sorry but i got this after reading how many people loved it here and it put me to sleep...just my 2 cents

will it work twice?

thanks for breaking it down

dont hold back ... tell us how you really feel Professor Positive

It's a pretty quiet record, but it's not bad.

CD1 is a good collection of well-crafted pop songs. Sounds like classic Kate to me.

CD2 is like a piece of classical music. It's harder to enjoy right away. It doesn't make a huge impression at first, the flow gets to you after a while. It's much more creative than CD1. The end is particularly good.

pkidwell said:

I-Agree-Not

Aerial was #1 by a landslide on the first(?) official Org Pazz & Jop poll: http://www.prince.org/msg/8/174980

i knew i shouldn't have started this thread....but it's just that i used to like her and was let down a bit by this new record.....oh well

pkidwell said:

Sorry, you are definitely in the minority. Take a look at the general consensus at Metacritic.com: http://www.metacritic.com...ate/aerial

sextonseven said:

7 out of 20 are women! i should have looked at that before i started a negative thread about a woman.....how dare me

pkidwell said:

I count 9 women of the top 20, but what does the fact that Kate's a woman have to do with anything? I've read a lot of threads here about women that have gotten many negative posts. I don't think the org is super-feminist or anything where female artists are universally praised.

pkidwell said:

i'm a guy and i think it's by far the best album of last year. and i was all set to say that about sufjan or the decemberists until aerial came along.

Best album last year in my small universe.

i like it because i like birds

It has some beautiful songs on it,but if you want me to be honest,I don't listen to it as much as I listened to The Red Shoes.

Here is a review I read shortly after buying the album.


On Aerial, Bush has become, literally, a domestic goddess. Packed full of lyrical and visual arcana for her disciples to obsess over, it includes a paean to her son; songs about Elvis, Joan of Arc, mathematicians, and painters; and a second-CD concept suite titled “A Sky of Honey.”

The best track, “Mrs. Bartolozzi,” finds transcendence in laundry. Over minimalist piano, Bush sings about cleaning the kitchen floor and washing clothes—“Washing machine! Washing machine!” she croons then cries as the piano dies. The machine’s churning water suddenly transforms into the ocean, and Bush is standing in the surf, waves lapping around her. Then she’s back to the laundry room for the wonderfully loopy coda, where she sings, high-pitched, “Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy / Get that dirty shirty clean / Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy / Make those cuffs and collars gleam.”

If only the whole album were that odd. The last time Bush did a concept piece—her 1985 masterpiece, Hounds of Love—she fooled around with Irish jigs, voice cut-ups, and tape loops. Her voice is still exquisite, but too much of Aerial fades into a soft-focus background of soothing synthesizers, murmuring bass, and twittering birdsong.
sunrise, but it’s not clear what it’s about exactly, beyond an amorphous oneness with nature. There’s a prelude and a prologue, but no epilogue; a brief voice-over from a painter about getting “that tone a little bit lighter there, maybe with some dark accents coming in from the side”; and a closing half evoking the sun’s streaking light.

Bush sounds incredibly contented, secure at the center of her world. You imagine her roaming around her country estate, occasionally dropping into the home studio to daub a dark accent onto track seventeen. It’s doubtless a nice place to reach in midlife, and if one were strolling the hills with her, one might, as “Nocturne” urges, “become panoramic.” But Aerial soundtracks bliss, rather than communicating it—what’s needed is a little more of Madonna’s restless spirit.

In other words.....boring!! But to each their own.

Posthumous said:

I like it, but I'll admit it's not getting as much play as it did when I first bought it.

What else have you heard by Kate. I wouldn't start out with Aeriel if I was listening to her albums for the first time.

pkidwell said:

"boring" if what you're looking for is a motorhead or a NIN album, sure. this is a quiet, happy album. and for what it's meant to be, it's done quite well. maybe you're not in the headspace to really enjoy it right now. maybe it'll be more of a spring or summer album for you. who knows. i think it's refreshing that it's about simple, domestic, everyday things. how many albums these days do that?

Beautiful album! One of my fav's by Kate and My best of 2005.

sinisterpentatonic said:

It's the best album of 2005...a masterpiece!

I'm holding not 2 flame the creator of this thread...

pkidwell said:

I have other albums by her and love her voice so don't get me wrong. It's just not one of her best, but perhaps I shouldn't expect that since she's like 50.

pkidwell said:

You're also under 100, right???










Talking about IQ!!!!
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MikeMatronik said:

Flame?

How about destroy?

Cloudbuster said:

sinisterpentatonic said: