Kate Bush - Hounds of Love ALBUM REACTION │ART POP APRIL
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- Опубликовано: 21 апр 2024
- Hounds of Love is a beautifully crafted experimental and artsy pop LP that left me speechless by its sheer boldness. Walls of sound? baroque pop elements? glitchy production? a strong atmosphere? It's all here and more!
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The Ninth Wave is the second half of tbe album, a concept in seven parts about a woman stranded at sea hoping for rescue, trying desperately to stay awake. She drifts off to sleep and begins to drown. The following sections take the listener deep into the subconcious. We catch a glimpse of a past life, then the present moment wherin a loved one is waiting for her and she hasn't returned. Then a possible future, she meets herself as an old woman, pleading for her to live, to not let herself drown. Then she sees everything from high above the earth looking down. She somehow wakes up to her rescue and pledges a deeper love for everyone in her life. This seven part masterpiece is a stunning expression of a near-death experience.
Yes, the second half has to really be considered as single track and listened to all the way through. Same with the Sky of Honey (CD2) from her Arial album (2005), it's really intended as one (long) track.
Every Kate Bush deserves an album reaction. I suggest you The Dreaming, Sensual World or Aerial albums next
Kate's production talent really came through on this album - a masterpiece
Someone said that David Bowie reinvents himself on every alvum. But Kate Bush reinvents herself on every track. BTW add me to the list of people asking you to listen to "The Dreaming" which is Kate's 4th studio album and the 1st one where she had the sole producer credit. She was a co-producer on the previous album "Never For Ever" which is also worth a listen and the 1st time that Kate uses the Fairlight CMI.
My personal top 4 is:
📍The Dreaming -:Kate really goes for it, with an "out there":album
📍The Hounds Of Love - an iconic album the perfect mix of commercial and experimental
📍Never For Ever - Kate begins to spread her musical wings
📍The Kick Inside - a brilliant debut album, which shows that Kate was fearless from the very start in terms of the subjects that are covered in this album.
I hope that you continue with your Kate Bush journey.
We have the same top 4. Although I have a stronger preference for Never For Ever to Hounds of Love because I love Kate's vocal performances on the former so much. But yeah he can't go wrong with checking out any of those other 3.
I loved ur reaction sm! Subscribed immediately haha! You REALLY should listen to The Dreaming next! The fave of most of the big fans
Stay tuned then haha! I got a little update for the channel soon that'll make Kate Bush fans happy
Hi and thanks for this really enjoyable reaction video to one of the truly great albums. For a first listen and coming in to it 'blind' you picked out a lot of relevant things to it that all made for a really good video. Your were correct in wondering about the concept fell to the album. the second side, from the beginning of 'And Dream of Sheep' through to the conclusion of the album is a conceptual piece or suite of songs all telling the same story of a woman lost at sea after a shipping disaster, and they tell the story of her struggle to stay alive, and all of the terror she feels, hallucinations she has, the times when she feels like giving up and giving in to the sea, her thoughts about family and future that she is on the brink of losing forever, until at least she is rescued. Kate Bush said that she wanted that second side, called 'The Ninth Wave' to be listened to as if it were a movie and the final song is the closing credits at the end when the great epic drama of this one woman has been resolved.
Like you, while I also love 'Running Up That Hill' I think that there are a few songs on this album that are better than 'RUTH'
To me this album is one of the very few that really are flawless. I say that even though I actually prefer a couple of her other albums above 'Hounds of Love.' And yes, unlike just about every other vocalist you simple never know where Kate Bush will take you. Her second album is a bit like her first, but apart from that all of her albums are very different from each other. She is very experimental, uncompromising and that is part of her greatness. The four albums she released in the 1980's are a real constellation of stars in the sky that need to be listened to.
If you like 'Art Rock' then you really have to listen to 'Never For Ever' (1980) and 'The Dreaming' (1982). If you do react to them, then on 'Never For Ever' it is best to let the first two songs run together as 'Babooshka' bleeds into 'Delius' and then listen to 'The Infant Kiss' 'Night Scented Stock' and 'Army Dreamers' in one run as the 'Night Scented Stock' is an instrumental piece that bridges between the other two, clearing the palate from the creepiness of the first and clearing the atmosphere preparing the way for the heartbreak of the latter. And as for 'The Dreaming' the only advice I could give you is to say listen to it with it being played very loudly, because nothing prepares you for that album. It is like nothing else. Even now, over 40 years after it 'The Dreaming' remains one of the most stark, challenging, signpost albums you will ever hear. The record company said it was the closest they ever came to handing an album back to the artist. Kate herself described it as her 'she's gone mad album' and spoke about how she knew it was possibly a career killing album, but said that that very jeopardy was part of the attraction of making it. Today, it is regarded as an all time classic. It is one of the wildest musical rides you will experience.
Thanks again for a really enjoyable video.
Wow! Thanks for the in-depth write up. Wasn't aware of the second side being a singular story but I definitely felt that with the music and picked up some loose connections between them. I typically don't cover an artist multiple times for a month's genre (to give other artists a chance) but Kate Bush was so brilliant that I'd love to cover more of her music in the future, even if they're just their own thing. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this. Please check out more Kate albums. She is amazing, experimental, beautiful. Every track she does is different. Thanks.
I was waiting for your reaction to waking the witch😂
If youre a fan,react to the Dreaming from Kate Bush.
Shes absolutely brillant
It's worth noting that Kate Bush was a global success around the world, apart from The US. This album was massive when it emerged in 1985 and found a new audience in relation to Stranger Things. I was lucky enough to see the Before The Dawn concert in 2014 which blew me away.
I remember when this album came out....Words cannot describe how huge it was. And when I heard the second part "The Ninth Wave" I was literally in tears....Thank you for this reaction Mister. I'd recomend visiting Dreaming, Aerial, Sensual World
PS. Other artists I think you should check: 1. Dead Can Dance, my favorite albums "The Serpent's Egg" and "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun", 2. Cocteau Twins "Heaven or Las Vegas"
Dead Can Dance and Cocteau Twins are a great suggestion.
Thanks for the suggestions! Big fan already of Heaven or Las Vegas (I have an old review on the channel for it if you're interested) but I'd be happy to check out another album of there's for Art Pop April. Dead Can Dance seems very interesting as well. Thanks
I never skip a Hounds of Love review. This album is perfection in every way. Diving deep into the Ninth Wave backstory really brings every song to life. The story of this woman lost at sea, trying to stay alive. Hallucinating and fighting for her life, and then ending on a positive note. She loves her friends and family so much more after surviving
It's Kate Bush. A real genius. One of my favourite tracks is the Morning Fog as it's very subtle and it's beauty reveals itself more on replays. Love all the tracks on this album though. That's John Williams one of the worlds greatest classical guitar players playing on the morning fog. Been playing this album since it realise and just never tire of it. The live version she did in 2014 in London I was one the very lucky ones to get a tickets and it was incredible. Check out the live album Before The Dawn. Great reaction video.
Side one you got Pop - Side two you got concept "The Ninth Wave". You should check out her Aerial album, it's done the same way.
A great album. Loved the reaction to the tracks. Her album previous to this The Dreaming, is even more experimental and out there than this one. Cheers!
Hi, just caught your short video announcing that you are going to do a deeper dive into the Kate Bush discography, which would be great for me and very rewarding for you (she is worth the effort). I noticed that you are going to start at the very beginning with 'The Kick Inside' which is a very good place indeed to start as it is a tremendous debut album.
If you are willing to take one small morsal of advice about that album, I would say; familiarize yourself with the background to the title track before you listen to the album, because it will alter dramatically how you hear it and how it lands with you. For a girl of 19 in the 1970's to take such source material, with such subject matter, in such a bloody and brutal what is known as a 'child murder' folk song, and then turn it into a tender, but harrowing, piano ballad love song, with a woman as the leading voice and character (instead of the victim), and then to make it the title track and final song, and in the process become the first female in rock/pop history to release a self-penned million selling debut album simply defies all logic.
You are in for a ride!!!
Thank you for the info! I think with the Kate Bush series as a whole I'll read into some of the albums themes and concepts before diving into them to give a more nuanced reaction. I try to go in blind with most albums but I'm well aware with some albums it's best to get an idea of the themes beforehand.
Thanks for sticking around and being a fan of what I'm doing here, I'm grateful for everyone who watches and hope the Kate Bush series will please a good chunk of those who subscribed. 🙂
@@Randyjoe213 Thanks for the reply.
By the time you get to the final (and title) track, you will already have worked your way past 'Moving' which will be quite a first listen to quite a first song, TMWTCIHE (written when she was 13 and recorded when she was 16, and was the song that Dusty Springfield said had staggered her, and the song that Jimmy Page said that when he heard it he knew she was "a unique talent with a depth of profound understanding of all things musical"), "Feel It" (one of the great sex songs where she doesn't write about what she feels during the love making, and doesn't write about what he feels during it, and doesn't even invite him to feel the things that she feels; no she writes to invite him to feel the rise and fall of her body, the soft give and hold and release of it, she invites him to synchronize with her and feel what he is doing to her - from a girl in her teens, it is incredibly mature), and 'Wuthering Heights' (well, because it is 'Wuthering Heights' - nothing was like at the time, nothing was like in the near 50 years prior to its release, and nothing has been like in the near 50 years since. How do you capture what a ghost would sound like if it starting singing outside your window? How do you write a song about a spirit coming from the afterlife to haunt her still living love, drive him mad, and steal away his soul, and how do you make it a thing of beauty?). By the time you have worked past that (and a few more) you will probably be aware that even at this early stage, there was a depth to her talent with the promise of much more to come.
And when you get to that final song - a song of incest, pregnancy, and suicide, written in the form of a suicide note, presented to the ear by way of a soft and tender piano ballad, completely re-telling a brutal song of incest, pregnancy, murder, decapitation, and the quartering of the body, and then set in the album so that the very last words the listener hears is 'By the time you read this,' you are left in no doubt that this is the arrival of something new.
Really looking forward to your dee dive. I hope you have a lot of fun.
Boy, nothing highlights the death of the album format more than the streaming numbers for this album! A billion listens for RUTH and miniscule numbers for the rest. I like Stranger Things but I wish more people would take that kick-off point and listen to the whole album. The Ninth Wave might be too much for many but I’m sure a decent percentage of people would have their eyes opened to a larger musical world… as happened to me many decades ago upon hearing Close To The Edge for the first time.
BTW, I really, really, wish streaming services like Spotify would present music in a way that lets the listener understand the compositions. Make it clear that “The Ninth Wave” is a thing… it’s not just a group of several more individual songs after Cloudbusting.
I agree wholeheartedly. It sucks that so many people only stream Running Up That Hill because of Stranger Things and ignore the rest of this album when The Ninth Wave section is arguably the best part of the record.
I'm glad you liked Cloudbusting and The Big Sky. Cloudbusting has always been one of my favourite tracks, and I feel The Big Sky has been seriously underrated. And of course the whole of The Ninth Wave is pure genius.
The Ninth Wave is quite simply a masterpiece! There was nothing like it and there has been nothing like it since. Its influence is unfathomable.
The Ninth Wave is basically historical ideas of water and it's meaning in art. The stranded passenger overboard, the frozen ice concealing herself underneath. Waking The Witch and the ducking of women in the pond, sea shanti, and finally rebirth.
You should try Kate's evil sister, Nina Hagen. Nunsexmonkrock is the album to go for its unhinged creativity.
Tut tut no, nope
As much as I love Kate, Nina is just on a whole other level. Her style has yet to be matched by someone else
Great review! Absolute masterpiece. Pure genius.
I recommend you Have You in My Wilderness by Julia Holter, it's one of the best art pop albums of the past decade
You gotta do bjork's vespertine now
As someone has already said give all of Kate’s albums a listen and listen to her vocal style develop. Not sure what ‘Art Pop’ is though, in this case it is just Kate Bush music! Hate labels!!
Great reaction! Please continue down the Kate Bush lane - or go with Jane Siberry's "The Walking" or perhaps something by Stina Nordenstam.
Stina Nordenstam- and she closed her eyes
Kate Bush is magnificent. You might not be ready for The Dreaming yet, but when you are, boy, are you in for a ride
Delve into Kirsty MacColl. English singer also- majorly respected in the music industry. Try her most polished album, ‘Kite’
Or Titanic Days album, that’s more arty!
RUTH my least favourite track on the album, which is the most perfect ever recorded.