Ever since I re-discovered Kate Bush's work, I have been smitten with The Dreaming so much I hardly play anything else.

Besides The Hounds Of Love, The Early Years, The Home Demo's, The Phoenix Demo's, Lionheart, Never For Ever and The Sensual World...

I like The Dreaming so much becuz it is so other worldly.

I am at the moment playing the album, currently at the Night Of The Swallow...

And after that I will play The Sensual World.

I know hardly anything by Kate Bush. I know about 2 or 3 songs I'm ashamed to say.

So what album would be a good one to start?

I'm particularly drawn to "The Dreaming" now since you call it "otherworldly" - a word
I only reserve for the best albums in my collection, like Prince's "Parade" or Tori's cd
"From The Choirgirl Hotel".

IstenSzek said:

Hounds Of Love is the best. And here's my ratings:

1978 The Kick Inside
1978 Lionheart
1980 Never For Ever
1982 The Dreaming
1985 Hounds Of Love
1989 The Sensual World
1993 The Red Shoes

DO SOME FUCKING WORK, KATE!!!

GooeyTheHamster said:

The Dreaming is nothing short of

What an incredible piece of work it is. Pull Out The Pin is my current fave.


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"Pull Out The Pin" and "Houdini" are some spooky shit!!

paligap said:

Get Out Of My House, too.

Cloudbuster said:

I thought u were a fan?

Chico1 said:

No lube for you today, bitch!

Cloudbuster said:

Such filth!





and u wish!

Yes, The Dreaming is otherworldly. I going through period of waking up in the middle of the night and playing that album, it was very haunting.

The disks by Kate I can't stop playing are "The Kick Inside" and "Lionheart" I wasn't drawn to these albums until, I was worn out on all of the other stuff by her and I gave these 2 another chance. Now these are at the top of my lists of favorites by her, believe it or not I'd take those before "The Sensual World" and Mos def before "THe Red shoes"

Hi Cloudy!!!

Chico1 said:

I'm gonna dance on a podium dressed only in a gold thong at your coming out party.

Chico1 said:

are you mssmartypants?

uh..no.

magnificentsynthesizer667 said:

Hello, Mister.

Sad to say that Lionheart is my least fave. The first three tracks are great, tho'. The rest of them are, at worst, good. She's yet to make a bad album, in my opinion.

Cloudbuster said:

I like the feeling Lionheart gives me more than the song themselves. I can't explain it, but there's something really magical about it, that goes for all of her work except The Red shoes. I wonder the album she's working on now sounds like?

magnificentsynthesizer667 said:

I agree with that. In many ways Lionheart is her darkest album. The cover kinda represents the music within. It has a very claustrophobic feel to it. Starry-eyed poetry by a reclusive young woman. And The Red Shoes ain't so bad, bitch.

I worship The Dreaming

Live at the Hammersmith too. "Moving" live makes me wanna cry.

AnckSuNamun said:

Do you have the video?

Cloudbuster said:

It's alright until this short purple guy shows up on it.

magnificentsynthesizer667 said:

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And that's a cool track.

The Dreaming is an amazing, brilliant, astonishing piece of work. But 2 things:

1) Give it time! It's not an easy first listen... or 2nd listen, for that matter. Let it soak in.

2) WHEN WILL IT BE REMASTERED???? It sounds so crappy and tinny on CD. The KateBush remasters are long overdue.


Pull out the Pin is one of my favorite songs of all time...

[quote]Yes, The Dreaming is otherworldly. I going through period of waking up in the middle of the night and playing that album, it was very haunting.

Strange but I also stood up in the middle of the night several times when i couldn´t sleep and played that album. Especially the song "Get out of my House".
That didn´t happen with any other album.

My favorite song is "Sat in your lap". The video is great too.

magnificentsynthesizer667 said:

I've only seen her performance of "Violin" from a downloaded clip. I can never find the whole video.

JonSnow said:

I loved it on the first listen

AnckSuNamun said:

Damn!! The video is still in print, I just checked amazon.com, though it's only on VHS.

I really wish the label would remaster this and re-release it on dvd. Umm, the vid is also missing about an hour & 1/2 of footage. I guess there were some technical difficulties with the production. Don't worry, there's plenty there to satisfy.

JonSnow said:

This is true, I couldn't I was really disappointed with it at first.



The "Woman's work" box set I own are all japanese remasters. The sound quality is wonderful!

I happen to be a Kate Bush fan myself. She's underrated.

SteamForest said:

I think it's her fault she's not more recognized.