant that it almost makes me sad that there'll probably never be anything like it ever again...
Natan Caetano that's simultaneously the best part about it though
Why worry about that? We already have it.
Björk comes close though. I hear Kate Bush all over her music
@@Munimun nice, I really like bjork.😌
I mean this album already exists why would you want someone to make it again? 🙄
i feel like anthony would use the money store to escape vecna
@Abhijith Kamath VecNuts
Your favorite dream pop band needs to bow down to Kate Bush for what she did for them.
i mean, unless your favourite dream pop band is This Mortal Coil, Cocteau Twins or The Durutti Column
shut the fuck up kyle Cocteau Twins🖤
tokenblackaspie: Oh, I have no doubt they do, all the time. Some of them probably have shrines, with candles and posters and incense and incantations.
Lorde is totally this generation's Kate Bush.
@@zackzallie8735 not u setting up lorde
I gave this album a try. Fell in love. It was crazier and much more experimental than I thought.
Let's Talk same
I think the album art makes people think it's going to be soft pop because it's so soft and traditionally feminine. The second side is extremely dark and you'd never expect it by looking at the album art.
Yes, Mother Stands For Comfort and Waking The Witch, for instance, are like experimental extensions of The Dreaming but it all fits together seamlessly in Hounds of Love.
Same asf
Hello there from 4 years later. The second side of Hounds of Love was reminisque of her last album, The Dreaming which was way more experimental than her other works. You arent going to find Wuthering Heights, Hammer Horror, or even Army Dreamers on that one. The Dreaming delves into a lot of territories, such as bank robberies,(There Goes A Tenner) enemies of war comparing/contrasting each other, (Pull Out The Pin) along such gems.
Who would’ve thought Kate Bush would’ve had a top 5 hit 37 years after this album came out
I know right?
Now top 3
kate bush is dope, ya'll missing out
She's hasn't made a consistently good album since this one 32 years ago.
@@desperatemohammedantheworl5833 And this one is a damn classic
@@FoxyChariot I'll give you that one :)
@Kyle Knockaert I'd rather not.
Desperate Mohammedan the World's Strongest Arab who gives a fuck. her early records are timeless
KATE BUSH IS A HEART MELTING GODDESS.
CRUEL HEATHCLIFF
My one dream, my only master...
Heathcliff, it's me, it's Cathy, I've come home.
S/O to Heathcliff tbh. If he had let her in we wouldn’t have Wuthering Heights
@@_alex_merrick_ Same brotha
@@FoxyChariot I'm so CO-O-O-OLD
Let me in your winDO-O-O-OW
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so CO-O-O-OLD
Let me in your winDO-O-O-OW
When this video review came out, Stranger Things didn’t even exist yet. When this album came out, Anthony Fantano hadn’t even been born yet.
Tried it, 100% worth my time, good classic
Kate is untouchable. The problem is, she is held in high regard in the UK, and was not so heard of commercially in America until Hounds of Love. The Dreaming was played on college stations, but as you said was not a critical success. She still redifined "progressive" in music, starting with The Kick Inside". If we were in the UK, more viewers would understand how big Kate really is. She knocked Madonna off the charts when she released an album. Even while The Dreaming was a critic failure, it is still a fan favorite, and still charted in the UK at #14. In an interview asking hiw did she feel about releasing a critical failure, her response was " I don't see charting at #14 a failure." That album has aged like wine. She is also the first woman to have a #1 hit with a self penned song (Wuthering Heights 1978). She may not be everyone's cup of tea these days, because she disappears so often, and America's idea of commercial music has changed, but every album she releases are different, and each one is brilliant in its own way. I do not understand why her catalog is not remastered and available for this generation, as her songs are as deep as life itself. You can tell which artists of today had an influence on her. (as someone in a comment mentioned you should review Bjork, she was obviously influenced by Kate)
+lofibri but wasnt WT a big hit in australia
+lofibri the dreaming was 3 in the charts
+lofibri bjork is completely different to kate
+lofibri Yes, Bjork is influenced by Kate... Bjork's favourite Kate album is 'The Dreaming', which is very Bjork sounding, IMO!
Leon Tarkshina Yes, a hit in Australia as well, I was just trying to explain how she is well known in other countries, but had no idea I went on and on about it to try to get the point across. I had meant to say Kate had influenced artists that had gotten big in America, not that said artists influenced her.
The B-sides for this album are better than the best album songs of most artists -- worth seeking out. Hounds of Love is pure magic. I have probably listened to it a thousand times (maybe more) since 1985 and it is still absolutely rewarding. A small number of albums grow richer as you age, gain experience, and your perspective changes. This is one of them. Kate has not stopped growing as an artist: all who saw her show in London last fall (where she brought The Ninth Wave to life) report that her stage presence and voice have more authority, power and confidence than ever. No autotune, either -- with Kate Bush you get the real thing.
The B sides are great! Along with the Hounds of Love 12" picture he showed is a different version of the song with different lyrics that I feel beats the album version.
Under the Ivy (B-side to Running Up That Hill) would be the highlight of anyone else's album lol
the youtube algorithm definitely watches Stranger Things
The 9th Wave is about a woman who is in the sea after going overboard wearing a life jacket and her thoughts during the night, until she is rescued.
an odd thing is that i'm sure at the time the story was that Kate bush had read something in a newspaper about a woman who had overturned her sailboat and drifted til she was rescued but i can't find anything now where she mentions that. it was just her own imagination that gave her the image and all those songs came out of just thinking about what it would be like to be floating in the ocean overnight. but there wasn't internet back then and i'm in texas so the part about the newspaper was probably just the way secondhand information gets distorted.
Oh really? Not to start anything I just always thought the woman was drowning and the songs express her thoughts before she dies.
Actually it's a lake, skating on the lake. Frozen ice on the lake , skating on the ice etc.
Where could u look that up
@@narasimha7187 That's only one of her hallucinations. There are others.
01:23 - Side one: Hounds of Love
04:03 - Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)
04:59 - Hounds of Love
03:43 - The Big Sky
Mother Stands for Comfort
05:23 - Cloudbusting
01:39 - Side two: The Ninth Wave
06:12 - And Dream of Sheep
06:15 - Under Ice
06:40 - Waking the Witch
Watching You Without Me
02:20, 06:21 - Jig of Life
07:26 - Hello Earth
08:02 - The Morning Fog
Kate will take you to another Dimension no matter what album of hers you're listening to.
so, the upside down?
(…sorry, had to do an obligatory stranger things comment)
@@kaphizmey6229 Haha I had forgotten about this comment. Let's hope Kate's more responsible than that, but just in case let's never piss her off lol. Cheers!
@@kerrij.6565 lol, thank you ma’am 🤝
YAY! CLASSICS WEEK!!!!!!
Coooooool, mmmmaaaaaannnn.
JENNY DEEEEEEEEAAAAAAATH!!!!!!!!
Is this your job +theneedledrop
Give leave me alone-Hinds a 7
He had hair
Kate Bush indeed does rule
He made a deal with god to give him hair
Man, you barely talked about Under Ice. That track is amazing. So powerful and dark and (aha) icy. I'd like it to be longer, sure, but... I imagine new acts like iamamiwhoami, Fever Ray and Gazelle Twin use this track as an inspiration.
we had to talk about Under Ice in my GCSE music test, So I am really biased against that song. Its so lifeless to me, the mixing feels so out of place and a mess. I need to listen to the full album though to form a full opinion someday.
Probably the greatest album of all time
I think that quite a lot. It’s phenomenal
Totally agree!
Probably not
"Anthony, it's me-- Chuchest'y/
Come home. I'm so cold! /
Let me in-a-your window."
- excerpt from "Whack-Cal-Zone Heights" (1978)
This album is life. Kate Bush forever .
Love this album, but The Dreaming is certainly my favorite work of hers. That vocal experimentation is unbelievably incredible.
and "only one" thoughts, cuz i know you're gonna ask: t.co/n7TtLW7kXl
I would love love love to see your view on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Please. Forever.
JENNY DEEEEEEEEAAAAAAATH!!!!!!!!
Review Burial - Untrue, p-please..
I EXPECT THIS TO SAY ITS A CLASSIC AND THATS IT.
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole (classic)
So, having never heard this, I follow the link not knowing what to expect, and as soon as the beat kicks in I'm screaming "CA-LI-FORNIA GIRLS" in my head. Fucking Niel Cicierega.
thank you anthony for introducing me to bjork.
Yes, bjork is awesome.
Yaaay! Bjork is fantastic. I adore that little weirdo.
Michal Kurylo i dont know why people think bjork is short
She had been looking like a teenage girl for such a long time. Plus, when I first witnessed Bjork's music (Venus As a Boy + Big Time Sensuality videos) she did look and acted very innocently, and so it just clicked.
Saw her live in London in August. Incredible show. She played The 9th Wave in its entirety, as well as Running Up That Hill, Hounds of Love, and Cloudbusting all from this album as well as a ton of other stuff.
How did Under Ice and Waking the witch sound?? Was it good?
@@TokkaFan41 if you haven't heard it, go find the Before the Dawn live album. It's all on there. She added some spoken parts and a new addition to The Ninth Wave with Little Light.
Kate Bush's album "The Dreaming" is in Bjork's top ten favorite albums.
I remember when this record came out. It literally blew me away. I was in high-school. I remember driving around at night on some of my favorite roads. I would listen to this album, and each time I would listen to it, it would put me in another place and another time. But never the same place and time as before. Wow, I had this on vinyl to boot. But also on cassette. I can't really explain how this album touched me emotionally -- in a good way.
CLASSIC WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK
Lovin' the new hair, Anthony.
JENNY DEEEEEEEEAAAAAAATH!!!!!!!!
You should review something by Mark Lanegan. He needs more attention and I think you can bring that attention to him. He is such a good singer/songwriter.
Whiskey For The Holy Ghost or I'll Take Care Of You maybe?
You do 7 or 5 days?
i like ya hair
Running Up That Hill... Amazing song!
Kate's song Running up that hill is about the idea of lovers literally swapping genders with so that they can understand each other more completely.
swapping genders? Why genders? Just swapping places in general with the other person
@@jon4139 it's about pegging
@@MrSaverio97 Please don't cheapen a genius such as Kate
@@mvellis3863 Geniuses can be pegged too, don't discriminate
@@mvellis3863 it's about pegging
I love how this is on all of recommended pages at the same time
This is probably my #1 of the 80's album. But my favorite song on it is "And Dream of sheep" which is actually one of her personal favorite tracks she has written
love this album. it is a great first listen.
Really? I... "got it" a lot better after repeated listens. Especially the first time I listened to it to sleep.
i just want to let you know that the youtube algorithm lead me back to this video.
Review the Runescape soundtrack. Garden is banger of the century.
Goddammit
the big sky makes me feel good
I came here because I saw Hounds of Love in your Lonerism video.
Everything you said here is spot on. You gave one of the most passionate reviews of a record I've heard. You've also made me look at this recording from a new perspective.
Thanks.
Cloudbusting is just a Breathetaking track, she truly is a genius, wonderful woman, along with Joni they're the top of the top when it comes to women... and most men too...
Do some Laurie Anderson please...
Hounds of Love is a world of it's own. Every time I hear it I get completely sucked into the world of the album. It's a immersive experience - almost like stepping into a total installation art piece.
This is one of my favourite albums that comes out from the 80s, great review Anthony. You should definitely consider to review something by Bjork, i've seen also that you have cited her often lately!
This album is undoubtedly one of the top 15 albums of all time at least.
This vid just showed up on my feed, I wonder why
One of the greatest albums ever made
It’s honestly my pick for THE greatest album of all time
I wish he would have touched a little on the mysterious voice sampling she used
why does he have hair
I don't always agree with all your critiques, but you and I are on the same page with Kate. Kate is a lush experience, and her music has the power to change you. Thank you for this review.
Running Up that Hill = CLUB BANGER
This is my absolute favourite album ever 10/10
This is wild, Melonhead has hair! UA-cam has blessed us
i prefer ''The Dreaming'', but this album is great too :)
Are you gonna do a Kate Bush "best to worst"?
Your Radiohead one was... interesting.
I'd like to see how you rate Kate.
who gave him hair
take it away
This album is my favourite ever and literally the soundtrack of my life. My mother introduced me to it when I was about five and since then I always come back to it so often. The bonus tracks that are on the CD version are amazing too in my opinion!
... Season 4
I would never say The Dreaming was "more skeletal and less extravagant" than Never for Ever.
Hello, Anthony. I just wanted to say that you've inspired me to start doing stuff like album/song reviews on my channel. I collect CDs, and I figured I'd put my music knowledge to good use. You made me realize that album reviews ARE a thing here on UA-cam, and I thank you for that. Keep up the good work.
I was meaning to listen to this album for a while now. I just watched Stranger Things (yeah I'm late) and it made me want to listen to it, and I'm so glad I did. it's a really amazing album, I cannot stop listening to it. Jig of Life is spectacular, might be one of my most favorite songs
Soo glad you’ve found her
The man with the child in her eyes ????
Unbelievable She wrote it at age 13
Go find it .. see what you think
Kate has influenced music globally…
Pure genius
Enjoy 😉
There are a hand full of albums that I consider perfection and this one tops the charts as far as pure genius is displayed on both sides for story telling and experimentation as well as every song is perfection and fits perfectly into the next. I have owned the on cassette when it was released and worn it out and got the CD. Like many of her albums and is one of the few female artists I have ever followed. A truly perfect album. I would include ELO's Time as another perfect album but that is another story.
One of the few handful of albums that make me feel like I’ve just watched a drama/fantasy film. I’de love to see a broadway musical based on the songs, but only if Kate Bush is heavily involved
Nice review! Definitely a fantastic album, and wait until her live DVD from her 2014 shows is out, it really highlights this album.
One thing people who listen to the album should know about Side 2... "The Ninth Wave" is about a woman who has gone overboard from a ship and is alone in the water for the night: her fear, the exhaustion, the struggle between trying to survive and just giving up. Give it a listen knowing that, and realize she's drifting in and out of consciousness and letter her fear take hold, and the song cycle becomes a serious journey.
Review the Space Jam soundtrack.
BLOWN OUT
classic
COME ON AND SLAM AND WELCOME TO THE JAM
Agreed!! This album is a classic in my opinion. The influence of Dark Side of the Moon can be felt throughout The Ninth Wave.
Always loved this record Your descriptions have made me wanna pull this album out after years in the rack...gonna revisit it!
Of all the things that have gotten stranger, your hair is definitely one of em
Love this album, especially during this time of year. I love "The Dreaming" a bit more though.
Best Art Pop album of all time, without it none of the great Artpop albums following it would exist
Hello Earth always invokes such dense visuals in my mind.
Of course, once again, an album we both love yet have extremely different opinions on. The Morning Fog and Watching You Without Me are my two favorite tracks, and I didn't find this album very accessible at all. Took me many listens to really appreciate the depth and eclectic nature of this album.
My favorite Kate album. It's sorta the obvious one to go with, therefore, less and less people go with it. But as wonderful as The Dreaming and Never For Ever and The Sensual World are there's no other record of hers that has such a perfect blending of pathos, catchy hooks and sonic ambition.
Even an her most approachable, Bush will deliver an odd beast of a record. Here, with what was likely her biggest commercial success, she offers one of the last albums that was conceived as an album in the days when a record or cassette had two sides. Hounds' sides A and B are two distinct song suites, linked mainly by their expansive production and Bush's potent voice. Her lyrics are elusive and elemental, at times almost to the point of self-parody, but they match the high stakes of the instrumentation. Sometimes Bush's ambition gets the better of her (interrupting "Hello Earth" for a Gregorian chant is bold, yet not in the best interests of the song), yet this is such a generous, expansive work that it's difficult to complain about the few times that the artist overreaches.
Top Tracks:
Not to be clichéd, but "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" and "Cloudbusting" are tops. "The Morning Fog" acts as deliverance for what's come before.
Denzel Mcconico i disagree. she's done gregorian interludes before in the album never forever
Mostly agree, but for me Hello Earth is perfect as it is, and the best moment on the album is in Waking the Witch when Kate's pitch-shifted voice thunders "I QUESTION YOUR INNOCENCE!"
I LOVE the gregorian chant in Hello Earth. It fits right in with the expansive, stately, episodic pace of that song
A stunning piece of work, still my favourite album.
Jig of life took me completely by surprise but in a good way. I love the feel of that track. same with hello earth.
The Morning Fog is so beautiful!
Great album but I have to say The Dreaming is her creative apex.
ClayMation people call the dreaming her worst album 😐
@@aangelcs I think it's her second best, actually... Hounds Of Love will always take the #1 spot for me
@@aangelcs who are the people saying that?!
Hey man. First, I want to say that I think that what you're doing with album reviews is great. I believe you really have a perceptive and talented grasp of the core of each album you review. Recently, I FINALLY got into this record. I have to say that I was smitten after listening to it. I couldn't believe how haunted I was by this album. Don't know if you've already watched, but there is a series of British made videos on youtube called "Hounds Of Love on Review" 6 part series. Anyway, it has interviews with the people who made the album. Some of the folks were the musicians sitting in front of their instruments whilst being interviewed. In which case, the pianist explained the chords that were the common theme of the record and the drummer who explained how he wasn't allowed to use cymbals and was directed by Kate to play very specific parts based on the fact that she had written the songs with drum samples on the Fairlight synthesizer. really interesting. Great review!!
I had this album on constant repeat when it was released. It still sounds so fresh today. Plus it brings back wonderful memories too.
this album uses no cymbals WHATSOEVER. once you are aware of that it is so interesting how she manages to replace them with more varied sounds.
she put "the ninth wave" on stage in london on her "before the dawn" shows. it was indescribable.
Melon had hair?......
If you want to feel what it's like to have a dream while being awake, listen to Hounds of Love. Love listening to this while working.
I also love how avant garde her sound is. In songs like Moving and Wuthering Heights, she's very bold about singing in super high pitches that obviously wouldn't have pop appeal. But she isn't trying to appeal to commercial interests, she's hungry to realize her own artistic vision. Most commercial artists are not that brave.
And the goodies don't end with the album. There are the alternatives versions, with major creative touches not in the album tracks, and a bunch of really great non-album tracks from around that time (a few of which appear as bonus tracks on the remastered version). (They seemed like such obscure treasures back in the day, but of course now they're only a click or two away.)
Still waiting for your review on The Dreaming. Which is to me my favorite album of all time.
Sorry Fantano, but the morning fog is one of the best songs on the album.
Could not agree more with your points on needing to sit with the album, I've found myself falling in love with the album the more I listen to it.
The morning fog was my awakening - coming out of a relationship where I was hurt so unjustly but in the end triumphant, “ like a storm, being born again, into the sweet morning fog.” So few songs make me so sad and yet so joyful and full of hope all at once.
Please review Spiderland Anthony.
Yes, seriously.
Nah
It's just edgy emocore that people like because it's unemotional and bland
If you don't think Spiderland is emotional, you don't know what emotion is. I'm guessing you've especially never listened to Washer or Good Morning, Captain...
Piero Scaruffi Clearly you haven't properly listened to it if you think that it is unemotional and bland. If it's not your thing then that's cool, but don't feel the need to make excuses for why you don't.
kyle stone Dude, it's not.
MacMahan warbles for six pointless minutes on Breadcrumb Trail, Nosferatu Man has an annoying as fuck riff that ruins the track, Don, Aman is pointless and forgettable, Washer once again emphasizes the fact that MacMahan cannot sing so they just bury his voice with shitty late 80s early 90s dynamics, For Dinner... is a halfway decent track, and Good Morning, Captain is alright with that groove at the beginning but I can never sit through the rest of the track because the rest is annoying wankery.
Conclusion? 4 1/2 shit tracks, 1 1/2 decent tracks. It's not a fucking classic, it just shows that first wave post rock and 90s hardcore emo elitists are retarded.
Hounds of Love is my favourite album of all time. And I’m primarily a hard rock/metal fan from a young age. When I heard this album in 86, it changed my life. It opened up my eyes to all types of music that I in my closed minded impressionable teen years previously ignored or dismissed. Not a wasted moment on the album. My only complaint is the absence of the b-side Under The Ivy, which is as good or even better than other cuts that made the album. At least it’s on the deluxe remaster. What a masterpiece. You should review the other album that came out that year that also changed my life. Sting hasn’t made a good album in decades, but 85’s Dream of the Blue Turtles was a gutsy jazzy adventurous solo album and a complete 180 degree turn from the safeness of the Police. He left the biggest band in the world at the time to explore new musically territory, to moderate success compared to the Police’s Synchronicity massive commercial success. His risk deserves a review dammit! I bet you’ve never really listened to that album from start to finish. It is amazing, strange, complex, expertly played and recorded, and a beautiful piece of work. You should really listen to it. Also a very timely record in terms of subject matter with its Cold War themes. Check it out!!
I bought this album when it was released and have loved it ever since. Your review is spot-on and, yes, some of the soundscapes on the second side are indeed disturbing. All-in-all, it's a fantastic journey.
Wuthering Heights is an incredible song. Raw talent to be able to write something like that as a teenager.
(I know it's not on Hounds of Love, but I really like it.)
Review The Dreaming by Kate Bush!!!!! x
Her debut 'The Kick Inside' is my favourite album of hers, along with this
I just listened to this whole album after putting it off (for some reason??) I own her first 3 albums but this one is probably my favorite after her debut.
Yes! One of the best albums ever made.