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Favorite Kate Bush Songs

I've been a Kate Fan for 35 years but "The Wedding List" remains my favorite of all of her songs.

What are yours?

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by Anonymousreply 70February 12, 2019 11:59 PM

"Kidnapped On A Building Site" is a demo from 1980 that is just awesome!

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by Anonymousreply 1June 21, 2018 12:40 AM

This remix of 2005's "King Of The Mountain" is amazing!

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by Anonymousreply 2June 21, 2018 12:42 AM

Full-length version of 1987's "Be Kind To My Mistakes"

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by Anonymousreply 3June 21, 2018 12:43 AM

Hate her screechy voice. Like a cat being strangled.

by Anonymousreply 4June 21, 2018 12:48 AM

I have a lot of favorites. Here's one.

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by Anonymousreply 5June 21, 2018 12:48 AM

"James And The Cold Gun" is one of my favorites, too!!!!

I love this weird video of "Babooshka"!!!

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by Anonymousreply 6June 21, 2018 12:53 AM

But this version from France is even cooler!!!!

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by Anonymousreply 7June 21, 2018 12:54 AM

"Hey there, Michael, do you really love me?"

1993.

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by Anonymousreply 8June 21, 2018 1:02 AM

Love and Anger

You might not,

not think so now

But just you wait and see,

someone will come to help you

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by Anonymousreply 9June 21, 2018 1:14 AM

"I put on my Cloudiest Suit!

Size Five Lightning Boots, TOO!!!"

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by Anonymousreply 10June 21, 2018 1:16 AM

Silent All These Years

Precious Things

Winter

God

Cornflake Girl

by Anonymousreply 11June 21, 2018 1:19 AM

This one, too.

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by Anonymousreply 12June 21, 2018 1:30 AM

My very favorite is 'Cloudbusting', but I love so much of her work. I'm really fond of the Never For Ever album with songs like 'Breathing' and 'Army Dreamers':

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by Anonymousreply 13June 21, 2018 1:37 AM

Something Good (Utah Saints)

by Anonymousreply 14June 21, 2018 1:39 AM

I used to listen to 'Them heavy people' on repeat.

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by Anonymousreply 15June 21, 2018 1:45 AM

LOL, I've never seen that one, R7. I love her.

by Anonymousreply 16June 21, 2018 1:48 AM

So many to choose from, but Cloudbursting would be my all time favorite.

It's the song that introduced me to Kate Bush and remains stunning.

"But just saying it could even make it happen."

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by Anonymousreply 17June 21, 2018 1:50 AM

Probably Suspended in Gaffa. Thank you for reminding me to listen to that album again.

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by Anonymousreply 18June 21, 2018 1:52 AM

And we pause for the jet...

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by Anonymousreply 19June 21, 2018 1:52 AM

When I was teen I was obsessed with the ninth wave; trying to find all the hidden messages like morse code, the different languages...etc. At one point, someone had compiled a list of the many things that were hidden in those songs. But, my fav song of hers is woman's work.

by Anonymousreply 20June 21, 2018 1:55 AM

"It's in the trees! It's COMING!"

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by Anonymousreply 21June 21, 2018 1:55 AM

Are we sure Kate and Mary Steenburgen aren't the same person?

I love this one and of course, it's a classic:

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by Anonymousreply 22June 21, 2018 2:01 AM

My fav

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by Anonymousreply 23June 21, 2018 2:08 AM

I can't pick just one, but I'll try to pick just one from each album:

The Kick Inside - Moving

Lionheart - Symphony in Blue - or Fullhouse

Never Forever - Delius

The Dreaming - Night of the Swallow - or Suspended in Gaffa

Hounds of Love - Running Up That Hill

The Ninth Wave - Hello Earth

The Sensual World - Never Be Mine

The Red Shoes - Eat the Music

Aerial: A Sea of Honey - How to Be Invisible - or Mrs Bartalozzi

Aerial: A Sky of Honey - Nocturne - and Aerial Tal because it's crazy and wonderful

Director's Cut - Rubberband Girl

50 Words for Snow - Lake Tahoe

Okay, I cheated a couple of times, and split two albums into their concept and non-concept parts.

by Anonymousreply 24June 21, 2018 2:11 AM

R14 Same here.

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by Anonymousreply 25June 21, 2018 2:19 AM

this one's great, too

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by Anonymousreply 26June 21, 2018 2:23 AM

She’s a wackadoodle

by Anonymousreply 27June 21, 2018 2:27 AM

R14 and R25 - that didn’t get much play in my part of the world. Thanks for reminding me how much I loved the Utah Saints.

by Anonymousreply 28June 21, 2018 2:30 AM

Her cover of Brazil for the movie soundtrack is transcendent

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by Anonymousreply 29June 21, 2018 2:32 AM

I love "Delius," too, R24.

by Anonymousreply 30June 21, 2018 2:44 AM

Running Up that Hill

by Anonymousreply 31June 21, 2018 2:54 AM

Man With the Child in His Eyes is luscious.

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by Anonymousreply 32June 21, 2018 3:10 AM

Too many to mention.

Here's a B-side I love:

You watch the clock move the slow hand

I should have been home hours ago

But I'm not here

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by Anonymousreply 33June 21, 2018 3:12 AM

'Wow' is her greatest song. It's hauntingly dramatic in an easy listening kind of way which Is why I love it.

When she sings" that movie queen he's too busy hitting the vaseline" she pats her ass in the video. lol

by Anonymousreply 34June 21, 2018 3:30 AM

Be Kind to My Mistakes is a great B side:

[italic]It's all right, darling

We can do this together

It's all right, darling

I can think of nothing better

I don't know you

And you don't know me

It is this that brings us together[/italic]

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by Anonymousreply 35June 21, 2018 3:34 AM

Hounds of Love (the song) is my favorite piece of hers. I know it’s one of her most “approachable” songs, and I do love her more avant garde stuff, but you can hear the influence of Hounds in so much contemporary music even to this day in the alt rock scene.

by Anonymousreply 36June 21, 2018 3:42 AM

50 words for snow.

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by Anonymousreply 37June 21, 2018 3:44 AM

Love “Running Up arhat Hill” and thought it fit perfectly on the new Ryan Murphy show POSE.

Also love “Why Should I Love You”, which features vocals by Prince and Brit comedian Lenny Henry...

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by Anonymousreply 38June 21, 2018 4:06 AM

^*That* Hill

by Anonymousreply 39June 21, 2018 4:07 AM

i have never heard one song of hers and if i have i would not know who she is....

by Anonymousreply 40June 21, 2018 4:57 AM

R40 And you're sharing your ignorance because?

by Anonymousreply 41June 21, 2018 5:39 AM

More love for "never be mine." The songs with the Bulgarian women are incredible.

by Anonymousreply 42June 21, 2018 5:43 AM

One of the best lines in her music: 'I put this moment here'

by Anonymousreply 43June 21, 2018 5:26 PM

Cloudbusting was the first song I thought about

by Anonymousreply 44June 21, 2018 6:02 PM

They told us all they wanted

Was a sound that could kill someone from a distance

So we go ahead and the meters are over in the red

It's a mistake in the making

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by Anonymousreply 45June 22, 2018 10:43 PM

My favorites are still the two I saw her do on Saturday Night Live in 1978 -The Man With The Child In His Eyes and Them Heavy People.

by Anonymousreply 46June 22, 2018 10:51 PM

They used This Woman’s Work to nice effect in The Handmaid’s Tale this season. Impossible to name a favorite from her. I do love Night of the Swallow and had a period a while ago when I couldn’t get Egypt out of my mind.

by Anonymousreply 47June 22, 2018 10:52 PM

"The Man with the Child in His Eyes", "Wow", "Running Up That Hill", "Jig of Life", "This Woman's Work", "Under the Ivy"

by Anonymousreply 48June 22, 2018 10:56 PM

Count me as another who can't pick just one. The Man with the Child in His Eyes is a beauty. Also love Hello Earth. I remember I played that for a friend in college who had never heard her before. She then listened to The Hounds of Love CD for weeks afterward and fell in love with Kate. I also love And Dream of Sheep. Under the Ivy is another good one. Un Baiser d'Enfant is great. She sings it in English, too, but I prefer the French version. I love to listen to Warm and Soothing over the holidays. So many more. Love me some Kate!

by Anonymousreply 49June 22, 2018 10:57 PM

Placebo vs Pet Shop Boys vs Kate Bush - Love Comes Running Up That Hill Quickly

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by Anonymousreply 50June 23, 2018 4:21 AM

I love to get stoned and trip out to Kate Bush

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by Anonymousreply 51June 23, 2018 7:18 AM

I love the combo of Prince and Trio Bulgarka on "Why Should I Love You." Kate could make odd juxtapositions like that work.

Cloudbusting, Hounds of Love, This Woman's Work, Running Up That Hill, Suspended in Gaffa would probably be my Top 5.

by Anonymousreply 52June 23, 2018 7:25 AM

so many, but right now i'm obsessed with "Heads we're dancing" from The Sensual World. It's about a woman who meets a charming man who asks her to dance in 1939. And the next day she finds out he was Adolf Hitler. Only Kate Bush, people.

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by Anonymousreply 53September 24, 2018 7:18 PM

It's a mistake in the making

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by Anonymousreply 54September 24, 2018 7:28 PM

England, My Leotard, of course!

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by Anonymousreply 55September 24, 2018 7:46 PM

Jig of Life.

by Anonymousreply 56September 24, 2018 7:49 PM

Cloudbusting - always and forever my favorite.

"But every time it rains You're here in my head Like the sun coming out Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen.."

by Anonymousreply 57September 24, 2018 8:36 PM

Blow Away, Violin, Babooshka

The entirety of Hounds of Love

The entirety of Sensual World

Top of the City

Moments of Pleasure

A Coral Room

Wild Man

by Anonymousreply 58September 26, 2018 3:38 AM

R58 took "ONE favorite Kate Bush song" and multiplied it by 25.

by Anonymousreply 59September 26, 2018 6:13 AM

Pi.

by Anonymousreply 60September 26, 2018 6:54 AM

The song

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by Anonymousreply 61September 26, 2018 6:56 AM

Wuthering Heights

If I really, really, have to pick one, this is the one I can listen to on a loop. My joy for this song is the same as it was when I first heard it as a teen.

by Anonymousreply 62September 26, 2018 7:02 AM

I imagine she never heard of you, and neither did anyone else, R40.

by Anonymousreply 63September 26, 2018 7:03 AM

She's got you on the wedding list, R40.

She's got you and she WILL NOT miss!

by Anonymousreply 64September 26, 2018 11:33 PM

Elvis, are you out there somewhere

Looking like a happy man?

In the snow with Rosebud

And king of the mountain.

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by Anonymousreply 65September 26, 2018 11:46 PM

Can't you see where memories are kept bright? Tripping on the water like a laughing girl Time in her eyes is spawning past life One with the ocean and the woman unfurled Holding all the love that waits for you here Catch us now for I am your future A kiss on the wind and we'll make the land Come over here to where When lingers Waiting in this empty world Waiting for Then, when the lifespray cools For Now does ride in on the curl of the wave And you will dance with me in the sunlit pools We are of the going water and the gone We are of water in the holy land of water And all that's to come runs in With the thrust on the strand

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by Anonymousreply 66September 27, 2018 12:25 AM

Most of my favourites have been mentioned, so I’ll just add The Infant Kiss. It was also inspired by one of my favourite movies, The Innocents.

But Wuthering Heights will always be my absolute favourite.

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by Anonymousreply 67September 27, 2018 1:03 AM

Just came across this old thread and have to add my love for "Never Be Mine" and other songs with the Trio Bulgarka. The beginning of Rocket's Tail is just stunning, even better because of the Roger Waters sound.

I was just marveling that "The Sensual World" is 20 years old already...until I realized it's 30.

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by Anonymousreply 68February 12, 2019 11:47 PM

Oops David Gilmour, not Roger Waters.

by Anonymousreply 69February 12, 2019 11:51 PM

Music made for pleasure

Music made... to thrill!

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by Anonymousreply 70February 12, 2019 11:59 PM
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