from the whales and dolphins that open up The Kick Inside to the singing birds in the aerial firmament that close out a Sky of Honey....I love Kate!!

I feel i wanna be up on the roof... dancing, praising the Creator and celebrating all Creation when I'm playing this album!!

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i LOVE the acoustic guitar in "sunset" TO PIECES.


just had to get that out of my system.

Anxiety said:

Me too! too sexy!

btw, i had a dream i purchased this on vinyl! *i'm a totally fam* i did order the sweatshirt with bertie's art on it, an aerial t-shit and err...ahem....uh, a lithograph.

Anyways, if anyone knows of any vinyl pressings hit me with a note! I can totally see the UK doing this. Can you imagine Aerial on a double vinyl, with a gatefold cover!?!?

oh and as i predicted, disc 2 is my favorite so far!


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This album is just soooo amazing! Definitley exceeded all my hopes! Favourite tracks are A Coral Room, Prologue, Joanni, Nocturn and Aerial.

so far, disc one is my favorite, which is not to say i don't like disc two...i just haven't absorbed it as much yet. i love "sunset" to pieces, though.

Anxiety said:

i cant choose...each time i intend to listen to just one side i end up putting on the other right after...


Kate mentions in EW that she thinks that albums should only be about thirty or fourty minutes. Please her heart for making this a double disc.....each side is a total and complete album into itself yet they compliment each other so well..its amazing..

a reviewer said that King Of The Mountain is the first song to blend Bjork w/ Sade...and he is dead on it!

sosgemini said:

i can see the logic in making this a two disc set, but i'd be just as happy if it were all on one disc...purely for practical reasons, namely so my lazy ass won't have to get up and change CDs over and over.

i'm gonna get a cd carousel just for my kate bush cds.

OK, you guys aren't going to believe this and i was hesitant about posting this, but last fall i burned a 2 disc kate comp for a friend of mine who's an artist. Around the same time i asked him to paint an abstract picture for me and the only input i had were the colors. Well, (AND I KNOW THIS IS THE TRUTH 'CUZ HE TOLD ME THIS BEFORE ANYONE EVEN KNEW THE NAME OF KATE'S DISC) he said while he was working on this piece he had the comps on repeat. The day he purchased Aerial, he was looking at the cover with his wife and he asked her what does it remind her of, thinking she would bring up the soundwaves and instead she said "it looks like that damn picture you painted for mike". And you know what, she was right.





i know it's far from being exactly like the cover, but you have to admit there are some similarities!

i'm not forcing it am I?

sinisterpentatonic said:

no, actually, that's pretty amazing. and i'm very envious - i love that painting! very cool.

Anxiety said:

Lucky you, he lives in chicago now. hit me up if you ever want his card.

Anxiety said:

Awesome story. Reminds me of my Tori Beekeeper coincidence, but I won't bore you with that.

sinisterpentatonic said:

Yep. I thought of Blue as soon as I heard it.

Anxiety said:

She's a trip!

Cloudbuster said:

That woman was psycho. She made the mother from Waterboy seem sane and reasonable. It's funny how she lashed out so much at supposed sinners yet she was sloth and gluttony incarnate.

GangstaFam said:

yeah....we don't wanna make this a Tori thread

Anxiety said:

I still haven't listened to it enough to fully analyze it either, but disc one is my favorite so far too. KOTM was a really nice choice for the single I thought I'd be tired of KOTM by now because I had listened to it over and over before the release date. It really gets better after every listen

i'm getting more into disc 2, especially after reading a few reviews and analyses of the album and getting a better idea of what's going on conceptually.

i have to say, this is the ONLY album i've been listening to since the first time i heard it on friday. it's so full and varied and challenging to me, and it's just nice to hear kate's voice on something new.

Anxiety said:

Anx, did you pick up December's MOJO? They have a wonderful interview with her in it. Apparently, this is also the only interview she's gonna give, it's very intimate. They also gave Aerial

sinisterpentatonic said:

umm..she gave an interview in last week's Entertainment Weekly..

sosgemini said:

well, at the beginning of the article they made a really big deal about this being her only interview.

i suppose she changed her mind.

sinisterpentatonic said:

i don't have it, i really want it, and i'm broke till i get paid this weekend so i ain't gettin' it anytime soon.

i read an excerpt from it on the guardian (uk publication) web site. good stuff.

i'm a little sore that pitchfork gave aerial such a thrashing, but of course, i'd expect nothing less from them. kate bush isn't an obscure 20something indie rock band, after all.

Anxiety said:

pitchfork is horrid..i really tried to respect their views but they seem more concerned about writing witty intellectual reviews then actually reviewing the work thats on the album.

sosgemini said:

i was afraid to go over there and read the review, but after doing so he had some valid points. i was expecting them to really tear into the album, i'm guessing that the critic must've been a true fan to go so gently on her. most of the time, when a lot of anticipation is built up around a release it's like throwing a wounded cow into a lake of piranhas, there's absolutely nothing left when they've finished. Shit, they've even made me doubt albums i had no problems with until reading their review on it. i think someone should send them the lyrics to FZ's Packard Goose.

sinisterpentatonic said:

yeah, they (and some other very sharp-tongued music critics) can really take the air out of my enthusiasm for some music, just with one very pointed, bitchy little comment. i guess insight can be used for good OR evil.

the only criticism i agree with so far is that some of the arrangements and production sounds just a touch dated - fretless bass, etc. sometimes i feel like i'm listening to peter gabriel's US album, which was freakin' mindblowing when it first came out, but it sounds a bit dated and quaint (though still very nice) now. i don't think this is a HUGE problem with 'aerial'...i can see the point, though.

Anxiety said:

yeah, i'm sure some of the masters had some dust on them before they were printed to disc. i think it's kind of cool that she still has that vibe, i don't think she really ever pursued staying on the edge of what was going on, she always had her own thing going on. Personally, i think it's hard to put a year on most of her music, tho Areial sounds as if it could've been released right after Sensual world.

sinisterpentatonic said:

definitely. dated or not, it sounds just like a kate bush album.

Anxiety said:

timeless.
















Fam alert!

sinisterpentatonic said:

Reviewed by Marc Weingarten




HIGH FLYING Twelve years later and Bush still knows what she's doing



Maturity hasn't dulled Kate Bush's propensity for musical loopiness. Twelve years after her last album, she is still besotted by all the wonders of this good green earth. On the sprawling but focused Aerial, she is a sprite flitting across verdant, languorous soundscapes, cooing along with the birdsong and extolling the virtues of her son, the beauty of numbers — even doing the wash — all the while mesmerizing with her controlled whimsy and intricate arrangements that never overwhelm her voice. Considering the length of her hiatus, this is a remarkable surprise. Grade: A

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