Agreed my favorite KB track. This is the one I would use to introduce someone to Kate, but whenever I suggest typically the few bigger hits she has dominate the comments
I hope he does it as one reaction. I don't have a problem with splitting the A-side into single song reactions but The Ninth wave really should be listened to as one piece.
@@jori1 Was coming in to say the exact same thing. When someone hasn't heard a song (seen a movie, read a book, etc.) I love, my reaction is ... jealously. As much as I love them, I'd love even more to have the chance to hear "Ninth Wave" or "Left of the Dial" or "Marquee Moon" or "Remember the Mountain Bed" for the first time, again. I'd also love to have no idea what was about to happen before Snoop buys a nail gun on the "The Wire."
When you get to The Ninth Wave (2nd side of the album starting from And Dream of Sheep) you have to do it all in one video as it is seen as one piece of music, the tracks flow into each other and they all tell one story.
I fell in love with Kate Bush from the first moment I heard wuthering heights , her albums are always different and interesting, never mundane , never a dull moment. True original.
To me this song is just pure joy. That's what she's bringing to the table and and that's what I get out of it. It seems so full of joy and it just makes me happy when I listen to it. To me, perhaps it's not the best song on the album (that would be Hello Earth) but it's the most fun. For me the second half is similar to Hey Jude in the sense that it has a repeated phrase in the backing vocal with a really inspired improvised lead on top. That's just my take of course.
This is actually my favorite track of hers period. When PJ says tribal, Kate is very influenced by World Music (ethnic music from around the world). This is very influenced by Easterm European folk. By no means feel she is intentionally using the track as a platform to showcase her vocal range. I think she just adapts to the song at hand and what it calls for. Lastly Kate is a peformace artist which is 50% of her appeal. While I respect PJ reacting to audio over video. In this particular case worth seeing and would give a completey different perspective. Her performance (and others) is astounding! The video is a masterpiece and my favorite of hers. It was this video that made me a KB enthusiastic..
This has one of my favourite of Kate’s videos if only because it almost seems like a stage performance, so it was the closest we got to seeing her live for a couple of decades.
When recording this, she couldn’t let go and belt it out at the end screamy part...so she went out and got drunk and came back in the studio and let it all out.
Hey JP, nice choice! Kate’s is a rabbithole that is very wild, with totally unexpected detours, genres, and remarkable intensity. I could not stop playing this album when i came out. It is indeed one of my proverbial desert island choices. EVERY track is great. Kate said that she was real drunk when she recorded her ad libs at the end of this tune.. Keep up the good work! Try Kate’s “Get Out of My House” from “The Dreaming” sometime soon please. th-cam.com/video/kdsNX1WyN20/w-d-xo.html
Definitely the female Peter Gabriel. Even their styles progressed in the same directions and in the same years. "Thank you Peter Gabriel for opening windows" she credited him on her 3rd album in 1980, the first that she self-produced. Note that Gabriel's 3rd album came in 1980, and both records are where each artist finally defined him and herself, coming into their own at last.
There's an amusing 12" mix where a crowd comments on the clouds. "That cloud is nothing but trouble!" … "That cloud looks like it's going to rain!" (murmurs of approvals). It provides a nice break in the repeating sections.
@@robertjewell9727 It's on CD, there's a 2-disc from the UK that includes it (it's called the Meteorological Mix), also a B-side that's really nice called "Under the Ivy" (flip side of Running Up That Hill in the US).
I always loved the "that cloud looks like snow" "no it doesn't!" pair of lines. I love this song...it's fantastic to put on when you need a boost. Like "Music That You Can Dance To" by Sparks. No heavy message, nothing fancy...just fun.
This album is a masterpiece in my opinion and The Big Sky is a transition in changing tonalities of the album's path. It should be listened to from start to finish - in order. That to me is the way Kate's musical thoughts and expression works. She composes in a way beyond just writing songs. Your observations about the lyrics are spot on and I think the music which is a chanting in March form evokes a brightness the big sky brings in a single experience of a person's seeing upwardly as if the clouds are the inspiration for how the music does not "repeat", but cycles like clouds turning and more and more strongly saying, Look! This is amazing! It doesn't need to be musically complex and instead chants in a very Celtic celebration. That's my take anyway. Cheers, Justin. 👍🎶
I love that you notice that lower part of her voice. As she aged, her voice lowered and became more complex. Please try Get Out of My House! When It came out I would blast it when I wanted to break up a party for people to leave!
That, and operatic sopranos on full tilt. I happen to love it, but that will surely clear the room of all unappreciative undesirables in a millisecond! And I would be singing along just to be more obnoxious!
She was amazing I grew up with this as a British child in the 80's. She began her songs amazingly and ended them amazingly a lot of her songs were inspired by books. Great British books. Her mom was a nurse and her Irish mother was a Nurse. I identified with her except I never went to private school and I was of Caribbean decent. You won't like it if you don't get British culture. Also her brother used a lot of unusual instruments
I love this song, so much energy. I'm not someone into percussion but it shines here, she keeps piling on the layers, the hand claps. There's a very busy music video that's worth a look. The line "You never understood me," brings to mind 'Both Sides Now' by Joni Mitchell where one verse concludes with the line "I really don't know clouds at all." A non-album b-side from this single is 'Not This Time' is also worth seeking out. th-cam.com/video/Waac8sNUNcs/w-d-xo.html
After The Dreaming flopped everybody was calling her 'Crazy Kate'...then this album dropped...nobody was calling her crazy anymore...a phenomenal work by imo the most important female artist of the late 20th century. What an experience this song is and the slap it provided to an industry that had all but turned their back on her. Love Kate Bush Forever...
My fav from the album alongside 'Running-Up'. There's just so much life, so much passion, so much enthusiasm that I get the smile-y goosebumps all the way through.
I agree - it's not one of Kate's biggest songs on Hounds - I think this was influenced, just for fun, by Cindi Lauper's "Girls Just Want To Have Fun", and the video kind of further emphasizes this. I am more intrigued by her portrayal of Peter Reich's Book of Dreams in "Cloudbusting" (there is a great video of this starring Donald Sutherland), and the masterful sound mixes in "Watching You Without Me" - two of my favorite tracks!
Hi Justin, Koos here from the Netherlands... great channel you have here! You should really really really listen to Hello Earth from this Kate Bush album. After all those years I am still knocked off my feet every time I have listened to that particular song. I cannot wait to see your reaction and analysis!
this is one of my favorite songs!!! the lyrics are really clever and the song is just a whole lot of fun her voice she really cuts loose on this one !!
Beautiful track ... beautiful album. I think this may have been the "single" version. There are dark moments on this album but the light always seems to shine through ... even in the darkest moments. The "Ninth Wave" part of the album is breathtaking !! Love it !!!
While I like Side One... which has most of her hits... Side Two (The Ninth Wave) is the genius side... with AMAZING production and writing... it's quite the adventure ("And Dream Of Sheep," "Waking The Witch," "Under Ice," "Jig of Life," and "The Morning Fog" are among my favorites) and well-worth a single review for all.
The Video for " Big Sky" us my favorite video period. TOTALLY respect PJ choosing audio reaction. In this case this video needs to be seen. Kate is a performance artst which is 50% of her appeal.
I just can't get enough of Kate Bush. Thank you for reacting to her music. Something you may not know is that Kate is fluent in Gaelic. She performed a traditional Gaelic folksong with a translated title of "Women of Ireland," and the beauty of her voice just gives me chills every time I've heard it. There's also a couple of videos of guitar virtuoso Jeff Back performing the song, one with his band, and another with Sharron Corr, both of which are wonderful. But Kate's rendition is just spectacular, conveying deep emotions even though I don't understand a word. th-cam.com/video/shV-tT8cY-A/w-d-xo.html
Found you from Firth of Fifth. You are by far the best reaction youtuber since you spend the time to go deep into the song. Keep it up! My request: Shock the monkey live in Greece by Peter Gabriel. On So special edition album. Awesome bass sound on the ear buds!
This track absolutely bounces. It’s one of the stronger ones from that very famous Album. It sounds as fresh today as it did back in the day. It could be released tomorrow and sound new. A lot of artists today would like a track that’s sounds like that (and try hard to emulate the sound). Real good musician. She programmed the fairlight CMI synth herself, far more than a vocalist.
This is always such a fun song to dance to but I agree with you it's not one of the best songs on the album. I love when she goes crazy with her voice towards the end. I also like how she mixes her Celtic Irish folk roots into the music. It makes it so special.
Kate has many great songs, I really love quite a few of them too. And this is definitely one of them. This album "the sensual world" and "the dreaming" got a lot of playtime for years. I'd go for "Reaching Out" from "the sensual world" now.
Apparently, this is a true story ; Kate's label hadn't heard from her for a long time and she wasn't returning their calls, so they sent a label employee to her house. He asked her to tell him what she'd been working on recently. In response, she showed him some scones she was baking 😆
I like the song a lot and have always found those lines about the clouds to be very memorable, opening memories of lying on the grass, looking up at the clouds. I do agree that the song is a bit of a "wall of sound" but I still love it. Thanks for the review.
Great song by Kate, and this isn't a criticism but this is her at her polished best. I am a huge fan of this album but also a sucker for her first two albums which were more stripped back. Oh England My Lionheart is typical of her early piano driven style and is such a touching song. I can sort of understand why you didn't like the song straight away (even although your wrong lol), side one is effectively a collection of pop songs, but the second side is a complete work, very ambitious, and masterly crafted.
Love Kate Bush. I would consider her a child prodigy, a musical genius and a consummate artist. She is a once in a lifetime talent, so I thought. You need to listen to and react to Norwegian artist Aurora. Like Bush, she wrote many of her songs as a young teenager and recorded them as an older teenager. I would recommend "Runaway", "Warrior", " Queendom Come", "Eyes of a Child".
Thanks! Your analysis are among the best and the most intelligent in this video genre, for sure. You also have a nice voice for singing, do you sing? I love Kate Bush and I love this song and the video, too. The whole album is a masterpiece!
Nice response: you certainly know how to give Kate her due. What I always am struck by is how particular Kate is about every detail of her music, and how she has the confidence, and ability, assemble these details into exactly the overall sound she hears in her head. In this song, just try to count how many different independent vocal tracks Kate created: her lead, the multi-part harmonies that go "dum day oh, dum day oh", the multi-part harmonies that go "dum did day um dum, di day dee ay di day dee ay di", the multi-part harmonies that go "roll me over like a great big cloud walkin' out in the big sky", all the different moans, screams and god-only-knows-what other sounds she makes throughout the song. She clearly needed to record dozens of different parts to achieve what she wanted. BTW - the track you listened to was not the album version but the single. There's not a huge difference between the two but the album version is, if you can believe it, a bit more expansive.
It's one of the few songs on the album that has any energy at all, and what energy! And that SCREAM at the end! This is Rock n Roll. It has some of the weirdness of "The Dreaming", which remains my favourite of her albums. Propulsive, imaginative and danceable. You should see the video, mate -- such fun. Definitely a highlight for me, from an otherwise overall disappointing album -- in the Kate Bush canon.
Another fantastic video was for Experiment IV. A song about the military trying to create a sound in the laboratory that could kill someone from a distance. Hugh Laurie does a cameo in it, just like Donald Sutherland did in Cloudbusting, another masterpiece by Kate.
I love this for what it is. A fun song. But I would recommend "Breathing", "Houdini" (my favourite Kate song), or why not try Moments Of Pleasure. Thanks for the reactions to Kate. I enjoy them!
Great song. But you owe it to yourself to listen to the (Meteorological Mix) version as well. It's the B-side of the single. I can understand if you don't like the song that much. It's more of an acquired taste than the rest of the singles off the album. And I think that has to do with the structure of the composition. It's extremely simple and bare-bones. It's essentially just there as something for Kate to hang the ENTIRE SKY on, in the shape of extreme overproduction. But what I like about the song is that it's meant to be overproduced. That's what she was going for. Sound clouds, man.
Justin, all of the songs on this album sound best in context. That's especially true for the second half (The Ninth Wave), which is one continuous piece. But it's also true for the first half. The Big Sky is the third of five songs, and marks a kind of transition point toward the last two tracks on that "side" of the album.
Kate is also a peformace artist which is 50% of her appeal. While I respect you react to audio over video. In this particular case worth seeing and would give you a completey different perspective. Her performance (and others) performance is astounding. It was this video that made me a KB enthusiastic.. Odd because this is hands down my favorite track of hers
Justin, it is just wonderful you work through complete classic albums. This not the best song of Hounds Of Love, but in time I learned to just love it for the fun it radiates. This version (special mix) can be found on the Hounds Of Love 'remastered version', which is a shame. Why the original version got wasted is beyond me. Why change part of a classic album at all? What if Wuthering Heights on The Kick Inside was swapped with the 'new version' from 1986? I think that is just an awful thing to do. And again you give an honest and very detailed reaction. Thanks!
I like your point that while technicality and virtuosity can be showy for the sake of being showy, it's so often just fun. And how could it not be? If someone is good at what they do, aren't they going to have fun doing it as best as they can?--whether that be the playing or the composing. It's sometimes seen as taking oneself too seriously, but it may also be the most childlike thing a highly talented person can do. What, after all, is childlike about restraining oneself from experimenting with and exercising their skills?
Wow this os actually my favorite track! PJ When you say tribal, Kate is very influenced by World Music (ethnic music from around the world). This is very influenced by Easterm European folk. I by no means feel she is intentionally using the track as a platform to showcase her vocal range. I think she just adapts to the song at hand and what it call,
After, listen to the album 50 Words for Snow, it's the complete opposite of The Big Sky. There's a lot of space for the listener. One of my favorite albuns of her!
I like the way you analyze songs this song was pretty real good sounded like Cyndi Lauper a little bit but even though it’s an older song there’s a lot of music from back in the day that I didn’t listen to but I’m glad that you bring it up and pass it around the little stuff This song is very festive like it a lot
Good Job JP! I'm increasingly impressed by your analysis. Kate is such a genius.... you know who she would recommend though... Roy Harper. with 32 studio albums and collaborations with Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, Pink Floyd and Kate Bush: It just seems a logical progression :)
Always loved this particular song although this whole album is brilliant. Not sure how much Beach Boys you've listened to but any songs from Pet Sounds, or an album video for that, would be a great topic. I'll also recommend Scott Walker as a great vocalist
Not a bad track on this album. The vocal has a childlike quality and I've always loved Kate Bush's confidence in experimenting with voice and "words", creating her own unique trance vocal riffing. Instead of sha waddy doo-wop she gives us eeoh-eeoh yay etc. Plenty of that here. Great! You haven't done Cloudbusting yet, from the same album. You got a treat coming.
As a point of reference you may want to listen to the Kinks' Big Sky. Completely different melody and delivery. Kate's song is kinda a response to Davies' song.
I think that is a bodhran ( ancient Celtic hand drumbeat) so it ties in with the cloud shaped like Ireland. David Gilmore discovered her when she was a child. I think he lived close bye.
My art teacher said to me ( years ago), not everything you do has to be a masterpiece. I was like, huh? I think this was a whimsical fun song that had a decent production budget. Sounds a bit overdone to me but that was the 80s. I have this CD but haven’t listened to it for decades. I did enjoy hearing it again. Not a masterpiece but fun. Peace and Music
Not easy to review anything after Floyd’s Echoes. There is a connection though, who discovered and helped launch her career ? Yep, Gilmour. I do love Kate Bush though.
I don't think it's ever a matter of being right or wrong. The only thing that counts is that you always really listen to the song, and pay rapt attention to it, and then put a lot of effort into your critique of it afterwards. As long as there's that level of respect for the music, everything else is about the vagaries of personal taste. We also know that some songs are slow-growers and don't always work after a single listen. I'm intrigued to find out what you got from The Ninth Wave, although it's a tricky thing to react to piecemeal.
Enjoying watching you move toward the "Ninth Wave" (album tracks 6-12). Even if you don't end up recording a reaction to 25 minutes of music (!), please find a way to let us know what you thought of it. "Mother Stands for Comfort," which follows "Big Sky" on the album is a real change of pace from the first three tracks; slows things down, but still packs a punch (and a Fairlight synthesizer). Hope you manage to get to that one soon, without driving off the citizenry by becoming all-Kate-all-the-time, of course. Keep on....
You probably won't fully understand why Kate Bush is so special before you listen to the B-side with the song cycle "The Ninth Wave". In my opinion that's her masterpiece. It's 25 minutes of trippy music that couldn't have been made by anybody else than Kate Bush. Would love to hear your opinion on it.
This is probably my favorite Kate Bush song which is so hard to say as I love others just as equally but this one is my pick me up song. I don't know, like the sound of the song is like... In the beginning it's like floating and fluffy and then it just feels bouncey and festive and like you're soaring and celebrating.
@@JustJP Kate is a peformace artist which is 50% of her appeal. While Irespect and agree with reacting to audio over video. In this particular case I highly suggest viewing the " Big Sky" video. It would give a completey different perspective. Her performance (and others) is astounding! The video is otherworldly and a masterpiece ( my favorite of hers) It was this video that made me a KB enthusiastic.. PJ when you say tribal, Kate is very influenced by World Music (ethnic music from around the world). This is very influenced by Easterm European folk. By no means feel she is intentionally using the track as a platform to showcase her vocal range. She metely adapts to the song at hand. If I showed you certain ethnic music their is a lot of vocal improvisation which cones fron more of a spiritual place. I highly
I agree with you on this. Now, when are we gonna see you reacting to some songs of The Dreaming? Yes, I know you've listened to it and i'll have nightmares until you do so! (kidding 😄... unless you're reviewing Get Out of My House 😬).
Can understand not liking it as much as the others, it's somewhat one-dimensional I suppose. To me it's one of the best on the album though, I just adore the strength and energy of Kate's performance.
Probably my fav KB song. So euphoric, witty, inventive and down right fun.
Agreed my favorite KB track. This is the one I would use to introduce someone to Kate, but whenever I suggest typically the few bigger hits she has dominate the comments
Damn, I can’t wait to see you reacting The Ninth Wave (the whole other side of this album), that is some mind blowing piece of art.
I hope he does it as one reaction. I don't have a problem with splitting the A-side into single song reactions but The Ninth wave really should be listened to as one piece.
YES!!
@@jori1 Was coming in to say the exact same thing. When someone hasn't heard a song (seen a movie, read a book, etc.) I love, my reaction is ... jealously. As much as I love them, I'd love even more to have the chance to hear "Ninth Wave" or "Left of the Dial" or "Marquee Moon" or "Remember the Mountain Bed" for the first time, again.
I'd also love to have no idea what was about to happen before Snoop buys a nail gun on the "The Wire."
Whenever I get to it, I'll make sure its one video :)
Yeah, the Ninth Wave needs to be listened to as one song, one side and understand the story it tells. Absolutely brilliant album.
When you get to The Ninth Wave (2nd side of the album starting from And Dream of Sheep) you have to do it all in one video as it is seen as one piece of music, the tracks flow into each other and they all tell one story.
This is an absolute must.
I agree :) Ty
COMPLETELY AGEE
Gotta do the Ninth Wave!
I fell in love with Kate Bush from the first moment I heard wuthering heights , her albums are always different and interesting, never mundane , never a dull moment. True original.
To me this song is just pure joy. That's what she's bringing to the table and and that's what I get out of it. It seems so full of joy and it just makes me happy when I listen to it. To me, perhaps it's not the best song on the album (that would be Hello Earth) but it's the most fun. For me the second half is similar to Hey Jude in the sense that it has a repeated phrase in the backing vocal with a really inspired improvised lead on top. That's just my take of course.
This is actually my favorite track of hers period. When PJ says tribal, Kate is very influenced by World Music (ethnic music from around the world). This is very influenced by Easterm European folk.
By no means feel she is intentionally using the track as a platform to showcase her vocal range. I think she just adapts to the song at hand and what it calls for. Lastly Kate is a peformace artist which is 50% of her appeal. While I
respect PJ reacting to audio over video.
In this particular case worth seeing and would give a completey different perspective. Her performance (and others) is astounding! The video is a masterpiece and my favorite of hers.
It was this video that made me a KB enthusiastic..
Entire record is fantastic! Just as fresh today as the day it was released! The Drums in this song Cook! Love it! God bless ya Kate!!!
The video for this song is awesome!
This has one of my favourite of Kate’s videos if only because it almost seems like a stage performance, so it was the closest we got to seeing her live for a couple of decades.
When recording this, she couldn’t let go and belt it out at the end screamy part...so she went out and got drunk and came back in the studio and let it all out.
Hey JP, nice choice! Kate’s is a rabbithole that is very wild, with totally unexpected detours, genres, and remarkable intensity. I could not stop playing this album when i came out. It is indeed one of my proverbial desert island choices. EVERY track is great. Kate said that she was real drunk when she recorded her ad libs at the end of this tune.. Keep up the good work! Try Kate’s “Get Out of My House” from “The Dreaming” sometime soon please. th-cam.com/video/kdsNX1WyN20/w-d-xo.html
Get Out of My House is a chilling masterwork of atmosphere.
She is such an incredible talent
She always reminded me of a female version of Peter Gabriel
more like female David Bowie if you ask me.
Definitely the female Peter Gabriel.
Even their styles progressed in the same directions and in the same years.
"Thank you Peter Gabriel for opening windows" she credited him on her 3rd album in 1980, the first that she self-produced. Note that Gabriel's 3rd album came in 1980, and both records are where each artist finally defined him and herself, coming into their own at last.
A great melding of accessibility and experimentation :)
Yes Peter Gabriel 👌
Why all these comparisons with male artists? Do you ever wonder about that?
Kate creates music scapes that each time you listen to it, you get blown away ! An absolute genius !
There's an amusing 12" mix where a crowd comments on the clouds. "That cloud is nothing but trouble!" … "That cloud looks like it's going to rain!" (murmurs of approvals). It provides a nice break in the repeating sections.
Wow, I've never heard that!
@@robertjewell9727 It's on CD, there's a 2-disc from the UK that includes it (it's called the Meteorological Mix), also a B-side that's really nice called "Under the Ivy" (flip side of Running Up That Hill in the US).
Cool, thank you!
I always loved the "that cloud looks like snow" "no it doesn't!" pair of lines. I love this song...it's fantastic to put on when you need a boost. Like "Music That You Can Dance To" by Sparks. No heavy message, nothing fancy...just fun.
Anything from Kate is great, but the song Breathing is my favorite for her showing off her lower register.
Ty Steve!
one of her bests for sure
This album is a masterpiece in my opinion and The Big Sky is a transition in changing tonalities of the album's path. It should be listened to from start to finish - in order. That to me is the way Kate's musical thoughts and expression works. She composes in a way beyond just writing songs. Your observations about the lyrics are spot on and I think the music which is a chanting in March form evokes a brightness the big sky brings in a single experience of a person's seeing upwardly as if the clouds are the inspiration for how the music does not "repeat", but cycles like clouds turning and more and more strongly saying, Look! This is amazing! It doesn't need to be musically complex and instead chants in a very Celtic celebration. That's my take anyway. Cheers, Justin. 👍🎶
Excellent observations!
Ty Robert!
I love that you notice that lower part of her voice. As she aged, her voice lowered and became more complex. Please try Get Out of My House! When It came out I would blast it when I wanted to break up a party for people to leave!
Lol! Yep, that would do it. Banshee screams'll get 'em every time.
That, and operatic sopranos on full tilt. I happen to love it, but that will surely clear the room of all unappreciative undesirables in a millisecond! And I would be singing along just to be more obnoxious!
Cynthia Navarro Thanks for the laugh! 🤣 You wouldn’t get rid of me with opera! We could sing along together and chase everyone else out!
Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Hee-haw! 😉
Yay more Kate Bush!
Always up for you reacting to tracks from this magical album. It's so long since I watched someone discover it for the first time and it's joyous.
Ty ty🙂
This Woman’s Work, England My Lionheart, The Man With The Child In His Eyes. Are some of her most popular tracks.
She was amazing I grew up with this as a British child in the 80's. She began her songs amazingly and ended them amazingly a lot of her songs were inspired by books. Great British books. Her mom was a nurse and her Irish mother was a Nurse. I identified with her except I never went to private school and I was of Caribbean decent. You won't like it if you don't get British culture. Also her brother used a lot of unusual instruments
Every single song on Hounds of Love is incredible. This one is just overflowing with her child-like enthusiasm.
Kate Bush: The Emperors of Art Rock!
I love this song, so much energy. I'm not someone into percussion but it shines here, she keeps piling on the layers, the hand claps. There's a very busy music video that's worth a look. The line "You never understood me," brings to mind 'Both Sides Now' by Joni Mitchell where one verse concludes with the line "I really don't know clouds at all."
A non-album b-side from this single is 'Not This Time' is also worth seeking out.
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After The Dreaming flopped everybody was calling her 'Crazy Kate'...then this album dropped...nobody was calling her crazy anymore...a phenomenal work by imo the most important female artist of the late 20th century. What an experience this song is and the slap it provided to an industry that had all but turned their back on her.
Love Kate Bush Forever...
My fav from the album alongside 'Running-Up'. There's just so much life, so much passion, so much enthusiasm that I get the smile-y goosebumps all the way through.
I agree - it's not one of Kate's biggest songs on Hounds - I think this was influenced, just for fun, by Cindi Lauper's "Girls Just Want To Have Fun", and the video kind of further emphasizes this. I am more intrigued by her portrayal of Peter Reich's Book of Dreams in "Cloudbusting" (there is a great video of this starring Donald Sutherland), and the masterful sound mixes in "Watching You Without Me" - two of my favorite tracks!
Hi Justin, Koos here from the Netherlands... great channel you have here! You should really really really listen to Hello Earth from this Kate Bush album. After all those years I am still knocked off my feet every time I have listened to that particular song. I cannot wait to see your reaction and analysis!
Ty Koos! I listened to Hello Earth when I went through the Ninth Wave 😀
this is one of my favorite songs!!! the lyrics are really clever and the song is just a whole lot of fun
her voice she really cuts loose on this one !!
Beautiful track ... beautiful album. I think this may have been the "single" version. There are dark moments on this album but the light always seems to shine through ... even in the darkest moments. The "Ninth Wave" part of the album is breathtaking !! Love it !!!
Thanks John! Thats what I've heard about it, looking forward to it!
This, to me, was her most commercial sounding song on HOUNDS. Has always been a fav of mine by KATE.
Kate Bush is everything
Kate is a genius. And I love your fox necklace.
Great cheer of a song. Love life
While I like Side One... which has most of her hits... Side Two (The Ninth Wave) is the genius side... with AMAZING production and writing... it's quite the adventure ("And Dream Of Sheep," "Waking The Witch," "Under Ice," "Jig of Life," and "The Morning Fog" are among my favorites) and well-worth a single review for all.
Looking forward to it!
The Video for " Big Sky" us my favorite video period. TOTALLY respect PJ choosing audio reaction. In this case this video needs to be seen. Kate is a performance artst which is 50% of her appeal.
Loved this. I know Kate pretty well, but had not heard this jam. Thanks!
I just can't get enough of Kate Bush. Thank you for reacting to her music. Something you may not know is that Kate is fluent in Gaelic. She performed a traditional Gaelic folksong with a translated title of "Women of Ireland," and the beauty of her voice just gives me chills every time I've heard it. There's also a couple of videos of guitar virtuoso Jeff Back performing the song, one with his band, and another with Sharron Corr, both of which are wonderful. But Kate's rendition is just spectacular, conveying deep emotions even though I don't understand a word. th-cam.com/video/shV-tT8cY-A/w-d-xo.html
This is my Favorite Kate Bush Song. From her best LP
Found you from Firth of Fifth. You are by far the best reaction youtuber since you spend the time to go deep into the song. Keep it up! My request: Shock the monkey live in Greece by Peter Gabriel. On So special edition album. Awesome bass sound on the ear buds!
Thanks so much bailey!
This track absolutely bounces. It’s one of the stronger ones from that very famous Album. It sounds as fresh today as it did back in the day. It could be released tomorrow and sound new. A lot of artists today would like a track that’s sounds like that (and try hard to emulate the sound). Real good musician. She programmed the fairlight CMI synth herself, far more than a vocalist.
This is always such a fun song to dance to but I agree with you it's not one of the best songs on the album. I love when she goes crazy with her voice towards the end. I also like how she mixes her Celtic Irish folk roots into the music. It makes it so special.
Kate has many great songs, I really love quite a few of them too. And this is definitely one of them. This album "the sensual world" and "the dreaming" got a lot of playtime for years. I'd go for "Reaching Out" from "the sensual world" now.
Apparently, this is a true story ; Kate's label hadn't heard from her for a long time and she wasn't returning their calls, so they sent a label employee to her house. He asked her to tell him what she'd been working on recently. In response, she showed him some scones she was baking 😆
I like the song a lot and have always found those lines about the clouds to be very memorable, opening memories of lying on the grass, looking up at the clouds. I do agree that the song is a bit of a "wall of sound" but I still love it. Thanks for the review.
Me gustó desde la primera vez que la escuché
Dude, you should have millionsof likes.👍
As long as you enjoy, I'm happy!
Great song by Kate, and this isn't a criticism but this is her at her polished best. I am a huge fan of this album but also a sucker for her first two albums which were more stripped back. Oh England My Lionheart is typical of her early piano driven style and is such a touching song. I can sort of understand why you didn't like the song straight away (even although your wrong lol), side one is effectively a collection of pop songs, but the second side is a complete work, very ambitious, and masterly crafted.
Love Kate Bush. I would consider her a child prodigy, a musical genius and a consummate artist. She is a once in a lifetime talent, so I thought. You need to listen to and react to Norwegian artist Aurora. Like Bush, she wrote many of her songs as a young teenager and recorded them as an older teenager. I would recommend "Runaway", "Warrior", " Queendom Come", "Eyes of a Child".
Looking forward to you doing "Cloudbusting'.
Anthemic !!!
When you finally have a chance to listen to the album in its entirety, the pieces will all come together.
Thanks! Your analysis are among the best and the most intelligent in this video genre, for sure. You also have a nice voice for singing, do you sing? I love Kate Bush and I love this song and the video, too. The whole album is a masterpiece!
Thats very kind of you Carlos, thank you for that compliment. Only singing I do is in the shower lol
Nice response: you certainly know how to give Kate her due. What I always am struck by is how particular Kate is about every detail of her music, and how she has the confidence, and ability, assemble these details into exactly the overall sound she hears in her head. In this song, just try to count how many different independent vocal tracks Kate created: her lead, the multi-part harmonies that go "dum day oh, dum day oh", the multi-part harmonies that go "dum did day um dum, di day dee ay di day dee ay di", the multi-part harmonies that go "roll me over like a great big cloud walkin' out in the big sky", all the different moans, screams and god-only-knows-what other sounds she makes throughout the song. She clearly needed to record dozens of different parts to achieve what she wanted.
BTW - the track you listened to was not the album version but the single. There's not a huge difference between the two but the album version is, if you can believe it, a bit more expansive.
Ty WD! Yes, there are a lot of nice vocal layers going on as well, thats one aspect I enjoy with a lot of her music.
It's one of the few songs on the album that has any energy at all, and what energy! And that SCREAM at the end! This is Rock n Roll.
It has some of the weirdness of "The Dreaming", which remains my favourite of her albums. Propulsive, imaginative and danceable. You should see the video, mate -- such fun.
Definitely a highlight for me, from an otherwise overall disappointing album -- in the Kate Bush canon.
The "big sky' symbolizes a higher conciousness. "They look down at the ground...missing" are those lost in the collective unconcious
Another fantastic video was for Experiment IV. A song about the military trying to create a sound in the laboratory that could kill someone from a distance. Hugh Laurie does a cameo in it, just like Donald Sutherland did in Cloudbusting, another masterpiece by Kate.
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I love this for what it is. A fun song. But I would recommend "Breathing", "Houdini" (my favourite Kate song), or why not try Moments Of Pleasure.
Thanks for the reactions to Kate. I enjoy them!
The sensual world and Houdini.
Great song. But you owe it to yourself to listen to the (Meteorological Mix) version as well. It's the B-side of the single.
I can understand if you don't like the song that much. It's more of an acquired taste than the rest of the singles off the album.
And I think that has to do with the structure of the composition. It's extremely simple and bare-bones.
It's essentially just there as something for Kate to hang the ENTIRE SKY on, in the shape of extreme overproduction.
But what I like about the song is that it's meant to be overproduced. That's what she was going for. Sound clouds, man.
Justin, all of the songs on this album sound best in context. That's especially true for the second half (The Ninth Wave), which is one continuous piece. But it's also true for the first half. The Big Sky is the third of five songs, and marks a kind of transition point toward the last two tracks on that "side" of the album.
Kate is also a peformace artist which is 50% of her appeal. While I
respect you react to audio over video.
In this particular case worth seeing and would give you a completey different perspective. Her performance (and others) performance is astounding.
It was this video that made me a KB enthusiastic.. Odd because this is hands down my favorite track of hers
Justin, it is just wonderful you work through complete classic albums. This not the best song of Hounds Of Love, but in time I learned to just love it for the fun it radiates. This version (special mix) can be found on the Hounds Of Love 'remastered version', which is a shame. Why the original version got wasted is beyond me. Why change part of a classic album at all? What if Wuthering Heights on The Kick Inside was swapped with the 'new version' from 1986? I think that is just an awful thing to do.
And again you give an honest and very detailed reaction. Thanks!
Thank you JK!
I like your point that while technicality and virtuosity can be showy for the sake of being showy, it's so often just fun. And how could it not be? If someone is good at what they do, aren't they going to have fun doing it as best as they can?--whether that be the playing or the composing. It's sometimes seen as taking oneself too seriously, but it may also be the most childlike thing a highly talented person can do. What, after all, is childlike about restraining oneself from experimenting with and exercising their skills?
Wow this os actually my favorite track!
PJ When you say tribal, Kate is very influenced by World Music (ethnic music from around the world). This is very influenced by Easterm European folk.
I by no means feel she is intentionally using the track as a platform to showcase her vocal range. I think she just adapts to the song at hand and what it call,
After, listen to the album 50 Words for Snow, it's the complete opposite of The Big Sky. There's a lot of space for the listener. One of my favorite albuns of her!
Alanis morrisette - forgiven.. great tune bro
I like the way you analyze songs this song was pretty real good sounded like Cyndi Lauper a little bit but even though it’s an older song there’s a lot of music from back in the day that I didn’t listen to but I’m glad that you bring it up and pass it around the little stuff This song is very festive like it a lot
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Good Job JP! I'm increasingly impressed by your analysis. Kate is such a genius.... you know who she would recommend though... Roy Harper. with 32 studio albums and collaborations with Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, Pink Floyd and Kate Bush: It just seems a logical progression :)
Thanks D!
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Always loved this particular song although this whole album is brilliant.
Not sure how much Beach Boys you've listened to but any songs from Pet Sounds, or an album video for that, would be a great topic. I'll also recommend Scott Walker as a great vocalist
Need to go back to the beginning and do her first album The Kick Inside, it's fantastic.
Yeah, what Chris Echoes said!
This'is the song that reminds me why she sang on The Seer by Big Country and she could jam when she wanted too
One of my favorites of hers. David Gilmour plays on this. I do wish it was up tempo a bit. I seems slower than I remembered.
Not a bad track on this album. The vocal has a childlike quality and I've always loved Kate Bush's confidence in experimenting with voice and "words", creating her own unique trance vocal riffing. Instead of sha waddy doo-wop she gives us eeoh-eeoh yay etc. Plenty of that here. Great! You haven't done Cloudbusting yet, from the same album. You got a treat coming.
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As a point of reference you may want to listen to the Kinks' Big Sky. Completely different melody and delivery. Kate's song is kinda a response to Davies' song.
I think that is a bodhran ( ancient Celtic hand drumbeat) so it ties in with the cloud shaped like Ireland. David Gilmore discovered her when she was a child. I think he lived close bye.
Have you done the saxophone song yet or the man with a child in his eye from her first album
My art teacher said to me ( years ago), not everything you do has to be a masterpiece. I was like, huh?
I think this was a whimsical fun song that had a decent production budget. Sounds a bit overdone to me but that was the 80s. I have this CD but haven’t listened to it for decades. I did enjoy hearing it again. Not a masterpiece but fun.
Peace and Music
Not easy to review anything after Floyd’s Echoes. There is a connection though, who discovered and helped launch her career ? Yep, Gilmour. I do love Kate Bush though.
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I don't think it's ever a matter of being right or wrong. The only thing that counts is that you always really listen to the song, and pay rapt attention to it, and then put a lot of effort into your critique of it afterwards. As long as there's that level of respect for the music, everything else is about the vagaries of personal taste. We also know that some songs are slow-growers and don't always work after a single listen. I'm intrigued to find out what you got from The Ninth Wave, although it's a tricky thing to react to piecemeal.
Kate Bush must watch videos: "Eat the Music", "Wild Man", and "Love and Anger" (w/solo by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd)
Kate was involved with tribal ancient music and chants.....especially Bohemian music.
Enjoying watching you move toward the "Ninth Wave" (album tracks 6-12). Even if you don't end up recording a reaction to 25 minutes of music (!), please find a way to let us know what you thought of it.
"Mother Stands for Comfort," which follows "Big Sky" on the album is a real change of pace from the first three tracks; slows things down, but still packs a punch (and a Fairlight synthesizer). Hope you manage to get to that one soon, without driving off the citizenry by becoming all-Kate-all-the-time, of course.
Keep on....
Thanks Britton. It'll be a little bit, but I'll eventually get to the ninth wave as well, and it'll likely be the whole thing.
Have you done Van Der Graaf Generator--Darkness, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, Refugees, Killer, Lost, Pioneers over C, etc...?
Not yet, but it's on the list
You probably won't fully understand why Kate Bush is so special before you listen to the B-side with the song cycle "The Ninth Wave". In my opinion that's her masterpiece. It's 25 minutes of trippy music that couldn't have been made by anybody else than Kate Bush. Would love to hear your opinion on it.
Coming soon!
I agree it goes on a bit too long, but I really like that thundering drum beat.
This is probably my favorite Kate Bush song which is so hard to say as I love others just as equally but this one is my pick me up song. I don't know, like the sound of the song is like...
In the beginning it's like floating and fluffy and then it just feels bouncey and festive and like you're soaring and celebrating.
I can see it :)
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Kate is a peformace artist which is 50% of her appeal. While Irespect and agree with reacting to audio over video.
In this particular case I highly suggest viewing the " Big Sky" video. It would give a completey different perspective. Her performance (and others) is astounding! The video is otherworldly and a masterpiece ( my favorite of hers)
It was this video that made me a KB enthusiastic..
PJ when you say tribal, Kate is very influenced by World Music (ethnic music from around the world). This is very influenced by Easterm European folk.
By no means feel she is intentionally using the track as a platform to showcase her vocal range. She metely adapts to the song at hand. If I showed you certain ethnic music their is a lot of vocal improvisation which cones fron more of a spiritual place.
I highly
add to your comments about the drums,,, part of the production on this album NO CYMBALS genius
By no means the best song on that great album, but it's still pretty good.
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You are a great reviewer, really. And Kate Bush is a genius.
Well thank you for that🙂
JustJP don’t mention it. I’d love you to listen to and review “Wow” by Kate Bush. :-)
No you were right on this one.
This song is usually mentioned as the weakest on the album, I still like it though for putting me in a feel good mood.
Yay! More Kate Bush! You're right, it's album filler, but it's still Kate Bush!
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I agree with you on this. Now, when are we gonna see you reacting to some songs of The Dreaming?
Yes, I know you've listened to it and i'll have nightmares until you do so! (kidding 😄... unless you're reviewing Get Out of My House 😬).
Lol! Idk, since I've already heard it. But its never too late for a revisit :)
Not the studio version. This differs from the YT link in the description.
Listen to the Meteorological Mix version.
Can understand not liking it as much as the others, it's somewhat one-dimensional I suppose. To me it's one of the best on the album though, I just adore the strength and energy of Kate's performance.