The Kate Bush Singles Rate: The Top 20 Countdown (Tonight at 20:45 GMT) (2 Viewers)

[RJN]

This Woman's Work is beautiful.

I prefer the Maxwell cover.

 

[COB]

I always forget this is Lord Percy from Blackadder

 

[RJN]

Interesting that the real fans (most of the people in this thread now) all gave this a 9

 

[GNL]

I can see this reaching #1 when she dies

She's not going to die. TAKE THAT BACK.

 

[Tisch]

3. This Woman’s Work (1989) from The Sensual World

Average score: 9.6875
Highest score: 10 (Peekaboo, lolly, Raining On Me, funky, Kate, straightorbroken, ButterTart, Ag, Gangsta Nancy Lam, wurst, jyxz)
Lowest score: 9 (VoR, Tisch, Iguana, Soldi, COB)

That’s EVERYONE!

HOT STATS!

I love it. I probably docked it a point because of its overuse in any film/advent/docudrama in ANY sad scene that has nothing to do with the song's subject matter (which is childbirth and not even that obscurely)

 

[COB]

Kate directed this video herself

I didn't know that

 

[Iguana]

I prefer the Maxwell cover.

Oh, and I thought we were getting on so well

 

[ButterTart]

A cover of the Maxwell classic!
Tim McInnery ACTING!
Singing as if she's a bloke!

Everything about this is 12455/10

 

[Iguana]

More glitter!

 

[Tisch]

I can see this reaching #1 when she dies

Agree. This is her Man In the Mirror.

 

[Iguana]

I got a bit shiver at the end

 

[ButterTart]

I watched She's Having a Baby purely on the strength of this song being on the soundtrack. It was quite good but I don't remember most of it.

 

[COB]

Love how STAGEY the This Woman's Work video is.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I prefer the Maxwell cover.

I think I want to hear it. I was just thinking, this is nice enough but I bet a remix/cover would be amazing.

Obligatory screech mention.

7/10

 

[Iguana]

INTERESTING CHOICE of the red dress version of the video, @Soldi !

 

[Soldi]

2. Wuthering Heights (1978) from The Kick Inside

Average score: 9.6875
Highest score: 11 (lolly)
Lowest score: 8 (wurst)

 

[RJN]

Oh, and I thought we were getting on so well

Please, I knew that when you didn't like Wildest Moments

 

[ButterTart]

Agree. This is her Man In the Mirror.

And she'll not have a reputation as a dirty great nonce hanging over her.

 

[Soldi]

INTERESTING CHOICE of the red dress version of the video, @Soldi !

It’s the more WELL KNOWN one isn’t it?

 

[Iguana]

this is nice enough

 

[Nancy]

@Nancy

 

[Iguana]

It’s the more WELL KNOWN one isn’t it?

I think the white dress one is more well-known PERSONALLY but I may just be speaking for myself

 

[GNL]

Now this is out of the way I'm pretty sure #1 is going to be that song about Ken Livingstone.

 

[ButterTart]

THE OUTSIDE VIDEO

This always makes me feel proper Christmassy. I researched the hill it was filmed on because I wanted to go to there, but it was well far.

 

[COB]

I prefer the other video, but they're BOTH GREAT.

 

[Tisch]

This Woman's Work is beautiful.

I prefer the Maxwell cover.

 

[Iguana]

And she'll not have a reputation as a dirty great nonce hanging over her.

Best mates with Rolf though...

 

[Tisch]

And she'll not have a reputation as a dirty great nonce hanging over her.

LET'S HOPE!

 

[GNL]

I love this song, and have fond memories of butchering it at karaoke with a friend who looks like Noel Fielding the first time we met.

 

[COB]

Ooh! Let me HAVE it!

 

[Soldi]

Ooh! Let me HAVE it!

and

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I can't deny this is iconic and great fun. Kate Bush, as she has demonstrated tonight, loves nonsense. Most of the time it is lost on me, but this just hits right.

And it's peak screeching too which helps.

10/10

 

[RJN]

Wuthering Heights is beautiful.

I prefer the Jessie J cover

 

[Iguana]

HERE WE GO

 

[Tisch]

If that horrible Soldi would have let us have two 11's, I'd have given Wuthering Heights one. What a SONG.

 

[Soldi]

It’s the guitar outro that gets me

 

[Soldi]

Which means...

1. Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) (1985) from Hounds of Love

Average score: 10.25!!
Highest score: 11 (VoR, Tisch, straightorbroken, Ag)
Lowest score: 10 (EVERYONE ELSE!)

 

[Iguana]

Wuthering Heights is beautiful.

I prefer the Jessie J cover

Don't forget I have unchecked power to ban you permanently

 

[Tisch]

An average above 10! AMAZING! And deserved.... BY A LOT!!!!

 

[RJN]

Don't forget I have unchecked power to ban you permanently

But my FREEDOM OF SPEECH!

There is no Jessie J version (I hope)