This was written as an extra track for the compilation album The Whole Story and was released as the single. I was excited at the opportunity of directing the video and not having to appear in it other than in a minor role, especially as this song told a story that could be challenging to tell visually. I chose to film it in a very handsome old military hospital that was derelict at the time. It was a huge, labyrinthine hospital with incredibly long corridors, which was one reason for choosing it. Florence Nightingale had been involved in the design of the hospital. Not something she is well known for but she actually had a huge impact on hospital design that was pioneering and changed the way hospitals were designed from then on. The video was an intense project and not a comfortable shoot, as you can imagine - a giant of a building, damp and full of shadows with no lighting or heating but it was like a dream to work with such a talented crew and cast with Dawn French, Hugh Laurie, Peter Vaughn and Richard Vernon in the starring roles. It was a strange and eerie feeling bringing parts of the hospital to life again. Not long after our work there it was converted into luxury apartments. I can imagine that some of those glamorous rooms have uninvited soldiers and nurses dropping by for a cup of tea and a hobnob. We had to create a recording studio for the video, so tape machines and outboard gear were recruited from my recording studio and the mixing console was very kindly lent to us by Abbey Rd Studios. It was the desk the Beatles had used - me too, when we’d made the album Never For Ever in Studio Two. It was such a characterful desk that would’ve looked right at home in any vintage aircraft. From THE OFFICIAL SITE OF KATE BUSH
For 0.001 cents per play, I'm sure she can do without the 'exposure. Your convenient listen is these vultures robbery of artists, not just Kate Bush, but far smaller acts as well.'
Kate directed this video herself, along with This Woman's Work and the Red Shoes films. She had a real talent for it and its a shame we never saw more of her as a director.
I was just mentioning to an Adam in the replies that she was and that Most of us born in the 60's were influenced by hammer etc. There was only 3 bloody stations on tv!! But that aside its the mind of Katie's musical brilliance and the idea of the narrative of the songs story and then to make a video like a mini movie "WOW!!" (pun intended!) She is just a one off, there unfortunately will never be another KATE BUSH, Bless her XXXX!! No really Bless her big beautiful heart 🙏♥️🎶🎤🎧😇😇😇
@@soulmantrainc.andthetnp.7087 Great reply, cheers. I would love 5 minutes to geek out with her over a pint, down the pub and chat about 1960s/70s sci-fi and horror influences. I bet she loved those old late-night Horror Double Bills on BBC2 that used to run throughout the summer holidays of the 1970s.
@@bearr3096 It is an was officially released. You seem to be confusing the that "greatest hits" releasee with the collection. Al the songs on it were recorded in a studio though not officially released.
This video was banned by the BBC. It was considered both too subversive and too disturbing to be seen by the British public. This chilled the chart performance of the song, no doubt, although it still managed to get into the low to mid teens.
It reached no.23, but that wasn't so important. The video helped promote the album which went to no.1. Money on this video (which I'm sure was substantial) was well spent
Craziest feeling: I just put 2 and 2 together and realised that I’m currently living in the exact place where this music video was filmed! Feels like such an honour to be staying in such a cool place where an amazing video was filmed!
It was a revolutionary airy, light and capacious run of heated and vented wards gifted by Florence Nightingale's innovations in the late Victorian era, but Her doughty ol' Maj. gave it Her blessing with a visit. The main Military Hosp. for The Boer, The Crimea.., The Great and The Second World Wars, all ...think on that a mo' if you feel so to do; it sewed up our brave (and benighted) Blighty boys, both physically and mentally. And if that weren't enough, it also did what decent folk do and sewed up our enemies even in WWII, as it should. Shut in 77, ripe for vids and raves in the 80s. Kate Bush has so many strings to her bow, or arrows in her quiver perhaps in this one. As mentioned, pretty top banana co-stars. Despite H. L's teensiest look at me death in the hospital corridor (D.v. _sans_ trolley,) I wander if it formed a kernel [apols] in his brain about taking some number of episodes as a doc later on. Brava Mæstra Kate. Hope the residence now is resplendent and you residents respectful of the myriad medical marvels won in what's now your wardrobe or serendipitously perhaps your dressing room. Thank you for your update.
For 0.001 cents per play, I'm sure she can do without the 'exposure.' Your convenient listen is these vultures robbery of artists, not just Kate Bush, but far smaller acts as well.'
For me, Kate Bush is an icon, unmatched in her way of making music, unique in every way. I listen to her music almost every day and can't get enough of it. Her music is for eternity...
This song is so spooky and mysterious and I love it. The violins give me chills. The video is like a movie, and I think she directed it all by herself!
And Gary Oldman! I didn't catch any of them the first sight of them, but all the people she features are a pleasant surprise. Especially knowing them from their careers so much later, getting a window into their performance past is so fun
Classic Katie, which I haven't had the pleasure of seeing for years. Her trademark ironic humour - The top scientist called Jerry Coe (the biblical town of Jericho allegedly destroyed by the Israelites noise) - The scientists and military officer killed either by or when using sound based tools (tapes and telephones) - The military officer having a report on his desk called "The Whole Story" (The KB album this came from) - The Hitch hiker/Sound Demon in disguise miming be quiet at the end (both a request not to tell the soldier her disguise and a comment on the entire premise of the song/story, saying "Be quiet", don't build a weapon using sound/music. Music is a tool of creativity not destruction). Classic track, ironic, humorous, freaky and (as many have pointed out) prophetic. Go Katie !!!
songof erin They were in "boxes" back then to, we had the powerballads, the new wave, the new romantics, two tone and so on. At the later end of the decade we got the whole Stock, Aitken and Waterman stable of "plastic" pop as it was called. This song didn't even make it into the top 20 back then let alone the top 10 as a single release. Every musical decade tends to be the same proportion wise musically. A small minority of songs so good they become classics, a small minority of good songs, the vast majority being average and easilly forgettable until we hear them again and then we forget them again, a small minority of bad songs and another small minority of songs so dire we would die rahter than admit we listened to them let alone bought them. What falls where is always going to be down to the individual; and their tastes.
Um.. were you around in the 80s right? They played her music like mad on the radio. Not mainstream radio for the most part, more on the New Wave stations, but she was played. I always thank Pat Benatar's Crimes of Passion LP for letting me discover her when I was young. After hearing her sing Wuthering Heights, I saw K. Bush name on the record and I had my mom drive me to the music store, bought whatever records I could find (with my babysitting money) from K. Bush and have been a fan ever since. 💖 That was 42 years ago.
The effect in this video that most mesmerizes me, and I rewind it a lot: Richard Vernon and Dawn French "casually" ambling up an enormous corridor at breakneck speed. And especially, how momentum doesn't make them lurch forward when whatever carriage they're on swiftly comes to a stop at their destination. Also, Alan Murphy's guitar goes so perfectly with the sequence.
The crown jewel in pop/progressive music. Her theatricality, composition, and vocal presence make her a bench mark artist. Kate really packed a wallop.
Story Time! Virtuoso Violinist Nigel Kennedy appeared on BBC-TV Talkshow Wogan, and Terry Wogan asked him if there was anyone who he would like to work with in the future. "Kate Bush" replied Nige. Kate's mom was watching and told Kate about his fandom. Kate called him and...….. Violin on Experiment IV. Nigel loves Aston Villa, Jimi Hendrix and Kate Bush, and so do I.
+Georgina Wilson-Williams That's where I first got it, I don't think that album is even in print anymore, which in the age of iTunes is odd because there's no other "Best-of" on her either.
jennifersman it should be still in print. I bought it second hand in new Zealand but found about five of them in London. Dunno if they were second hand.
That is the first time I have been able to watch that video in over 25 years, the first time I saw it I remember me and my brother hiding behind the sofa. Always loved the song, so glad my mum introduced me to Kate Bush when younger, I have always loved listening to her music.
I remember my Mother playing this entire VHS video incessantly, besides our continuous hiring of Labyrinth also on VHS. Kate has been a musical inspiration as well as Bowie. Thank you for uploading this.
That insanely long corridor is in a former military hospital in southeast London that has since been converted to flats. It's not that long any more - they put a bunch of fire doors along it. Even segmented, it's a dream play area for kids.
I think Matt and Ross Duffer were heavily influenced by this fabulous beauty, Kate. You practically condensed a full season of Stranger Things into this video! There’re several similarities to Stranger Things, in both plot and aesthetics, but “Experiment IV” was released in 1986! And the director is Kate Bush. You’re such a genius… always decades ahead. Such a blessing for all of us. Love you Kate❤️🔥
I remember when I was very young (about 6 years old) my mum and dad had a VHS of Kate Bush videos, I used to like it because I liked the songs and thought she was pretty. They would always turn this one off and I never knew why. I know now! Looking at it now it's all rather silly, but back then that would have scared the bejeezus out of me. I still like the songs, and I still think she's pretty. Kate Bush is a national treasure.
Graham Fandango The "music demon" was a little cheesy even at the time as a special effect, but the song, the lyrics and the rest of the video still pack a bit of a punch. The idea of the weaponization of something like sound is pretty chilling. I probably had the same VHS tape as your parents.
Sound has been 'weaponised' - as you so quaintly put it - many many times. There are sonic wavelengths that can burst certain areas of the brain and kill a person in seconds. Or at lower wavelengths can make your head feel like it is ringing, very painful, VERY frightening... imagine if your head felt like it was about to explode and was cracking down the centre to the base of your neck? The epiglottis is another vulnerable area of tissue that can be easily vibrated to cause choking. Oh, here's an interesting addendum - it's affected by AGE. So whilst a certain wavelength can affect , say, people of between the ages of 15 and 21, it will have absolutely no effect upon people aged 25 and over. But, of course, it could be set to simply emit at a generic frequency which would affect even babies and people over the age of 100. Depends on your intention/target[s]. The only drawback is that you cannot determine the area of effect as weather and many kinds of influences can make it exponentially more widespread than intended... you set parameters for a small house or even just a single room but it affects an entire city block. Also, people aged in their late 30s and mid 40s can have brainwaves of an 80 year old, for some still unknown reason. You turn it on. You turn it off. As simple as that. Unless the bandwidth has been expanded by environment [ionisation, cold, heat, rain, wind, blah blah blah] and then there's no way to turn it off because the operations unit would be affected - and it uses very tiny amounts of power so it would be 'on' for probably centuries. Even the use of hallucinogens cannot stop its effect. Well, i wouldn't think so, even though they do have a direct affect on how you 'hear' or 'perceive'. I wonder if sleepwalkers would be affected? Insomniacs? For some reason it doesn't seem to activate upon a sleeping brain.. eg, it can't wake someone. It does affect dream patterns though. Mostly. At night... mostly... Just why a particular area of the brain is affected by a certain bandwidth is thought to be down to the composition of the brain tissue in that area. it's a part of the brain that is not known about and is probably redundant as we have evolved [ it may have once been early staged human sense of danger... we still have that sense of danger, of course, but it's not as necessary as we have viciously adapted the environment to guarantee a heavy degree of safety, therefore? The fear of being attacked by a bear or pack of rabid dogs [not forgetting we once were quite fearful of nature itself...woods, forests, swamps] is highly unlikely... except in France, & Germany, of course [and the dogs being moslem, he he - well, it's true that moslems DO have a dogpack mentality. I once spoke with an Imam who agreed that the arabic 'mind' is very 'sheeplike' and when angered 'dogpack' is a fitting description for their animal behaviour patterns... he was a very progressive moslem... very rare... just like the chance of anyone of relevance reading this is about 4 billion to 1]. Good night. Sleep tight.
I bought this single when I was living in London when it was released. I was completely obsessed with this song for a while but alas had to either leave it behind or give it away before I came back.
Few resources at the time for a clip, without an avalanche of special effects, a lot of imagination and a huge amount of talent, this results in a GREAT clip ! Formidable, magnifique, majestueuse Kate BUSH we love you in France, bigs respect from PARIS ! Thank you for all what you sang, done, did, loved 💐🙏🌹
We were working secretly For the military Our experiment in sound Was nearly ready to begin We only know in theory What we are doing Music made for pleasure Music made to thrill It was music we were making here until They told us All they wanted Was a sound that could kill someone From a distance So we go ahead And the meters are over in the red It's a mistake in the making From the painful cry of mothers To the terrifying scream We recorded it and put it into our machine Then they told us All they wanted Was a sound that could kill someone From a distance So we go ahead And the meters are over in the red It's a mistake in the making It could feel like falling in love It could feel so bad But it could feel so good It could sing you to sleep ?"I'll bet my mum's gonna give me a little toy instrument!"? But that dream is your enemy We won't be there to be blamed We won't be there to snitch I just pray that someone there Can hit the switch But they told us All they wanted Was a sound that could kill someone From a distance So we go ahead And the meters are over in the red It's a mistake we've made And the public are warned to stay off Written by: Kate Bush Lyrics licensed by LyricFind
And those violins they are so eerie, but most of all so very very tragic. They truly resonate with the whole "ancient Greek tragedy" feel of this excellent song. Pride, Hubris being brought low. OMG Katie you are the best!!
I love how she always had cool people in her vids, like here: Dawn French, Hugh Laurie and Peter Vaughan.... and the guy in the chair looks familiar too.
Kate Bush must have tons of celebrity friends or they just loved being in her videos: Peter Gabriel, Dawn French, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Laurie, etc. Brilliant artist. Sorry I won't get to see her new show in London in October. Hear it sold out in 15 minutes - not surprised.
Don't forget Robbie Coltrane. He was in the group of voices on Waking the Watch from Hounds of Love at the beginning where they're trying to wake the protagonist up as well as being the main lead in the video for Deeper Understanding.
No miming in the recording of a music video? Incorrect, unless the recording is of a love performance all music videos were and are mimed. Damn even the performances on ToTP were mimed from the very first show for different reasons.
Gary Watton I agree with you. When her characters mime at all it is for emphasis... Look at any of her mimed sequences, very moving, anything but silly. In her first video, she mimed and danced but was so lovely, in the spirit of Cathy, really bringing to life the story. Meaningful not mindless or “silly” miming. I love her always! In all my searches of her this video never surfaced, but I rank it up there with The Dreaming, Cloudbusting, Red Shoes... even Hounds of Love. I finally found it through reading about Hugh Laurie!
Sorry for your loss. I'd imagine KB's "Cloudbusting" would be very special to you then given it features a father and child. I hope it is comforting to you. It is to me and my father hasn't even passed on yet, he just hasn't spoken to me for over 30 years because I'm gay. I listen to "Cloudbusting" and wonder what it would have been like to have had an attentive father. I guess you did or you wouldn't have mentioned him here. He must have been a man of good taste if he loved KBs music. ☮
My favorite characteristic about Kate - the story matters. Most pop music can be mindless at times. Kate never was about pop - and maintained her story-telling quality over several decades.
This video is genius. Kate's a wonderful director. Already in the opening scene there are so many little details. See what the shopkeeper (Kate's brother) is holding? Also on the pillar to the left we see the "Experiment IV" poster. On the right hand wall there's the didgeridoo from "The Dreaming" and "The Big Sky" and there's the "Babooshka" bass, too.
Been tracking this video down for years. I’m positive we were shown it by our HeadTeacher at Primary school 35 years ago... absolute bedlam. Kids crying and having to be removed. Apart from that he seemed like a good teacher!
@@chopstixmurphy6134 Also, I believe the army dude behind the desk is the blind maester guy from GoT (can't remember his name). And the blond lady is Dawn French.
We always knew she was ahead of her time! Imagining 'stranger things' decades ahead of the hit TV show - a show that would make her music an integral part of the story and introduce her talent to a new generation.
So Kate recorded this after Hounds of Love was released but well before beginning work on The Sensual World. Always loved the song and the music video is so well done with a great cast. The Banshee is a work of production design/prop art and her wink to the camera at the end is simply magical. You can kind of hear her musical progression as it has a little bit of the HOL soundscape in it's sonic texture (that violin passage is so brilliantly evocative of her favorite dark gothic vibe she loves) and she stuck with the dark seriousness into recording the Sensual World tracks, a fairly deep and dark album compared to the Red Shoes that followed it, which is a lot more whimsical.
I particularly love the first person camera to show the monsters POV. Kate Bush was just so amazing, her lyrics concerning heavy issues and that wonderful voice just make her one of the best female artists of all time
TruthSeekingElf Yes, they are using screaming banshees riding on top of drones as we speak! How did you know? The balding evil doctor looks like Mengele.
There are patents for sonic and infrasonic weapons from decades before this song was written, I think going back to the early 1960s. It was a thing Burroughs was obsessed with also around that time. She didn't predict anything; I think she heard about the reality of sonic weapons and was intrigued by the idea, being a musician, of using sound to kill.
There is a comment below by Find That Music! about Kate being unknown. I read that EMI America wouldn't support three of Kate's albums due to her not touring. I personally remember only seeing the RUTH video in '85. Then - no more Kate. In 2019 Meg Meyers covered RUTH. Brain unfreeze - went looking for who actually did the song first. I've been finding wonderful nuggets like Kate's Experiment IV since. Kate is a KNOWN quantity now. One of the streaming services shows songs from FIVE of her albums with RUTH at the top! Yes, I have all of her albums. On a side note, EMI America no longer exists - but Kate endures!
Sehr gutes und tiefsinniges Lied von Kate Bush, was sich einem ernsten Thema mit Humor annimmt und es eingehend und feinfühlig refklektiert.Intelligente Worte mit einer melancholisch schönen Melodie die ins Ohr geht.Das ausgefallene Musikvideo beweist Niveau und ist Zeitlos.
I miss Kate Bush. I hope the new album is more like her older music, emotions, things like this. Snow and the weather is polite conversation but I love the Kate that wasn't so polite. She took on a lot of subjects in her time. I can't wait for the new album. She is the best!!
This is the most beautiful combination of an excellent music singed by Kate Bush and the perfect satial imagination of the soaring planes. I must took 30 years to find for the music and the singer. For a very coincidence I saw there are several parts of the world wher ladies makes coreaography with this oustanding music .
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This was written as an extra track for the compilation album The Whole Story and was released as the single. I was excited at the opportunity of directing the video and not having to appear in it other than in a minor role, especially as this song told a story that could be challenging to tell visually. I chose to film it in a very handsome old military hospital that was derelict at the time. It was a huge, labyrinthine hospital with incredibly long corridors, which was one reason for choosing it. Florence Nightingale had been involved in the design of the hospital. Not something she is well known for but she actually had a huge impact on hospital design that was pioneering and changed the way hospitals were designed from then on.
The video was an intense project and not a comfortable shoot, as you can imagine - a giant of a building, damp and full of shadows with no lighting or heating but it was like a dream to work with such a talented crew and cast with Dawn French, Hugh Laurie, Peter Vaughn and Richard Vernon in the starring roles. It was a strange and eerie feeling bringing parts of the hospital to life again. Not long after our work there it was converted into luxury apartments. I can imagine that some of those glamorous rooms have uninvited soldiers and nurses dropping by for a cup of tea and a hobnob.
We had to create a recording studio for the video, so tape machines and outboard gear were recruited from my recording studio and the mixing console was very kindly lent to us by Abbey Rd Studios. It was the desk the Beatles had used - me too, when we’d made the album Never For Ever in Studio Two. It was such a characterful desk that would’ve looked right at home in any vintage aircraft.
From THE OFFICIAL SITE OF KATE BUSH
Thank you for so many years of wonderful music and groundbreaking videos.
Brilliant and interesting info... excuse.my French but what a fuckin superb song..spine chillin '..
thanx ,wonderful to read
Thank you for printing this. Completely mesmerized and fascinated by her process!
@@Bittersweet.Symphony. look, I do like a wee conspiracy now and again. But what you’re saying is patently nonsense. Not a single jot of evidence!
Only Kate could make a song about an experiment to kill with sound and combine it with the legend of the Banshee
Need this back on Spotify (UK) so badly!!
I came here to say exactly this
Why has it been taken down?
For 0.001 cents per play, I'm sure she can do without the 'exposure.
Your convenient listen is these vultures robbery of artists, not just Kate Bush, but far smaller acts as well.'
Kate directed this video herself, along with This Woman's Work and the Red Shoes films. She had a real talent for it and its a shame we never saw more of her as a director.
Oml no way!!!
Looking at this video, I imagine, her being a sci-fi and Hammer horror fan, she was heavily influenced by the Quatermass serials of the 1950s and 60s.
I was just mentioning to an Adam in the replies that she was and that Most of us born in the 60's were influenced by hammer etc. There was only 3 bloody stations on tv!! But that aside its the mind of Katie's musical brilliance and the idea of the narrative of the songs story and then to make a video like a mini movie "WOW!!" (pun intended!) She is just a one off, there unfortunately will never be another KATE BUSH, Bless her XXXX!! No really Bless her big beautiful heart 🙏♥️🎶🎤🎧😇😇😇
@@soulmantrainc.andthetnp.7087 Great reply, cheers.
I would love 5 minutes to geek out with her over a pint, down the pub and chat about 1960s/70s sci-fi and horror influences. I bet she loved those old late-night Horror Double Bills on BBC2 that used to run throughout the summer holidays of the 1970s.
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If they could do feature length movie based on this music video, it would be phenomenal. Congratulations, Kate, on one of your most timeless classics.
I was thinking the same.
Here she admits how most music is created with a very dark purpose indeed.
I just thought the same all these years it needs to be a film
Low-key her best song. As it's not on any of her studio albums, I forget about it, but every time it comes on I get shivers at the first chorus.
The Whole Story would like a word with you.
@@Dermacrosis in terms of?
@@bearr3096 Look it up.
@@Dermacrosis ... if you're trying to claim The Whole Story is a studio album, it's not.
@@bearr3096 It is an was officially released. You seem to be confusing the that "greatest hits" releasee with the collection.
Al the songs on it were recorded in a studio though not officially released.
This video was banned by the BBC. It was considered both too subversive and too disturbing to be seen by the British public. This chilled the chart performance of the song, no doubt, although it still managed to get into the low to mid teens.
It reached no.23, but that wasn't so important. The video helped promote the album which went to no.1. Money on this video (which I'm sure was substantial) was well spent
@@marksykes2406 Did not know that
Craziest feeling: I just put 2 and 2 together and realised that I’m currently living in the exact place where this music video was filmed! Feels like such an honour to be staying in such a cool place where an amazing video was filmed!
sooo.... where is it?
@@AboveSomething it’s the royal Herbert pavilion between woolwich and Eltham :)
Here she admits how most music is created with a very dark purpose indeed.
It was a revolutionary airy, light and capacious run of heated and vented wards gifted by Florence Nightingale's innovations in the late Victorian era, but Her doughty ol' Maj. gave it Her blessing with a visit.
The main Military Hosp. for The Boer, The Crimea.., The Great and The Second World Wars, all ...think on that a mo' if you feel so to do; it sewed up our brave (and benighted) Blighty boys, both physically and mentally.
And if that weren't enough, it also did what decent folk do and sewed up our enemies even in WWII, as it should.
Shut in 77, ripe for vids and raves in the 80s.
Kate Bush has so many strings to her bow, or arrows in her quiver perhaps in this one. As mentioned, pretty top banana co-stars. Despite H. L's teensiest look at me death in the hospital corridor (D.v. _sans_ trolley,) I wander if it formed a kernel [apols] in his brain about taking some number of episodes as a doc later on.
Brava Mæstra Kate.
Hope the residence now is resplendent and you residents respectful of the myriad medical marvels won in what's now your wardrobe or serendipitously perhaps your dressing room.
Thank you for your update.
Explain @@NordicHebrew
Kate Bush, Paddy Bush, Dawn French, Hugh Laurie,Richard Vernon and last but not least one of my favourite actors Peter Vaughan
I adore this song...and can't believe it's not on Spotify 😮
Same! I'm bigging on The Whole Story vinyl on Ebay so I can get my hands on it again though, such a great track.
It used to be, no idea why it isn’t now!
I need this and Ran Tan Waltz on Spotify 🥲
For 0.001 cents per play, I'm sure she can do without the 'exposure.'
Your convenient listen is these vultures robbery of artists, not just Kate Bush, but far smaller acts as well.'
For me, Kate Bush is an icon, unmatched in her way of making music, unique in every way. I listen to her music almost every day and can't get enough of it. Her music is for eternity...
If there's one other Kate Bush song that would be even more perfect for Stranger Things, it's this one.
I was literally about to write the same thing!
My exact thought as well
yes, but it would be too obvious
You beat us to it!
Sad, people need to wake up to the Programming of TV, Movies and Music
This song is so spooky and mysterious and I love it. The violins give me chills. The video is like a movie, and I think she directed it all by herself!
I have same feeling listening to the song. My wife goes into a trance listening to this. KB really knows how to hit the right notes.
As a lover of old British sci-fi movies this is my all time favourite Kate song. 🙂
There is a theory that what is generally termed as 'sci-fi' is sometimes leaks regarding the truth around classified technology. x
Here she admits how most music is created with a very dark purpose indeed.
Absolutely!! This is a bloody gem of a song..Omg Nigel Kennedy’s strings are spine chilling.. The same effect on ‘The Fog’…
One of my all time favourite Kate Bush songs and the best video. Dawn French and Hugh Laurie. What's not to love? this is epic on every level
Such a terrific cast.
And Gary Oldman! I didn't catch any of them the first sight of them, but all the people she features are a pleasant surprise. Especially knowing them from their careers so much later, getting a window into their performance past is so fun
Classic Katie, which I haven't had the pleasure of seeing for years. Her trademark ironic humour - The top scientist called Jerry Coe (the biblical town of Jericho allegedly destroyed by the Israelites noise) - The scientists and military officer killed either by or when using sound based tools (tapes and telephones) - The military officer having a report on his desk called "The Whole Story" (The KB album this came from) - The Hitch hiker/Sound Demon in disguise miming be quiet at the end (both a request not to tell the soldier her disguise and a comment on the entire premise of the song/story, saying "Be quiet", don't build a weapon using sound/music. Music is a tool of creativity not destruction). Classic track, ironic, humorous, freaky and (as many have pointed out) prophetic. Go Katie !!!
definitely prophetic. Pop music is brainwashing and killing our souls.
songof erin
No more so than back then.
***** True... But at least then people were starting to produce new kinds of music. Everything nowadays has to fit into particular boxes.
songof erin
They were in "boxes" back then to, we had the powerballads, the new wave, the new romantics, two tone and so on. At the later end of the decade we got the whole Stock, Aitken and Waterman stable of "plastic" pop as it was called.
This song didn't even make it into the top 20 back then let alone the top 10 as a single release.
Every musical decade tends to be the same proportion wise musically. A small minority of songs so good they become classics, a small minority of good songs, the vast majority being average and easilly forgettable until we hear them again and then we forget them again, a small minority of bad songs and another small minority of songs so dire we would die rahter than admit we listened to them let alone bought them.
What falls where is always going to be down to the individual; and their tastes.
What, understanding of subjectivity and a bear? Surely he's taken.
One of my favorite songs by her. Such an underrated artist over here in the U.S., in my opinion.
not anymore :)
Um.. were you around in the 80s right? They played her music like mad on the radio. Not mainstream radio for the most part, more on the New Wave stations, but she was played. I always thank Pat Benatar's Crimes of Passion LP for letting me discover her when I was young. After hearing her sing Wuthering Heights, I saw K. Bush name on the record and I had my mom drive me to the music store, bought whatever records I could find (with my babysitting money) from K. Bush and have been a fan ever since. 💖 That was 42 years ago.
Bro that “Running Up The Hill” song has become overplayed as fuck now cuz of Stranger Things 😂
Here she admits how most music is created with a very dark purpose indeed.
Kate Bush Experiment IV is one of my personal favorite song
Im amazed they got so many got so many great actors for the video. Ive always been convinced comic actors make excellent serious actors too.
Kate Bush just is superior to other artists. It’s been a life long pleasure to listen to your genius, thank you Kate.
The effect in this video that most mesmerizes me, and I rewind it a lot: Richard Vernon and Dawn French "casually" ambling up an enormous corridor at breakneck speed. And especially, how momentum doesn't make them lurch forward when whatever carriage they're on swiftly comes to a stop at their destination. Also, Alan Murphy's guitar goes so perfectly with the sequence.
And Hugh Laurie?
Alan Murphy's guitar seems to be a trademark of Kate's sound right up to 1990 when he sadly passed away. RIP Smurph x
The crown jewel in pop/progressive music. Her theatricality, composition, and vocal presence make her a bench mark artist. Kate really packed a wallop.
This video is like a who's-who of British comedy in the 1980s. Hugh Laurie, Dawn French, Stephen Fry, just brilliant
Story Time!
Virtuoso Violinist Nigel Kennedy appeared on BBC-TV Talkshow Wogan, and Terry Wogan asked him if there was anyone who he would like to work with in the future. "Kate Bush" replied Nige. Kate's mom was watching and told Kate about his fandom. Kate called him and...….. Violin on Experiment IV.
Nigel loves Aston Villa, Jimi Hendrix and Kate Bush, and so do I.
if you listen carefully to the words, they quite disturbing.
kate bush is such a great lyricist
+Galeno Delmar It used to be
an extra on her best of album called 'The whole Story' don't know of that helps in anyway.
+Georgina Wilson-Williams That's where I first got it, I don't think that album is even in print anymore, which in the age of iTunes is odd because there's no other "Best-of" on her either.
jennifersman The album is still in print
As if the jumpscare near the end wasn't disturbing enough! X_x
jennifersman it should be still in print. I bought it second hand in new Zealand but found about five of them in London. Dunno if they were second hand.
Wow, I never knew Hugh was in this video! I had almost forgotten this masterpiece of a music video)
I hope people discover this song too in 2022. Amazing song !
Her best video, her cheekiest and most exciting video, bar none. Underrated as hell.
Michael Cruz The only one on The Whole Story that was made especially for it.
Underrated as hell? Is hell so Underrated? The British Hoipoloi are a strange bunch.
That is the first time I have been able to watch that video in over 25 years, the first time I saw it I remember me and my brother hiding behind the sofa. Always loved the song, so glad my mum introduced me to Kate Bush when younger, I have always loved listening to her music.
I remember my Mother playing this entire VHS video incessantly, besides our continuous hiring of Labyrinth also on VHS. Kate has been a musical inspiration as well as Bowie.
Thank you for uploading this.
Your mum sounds an absolute gem!
That insanely long corridor is in a former military hospital in southeast London that has since been converted to flats. It's not that long any more - they put a bunch of fire doors along it. Even segmented, it's a dream play area for kids.
2:45 when the violin drops in. incredible marriage of music and visuals
I was OBSESSED with this song as a teenager. First Kate Bush song I ever heard, after that I was in love. Born 1996 and love Kate to bits.
The BEST EVER Kate Bush release... disturbing and realistic until today...
Almost 4 decades after its release, this song is still as beautiful as the first time I heard it 🥰
Paddy always kills me in this😂his dedication to the character is fabulous😂
I think Matt and Ross Duffer were heavily influenced by this fabulous beauty, Kate.
You practically condensed a full season of Stranger Things into this video! There’re several similarities to Stranger Things, in both plot and aesthetics, but “Experiment IV” was released in 1986! And the director is Kate Bush. You’re such a genius… always decades ahead. Such a blessing for all of us. Love you Kate❤️🔥
so true
They actually got the concept from real MK Ultra experiments that were & have been going on.
I remember when I was very young (about 6 years old) my mum and dad had a VHS of Kate Bush videos, I used to like it because I liked the songs and thought she was pretty. They would always turn this one off and I never knew why.
I know now! Looking at it now it's all rather silly, but back then that would have scared the bejeezus out of me.
I still like the songs, and I still think she's pretty. Kate Bush is a national treasure.
Graham Fandango The "music demon" was a little cheesy even at the time as a special effect, but the song, the lyrics and the rest of the video still pack a bit of a punch. The idea of the weaponization of something like sound is pretty chilling. I probably had the same VHS tape as your parents.
Sound has been 'weaponised' - as you so quaintly put it - many many times. There are sonic wavelengths that can burst certain areas of the brain and kill a person in seconds. Or at lower wavelengths can make your head feel like it is ringing, very painful, VERY frightening... imagine if your head felt like it was about to explode and was cracking down the centre to the base of your neck?
The epiglottis is another vulnerable area of tissue that can be easily vibrated to cause choking.
Oh, here's an interesting addendum - it's affected by AGE. So whilst a certain wavelength can affect , say, people of between the ages of 15 and 21, it will have absolutely no effect upon people aged 25 and over. But, of course, it could be set to simply emit at a generic frequency which would affect even babies and people over the age of 100. Depends on your intention/target[s]. The only drawback is that you cannot determine the area of effect as weather and many kinds of influences can make it exponentially more widespread than intended... you set parameters for a small house or even just a single room but it affects an entire city block. Also, people aged in their late 30s and mid 40s can have brainwaves of an 80 year old, for some still unknown reason.
You turn it on. You turn it off. As simple as that. Unless the bandwidth has been expanded by environment [ionisation, cold, heat, rain, wind, blah blah blah] and then there's no way to turn it off because the operations unit would be affected - and it uses very tiny amounts of power so it would be 'on' for probably centuries. Even the use of hallucinogens cannot stop its effect. Well, i wouldn't think so, even though they do have a direct affect on how you 'hear' or 'perceive'. I wonder if sleepwalkers would be affected? Insomniacs? For some reason it doesn't seem to activate upon a sleeping brain.. eg, it can't wake someone. It does affect dream patterns though. Mostly.
At night...
mostly...
Just why a particular area of the brain is affected by a certain bandwidth is thought to be down to the composition of the brain tissue in that area. it's a part of the brain that is not known about and is probably redundant as we have evolved [ it may have once been early staged human sense of danger... we still have that sense of danger, of course, but it's not as necessary as we have viciously adapted the environment to guarantee a heavy degree of safety, therefore? The fear of being attacked by a bear or pack of rabid dogs [not forgetting we once were quite fearful of nature itself...woods, forests, swamps] is highly unlikely... except in France, & Germany, of course [and the dogs being moslem, he he - well, it's true that moslems DO have a dogpack mentality. I once spoke with an Imam who agreed that the arabic 'mind' is very 'sheeplike' and when angered 'dogpack' is a fitting description for their animal behaviour patterns... he was a very progressive moslem... very rare... just like the chance of anyone of relevance reading this is about 4 billion to 1].
Good night. Sleep tight.
Graham Fandango: When I was a little girl, I found the monster to be a bit funny. 😏 I was a weird kid.
I was so scared of this one too when my father played her VHS, I'd hide behind my fingers so I could still listen and peek!
Omg exactly the same as me !!
RIP Del Palmer, absolutely fantastic gentleman.
This song is more relevant today than ever before
Especially after Astroworld
I bought this single when I was living in London when it was released. I was completely obsessed with this song for a while but alas had to either leave it behind or give it away before I came back.
Few resources at the time for a clip, without an avalanche of special effects, a lot of imagination and a huge amount of talent, this results in a GREAT clip ! Formidable, magnifique, majestueuse Kate BUSH we love you in France, bigs respect from PARIS ! Thank you for all what you sang, done, did, loved 💐🙏🌹
2:45 - 3:03: How can I begin to express the tormented beauty of this piece of music?
hard to pick a 'best song', when so many of hers are at the top of the list. This is surely one of her best. Emotional context is her key genius.
so much British talent in this video.... this could. so easily be made in to a full mini series or feature
We were working secretly
For the military
Our experiment in sound
Was nearly ready to begin
We only know in theory
What we are doing
Music made for pleasure
Music made to thrill
It was music we were making here until
They told us
All they wanted
Was a sound that could kill someone
From a distance
So we go ahead
And the meters are over in the red
It's a mistake in the making
From the painful cry of mothers
To the terrifying scream
We recorded it and put it into our machine
Then they told us
All they wanted
Was a sound that could kill someone
From a distance
So we go ahead
And the meters are over in the red
It's a mistake in the making
It could feel like falling in love
It could feel so bad
But it could feel so good
It could sing you to sleep
?"I'll bet my mum's gonna give me a little toy instrument!"?
But that dream is your enemy
We won't be there to be blamed
We won't be there to snitch
I just pray that someone there
Can hit the switch
But they told us
All they wanted
Was a sound that could kill someone
From a distance
So we go ahead
And the meters are over in the red
It's a mistake we've made
And the public are warned to stay off
Written by:
Kate Bush
Lyrics licensed by LyricFind
Wow... 😲
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
a big up three years late !!' bravo
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CAN BE MORE ACCURATE ACCORDING TO KATE'S VIDEO.
Very nice job
And those violins they are so eerie, but most of all so very very tragic. They truly resonate with the whole "ancient Greek tragedy" feel of this excellent song. Pride, Hubris being brought low. OMG Katie you are the best!!
This song and video should blow up with views. It's one of her many masterpieces.
It's interesting that Kate Bush is in the news lately because of Stranger Things. This came out 30 years prior and is very much like Stranger Things.
I love how she always had cool people in her vids, like here: Dawn French, Hugh Laurie and Peter Vaughan.... and the guy in the chair looks familiar too.
Del Palmer
Kate Bush must have tons of celebrity friends or they just loved being in her videos: Peter Gabriel, Dawn French, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Laurie, etc. Brilliant artist. Sorry I won't get to see her new show in London in October. Hear it sold out in 15 minutes - not surprised.
That should really be something. Hope they release a DVD.
Don't forget Robbie Coltrane. He was in the group of voices on Waking the Watch from Hounds of Love at the beginning where they're trying to wake the protagonist up as well as being the main lead in the video for Deeper Understanding.
Also Gary Oldman, he is the victim in this video.
Esse clipe é tudo!
@@SinnMaschine No, it's Del Palmer
This is a proper music video with no silly miming of the music. Other entertainers please take note.
No miming in the recording of a music video? Incorrect, unless the recording is of a love performance all music videos were and are mimed. Damn even the performances on ToTP were mimed from the very first show for different reasons.
"no silly miming"? Explain this then: 1:05
(joke)
Explain literally the whole music video to Kate Bush's "Army Dreamers"
Gary Watton I agree with you. When her characters mime at all it is for emphasis... Look at any of her mimed sequences, very moving, anything but silly. In her first video, she mimed and danced but was so lovely, in the spirit of Cathy, really bringing to life the story. Meaningful not mindless or “silly” miming. I love her always!
In all my searches of her this video never surfaced, but I rank it up there with The Dreaming, Cloudbusting, Red Shoes... even Hounds of Love. I finally found it through reading about Hugh Laurie!
I JUST discovered this song. Now I can't hit the "replay" button enough!
RIP Peter Vaughan 4 April 1923 - 6 December 2016
Grouty in Porridge. ..
I love how the shrill high violin kicks in whenever the sound actually begins to kill people
The violinist said he took inspiration from Pyscho with the stab scene.
@@Dermacrosis Nigel Kennedy.
I suffered a brain fart at the time of the post so couldn't remember the name, I am blaming old age :-D
I have a music learning center near my work with the name "music for pleasure."
So I have this sing in my head every day. Definitely not complaining!
I love that Dawn French and Hugh Laurie are in this lol
I’ve randomly had this song stuck in my head all day & have listened to it several times today, turns out it was released 35 years ago today! Creepy
Never have the words 'kill someone' sounded more beautiful!
The Vicar of Dibly, Dr House, and Grandad from Bread... soooo funny and Kate beautiful as ever this is Legend
Now if I'm ever in a quiz and get asked "Which Kate Bush video featured Dawn French and Hugh Laurie?" I'll know. :-)
@Goliprice Clarpuff Peter Vaughan, Big Grouty from Porridge!!
I never new until today when i heared it on the radio so rushed to look it up!
Ha but who is the man in the rubber room in a strat jacket??
jeopardy, or some terrorist cell...could mean a buttload of $ or life/death
you.just.dont.know.
@@grahamlong8701 her brother, Paddy. And guy in the chair is Del Palmer
I have a lot to thank kate bush for, listening to her music eases my grief of losing my Dad, so many memories we both made, he loved her music
Morbetha Raven - he is still playing it- please be reassured of that! X.
thanks hun
Sorry for your loss. I'd imagine KB's "Cloudbusting" would be very special to you then given it features a father and child. I hope it is comforting to you. It is to me and my father hasn't even passed on yet, he just hasn't spoken to me for over 30 years because I'm gay. I listen to "Cloudbusting" and wonder what it would have been like to have had an attentive father. I guess you did or you wouldn't have mentioned him here. He must have been a man of good taste if he loved KBs music. ☮
A beautiful song about an ugly subject, and a masterpiece at that.
Only Kate could achieve this lofty goal.
Her music is quite other worldly!
I always thought this would make a fantastic screenplay.
I cannot imagine anyone else's voice singing this song the way it deserves to be sung. Kate's voice, haunting and ethereal, is perfect for this track.
Nobody comes close to Kate. She takes music and thought to a very different level that Man has a hard time trying to keep up to.
My favorite characteristic about Kate - the story matters. Most pop music can be mindless at times. Kate never was about pop - and maintained her story-telling quality over several decades.
This song and breathing always give me chills. The implications are terrifying 😳
It didn't take any prisoners that's for sure. Aside from maybe that soldier driver at the end?
This video is genius. Kate's a wonderful director. Already in the opening scene there are so many little details. See what the shopkeeper (Kate's brother) is holding? Also on the pillar to the left we see the "Experiment IV" poster. On the right hand wall there's the didgeridoo from "The Dreaming" and "The Big Sky" and there's the "Babooshka" bass, too.
Kate bush is the greatest artist of all time
Been tracking this video down for years. I’m positive we were shown it by our HeadTeacher at Primary school 35 years ago... absolute bedlam. Kids crying and having to be removed. Apart from that he seemed like a good teacher!
I love this song and this video. I really miss Kate Bush. Wish I could fly to London to catch her concert series the summer.
Hugh's greatest part as a doctor. Hands down. :)
Just watching this and thought: Wait a minute, isn't this Hugh Laurie? :D
@@chopstixmurphy6134 Also, I believe the army dude behind the desk is the blind maester guy from GoT (can't remember his name). And the blond lady is Dawn French.
Kate Bush legendary
Kate bush and Helicopters - it doesn't get ANY better than that !!!! (love those violins)
We always knew she was ahead of her time! Imagining 'stranger things' decades ahead of the hit TV show - a show that would make her music an integral part of the story and introduce her talent to a new generation.
So Kate recorded this after Hounds of Love was released but well before beginning work on The Sensual World. Always loved the song and the music video is so well done with a great cast. The Banshee is a work of production design/prop art and her wink to the camera at the end is simply magical. You can kind of hear her musical progression as it has a little bit of the HOL soundscape in it's sonic texture (that violin passage is so brilliantly evocative of her favorite dark gothic vibe she loves) and she stuck with the dark seriousness into recording the Sensual World tracks, a fairly deep and dark album compared to the Red Shoes that followed it, which is a lot more whimsical.
This was great to watch and see the familiar faces of Dawn French and Hugh Laurie etc. Love Kate at the end with her shhh. Gorgeous.
I particularly love the first person camera to show the monsters POV. Kate Bush was just so amazing, her lyrics concerning heavy issues and that wonderful voice just make her one of the best female artists of all time
First Donald Sutherland (Cloud Busting), and now Peter Vaughan and Hugh Laurie. How did I miss this before?
That chorus is divine!
My favourite song of hers - her The Family and the Fishing Net 🖤
This song was released the same day I was born. Great song, stellar video.
amazing woman, great lyricist, and most of all unique
And Kate Bush is pretty good as well
Genius how she predicted just what they are using against people as we speak. So prophetic. She was always way ahead of her time. Amazing.
Kate is such an amazing person.
TruthSeekingElf Yes, they are using screaming banshees riding on top of drones as we speak! How did you know? The balding evil doctor looks like Mengele.
+jonathan burgess then I must be super immune, if there is such a thing, because I've been listening to her since 1978.
@ILLUMINAUGHTY no one tell this guy that music existed before the CIA, too
There are patents for sonic and infrasonic weapons from decades before this song was written, I think going back to the early 1960s. It was a thing Burroughs was obsessed with also around that time. She didn't predict anything; I think she heard about the reality of sonic weapons and was intrigued by the idea, being a musician, of using sound to kill.
There is a comment below by Find That Music! about Kate being unknown. I read that EMI America wouldn't support three of Kate's albums due to her not touring. I personally remember only seeing the RUTH video in '85. Then - no more Kate. In 2019 Meg Meyers covered RUTH. Brain unfreeze - went looking for who actually did the song first. I've been finding wonderful nuggets like Kate's Experiment IV since. Kate is a KNOWN quantity now. One of the streaming services shows songs from FIVE of her albums with RUTH at the top! Yes, I have all of her albums. On a side note, EMI America no longer exists - but Kate endures!
This could make an awesome film.
Sehr gutes und tiefsinniges Lied von Kate Bush, was sich einem ernsten Thema mit Humor annimmt und es eingehend und feinfühlig refklektiert.Intelligente Worte mit einer melancholisch schönen Melodie die ins Ohr geht.Das ausgefallene Musikvideo beweist Niveau und ist Zeitlos.
Absolutely love the strings in this.
Sinister video but, as we have come to expect from the divine Ms.Bush, another great weird and wonderful idea . She really is in a league of her own .
probably more like fallen angel
Watched it countless times since its release - and it still sends shivers down my spine. Perfect video, perfect song!
This is how a music video should be. Pity that this is a lesson that hardly anyone else who followed, listened to, or who took on board!
I miss Kate Bush. I hope the new album is more like her older music, emotions, things like this. Snow and the weather is polite conversation but I love the Kate that wasn't so polite. She took on a lot of subjects in her time. I can't wait for the new album. She is the best!!
"The" new album or "A new album". Do you have insider information?
@@danbrockettDOP I'm guessing not, considering he made his comment 9 yrs ago and alas, no new album has materialized.
Good point!
I love how Richard Vernon, Peter Vaughan, Dawn French and Hugh Laurie appear in this video. ✌️☺️
One of MANY fantastic songs by Kate!❤👍❤❤
I want to see a movie based on this song.
The violin...gorgeous.
Absolutely hooked on this 30+ years to late🙁 but hey its better late than never!!! 👍👍
This is the most beautiful combination of an excellent music singed by Kate Bush and the perfect satial imagination of the soaring planes. I must took 30 years to find for the music and the singer. For a very coincidence I saw there are several parts of the world wher ladies makes coreaography with this oustanding music .