Maybe not love at first listen but I always go back to those songs because once you are more familiar you start to hear all the nuances. Brilliant song, inspired by Stephen Kings The Shining
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this one! I think a lot of us were very WTF?! the first time we heard "Get Out Of My House". The song, and the entire album, sounded like nothing we'd heard before. This is the magic of Kate Bush.
I originally bought this album for the cover. I wasn't prepared for the music and it sat on my shelf for years before I had the nerve to play it again.
I bought it because of the cover, too! 😂 I only knew two or three songs of Kate Bush at that time, and what I heard then was not what I had expected, and it was like nothing I had ever heard before at all (I was 13)! Unlike you, I listened to this album almost non-stop for the whole summer of 1983, and it initiated a lifelong love for Kate Bush's music. I have often wished I had a time machine, just to be able to listen to The Dreaming for the first couple of times again.
@@thedreaming1015 That's wonderful. On a side note, I had a friend who bought "The Dreaming" on cassette! WTH?? I told him, "Nooo, that's a VINYL listen if ever there was one."
@@jons.105 I had to laugh again, because I must admit that it was the cassette, too, that I had first. My first couple of albums were all cassettes, so that I could listen to them with my walkman and with my tape player in my room, as my family only had a record player in the living-room. Getting the vinyl a while later was a revelation, not only for sonic reasons! The cassette had neither the lyrics, nor the invitation to play the album loud. ;-)
Hi and thanks for another KB reaction. This album IS challenging and there are a couple of songs ("There Goes a Tenner", "All the Love") on it that for me mean that I always rank some other of her albums above "The Dreaming." But it an extraordinary landmark, statement album. To me this particular song is one of the most 'Kate Bush' Kate Bush songs that there is, one of her weirder, creepier songs that I personally love (others on this album include the wonderfully preposterous yet biting, damning title track, as well as "Leave it Open." And then there is majesty of the lung busting "Suspended in Gaffa" - not so much weird and creepy as just a superb piece of song writing and craft). Feeling disorientated by this song or by this whole album is a common experience - you are meant to feel that way. This album is set up to throw more at your senses than they can compute at the time and so you can't keep up with it, you are not really expected to - you are entering into the world of nightmare, dark faerie tales, the madness and chaos that follow hard on our tracks and the madness and chaos that we in turn cause to others. On this particular song (Inspired by "The Shining" - with Kate herself as the hotel that houses the madness and horror) I always find that weirdest, creepiest thing about it is not the background madness, chaos and noise, but the times when she sings in a very still, almost dispassionate voice above that background madness, chaos and noise. On those occasions she sounds to me a bit like a news reporter reporting on a city centre riot. Flares, and fireworks are being let off in the background while tear gas being fired in response; fires being started, business being looted, stones and bottles being thrown as the riot police thump their shields and then rush in upon the mob. There is surge and counter surge, screams and scuffles, bedlam, anarchy all on show in the background. And all the while the reporter, the narrators calmly, dispassionately speaks to the camera about the madness (in this case the madness within). I know it is not an easy song. Indeed I know that it is not a song for all seasons. But I do love it enormously.
This is one of The Great Kate's weirder songs that I always loved. Couple of her weird songs that always rubbed me WAY the wrong way, but this one is brilliant.
Quote from Wikipedia: "Bush trained at Goldsmiths College karate club where her brother John was a karate instructor. There she became known as "Ee-ee" because of her squeaky kiai."
What a way to end the album. I see this piece as the flip side ( literally) of Leave it Open. "We let the weirdness in..." And now at the finale , the demons must be exorcised and chased away. But what are those creepy backup vocals saying?? " knock it...knock it down, there's a devil in the house, locking the door!" OR Is IT, "Lock it, lock it up, there's a devil in the house.."?????? Anyone know the right answer? Its been killing me for decades, Lol...
David Gilmour discovered her. Backing Vocals here and there on this album. And some solo I think? ......This is KB at her finest .......She and Peter Gabriel is the best. Only they can get away with "strange" music
This house is full of madness. One of Kate's best.
A song about a haunted house told from the house's point of view? That's our Kate!
This whole album is fire.
A true artist completely original and never bettered
That Album is her best (I think). "Should be played at high volume" is printed on the sleeve (LP)
Maybe not love at first listen but I always go back to those songs because once you are more familiar you start to hear all the nuances. Brilliant song, inspired by Stephen Kings The Shining
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this one! I think a lot of us were very WTF?! the first time we heard "Get Out Of My House". The song, and the entire album, sounded like nothing we'd heard before. This is the magic of Kate Bush.
I originally bought this album for the cover. I wasn't prepared for the music and it sat on my shelf for years before I had the nerve to play it again.
I bought it because of the cover, too! 😂
I only knew two or three songs of Kate Bush at that time, and what I heard then was not what I had expected, and it was like nothing I had ever heard before at all (I was 13)! Unlike you, I listened to this album almost non-stop for the whole summer of 1983, and it initiated a lifelong love for Kate Bush's music. I have often wished I had a time machine, just to be able to listen to The Dreaming for the first couple of times again.
@@thedreaming1015 That's wonderful. On a side note, I had a friend who bought "The Dreaming" on cassette! WTH?? I told him, "Nooo, that's a VINYL listen if ever there was one."
@@jons.105 I had to laugh again, because I must admit that it was the cassette, too, that I had first. My first couple of albums were all cassettes, so that I could listen to them with my walkman and with my tape player in my room, as my family only had a record player in the living-room.
Getting the vinyl a while later was a revelation, not only for sonic reasons! The cassette had neither the lyrics, nor the invitation to play the album loud. ;-)
I can’t wait to see you the whole The Ninth Wave.
Great reactions as always
Finally! One of my favourites - and quite an album closer! Thanks for the reaction!
Hi and thanks for another KB reaction. This album IS challenging and there are a couple of songs ("There Goes a Tenner", "All the Love") on it that for me mean that I always rank some other of her albums above "The Dreaming." But it an extraordinary landmark, statement album. To me this particular song is one of the most 'Kate Bush' Kate Bush songs that there is, one of her weirder, creepier songs that I personally love (others on this album include the wonderfully preposterous yet biting, damning title track, as well as "Leave it Open." And then there is majesty of the lung busting "Suspended in Gaffa" - not so much weird and creepy as just a superb piece of song writing and craft).
Feeling disorientated by this song or by this whole album is a common experience - you are meant to feel that way. This album is set up to throw more at your senses than they can compute at the time and so you can't keep up with it, you are not really expected to - you are entering into the world of nightmare, dark faerie tales, the madness and chaos that follow hard on our tracks and the madness and chaos that we in turn cause to others.
On this particular song (Inspired by "The Shining" - with Kate herself as the hotel that houses the madness and horror) I always find that weirdest, creepiest thing about it is not the background madness, chaos and noise, but the times when she sings in a very still, almost dispassionate voice above that background madness, chaos and noise. On those occasions she sounds to me a bit like a news reporter reporting on a city centre riot. Flares, and fireworks are being let off in the background while tear gas being fired in response; fires being started, business being looted, stones and bottles being thrown as the riot police thump their shields and then rush in upon the mob. There is surge and counter surge, screams and scuffles, bedlam, anarchy all on show in the background. And all the while the reporter, the narrators calmly, dispassionately speaks to the camera about the madness (in this case the madness within).
I know it is not an easy song. Indeed I know that it is not a song for all seasons. But I do love it enormously.
This is one of The Great Kate's weirder songs that I always loved. Couple of her weird songs that always rubbed me WAY the wrong way, but this one is brilliant.
Oh I have to know what they are!
@@DanielDiaz-um1xd, Babooshka and Hammer Horror.
F&@! Yeah
"With my Key I!" I always imagine her doing a karate move "keya!"
Quote from Wikipedia: "Bush trained at Goldsmiths College karate club where her brother John was a karate instructor. There she became known as "Ee-ee" because of her squeaky kiai."
What a way to end the album. I see this piece as the flip side ( literally) of Leave it Open. "We let the weirdness in..."
And now at the finale , the demons must be exorcised and chased away. But what are those creepy backup vocals saying?? " knock it...knock it down, there's a devil in the house, locking the door!"
OR Is IT,
"Lock it, lock it up, there's a devil in the house.."??????
Anyone know the right answer? Its been killing me for decades, Lol...
It doesn't say when you look up lyrics?
David Gilmour discovered her. Backing Vocals here and there on this album. And some solo I think? ......This is KB at her finest .......She and Peter Gabriel is the best. Only they can get away with "strange" music
LOCK IT!