Kate Bush- Rocket's Tail (First Listen)
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Absolutely my favourite Kate Bush song. It can still make me cry on the 10th listen. The Trio Bulgarka are phenomenal on this. Even though I don't like the heeeeeee at the end, it can't spoil this sublime genius.
Its amazing!
I saw Kate Bush live (twice) in London and the concert was like Rockets Tail, but times 10! She roared like a Goddess. The drummer and percussionist were phenomenal. Everything was phenomenal. Kate Bush is a true genius, and we can thank Dave for helping her get a break as a kid. It was a moment where God had to intervene to release this incredible talent to us, because no one would sign her. Fancy that, no one would sign her. And then EMI tried to control her (like all production companies) so she gave them the finger and created her own studio and her works of art in her own time. Absolute legend.
Thanks for doing a non-traditional Kate Bush song. Too many people peek into the rabbit hole but they never fall in.
Happily! I've done this whole album as well as Hounds of Love; definitely planning more :)
I’ve been listening to this album for 30 years and this song still brings me to tears. So beautiful. You are correct it is the summit. All great songs as all great art is about sex. This is too.
One of the best tracks, awesome is correct.
oh HELL YEAH
Trio Bulgarka and Dave Gilmour
hoping after this album you go back and do more from The Kick Inside
This track is insane.
It really is!
Kate's rocket attack is so overwhelming, that my only reaction is to capitulate.
The next song is going to bring the highlight of all of Kate Bush's recordings, "This Woman's Work". Can't wait.
Debatable i guess its my least fav of the album
Personally, I think this is one of Kate's best tracks. It has so much much. The acapela vocal element, the eastern European folk element, the blend between them both, the hard tack away and into electric solo, the drums... wow, hard hitting, and that Kate allows the instruments to have their moment, not just a singular solo electric guitar moment.
Kate isnt afraid to let the instruments shine. She isnt afraid to do that.
Kudos to you, your review smacked.
Ty so much Charlie!
My fav Kate Bush record. Never Be Mine is my fav track on the record.
The first time I heard this song, oof, there was a lot going on in my life, and I just latched on to every layer of this song: the opening lyrics, which were so meaningful to me at the time, that rock 'n' roll aggression, the harmonies, Kate's vocals, which were kind of something we'd not heard from her before - she was on another level with this song. This song, in the annals of Kate Bush, is one of her masterpieces.
She has worked with this Bohemian trio since "Running up the hill." Screaming and hitting notes. Excellent!!!! Two worlds collide!!!!
The Trio Bulgarka were not featured on Running Up That Hill. She recorded that song in 1985. The first time she used the Trio was on this album, The Sensual World, in 1989.
This is one of the best reviews you've done. It gave me more to think about Kate Bush. Since the album is very poetically about sensual relationships it's always struck me as two fierce personalities sharing the sky together at night that invokes the uniqueness of those two people's individuality experiencing the same propelling journey both similarly and differently and the resolution remaining bright, but excitedly uncertain. I capitulate to Kate's brilliance and her cat.
Well ty! I like your thoughts on it!
Other than "This Woman's Work", which is a masterpiece, "Rocket's Tail" is my favorite track on the album. I has been since I first bought the album in '89.
Such a great intuition from David Gilmour when he sensed Kate Bush as a future major artist, and helped her at the beginning.....
That solo is a fabulous wink...!
Love this reaction. An overlooked song, but one of my favorites from Kate.
The backing vocals was done by Trio Bulgarka (amazing world renowned Bulgarian folk trio) and the lead guitar was the amazing Dave Gilmour. This song was my childhood dream of space journey complete.
In Britain when somebody says "rocket", we generally think of a firework.Especially when kate says "November night". That's referring to Nov 5, a night we in UK commemorate with bonfires and fireworks. You can I think almost feel the massive rush of soaring high into the nights sky and exploding into a great ball of dazzelling lights. Then for the stick (tail) of the rocket failing back down to earth on its own unseen. A metaphor for yes, just living an exhilarating experience that you previously thought somebody else was crazy for wishing. Be the rocket, Be the firework.
Kate's imaginative story-telling at its best.
Another great reaction Justin! No wonder as "Rocket's Tail" is, for me, one of Kate Bush's most powerful songs in her full discography. When "The Sensual World" was released, the first time I listened to it, I felt soooooo disapointed (I still think it's one of her 2 "weakest" albums with "The Red Shoes") until that song came along. And I felt "Rocket's Tail" really was THE track which made the whole album worth it (I also love "TSW" and "The Fog" now). A great great song!
If you want to know more about Kate's collaboration with Bulgarka, you should watch this short (about 5 mns) documentary about it in which you see her recording "Rocket's Tail", talking about their work (she's so gorgeous in this interview!) and learning to sing bulgarian vocal technique. It's really interresting! Here's the link:
ruclips.net/video/VXmHmF6rW5A/видео.html
Enjoy!
There are no words to describe how I felt when I went to RUclips this afternoon and the first recommended video was this one. Kate is pure magic. You only have a few more albums of hers to listen to. The kick inside, Lionheart, Never for ever, the dreaming, 50 words for snow....what an experience to spend a day and listen to them all one after the other...I have done this.
Don't forget Aeriel, a double album. So Justin has quite a way to go.
And what a wonderful journey it'll be😁
@@silgen I think he's up for the challenge. Of course with Kate, a blissful adventure in music like no other.
After I watched this a video appeared in my feed, to which I had to capitulate. If you do a RUclips search for Kate Bush and Trio Bulgarka: Rhythms of the world, you will find a short film of what happens when goddesses converge. I got so weak in the knees over Kate, but I always have. But those three women are amazing as well. Definitely worth less than six minutes worth of your time.
The Bulgarian Voices Choir was huge at that time, they are amazingly unique, and then the old rock added onto holy!!!
Very cool song. Many words of wisdom as ever from you Justin. I was lucky enough to see her live in Liverpool England on her first tour in 79, I've been a massive fan since and it's been a very interesting journey.
This song came out just after my boyfriend died in 1990. He was very much a dreamer, and I connected it to loss, to viewing the soul of this friend streaking across the night sky like a rocket. It has been many years now, and I still get emotional when I hear this song.
Thank you for your review. It really describes a deep appreciation of the song.
Thank you for sharing that Pat, I'm sorry to read of your boyfriend. Sounds like he was a lovely and inspiring person.
@JustJP thank you. I have been listening to the song and it does seem to have the gravitas of a dirge, especially at beginning. The unique tonal quality of the Bulgark Singers underscores it. Plus the reference to the friend who is no longer present when she shoots into the night " HOME to the quickening ground/ with no one to catch it"
But it seems like Kate Bush was dealing with a private loss.
@@patforden2365 thats a great point there, you may be on to something 😊
@JustJP her guitarist and close friend Alan Murphy died in 1989 from complications from AIDS/HIV. He was her guitarist on her cover of Rocket Man. In a later performance, she set an empty chair on stage in memory of him. He was born November 1953 (that November night). In 1989, there were no reliable treatments for HIV, so he had probably been ill for a long while. Back in 1989, there was a long way to go regarding gay rights and a certain amount of stigma .
Mostly, I think Kate Bush was very private about her grief. He obviously meant a lot to her.
I found this at Kate Bush Encyclopedia website.
Hi JustJP, Love all your Kate videos! Have just been bingewatching them. As for the 'meaning' of this one, it helps not to thinks of rockets as in space travel, but rockets as in fireworks. The November night refers to Guy Fawkes Night on the fifth of November, which is the UK's traditional bonfire and fireworks night. So the other person enjoys the fireworks: the brilliance of the flash which only lasts a few seconds, whereas Kate in the beginning only sees a fleeting moment which is over too soon leaving only a smoky trail. Until she steps into the other person's imagination and becomes a rocket herself, enjoying the excitement of the moment with one big bang. Brilliant!
Ty so much Adrian! Never even thought of that!
@@JustJP Guy Fawkes tried to destroy English Parliament using explosives around the 1600s. I believe he was executed.
@JustJP .. i am envious that you are about to hear for the first time my favourite Kate Bush track "This Woman's Work". It is not a 'Rocking Closer', but a magnificently emotional song, that as i grow ever older and lose more people in my life means more and more to me.
Looking forward to it!
Your eyes when Gilmour’s guitar starts! It says it all.
So glad you're reviewing this little masterpiece, love the backing vocals of The Trio Bulgarka.
Ty Sam! They sounds out of this world
That November night, looking up into the sky
You said, "Hey, wish that was me up there
It's the biggest rocket I could find
And it's holding the night in its arms
If only for a moment
I can't see the look in its eyes
But I'm sure it must be laughing
But it seemed to me the saddest thing I'd ever seen
And I thought you were crazy, wishing such a thing
I saw only a stick on fire
Alone on its journey
Home to the quickening ground
With no one there to catch it
I put on my pointed hat
And my black and silver suit
And I check my gunpowder pack
And I strap the stick on my back
And, dressed as a rocket on Waterloo Bridge
Nobody seems to see me
Then, with the fuse in my hand
And now shooting into the night
And still as a rocket
I land in the river
Was it me said you were crazy?
I put on my cloudiest suit
Size five lightning boots, too
'Cause I am a rocket
On fire
Look at me go, with my tail on fire
With my tail on fire
On fire
Hey, look at me go, look at me...
I was waiting for this video for so long. Thank You!
Ty for waiting!
Been waiting for this to be reviewed. My favorite on this album by far.
Man! great review!. This song is one of my favorites, let's see what you think about "this woman's work"
Great job 👌🏼
Ty Olgierd!
Did you get teary eyed? New subscriber after this reaction! Love this song!
Thrilled to get your reaction and your review. After hundreds of listens, I realized David Gilmore's guitar and the Trio Bulgaria's vocals are gorgeous aging off one another. Did anyone tell you that November night is November 5th, Guy Faulkes Day - the anniversary of the survival of democracy in England. Fireworks and effigies of Guy being set afire. This really is the zenith of the alb for me, and it's a bit of a sleeper hit. Thank you, Justin!
Survival of democracy? SERIOUSLY? Britain didn't have universal suffrage till the early 20th Century! The only people with a vote in Guido Fawkes' time were nobility and wealthy landowners.
I already capitulated to Kate Bush 42 years ago. Resistance has always been futile.
A piece of art
My favourite!!! Yes!!!
Second best song on this album. Oooh I love it so much. Mmm yesss...the Kate and Pink Floyd vibe!
Simply - this is a masterpiece
Hello justin.
I m french and i understaind almost anythink when you talk about song of kate .but i love whatch you face ( reaction ) when the music come at 2min... .wonderfull . I remenber my first litsen in 1989 .the same.
FOR that , many thanks.
Escuse me for my english.
Good day.
Ty so much Ariel!
Wonderful song. First few times I heard it I was unsure, but sometimes it takes my brain a little while to catch up to what Kate is doing. To me this is a very Katey song, no one else could have come up with this. The next song "This Woman's Work", was the last song on the LP, but the CD release had another song "Walk Straight Down the Middle" which Kate wanted on the album but couldn't fit on the vinyl. As to your question, no this isn't the peak, the next song is one of the greatest songs ever written, by anyone, not just Kate.
Almost at the end, prepare for tears ;)
I've been crazy about Kate Bush since 1978.😎
Excellent reaction as usual, you are always on top of your game! I capitulate to your capitulation.....
Haha ty David!
you really gotta see the video on RUclips of Kate singing "comfortably numb" with Dave
This is one of those songs which startles when you first hear it as it's so very different. Think she captures that blast of a rocket's tail with this one. Blows you away.
Loving your reactions, by the way, Justin. 😁
Ty Neil!
Great song. I believe the rocket is a firework & the tail could either be the trail of sparks or smoke left behind, barely visible in the night sky. November 5 is Guy Fawkes day in England, a time for fireworks & bonfires.
The singing is amazing on this track. And yeah, David Gilmore - what can you say?
An excellent review. Nuanced and expansive. You really bring it with this one. This song really takes you on a journey. Pure fire! I know someone who loves to do yoga to this song.. it invites you in to experience the irrational at the beginning before letting go with such unbridled energy. The Trio Bulgarks here are amazing. Thank you so very much Justin for this wonderful review.
Ty Matt!
I'm loving your reactions to this album, it's one of my favorites from Kate!!!
I see that you'll finish with the song "This Woman's Work" (which is amazing), but i think that you would also like to listen to the bonus track called "Walk Straight Down the Middle". I think it's very worth to listen to!
"This woman's work" brings us all to tears with it's sheer beauty
When I bought this album on vinyl decades ago, "Walk" was not a bonus track. It was just the last track on side two. At some point, it got cut.
@@m.gideonhoyle409 that's how my album copy was as well
I thought there was another song! My original CD has it so as far as I'm concerned it is the last song and it closes the album perfectly.
@@robertjewell9727 Totally agree.
This was the song that made me want to learn how to sing Balkan music.
Been a while since I've listened to Kate Bush. Nice track!
When you referred to Never Be Mine as 'simply Kate' (and rightly so, it's a very Kate song) I thought 'Wait till you hear Rocket's Tail'. A very different song for her but totally thrilling
Definitely thrilled!
Kate did sing Comfortably Numb once on a Gilmour concert. Apparently she didn't like her performance because she didn't want it included on the concert DVD. So instead there's an awful rendition of Bob frigging Geldof on the DVD.
The last song on the album is one of my favourite Kate Bush songs.
I think that is the legendary Tony Levin playing his stick bass and probably David Gilmour on guitar,or it sounds like it? The backing vocals are stunning on their own, those ladies are well known legends in their own right! This is probably my favourite Kate Bush song tbh! It was a darned good album also! (:
Troll
@@isobeljames1328 Ha ha! :)
Back to our Angel Kate Bush......I have this album......Excellent!!!
Kate actually discovered the Trio Bulgarika and introduced them, through her albums, to the western world.
I can't remember whether she first employed them here or on her previous album, "The Hounds of Love".
For me this is about the whitchest mainstream song I can think off, and I mean that in a good wsy. Try to play this track for others, usually goes over folks comprehension . It's a jem, and a pretty intense one. Nice of you to review it.
This tune refuses to capitulate.
The next song higher than this? It's This Woman's Work which IMHO is her best song, maybe the best song ever.
You should check her song "Leave it Open" which is also very different and "Why Should I Love You?" which has Prince on production and singing I think too. She has a million great tunes which usually get overshadowed by the really famous ones (which are great too) .
What will the next song bring? Tears. "This Woman's Work" is crushing.
I was waiting for this. It was great to see you blasted.
I learn so many words with you. Capitulate...Misticality?
...wait wait, no no, it was Exquisity ！
I told ya this song was epic JustJP! David Gilmour guitar licks..I love the build up then like bang explosive! Suggestion. You should review the whole Gilmour album "About face". Every song on it is good! I have it never tire of listening to it!
This song came out while I was living in Vegas and the local hard rock station played this on heavy rotation for a couple of weeks,I remember the D.J. saying they decided to give it one spin cuz Gilmore was on it,and they kept it on because all the DJ,'s loved playing a song by a female vocalist which was rare....Kate strikes again !
Oooh, I'd been waiting for this, one of my two favorite Kate Bush songs. It always raises my heart rate. Kate at her most gorgeous. Great review.
And the other song?
Ty Jeanne!
Running through talk talk and Kate bush? I feel like it’s the late eighties again!
Live version - there is a live version on RUclips by 'Cloudbusting' - an excellent tribute band performed with some members of the The London Bullgarian Choir. Standing ovations all round.
One of the leading Bulgarian Women's Choirs came at her invitation. She really gets that whole world music thing: elsewhere she has the choir singing alongside traditional Irish instruments.
Divine Madness.
Me thinks someone has a Kate Bush obsession going on!! lol
November the 5th is Guy Fawkes night. Night of fireworks to commemorate the failed gun powder plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605 and the execution of Guy Fawkes. The aftermath of the plot has the first recorded shoot out, between the plotters and the English army.
So nice to enjoy Kate along with you.....Thanks .....and just because a memory jog.... sticking in a recommendation for Tommy Bolin - "Dreamer" is a good start.... or if you prefer.....his work on Billy Cobham's "Spectrum" (or with James Gang -replaced Joe Walsh...or Deep Purple "Come Taste The Band" album-replaced Richie Blackmore) (the kid wasn't called upon for no reason....... he deserves to be remembered.)
Actually, Rocket was the name of one of her cats :)
oh man, you didn't talk about that drumming lol.. ffs??? smile. x
RIP Del Palmer
Gilmour did some similar work with Berlin, notably their song Pink and Velvet. Worth a listen just for the guitar.
Great to here less familiar Kate Bush tracks. Would love others to hear under the ivy.
"This Woman's Work" was in the soundtrack of a Kevin Bacon movie, in the late 80s. His character's marriage is on the rocks and toward the end, she lies dying in hospital due to a problematic pregnancy. That's when Kate's song comes in.
Pondering making a request to my local rock station for this very song. You can probably envision the conversation over the phone . . . "Kate Bush !??!!?".
For another Gilmour-Bush collaboration, you need to listen to The Game (Part II) which I think has been recommended before. It's actually from a Roy Harper album, but features all three of them.
David Gilmour ,,discovered" Kate Bush and helped her get signed with EMI records. He plays guitar on Kate's first album ,,The Kick Inside".
Martin Rixx Actually, he does not. On "The Kick Inside" electric guitars featured Ian Bairnson and Paul Keogh with David Paton on acoustic guitar and bass. Dave's first contribution was backing vocal for "Pulling Out The Pin" on Kate's 4th album "The Dreaming"
November 5th is Guy Fawkes night or bonfire night in the UK ("remember remember the 5th of November"), and the initial imagery is meant to be watching a firework shooting up into the sky, and two people's different views of the same thing. Then the second part, to me, is so powerfully sad: Kate dressing as a rocket (I always imagine something like the 1940's Rocketman serial) and jumping off Waterloo Bridge (in London) and hitting the water below, presumably a suicide attempt? And at the same time, the music is spiralling higher and faster as she images herself flying through the night sky. Haven't we all be saying how good this track is all along?
I've always thought that John Giblin's awesome fretless bass on this track really made it for me ...
Huge fan of Kate Bush's work. A trendsetting musical genius that redefined/influenced the art form of modern music through her creativity, experimentation, and passion. Love when you react to Kate's music JP! 🔥There is still a ways to go in Kate's discography but I assure you that the journey is well worth it 😁👍
I'm definitely enjoying the journey!
Kate's best song since 1989 JP!
🚀
And you're right - it would have been a killer closer to a concert...If only Kate had played it at her live shows a few years back - would have been a wonderful.addition. 🖤
Perfect, articulate, precise and outstanding, and thats just your review mate. Delighted you got as much out of that song as many of us Kate fans hoped you would (I very sadly fist pumped the air at the use of the word 'awesome' ha ha). The next track, oh man, ...for me, if the chaotic vocal brilliance of Rocket's tail is Everest, then the fragile and haunting beauty of her vocals in 'This Womans Work' will see you momentarily looking out from Olympus Mons or it may take you as it did me to the depths of the deepest abyss your soul will be found in and sooth you to tears, if you'll allow it to. I suspect, just suspect, that any resistence will be futile and that your total capitulation will ensue. And its not even her best song in my opinion, 'Among Angels' and 'A Coral Room' will take you higher and deeper still...oh you lucky so and so, wish I could start that journey of discovery again. Your reviews are the closest I will get. God bless bud.
Ty so much Mario!!! Love your description of what to expect from the following track
To me the album is the perfect melange of Irish & Bulgarian music with more besides
Kate is always good ..... another reminder .. Sweet Thing / Candidate / sweet thing by Bowie ..... I will say this ... you have listened to many songs where the singer really shows emotion .... Kate being one of them ...... if you made a list I think sweet thing would be at the top of the list ....... you listened to Diamond Dogs, which described a dystopian society ..... well, sweet thing gets more first person, David playing the part of a person trying to survive in this dystopian realm by what ever means needed
The Wedding List on this album is just crazy good
The Wedding List is on 'Never For Ever' not 'The Sensual World'. But I agree it is a great song
@@Missjunebugfreak True my mistake not on that album
Kate just like Bjork always push the limits.
Your word of the day is almost a musical term. Recapitulation - a part of a movement, especially one in sonata form, in which themes from the exposition are re-stated. Basically a recap of the beginning.
Haha perfect!
Hi Justin. I know everyone values you for your intelligent breakdown of songs but that reaction was fantastic. The song may have been inspired by her cat but the Rocket in question is a firework. In Britain on Nov. 5th we have Bonfire night where we celebrate the saving of parliament from the gunpowder plot by lighting bonfires and setting off of fireworks. Its an all ŕound fun celebration filled with warmth and cheer just when things are getting cold. I love this song but I'd say you've got 2 more to go. Don't forget Walk Straight Down the Middle. It's not on the original vinyl but it's been on every digital copy since. I believe most people would want you to include it. Don't know if there's been a Kate Pink Floyd collab except the odd live performance with Dave Gilmour but there has been a Kate Bush Peter Gabriel collaboration. Is that one in your archives somewhere ?. Thanks Justin see you for the next one :)
Ty Gerald! Sounds like a fun time
It seems maybe you weren't clear about Kate's lyrics for this song. If you'd like insight as to what this song is about, Kate said in an interview in 1989 (and I'm paraphrasing here), that it's about someone with a seemingly unrealistic dream (wanting to be a rocket, so they can soar into the night sky) and the person who is in love with him, judging this dream as impossible (seemed the saddest thing I'd ever seen). It's why she sees "only a stick on fire, alone on it's journey to the quickening ground". She's certain this dream will fail. But then, because of her love for this person, and not wanting him to fail on his own, she gets swept up in this ridiculous dream, and before she knows it she's strapping her own rocket to her back, and she has a moment of "whoa, was it me, who said you were crazy?" as she also comes crashing back to earth. So...it's basically about someone who's clarity of vision gets clouded by their love, and they get dragged along into their lover's delusions of grandeur, and in the end they also become deluded because of the love intoxicating they experience. It's a wee bit grim...but Kate can be that way sometimes.
By the way, the CD was originally released with two more songs...
tail on fire
I give up, Kate, Justin, but I still feel like I won something somehow. Intense, or what?! The semblance of sublime chaos, probably deceptive, lol.
Sweet!!!!
I always felt the Trio Bulgarka was trying to drown out Kate, I'd prefer her vocals a little higher in the mix.
Hopefully you'll get to her Christmas single from 1980 in the next 2 weeks, 'December Will Be Magic Again'. The b-side is 'Warm and Soothing'. These can be found on her anthology box set "This Woman's Work: Anthology 1978-1990". I already had all of the studio albums but bought it to get the 2 discs full of non-album tracks.