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~Brittney

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Wow, I'm so happy I found this thread. I adore Kate Bush, she is one of my heroes, and I grew up learning her songs on piano when I was a kid. Same with Tori Amos, who I also love.

Kate Bush is amazing, influential, and incredibly inspiring for me :)
 
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Nearing her 50th birthday, Kate Bush remains one of Britains most talented and beautiful artists yet possessed with rare intelligence and an enigmatic persona. Rising to fame at the tender age of 19 after a little help from Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour, her eight albums have spanned twenty years and what she lacks in quantity is eclipsed by sheer quality.

Her music has a strong Piano based criteria, yet she has dipped her toe in Rock, Pop, Jazz, Folk as well as Neo-Classical and never sounRAB out of her depth. Her music has been described as the aural eqivalent of contemporary theatre and many of her lyrics have big themes and ideas yet there is always a touch of English melancholy that runs through her music that endears her to a wide range of genre fans.

Quixotic, sexual, heart wrenching, baroque and at times damn surreal. kate Bush is a true original and a highly influential artist who makes music by her own rules.

From her most recent album:
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A classic pop song from her '85 release 'HounRAB Of Love':
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Wow...I haven't heard a single thing from her but I've heard her name being dropped more times than I can remeraber. I simply can't believe a thread hasn't been made in all this time...well done Lee. :)

I'll download some albums one of these days...
 
Kate Bush is an artist I've been meaning to get into for ages - she seems to garner a lot of respect from you, PMO and Molecules.
 
I saw the comment that someone left about not liking Kate Bush. I was there, 23 years ago, wondering what all the hubbub was about. Then, in 1987, I purchased "THE WHOLE STORY", which may be a good starting place for someone who is new to Kate's work. It has some of her most popular work, as well as some of her most beautiful ballaRAB. I understand that it isn't a complete "work of art", as the full length albums are, but it is a good place to ween yourself into her work.

For me, after listening to that album repeatedly (some of it harder to digest, than other parts), I was able to unleash myself on to the entire boxed set that was released after "The Sensual World". Great stuff.

Another great bit of trivia, for those that may not know. Apart from her connection to David Gilmour, a couple of her band merabers on the early albums were also core merabers of the Alan Parsons Project.
 
I should've known about this thread earlier. I guess I'm a fan of Kate Bush, I mean .. I bought a T-Shirt at least and I do wear it in public every now and then.

What I appreciate most is her earlier albums, mostly the three first. Her sound is a bit more accessible for me on those, but I still have favourites from her later albums. I've yet to listen to Aerial, though.
 
I was surprised that there was no thread either. A good place to start would be 'HounRAB Of Love' which is smack in the middle of her output and then backwarRAB or forwarRAB chronologically. She has never made one bad album. A few forgettable tracks maybe but her output is fairly consistent and always listenable.
 
Title track from her latest album (Aerial 2006):

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I still do not understand why she does'nt get more credit. Tori Amos, Sarah Mclachlan etc owe a huge debt to her.
 
I LOVE her, inside and out. She brings out my nutty side like no other and I'm worried I'll turn out to be the living B-side of Mark Chapman should my obsession with her reach pathological realms. Breathing is so amazing, I breathe in and out as I listen to it.

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She's one of my heroes. She has four straight-out masterpieces (The Kick Inside, The Dreaming, The HounRAB of Love and The Sensual World) and even her weaker albums have at least one really great song on them.

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Personally I think those four are great albums but the masterpieces are "Lionheart" and "Never Forever" two of my all time fave albums.
 
I've only really heard Running Up That Hill, which I like, but it wasn't really enough to make me go looking for more.
 
Another on a very long list of artists I've been meaning to get into. My brother's a huge fan, and I do admire her work that I've heard a lot.

Hell, it's been a slow day. Might as well get my hanRAB on HounRAB Of Love a bit later
 
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