I can relate. When this came out i was into Rush, Boston, BTO, Kiss, Kansas, etc. I just could not get past the vocals. Later I came to like her mid-80s stuff but I had decided that this song was too avant-garde for me. And there I sat until probably 3 or 4 years ago. I finally gave it another listen and while those first 3 or 4 vocal measures threatened to fire up the auditory PTSD, I found I weathered that and began to focus on other aspects of both the vocals and instrumentals. Over a period of 6 months or so I really came to like this song.
@@MatMat-qi2rd Yes. Except in those other songs, such as "Strange Phenomenon" she exhibits greater range on the bottom end more often. Plus, she confirmed what I said in an interview.
@@t.j.payeur5331 Kate uses a lot of literary references. "The Infant Kiss" was inspired by the book "Turn Of The Screw" which in the early 1960s was made into the supernatural thriller "The Innocents" starring Deborah Kerr.
The novel "Wuthering Heights" is a staple of English literature. Kate saw a film version, and was inspired by the love that lasted, even after death. Cathy is a ghost.
Heath Cliff said he heard scratching at his window when he investigated he said he saw Cathy walking away. Hence the line "Let me in your window". That's why Kate is singing so high and dancing a little weird as she is portraying the ghost of Cathy,... and feeling so cold.
I do wish people suggesting this as a song for reactors to do would at least prepare the reactor with some background info - e.g. Kate’s self-written debut single released at age 19, she is a trained dancer and mime and is singing in character as a ghost. Better they know that upfront rather than listening with confusion and then having to research afterwards (if they can be bothered to).
When he reacted previously to "This Women's Work" I did post a detailed comment giving him background information about Kate, together with a list of single releases...
Not my genre of music, but something about Kate is so intriguing and pulls you in. Its like she can take emotion and express it in song in an ethereal way
Knowing the book helps to interpret the song. Arguably one of greatest gothic romance novels ever written. If you’re not into reading, there are several movie versions. Read the book or watch the 1939 film rendition with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. Then listen to the song again. You’ll be hooked.
You can hear her voice change as she ages but in no way is this a fake voice. She’s just a teenager here. By the way, that “live” version of This Woman’s Work is not live. Many artists came and mimed on talk shows in the UK at that time. She absolutely can replicate her songs live but that performance was just miming to the recording. Her catalog is 100% worth diving into The Man With The Child In His Eyes Babooshka Breathing Sat In Your Lap All of the Hounds Of Love album but especially Running Up That Hill and Cloudbusting Rocket’s Tail King Of The Mountain
I have some prepared notes about Wuthering Heights that I will paste below and I will.add some additional comments about the usual song structure. I see that you're reacting to the UK version of the music video, the "White Dress" version which very much does imply the ghostly background to the song. There's another version for other territories where Kate is dancing in a red dress in the open. This video ultimately led to a worldwide annual event called "The Best Wuthering Heights Day" held on or near Kate's birthday were groups of people gather togrther wearing red dresses or jusr red to perform Kate's dance steps to the sound of the song. There are many videos of different events on TH-cam if you're interested. Anyway onto the notes... ==== A while before Wuthering Heights was written, a younger Kate managed to catch the tail end of a BBC adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel Wuthering Heights when the ghostly Cathy was outside a window of Heathcliff's house wanting to be let in. Kate shares the same Birthday as Emily Bronte and when she was young she was referred to as cathy. In order to get a feel for Cathy Kate read part of the book, interestingly when she did get round to reading all of it after finishing writing the song, Kate noticed certain phrases from parts that she hadn't initially read had ended up in the Lyrics anyway. Kate said that when she sung this song, she was Cathy, she was channelling the character. Kate's vocal performance is a single take with no edits. Kate had to fight her record company to get Wuthering Heights to be her debut single, EMI had chosen a completely different track from her "The Kick Inside" album, in the end EMI released Wuthering Heights because they thought that it would fail and teach Kate a lesson, instead it became a worldwide smash hit. Hitting number 1 in Australia, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal and the UK. It was at least a top 10 (or better) in nine other countries. A single chart performance that would only be surpassed in 2022 by "Running Up That Hill". ==== The structure of the song waa so unlike anything else before - Kate described the overall structure as circular as if it didn't resolve itself. There are other unusual aspects as well, Kate never studied music theory so she writes music that fits the subject matter and sounds good to her. For Wuthering Heights this meant that the song included very unusual key changes (which shouldn't work but do) together with unusual timing changes as well. These unusual aspects of the song together with Kate's extremely high register vocal performance meant that the song was unique and completely unlike anything else in the singles chart at the time. BTW unusual Key and timing changes are a feature of so many of Kate's songs. BTW a reminder that in my comment to your reaction of "This Women's Work" I did include a list of Kate's single releases that took you halfway through her discography. I hope that you will continue your journey with Kate Bush.
How someone so young was able to condescend Emily Bronte's classic novel Wuthering heights into a song while maintaining it's essence is genius? Kate sing in a particularly high register to play the spirit of Kathy, when she sings "I'm so cold" my eyes fill.
Kate has a wonderful voice and by now you will know why she sounds like a Banshee in this song, because she is portraying one! She is an incredibly influential yet unique artist, so well worth a dive into her discography. You don't really get two songs the same with Kate so difficult to categorise her and she rarely aimed for mainstream as you can tell by this song. You may well have heard "Running up that hill" which recently had mainstream success again due to being featured in "Stranger Things" but if not give it a listen. She has many great songs though and also did a song with Peter Gabriel called "Don't give up" which had mainstream success. My personal favourite of hers though is "Moments of pleasure" a bitter/sweet song about loss and memories.
all covers are later...kinda how covers work...😅😊❤ it is her singing voice but she gave it a higher ghostly feel to it , as she's singing as Cathy's ghost...from the novel wuthering heights... not a fun song..its pure art and expression....maybe outside ur lane...
Hi Biz! Thanks for reacting to this amazing song! When it first came out on the radio, I used to pretend to dance to it! I said pretend, because I can’t really dance! lol! Thanks for all you do for the channel! Peace and Blessings to you and yours!
That book by Bronte, edged into me. I did hear this song before reading it though. When 15yo I cried every time I heard it, no fail. 😅 That woman can sing. Hugs from Sweden. 😊
If you want to see Kate Bush in a really freaky context, check out her 1979 Xmas Special performance of her song "Egypt". At the very least, it usually makes for an amusing reaction video! You might need to have your therapist on speed dial for this one!!
Brilliant song. She was helped/discovered by David Gilmour who played on this track. Think himself and Peter Gabriel helped fund her first album, I may be wrong.
Hi and thanks for this. yes, "Wuthering Heights" is weird, intentionally, deliberately weird. To try to capture how a ghost wailing outside of your window might sound and to try to make the melody of the song match with how a ghost wailing outside of your window might sound is very likely to result in something that is completely unlike anything else you have ever heard. And, of course, in some respects, that is the point and that is part of just why "Wuthering Heights" is so famous and has such a reputation - when it was released it was unlike anything that had ever been released in the previous 45 years and in the intervening time ever since it is still unlike anything that has been released in the just over 45 years that have elapsed. Its chord progression, its key and timing changes, with its arrangement, and with Kate Bush singing as if she were a ghost returned to earth in order to haunt, drive mad, and carry off the soul of her still living love, Heathcliff is like a trip to another dimension. Patti Smith said that when she first heard this she joked that she thought that Kate Bush was a UFO. The Kate Bush discography is an absolute treasure trove and she is one of the very few people in popular music who really is worthy of the term 'genius,' Tori Amos once described her as one the very few people, male or female, whose music actually matters. When John Lennon was recording what would prove to be his final album "Double Fantasy" he took her current album "Never For Ever" into the studio to play it to them and after he was killed it emerged that he had one of her songs from that album, "Babooshka" on his on personal playlist. However her discography is filled with the weird and the strange, and even has the unsettling and disturbing. There are a few fairly straightforward songs (for example "Reaching Out"), but when it comes to Kate Bush we have to decide whether or not to accept, come to terms with, appreciate, come to love, and then get on board with her uncompromising experimentation, and her determination to make the music she wants to make regardless of music fashion, conventions, and apparent 'rules.' Kate Bush hold such things at arms length and does whatever she wants to do. In her songs she sings like a ghost (as with this song), like a demon, or like a child; you will hear sing in a cockney accent, or an Australian, Irish, or German accent; she sings in French, German, Italian, Latin, and Irish; you will hear heard doing bird impressions, or filling a large part of one of her songs just laughing into the microphone, or in another song impersonating an angry braying mule, she sings from the perspective of a woman lost at sea, a haunted house, a North Vietnamese fighter in the Vietnam War, a baby in the womb, a man being haunted by his friend, the widow of Harry Houdini, she sings about incest, suicide, murder and revenge, nuclear war, colonisation, demon possession, reincarnation, the act of dying, dancing with Hitler. Then there is the way she crashes together different music styles, genres, and instruments that to many people just don't belong together, but she goes ahead and does it anyway. She takes enormous risks to make the music she wants to make, come what may. Unfortunately you cannot get away from the "weirdness" for very long with Kate Bush, it is built into her music. But it is very worth while persisting with her music. You might enjoy her song "Night of the Swallow" which has a few touches of the unusual, but is still recognisable as a song that has some resemblance to more usual songs. You might also like one of her more normal songs "Under the Ivy" which is quite short. Thanks again. Keep going down the Kate Bush rabbit hole - there is much to enjoy.
The only thing good about 'Wuthering Heights' is this song. I hated the book when i was 15 and hated it in my 30s. It is full of unlikeable characters.
@@WarrenBridges-um5cg The problem is the characters are unlikeable and I don't care what happens to them. I am not invested in them. There are unlikeable characters where I want to see where they go, not these. I don't think I am a fan of this type, moving away from the Brontes to Daphne du Maurier, I'm not a fan of Rebecca either. But at least there is a variety out there to read.
Although I understand the art of Kate Bush, try as I might, I just can't get into her. Don't hate me fans of Kate. I intend to keep trying and sampling other songs. I do respect her and the depth of her music, but her voice.... Biz, you obviously haven't read Wuthering Heights, which I love, but even the book is a little creepy LOL!!
Kate is not for everyone to be sure. However I respect your openess to her work. I would imagine there are some songs that will be more palatable than others. David Bowie's work is the same. Both artists are in my top 5 favorites of all time.
@@brucedillinger9448 Thank you for your response. I have heard OF Kate many times and know that she is hugely admired in the music world, and desevedly so. I respect her talent and her creativity. I guess, perhaps I just haven't heard a song that I like yet - doesn't mean I won't in the future. It's her high pitched voice that doesn't appeal to me - are all her songs in that range? And you are correct IMO to place her in the same category of Bowie as they are both experimental and a bit avant-garde. I have loved David for decades, but I don't love all the work he's done. Oviously not all music appeals to every taste, but ejoy being able to express my opinions and have a reasonable conversation about it with my fellow music lovers. ✌
Maybe you should listen to her 1989 album "The Sensual World" which is more "mainstream" and available to many people who can't stand her high register and weird experimentations. American people usually like it. On this album, her voice is softer, the lyrics more mundane or "earthy" and musically, many songs are not as eccentric allthough you can still hear oddities like "Rocket's Tail" which is just a piece of genius mixing a female a-cappella bulgarian choir with a heavy David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) guitar solo. A real sonic experience!
I am not sure how much of her work you've sampled, but her vocals on Wuthering Heights are not representative of her typical style. She deliberately chose to sing this song in an unsettling, somewhat ghostly tone for the sake of the character she's singing as. I happen to love her wild vocals, but if you want something more subdued, I think most of Hounds of Love should offer that. A Dream of Sheep is a great balad with very pristine vocals, for example. She tends to adopt a new vocal style with each album. So if you do The Sensual World, expect vibrato-heavy singing with lots of trills, or if you do The Dreaming, lots of guttural screams.
@t.j.payeur5331 Her type of art is so diverse though. There's sure to be something someone doesn't like. I really like some her more rock orientated numbers with Dave Gilmour, Alan Murphy guitar solos. I grew up through the '70s listening to Black Sabbath/ Pink Floyd etc.
@@WarrenBridges-um5cgI'd never heard this before. I couldn't get it out of my head, stayed up late researching it. Now I think that it's brilliant . I didn't want to delete my hasty comment because I wanted to do you the courtesy of a reply...
@@t.j.payeur5331 Thank you. I think the only genre she hasn't had a crack at is country and western. She uses female Bulgarian folk trios, Georgian male choirs. Songs like "Hello Earth" are absolutely regal. Eclectic, imaginative and unpredictable. As well as her usual piano, Kate even plays bass and some crazy feedback guitar on "Big Stripy Lie". Everything from Irish folk to hard rock.
Fake voice? Nooo. Genius. She wrote this as almost a kid
I can relate. When this came out i was into Rush, Boston, BTO, Kiss, Kansas, etc. I just could not get past the vocals. Later I came to like her mid-80s stuff but I had decided that this song was too avant-garde for me. And there I sat until probably 3 or 4 years ago. I finally gave it another listen and while those first 3 or 4 vocal measures threatened to fire up the auditory PTSD, I found I weathered that and began to focus on other aspects of both the vocals and instrumentals. Over a period of 6 months or so I really came to like this song.
he must be a madonna fan
She had written dozens of songs from the ages of 11-15.
She got a record contract at 15 and released this at 17-18
Kate deliberately sings in a high voice to better portray Cathy's ghost from the 1847 Emily Bronte novel.
Probably. And yet she sings the same way on both her first two albums, regardless to the topics of the songs😊
@@MatMat-qi2rd Yes. Except in those other songs, such as "Strange Phenomenon" she exhibits greater range on the bottom end more often. Plus, she confirmed what I said in an interview.
Not a fake voice. She is one of the best singer song writers everrrrr
Kate is an angel sent down from Heaven but Wuthering Heights pretty much scares off most young reactors.
Wuthering Heights is a famous book that features a ghost - Kate is singing from the POV of the ghost, so purposely being weird.
Because of your explanation I researched the book. It made all the difference..thank you.
@@t.j.payeur5331 Nice!
@@t.j.payeur5331 Kate uses a lot of literary references. "The Infant Kiss" was inspired by the book "Turn Of The Screw" which in the early 1960s was made into the supernatural thriller "The Innocents" starring Deborah Kerr.
The novel "Wuthering Heights" is a staple of English literature. Kate saw a film version, and was inspired by the love that lasted, even after death. Cathy is a ghost.
Kate Bush is the real deal; a true artist.
Heath Cliff said he heard scratching at his window when he investigated he said he saw Cathy walking away.
Hence the line "Let me in your window". That's why Kate is singing so high and dancing a little weird as she is portraying the ghost of Cathy,... and feeling so cold.
I do wish people suggesting this as a song for reactors to do would at least prepare the reactor with some background info - e.g. Kate’s self-written debut single released at age 19, she is a trained dancer and mime and is singing in character as a ghost. Better they know that upfront rather than listening with confusion and then having to research afterwards (if they can be bothered to).
Lol. He just got thrown right into the deep end with this one.
When he reacted previously to "This Women's Work" I did post a detailed comment giving him background information about Kate, together with a list of single releases...
One of those rare songs that grab you by the throat and shakes you on the first listen. Refer to "wuthering heights" by Emily Bronte.
Your shocked face and silence in the beginning has me cracking up 😂
We didn't have 'fake' voices in the 70s. A digital watch was super high tech
That voice is one of her many characters/personas.
Not my genre of music, but something about Kate is so intriguing and pulls you in. Its like she can take emotion and express it in song in an ethereal way
Knowing the book helps to interpret the song. Arguably one of greatest gothic romance novels ever written. If you’re not into reading, there are several movie versions. Read the book or watch the 1939 film rendition with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. Then listen to the song again. You’ll be hooked.
One of my favorite artists...in a list that includes David Bowie. Just stellar!
Kate is a musical genius, even Prince was a fan.
The vocals and the choreography are ingenious together they both get across the fact she is the ghost of Cathy.
You can hear her voice change as she ages but in no way is this a fake voice. She’s just a teenager here.
By the way, that “live” version of This Woman’s Work is not live. Many artists came and mimed on talk shows in the UK at that time. She absolutely can replicate her songs live but that performance was just miming to the recording.
Her catalog is 100% worth diving into
The Man With The Child In His Eyes
Babooshka
Breathing
Sat In Your Lap
All of the Hounds Of Love album but especially Running Up That Hill and Cloudbusting
Rocket’s Tail
King Of The Mountain
This song always takes reviewers by surprise, not knowing exactly how to react.
Ikr? 😂
I have some prepared notes about Wuthering Heights that I will paste below and I will.add some additional comments about the usual song structure.
I see that you're reacting to the UK version of the music video, the "White Dress" version which very much does imply the ghostly background to the song.
There's another version for other territories where Kate is dancing in a red dress in the open. This video ultimately led to a worldwide annual event called "The Best Wuthering Heights Day" held on or near Kate's birthday were groups of people gather togrther wearing red dresses or jusr red to perform Kate's dance steps to the sound of the song. There are many videos of different events on TH-cam if you're interested.
Anyway onto the notes...
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A while before Wuthering Heights was written, a younger Kate managed to catch the tail end of a BBC adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel Wuthering Heights when the ghostly Cathy was outside a window of Heathcliff's house wanting to be let in. Kate shares the same Birthday as Emily Bronte and when she was young she was referred to as cathy. In order to get a feel for Cathy Kate read part of the book, interestingly when she did get round to reading all of it after finishing writing the song, Kate noticed certain phrases from parts that she hadn't initially read had ended up in the Lyrics anyway.
Kate said that when she sung this song, she was Cathy, she was channelling the character. Kate's vocal performance is a single take with no edits.
Kate had to fight her record company to get Wuthering Heights to be her debut single, EMI had chosen a completely different track from her "The Kick Inside" album, in the end EMI released Wuthering Heights because they thought that it would fail and teach Kate a lesson, instead it became a worldwide smash hit. Hitting number 1 in Australia, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal and the UK. It was at least a top 10 (or better) in nine other countries. A single chart performance that would only be surpassed in 2022 by "Running Up That Hill".
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The structure of the song waa so unlike anything else before - Kate described the overall structure as circular as if it didn't resolve itself.
There are other unusual aspects as well, Kate never studied music theory so she writes music that fits the subject matter and sounds good to her. For Wuthering Heights this meant that the song included very unusual key changes (which shouldn't work but do) together with unusual timing changes as well.
These unusual aspects of the song together with Kate's extremely high register vocal performance meant that the song was unique and completely unlike anything else in the singles chart at the time.
BTW unusual Key and timing changes are a feature of so many of Kate's songs.
BTW a reminder that in my comment to your reaction of "This Women's Work" I did include a list of Kate's single releases that took you halfway through her discography.
I hope that you will continue your journey with Kate Bush.
Nice synopsis. Here is my take on Kate: a prodigy as a child; a genius as an adult. I put her up there with David Bowie....my favorite of all time. ♥
@@brucedillinger9448agreed Kate has absolutely been compared to David Bowie, they are both artists who won't compromise their art in any way.
@@brucedillinger9448 Kate's old boyfriend Del Palmer said they all loved Bowie.
How someone so young was able to condescend Emily Bronte's classic novel Wuthering heights into a song while maintaining it's essence is genius? Kate sing in a particularly high register to play the spirit of Kathy, when she sings "I'm so cold" my eyes fill.
Kate has a wonderful voice and by now you will know why she sounds like a Banshee in this song, because she is portraying one!
She is an incredibly influential yet unique artist, so well worth a dive into her discography.
You don't really get two songs the same with Kate so difficult to categorise her and she rarely aimed for mainstream as you can tell by this song.
You may well have heard "Running up that hill" which recently had mainstream success again due to being featured in "Stranger Things" but if not give it a listen.
She has many great songs though and also did a song with Peter Gabriel called "Don't give up" which had mainstream success.
My personal favourite of hers though is "Moments of pleasure" a bitter/sweet song about loss and memories.
all covers are later...kinda how covers work...😅😊❤ it is her singing voice but she gave it a higher ghostly feel to it , as she's singing as Cathy's ghost...from the novel wuthering heights... not a fun song..its pure art and expression....maybe outside ur lane...
Wuthering heights great film with Laurence Olivier and merle oberon . Bring tears to a glass eye.
It’s a lovely song Kate Bush is a legend and my first true crush along with Debbie Harry, of course 🥹❤
Hi Biz! Thanks for reacting to this amazing song! When it first came out on the radio, I used to pretend to dance to it! I said pretend, because I can’t really dance! lol! Thanks for all you do for the channel! Peace and Blessings to you and yours!
That book by Bronte, edged into me. I did hear this song before reading it though. When 15yo I cried every time I heard it, no fail. 😅 That woman can sing. Hugs from Sweden. 😊
If you want to see Kate Bush in a really freaky context, check out her 1979 Xmas Special performance of her song "Egypt". At the very least, it usually makes for an amusing reaction video! You might need to have your therapist on speed dial for this one!!
Kate Bush the beautiful genius.
A classic, the one where she dances outside is the best.
My fav Kate Bush song😊
Kate has many, many different textures to her incredible vocal range. A rabbit hole worth going down :-)
Kate ♡
Army dreamers is awesome or a sound to kill
Hey Biz😊😊Happy Sunday check out Lily by Kate Bush ……she does a song of Angels….for real😎😎😎😎
Hello!!
Hey hey heyyyyyy😍😍😍😍😍
Dude this probably the best debut single ever 😮 (imho 😊)
One of the greatest songs ever written.
Kate had a 4 octave range.
Brilliant song. She was helped/discovered by David Gilmour who played on this track. Think himself and Peter Gabriel helped fund her first album, I may be wrong.
❤
Calling kate "intersting" is like saying " Mozart hat zu viele noten"
The movie will explain
She's a ghost that's come back for her lover
I never heard this, interesting. Thanks Biz
Here
Listen man, her voice is even better than this in the live version!! ;)
Hi and thanks for this. yes, "Wuthering Heights" is weird, intentionally, deliberately weird. To try to capture how a ghost wailing outside of your window might sound and to try to make the melody of the song match with how a ghost wailing outside of your window might sound is very likely to result in something that is completely unlike anything else you have ever heard.
And, of course, in some respects, that is the point and that is part of just why "Wuthering Heights" is so famous and has such a reputation - when it was released it was unlike anything that had ever been released in the previous 45 years and in the intervening time ever since it is still unlike anything that has been released in the just over 45 years that have elapsed. Its chord progression, its key and timing changes, with its arrangement, and with Kate Bush singing as if she were a ghost returned to earth in order to haunt, drive mad, and carry off the soul of her still living love, Heathcliff is like a trip to another dimension. Patti Smith said that when she first heard this she joked that she thought that Kate Bush was a UFO.
The Kate Bush discography is an absolute treasure trove and she is one of the very few people in popular music who really is worthy of the term 'genius,' Tori Amos once described her as one the very few people, male or female, whose music actually matters. When John Lennon was recording what would prove to be his final album "Double Fantasy" he took her current album "Never For Ever" into the studio to play it to them and after he was killed it emerged that he had one of her songs from that album, "Babooshka" on his on personal playlist.
However her discography is filled with the weird and the strange, and even has the unsettling and disturbing. There are a few fairly straightforward songs (for example "Reaching Out"), but when it comes to Kate Bush we have to decide whether or not to accept, come to terms with, appreciate, come to love, and then get on board with her uncompromising experimentation, and her determination to make the music she wants to make regardless of music fashion, conventions, and apparent 'rules.' Kate Bush hold such things at arms length and does whatever she wants to do. In her songs she sings like a ghost (as with this song), like a demon, or like a child; you will hear sing in a cockney accent, or an Australian, Irish, or German accent; she sings in French, German, Italian, Latin, and Irish; you will hear heard doing bird impressions, or filling a large part of one of her songs just laughing into the microphone, or in another song impersonating an angry braying mule, she sings from the perspective of a woman lost at sea, a haunted house, a North Vietnamese fighter in the Vietnam War, a baby in the womb, a man being haunted by his friend, the widow of Harry Houdini, she sings about incest, suicide, murder and revenge, nuclear war, colonisation, demon possession, reincarnation, the act of dying, dancing with Hitler. Then there is the way she crashes together different music styles, genres, and instruments that to many people just don't belong together, but she goes ahead and does it anyway. She takes enormous risks to make the music she wants to make, come what may.
Unfortunately you cannot get away from the "weirdness" for very long with Kate Bush, it is built into her music. But it is very worth while persisting with her music.
You might enjoy her song "Night of the Swallow" which has a few touches of the unusual, but is still recognisable as a song that has some resemblance to more usual songs. You might also like one of her more normal songs "Under the Ivy" which is quite short.
Thanks again. Keep going down the Kate Bush rabbit hole - there is much to enjoy.
Never heard of him
Fake voice??? onley a Madonna fan would say that
No it's my grandmas' voice. Get a grip.
Maxwell who?
The only thing good about 'Wuthering Heights' is this song. I hated the book when i was 15 and hated it in my 30s. It is full of unlikeable characters.
Emily's sister Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" was far more uplifting.
@@WarrenBridges-um5cg The problem is the characters are unlikeable and I don't care what happens to them. I am not invested in them. There are unlikeable characters where I want to see where they go, not these.
I don't think I am a fan of this type, moving away from the Brontes to Daphne du Maurier, I'm not a fan of Rebecca either. But at least there is a variety out there to read.
@@wereleopard58yepihavetwo2 I generally agree, but I quite like "Rebecca".
Although I understand the art of Kate Bush, try as I might, I just can't get into her. Don't hate me fans of Kate. I intend to keep trying and sampling other songs. I do respect her and the depth of her music, but her voice.... Biz, you obviously haven't read Wuthering Heights, which I love, but even the book is a little creepy LOL!!
Kate is not for everyone to be sure. However I respect your openess to her work. I would imagine there are some songs that will be more palatable than others. David Bowie's work is the same. Both artists are in my top 5 favorites of all time.
@@brucedillinger9448 Thank you for your response. I have heard OF Kate many times and know that she is hugely admired in the music world, and desevedly so. I respect her talent and her creativity. I guess, perhaps I just haven't heard a song that I like yet - doesn't mean I won't in the future. It's her high pitched voice that doesn't appeal to me - are all her songs in that range? And you are correct IMO to place her in the same category of Bowie as they are both experimental and a bit avant-garde. I have loved David for decades, but I don't love all the work he's done. Oviously not all music appeals to every taste, but ejoy being able to express my opinions and have a reasonable conversation about it with my fellow music lovers. ✌
Maybe you should listen to her 1989 album "The Sensual World" which is more "mainstream" and available to many people who can't stand her high register and weird experimentations. American people usually like it. On this album, her voice is softer, the lyrics more mundane or "earthy" and musically, many songs are not as eccentric allthough you can still hear oddities like "Rocket's Tail" which is just a piece of genius mixing a female a-cappella bulgarian choir with a heavy David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) guitar solo. A real sonic experience!
I am not sure how much of her work you've sampled, but her vocals on Wuthering Heights are not representative of her typical style. She deliberately chose to sing this song in an unsettling, somewhat ghostly tone for the sake of the character she's singing as. I happen to love her wild vocals, but if you want something more subdued, I think most of Hounds of Love should offer that. A Dream of Sheep is a great balad with very pristine vocals, for example.
She tends to adopt a new vocal style with each album. So if you do The Sensual World, expect vibrato-heavy singing with lots of trills, or if you do The Dreaming, lots of guttural screams.
@@cuckoofan Thank you for the recommendation cuckoo! I will try some other music of Kate's and reserve jusgement until then.
Experiment IV
A great artist. I just don't happen to like her type of art...
@t.j.payeur5331 Her type of art is so diverse though. There's sure to be something someone doesn't like. I really like some her more rock orientated numbers with Dave Gilmour, Alan Murphy guitar solos. I grew up through the '70s listening to Black Sabbath/ Pink Floyd etc.
@@WarrenBridges-um5cgI'd never heard this before. I couldn't get it out of my head, stayed up late researching it. Now I think that it's brilliant . I didn't want to delete my hasty comment because I wanted to do you the courtesy of a reply...
@@t.j.payeur5331 Thank you. I think the only genre she hasn't had a crack at is country and western. She uses female Bulgarian folk trios, Georgian male choirs. Songs like "Hello Earth" are absolutely regal. Eclectic, imaginative and unpredictable. As well as her usual piano, Kate even plays bass and some crazy feedback guitar on "Big Stripy Lie". Everything from Irish folk to hard rock.
@@WarrenBridges-um5cg She has even sung in Irish.
I respect your opinion. I think that Kate is one of the best artists ever.
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Fake voice???? Okay, unsubscribed!
Bye 👋🏿, you obviously didn’t watch the video 😂😂