MOOPY ALBUM SYNC LISTENS #8 - KATE BUSH - HOUNDS OF LOVE - 8pm Tuesday 26/05 (1 Viewer)

octophone said:
There was a little controversy when KB swapped the album version of The Big Sky for the single mix in the 2018 reissue....it's a great powerhouse of a tune in any guise.
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I like that she says she knew where she wanted the song to GET, and then had to decide how to get to the ending
 
COB said:
I wasn't a fan of The Big Sky for quite a long time, but in retrospect I really think it was more just that it's a slight comedown from THAT one-two punch. It's very joyous really!
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I think you're right - on its own terms, it hits hard. But any side of vinyl starting with RUTH has a *lot* to live up to.
 
The drum machine on The Big Sky strongly reminds me of Peter Gabriel and Games Without Frontiers in particular. Which, of course, Kate sang backing vocals on.
 
The amazing thing about TBS is how much is sounds like a live group performance when nothing could be further from the truth...the drums are exceptional and her massed vocals just lift and lift and lift...
 
MSFC is probably the only song that sounds like it could have been on any of her previous albums. You could slide it onto The Dreaming almost undetected.
 
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Mother Stands For The Comfort is the one I'd choose to skip from side one if I absolutely had to (as I assume is true for most?), but it's also the one I learn more 'new' things from when I listen to it. It's actually very haunting and touching.
 
Mother Stands For Comfort SOUNDS like a bit of a letdown but I love the idea behind it.

To her the hunted not the hunter...
 
Mother Stands For Comfort, more than anything else on side A of HoL, feels most like a continuation of The Dreaming for me - the way it's so deeply character-based and off kilter.
 
Ag said:
I assume this all sounded fairly out there at the time.
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It did to me but I was only 12 so that wasn't a big ask.

It still feels odd...there's a real unease lurking in a song that could have been fluff in any other hands.
 
Much like Tisch's Futureheads confession, I knew this as a sample on the Utah Saints song a long time before I heard Kate's song.
 
On top of the world looking over the edge
You could see them coming
You looked too small in their big black car
To be a threat to the men in power

That always gets me, such poetry and protest throughout this song
 
Cloudbusting. STUNNING. No choice but to stan etc.

We saw someone live who did this on a Casio keyboard completely improvised from an audience request and it still absolutely resonated. I think it got a bigger audience reaction to his own songs!
 
You really cannot beat Cloudbusting, can you? I'll never forget a lot of things about Before the Dawn, but this as the encore was such a MOMENT.
 
Iguana said:
On top of the world looking over the edge
You could see them coming
You looked too small in their big black car
To be a threat to the men in power

That always gets me, such poetry and protest throughout this song
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It's about the residents of Barnard Castle watching the Cummings family approach from the A1
 
COB said:
You really cannot beat Cloudbusting, can you? I'll never forget a lot of things about Before the Dawn, but this as the encore was such a MOMENT.
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It was Bertie's suggestion! She was originally going to do The Big Sky as the encore but he had a word
 
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I'm getting a bit misty eyed to this... which REALLY doesn't bode well for the state I'll be in once we get to Hello Earth ET AL :D
 
This is without question one of the greatest songs in the entire history of popular music. It's so vivid and has such extraordinary depth and compassion.
 
COB said:
You really cannot beat Cloudbusting, can you? I'll never forget a lot of things about Before the Dawn, but this as the encore was such a MOMENT.
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Did I see you at Before The Dawn? I think we glanced eyes on the way to/from the toilet. Did we mention this at the time?

Either way, YES ABSOLUTELY. I was in a out of body experience of sheer JOY I remember
 
11 Running Up That Hill
10 Hounds of Love
08 Big Sky
08 Mother Stands For Comfort
10 Cloudbusting
 
There's so much in this...I think, at core, it's about undue strain on familial relationships, thus tying it to MSFC.

And who else could finish on a train effect and not sound shit?
 
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