Kate Bush - Why Should I Love You (demo)
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2007
- This is the original raw version of Kate Bush's "Why Should I Love You" that she sent to (Famous R&B star from Minnesota). He added drum machines and rather dramatically changed the tone of the song. Kate got the tape back, and the album version is a mixture of both.
This version had been sitting at the bottom of a box of cassette tapes for 17 years before the engineer on the session decided to share it with us.
Read more about it at gaffa.org/moments/2_2j.html 
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A reworking of this would have been an absolute knockout on Director's Cut.
"If I could sing like a blackbird, just like my heart was filled with summer", looks like Kate was thinking about Aerial even in 1993. I like the album version, but this just blows it out the water, this is Kate at her best.
mmm.
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i love both versions: this one makes me cry and the other one makes me dance :D
My feelings exactly.
So raw and wounded, so beautiful. And those lines: "If I could sing like a blackbird/Just like my heart was filled with summer" - there's A Sky Of Honey.
This is one of my fave Kate vocals in all her entire library of songs. The lady pushes the boundaries with her voice. This demo is incredible
Never heard this before. I love the album version and this is really interesting too. Quite a lot of what I thought was Prince was already there
I'm sorry if this offends anyone,but the only version I ever knew of this song (which came out on the 'Red Shoes' album) was the Prince edited version...I'm thrilled,years later to hear this version,and wonder why Prince cut out such crucial lyrics as "If I could sing like a Blackbird,just like my heart was filled with Summer,"Such a beautiful image...I'm happy that someone posted this version, and I found out what I was missing....
he was just more commercially minded, probably listened to it and felt that it lost all oomph when the chorus started, and fixed the problem… her chorus is almost like a different song, it’s twice as long as the verse, slow and meandering… he turned into a proper coherent pop song. the finishing touch would’ve been to replace his parts with pure kate which i believe was his intention, not the prince-kb juxtaposition that we ended up with… having said that i think this demo is as cringy as the hounds of love demo aka ”alternative”, thank god they were both brought back to the drawing table
@@pac-emoi don’t think like the split time signatures, he just had a completely different version. But without his version we wouldn’t have gotten that incredible chorus in my opinion much as you say. I love that we can hear the meeting of minds here, and the final version is fantastic. But i love all three versions. I love the view of each artist imagining, reimagining and finalising something
This is amazing. Those vocals! What the hell was she thinking by letting Prince get his hands on it? He crushed all the uniqueness out of it and smothered it with syrup. The Trio Bulgarka sound magnificent here.
Pretty sure that's not Trio Bulgarka, just Kate applying what she learned from them.
@@modifiedcontent that's the Trio Bulgarka.
It certainly is it sounds like it should be on the sensual world.
Wish this was included on "The Red Shoes" as a bonus track.
You can hear the raw grief in her voice
I love this version way more...especially when the beat breaks down
This has some wonderful elements, but I really like what Prince did. This version slows down and doesn’t do the “excitement” of the question being asked, justice.
The organ is phenomenal though. Glorious, even. And the percussion is perfect. I absolutely love so many elements of this song, but there’s more of a “rush” in Prince’s version. I think he truly evokes the emotion. Kate’s voice is fabulous. Mesmerizing. Passionate.
A simply wonderful tune. But I love what Prince did with it to capture the euphoria.
Well described. 👍
Agree Ross, and thx for the organ, I've always found that these few little notes were really sublime, love you Kate.
Agree.
The elements I like of this version is its depiction of the more personal solemn struggle and hesitation to accept love and a seamless merging with it. The song asks why? Which implies struggle. Art is nice because its many interpretations. But then again I also like yogurt and accept its sourness, not just the sweet stuff they call yogurt ar McDonalds.
My god how she sings in the version. It's sublime.
So true, what a voice she's got here, makes my soul crying.
My grandmother died last night, and this "original" is so working for me today. It's so comforting in such an unusual way, at least for me, and it goes beyond being what one might think is a straight love song. It's about loving anyone and having an intimate relationship with them. Heading off to be a big Roman Catholic funeral this week, but this and a number of other soaring Kate Bush songs will be on constant loop in my head. Thanks for posting this.
I'm sorry about your grandmother. I hope u and your's are doing well. Sending u love.
Perfect for a catholic mass for a catholic who liked Kate, it has beautiful lyrics about Jesus and priests are open to modern songs if they meant something to the deceased.
RIP to your gran.
@@nielszindel1151 is it?
I think it is a highest level of taking a p.
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OMFG what a find to stumble upon.
I've been crying all night Kate, you're music is beautiful and heals hurt feelings
Her voice is the main thing in this version and I think i prefer this version for that.
I get that, it's sad and raw and good in her way this song right here, but I can also now understand why they sent it to Prince for his influence.
@K Law I wonder why they thought of Prince..
@@BigWill2k Kate thought of Prince. She produces her albums. No one else has a say in it.
I want the version that he sent back to her that caused her to try and figure out what to do with it.
Agreed!
To me this is a love letter to Prince, the lyrics are beautiful.
Love it! I can hear a little of this woman’s work in the early verses.
Kates qerky voice always blows my mind. She's special. And the fact prince gave her music some time says it all. He thought she was too and in my book what he says, goes. Bless you Kate. Nobody sounds like you.
Oh yes, this is soooo much more moving than the album version; tears are running...
Nice to hear the raw material but it does wander around a bit. I prefer Prince's tightened-up version and clearly from her organ riff with it's suspended chords she had Prince in mind (his signatures).
+Ray Stroud -- Nice to see somebody else recognizes that the finished version with Prince's contribution is the better one! After all, that's the one Kate chose to put on the album! Demos and early versions are always cool, but it's what the artist releases that really counts.
Although, by that logic, I should like the original "Wuthering Heights" better, but I honestly prefer the "new vocal" version. She really improved the mix on that one, and I do like her singing better.
I agree!
@@tekh07 You can hear Prince's guitar and his vocals
I think this version has more potential..red shoes version is fun but a little cheesy
of course she had Prince in her mind! the beat of the drum is tipically Prince's drum beat (When doves cry)
Love this version really accentuates the purity and clarity of Kates fabulous voice and whilst I like the album version with the Prince influenced up tempo beat it seems to dissapate Kates voice and lose some of the magic of this beautiful song.
Just incredible, even unfinished. I'm so happy to be on planet Bush. "The gray of the ghost/the L of the lips are open to the O of the Host..." Gorgeous.
To Whomever uploaded this gem: Much love...
All the Prince and/or Kate Bush talk is really, genuinely interesting and... I heard the 'Prince' version first.... BUT Kate Bush has and continues to define and redefine my understanding of music and I absolutely LOVE her for it. Both are great for what they're worth. (IMO as great as Prince is, Kate is inquantifiably more masterful)
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Long story short, both versions are amazing and why argue about them when you can listen to them both?
Also, thank you sooooooooooo much for posting this and expanding my musical horizons that much more.
joexx10 if I hadn't heard the numerous incredible officially unreleased songs by Prince I would disagree but he literally has a masterpiece of song in almost every style one can dare to imagine and I'm not exaggerating. The world at large has not been privy to some of his greatest songs. Having said all that Kate and Prince occupy the same space in my musical soul as Artists of the highest order. One category where no one surpassed Prince in my opinion is as a live performer. Cosigned by Jon Mitchell not that it matters.
When we’re taking Kate Bush, and Prince + Kate Bush, it is apples to oranges. So why don’t we stop judging the outcome of the some compared to the other and just listen and appreciate it for what it is? Why must everything be quantified and qualified? Analyzed and dissected to the point of triviality.
My favourite bit is when she sings the black bird thing and then the whole song turns beautifuly sarcastic. ...and then you realise it was so from thd very start.
Class.
Thank you for sharing this. How beautiful. Kate Bush is master word smith; she is a composer, weaving notes around the words perfectly. And her soprano, at once so lyrical and poignant.
If this were released, surely the public would be grateful.
Thank you again!
Thank you so much for making this available to the public. I think it’s such a moving version of the song, it broke my heart and supported me through some tough times I was going through. ♥️
Pt 9: The next day, I was waiting at my hotel room for the call to go to the studio when the assistant engineer, Sylvia Massy, called and said Prince was in the studio doing vocals. I was surprised; I was always called well in advance of Prince going into the studio. When I got there he was changing all the vocals to "Of All", and was sampling them in himself, which is something he would normally never do himself."
Absolutely beautiful💙🔥🔥
one of the best songs ever made
I love both versions!
I so agree with an earlier poster that this is better than the album version. I found that i was holding my breath listening to it. There's just something about her voice... I don't want anything to distract from it.
the chorus in this one is quite flaccid, unlike the prince version where it is undoubtedly erect
I prefer this one way better later Version, And a great demo version, I Hope it get on a Reissue,
WoW, this is great, much better than the album version.
Love them both.
WOW! Thank you so much for uploading this! I'm in awe of Kate's vocals here, even if they are only guide vocals as someone said, they're still damn good.
Huge gratitude for sharing this with us. xXx
Your comment has just chilled me. I've listened to Kate Bush since 1978, and I can't imagine such a thing, inevitable as it is. You're so right. The mourning...well, I can't write any more, I'm already tearing up.
omg so much better, need this officially released, and this is coming from a used-to-be-obsessed Prince fanatic. I have since calmed down on that. lol After 26+ years, Prince has ceased to cause wonder in me. Sad really, but THIS is truly wonderful. Thank you!
both versions are beautiful!
I love the sole purpose of this channel
One of the most beautiful songs ive ever heard in my entire little life!
So many people can relate to it...I think.
Definitely the song i would turn to if i was really mad at someone close to me!...
Thank you for sharing this. It really helped me understand why the album version was so abrasively mixed up.
WOW! This is a GEM! I'd love an upload too! ThankYouPlease! In the waiting, I'll go listen to the tasty Kate/Prince jam. Always did like this song.
thanks for posting this! christmas came early!
This is gorgeous; she is so incredibly talented. I love this album.
Wow just amazing! This song has everything blend in smoothly including trio bulgarka. I like it!!!!!
heart breakingly beautiful
This is absolutely AMAZING. Cannot believe i have only just found this. So much more beautiful than the album version. Although to give him credit the version with Prince stands on it own too.
primarily a big Kate Bush fan and love Prince, and I have to say this is a wonderful discovery for me thanks
Thank you for this. I like the version so much better
This is the by far the best version I've heard of this song. I do not like what Prince added to this song.
Both are beautiful! Very different feeling for both
I love this version.
I feel like this raw version is ever best song. I think Prince could make now another version and glorify what was lost in his old version. It is unbelievable that this great song could disappear. The album version is totally different.
Love this! Thank you :)
So beautiful...
Wow. Thank you so much.
How beautiful! Wouldn't this be a great song for her next album!?
Anyhow the vocals are already perfect..... I'm waiting, Kate!
I love this song
I love hearing this version--what a treat, her lovely voice, the Trio Bulgarka in the forefront--but I think it was a very good collaboration. This is sensual and mystical. The RS version was sexual but also mystical. I think she was probably thinking of Prince when she composed it. It is what she meant it to be. I was always very surprised by how well their voices twined together.
The more I here this the more i like it, it would make a perfect single.
I dunno, this version never seems to "lift off" the way the choruses of the final version do. As far as I'm concerned, if Kate chose to put the collaborative mix with Prince's contributions on _The Red Shoes,_ that makes it the definitive version. If she didn't like it, I'm sure she would have left it in the vault, or re-recorded it.
True Ben, but I appreciate Kates vision too. Its amazing how demo's become releases isn't it?
Ben Culture I enjoy the raw emotional flow this one has.
hey Ben??? I think i look like you.....
I can see Kate Bush maybe being a little intimidated by Prince..pure speculation..he seemed to just bulldoze his vison all over it..I just think this demo version had more potential!
Love it. Like a new song!
I like the "filled with summer" part in the demo version
DAMN, THIS IS GREAT
Having read the comments, I realize people comment on "better or not" and even "should it have been on the album". The first question... well, opinions count. The second: this is a demo, Prince made pretty much a new song. So there's no " better", apples and oranges.
I love to lsiten to this, just like I love the B-sides where she often lets herself go wild. This is like a great jam in her kitchen (well: with a bit more work on it ;-) ) and I float in delight as I'm listening to it.
Divino !!!!
Pt 7: "When Prince does vocals, he sits right at the recording console with a microphone hanging over it and does his own punching in and out. So he kicks everyone out of the room when he sings. It took him a few hours and then he called me back in and played me the thick, multi-tracked background vocals he had put on. Now, as we all know, the song in question goes "Of all the people in the world why should I love you?"
Wow I didn't know this existed till just now and I prefer it to the end result.
I fall in the "prefer the album version" camp. This is lovely, of course, being Kate, but hesitant and unfinished sounding.
I do wish she'd left in the blackbird line though. I'm glad it was saved and released.
I like both versions.
A Gem!
this song and the whole site is not what we normally get on you tube; asides, Kate should work like this on her own and forget conventionality, this sounds like her earlier works, unsettling, beautiful, Amazing and totally original. Kate, if you ever read this, David Sylvian is still challenging us ( 'Manafon') , You are far more than just capable of startling us all over again!! LOVE-PEACE.
I've puzzled over the meaning of this song for thirty years. It's like there are two narratives occurring, one in the chorus, the other in the verses.
This version is much more powerful than the one on "Red Shoes" which is a bit wimpy.
Pt 8: "When Prince called me back in and played me what he had done, he had sung "All of the people in the world", instead of Of All. I said, "Isn't it OF all the people in the world? Not ALL of?" He said, "No, we had a little talk about that", in his cocky way, as if to say he had talked with Kate about changing the words to "all of" instead of "of all".
thankyou
Pt 6: "First we sampled the drum thing and synced it up to my Powerbook so we could do MIDI. At that point, we essentially created a new song on a
new piece of tape and then flew all of Kate's tracks back on top of it. So now we could run the sequencer and add all the keyboards that Prince put on. So Prince stacked a bunch of keys, guitars, basses, etc, on it and then went to sing background vocals."
@whyshouldIloveyou What a worldly shame to not be able to hear that version. I'd like to hear all versions before I die....
Brilliant
Sounds Like The Soundtrack Of A Wonderful Nightmare, i Loved.
Pt 4: "At that point I knew I fucked up and
tried to say, no, she just knew I'm a big fan. As a side note, I told Therese that Prince was a little pissed that she had told me that, and she apologized to him. Therese is a really cool person. So, Prince tells me
that he and Kate are going to work on a tune together. He also told me that while they were talking he told her that his engineer would rather work with her than him. (I thought, Wow! Prince and Kate Bush talking
about me!)"
Thank you for posting this, I didn't even know of its existence! That said, I prefer Prince's version hands down. This one is missing consistence (sometimes it looks like 2 different songs stitched together) and the strenght on the chorus that the other one have.
I think that’s why I love it though. 😁
...it really sound like a demo....glad it wasn't in the album.
i really like prince- Kate version.
Shut up!
love this version , before prince popped in , and popped it , good mashup
Just fucking stunning!
@powersoulboy Perfection doesn't need collaboration or innovation. Kate Bush at her prime was perfection. Don't mess with something that works well. It seems that even she wasn't 100% aware of the talent she had.
The album amalgam version is a combination of Prince and Bush. I think what he adds is more than enough to qualify for a writing credit. He made a totally different song. But I'm even more curious... We've heard the Kate version, the mixed version... how about hearing Prince's full version now???
Spencer Goodwin Prince's version kinda sucks....I know
I'm still curious to hear it. If nothing else, to understand how the song evolved.
mrfrogbutt1 Kinda?
Spencer Goodwin Well, Prince worked on the song during his Diamonds and Pearls 1991 period when he was EXTRA heavy on polishing the sound for commercial appeal. In my Prince book that covers that period it was mentioned that Prince had been accused of losing touch with his black audience and therefore made sure Diamonds and Pearls would be aimed at that fanbase. That album is extremely polished and somewhat overdone according to sources who played on the original tracks which were more lose. As a fan of his for more than 30 years I cannot disagree with that. The Prince version of Kate's amazing song has all the Diamonds and Pearls polish that kinda removes the free lose quality of Kate's original. He inserted the choir elements that he used on his 1989 Batman soundtrack...
Wow, that's fascinating information. It makes me even more curious to hear it. As a fan of both Kate and Prince I'm really up in the air on this track. As much as I love her demo, I still prefer the album version. I've always loved the little embellishments Prince adds to songs. I think they're usually wonderful. And I loved what he did here. However, considering what you've said, I doubt I would prefer the version he came up with by himself. If it was done in the Diamonds and Pearls style, I'm not sure it would be as appealing as the released version. Thank you for sharing this information with me!
wow...cool, thanks...
Sorry this version is incredible
Love it, you can hear her lyrics and voice better. Delia Morris
After listening to this version, I can understand why Prince did a full reno job (tear it completely down to the studs and rebuild) on this song. For me, it relies too much on the keyboards and it slows the pace of the track down. The song has good bones but it needed some additional work in order to grab your attention.
Pt 3: "ANYWAY, what led up to the phone conversation above: one day Prince's assistant, Therese, told me as we were talking on the phone that Kate Bush had called. Therese also knew I was a big Kate fan. Then, in the studio that day, Prince said, guess who I talked to today. Me, being stupid and
unable to keep my mouth shut, said, "Kate Bush?" Prince got a little miffed, and said "How did you know that?" And I said Therese told me, and he said,
"Hmm, I should dock here for that".
what a goddess...
A woman.
Pt 1: "It's funny because Prince was a huge KB fan. He was too, but not like me. The first time I asked him if he liked Kate Bush he said, "she's my favourite woman". I also made him a tape of all the KB b-sides, which fucking rule. When the Sensual World came out he had someone go and get it and we listened to it in the studio. He didn't dig it that much, but I knew you can't always tell right away with a Kate album. TSW grew on me, but it is still not her best effort."
The A side of TSW, esp the first 3 tracks, culminating in 'The Fog', are the songs I reach for the most in her catalog. They flow effortlessly. And then she gives us TWW as track 9. On par with the Cocteau Twins 4 Calendar Cafe, The Sensual World is an unheralded classic.