This has to be my favorite album of hers. Every song is at a level of beautiful that you can't find anywhere else! And moreso, I believe A Coral Room is her best song ever. Tears my heart out everytime I hear it
I’m so happy you liked this album so much. It constantly grows and evolves for me with every listen and has become my favourite of hers. I love its subtle nuances and play. I was jamming along with you on a few of these! 50 Words for Snow I find very under appreciated. A beautiful winter album as the title indicates. Excited to hear your thoughts on it.
I'm amazed how few reactors have got round to 50 Words, especially with it being her most recent. I love it, though I have to wear an extra layer, it makes me feel cold every time
Mrs. Bartolozzi is a beautiful song, even Björk went on interviews defending it against journalists who made fun of her for making a song about “washing clothes” when it’s much deeper than that. It’s one of my favorite depictions of loss and how even the most mundane acts, like washing clothes, can bring out so many memories of a loss one. The narrator lost her husband and as she washes his clothes dance with hers in the washing machine she can almost feel as if he’s giving her a last embrace, and the line when she thought she saw him outside but it was just his shirt drying gives me chills, as she cries out “it looked so alive!”
I'll always love how Björk called out sexist critics who dismissed "Mrs. Bartolozzi" as a silly song about laundry. When it's actually a heartbreaking look at grief and how it can overtake you at the most random moments. It's a very nuanced song and one of my favorite ballads from Kate.
It's her mature Hounds of Love. And to me Kate just gets better with age. I heard her say in a short call in to BBC radio two weeks ago that she's going back into the studio. I bet every old school musician in Britain is hoping to get a call from her. Bet she makes great brownies and they jam all night. Thanks for the reaction.
Bertie is full of the joy of motherhood. The Coral Room, the grief in losing a mother and the sadness in the passing of time. Both favourite songs for me.
Worth noting: Bertie is a tribute to her son (who sang in later life on the remaster of Sky of Honey) Pi is a tribute to her father Coral Room - the tribute to her mother, deals with loss and the passing of time - and was thought by Kate to be too personal to include. Del (Palmer RIP), her ex, lit the studio with candles and led her in to sing. She nailed it in one single take.
Great album, a beautiful landscape in Kate's gallery, her brushstrokes here are some of her best. It was worth the long wait when it arrived. I always play the suite together btw. It's sad though, the painter who got 'painted over' had been a great part of most UK 60s/70s childhoods (mine & Kate's incl) He painted on kids tv, and was a singer with a big kid's No 1 hit in 1970, and made 'learn to swim' tv ads, he was *huge* It was heart breaking for loads of people when he was found guilty and disgraced. She had to re-record, and Bertie, (her son, of the track Bertie) was a good replacement. Bertie pops up a few times here, he is central to her, he was a large part in bringing her back to the stage in 2014. Glad you enjoyed it, so looking forward to 50 Words, if you love 'space' there's plenty there, listen to it on a snow day if possible, it's her winter album to Aerial's summer.
I live in Canada so in a months time, I'm sure I'll definitely be enjoying that album on a snow day haha. Very excited to check it out considering how much more minimal it seems to be. Thanks for enjoying my content! :)
Arguably Kate's most beautiful album. Love the whole thing but the "Sky of Honey" suite is just remarkable and some of the best elegant music ever created.
Hi, and I'm really glad you enjoyed Aerial as much as you did. It is an album that I adore - while it isn't my favourite KB album I have long thought that the second side, the "Sky of Honey" side, the concept side is every bit as good as "The Ninth Wave" and is probably the most beautiful actual 'music' of her entire career to date. I have also long been of the view that alongside the title track to "The Kick Inside," "A Coral Room" is the greatest KB song of all. Very many people think of her as an 80's artist, but I don't think that gives albums like "Aerial" or "50 Words.." the praise they deserve. Thanks again - a really good review and video reaction.
Maybe it's me, but I always found the meaning of "how to be Invisible" quite clear. I think it is Kate with tongue in cheek. The press during this period often described her as "disappearing". So she writes this song, which "seems" to describe magically disappearing...but in fact describes a mundane life of housework couched in magical terms. Basically saying she became invisible by living a normal life.
I remember having the same reaction to Sunset. Incredible song and probably my favorite on the album. A Coral Room is one of the most heartbreaking songs and makes me tear up every time. ❤
What a fantastic album this is. Disc 2, A Sky of Honey, is just an absolute masterpiece. Her finest work in my opinion, which is very high praise indeed.
Great reaction ax always! I will never forget when she was lifted towards the roof with black wings at the end of Aerial in her live shows back in 2014 ...
I remember rushing to the record store the day this was released on November 7, 2005. I had discovered Kate a year before and she became my all-time favorite artist. This album was so unlike anything we were all expecting at the time. It’s her third best album ever for me replacing Never for Ever as the years have gone on.
My favorite album! Aerial is so criminally underrated! I'm glad you appreciate it as much as I do, watching this was such a delight! I have a feeling you will love 50 Words For Snow since you liked the space in these tracks, but first Director's Cut! There she revisits songs from The Sensual World and The Red Shoes, it's a very divided album among fans but I love it and I have a feeling you might too since you didn't like those albums as much. She removes the "outdated" production and it has more of a live band feel.
Just a side note when first released side 2 was separate tracks, then re-released as one suite called an Endless sky Of Honey, then on the remaster and subsequent releases reverted back :). That aside disc 2 a sky of Honey, is only bested by The Ninth Wave on HOL a masterpiece.
I noticed that the second disc Sky of Honey seems to be all about the dynamics of light and shadow and the path that the sun traces across the sky. The painting is referring to the vibrant colors that the light is casting and reflecting. We are following the sun on its journey and once it has slipped down below tbe horizon we are swimming in the evening beneath the stars and moonlight. The reappearance of the light at the end is so dramatic, I wonder if she imagined something more like a gamma burst from a supernova striking the earth. Why does she want to get up high high on the roof? She must want to witness this incredible event of our sun just exploding and obliterating us into pure energy...' Look at my wings, my beautuful wings'
I Love it so much,i can listen to this Album all summer long😊 Now Next Album, its of course a Winter themed Album änd its AS brillant as it can get. She captures nature änd emotions like no one can
Great choice man im glad you enjoyed the album - some of Kate's music isn't for me but i love this one 🌞 definitely prefer the way she sings in her 40s on aerial vs her young voice on the early albums.
Sky of Honey was always intended as one long "track". In fact, (excuse an old man's preaching) today's music audience has trouble with the concept of a medley or series of connected "songs". Almost all young people consume music in short songs (separate tracks). Even the concept of listening to an entire album is foreign to the major of people, whereas for us in the 70s/80s it was the norm.
At first I loved the Sky of Honey and still do. But Side 1 has grown on me so much. There isnt a bad song on the whole album. There isnt many double albums that I like all the way through. Aerial and Sujan Stevens Illinois are the only 2 I can think of that are zero skips every time.
I was waiting and waiting for this reaction 🎉 I knew you would appreciate her genius. Now for the Punk month I would like to suggest Nina Hagen Band first album. It is in german but it is very entertaining.
I'll see what I can do. I've looked into Nina Hagen in the past but the main trouble seems to be finding her music on streaming. Even TH-cam uploads of her work are often removed so it might run a risk for my channel if I were to cover her. We'll see
a comment from a russian KB fan ( Although I no longer listen to her music ). What would I say about this album - a mixture of some brilliant pieces and an extremely bad stuff like Washing machine. Everyone reacts on KB records, however there are many better albums no one talks about. Listen to 'Shelleyan Orphan's Century Flower album f.e. in which Paddy Bush, KB's nephew would play. It's singer Caroline Crawley also known for her vocal in This Mortal Coil project died from cancer, absolutely forgotten
This has to be my favorite album of hers. Every song is at a level of beautiful that you can't find anywhere else! And moreso, I believe A Coral Room is her best song ever. Tears my heart out everytime I hear it
She recorded A Coral Room in one take with the studio lit my lots of candles put there by her bassist and former bf Del Palmer R.I.P.
I’m so happy you liked this album so much. It constantly grows and evolves for me with every listen and has become my favourite of hers. I love its subtle nuances and play. I was jamming along with you on a few of these!
50 Words for Snow I find very under appreciated. A beautiful winter album as the title indicates. Excited to hear your thoughts on it.
I'm amazed how few reactors have got round to 50 Words, especially with it being her most recent. I love it, though I have to wear an extra layer, it makes me feel cold every time
The album is a homecoming for many of us....thank you for an insightful sensitive review, well done 👏
Thank you! I'm glad I was able to do the album justice for the fans
A brilliant album, which does not get the acclaim it deserves. I hear she's working on a new album. Cheers!
If she's got a new album on the way you can bet I'll be the first channel to cover it!
Wow first I heard of another KB album
Mrs. Bartolozzi is a beautiful song, even Björk went on interviews defending it against journalists who made fun of her for making a song about “washing clothes” when it’s much deeper than that. It’s one of my favorite depictions of loss and how even the most mundane acts, like washing clothes, can bring out so many memories of a loss one. The narrator lost her husband and as she washes his clothes dance with hers in the washing machine she can almost feel as if he’s giving her a last embrace, and the line when she thought she saw him outside but it was just his shirt drying gives me chills, as she cries out “it looked so alive!”
I'll always love how Björk called out sexist critics who dismissed "Mrs. Bartolozzi" as a silly song about laundry. When it's actually a heartbreaking look at grief and how it can overtake you at the most random moments. It's a very nuanced song and one of my favorite ballads from Kate.
It's her mature Hounds of Love. And to me Kate just gets better with age. I heard her say in a short call in to BBC radio two weeks ago that she's going back into the studio. I bet every old school musician in Britain is hoping to get a call from her. Bet she makes great brownies and they jam all night. Thanks for the reaction.
Ngl, this is my favourite album ever, by anyone. No words ❤
Kate became a mother in 1998 - a son Albert (known as Bertie)
Bertie is full of the joy of motherhood. The Coral
Room, the grief in losing a mother and the sadness in the passing of time. Both favourite songs for me.
Worth noting:
Bertie is a tribute to her son (who sang in later life on the remaster of Sky of Honey)
Pi is a tribute to her father
Coral Room - the tribute to her mother, deals with loss and the passing of time - and was thought by Kate to be too personal to include. Del (Palmer RIP), her ex, lit the studio with candles and led her in to sing. She nailed it in one single take.
Great album, a beautiful landscape in Kate's gallery, her brushstrokes here are some of her best. It was worth the long wait when it arrived. I always play the suite together btw. It's sad though, the painter who got 'painted over' had been a great part of most UK 60s/70s childhoods (mine & Kate's incl) He painted on kids tv, and was a singer with a big kid's No 1 hit in 1970, and made 'learn to swim' tv ads, he was *huge* It was heart breaking for loads of people when he was found guilty and disgraced. She had to re-record, and Bertie, (her son, of the track Bertie) was a good replacement. Bertie pops up a few times here, he is central to her, he was a large part in bringing her back to the stage in 2014. Glad you enjoyed it, so looking forward to 50 Words, if you love 'space' there's plenty there, listen to it on a snow day if possible, it's her winter album to Aerial's summer.
I live in Canada so in a months time, I'm sure I'll definitely be enjoying that album on a snow day haha. Very excited to check it out considering how much more minimal it seems to be. Thanks for enjoying my content! :)
Arguably Kate's most beautiful album. Love the whole thing but the "Sky of Honey" suite is just remarkable and some of the best elegant music ever created.
Great review! The album is just breathtaking. Side one is great but side 2 is just something else. Pure genius.
Hi, and I'm really glad you enjoyed Aerial as much as you did. It is an album that I adore - while it isn't my favourite KB album I have long thought that the second side, the "Sky of Honey" side, the concept side is every bit as good as "The Ninth Wave" and is probably the most beautiful actual 'music' of her entire career to date. I have also long been of the view that alongside the title track to "The Kick Inside," "A Coral Room" is the greatest KB song of all.
Very many people think of her as an 80's artist, but I don't think that gives albums like "Aerial" or "50 Words.." the praise they deserve.
Thanks again - a really good review and video reaction.
My favourite Kate Bush album
Maybe it's me, but I always found the meaning of "how to be Invisible" quite clear. I think it is Kate with tongue in cheek. The press during this period often described her as "disappearing". So she writes this song, which "seems" to describe magically disappearing...but in fact describes a mundane life of housework couched in magical terms. Basically saying she became invisible by living a normal life.
I remember having the same reaction to Sunset. Incredible song and probably my favorite on the album. A Coral Room is one of the most heartbreaking songs and makes me tear up every time. ❤
A sky of honey is about the passing of a day, from dusk to dawn
What a fantastic album this is. Disc 2, A Sky of Honey, is just an absolute masterpiece. Her finest work in my opinion, which is very high praise indeed.
Great reaction ax always! I will never forget when she was lifted towards the roof with black wings at the end of Aerial in her live shows back in 2014 ...
Fantastic reaction. Really enjoyed it. Albert McIntosh is Kate's son btw
Great reaction, agree one of Kate's finest works. The cover album depicts the sound waves of the blackbird's song
I remember rushing to the record store the day this was released on November 7, 2005. I had discovered Kate a year before and she became my all-time favorite artist. This album was so unlike anything we were all expecting at the time. It’s her third best album ever for me replacing Never for Ever as the years have gone on.
You should listen to the live version of this album on the Before The Dawn Album. It's mind blowing.
My favorite album! Aerial is so criminally underrated! I'm glad you appreciate it as much as I do, watching this was such a delight! I have a feeling you will love 50 Words For Snow since you liked the space in these tracks, but first Director's Cut! There she revisits songs from The Sensual World and The Red Shoes, it's a very divided album among fans but I love it and I have a feeling you might too since you didn't like those albums as much. She removes the "outdated" production and it has more of a live band feel.
Thanks to the 2018 remaster her son Bertie’s voice is both the voice of the child and the voice of the painter.
Just a side note when first released side 2 was separate tracks, then re-released as one suite called an Endless sky Of Honey, then on the remaster and subsequent releases reverted back :). That aside disc 2 a sky of Honey, is only bested by The Ninth Wave on HOL a masterpiece.
Sky of Honey is a return to the sea at night, but not as a place of danger as in Ninth Wave, but a safe playground for lovers.
Oh you’ll love her live Before the Dawn album…..
I noticed that the second disc Sky of Honey seems to be all about the dynamics of light and shadow and the path that the sun traces across the sky. The painting is referring to the vibrant colors that the light is casting and reflecting. We are following the sun on its journey and once it has slipped down below tbe horizon we are swimming in the evening beneath the stars and moonlight.
The reappearance of the light at the end is so dramatic, I wonder if she imagined something more like a gamma burst from a supernova striking the earth. Why does she want to get up high high on the roof? She must want to witness this incredible event of our sun just exploding and obliterating us into pure energy...' Look at my wings, my beautuful wings'
What a wonderful reaction great to see you went with it isn't she just wonderful
I Love it so much,i can listen to this Album all summer long😊
Now Next Album, its of course a Winter themed Album änd its AS brillant as it can get.
She captures nature änd emotions like no one can
Fun fact - The cover of the album is the sound waves of a black bird.
Great choice man im glad you enjoyed the album - some of Kate's music isn't for me but i love this one 🌞 definitely prefer the way she sings in her 40s on aerial vs her young voice on the early albums.
Sky of Honey was always intended as one long "track". In fact, (excuse an old man's preaching) today's music audience has trouble with the concept of a medley or series of connected "songs". Almost all young people consume music in short songs (separate tracks). Even the concept of listening to an entire album is foreign to the major of people, whereas for us in the 70s/80s it was the norm.
At first I loved the Sky of Honey and still do. But Side 1 has grown on me so much. There isnt a bad song on the whole album. There isnt many double albums that I like all the way through. Aerial and Sujan Stevens Illinois are the only 2 I can think of that are zero skips every time.
🎉🎉🎉🎉
Albert Macintosh (aka Bertie, Kate's son)
I was waiting and waiting for this reaction 🎉 I knew you would appreciate her genius.
Now for the Punk month I would like to suggest Nina Hagen Band first album. It is in german but it is very entertaining.
I'll see what I can do. I've looked into Nina Hagen in the past but the main trouble seems to be finding her music on streaming. Even TH-cam uploads of her work are often removed so it might run a risk for my channel if I were to cover her. We'll see
@@Randyjoe213 If you can't get it as a reaction, you can just give it a try to the album as a personal suggestion 🤞
a comment from a russian KB fan ( Although I no longer listen to her music ). What would I say about this album - a mixture of some brilliant pieces and an extremely bad stuff like Washing machine. Everyone reacts on KB records, however there are many better albums no one talks about. Listen to 'Shelleyan Orphan's Century Flower album f.e. in which Paddy Bush, KB's nephew would play. It's singer Caroline Crawley also known for her vocal in This Mortal Coil project died from cancer, absolutely forgotten