Hey tonal range is astonishing, and she often writes melodies with very wide intervals. This means she often has to suddenly jump up or down the scale snd to do that you have to shift how you are resonating ( from foreward head down to a breathy darker chest tone for example when she sings 'ooo see how I fall..)
A quick background summary of Kate Bush, Kate started writing songs at about 11 years old, adding more complex lyrics from 13 onwards. By her late teens she had written about two hundred,, the family made demo recordings of about fifty of them, in an attempt to attract the attention of record companies without any success. Until a friend of family passed the demos to David Gilmour (guitarist for Pink Floyd), he was interested and ultimately paid for time at studio with session musicians to make professional recordings of three songs from Kate extensive catalogue which he selected. It was those professional recordings that he passed onto EMI executives when he was asked about new talents - when EMI listened they wanted to sign Kate up immediately, but they had to wait until she had left school, Kate signed for EMI when she was 16 years old. EMI paid Kate a retainer which she used to improve her piano playing, voice lessons and also dance & mime lessons from Lindsay Kemp (who had also taught David Bowie to dance). Kate also fronted a pub band that one of her brothers had put together. Eventually EMI called Kate back to work on her debut album "The Kick Inside" although two songs were taken from the earlier professional recordings that David Gilmour had paid for - notably one of them was written when she was just 13 years old and is regarded to the one that convinced EMI to sign Kate.. Kate's debut single "Wuthering Heights" was released in January 1978 and it was so different to everything else in the singles chart and became a massive worldwide hit, reaching number 1 in a number of countries around the world and charting highly in others. When it got to number 1 in the UK, Kate became the first female artist to have a self written song reach number one, this was the 1st of numerous records and milestones that Kate has set in the UK and album charts. When "The Kick Inside" was released later in 1978, it sold a million copies in the UK and reached number three in the album chart. Kate is multi-talented a singer/songwriter, musician, dancer, record producer, video producer and director. Kate was also very heavily involved in the staging of both of her concert tours - 1979 "Tour Of Life" and the 2014 concert residency "Before The Dawn". Kate has inspired/influenced countless numbers of artists/musicians who followed her, she is considered to be a musical icon and a pioneer. Kate was credited as a co-producer on her third album "Never For Ever" and was the sole producer on her fourth album "The Dreaming" and every one of her subsequent studio albums.
She’s just brilliant,from a young age on still going strong today. Singer-songwriter,producer, dancer, very skilled and worth to take a deep dive into her catalogue. For me, she’s the goat
Hi Monica and I am so glad you enjoyed this song by the wonderful Kate Bush. She is the woman that Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin has called a genius, Elton John regards as a once in a lifetime talent, and Chrissie Hynde from 'The Pretenders' described as having a 'perfect voice.' It is always great to find someone who is new to her music and enjoys it. her music is challenging at times. She is very experimental and takes a lot of risks with her music and some people find it to be just too experimental. But exploring her her music is really worthwhile. I know you have said that you listened to 'Wuthering Heights' and so if I were to recommend a single other song of hers to give a real insight into why so many people love her music, I guess it would be the official video for 'This Woman's Work.' She wrote the song, plays on it, provides all of the vocals, she produced it and she even directed the video. Thanks again. I really enjoyed this video reaction.
A young Kate singing and playing with all her heart. If you want to see why such a big deal was made of her back then? React to "The Man With The Child In His Eyes". She wrote it at age 13 and it was recorded at age 16. She had written more than 200 songs by then. They signed her but just let her develop and get a little older. A lot of the early album stuff she had written before age 16.
I've been a Kate Bush fan from the verg start, cemented when I saw the "White Dress" version of the music video for "Wuthering Heights", so I was very happy when a whole new bunch of people were exposed to Kate's music as a result of the key part that "Running Up That Hill" played in season four of "Stranger Things". As a direct result of that, I noticed people reqcting to Kate Bush for the 1st time, asking for information, so rather than having to type in similar text again and again. I prepared some detailed comments on Kate Bush, some of which I will be posting here, so I hope that you will find them to be informative and useful. If you have ang questions, please feel free to ask as myself or another Kate Bush fan will be very happy to answer. Concerning the video clip, this was taken from a longer BBC Kate Bush Christmas Special entitled "Kate" first broadcast on the 28th of December 1979 - there TH-cam videos of the full programme. This special was very unusual in that the performance of "December Will Be Magic Again" was the only Christmas aspect of the entire programme. In terms of what Kate Bush song to listen to next you could start at the very beginning and then move in chronological order and listen to official single releases. Or pick a spot, such as "Running Up That Hill" and then work backwards or forwards. Anyway, I will list all single releases up to "The Red Shoes (1993)" and you can decide how you want to approach things. BTW Kate has a very high quality music catalogue and even non-single albums are worthwhile to listen to. It only remain for me to wish you well on your Kate Bush journey. From "The Kick Inside (1978)" 📍Wuthering Heights 📍The Man with the Child In His Eyes 📍Moving (Japan only release) 📍Them Heavy People (Japan only release) 📍Strange Phenomena (Brazil only release) From Lionheart (1978) 📍Hammer Horror 📍Wow 📍Symphony In Blue (Japan & Canada only) From "Never For Ever (1980) 📍Breathing 📍Babooshka 📍Army Dreamers From "The Dreaming (1982)" 📍Sat In Your Lap 📍The Dreaming 📍There Goes A Tenner 📍Suspended In Gaffa (continental Europe and Australia only) 📍Night Of The Swallow (Ireland only) From "Hounds Of Love (1985)" 📍Running Up That Hill 📍Cloudbusting 📍Hounds Of Love 📍The Big Sky From "The Whole Story (1986) - compilation album" included a new song 📍Experiment IV From "The Sensual World (1989) 📍The Sensual World 📍This Women's Work 📍Love And Anger From "The Red Shoes (1993)" 📍Rubberband Girl 📍Eat The Music (USA only) 📍Moments of Pleasure 📍The Red Shoes 📍And So Is Love
It was a good decision to check out the live version of this song. Hadn't thought about it when I recommended the studio version. However, I'd still recommend to check out the studio version as well, because it's not only about 1 minute longer, but also sounds slightly different in some places. E.g. it has some backing vocals which you don't hear in the live version. But instead of the audio-clip I recommended in my original post, pick this one: th-cam.com/video/v4GF7imFczI/w-d-xo.html In this clip, someone combined the studio version with excerpts of the animation movie "Nightmare Before Christmas" and it fits amazingly well. As regards Kate's voice, it changed over the years. Especially on her first two albums, which had been released in the year before this song came out, her vocals sounded very similiar to the ones in this song. Over the years, they changed a bit. My overall favourite album by her is her most experimental one, "The Dreaming", followed by the second half of her album "Hounds of Love", which is titled "The Ninth Wave" and consists of 7 songs. I also highly recommend the six songs on which she worked together with the Trio Bulgarka (3 of them on her album "The Sensual World" and 3 on "The Red Shoes"), especially "Rocket's Tail" and "The Song of Solomon". Because of this collaboration, I discovered The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices (a female choir from Bulgaria, way back then going by the French name Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares). If you are curious, check out this clip on their official channel: th-cam.com/video/hRePG1_RGZY/w-d-xo.html Amazing voices!
A while before Wuthering Heights was written, a younger Kate managed to catch the tail end of a BBC adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel Wuthering Heights when the ghostly Cathy was outside a window of Heathcliff's house wanting to be let in. Kate shares the same Birthday as Emily Bronte and when she was young she was referred to as cathy. In order to get a feel for Cathy Kate read part of the book, interestingly when she did get round to reading all of it after finishing writing the song, Kate noticed certain phrases from parts that she hadn't initially read had ended up in the Lyrics anyway. Kate said that when she sung this song, she was Cathy, she was channelling the character. Kate's vocal performance is a single take with no edits. The high register that Kate uses in the song is deliberate, because Cathy is a Ghost, so Kate wanted a ghostly vocal performance. Kate had to fight her record company to get Wuthering Heights to be her debut single, EMI had chosen a completely different track from her "The Kick Inside" album, in the end EMI released Wuthering Heights because they thought that it would fail and teach Kate a lesson, instead it became a worldwide smash hit. Hitting number 1 in Australia, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal and the UK. It was at least a top 10 (or better) in nine other countries. A single chart performance that would only be surpassed in 2022 by "Running Up That Hill".
Hey tonal range is astonishing, and she often writes melodies with very wide intervals. This means she often has to suddenly jump up or down the scale snd to do that you have to shift how you are resonating ( from foreward head down to a breathy darker chest tone for example when she sings 'ooo see how I fall..)
A quick background summary of Kate Bush, Kate started writing songs at about 11 years old, adding more complex lyrics from 13 onwards. By her late teens she had written about two hundred,, the family made demo recordings of about fifty of them, in an attempt to attract the attention of record companies without any success. Until a friend of family passed the demos to David Gilmour (guitarist for Pink Floyd), he was interested and ultimately paid for time at studio with session musicians to make professional recordings of three songs from Kate extensive catalogue which he selected. It was those professional recordings that he passed onto EMI executives when he was asked about new talents - when EMI listened they wanted to sign Kate up immediately, but they had to wait until she had left school, Kate signed for EMI when she was 16 years old.
EMI paid Kate a retainer which she used to improve her piano playing, voice lessons and also dance & mime lessons from Lindsay Kemp (who had also taught David Bowie to dance). Kate also fronted a pub band that one of her brothers had put together. Eventually EMI called Kate back to work on her debut album "The Kick Inside" although two songs were taken from the earlier professional recordings that David Gilmour had paid for - notably one of them was written when she was just 13 years old and is regarded to the one that convinced EMI to sign Kate..
Kate's debut single "Wuthering Heights" was released in January 1978 and it was so different to everything else in the singles chart and became a massive worldwide hit, reaching number 1 in a number of countries around the world and charting highly in others. When it got to number 1 in the UK, Kate became the first female artist to have a self written song reach number one, this was the 1st of numerous records and milestones that Kate has set in the UK and album charts.
When "The Kick Inside" was released later in 1978, it sold a million copies in the UK and reached number three in the album chart.
Kate is multi-talented a singer/songwriter, musician, dancer, record producer, video producer and director. Kate was also very heavily involved in the staging of both of her concert tours - 1979 "Tour Of Life" and the 2014 concert residency "Before The Dawn". Kate has inspired/influenced countless numbers of artists/musicians who followed her, she is considered to be a musical icon and a pioneer.
Kate was credited as a co-producer on her third album "Never For Ever" and was the sole producer on her fourth album "The Dreaming" and every one of her subsequent studio albums.
She’s just brilliant,from a young age on still going strong today. Singer-songwriter,producer, dancer, very skilled and worth to take a deep dive into her catalogue. For me, she’s the goat
ela canta muito com.voz doce, sem gritar ❤
Hi Monica and I am so glad you enjoyed this song by the wonderful Kate Bush. She is the woman that Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin has called a genius, Elton John regards as a once in a lifetime talent, and Chrissie Hynde from 'The Pretenders' described as having a 'perfect voice.' It is always great to find someone who is new to her music and enjoys it. her music is challenging at times. She is very experimental and takes a lot of risks with her music and some people find it to be just too experimental. But exploring her her music is really worthwhile. I know you have said that you listened to 'Wuthering Heights' and so if I were to recommend a single other song of hers to give a real insight into why so many people love her music, I guess it would be the official video for 'This Woman's Work.' She wrote the song, plays on it, provides all of the vocals, she produced it and she even directed the video.
Thanks again. I really enjoyed this video reaction.
A young Kate singing and playing with all her heart. If you want to see why such a big deal was made of her back then? React to "The Man With The Child In His Eyes". She wrote it at age 13 and it was recorded at age 16. She had written more than 200 songs by then. They signed her but just let her develop and get a little older. A lot of the early album stuff she had written before age 16.
I've been a Kate Bush fan from the verg start, cemented when I saw the "White Dress" version of the music video for "Wuthering Heights", so I was very happy when a whole new bunch of people were exposed to Kate's music as a result of the key part that "Running Up That Hill" played in season four of "Stranger Things".
As a direct result of that, I noticed people reqcting to Kate Bush for the 1st time, asking for information, so rather than having to type in similar text again and again. I prepared some detailed comments on Kate Bush, some of which I will be posting here, so I hope that you will find them to be informative and useful.
If you have ang questions, please feel free to ask as myself or another Kate Bush fan will be very happy to answer.
Concerning the video clip, this was taken from a longer BBC Kate Bush Christmas Special entitled "Kate" first broadcast on the 28th of December 1979 - there TH-cam videos of the full programme.
This special was very unusual in that the performance of "December Will Be Magic Again" was the only Christmas aspect of the entire programme.
In terms of what Kate Bush song to listen to next you could start at the very beginning and then move in chronological order and listen to official single releases.
Or pick a spot, such as "Running Up That Hill" and then work backwards or forwards.
Anyway, I will list all single releases up to "The Red Shoes (1993)" and you can decide how you want to approach things. BTW Kate has a very high quality music catalogue and even non-single albums are worthwhile to listen to.
It only remain for me to wish you well on your Kate Bush journey.
From "The Kick Inside (1978)"
📍Wuthering Heights
📍The Man with the Child In His Eyes
📍Moving (Japan only release)
📍Them Heavy People (Japan only release)
📍Strange Phenomena (Brazil only release)
From Lionheart (1978)
📍Hammer Horror
📍Wow
📍Symphony In Blue (Japan & Canada only)
From "Never For Ever (1980)
📍Breathing
📍Babooshka
📍Army Dreamers
From "The Dreaming (1982)"
📍Sat In Your Lap
📍The Dreaming
📍There Goes A Tenner
📍Suspended In Gaffa (continental Europe and Australia only)
📍Night Of The Swallow (Ireland only)
From "Hounds Of Love (1985)"
📍Running Up That Hill
📍Cloudbusting
📍Hounds Of Love
📍The Big Sky
From "The Whole Story (1986) - compilation album" included a new song
📍Experiment IV
From "The Sensual World (1989)
📍The Sensual World
📍This Women's Work
📍Love And Anger
From "The Red Shoes (1993)"
📍Rubberband Girl
📍Eat The Music (USA only)
📍Moments of Pleasure
📍The Red Shoes
📍And So Is Love
It was a good decision to check out the live version of this song. Hadn't thought about it when I recommended the studio version. However, I'd still recommend to check out the studio version as well, because it's not only about 1 minute longer, but also sounds slightly different in some places. E.g. it has some backing vocals which you don't hear in the live version. But instead of the audio-clip I recommended in my original post, pick this one: th-cam.com/video/v4GF7imFczI/w-d-xo.html In this clip, someone combined the studio version with excerpts of the animation movie "Nightmare Before Christmas" and it fits amazingly well.
As regards Kate's voice, it changed over the years. Especially on her first two albums, which had been released in the year before this song came out, her vocals sounded very similiar to the ones in this song. Over the years, they changed a bit. My overall favourite album by her is her most experimental one, "The Dreaming", followed by the second half of her album "Hounds of Love", which is titled "The Ninth Wave" and consists of 7 songs. I also highly recommend the six songs on which she worked together with the Trio Bulgarka (3 of them on her album "The Sensual World" and 3 on "The Red Shoes"), especially "Rocket's Tail" and "The Song of Solomon". Because of this collaboration, I discovered The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices (a female choir from Bulgaria, way back then going by the French name Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares). If you are curious, check out this clip on their official channel: th-cam.com/video/hRePG1_RGZY/w-d-xo.html Amazing voices!
I will listen the studio verdion 👍 thanks for the information and also thank you for watch 🥰🇧🇷
A while before Wuthering Heights was written, a younger Kate managed to catch the tail end of a BBC adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel Wuthering Heights when the ghostly Cathy was outside a window of Heathcliff's house wanting to be let in. Kate shares the same Birthday as Emily Bronte and when she was young she was referred to as cathy. In order to get a feel for Cathy Kate read part of the book, interestingly when she did get round to reading all of it after finishing writing the song, Kate noticed certain phrases from parts that she hadn't initially read had ended up in the Lyrics anyway.
Kate said that when she sung this song, she was Cathy, she was channelling the character. Kate's vocal performance is a single take with no edits.
The high register that Kate uses in the song is deliberate, because Cathy is a Ghost, so Kate wanted a ghostly vocal performance.
Kate had to fight her record company to get Wuthering Heights to be her debut single, EMI had chosen a completely different track from her "The Kick Inside" album, in the end EMI released Wuthering Heights because they thought that it would fail and teach Kate a lesson, instead it became a worldwide smash hit. Hitting number 1 in Australia, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal and the UK. It was at least a top 10 (or better) in nine other countries. A single chart performance that would only be surpassed in 2022 by "Running Up That Hill".