Watching young people being introduced to Kate Bush brings me back to the early 80s. It’s like we get to relive how we felt when we were introduced to her brilliance for the first time. What a gift. Thank you GenZ!!!
Don't forget that this album came out in 1982, the year she turned 24, so she recorded it at 23, it was her 4th album! For me this woman is not human, she is a goddess!! I would bow down to her if I met her in the street!
This was her first self produced album. So this one is all Kate. She was very experimental and trying everything in the studio at a great cost. She then took that knowledge and built her own studio at home in the country. Then she took her time and made Hounds of Love. Has done all her stuff from her home studio in the country ever since.
I can only imagine what it must have been like to hear “Get Out of My House” in 1982, and having that be the last new Kate Bush song for three years before “Running Up That Hill” in 1985.
I have listened to this album for more than 40 years. It has a strange beauty that keeps on growing on you, especially if you are young. It is full of rewards for the patient listener. It is my favourite album of hers cuz I never get tired of it, and it is so original.
You'll find many long-term fans are more fond of this album than the Hounds of Love. They're both 'up there' as some of the best stuff she did, but I think it's the bewildered reaction generally to The Dreaming which endears it more to the fans, we *knew* she was the best, and certainly in 1982 there was no-one remotely like her. If you check the album cover btw you will find that key on her tongue, and in the dog-tooth pattern of her sleeve you will find the small KT symbol tucked away on every album cover, because album covers were important back then...
Hi and some people do find it difficult to come to terms with the fact that the nice English lady who gave us 'Running Up That Hill' with all of her elegant and graceful contemporary dancing in the video also gave us this wild beast of an album. So, thanks again for another really enjoyable reaction video to the wonderful Kate Bush. I'm really glad you enjoyed and glad too that you did the wise thing and gave yourself a little bit of time to recover from it before really sharing your thoughts - it is overwhelming and is designed and intended to be. There really is nothing quite like it - there hasn't been in the just over 40 years since it was released and there probably won't be anything quite like it in the next 40 years. Executives at the record company have said that 'The Dreaming' was the closest they ever got to handing an album back to the artist, and it was severely criticized at the time. Kate Bush even called it her 'She's gone mad' album and has spoken about how she knew even while she was recording it that it carried the risk of killing her career, but has also said that that sense of career killing jeopardy was part of the thrill of making it. In the intervening years 'The Dreaming' has come to be regarded as a real signpost landmark album: uncompromising, but packed with brilliance and crackling with flashes of genius. People from all across the music spectrum have spoken about the impact it has had on them. For example, Bjork has cited it as one of her all time favourite albums, while Joe Elliott from Def Leppard has spoken about his love for this album on several occasions. I guess, since you have taken a step back in time from 'Hounds of Love' to 'The Dreaming' the next logical step to take would be to take another step back to her 1980 album 'Never For Ever' - an album that I personally prefer to both HoL and The Dreaming. For me personally (and many Kate Bush fans will disagree with me on this), I think that as a collection of songs 'Never For Ever' is better than both of those two. If you do decide to turn your attention to 'Never...' then I guess the two pieces of advice I would give would be to first, listen to the first two songs in one block as the first song 'Babooshka' bleeds into the second song 'Delius..' and the second would be to listen to 'The Infant Kiss' 'Night Scented Stock' and 'Army Dreamers' in one block as 'Night Scented Stock' manages to serve both as a bridge between the other two songs while at the same time placing a greater distance between them which is understandable given the very content of both of those songs songs. Even though they are both about children, one is about (among other things) a struggle to save a little boy's life from an evil entity, and in the process save the lady's own soul, life, and reputation, while the other song is about (among other things) a mother grieving over the death of her son. Thanks again for a really enjoyable reaction video.
You have just got to leave all that you think you know about singing, music and production values behind you when you dive into this album. Give yourself the opportunity to enjoy a brand new experience. Definitely not for people looking for conformity, who feel music must be sung and played in a certain way. This was a highly experimental album with Kate in complete control of production for the first time (recorded when she was 22-24). The album was a necessary testbed for ideas that would evolve and be refined for the Hounds of Love album. Kate is often compared to David Bowie and Peter Gabriel, with all three each sometimes said to be their own genre. Kate did of course collaborate several times with Peter Gabriel, providing backing vocals on his third album ‘Melt’ and duetting with him on his song ‘Don’t Give Up’.
I think for me, the main thing about this album is that she lets her voice to everything, anything. She's unafraid of sounding "ugly" and so you get the full range, the full expression, just amazing vocal technique.
I have always loved this album, for me, it edges out Hounds of Love because of the extent of the experimentation. Strangely, in my mind, this album pairs with OMD's Architecture and Morality, as I heard them both on college radio about the same time.
Houdini is about THE Houdini, in particular the legend that after years of debunking and exposing fake "mediums" he told his wife if he died to visit mediums and to listen for a codeword he told her - and apparently this happened. The bit about the key is that he would kiss his wife before being dropped into a tank of water in a straight-jacket or chains and she would have the key in her mouth. As for Stranger Things using Kate Bush in season 4, it was apparently the urging of Winona Ryder, who is a fan - interestingly, in season one she tells her ex-husband, very loudly, to "Get out of my house!" Which, as it turns out, is kind of haunted by Will.
Literally about Houdini's last dive in the glass water chamber. He was in a straight jacket and chains. His wife would pass the key with a kiss before he would go in. He died because he had an injury at the time. She is screaming as he drowns in front of an audience as he is pulled from the tank after they smashed it open.
Great reaction to a truly brilliant album, I'm so glad that you decided to listen to this album. As others have mentioned, this was the first album that Kate had produced herself and by this stage she had fully mastered the Fairlight CMI, which was first used on her previous album "Never For Ever" (1980), which she co-produced. As an album Kate went "all out," the vast majority of it, is "in your face" music with absolutely no compromises. When presented with the finished album, EMI were less than pleased, to say the least, the album had taken longer to complete than they wanted and due to the considerable amount of time spent at a number of different studios, including "Abbey Road" had cost the company a lot of money. So when they were faced with an album that to them had no commercial tracks, some people in the company wanted to reject the entire album. Thankfully, they came to realise that Kate wouldn't back down, so they were stuck with the finished article. In terms of single releases, "Sat In Your Lap" was released almost a year before the album release, followed in the UK by "The Dreaming" and "There Goes A Tenner." I'm not sure that RMI put much promotion when it came to the latter song, and it sunk without a trace in the UK singles chart, making it Kate's least successful UK single release. There was a European mainland only release for "Suspended In Gaffa" and an Ireland only release for the "Night Of The Swallow". Regarding UK album chart performance, it was considered to be a commercial failure, compared to "Never For Ever", evrn though it entered the UK chart at Number 3. It was a combination of EMI's reaction and that Kate was basically exhausted and wanted to get out of London, led directly her moving to a house in Kent and also creating a professional recording stufio in a barn back at her parents house. So, you could say if it wasn't for "The Dreaming" that the iconic "Hounds Of Love" would never have been created. There are so many different aspects of "The Dreaming" that I could mention, but I will only cover a couple. Towards the end of "Pull Out The Pin," the faltering sound of the de-tuned guitar is meant to represent the sound of a transistor radio whose battery is running down, such an attention to detail. Regarding "All The Love," Kate's answering machine started to malfunction in a particular way. It only recorded the tail-end of any messages on the tape and nothing else. It was those messages that Kate took from the tape and re-timed and balanced to put on the track. At the time of release, a majority of critics weren't in favour of such an experimental album. Now (due to the gift of hindsight), the album has undergone a critical reevaluation and is considered to be a milestone album. As for me, I annoyed my parents mad by following the sleeve notes to "Play It Loud," and it's my favourite Kate Bush album, although "Hounds Of Love" comes a very close second. As for other Kate Bush albums that you can listen/react to, I would suggest the following: 📍Never For Ever (1980) - Kate was co-producer and used the Fairlight CMI for the first time. You can see if you can find hints of what was to come. 📍The Kick Inside (1978) - Kate's debut album that showed ftom the very start that she was prepared to cover challenging subjects, her fearless approach to her music and her art, is one of the things that I love about her I do hope that you continue your Kate Bush journey because her music is so very interesting. Apparently, someone said that David Bowie reinvented himself with every album. However, Kate Bush reinvented herself with every track!
If you havent already. Check out 'never forever' and 'The sensual world' by Kate Bush Also sinead o connors 'The lion and the cobra' Plus Roy Harper's 'One man rock n roll band' (live version circa 1986 on music video in Australia) from his album 'Stormcock' pure brilliance!
@@janewright2800 1980. She also appears on Roy's 1990 album "Once". I still collect vinyl. I love her vocal arrangement on Big Country's "The Seer" 1986. The band members were in awe of her and couldn't believe what she was doing.
@@WarrenBridges-um5cgah yes, kates vocals on 'Once' are so beautiful. I got into Roy Harpers music a while after kates. He played in my town in the early 80's and the poster said that he worked with Kate Bush, so I had to check him out! So glad I did. Must Google Big Country song, thanks for the info🎶🙏
@@janewright2800 I'm Australian. I first heard Roy's name mentioned on Led Zeppelin III in 1970, but I didn't know who they were singing about. I got into him after Kate as well. He sang on "Breathing".
This is my favorite KATE BUSH album. (My favorite side of music is "THE NINTH WAVE" from Hounds of love, but for the total package, this is it) It's completely uncompromising and brave. The more you listen, the more you take out of this album. KATE BUSH is the Queen of Adventurous Pop. (PETER GABRIEL being the King, IMO. Their careers have so many similarities... and they've collaborated a few times, too) Enjoy this epic journey... and you have a new subscriber! Cheers! (by the way: The cover of this album is based on the track HOUDINI.) ...also: If you're asking who was doing albums with this kind of brilliantly deranged and awesome albums, you should check out PETER GABRIEL's 3rd album (sometimes called "Melt"... he named his first four solo albums "Peter Gabriel")... It's a dark, amazing, gripping album that also has Kate Bush on one or two tracks... and it was a ground-breaking album in so many ways. Kate Bush was a big fan of Gabriel's work and their solo careers, as I mentioned kind of dovetail together. The album's first track, "INTRUDER" features drumming by Phil Collins and featured that gated drum style that Collins would later make famous. The album is one of my Top 20 albums of all-time. A true masterpiece. I think you'll love it. Cheers!
Glad to see you do more Kate! Next I'd highly recommend her album Aerial from 2005 (its similar to Hounds of Love in that it's actually two records, but it's longer and it came after 12 year gap between albums, which I find fascinating (she has currently beaten that gap with it now being 13 years since her last proper album, not counting her live release from 2014).
WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! i've been waiting for this reaction from u!!! i love watching u hear music for the first time. ur reactions are so physical. so glad u were able to experience this insane beast of an album for the first time
What makes this album so insane is how timeless it sounds. Unlike some of her other albums, this sounds like it could have come out yesterday or 100 years ago
I loved Kate Bush from the moment I first heard “Wuthering Heights” on the radio. As a teenage male, female artists weren’t really on my radar at that time but she changed that and “The Kick Inside” has the distinction of being the first album written and performed by a woman in my record collection. I have a confession though; I didn’t buy “The Dreaming” when it first came out because I made the mistake of paying attention to idiot music journalists who slagged it off at the time. By the time I bought “The Dreaming” I already owned all her other albums up to and including “The Red Shoes”. When I bought this and listened to it, I couldn’t believe how dumb I had been to allow myself to be put off by all the negativity at the time of its release. I would listen to argument that this is the best album she ever did and that is a high bar to jump when you consider the competition. This is Kate with no guardrail and at her most gloriously unhinged. The A&R men at EMI were horrified by it since they were expecting something more commercial like “Never Forever” (although describing an album with “Breathing” on it-Kate’s take on being a foetus during a nuclear war- as “commercial” is perhaps doing it a disservice) and this album had no obvious singles on it. If “Sat on Your Lap” is the most single-worthy track, that is a pretty good indication that the rest of the album was full of seriously weird stuff in the eyes of the average record company executive. In a sense they were right; the album didn’t sell as well as its predecessor thanks to idiots like me who didn’t buy it at the time. Whatever its commercial failings (and it did get to number three in the album charts which isn’t too shabby) this is an album that has only grown in stature over the years and your reaction to it is pretty understandable. But 8.4? Not even 8.5? 😊 Listen to it a few more times and it will be a ten out of ten.
The Dreaming is a much harder listen that Hounds of Love which is a more melodic album. HoL is of course absolutely superb but The Dreaming is for me it’s equal but so different. Kate Bush is many things and one of those things is surprise. Make sure you give this plenty more listening time, it’s so worth it.
Not nearly enough recommendations for Aerial. The second side is another concept. I find it stronger than The Ninth Wave in many ways and every single time I listen to it I'm inevitably reduced to a weepy blob. So evocative and incredibly beautiful. Lots of that great Kate vocal work, matured Thanks for sharing these videos. It's wonderful to experience someone's first reaction to this amazing music.
Great you gave this a good listen - one of my favourites. Another favourite of mine is Feast by The Creatures 1983 Siouxsie Sioux & Budgie another whole album listen - Also their Boomerang album from 1989 my fave summer album.
Wonderful reaction and great analysis! I love it (especially Get out of my house), but it took some time ... Please continue with Never for Ever or The Sensual World!
Great reaction! there is a holy trinity of KB albums for me - hounds, the dreaming, and Never For Ever. so i highly highly recommend you check the third album out! It has a lot of great songs as well!
To me, this album and Hounds of Love are like a pair with dark (The Dreaming) and light (Hounds of Love). They're both equally experimental. The adreaming is one ofcthe greatest album ever made imo.
Houdini is about the pact that Harry Houdini had with his wife where he would contact her after death and say "Rosabelle, Believe" as a sign that there was an afterlife. SO the song is taking place at a seance after his death. "With a kiss, I pass the key" was the secret way she had of giving him a key so he could unlock himself during the trick where he would be submerged in locks and chains. great reaction. this album will grow on you. It's like a wild nightmare
Additional backstory to “Houdini” is that because he was a stage magician he knew all the tricks fake mediums and psychics would use, and he made a whole side career of exposing these fraudsters. So if anyone tried to claim they were talking to him from “the other side,” they would have to have ironclad proof, hence the code words.
"oh, it's a helicopter" . . .a helicopter recording from Pink Floyd ("The Wall" if I remember correctly) which Kate also uses in "The Ninth Wave" (side two of "Hounds of Love"). Remember, Kate was discovered (sort of) by David Gilmour. Add me to the chorus of those saying this is an amazing, incredible, fantabulous LP.
Just saw your Hounds of Love reaction and it's cool you liked The Dreaming too. Easy to think many would be turned off by how brash it can seem on first listen. Try L'eau Rouge by Young Gods. Easy to google English translation of the lyrics.
Strange to be sure...but after several decades...it still resides happily on my active playlist.....Thank you for the perceptive and thoughtful review.....do check out her first album "The Kick Inside"...gold on every track.... "Lionheart" is still growing on me ....always found it a bit ethereal ...Overall ...just truly appreciate the focus on one of my favorite artists of all time ....(oh btw....someone I consider to be her heir apparent...Chinchilla..is worth a dive..on your own or here....want your mind blown? .^_^ check out her "Fingers" live version)
oh, and make sure to watch "Get Out of My House" (my personal fave from this record) set to scenes from Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" here on the RUclips somewhere.
Get out of My House is inspired by the horror movie 'The Shining' about a Haunted Hotel. The Dreaming is on par for me with The Hounds of Love. While The Hounds of Love is far more accessible The Dreaming grows on you with every listening.
You're lucky to be discovering her, you can move back in her catalogue (Never Forever, The Kick Inside) or forward (The Sensual World, Aerial) and find more soothing and challenging ear candy, though The Dreaming is the absolute "out there" Kate Bush album.
What a treat to share the “ripples” of Kate’s Shining… And to see you “shining” with it was perfect… You’re Passing the gift to others who “get it” We speak through music’s Ripples Join us in the Pynk Tent A bus leaves soon… #ff1987 👁️ 📻 👁️
I was home alone one quiet summer night attempting to lace my shoes with well done spaghetti noodles and i put this album on. I learned two things later. One,Kate Bush is super talented. And,two,paper mache works so much better with water.
Kate almost got dropped from her label after The Dreaming because both the album and the singles did poorly commercially due to the overall weirdness and unconventional nature of the music. Hounds of Love pretty much saved her from getting dropped because it was more commercially accessible, even though her usual weirdness remained intact, especially on Side B with The Ninth Wave. Personally, I love The Dreaming a lot more than Hounds of Love simply because she's artistically batshit crazy on the album, which is definitely more of my vibe.
The album reached n°3, the singles flopped EMI wanted her to work with a producer, she even met Visconti Tony... And she went to build her own studio.... There was no drop from EMI...
hi i've seen u wear a pink floyd shirt before but im wondering if youve ever given their first album a listen? The piper at the gates of dawn, its a really really cool album and if you havent you should do a video on it! :)
Why do the younger generation, Americans in particular, so often speak of weird as a negative? Must songs always be safe, predictable and safe sounding?
Dude, all the random skipping around is driving me nuts. How can you expect anyone to enjoy that? You can pause occasionally to break it up to beat copyright strikes, many reactors do
Watching young people being introduced to Kate Bush brings me back to the early 80s. It’s like we get to relive how we felt when we were introduced to her brilliance for the first time. What a gift. Thank you GenZ!!!
Don't forget that this album came out in 1982, the year she turned 24, so she recorded it at 23, it was her 4th album! For me this woman is not human, she is a goddess!! I would bow down to her if I met her in the street!
This is actually the best album ever recorded by anyone. It’s fucking magnificent
You are very correct.
Absolutely
It shakes me to my core, puts me back together and then shakes me loose again.
As a hardcore KB fan, this is my favorite as well. It's the most fun to listen to, and really embrace the no fucks given weirdness that is Kate
Hounds of Love is also great. Actually, almost all her albums are masterpieces, but sure, this one is the best.
Kate Bush’s most brilliant piece of work.
Even 40 years later I still like it better than any of her others.
Kate's something else. She's SO deep and intelligent. Pure magic. I'm in love with her on all levels. Thank you for your reaction.
get out of my house is so fucking powerful it’s such a force to be reckoned with it honestly makes me tear up every time
Mine too!! Get out of my house is so cathartic!! Love it!!
This is Björk's favorite Kate Bush album and one of her favorite albums in general. It's truly mind-blowing.
And if anyone complains about that they'll face an army of you!
The dreaming is a master piece. I heard it when it came out in 1982 and it blew me away with its experimental brilliance!!
This was her first self produced album. So this one is all Kate. She was very experimental and trying everything in the studio at a great cost. She then took that knowledge and built her own studio at home in the country. Then she took her time and made Hounds of Love. Has done all her stuff from her home studio in the country ever since.
One of the best albums by anyone, anytime, anywhere
I can only imagine what it must have been like to hear “Get Out of My House” in 1982, and having that be the last new Kate Bush song for three years before “Running Up That Hill” in 1985.
I was hoping for more like The Dreaming but wasn’t disappointed with Hounds of love because she followed brilliance with brilliance.
I have listened to this album for more than 40 years. It has a strange beauty that keeps on growing on you, especially if you are young. It is full of rewards for the patient listener. It is my favourite album of hers cuz I never get tired of it, and it is so original.
Amen to that!
You'll find many long-term fans are more fond of this album than the Hounds of Love. They're both 'up there' as some of the best stuff she did, but I think it's the bewildered reaction generally to The Dreaming which endears it more to the fans, we *knew* she was the best, and certainly in 1982 there was no-one remotely like her. If you check the album cover btw you will find that key on her tongue, and in the dog-tooth pattern of her sleeve you will find the small KT symbol tucked away on every album cover, because album covers were important back then...
Definetely a grower and crazy as fuck. Love it to pieces
One of those albums that when it clicks you become obsessed with it. I know I did.
There's only ONE BEATLES.
There's only ONE KATE BUSH ❤
Kate used Irish Uillenn pipes for this (and on the Hounds of Love album). Not Scottish bagpipes but similar and much more mellow sounding.
Kate also said that this album was made to be played LOUD
Hi and some people do find it difficult to come to terms with the fact that the nice English lady who gave us 'Running Up That Hill' with all of her elegant and graceful contemporary dancing in the video also gave us this wild beast of an album. So, thanks again for another really enjoyable reaction video to the wonderful Kate Bush. I'm really glad you enjoyed and glad too that you did the wise thing and gave yourself a little bit of time to recover from it before really sharing your thoughts - it is overwhelming and is designed and intended to be. There really is nothing quite like it - there hasn't been in the just over 40 years since it was released and there probably won't be anything quite like it in the next 40 years.
Executives at the record company have said that 'The Dreaming' was the closest they ever got to handing an album back to the artist, and it was severely criticized at the time. Kate Bush even called it her 'She's gone mad' album and has spoken about how she knew even while she was recording it that it carried the risk of killing her career, but has also said that that sense of career killing jeopardy was part of the thrill of making it. In the intervening years 'The Dreaming' has come to be regarded as a real signpost landmark album: uncompromising, but packed with brilliance and crackling with flashes of genius. People from all across the music spectrum have spoken about the impact it has had on them. For example, Bjork has cited it as one of her all time favourite albums, while Joe Elliott from Def Leppard has spoken about his love for this album on several occasions.
I guess, since you have taken a step back in time from 'Hounds of Love' to 'The Dreaming' the next logical step to take would be to take another step back to her 1980 album 'Never For Ever' - an album that I personally prefer to both HoL and The Dreaming. For me personally (and many Kate Bush fans will disagree with me on this), I think that as a collection of songs 'Never For Ever' is better than both of those two. If you do decide to turn your attention to 'Never...' then I guess the two pieces of advice I would give would be to first, listen to the first two songs in one block as the first song 'Babooshka' bleeds into the second song 'Delius..' and the second would be to listen to 'The Infant Kiss' 'Night Scented Stock' and 'Army Dreamers' in one block as 'Night Scented Stock' manages to serve both as a bridge between the other two songs while at the same time placing a greater distance between them which is understandable given the very content of both of those songs songs. Even though they are both about children, one is about (among other things) a struggle to save a little boy's life from an evil entity, and in the process save the lady's own soul, life, and reputation, while the other song is about (among other things) a mother grieving over the death of her son.
Thanks again for a really enjoyable reaction video.
You have just got to leave all that you think you know about singing, music and production values behind you when you dive into this album. Give yourself the opportunity to enjoy a brand new experience. Definitely not for people looking for conformity, who feel music must be sung and played in a certain way. This was a highly experimental album with Kate in complete control of production for the first time (recorded when she was 22-24). The album was a necessary testbed for ideas that would evolve and be refined for the Hounds of Love album. Kate is often compared to David Bowie and Peter Gabriel, with all three each sometimes said to be their own genre. Kate did of course collaborate several times with Peter Gabriel, providing backing vocals on his third album ‘Melt’ and duetting with him on his song ‘Don’t Give Up’.
Night of the Swallow is my favourite song of all time on an album full of some of the best songs ever recorded.
I think for me, the main thing about this album is that she lets her voice to everything, anything. She's unafraid of sounding "ugly" and so you get the full range, the full expression, just amazing vocal technique.
I have always loved this album, for me, it edges out Hounds of Love because of the extent of the experimentation. Strangely, in my mind, this album pairs with OMD's Architecture and Morality, as I heard them both on college radio about the same time.
Houdini is about THE Houdini, in particular the legend that after years of debunking and exposing fake "mediums" he told his wife if he died to visit mediums and to listen for a codeword he told her - and apparently this happened. The bit about the key is that he would kiss his wife before being dropped into a tank of water in a straight-jacket or chains and she would have the key in her mouth.
As for Stranger Things using Kate Bush in season 4, it was apparently the urging of Winona Ryder, who is a fan - interestingly, in season one she tells her ex-husband, very loudly, to "Get out of my house!" Which, as it turns out, is kind of haunted by Will.
Literally about Houdini's last dive in the glass water chamber. He was in a straight jacket and chains. His wife would pass the key with a kiss before he would go in. He died because he had an injury at the time. She is screaming as he drowns in front of an audience as he is pulled from the tank after they smashed it open.
Your reaction was truly charming and genuine, I appreciate that. I love how weird this album is, my favorite of hers
The songs which originally threw you will unlock if you keep listening 👂 🎉
This is were kate took complete control over her work creatively away from the record company the rest is history great reaction
She's truly one of a kind, and her artistry is pure genius. Been in my top 3 favorite artists since at least early 1980's.
I think Kate Bush highlights how pedestrian most pop music is. I adore this album and it's up there with 'Hounds of Love' imho.
Great reaction to a truly brilliant album, I'm so glad that you decided to listen to this album. As others have mentioned, this was the first album that Kate had produced herself and by this stage she had fully mastered the Fairlight CMI, which was first used on her previous album "Never For Ever" (1980), which she co-produced.
As an album Kate went "all out," the vast majority of it, is "in your face" music with absolutely no compromises. When presented with the finished album, EMI were less than pleased, to say the least, the album had taken longer to complete than they wanted and due to the considerable amount of time spent at a number of different studios, including "Abbey Road" had cost the company a lot of money. So when they were faced with an album that to them had no commercial tracks, some people in the company wanted to reject the entire album.
Thankfully, they came to realise that Kate wouldn't back down, so they were stuck with the finished article.
In terms of single releases, "Sat In Your Lap" was released almost a year before the album release, followed in the UK by "The Dreaming" and "There Goes A Tenner." I'm not sure that RMI put much promotion when it came to the latter song, and it sunk without a trace in the UK singles chart, making it Kate's least successful UK single release.
There was a European mainland only release for "Suspended In Gaffa" and an Ireland only release for the "Night Of The Swallow".
Regarding UK album chart performance, it was considered to be a commercial failure, compared to "Never For Ever", evrn though it entered the UK chart at Number 3.
It was a combination of EMI's reaction and that Kate was basically exhausted and wanted to get out of London, led directly her moving to a house in Kent and also creating a professional recording stufio in a barn back at her parents house. So, you could say if it wasn't for "The Dreaming" that the iconic "Hounds Of Love" would never have been created.
There are so many different aspects of "The Dreaming" that I could mention, but I will only cover a couple. Towards the end of "Pull Out The Pin," the faltering sound of the de-tuned guitar is meant to represent the sound of a transistor radio whose battery is running down, such an attention to detail.
Regarding "All The Love," Kate's answering machine started to malfunction in a particular way. It only recorded the tail-end of any messages on the tape and nothing else. It was those messages that Kate took from the tape and re-timed and balanced to put on the track.
At the time of release, a majority of critics weren't in favour of such an experimental album. Now (due to the gift of hindsight), the album has undergone a critical reevaluation and is considered to be a milestone album.
As for me, I annoyed my parents mad by following the sleeve notes to "Play It Loud," and it's my favourite Kate Bush album, although "Hounds Of Love" comes a very close second.
As for other Kate Bush albums that you can listen/react to, I would suggest the following:
📍Never For Ever (1980) - Kate was co-producer and used the Fairlight CMI for the first time. You can see if you can find hints of what was to come.
📍The Kick Inside (1978) - Kate's debut album that showed ftom the very start that she was prepared to cover challenging subjects, her fearless approach to her music and her art, is one of the things that I love about her
I do hope that you continue your Kate Bush journey because her music is so very interesting. Apparently, someone said that David Bowie reinvented himself with every album. However, Kate Bush reinvented herself with every track!
It's a sublime album, Kate at her very best. Superb!
If you havent already. Check out 'never forever' and 'The sensual world' by Kate Bush
Also sinead o connors 'The lion and the cobra'
Plus Roy Harper's 'One man rock n roll band' (live version circa 1986 on music video in Australia) from his album 'Stormcock' pure brilliance!
@janewright2800 I've got Roy's "Unknown Soldier" LP which features Kate and Dave Gilmour together.
@WarrenBridges-um5cg ooh brilliant, I must get it. Lost a few albums over the years. Cd's now of course. Sure I had that. Thanks for reminder!
@@janewright2800 1980. She also appears on Roy's 1990 album "Once". I still collect vinyl. I love her vocal arrangement on Big Country's "The Seer" 1986. The band members were in awe of her and couldn't believe what she was doing.
@@WarrenBridges-um5cgah yes, kates vocals on 'Once' are so beautiful. I got into Roy Harpers music a while after kates. He played in my town in the early 80's and the poster said that he worked with Kate Bush, so I had to check him out! So glad I did. Must Google Big Country song, thanks for the info🎶🙏
@@janewright2800 I'm Australian. I first heard Roy's name mentioned on Led Zeppelin III in 1970, but I didn't know who they were singing about. I got into him after Kate as well. He sang on "Breathing".
This is such a cool album! Definitely one that takes a lot of time to grow but the more you listen to it, the more rewarding it gets.
This is my favorite KATE BUSH album. (My favorite side of music is "THE NINTH WAVE" from Hounds of love, but for the total package, this is it) It's completely uncompromising and brave.
The more you listen, the more you take out of this album. KATE BUSH is the Queen of Adventurous Pop. (PETER GABRIEL being the King, IMO. Their careers have so many similarities... and they've collaborated a few times, too) Enjoy this epic journey... and you have a new subscriber! Cheers! (by the way: The cover of this album is based on the track HOUDINI.) ...also: If you're asking who was doing albums with this kind of brilliantly deranged and awesome albums, you should check out PETER GABRIEL's 3rd album (sometimes called "Melt"... he named his first four solo albums "Peter Gabriel")... It's a dark, amazing, gripping album that also has Kate Bush on one or two tracks... and it was a ground-breaking album in so many ways. Kate Bush was a big fan of Gabriel's work and their solo careers, as I mentioned kind of dovetail together. The album's first track, "INTRUDER" features drumming by Phil Collins and featured that gated drum style that Collins would later make famous. The album is one of my Top 20 albums of all-time. A true masterpiece. I think you'll love it. Cheers!
'Pull out the pin' is about the Vietnam war, but written from the perspective of a Vietcong soldier - which is typical Kate
Glad to see you do more Kate! Next I'd highly recommend her album Aerial from 2005 (its similar to Hounds of Love in that it's actually two records, but it's longer and it came after 12 year gap between albums, which I find fascinating (she has currently beaten that gap with it now being 13 years since her last proper album, not counting her live release from 2014).
WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! i've been waiting for this reaction from u!!! i love watching u hear music for the first time. ur reactions are so physical. so glad u were able to experience this insane beast of an album for the first time
This is the essence of Kate’s originality in every part of it.
What makes this album so insane is how timeless it sounds. Unlike some of her other albums, this sounds like it could have come out yesterday or 100 years ago
Hard to picture what world the music on this album comes from - it's so unusual, so eclectic, always beautiful...
A piece of art, Absolutely the best LP of Kate.
I loved Kate Bush from the moment I first heard “Wuthering Heights” on the radio. As a teenage male, female artists weren’t really on my radar at that time but she changed that and “The Kick Inside” has the distinction of being the first album written and performed by a woman in my record collection. I have a confession though; I didn’t buy “The Dreaming” when it first came out because I made the mistake of paying attention to idiot music journalists who slagged it off at the time. By the time I bought “The Dreaming” I already owned all her other albums up to and including “The Red Shoes”. When I bought this and listened to it, I couldn’t believe how dumb I had been to allow myself to be put off by all the negativity at the time of its release. I would listen to argument that this is the best album she ever did and that is a high bar to jump when you consider the competition. This is Kate with no guardrail and at her most gloriously unhinged. The A&R men at EMI were horrified by it since they were expecting something more commercial like “Never Forever” (although describing an album with “Breathing” on it-Kate’s take on being a foetus during a nuclear war- as “commercial” is perhaps doing it a disservice) and this album had no obvious singles on it. If “Sat on Your Lap” is the most single-worthy track, that is a pretty good indication that the rest of the album was full of seriously weird stuff in the eyes of the average record company executive. In a sense they were right; the album didn’t sell as well as its predecessor thanks to idiots like me who didn’t buy it at the time. Whatever its commercial failings (and it did get to number three in the album charts which isn’t too shabby) this is an album that has only grown in stature over the years and your reaction to it is pretty understandable. But 8.4? Not even 8.5? 😊
Listen to it a few more times and it will be a ten out of ten.
The Dreaming is a much harder listen that Hounds of Love which is a more melodic album. HoL is of course absolutely superb but The Dreaming is for me it’s equal but so different. Kate Bush is many things and one of those things is surprise. Make sure you give this plenty more listening time, it’s so worth it.
i would love to see you react to "Never For Ever" by kate bush, its so great and so underrated, also awesome reaction as always 😎
This album is so brilliant.
i literally JUST got done listening to this for the first time💀💀
Did you like it?
Yayyyyyyy I wanted this one.
Great review! An amazing album. I would love to be hearing Kate's music for the first time again. Pure genius.
nice! I love this album so much!
Great reaction, you should check out the videos of Sat in your lap and The Dreaming.....in fact all Kate's videos are worth seeing.
Not nearly enough recommendations for Aerial. The second side is another concept. I find it stronger than The Ninth Wave in many ways and every single time I listen to it I'm inevitably reduced to a weepy blob. So evocative and incredibly beautiful. Lots of that great Kate vocal work, matured
Thanks for sharing these videos. It's wonderful to experience someone's first reaction to this amazing music.
Great you gave this a good listen - one of my favourites. Another favourite of mine is Feast by The Creatures 1983 Siouxsie Sioux & Budgie another whole album listen - Also their Boomerang album from 1989 my fave summer album.
Her first self produced album btw
Wonderful reaction and great analysis! I love it (especially Get out of my house), but it took some time ... Please continue with Never for Ever or The Sensual World!
The greatest piece of Art Pop ever recorded.
Great reaction! there is a holy trinity of KB albums for me - hounds, the dreaming, and Never For Ever. so i highly highly recommend you check the third album out! It has a lot of great songs as well!
I loved watching this video, you had the best reactions to it. 😂
I love this album so much. I was surprised the British hate the DREAMING but American college alternative radio made this her first charting LP.
We don’t hate this album. It got to Number 3 in our charts. Kat Bush is a national treasure here.
Try "Sensual World" now. A lot less weird, but still some amazing songs
OK, check out 'Lord of the ready river' and 'Under the Ivy'. I have a feeling you'll be blown away. Glad these albums are still out there.
she's a phenom! plus she can really dance!
To me, this album and Hounds of Love are like a pair with dark (The Dreaming) and light (Hounds of Love).
They're both equally experimental.
The adreaming is one ofcthe greatest album ever made imo.
I like the way you play with color temper to indicate your shifts in how the music is affecting you. Well done.
Yes it was the Irish pipes I think played by her brother Paddy.
@judithweiss6727 Liam O'Flynn. Arranged by Bill Whelan. Paddy played mandolin, sticks and bullroarer on the album.
Houdini is about the pact that Harry Houdini had with his wife where he would contact her after death and say "Rosabelle, Believe" as a sign that there was an afterlife. SO the song is taking place at a seance after his death. "With a kiss, I pass the key" was the secret way she had of giving him a key so he could unlock himself during the trick where he would be submerged in locks and chains. great reaction. this album will grow on you. It's like a wild nightmare
Additional backstory to “Houdini” is that because he was a stage magician he knew all the tricks fake mediums and psychics would use, and he made a whole side career of exposing these fraudsters. So if anyone tried to claim they were talking to him from “the other side,” they would have to have ironclad proof, hence the code words.
"oh, it's a helicopter" . . .a helicopter recording from Pink Floyd ("The Wall" if I remember correctly) which Kate also uses in "The Ninth Wave" (side two of "Hounds of Love"). Remember, Kate was discovered (sort of) by David Gilmour. Add me to the chorus of those saying this is an amazing, incredible, fantabulous LP.
Just saw your Hounds of Love reaction and it's cool you liked The Dreaming too. Easy to think many would be turned off by how brash it can seem on first listen.
Try L'eau Rouge by Young Gods. Easy to google English translation of the lyrics.
Strange to be sure...but after several decades...it still resides happily on my active playlist.....Thank you for the perceptive and thoughtful review.....do check out her first album "The Kick Inside"...gold on every track.... "Lionheart" is still growing on me ....always found it a bit ethereal ...Overall ...just truly appreciate the focus on one of my favorite artists of all time ....(oh btw....someone I consider to be her heir apparent...Chinchilla..is worth a dive..on your own or here....want your mind blown? .^_^ check out her "Fingers" live version)
You really should react to the videos aswell they go together perfectly
I think you might like Never for Ever more. It’s not as out there as this one and it’s crazy good!
True genius.
oh, and make sure to watch "Get Out of My House" (my personal fave from this record) set to scenes from Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" here on the RUclips somewhere.
David Gilmore, backing vocals on Pull Out the Pin.
Get out of My House is inspired by the horror movie 'The Shining' about a Haunted Hotel.
The Dreaming is on par for me with The Hounds of Love.
While The Hounds of Love is far more accessible The Dreaming grows on you with every listening.
YES YES
loving your channel!! we're friends now
You're lucky to be discovering her, you can move back in her catalogue (Never Forever, The Kick Inside) or forward (The Sensual World, Aerial) and find more soothing and challenging ear candy, though The Dreaming is the absolute "out there" Kate Bush album.
i think she deserve more reconhecimento.
What a treat to share the “ripples” of Kate’s
Shining…
And to see you “shining” with it was perfect…
You’re
Passing the gift to others who “get it”
We speak through music’s
Ripples
Join us in the Pynk Tent
A bus leaves soon…
#ff1987
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I was home alone one quiet summer night attempting to lace my shoes with well done spaghetti noodles and i put this album on. I learned two things later. One,Kate Bush is super talented. And,two,paper mache works so much better with water.
Kate almost got dropped from her label after The Dreaming because both the album and the singles did poorly commercially due to the overall weirdness and unconventional nature of the music. Hounds of Love pretty much saved her from getting dropped because it was more commercially accessible, even though her usual weirdness remained intact, especially on Side B with The Ninth Wave. Personally, I love The Dreaming a lot more than Hounds of Love simply because she's artistically batshit crazy on the album, which is definitely more of my vibe.
The album reached n°3, the singles flopped
EMI wanted her to work with a producer, she even met Visconti Tony...
And she went to build her own studio....
There was no drop from EMI...
hi i've seen u wear a pink floyd shirt before but im wondering if youve ever given their first album a listen? The piper at the gates of dawn, its a really really cool album and if you havent you should do a video on it! :)
i even think i prefer Syd era floyd over the later stuff lol
I prefer this album over Hounds of Love
The album I like the most
Uilleann pipes.
The pipes were Uilleann pipes - Irish
you gotta react to frances the mute by the mars volta next
If i told you the donkey sound at the end was the Mule that takes over the empire in Foundation by Asimov would you believe me
She did a song from the perspective of a Vietnamese person trying to repel an invading army. Who the BLEEEP does that? Genius!
@lewismaddox4132 Been listening to Vietnam War songs since the 1960s and it's the only time I've ever heard someone.
@@WarrenBridges-um5cg You ever heard a Vietnam War song from the perspective of the Viet Cong?
@@lewismaddox4132 Absolutely not. Kate is the first. Got all of her albums.
@@WarrenBridges-um5cg"Pull Out the Pin"!
@@lewismaddox4132 Yep. Off this album.
You say weird. I say avant-garde, original and deep.
Why do the younger generation, Americans in particular, so often speak of weird as a negative? Must songs always be safe, predictable and safe sounding?
Dude, all the random skipping around is driving me nuts. How can you expect anyone to enjoy that? You can pause occasionally to break it up to beat copyright strikes, many reactors do