yes!! I don't know if you've done Cloudbusting on this side either it's a magnificent song and it's a true story about a rainmaker and his son but yeah WE ALL CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NINTH WAVE!!
This is just a brilliant song. My favorite album of her's is "The Dreaming" but they are all just brilliant in their own way. She is just a massive talent and truly a genius. The Dreaming" is an expressionistic masterpiece, where "Hounds of Love/Ninth Wave" is the polished gem. I like the rawness of "The Dreaming" better.
First off, I Am so happy you are listening to the whole album!! So it's probably already been mentioned, but the second side of the album is called the ninth wave after Tennyson's poem, "The Coming of Arthur." And the whole side is about water and it's power. My favorite album is The Dreaming. Very strange songs, but for me, the stranger, the better.😊
Great reaction! Kate really did a fantastic job producing the track (which I don't know if you're aware but she's the sole producer of the record) When you finish Side A of the album, I hope you listen to Side B all in one sitting. The ninth wave is meant as a conceptual experience so all the songs are related
Always one of my favorites on the album also. This song just slithers....how is it possible for a song to slither??....oh yeah, it's Kate....the vocals she adds in the background towards the end...goosebumps on my goosebumps..
Indeed a masterpiece Justin and not the first, certainly not the last of several masterpieces on this album. Kates Genius goes places beyond your wildest dreams. (Oh no spoiler alert). I can't wait for you to open up The Ninth Wave, side two of the vinyl. In fact like a Pink Floyd album, this is a conceptpiece to be played all at once. The story starts quite easy and calm, but sooner than expected it turns grim and from that into true horror, mystery, and ultimately sheer beauty. All at a unprecedented level. Please, do this piece justice. I know you can be trusted with this. 😉
as a bassist who also had a huge 'wow this is one of my favorites from her' moment the first time i heard it i felt seen by this reaction lol loved ur commentary on the instrumentals of this track!!
I love that song from Kate among many, many others. One of the songs Thom Yorke made for the Suspiria movie remake, "Unmade", draws some piano chords directly from it, and the song itself is also about a mother figure bringing protection to a little girl. That'll show you the extent of Kate's influence on subsequent geniuses.
Her music is so layered and her voice just ravishes the ear. So happy you appreciate her artistry and look so forward to more reactions to Kate! The bass work reminds me of Joni Mitchell's Hijera album....
When Kate did the Hounds of Love album she had just fallen in love with the Fairlight synthesizer, one of the first synthesizers to do natural sounding FM sound sampling. Its party piece was the sound of glass breaking, so you'll hear that sound used a lot throughout the album :-)
@@JustJP Bonus info: Kate was introduced to the Fairlight synthesizer by none other than Peter Gabriel, whom you may have heard of :-) There's a video of him demonstrating it here: th-cam.com/video/7Xfj5n1kYXY/w-d-xo.html
The negative spaces, the things not played, are a huge part of this song. Especially the rhythms, but also some of the Fairlight synth work, notice how many things are left implied and not actually played. It's like a broken mirror. The fretless bass weaves us through the broken pieces.
All artists are unique, but some (like KB) are more unique than others. There is simply nothing derivative about any of her wonderful musical creations. I look forward to hearing your analyses of more of her great songs.
All of side 2 is one long multi-part suite titled The Ninth Wave, and very much needs to be heard in one sitting. It starts with And Dream Of Sheep. And it might actually bring you to tears at the end.
I took this for granted back when I was at school and thought I was just expanding my world at the time. We didn't know then how important the music of the time was; it was made by people who had grown up, or were born during the rise of rock and the 60's change of consciousness. No one ever talks about that...it has so much to do with not only the progression of art and music but of our society and its progression. Seems we don't have that so much now as we have all become more anonymous.... I offer that for thought.
Yeah, you nailed it, Justin. Loved your reaction to this. You're so perceptive in your knowledge of music. And you mentioned the film Mother! Great tie-in!
As a kind of tribute to Eberhard Weber his music was played before the concert in 2014. When the public went to their seats and waited for the show to begin.
this is probably the song most overlooked on this album.. but one of my favs.. i like a bit of wackinest.. check out the dreaming album.. thatll give you lots to think/talk about..!
Great choice. Thanks for breaking this one down. Did you know she worked on a song with Prince? It's true, on her "Red Shoes" album: "Why Should I Love You". Nobody ever raves about it, the promise being more than the effort, but I would recommend it. It's ethereal.
OMG. This song has strong connections to Bong Joon Ho’s movie ‘Mother’. This song by Kate Bush always makes me tear up. The sad irony of motherhood that stands for comfort. Great review. 👌
YES, here we go! I knew I would eventually catch onto Kate Bush and this song starts to do it for me. Really nice analysis too. Glad I didn't skip this. This was very unique and expressive. There's a lot of expression in her voice, but she's also restrained to the nervousness of the lyrics. It creates so much atmosphere without being drenched in synths; very effective use of each element. Each element is very distinct and yet it all coheres. That's so interesting that Eberhard Weber is featured here; he does some nice minimalistic, atmospheric jazz, a bassist band leader, so he was perfect for this. The movies you mention sound really interesting actually. I've bookmarked Mother, and also FIrefly you mentioned recently. I usually don't watch many movies at all for some reason, but lately it's really helping me relax. So I'm keeping some bookmarks for interesting movies/shows for when I'm done watching all of Twin Peaks (which is AMAZING, by the way).
Nice! Sometimes it just takes a certain song to get you :) Hope you enjoy Mother and Firefly! One full of mystery and suspense, another of adventure and fun
From an album full of mystery, atmosphere, transcendence, this song stands out as a tender love song from a mother for her disturbed child. The breaking of the glass sets the tone, the quirky sounds of a confused crying whistle cry's of disturbed alter existences, from love and hate, from right and wrong, good and evil. Stellar song.
This is also my favorite song off of Hounds of Love. It's immaculate. Completely beautiful. Thank you for creating this reaction. Her music is so incredibly underappreciated.
oh hell yeah that fretless bass is pure magic we are all waiting till you listen to "THE NINTH WAVE" songs especially "hello earth" and "and dream of sheep"
Thank you for doing one of Kate's lesser known but I believe truly jaw dropping works. You seem to be working through "Hounds of Love" and are entering side two. Her work here is the stuff that will persist because it is incomparable. I can't wait to hear what you think of "Watching You Without Me". It is a thing that will wait behind your soul and frighten you late at night. Not in a bad way. It along with nearly every other song from "The Second Wave" will force you into another perspective and leave you there sweating, flopping on a wet deck for hours. Bon Voyage!
Back to Hounds Of Love, great. I have loved this album for so long and I am really enjoying watching fresh ears discover it's magic. I can't take issue with any of your analysis but I'm not really looking for people to cover it as it's one of those albums I'm very protective of.
It is definitely a fretless bass. It sounds like Mick Karn from Japan. I’m surprised it wasn’t him. RIP Adonis Michaelides. Amendment. I have just seen a video of Kate and Mick performing together in 1982, the Wedding List live so I guess we can say she did get her appreciation of the fretless bass from him as this album was released three years after that performance
Hounds of Love was the first Kate Bush I owned and I bought it via special order in a small Midwestern town in the US. I bought it from seeing a Rolling Stones review. From that I ordered the rest of her catalog one by one when I had the cash. This song was so odd but wonderful and true. The Dreaming was the second Kate I got and I don't know why but it too resonated and I loved the eclectic rush of sound it was.
I cannot wait to see your reaction the batshit craziness on the 2nd half of this record. Not as crazy as The Dreaming, a lot more coherent than that and digestible - but sonically it is just an experience.
Love this track, loved your review. For a first time listen, I think you nailed it. Can't wait for you to listen to the Ninth Wave (And Dream of Sheep onwards) in one sitting. Stands the hair up on the back of my neck every time!
Thanks for the great reaction! ... But NINTH WAVE (Kate's Side Two of "Hounds of Love") all day, every day. For an entire side featuring many experimental moments, side two is absolutely perfect. A listening devoted to the entire side two, please!!
As a lifelong fan of Kate Bush I have so appreciated and admired how you sincerely respond to her songs emotionally. technically and intellectually, like any musician worth their salt. I'm delighted to see that you have listened to THE DREAMING and that you have moved on to THIS SENSUAL WORLD, which are both glorious and so different from one another and different again from HOUNDS OF LOVE. One of the Kate's songs that I find hauntingly, chillingly beautiful, like "Mother Stands for Comfort" or "Little Earth", is the final song on THE KICK INSIDE, called "The Kick Inside". I'm devastated every time I hear it and would love hearing your response to and analysis of it.
Great comments JP - My favorite part of Kate's song is the intonation of her calling "Mother" - having grown up with 7 sisters, I've heard that same intonation many times!
I don't know what could possibly be added to that reaction. I loved it too, definitely playlist. Her and Peter Gabriel are among my favorites when it comes to creating mood and feeling. I thought that bass was Tony Levin at first. Good job, thanks!
I think Kate Bush has excellent taste in bass players in general, The player on this track might be my favourite. I am guessing that this track was played on his electric upright. There are some clips floating around TH-cam if you want to see what that looks like.
Love your back drop. And you have a good voice. This song is in my top favourites of hers, there is a hypnotic quality to it. You're interpretation of it is very interesting, it's good. My favourite part is when she sings "to her the hunted not the hunter", THAT is a genius line, it sums up the whole dynamic of the two, and defines their innate roles, her the mother, empathetic, and he the son = youth + vulnerability, yet filled with some sort of seething rage . And I absolutely love the way she sings that, I don't know if she intended it but when she says "...not the hunter" she kind of says it so low that it personifies a character that knows he is deceptive and is trying to hide it by not saying it too loud. It's like there is a dormant beast inside there talking to us, giving us a glimpse of the madman, it's kind of sinister, that's just the way I hear it. The "ahoo ahoo" after just confirms this (to me), it breaks the cage and takes possession (edited because I had quotation marks but it's not a proper quote). What you said about the music is true, it creates tension by being a bit unbalanced just like the character and the complicit mother, and yet the music is soothing as well. Really genius in my opinion. Incidentally, you refer to him as a child, I don't know if you meant young child but I picture more like in his early twenties. Kate was a great lover of the old black and white movies and there were a lot of them with the "troubled son" angle. Although I don't think the mother in this story behaves the same way the "Mother" in the Korean film you suggested, (and thanks for that, it looks intense) I suspect that in the Korean movie the mother takes more action, in our story the mother stays "mum" and does nothing, she pretends she doesn't see. I think it touches on a universal theme about mothers and their children, it's hard for them to see them as completely evil. Kate is a master at setting a mood in a song, one of the reasons her songs are so compelling is that she does not judge her characters for the things that they do, she is always somewhat empathetic. I think that's all I have to say. :-) p.s. people are right about The Ninth Wave, but you can't absorb it all in one go. Everyone loves Dream of Sheep (and I do), but my favourite is Watching you without me.
That song always bring some tears to my eyes. JP, I hope you can take my suggestions about reacting to Nina Hagen and her song 'Naturträne'. But love your Kate Bush reactions too.
Nice Bong Joon Ho Reference ! In 2009, two Foreign Films "Destroyed" me, one was 'Mother', the other was a French movie called, 'A Prophet'. The Later is gritty and Phantasmic in Flare. Two others similar to the later, which I sense you would like, are, Javier Bardem's, 'Biutiful' (2010), and Guillermo del Toro's , 'The Devil's Backbone' (2001). To Books,(and I was a Russian History Major in College, but to the following, unrelated), check out two Pre-Deluvian Books in scope, Graham Hancock's, 'America Before', and Freddy Silva's 'Missing Lands'.
@@JustJP Great to Hear ! Then let me go Full "Apcocalpse in 9/8" with you and recommend a Triple Feature of- 'Dead Snow', 'Dead Snow- Red vs. Dead', followed by the Bestus Movie of 2013, 'Frankenstein's Army' ! 😅😇
As a huge Kate Bush fan.. thank you! I don't know if you ever heard a song by this artist that I also really love. Also a very unique voice/style. So my tip for you.. please try this song: Caroline - Swimmer
Great classic album Bassist Eberhard Weber had a number of terrific albums in his day If you can find it I HIGHLY recommend the album Yellow Fields You will love it As for Kate side 2 of this albums as a creative concept is among best ever Glad you're listening to whole thing
I had a plumber over today to clear a clogged drain pipe, so now my apartment stinks of sewage and decades old shit. Anyway, great, haunting song. My mother definitely wouldn't lie on my behalf. If I broke the law, she'd be the first to turn me in. What else? Oh, this song has the greatest fretless bass next to Pink Floyd's "Hey You". Bring on "Cloudbusting"!
Besides her own background vocals, she plays all of the synth parts and samples (eg. breaking glass) using the Fairlight CMI synth. I hope you get to her albums The Sensual World (1989), and The Red Shoes(1993), where she uses the Bulgarian vocal group The Trio Bulgarka on backing vocals on some songs - some very different harmonies. The Red Shoes albums also had Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Gary Brooker (Procol H.) on it.
I know and love her first album and especially The Dreaming, but I really liked this song! One more album to listen again carefully...You've done it...again!
I’ve always felt like there was a parallel between Kate Bush and Pink Floyd. Think of the song “Mother” by PF, and then this song. At times listening to Aerials I feel like I can hear Roger or David singing along with her In the spaces between. I’m pretty sure they have worked together, but at times it’s almost like they could unify. They just get each other without even really trying.
Mother stays mum is a Britishism. It means she doesn't tell. Eberhard Weber plays on a few of her albums but is perhaps best known for his work with with Jan Garbarek. If you are into bleakly beautiful sax playing, have a listen to The Survivor or The Healing Smoke from Visible World.
Right when I decide to check in again (but only briefly, I'm afraid), you are doing my favorite Kate Bush song and the one I recommended several times. Ok, you are doing the whole album, though. I missed a beat by not selling you on the bass, before. That's the kind of song that might be the blueprint to most of the songs that Tori Amos has written.
Yeah, this one is kind of a sleeper among a bunch of uptempo, but somehow less intense (THOSE VERSES!) songs. It really grows on you. Well, not YOU, since you're on it, from the start. Good stuff. Also, YES on Deftones. I've always thought of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds taking a run at it. Whoever gets there first, then. And finally ... "We Need to Talk About Kevin."
Regarding the bass player... I am not sure about what you say. I asume, if you record with Kate Bush, she tells you EXACTLY what to play and EXACTLY how to sound. Of course I don't know if that's the case here, too. But it's more likely than the bass player coming up with it himself.
Thanks! ... i've always wondered if that great song was an answer (maybe unconscious) to both John Lennon's and Roger Waters' "Mother" songs... as great, but completely opposite!
how deep was that about Mother...stands for comfort.... being hunted....etc. pls if any chance watch “Tropical Malady„ Thai movie by Apichatpong Weeresethakul
There are two musicians whose phrasing of lyrics is more fascinating than anyone else's: Kate Bush and Laurie Anderson. Tori Amos is third, in my opinion.
26 years old and she did the whole album by herself. What a genius ! I love and truely enjoy her music for over 4 decades now....!
This is my second favorite song of hers ever. This is such an amazing song.
When you get to "And dream of sheep" you have to do the whole rest of the album (side 2) as a whole, in one sitting.
absolutely agree
You got it :)
yes!!
I don't know if you've done Cloudbusting on this side either
it's a magnificent song and it's a true story about a rainmaker and his son
but yeah
WE ALL CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NINTH WAVE!!
watching you wothout me
ahead of her times, the Queen of all dark and witchy songwriters out there
Can’t wait to see you react to The Ninth Wave in its entirety. That one is gonna blow you away just like Echoes did.
Looking forward to it!
This is just a brilliant song. My favorite album of her's is "The Dreaming" but they are all just brilliant in their own way. She is just a massive talent and truly a genius. The Dreaming" is an expressionistic masterpiece, where "Hounds of Love/Ninth Wave" is the polished gem. I like the rawness of "The Dreaming" better.
First off, I Am so happy you are listening to the whole album!!
So it's probably already been mentioned, but the second side of the album is called the ninth wave after Tennyson's poem, "The Coming of Arthur." And the whole side is about water and it's power.
My favorite album is The Dreaming. Very strange songs, but for me, the stranger, the better.😊
That fretless bass is gorgeous. One of the best basslines or bass pieces I've heard.
For sure!
Great reaction! Kate really did a fantastic job producing the track (which I don't know if you're aware but she's the sole producer of the record) When you finish Side A of the album, I hope you listen to Side B all in one sitting. The ninth wave is meant as a conceptual experience so all the songs are related
You know, I didn't realize that. Even better! Ty Agus:)
Always one of my favorites on the album also. This song just slithers....how is it possible for a song to slither??....oh yeah, it's Kate....the vocals she adds in the background towards the end...goosebumps on my goosebumps..
Yes! Slither is a great way to describe it; its very insidious
My favourite Kate Bush album. Side Two (aka, track six onwards!) is equally dark and musically sophisticated.
We're getting there!
And just think: she wrote, performed, AND produced this entire album when she was just 26.
PLEASE, do a "Get out of my house", by Kate Bush, reaction!
Indeed a masterpiece Justin and not the first, certainly not the last of several masterpieces on this album. Kates Genius goes places beyond your wildest dreams. (Oh no spoiler alert). I can't wait for you to open up The Ninth Wave, side two of the vinyl. In fact like a Pink Floyd album, this is a conceptpiece to be played all at once. The story starts quite easy and calm, but sooner than expected it turns grim and from that into true horror, mystery, and ultimately sheer beauty. All at a unprecedented level. Please, do this piece justice. I know you can be trusted with this. 😉
I'm looking forward to it! :D Ty JK
Truly a superb artist. One of a kind all through her career.
Thank you for letting the track play through before interrupting, and thank you for 'getting' this often overlooked song.
Hello Earth is also fantastic especially the Georgian choral insert halfway through.
as a bassist who also had a huge 'wow this is one of my favorites from her' moment the first time i heard it i felt seen by this reaction lol loved ur commentary on the instrumentals of this track!!
COMMENTED THIS BEFORE U SAID DEFTONES WOULD COVER THE SHIT OUT OF THIS SONG LMAOOOO HOLY SHIT THAT WOULD BE SO FIRE ur onto something man
Ty so much taruuuu! Yes, that bass is lovely! And you know Chino would sound great here😃
I love that song from Kate among many, many others. One of the songs Thom Yorke made for the Suspiria movie remake, "Unmade", draws some piano chords directly from it, and the song itself is also about a mother figure bringing protection to a little girl. That'll show you the extent of Kate's influence on subsequent geniuses.
Hello Earth is my Fave song off the album by some way.
Her music is so layered and her voice just ravishes the ear. So happy you appreciate her artistry and look so forward to more reactions to Kate! The bass work reminds me of Joni Mitchell's Hijera album....
Thanks Cynth! Its SO good :D
Love that you're listening to her.
When Kate did the Hounds of Love album she had just fallen in love with the Fairlight synthesizer, one of the first synthesizers to do natural sounding FM sound sampling. Its party piece was the sound of glass breaking, so you'll hear that sound used a lot throughout the album :-)
Ah got it. Ty Lars!
@@JustJP Bonus info: Kate was introduced to the Fairlight synthesizer by none other than Peter Gabriel, whom you may have heard of :-)
There's a video of him demonstrating it here: th-cam.com/video/7Xfj5n1kYXY/w-d-xo.html
The negative spaces, the things not played, are a huge part of this song. Especially the rhythms, but also some of the Fairlight synth work, notice how many things are left implied and not actually played. It's like a broken mirror. The fretless bass weaves us through the broken pieces.
very very true
All artists are unique, but some (like KB) are more unique than others. There is simply nothing derivative about any of her wonderful musical creations. I look forward to hearing your analyses of more of her great songs.
All of side 2 is one long multi-part suite titled The Ninth Wave, and very much needs to be heard in one sitting. It starts with And Dream Of Sheep. And it might actually bring you to tears at the end.
I took this for granted back when I was at school and thought I was just expanding my world at the time. We didn't know then how important the music of the time was; it was made by people who had grown up, or were born during the rise of rock and the 60's change of consciousness. No one ever talks about that...it has so much to do with not only the progression of art and music but of our society and its progression. Seems we don't have that so much now as we have all become more anonymous.... I offer that for thought.
Very true!
Ahhhh, Cloudbusting is next!! I can’t wait!
I guess we all are just sitting around waiting for you to flip the record !
That bass work is sublime.
Hahaha, so I'm hearing :D
so happy to watch you hear this for the first time!! i wish I remembered the first time I heard it
Yeah, you nailed it, Justin. Loved your reaction to this. You're so perceptive in your knowledge of music. And you mentioned the film Mother! Great tie-in!
Ty so much Michael!
As a kind of tribute to Eberhard Weber his music was played before the concert in 2014. When the public went to their seats and waited for the show to begin.
this is probably the song most overlooked on this album.. but one of my favs.. i like a bit of wackinest.. check out the dreaming album.. thatll give you lots to think/talk about..!
Loving the fretless bass work and Kate Bush, of course. :-)
I love the bass, too. Your review, plus some of the comments about side two, have me going to Spotify to explore this album.
Nice! Hope you enjoy it
Enjoyed your reaction very much! That was great...
Great choice. Thanks for breaking this one down. Did you know she worked on a song with Prince? It's true, on her "Red Shoes" album: "Why Should I Love You". Nobody ever raves about it, the promise being more than the effort, but I would recommend it. It's ethereal.
That is a truly great one. I'm in full agreement.
I think I may have read that once, but didn't take note tbh.
Really excellent analysis. Haunting is the word.
Best I've heard too so far. Haunting is right.
OMG. This song has strong connections to Bong Joon Ho’s movie ‘Mother’.
This song by Kate Bush always makes me tear up. The sad irony of motherhood that stands for comfort.
Great review. 👌
Ty!
YES, here we go! I knew I would eventually catch onto Kate Bush and this song starts to do it for me. Really nice analysis too. Glad I didn't skip this.
This was very unique and expressive. There's a lot of expression in her voice, but she's also restrained to the nervousness of the lyrics. It creates so much atmosphere without being drenched in synths; very effective use of each element. Each element is very distinct and yet it all coheres. That's so interesting that Eberhard Weber is featured here; he does some nice minimalistic, atmospheric jazz, a bassist band leader, so he was perfect for this.
The movies you mention sound really interesting actually. I've bookmarked Mother, and also FIrefly you mentioned recently. I usually don't watch many movies at all for some reason, but lately it's really helping me relax. So I'm keeping some bookmarks for interesting movies/shows for when I'm done watching all of Twin Peaks (which is AMAZING, by the way).
Nice! Sometimes it just takes a certain song to get you :) Hope you enjoy Mother and Firefly! One full of mystery and suspense, another of adventure and fun
@@JustJP Indeed :)
And thanks! How we need all those things.
From an album full of mystery, atmosphere, transcendence, this song stands out as a tender love song from a mother for her disturbed child. The breaking of the glass sets the tone, the quirky sounds of a confused crying whistle cry's of disturbed alter existences, from love and hate, from right and wrong, good and evil. Stellar song.
This is also my favorite song off of Hounds of Love. It's immaculate. Completely beautiful. Thank you for creating this reaction. Her music is so incredibly underappreciated.
Happy to! Love this one
Great review. This song is a big reason I play bass.
Nice! Great inspiration!
oh hell yeah that fretless bass is pure magic
we are all waiting till you listen to
"THE NINTH WAVE" songs
especially "hello earth" and "and dream of sheep"
Thank you for doing one of Kate's lesser known but I believe truly jaw dropping works. You seem to be working through "Hounds of Love" and are entering side two. Her work here is the stuff that will persist because it is incomparable.
I can't wait to hear what you think of "Watching You Without Me". It is a thing that will wait behind your soul and frighten you
late at night. Not in a bad way. It along with nearly every other song from "The Second Wave" will force you into another perspective and leave you there sweating, flopping on a wet deck for hours.
Bon Voyage!
Back to Hounds Of Love, great. I have loved this album for so long and I am really enjoying watching fresh ears discover it's magic. I can't take issue with any of your analysis but I'm not really looking for people to cover it as it's one of those albums I'm very protective of.
You are so good at this.
THank you for that :)
Nice Fairlight CMI sounds. Outstanding production at its time. Nice reaction vid. Best wishes😷
Thank you Peter!
It is definitely a fretless bass. It sounds like Mick Karn from Japan. I’m surprised it wasn’t him. RIP Adonis Michaelides.
Amendment. I have just seen a video of Kate and Mick performing together in 1982, the Wedding List live so I guess we can say she did get her appreciation of the fretless bass from him as this album was released three years after that performance
Hounds of Love was the first Kate Bush I owned and I bought it via special order in a small Midwestern town in the US. I bought it from seeing a Rolling Stones review. From that I ordered the rest of her catalog one by one when I had the cash. This song was so odd but wonderful and true. The Dreaming was the second Kate I got and I don't know why but it too resonated and I loved the eclectic rush of sound it was.
I cannot wait to see your reaction the batshit craziness on the 2nd half of this record.
Not as crazy as The Dreaming, a lot more coherent than that and digestible - but sonically it is just an experience.
:D
Love this track, loved your review. For a first time listen, I think you nailed it. Can't wait for you to listen to the Ninth Wave (And Dream of Sheep onwards) in one sitting. Stands the hair up on the back of my neck every time!
The bass is lovely. Not a bad track on this album.
Thanks for the great reaction! ... But NINTH WAVE (Kate's Side Two of "Hounds of Love") all day, every day. For an entire side featuring many experimental moments, side two is absolutely perfect. A listening devoted to the entire side two, please!!
Thanks John! Looking forward to it!
It's not cold .... but it gives me Goosebumps !! Love it :)
As a lifelong fan of Kate Bush I have so appreciated and admired how you sincerely respond to her songs emotionally. technically and intellectually, like any musician worth their salt. I'm delighted to see that you have listened to THE DREAMING and that you have moved on to THIS SENSUAL WORLD, which are both glorious and so different from one another and different again from HOUNDS OF LOVE. One of the Kate's songs that I find hauntingly, chillingly beautiful, like "Mother Stands for Comfort" or "Little Earth", is the final song on THE KICK INSIDE, called "The Kick Inside". I'm devastated every time I hear it and would love hearing your response to and analysis of it.
Ty Craig! I'm sure I'll get to that one😃
Great comments JP - My favorite part of Kate's song is the intonation of her calling "Mother" - having grown up with 7 sisters, I've heard that same intonation many times!
Ha! Ty Bob :D
The movie Mother is a work of poetry. What an amazing flick!
Its fantastic!
I don't know what could possibly be added to that reaction. I loved it too, definitely playlist. Her and Peter Gabriel are among my favorites when it comes to creating mood and feeling. I thought that bass was Tony Levin at first. Good job, thanks!
Ah yes! I think internally I was thinking Levin as well lol. Good catch
Per wikipedia, it is actually Eberhard Weber playing bass on that song.
I think Kate Bush has excellent taste in bass players in general, The player on this track might be my favourite. I am guessing that this track was played on his electric upright. There are some clips floating around TH-cam if you want to see what that looks like.
My Gosh, what a perceptive review that seemed to me. Thanks again, JP!
Ty Mark!
I can’t wait to see you react to the Ninth Wave, it’s her greatest achievement!
It is fretless bass on this track. Divine.
Kate Bush is just fab
I'd have to agree!
An exercise in creating tension with minimal instrumentation.
This music takes me back too Hawaii!
"Almost every song on "The Sensual World" blew me away.
Great track from what is essentially a perfect album. Not a bad song on it. Yes, the bass - fantastic.
Great review!
Ty!
Love your back drop.
And you have a good voice.
This song is in my top favourites of hers, there is a hypnotic quality to it. You're interpretation of it is very interesting, it's good. My favourite part is when she sings "to her the hunted not the hunter", THAT is a genius line, it sums up the whole dynamic of the two, and defines their innate roles, her the mother, empathetic, and he the son = youth + vulnerability, yet filled with some sort of seething rage . And I absolutely love the way she sings that, I don't know if she intended it but when she says "...not the hunter" she kind of says it so low that it personifies a character that knows he is deceptive and is trying to hide it by not saying it too loud. It's like there is a dormant beast inside there talking to us, giving us a glimpse of the madman, it's kind of sinister, that's just the way I hear it. The "ahoo ahoo" after just confirms this (to me), it breaks the cage and takes possession (edited because I had quotation marks but it's not a proper quote). What you said about the music is true, it creates tension by being a bit unbalanced just like the character and the complicit mother, and yet the music is soothing as well. Really genius in my opinion. Incidentally, you refer to him as a child, I don't know if you meant young child but I picture more like in his early twenties. Kate was a great lover of the old black and white movies and there were a lot of them with the "troubled son" angle. Although I don't think the mother in this story behaves the same way the "Mother" in the Korean film you suggested, (and thanks for that, it looks intense) I suspect that in the Korean movie the mother takes more action, in our story the mother stays "mum" and does nothing, she pretends she doesn't see. I think it touches on a universal theme about mothers and their children, it's hard for them to see them as completely evil. Kate is a master at setting a mood in a song, one of the reasons her songs are so compelling is that she does not judge her characters for the things that they do, she is always somewhat empathetic. I think that's all I have to say. :-)
p.s. people are right about The Ninth Wave, but you can't absorb it all in one go. Everyone loves Dream of Sheep (and I do), but my favourite is Watching you without me.
Thank you so much CL, love your thoughts on this one. I've done the 9th Wave as well, hope you enjoy that one!
That song always bring some tears to my eyes. JP, I hope you can take my suggestions about reacting to Nina Hagen and her song 'Naturträne'. But love your Kate Bush reactions too.
Ty Nomi! I haven't forgotten, I got it on my list :)
Nice.
Yeah the Queen of Art Rock!
My favorite song of her
Its SO good :D
Great review, subscribed in an instance !
Thanks Luc!
Nice Bong Joon Ho Reference ! In 2009, two Foreign Films "Destroyed" me, one was 'Mother', the other was a French movie called, 'A Prophet'. The Later is gritty and Phantasmic in Flare. Two others similar to the later, which I sense you would like, are, Javier Bardem's, 'Biutiful' (2010), and Guillermo del Toro's , 'The Devil's Backbone' (2001). To Books,(and I was a Russian History Major in College, but to the following, unrelated), check out two Pre-Deluvian Books in scope, Graham Hancock's, 'America Before', and Freddy Silva's 'Missing Lands'.
Ty Michael! I...I think I've seen A Prophet? I'll have to check, I've watched a TON of international movies in the past, lol.
@@JustJP Great to Hear ! Then let me go Full "Apcocalpse in 9/8" with you and recommend a Triple Feature of- 'Dead Snow', 'Dead Snow- Red vs. Dead', followed by the Bestus Movie of 2013, 'Frankenstein's Army' ! 😅😇
As a huge Kate Bush fan.. thank you!
I don't know if you ever heard a song by this artist that I also really love. Also a very unique voice/style.
So my tip for you.. please try this song:
Caroline - Swimmer
I havent Pascal, thank you for the recommendation! :D
Great classic album Bassist Eberhard Weber had a number of terrific albums in his day If you can find it I HIGHLY recommend the album Yellow Fields You will love it As for Kate side 2 of this albums as a creative concept is among best ever Glad you're listening to whole thing
And you are not undermining Kate Bush when you say you love the bass. She wrote it. It's pure genius 😉
Dude if you like the fretless bass, its by John Giblin. He's great on Kate's 'Breathing' in Never For Ever.
I had a plumber over today to clear a clogged drain pipe, so now my apartment stinks of sewage and decades old shit.
Anyway, great, haunting song. My mother definitely wouldn't lie on my behalf. If I broke the law, she'd be the first to turn me in.
What else? Oh, this song has the greatest fretless bass next to Pink Floyd's "Hey You".
Bring on "Cloudbusting"!
Besides her own background vocals, she plays all of the synth parts and samples (eg. breaking glass) using the Fairlight CMI synth. I hope you get to her albums The Sensual World (1989), and The Red Shoes(1993), where she uses the Bulgarian vocal group The Trio Bulgarka on backing vocals on some songs - some very different harmonies. The Red Shoes albums also had Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Gary Brooker (Procol H.) on it.
...and The Sensual World has David Gilmour on a couple of songs.
I know and love her first album and especially The Dreaming, but I really liked this song! One more album to listen again carefully...You've done it...again!
Appreciate it!
Have you listened to her song "Breathing" yet? It seems like it should be paired with this one but it's on a different album (Never For Ever) 1980.
Nope, I haven't.
@@JustJP I bet you're going to love that one when you get to it.
I’ve always felt like there was a parallel between Kate Bush and Pink Floyd.
Think of the song “Mother” by PF, and then this song.
At times listening to Aerials I feel like I can hear Roger or David singing along with her In the spaces between.
I’m pretty sure they have worked together, but at times it’s almost like they could unify. They just get each other without even really trying.
I’d love to see you review the album by Anthony Phillips - Wise After The Event
Great album, shame he changed direction after 'Geese' and 'Wise'
I love Phillips voice too, especially on the excellent unreleased 'Master of Time'
side one is great - 'singles city' but for me side 2, from 'And Dream of Sheep' on is an album material masterpiece.
Mother stays mum is a Britishism. It means she doesn't tell.
Eberhard Weber plays on a few of her albums but is perhaps best known for his work with with Jan Garbarek. If you are into bleakly beautiful sax playing, have a listen to The Survivor or The Healing Smoke from Visible World.
Mum's the word....
Right when I decide to check in again (but only briefly, I'm afraid), you are doing my favorite Kate Bush song and the one I recommended several times. Ok, you are doing the whole album, though. I missed a beat by not selling you on the bass, before. That's the kind of song that might be the blueprint to most of the songs that Tori Amos has written.
Haha, no worries! Glad to hear from you Brax, hope you've been well
Always thought this was a splash of cold water in the face compared to the other songs on this side of the album.
A song written by Norman Bates
Yeah, this one is kind of a sleeper among a bunch of uptempo, but somehow less intense (THOSE VERSES!) songs.
It really grows on you.
Well, not YOU, since you're on it, from the start.
Good stuff.
Also, YES on Deftones. I've always thought of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds taking a run at it. Whoever gets there first, then.
And finally ... "We Need to Talk About Kevin."
Ty Britton! Ah yeah, NC could do this justice as well :)
please review cloud busting and breathing by Kate!!!! they go off
Soon!🐾
Regarding the bass player... I am not sure about what you say. I asume, if you record with Kate Bush, she tells you EXACTLY what to play and EXACTLY how to sound. Of course I don't know if that's the case here, too. But it's more likely than the bass player coming up with it himself.
"Mother" Pink Floyd, I love that song. This song not that much, loved the bass though.
Thanks! ... i've always wondered if that great song was an answer (maybe unconscious) to both John Lennon's and Roger Waters' "Mother" songs... as great, but completely opposite!
how deep was that about Mother...stands for comfort.... being hunted....etc. pls if any chance watch “Tropical Malady„ Thai movie by Apichatpong Weeresethakul
There are two musicians whose phrasing of lyrics is more fascinating than anyone else's: Kate Bush and Laurie Anderson. Tori Amos is third, in my opinion.
Great song i love kate bush please do the first album of gentle giant you will love it
Thx North; I'll have some more GG on the way