At nearly 58 years of age I'm sitting here with tears streaming down my face listening to this. There are artistes that can touch a part of your soul, Kate Bush is one of them.
According to one documentary she had made 100 songs by the age of 15. Of those she played "40 to 50" to David Gilmour so it's probably not just a legend.
McSlobo yeah I remember reading about the process of them culling songs down for The Kick Inside. She had like 100 songs by the time she recorded the first album lol
@@razrv3lc Just goes to show how much of a talent she is, and some artists today think they're so special when they only write half of what goes on their albums.
This song just totally rips my heart out, especially at the end when you can hear how desperate she is for air. I absolutely adore the bass in this song, and I love the detail of the twinkling sound when she says "twinkling", it's just brilliant. Kate always writes songs about things that have never been written about before, and she gets so into character. I love this video!
Pete Seegar wrote I Come and Stand At Every Door, a song about a 7-year-old ghost-child warning about the dangers of nuclear war. It is chilling, to say the least.
If you like this fretless base style, Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth has a lot of music similar in sound to that. Also another super slept on artist from the same time period.
hey have you ever heard frank zappa's ' apostrophe? It has lots of sound illustrations for the things he actually is saying on the song. Like in the case of this twinkling. Also, kate was a great fan this man works.
this was written during the height of the cold war. we didn’t question if there would be nuclear fire, but when and if we’d be able to survive in the nuclear wasteland afterwards. the fall of the soviet union was a time of celebration because this nightmare was put to rest. until now, of course, with the warmongers in power deliberately trying to provoke russia into war.
This song is so dark, probably one of the darkest in Bush's discography. And that ending is so powerful, she was really singing at the top of her lungs!
@@BamOfficialMoviesactive combat Target's a very different group of people then nuclear fallout or nuclear bombs. Additionally the tone of the song Army dreamers is rather upbeat this is very somber. Moreover when you're making a valid statement you don't need to put a laughing face at the end cuz then you just look like an ass hat
Just listened to this for the first time and couldn't stop crying. I've been a fan of Wuthering Heights for a long time, but just started checking out Kate's other music out today. and WOW it's brilliant.
Outside Gets inside Through her skin I've been out before But this time it's much safer in Last night in the sky Such a bright light My radar send me danger But my instincts tell me to keep Breathing (Out, in, out, in, out, in) Breathing Breathing my mother in Breathing my beloved in Breathing Breathing her nicotine Breathing Breathing the fall-out in Out in, out in, out in, out in We've lost our chance We're the first and the last, ooh After the blast Chips of plutonium Are twinkling in every lung I love my Beloved, ooh All and everywhere Only the fools blew it You and me Knew life itself is Breathing (Out, in, out, in, out, in) Breathing Breathing my mother in Breathing my beloved in Breathing Breathing her nicotine Breathing Breathing the fall-out in Out in, out in, out in, out in Out in, out in, out in, out (Out, out, out) Ooh please! (What are we going to do without) Let me breathe! (What are we going to do without) Ooh, breath in (We are all going to die without) Leave me something to breathe! (What are we going to do without) Oh, leave me something to breathe! (We are all going to die without) Oh, God, please leave us something to breathe! (What are we going to do without) Oh, life is Source: LyricFind
@@AK-gb9rp acid and other psychedelics have very few if any long term consequences and conversely can be used for a variety of medical purposes such as anti depressants. I have Tourette’s syndrome and acid is the only thing that helps mitigate the tics. Try not to judge without proper information. One bad trip doesn’t out weigh all the positive
@@griffincofell4738 I have really come to regret not having been able to get over my own upbringing and try LSD or psilocybin when I was much younger. I never did any drugs, and could count on three fingers the amount of times I tried Mary. But now I am very old, and the real problem is that I am on a boat load of medications to control nerve pain from a late onset neurological condition on the left side of my brain. If I had known a lo more years ago, I would have not been such a stooge over it.
John Giblin. Your Bass playing contribution to this recording is so profound & well considered (as always) to this haunting masterpiece by Kate. A tragic loss to the music world. RIP
To me she is the ultimate human being. Acutely sensitive and uniquely creative with the right instinct for when to say no to unnecessary demands. Kind, thoughtful, intelligent and with a beauty that glows internally and externally. Wish all women were allowed to be sweet, powerful, beautiful, clever and also to release their inner screaming banshee!
+marajadefire77 Your words are fine and high praise. Well said. I would hope Ms. Bush gets to read such thoughts as yours. And furthermore you are not alone.
I remember hearing this song for the first time and being completely spellbound particularly because at the time there was much talk of Nuclear war in the 80's - there was a lot of fear. It is frightening song especially when the man's voice comes in talking about what to do in the event of hearing the warning siren..sends chills down my spine, even now.
Think I've got an idea why Kate was pretty much overlooked by radio station management in America - cowardice. This masterpiece by Kate goes for the gut and rips your heart out at the same time. Plus, the lyrics were as valid, then, as they are, now. Bravo Kate.
Nit realy back then Brits breaking into the US market was pretty much not happening and wasn't importamt to them. To the point it could hurt their home career if they focused on trying to do so. Music was a lot more parochial then than it is now.
@@Dermacrosismeanwhile, Electric Light Orchestra, a Birmingham-based band, were more successful in the US than they were in their home country. But do go on
I really like this song. Only discovered it a few months ago. It's very atmospheric. I was not even alive when Kate was doing this. She is possibly the best songwriter I've ever heard. Enchanting.🙂
@@NickSmith-ll3si Snap. All those years later people (me) are having the exact same experience. I too was first hearing this while we are on the cusp of another very possible nuclear war. ps I have a cousin called Nick Smith lol
It was back in the early 80s and I was up in the middle of the night, flipped on MTV and there was THIS VIDEO. It totally blew my mind. WHO WAS THIS??? I had to hear more, went out and bought the album, "The Dreaming," which this song is not on, but I wore that album out and her other albums since. Now it's 2023 and only now is she scheduled for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, decades overdue given her astonishing songwriting talents, gorgeous voice, artistic innovation, raw courage, fresh spirit and unacknowledged influence. Though she's long been an artist's artist, it probably took the Netflix TV show "Stranger Things" to finally get KB the recognition she's deserved. She's a very different artist than Joni, but of the same caliber, imo, or even more, as Kate's songwriting breadth went beyond her personal life and her artistry more complex and orchestral. Listen to Side B of "Hounds of Love"......"The Ninth Wave." It's a masterpiece.
I remember the first time I visited England. I was with my family, and it was in 1980. My brother and I decided to take a walk through Piccadilly Circus and check out the clubs, shops and theaters. It was amazing-all the stuff to see and take in! We walked into a record shop, and I believe "Never For Ever" had just been released. Everyone was all a buzz because Kate Bush was considered such royalty there and back then, but I'd never heard of her. After hearing both "Babooshka" and "Breathing", I was hooked immediately. It was eccentric, beautiful and absolutely brilliant! The rest is history!
'Never for Ever' was the first ever album by a British woman to top the UK charts. Fantastic album - to my mind hasn't aged at all. Just the way it was all put together; the sensual way that the track 'The Infant Kiss' (an often overlooked classic among Kate fans - those menacing strings...) runs into 'Night Scented Stock' which goes into 'Army Dreamers'. So classy. 'Hounds of Love' should've gone to number one and the fact that it only made number 3 (if memory serves) is indicative of the British public's descent into vulgarity in terms of cultural shifts. I'm English and I've watched it happen. Sad. I'll bet after Kate's 1980 achievement the record industry thought there'd be loads of Kate Bushes coming up. Didn't happen did it? Then again - she's a one off. I'm glad that you got into Kate Bush - because...the whole world should be in love with her. There's something wrong with people who can't find it in their heart to love Kate. Congratulations on your impeccable taste.
I came along slightly later with Hounds of Love, but I'm glad I found her. It's been a while since I've listened to Kate but she was the soundtrack for my life in the mid to late eighties.
I turned 30 in 1994. I am so very glad because I actually experienced something we used to call alternative music as it was happening. I had all of her records; and, after all these decades, I still have some of her vinyl. It sounds relevant and amazing whenever I spin it on the old turntable :) Welcome to all you new Kate Bush fans :D
Just realised that this is a song about a pregnant woman in a nuclear attack/blast. It’s about the baby’s point of view. It’s so dark and haunting and yet still so amazing!!!
CHASING PROPHECY IS A MANY SIDED THING. THE UK WAS ADAMANT A NUCLEAR STRIKE WAS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE 80'S KATE SINGS ABOUT EXPERIMENT IV VERY TODAY!!!! FREQUENCIES ETC CHASING PROPHECY IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO AVOID. BUT NOOOO THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN... WAR OF THE WORLD'S.... UNTIL SATNAV GAVE THE SIGNAL AND DESTROYED THE WORLD WE KNEW. H.G. WELLS... HE TRIED TO CHANGE THE FUTURE.... BUT NOOOO THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN ON AND ON TIL NOW. THIS IS THE EVE
Simply one of the best songs of all-time. And that vocal is just so stirring and incredible. To think its was only 2 years since Wuthering Heights... Kate bounding ahead!
Kate devastates me still with her pure raw talent and depth. Few artists do for me. This was and so sadly is & will always be relevant - it’s truly incomprehensible the destruction humans create. I cry from her pleas. Let the loud voices of us peacekeepers prevail so that all life may.
might be wrong cause idk her but seems she might have went thro a lot and overcame it to point much didn’t phase her tho she dealt with deep subjects matters and things such as these giving it all and it shows. but could be completely wrong tho this the impression i get
I think this has to be one of the greatest songs ever. I think it is masterfully crafted and incredibly clever. The "out in" I think has to be one of the most simply brilliant lines of music ever. Yes it represent breathing but it's abnormal. Conventially, we think breathing as being in then out. But that implies that we are breathing in healthy air. In this song, the persona kate has taken on (the baby) has no healthy air to breath in because of the fallout and so is left only able to breath out first. And when we think of the lack of healthy air, every time we hear that out in we are reminded that every breath out is a breath closer to death until eventually we are presented with the desperation. Kate is screaming for something to breath and then the song ends on that sucking inhale sound. It's the character trying desperately to breath in anything. But to no avail and the song ends. Kate is a literally genius.
Breathing (Never for Ever, 1980) Kate adopts the persona of a foetus fearful of being born in the midst of a nuclear holocaust. With the Cold War intensifying, this was a pertinent, typically ambitious, risk-taking song and a highly unlikely hit single from Bush as she conjured yet another startlingly unique performance. Great Britain, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 1836
Somewhere between brilliance and genius. Peerless in terms of the sheer audacity of her music produced at such a young age. Few female musicians even come close. The album 'The kick Inside' is a masterpiece. How on earth did a teenager conceive of this music? One of my Desert Island Discs, without a doubt.
Love you Kate, have loved you for 30 years now. As a musician myself you are one of my all time biggest musical heroes. Recently I saw Rick Beato and the great Thomas Lang also talk about how they are huge fans of yours. You are a true legend and I'm so grateful for your contributions. I will adore, admire, and respect you always, until my dying breath, no doubt. I'm so happy that a whole new generation of listeners are discovering you and giving you the recognition you deserve, because your music is timeless and absolutely heart breaking. And brilliant too, of course! ❤💯
To find this song at the end of the Never For Ever album was and is for me something hard to deal with. I mean the structure, the tone, but most of all the emotional impact the song has, so very distant from the other tracks on the album. It's like looking at our solar system and recognising the consistancy of the different celestial bodies and then outside this well balanced system you discover a blackhole or something else so different and grand...When I play the album, I never play this track and vice versa. It stands on its own and does a great job with that. A very important song which to me describes the unrest felt during the early eighties with a nuclear race going on between The Soviet Union and The United States during the cold war. Living in Western Europe at the time was living with anxiety. Missiles were directly aimed at us. To know Kate wrote it at such an early age and have it recorded in just three days... she knew where she wanted to go with it. No doubt about it.
At 4:23 the people in the white gowns wading in the river is reminiscent of accounts of victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The victims wading because everything else was in flames and they were suffering from burns. This is Kate at near her peak, IMO. A haunting masterpiece.
flatonia yes she featured this relating to ww2 because there were nuclear bomb threats back in 79-85. By 84 people were horrified because ww3 was highly possible and other countries were about to drop bombs on the USA. It was a very uneasy time. The first documentary about nuclear and atomic bombs was written. And the newspaper businesses printed out thousands - millions of informative pamphlets about how to build an in-ground bomb shelter. People were so frightened that pop culture took part in spreading awareness. Like Kate Bush.
I appreciate the response Johanna. It seems strange to me that nuclear weapons were still at the forefront of activism by entertainers and artists in the 80s - a decade after detente, but yes, there were fears. Carter pulled out of the Olympics on the basis of Human Rights violations, and Reagan was promising to reignite the arms race with Star Wars.
flatonia What are you getting at rn? I'm sorry just a bit confusing. Firstly no matter how far in the future, everyone will remember atomic and nuclear bombings. Even thousands of years later if we still exist and if these times weren't lost somehow in the historical timeline. People will forever talk about it and make art? And Star Wars? What about Star Wars has anything to do with this stuff? How does pure fiction actually relate? I'm sorry... I'm just very confused not meaning to offend in any way.
I can see how it would be confusing. Let me keep it simple. The fear of nuclear war was greater in the 60's. We almost got there. I lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis. I'm speaking of my experience and perspective. The fear of nuclear accidents at power plants was greater in the 80's, and at least in the U.S., that's where the brunt of the activism was directed. I mentioned Carter and Reagan to agree that certain actions DID heighten tension between the US and the then USSR.
I was born in the UK in 64 and grew up in an atmosphere of "when the bomb drops" not "if". This continued until the fall of the Berlin wall. It seemed certain the the USA and USSR were going to push each other over the brink. There were several documentaries in that time about the effects of nuclear war. Then two dramatised documentary films were shown. First was "The War Game" made in the late sixties but deemed too frightening for broadcast until the eighties when it was shown one night and "Threads" the next. The latter was newly made and is truly horrific even now.
Not really, some of them were really creepy and this isn't one of them, but they were all still great music. The Infant Kiss, Experiment IV (the video could not be shown on TOTP but it was performed "live"), Under The Ice, Dream Of Sheep, Wedding List, Don't Put Your Foot on The Heart Break. She was so multi talanted she could get away back then with songs of a nature that if others tried the red top sewer press would kick up a stink, think of Frankies Relax. Yet even before that a TV channel here thought her song Kashka From Baghdad was a more appropriate song for a childrens TV show than In Your Warm Room. Yet not a peep from them about it.
This songs brilliance are the layers. Though it could be about a literal infant in a womb, it can be about any of us that are in situations where we need to breathe, grow, be nurtured-- have freedom, breathe the transformations, the "bomb" or tower in our lives. I can also be a bone deep mantra for the Earth Mother and the pollution she is combating. And lastly, it is the boundaries of the toxicities of our lives. To me, this song is a masterpiece.
a masterpiece from a staggering collection of masterpieces from this incredible lady. loved her from the first moment that she walked out on the stage on 'top of the pops' and performed her iconic song 'wuthering heights' followed her ever since and this song in particular was always a favourite of mine. such originality. i mean have you ever heard of anyone writing a song from an unborn child's pov? well maybe you have, but i certainly haven't and i most certainly hadn't at that time. and so many other songs with such originality. her beauty as an individual also makes her that much more appealing. seeing her in an interview where she is always so gracious and thankful and humble is such a delight. it's true her individuality has been often misinterpreted. but i for one love her story telling. and now the resurgence of her music with the phenomenal single 'running up that hill' has introduced a whole new gaggle of people to her music. she has also become the oldest female to reach number one. she has also become the artist to now have the longest time for a single to reach number one. she has also become the artist to have had the longest gaps between number ones. do any of these things really matter? no not really. but they're just very, very cool. i think that we are lucky to be alive to witness the magic of this remarkable lady. and i for one have had a better life because of her music in it. thanks for posting, love and peace to you all, xxxxxxx
For me the best part is and always has been the long instrumental section from 2:60, particularly the BASS. I remember playing this after dark on a very warm and humid evening with all the windows at home thrown open.You could hear the rain coming down despite the warmth and Tulips in the garden were glistening as they filled and overflowed.A wonderfully natural thing to see when listening to something so melancholic as that bassline.
As a young adult I connect to this song because of how relevant the content is to our environmental crisis. Once we over fish the seas and cut down the rainforest we’ll all be wishing to breath.
Merci Kate ! Hyper sensible à votre art et à votre créativité. Merci pour vos chansons et vos engagements ! Longue vie à vous ! En France aussi, on vous aime fort.
Definitly my favourite song (not only of the Kate Bush songs but of all songs of all times). Seems like it resonate deeply with my soul. From the first words : "Outside gets inside..." Every time the same thing. Love it.
Love this song. Think about it a lot these days. Severe asthma issues. And of course my mother. And our nicotine addiction. And her last breath. Thx Catherine. X
"The lyrics of the song are about a foetus, very much aware of what is going on outside the womb and frightened by nuclear fallout, which implies that the song is set either during a nuclear war scare or a post-apocalyptic birth. The lyrics also refer to the foetus absorbing nicotine from the mother's smoking. In an interview that year Bush described the song as her "little symphony", adding that she considered it her best work to date. Bush stated that the information within the song mostly came from a documentary she had seen about the effects of nuclear war, while the tone of the song was inspired by Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'. The song was recorded over three days in early 1980." [from Kate Bush encyclopedia]
It also references reincarnation "I've been out before, but this time it's much safer in". The fetus seems to remember something about a past life/lives and is able to tell that "this time" there's something wrong (the nuclear fallout and radiation) and that there will be unusual peril after birth because of that.
@@jamesdevine02 Not in the US. She's always been kind of a cult artist here. Hounds of Love barely entered the US top 40 back in 1985 and it was her biggest hit.
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At nearly 58 years of age I'm sitting here with tears streaming down my face listening to this. There are artistes that can touch a part of your soul, Kate Bush is one of them.
Agreed, Tony. Kate's songs are, "Switch the world off, go back in time", music, very special indeed.
Soul healer she's unique.
So true! Only one Kate.
"My radar send me danger, but my instinct tells me to keep breathing"... 😥 that line gets me every time
Totally. Gives me chills.
The fact that she was only 21 when this was written and released just shows the quality of the artist.
According to one documentary she had made 100 songs by the age of 15. Of those she played "40 to 50" to David Gilmour so it's probably not just a legend.
McSlobo yeah I remember reading about the process of them culling songs down for The Kick Inside. She had like 100 songs by the time she recorded the first album lol
dancingduade Best feamle prog artist
I think all of her songs are to that quality tbf.
@@razrv3lc Just goes to show how much of a talent she is, and some artists today think they're so special when they only write half of what goes on their albums.
This song just totally rips my heart out, especially at the end when you can hear how desperate she is for air. I absolutely adore the bass in this song, and I love the detail of the twinkling sound when she says "twinkling", it's just brilliant. Kate always writes songs about things that have never been written about before, and she gets so into character. I love this video!
Pete Seegar wrote I Come and Stand At Every Door, a song about a 7-year-old ghost-child warning about the dangers of nuclear war. It is chilling, to say the least.
If you like this fretless base style, Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth has a lot of music similar in sound to that. Also another super slept on artist from the same time period.
hey have you ever heard frank zappa's ' apostrophe? It has lots of sound illustrations for the things he actually is saying on the song. Like in the case of this twinkling. Also, kate was a great fan this man works.
Beautiful words xx
"Chips of plutonium / Twinkling in ev'ry lung" is masterful poetry!
her backing vocals 2:03 - 2:10 gives me goosebumps and has made me cry because its so good on multiple occasions
"breathing my mother in" fuckin genius lyrics them she was amazing no one can replicate kate bush
Agreed, and she still is amazing!!! 😃👍
Fucking genius is right! ❤
"God, please leave us something to breathe!!"
Chills down my spine. Every. Single. Time.
Rafael Camargo Yes, it's a rather chilling song when you listen to the lyrics. Let's all just hope that it remains just a song.
lol why ?
@@PauloConstantino167 "Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung" - sounds quite chilling to me.
Powerful heartbreaking dream like and chilling ..that description of the effects of a bomb in different sizes sends my heart into panic mode
How close this could be to reality now in March 2022
“Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung.” Macabre and disturbing line in combination with the music.
That’s what we were truly afraid of then. It was so very real
Its called history too
this was written during the height of the cold war.
we didn’t question if there would be nuclear fire, but when and if we’d be able to survive in the nuclear wasteland afterwards.
the fall of the soviet union was a time of celebration because this nightmare was put to rest.
until now, of course, with the warmongers in power deliberately trying to provoke russia into war.
Seriously, the vocals at the end are what I live for, how powerful
chills from that backing vocal
you are odd
Roy Harper (who also sings lead on Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar" ) provided the male vocals on this one.
Gives me the chills & goosbumps when it kicks in. Reminds me of Pink Floyd
This sounds like something out of The Wall or The Final Cut.
This song is so dark, probably one of the darkest in Bush's discography. And that ending is so powerful, she was really singing at the top of her lungs!
really?? i felt the most dark was Army Dreamers😅
@@BamOfficialMoviesactive combat Target's a very different group of people then nuclear fallout or nuclear bombs.
Additionally the tone of the song Army dreamers is rather upbeat this is very somber.
Moreover when you're making a valid statement you don't need to put a laughing face at the end cuz then you just look like an ass hat
@@eyetrollin710 It’s not a laughing emoji, and all I was doing was sharing my opinion. I’m glad they feel that way, and I love this song aswell!
@@eyetrollin710 Plus, I’ve changed my opinion since then.
@@eyetrollin710thats clearly not a laughing emoji
Just listened to this for the first time and couldn't stop crying. I've been a fan of Wuthering Heights for a long time, but just started checking out Kate's other music out today. and WOW it's brilliant.
You mean, "wow" the song, or "wow, that's good!"?
+Matt Vlogs I mean "WOW" Kate is amazing and all of her music is inspired and brilliant.
haha! Brilliant!
+Purple Rain welcome to her music been big fan for years check out her album hounds of love that a good one one of my favs
Wow is an amazing song 👌🏻
This song is too good for words to describe it. She is the most innovative and incredible female signer of all time
I agree, Adam, we don't just hear Kate's songs, we feel them, live them, making them timeless.
Singer of all time
Outside
Gets inside
Through her skin
I've been out before
But this time it's much safer in
Last night in the sky
Such a bright light
My radar send me danger
But my instincts tell me to keep
Breathing
(Out, in, out, in, out, in)
Breathing
Breathing my mother in
Breathing my beloved in
Breathing
Breathing her nicotine
Breathing
Breathing the fall-out in
Out in, out in, out in, out in
We've lost our chance
We're the first and the last, ooh
After the blast
Chips of plutonium
Are twinkling in every lung
I love my
Beloved, ooh
All and everywhere
Only the fools blew it
You and me
Knew life itself is
Breathing
(Out, in, out, in, out, in)
Breathing
Breathing my mother in
Breathing my beloved in
Breathing
Breathing her nicotine
Breathing
Breathing the fall-out in
Out in, out in, out in, out in
Out in, out in, out in, out
(Out, out, out)
Ooh please!
(What are we going to do without)
Let me breathe!
(What are we going to do without)
Ooh, breath in
(We are all going to die without)
Leave me something to breathe!
(What are we going to do without)
Oh, leave me something to breathe!
(We are all going to die without)
Oh, God, please leave us something to breathe!
(What are we going to do without)
Oh, life is
Source: LyricFind
Probably the most beautiful and unique 'protest' song ever written.
I would go out on a wimb and say you are 100% correct. The levels of depth this gets at is not easily rivaled.
What does reviled mean?
@@trod9850 "officially agree to or accept as satisfactory"
protest about nuclear war is bad lol
It truly is one of the most profound and powerful comments on the idiocy of the idea of total annihilation.
She called IT "her little Opera". I LOVE it, and often IT brings Tears in my eyes. GREAT Song.
Greetings from Germany, O
Try to see cloudbusting, the tribute act do it full justice
This gives me Goosebumps every time I hear it and 40 years later it has renewed meaning for us all.
I got this on a cassette tape back in 1980. It was so haunting, with the Cold War running in the background. Now it seems to get a new meaning.
Even moreso nowadays (March 2022).
Climate change
06/04/2023 Very much so. Really well said.
This song got me out of a really bad acid trip once. Kate Bush telling me to breathe in and out was just what I needed.
Maybe you shouldn’t do acid anymore. It’s not good to do drugs man. Love yourself and be high on life
@@AK-gb9rp acid and other psychedelics have very few if any long term consequences and conversely can be used for a variety of medical purposes such as anti depressants. I have Tourette’s syndrome and acid is the only thing that helps mitigate the tics. Try not to judge without proper information. One bad trip doesn’t out weigh all the positive
Relatable
@@griffincofell4738 I have really come to regret not having been able to get over my own upbringing and try LSD or psilocybin when I was much younger. I never did any drugs, and could count on three fingers the amount of times I tried Mary. But now I am very old, and the real problem is that I am on a boat load of medications to control nerve pain from a late onset neurological condition on the left side of my brain. If I had known a lo more years ago, I would have not been such a stooge over it.
Don’t do acid my friend. I know this from experience. It’s not like it was in the 90’s mate.
This should be on the playlist of every 'powerful', yet naked fragile leader on earth, right now...
Grow up...like it would make any difference. Soft git.
Right now this song is more important than ever.
I agree. I'm pregnant too and I bawled my eyes out at this
@@eizzi321 You'll get through this!
Did we get nuked??
@@erika9763 In a manner of speaking, yes.
found many references to covid in this song...
John Giblin. Your Bass playing contribution to this recording is so profound & well considered (as always) to this haunting masterpiece by Kate. A tragic loss to the music world. RIP
Listening to this for the first time in about 30 years and still scares me how much artistry, foresight, passion and conviction exists in this song.
This music stands the test of time ⏲️
To me she is the ultimate human being. Acutely sensitive and uniquely creative with the right instinct for when to say no to unnecessary demands. Kind, thoughtful, intelligent and with a beauty that glows internally and externally. Wish all women were allowed to be sweet, powerful, beautiful, clever and also to release their inner screaming banshee!
+marajadefire77
mmm yessss XD
She's amazing!
+marajadefire77 "To me she is the ultimate human being" - How beautifully said. So true.
+marajadefire77 Your words are fine and high praise. Well said. I would hope Ms. Bush gets to read such thoughts as yours. And furthermore you are not alone.
+marajadefire77 "Wish all women were allowed to be sweet, powerful, beautiful, clever and also to release their inner screaming banshee!" Hear, hear!
Yes she is a truly unique artiste. Part Earth mother, part Temptress, part Angel, part alien and and a whole lot more beside.....
I remember hearing this song for the first time and being completely spellbound particularly because at the time there was much talk of Nuclear war in the 80's - there was a lot of fear. It is frightening song especially when the man's voice comes in talking about what to do in the event of hearing the warning siren..sends chills down my spine, even now.
Think I've got an idea why Kate was pretty much overlooked by radio station management in America - cowardice. This masterpiece by Kate goes for the gut and rips your heart out at the same time. Plus, the lyrics were as valid, then, as they are, now. Bravo Kate.
Nit realy back then Brits breaking into the US market was pretty much not happening and wasn't importamt to them. To the point it could hurt their home career if they focused on trying to do so. Music was a lot more parochial then than it is now.
@@Dermacrosismeanwhile, Electric Light Orchestra, a Birmingham-based band, were more successful in the US than they were in their home country. But do go on
@@LTAD-xi6swwho said there wasn’t exceptions? But do go on
@@DermacrosisElton John's first hits were in America.
@LTAD-xi6sw Shalamar were small fry in the States but huge in the UK.
I really like this song. Only discovered it a few months ago. It's very atmospheric. I was not even alive when Kate was doing this. She is possibly the best songwriter I've ever heard.
Enchanting.🙂
Nuclear war was a real possibility when I was first listening to this 😮
@@NickSmith-ll3si Snap. All those years later people (me) are having the exact same experience.
I too was first hearing this while we are on the cusp of another very possible nuclear war.
ps I have a cousin called Nick Smith lol
It came out when I was at school I remember everyone in the school yard saying "did you see that last night..."
After 25 years still I get tears when I listen to her masterpieces
I'm glad you still get tears after 25 years , its what we need. 💙💙💜💜
It was back in the early 80s and I was up in the middle of the night, flipped on MTV and there was THIS VIDEO. It totally blew my mind. WHO WAS THIS??? I had to hear more, went out and bought the album, "The Dreaming," which this song is not on, but I wore that album out and her other albums since. Now it's 2023 and only now is she scheduled for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, decades overdue given her astonishing songwriting talents, gorgeous voice, artistic innovation, raw courage, fresh spirit and unacknowledged influence. Though she's long been an artist's artist, it probably took the Netflix TV show "Stranger Things" to finally get KB the recognition she's deserved. She's a very different artist than Joni, but of the same caliber, imo, or even more, as Kate's songwriting breadth went beyond her personal life and her artistry more complex and orchestral. Listen to Side B of "Hounds of Love"......"The Ninth Wave." It's a masterpiece.
THE most amazing female musician of all time. No question.
Agreed!!
Love her and Stevie, they both made life more enjoyable
Make
@@carpeomnia88 Same!😊💓
Amen
One of the most beautiful songs of prog rock
I remember the first time I visited England. I was with my family, and it was in 1980. My brother and I decided to take a walk through Piccadilly Circus and check out the clubs, shops and theaters. It was amazing-all the stuff to see and take in! We walked into a record shop, and I believe "Never For Ever" had just been released. Everyone was all a buzz because Kate Bush was considered such royalty there and back then, but I'd never heard of her. After hearing both "Babooshka" and "Breathing", I was hooked immediately. It was eccentric, beautiful and absolutely brilliant! The rest is history!
'Never for Ever' was the first ever album by a British woman to top the UK charts. Fantastic album - to my mind hasn't aged at all. Just the way it was all put together; the sensual way that the track 'The Infant Kiss' (an often overlooked classic among Kate fans - those menacing strings...) runs into 'Night Scented Stock' which goes into 'Army Dreamers'. So classy. 'Hounds of Love' should've gone to number one and the fact that it only made number 3 (if memory serves) is indicative of the British public's descent into vulgarity in terms of cultural shifts. I'm English and I've watched it happen. Sad. I'll bet after Kate's 1980 achievement the record industry thought there'd be loads of Kate Bushes coming up. Didn't happen did it? Then again - she's a one off. I'm glad that you got into Kate Bush - because...the whole world should be in love with her. There's something wrong with people who can't find it in their heart to love Kate. Congratulations on your impeccable taste.
aerialkate Actually "Hounds of Love" debuted at number one and toped the UK Albums Chart for three non-consecutive weeks)
Chris MacKlarren...then my memory is buggered. I'm _old_ now so....
I came along slightly later with Hounds of Love, but I'm glad I found her. It's been a while since I've listened to Kate but she was the soundtrack for my life in the mid to late eighties.
@@aerialkate Hounds of Love was No.1 it knocked Madonnna's Like a Virgin off the top spot. You're thinking of RUTH that reached no.3
first time watching this music video and i'm literally ecstatic. this woman is such an incredible force of nature, a genius artist, i can't even...
Discovering Kate Bush for the first time is a great moment in life.
Absolutely, an amazing genius artist. She still is.
This spent *many* years as the Top of My Pops!
Is it possible we can compliment Kate's brilliant work without insulting other female artists? Because it should be totally possible, even easy.
That's because there's nobody else who lived through a possible Third World War..
Annie Lennox is pretty good so is Alison moyet
With the exception of everyone here today.
Ariel Couch You can do it insulting male artists too. Actually, it is way easier to insult male artists.
I turned 30 in 1994. I am so very glad because I actually experienced something we used to call alternative music as it was happening. I had all of her records; and, after all these decades, I still have some of her vinyl. It sounds relevant and amazing whenever I spin it on the old turntable :) Welcome to all you new Kate Bush fans :D
Such a young age, intelligence, talent, foreseeing,
Relevant right now.
A song for the times. Then, and now.
sadly true
Just realised that this is a song about a pregnant woman in a nuclear attack/blast. It’s about the baby’s point of view. It’s so dark and haunting and yet still so amazing!!!
Oh wow! I never thought of that
CHASING PROPHECY IS A MANY SIDED THING.
THE UK WAS ADAMANT A NUCLEAR STRIKE WAS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE 80'S
KATE SINGS ABOUT EXPERIMENT IV
VERY TODAY!!!! FREQUENCIES ETC
CHASING PROPHECY IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO AVOID.
BUT NOOOO THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN... WAR OF THE WORLD'S.... UNTIL SATNAV GAVE THE SIGNAL AND DESTROYED THE WORLD WE KNEW.
H.G. WELLS... HE TRIED TO CHANGE THE FUTURE.... BUT NOOOO THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN
ON AND ON TIL NOW.
THIS IS THE EVE
Reminds me of the baby from Barefoot Gen!
Its about smoking whilst pregnant - " breathing, breathing your nicotine"
@@heidihans247 Nah if you watch the video and listen to the lyrics its pretty explicit in its nuclear bomb references.
The complete song... thing is she's achieved that many times... it is incredible how really talented she is... thank you so much Kate..
All of her work is just pure magic... Cant believe such a talent is so ignored in our days... Greetings from Brazil
I love how Kate moves with such purpose. She doesn't waste a motion.
shes naturally fluid in mind cement
can’t be taught
I never thought I'd find myself back to the nightmare of the nuclear threat on our doorstep once more.
Just leave us something to breathe.
Brilliant 😄
Simply one of the best songs of all-time. And that vocal is just so stirring and incredible. To think its was only 2 years since Wuthering Heights... Kate bounding ahead!
Kate devastates me still with her pure raw talent and depth. Few artists do for me. This was and so sadly is & will always be relevant - it’s truly incomprehensible the destruction humans create. I cry from her pleas. Let the loud voices of us peacekeepers prevail so that all life may.
I concur. She has brought me to tears more times than I can even count. And I'm mainly an extreme metal fan.
might be wrong cause idk her but seems she might have went thro a lot and overcame it to point much didn’t phase her
tho she dealt with deep subjects matters and things such as these giving it all and it shows.
but could be completely wrong tho this the impression i get
Very relevant now. Very powerful song. Incredible artist.
What are we going to do ...
most have taken the sitting duck position comfortably so it seem more accurate to state “what will they do while we duckle suckle”
It's my "Kate-Binge" night, again, and this is such a super song & REALLY love the ending! Still loving Kate since 1979!
It's my 365th Kate Bush day....Everyday all day long! New lover of Kate Bush's music 🎶
Kate Bush is inimitable she is pure genius
I think this has to be one of the greatest songs ever. I think it is masterfully crafted and incredibly clever.
The "out in" I think has to be one of the most simply brilliant lines of music ever. Yes it represent breathing but it's abnormal. Conventially, we think breathing as being in then out. But that implies that we are breathing in healthy air. In this song, the persona kate has taken on (the baby) has no healthy air to breath in because of the fallout and so is left only able to breath out first. And when we think of the lack of healthy air, every time we hear that out in we are reminded that every breath out is a breath closer to death until eventually we are presented with the desperation. Kate is screaming for something to breath and then the song ends on that sucking inhale sound. It's the character trying desperately to breath in anything.
But to no avail and the song ends.
Kate is a literally genius.
Yessssss! The unnatural 'Out in' refrain almost makes me lose my own breath!
"Breathing the Fall-Out in, out, in, out, in.." simply brilliant and haunting lyrics
😅😮😮h
Kate Bush is just freaking brilliant, period. 😃💖🙏
joy
Yes
Breathing (Never for Ever, 1980)
Kate adopts the persona of a foetus fearful of being born in the midst of a nuclear holocaust. With the Cold War intensifying, this was a pertinent, typically ambitious, risk-taking song and a highly unlikely hit single from Bush as she conjured yet another startlingly unique performance.
Great Britain, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 1836
Please comment more .Hoping your well.Her messages are still being shouted and ignored.Love her work.XXX
@@natashaharbour4273 Thank you. We're doing fine. How're you doing!
(Sat 24 Apr 2021 18h20)
Her voice, her artistry, so ahead of her time.
Not seen much to match our Kate over the last 40 years. Rarely see anyone with her capability in song writing.
I love how they made this incredibly ethereal magical beautiful imagery with essentially plastic wrap and a giant clear beach ball. Amazing
Somewhere between brilliance and genius. Peerless in terms of the sheer audacity of her music produced at such a young age. Few female musicians even come close. The album 'The kick Inside' is a masterpiece. How on earth did a teenager conceive of this music? One of my Desert Island Discs, without a doubt.
Different, like no other...after all this time still one of a kind!
Beautyful !!!
The great K8T will always be one of a kind. Thank the Goddess for it.
2020 and we are still breathing and listening to Kate.
Never for ever had it on tape and now CD still love it in 2020 love you Kate Bush thank you so much your a true star
2021 now...
2021 😊
And I shall listen for another 20+ years.
A true, brilliant multi-talented artist...timeless
Love you Kate, have loved you for 30 years now. As a musician myself you are one of my all time biggest musical heroes. Recently I saw Rick Beato and the great Thomas Lang also talk about how they are huge fans of yours. You are a true legend and I'm so grateful for your contributions. I will adore, admire, and respect you always, until my dying breath, no doubt. I'm so happy that a whole new generation of listeners are discovering you and giving you the recognition you deserve, because your music is timeless and absolutely heart breaking. And brilliant too, of course! ❤💯
this one always gets me
Awesome.
Congratulations Kate, from Brazil
To find this song at the end of the Never For Ever album was and is for me something hard to deal with. I mean the structure, the tone, but most of all the emotional impact the song has, so very distant from the other tracks on the album. It's like looking at our solar system and recognising the consistancy of the different celestial bodies and then outside this well balanced system you discover a blackhole or something else so different and grand...When I play the album, I never play this track and vice versa. It stands on its own and does a great job with that. A very important song which to me describes the unrest felt during the early eighties with a nuclear race going on between The Soviet Union and The United States during the cold war. Living in Western Europe at the time was living with anxiety. Missiles were directly aimed at us.
To know Kate wrote it at such an early age and have it recorded in just three days... she knew where she wanted to go with it. No doubt about it.
I love this comment so much
Operatic, ethereal and sublime!! Kate is beyond simple pop realities.
At 4:23 the people in the white gowns wading in the river is reminiscent of accounts of victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The victims wading because everything else was in flames and they were suffering from burns. This is Kate at near her peak, IMO. A haunting masterpiece.
flatonia yes she featured this relating to ww2 because there were nuclear bomb threats back in 79-85. By 84 people were horrified because ww3 was highly possible and other countries were about to drop bombs on the USA. It was a very uneasy time. The first documentary about nuclear and atomic bombs was written. And the newspaper businesses printed out thousands - millions of informative pamphlets about how to build an in-ground bomb shelter. People were so frightened that pop culture took part in spreading awareness. Like Kate Bush.
I appreciate the response Johanna. It seems strange to me that nuclear weapons were still at the forefront of activism by entertainers and artists in the 80s - a decade after detente, but yes, there were fears.
Carter pulled out of the Olympics on the basis of Human Rights violations, and Reagan was promising to reignite the arms race with Star Wars.
flatonia What are you getting at rn? I'm sorry just a bit confusing. Firstly no matter how far in the future, everyone will remember atomic and nuclear bombings. Even thousands of years later if we still exist and if these times weren't lost somehow in the historical timeline. People will forever talk about it and make art? And Star Wars? What about Star Wars has anything to do with this stuff? How does pure fiction actually relate? I'm sorry... I'm just very confused not meaning to offend in any way.
I can see how it would be confusing. Let me keep it simple. The fear of nuclear war was greater in the 60's. We almost got there. I lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis. I'm speaking of my experience and perspective.
The fear of nuclear accidents at power plants was greater in the 80's, and at least in the U.S., that's where the brunt of the activism was directed.
I mentioned Carter and Reagan to agree that certain actions DID heighten tension between the US and the then USSR.
I was born in the UK in 64 and grew up in an atmosphere of "when the bomb drops" not "if". This continued until the fall of the Berlin wall. It seemed certain the the USA and USSR were going to push each other over the brink. There were several documentaries in that time about the effects of nuclear war. Then two dramatised documentary films were shown. First was "The War Game" made in the late sixties but deemed too frightening for broadcast until the eighties when it was shown one night and "Threads" the next. The latter was newly made and is truly horrific even now.
Those drums at 'Last night....' still make shivers run down my spine after all this time.
I was reading your comment at exactly the moment those drums came in. Brilliant. Moments of Pleasure when she sings Just Being Alive does it for me.
She is the most amazing artist and shares messages in her songs, listen carefully, we have to wake up, God Bless ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yea there is hidden messages even in the cloud busting one I love how you said this !!!!! ♥️♥️
God bless!
Kate Bush is one of the best singers songwriters and music producers of our time!
Is this not one of the most emotionally charged and important songs ever made! I weep every time xxxx
Same here m8...
Only 19 when she wrote it. Absolute genius
Kate is incredible in every way. I feel lucky to be alive in her time. Wonderful.
Even Kate Bush’s darkest song’s are like a warm blanket on a freezing cold day. She’s other worldly.
Not really, some of them were really creepy and this isn't one of them, but they were all still great music. The Infant Kiss, Experiment IV (the video could not be shown on TOTP but it was performed "live"), Under The Ice, Dream Of Sheep, Wedding List, Don't Put Your Foot on The Heart Break.
She was so multi talanted she could get away back then with songs of a nature that if others tried the red top sewer press would kick up a stink, think of Frankies Relax. Yet even before that a TV channel here thought her song Kashka From Baghdad was a more appropriate song for a childrens TV show than In Your Warm Room. Yet not a peep from them about it.
This songs brilliance are the layers. Though it could be about a literal infant in a womb, it can be about any of us that are in situations where we need to breathe, grow, be nurtured-- have freedom, breathe the transformations, the "bomb" or tower in our lives. I can also be a bone deep mantra for the Earth Mother and the pollution she is combating. And lastly, it is the boundaries of the toxicities of our lives. To me, this song is a masterpiece.
Layers of poetic prose and music (3 different musical layers going on at once -- and all the twists and turns of this song)
God this shit brings tears to my eyes every time, maybe the most powerful song ever written
Dear Lady Kate Bush,
THANK YOU for so Many Magical Songs You gave us through the last 45 years.
😃 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
(From Brazil)
a masterpiece from a staggering collection of masterpieces from this incredible lady.
loved her from the first moment that she walked out on the stage on 'top of the pops' and performed her iconic song 'wuthering heights' followed her ever since and this song in particular was always a favourite of mine.
such originality. i mean have you ever heard of anyone writing a song from an unborn child's pov? well maybe you have, but i certainly haven't and i most certainly hadn't at that time. and so many other songs with such originality.
her beauty as an individual also makes her that much more appealing.
seeing her in an interview where she is always so gracious and thankful and humble is such a delight.
it's true her individuality has been often misinterpreted.
but i for one love her story telling.
and now the resurgence of her music with the phenomenal single 'running up that hill' has introduced a whole new gaggle of people to her music.
she has also become the oldest female to reach number one.
she has also become the artist to now have the longest time for a single to reach number one.
she has also become the artist to have had the longest gaps between number ones.
do any of these things really matter? no not really.
but they're just very, very cool.
i think that we are lucky to be alive to witness the magic of this remarkable lady.
and i for one have had a better life because of her music in it.
thanks for posting,
love and peace to you all,
xxxxxxx
I couldn't have said it better!
Still simply amazing,, unequaled, superb voice amd questioning lyrics
For me the best part is and always has been the long instrumental section from 2:60, particularly the BASS. I remember playing this after dark on a very warm and humid evening with all the windows at home thrown open.You could hear the rain coming down despite the warmth and Tulips in the garden were glistening as they filled and overflowed.A wonderfully natural thing to see when listening to something so melancholic as that bassline.
I adore Kate bush I'm 30 and I was brought up listening to her to me she is just magical 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 ❤️ xx
💖
+Jennifer Daw I'm 40 👍
+Jennifer Daw was lucky to be blessed to grow up liserning to this leg💖
I'm 53 and saw her live on tv singing wutherin heights..what a voice what a woman..she is amazing.
Pure art. Pure genius of this media. What a talent.
How amazing is this, way before her time, loved her as a teenager as now in my 50's
This song gets me through tough times. Kate tells me to keep breathing.
Listening to this in 2022, being a Ukrainian, hoping the imagery of the song stays in the song.
I hope so too. Praying for you.
1977/2023 and we still love listening to you!Kate Bush your music lives on in our hearts there will never be another Kate Bush who's listening 2023?
"Chips of Plutonium... a twink-a-ling in Every lung ." What a brilliant lyric .
it's genius.
Oh, I so love it.
We've lost our chance
We're the first and the last, ooh
After the blast
Chips of plutonium
Are twinkling in every lung
Unbelievably brilliant. This is art. Art that speaks. Bless you Kate Bush.
TRULY ONE OF THE MOST CHILLIN ANTI NUCLEAR SONGS EVER! I DEFY YOU NOT TO QUIVER WITH FEAR AND PRAY THAT IT JUST REMAINS A FANTASY!!
As a young adult I connect to this song because of how relevant the content is to our environmental crisis. Once we over fish the seas and cut down the rainforest we’ll all be wishing to breath.
Never For Ever is such an iconic album. My second favorite album.
Pretty much every album she released was iconic even the couple I dislike.
"We've lost our chance" Always gets me that line.
The ultimate earworm. I have had this wonderful song on my brain for days and days. No idea why. Love Kate Bush.
Merci Kate ! Hyper sensible à votre art et à votre créativité. Merci pour vos chansons et vos engagements ! Longue vie à vous ! En France aussi, on vous aime fort.
Definitly my favourite song (not only of the Kate Bush songs but of all songs of all times). Seems like it resonate deeply with my soul. From the first words : "Outside gets inside..." Every time the same thing. Love it.
This evokes so many memories for me....where are you now my friend?
she plans on realising a new album and touring in 2017!
tune in to BBC radio 2 this Saturday to hear a interview with Kate bush.
I see you pop up on so many music videos I watch. We obviously have the same taste, great channel too! :-) xx
Hi Oddy!! Big fan of yours!!! Hers also lol
Oddie! It's you!
@@TortugaLuv @Latiki Reese @TheMeditationChamber
I really appreciate that. Thank you :)
Every Kate Bush song is a hymn of emancipation and self-empowerment.
Love this song. Think about it a lot these days. Severe asthma issues. And of course my mother. And our nicotine addiction. And her last breath. Thx Catherine. X
"The lyrics of the song are about a foetus, very much aware of what is going on outside the womb and frightened by nuclear fallout, which implies that the song is set either during a nuclear war scare or a post-apocalyptic birth. The lyrics also refer to the foetus absorbing nicotine from the mother's smoking. In an interview that year Bush described the song as her "little symphony", adding that she considered it her best work to date. Bush stated that the information within the song mostly came from a documentary she had seen about the effects of nuclear war, while the tone of the song was inspired by Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'. The song was recorded over three days in early 1980."
[from Kate Bush encyclopedia]
@@greg3284 wow those are a handful of very intense emotions
@@greg3284 Try , each day , to be a better person than you were yesterday my friend.
Greg but why
1970's was all about nuclear scares. Used to get fallout procedure information videos played while at school.
It also references reincarnation "I've been out before, but this time it's much safer in". The fetus seems to remember something about a past life/lives and is able to tell that "this time" there's something wrong (the nuclear fallout and radiation) and that there will be unusual peril after birth because of that.
THIS IS ART
❤
True!
the greatest female singers of all time
well at least someone agrees with me yay
james mclean the greatest artist of all time for me, regardless of sex.
@@MrHumanracin definitely top 5 of all time
My ears listen in shock and then the tears flow every. single. time.
Kate Bush, you’re such a great artist. ❤
Cheers from France we love you 🇫🇷
can't get this song out of my head these days
try army dreamers
2:08 That background vocal! Forces tears out
Glad Kate is being appreciated by the current generation due to Stranger Things having played her. Long time coming. She was super slept on.
I mean she did have several number 1s to be fair but yeah deserves a lot of respect
@@jamesdevine02 Not in the US. She's always been kind of a cult artist here. Hounds of Love barely entered the US top 40 back in 1985 and it was her biggest hit.
@@tmage23 Oh yeah fair enough, I hadn't thought of the US
Slept on ? By who? Kate bush is of legendary status...
Never heard of her before today 9-8-23 but Now can’t stop listening to her Music!!!!Amazing !! Such a Creative Woman song and Dance!!!!
Incredible, literally, no words
Few understand how deep this song is heard, the lyrics and the music make me feel like I'm drowning with kate bush
Some people are very talented, and then there are those who are geniuses.