Hi, and glad you enjoyed this. This song was on John Lennon's personal playlist just prior to his death and when he was recording his final album, he took the album this song is taken from in to play to those who were working on that final album of his. As to where to go next with the Kate Bush discography, there are very many songs worth including, quite a few with official videos and just as many without any. But I guess you could probably take a look at the official video for her song "This Woman's Work' which is very different from this and much more 'normal.' She wrote the song, does all of the instrumentation, all f the vocals, the produced it and she directed the video. It was originally written for a movie to match some movie footage that had already be shot. It was written from the perspective of a man whose wife and unborn baby are fighting for their lives during childbirth and he is confronted with the possibility of losing both of them. And it is designed to rip your heart out. Thanks again - glad you enjoyed it.
Oh wow thats crazy about John Lennon. Also yes you are absolutely right this is one we enjoyed. We have done 2 songs by Kate and both of them are fire. Thank you so much for all your love and support on Patreon Tommy. 🙏🙏🙏
@@Hollywood6IX yes the John Lennon connection does seem odd because it is hard to think of them as being contemporary. Yet, for a brief period they were. Just a couple of months before he was Killed, Kate Bush was interviewed on radio and cited his song '#9 Dream' as her all time favourite song. But her list of famous fans of her music is just wild. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin called her a genius. Elton John spoke of her as a once in a lifetime talent. Prince called her his favourite woman after being pretty much hypnotized by her album 'Hounds of Love' (the album that included 'Running Up That Hill'). David Gilmour of Pink Floyd personally paid to have her first professional quality demo recording done and has called her completely unique. Alanis Morissette said that Kate Bush was the reason that she wanted to be a singer. Patti Smith called her a UFO. Dusty Springfield said she was left staggered at Kate Bush's talent. Bjork once called her 'Mother.' Members of Metallica have said that when they were recording 'Masters of Puppets' Kate Bush was one of the artists they were listening to. It is well publicised how much of a Kate Bush fan Big Boi is, but is less well known that Tupac was a fan. Annie Lennox has called her magical. Tori Amos described her as one of the very few recording artists, male or female, whose music actually matters. From within Punk, John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) of the Sex Pistols has called her music beauty beyond compare. World famous US Jazz singer Cecile Mclorin Salvant has talked openly about being obsessed by her music since about the age of 16. From within Classical music, Nigel Kennedy, at one time the biggest selling classical musician in the world, has called her one of the greatest composers of the century. The Kate Bush discography is extraordinary. There are many songs I could point you to, but as you are both still very new to her, then instead of her more experimental risk taking songs, I do think that you will get quite a bit out of the official video for "This Woman's Work." Thanks so much for taking the time to reply.
@@tommydevlin702 So glad to meet another big KT fan. There's so much to say about her, that it's impossible to know where to begin. My favorite singer-songwriter of all time - imho the best all-round artist in human history - writing, composing, singing, playing, choreographing, dancing, producing and just a beautiful and sweet soul. Not to make this about me, but would you like to listen to our version of Wuthering Heights sung from Heathcliff's point of view? It's on my music channel here: ruclips.net/video/3CJsvboXEo8/видео.html Cheers!
Hilarious to see the initially confused faces and then "This is Fire!". Kate Bush was a proper trailblazer for women in the pop industry. She went on to produce her own songs and it's great a new generation are finding her work. This is from her earlier sometimes quirky days but you should check out "The Man with the Child in his Eyes" which is a haunting piano based song that was an early big hit for her. She wrote it at just 13 and it was recorded when she was 16.
When she released her first song they showed a video on Swedish TV. This was when we only had two TV channels. Ten minutes later I met my friends at the youth center. Everyone had seen it.We all had a new favorite artist. This is another favorite.
Babooshka is apparently also Russian slang for an old lady and 'old lady' is British slang for someone's wife. It makes sense when you listen to the lyrics. The sampled smashing crockery at the end is the wife throwing it at her 'cheating' husband.
@@Critter68she used it cos it sounds like an exotic name... About the fact she didn't know.... Err, no.... Babooshka was among her demos, around 1975....song recorded in 1980, so no one on the studio, among the musicians, the coproducer, her mum, brothers, father, friends, absolutely no one during the production of the album have asked, c'mon....she knew the meaning, like the sound of the word and just want to keep it. That's it... Simple...
A massive talent - a soup to nuts kind of artist - writing, playing, recording, producing, choreography, dance, video concepts. Makes today's "stars" - with a staff numbering in the hundreds - look like the vacuous corporate constructions they truly are. Give her track "Hammer Horror" a spin - my personal favourite - guaranteed chills.
Kate Bush is British/Irish (irish citizenship is automatic with an Irish parent) She was born and raised in London to an English father (a doctor and amateur pianist) and an Irish mother (hospital nurse and Irish dancer). She has two older brothers who introduced her to Irish and British folk music and progressive rock.
Kate is a musical genius, plays instruments , produces , writes , choreographs her own videos and a wonderful singer . she was a child prodigy her documentary is on you tube of her when she was very young.
Kate Bush was discovered by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. David has a new record out where his daughter sings the lead. It’s a great tune with a brilliant Gilmour guitar solo.
He did not discover her, he did a favor to a friend(Ricky Hopper) of her brother... It's not like you can't find videos interviews of Gilmour telling the real story. Just sayin'.
Wonderful song, best video ever (I've been in love with Kate for 46 years and counting) and she is so talented and her work is so diverse that she defies categorisation, she is her own genre. Listen to The Man With The Child In His Eyes (another stunning video), hauntingly beautiful song written when she was thirteen and released three years later. This Woman's Work is another heart wrenching slice of beauty, there's so much to discover once you fall down the rabbit hole. Genius.
She just never wanted to tour. She turned down opening for Fleetwood Mac in the late 70s, and it pissed her new American label off really bad. Very private person, but so brilliant. I think its kind of a shame she never wanted to tour the world. But would she have gotten big in America? Idk, honestly. She is way too cerebral for here haha.
@michaelasay8587 that is an interesting mindset. If you have not personally been familiar with something, then the most logical conclusion is that the song could not have been of any great consequence. This means that you as lorekeeper of all knowledge about all music have a huge responsibility in terms of cataloging everything to understand exactly where it fits in the great scheme of music releases throughout the world in all territories . That sounds exhausting keeping track of all that.
It was Kate in both outfits. Hence the contrast in appearance dovetails the song lyrics. All it took was wearing glasses for Clark Kent to disguise himself... Cloudbusting, Hounds of Love and Army Dreamers are great picks.
John Giblin. I agree, it was one of his best lines ever, even better than the technically flasher stuff he did with ‘Brand X’,( himself and Phil Collins were a hell of a rhythm section). ‘Breathing’ from the same album as this, also has wonderful bass playing.
Not sure what the comment section in your previous Kate Bush videos were on about, but Kate is generally considered Art Pop. She does have Art Rock songs like James And The Cold Gun and Violin (both great songs!) but she's mostly a Pop-oriented musician. Art Rock and Art Pop are simply more creative and slightly experimental variations of their parent genres. Where a Rock song can be a standard riff, beat, and good time energy about partying and playing shows, an Art Rock song can have experiments with electronica, orchestral elements, sound effects, samples, tribal elements, classical elements, and many more liberally creative choices that would otherwise be considered a bit much for a typical radio single. If that sounds like Progressive music, you'd be right! To many, they are one in the same, but others would tell you that the difference lies in exactly how dedicated to experimental structure the song is. A Prog song will likely have a lot of meter changes, more aggressive mood dynamics and virtuosic instrumentation, while an Art song can be simpler but still unique and creative. There will of course be the argument that All music is Art so the term is redundant. There is surely a point to be made there, but I'd say that there's a spectrum between music made for entertainment and music made for creative expression. A Pop hit single or a Rock bar tune may be further to the former, while an experimental piece with fusions and changing moods may be more on the latter. Art Rock/Pop artists include Kate Bush, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Björk, Peter Gabriel, Fiona Apple, and Queen. Plenty of these artists often are known for multiple genres which is very much a pattern trait for more liberally creative artists in these genres.
@@DrStrangelove3891 I had Roxy Music initially but I figured Brian Eno of the group was a better representative of the genre. Talking Heads are an interesting choice, perhaps Art Punk? Closer to New Wave which is rather artsy already but I can certainly see the Art Rock side of them!
She was really popular in Australia and across Europe. She’s still celebrated every July with gatherings in many countries of red dress clad people who dance to Wuthering Heights ruclips.net/video/zLKTnB2xuLQ/видео.htmlsi=l_PfXhydP5wpgCUF
Shes just brillant, i think of her as an progressive Artist. Check out pull out the pin ( dave gilmour on backing vocals) from her the Dreaming Album, its a Gem
Kate is one of the most reluctant singer /producers /dancers, rarely gives interviews, took 12 years out of the public eye when she had her son, yet in 2014 sold out concerts in London for 22 nights in just 15 minutes, one thing she asked for was no phones or filming by the audiences, she wanted to preform in front of the audience and not a sea of mobiles. I know she lived and possibly still has the house in a village where I grew up, rarely seen but when she was no one took any notice, and she bought another place on the coast, not going to say where these places are as Kate has chosen to keep her private life just that. I know she has had many hits in the top 40 in the UK at least 20-ish and is known across the globe, but you won't find Kate turning up too the opening of an envelope, doesn't do anything associated with publicity in this way, trained dancer which is why you'll have videos such as you've seen so far, she writes everything herself, and produces everything including her videos
Your dissection of the lyrics makes me think of ‘Escape (the Pina Colada Song)’… “we’ve been married for years and we were about to cheat on each other but lol! I never knew you liked pina coladas!” 😆
It was the first hit single to include a sample (the smashing sounds, which I understand was crockery from the Abbey Road studios canteen) using the Fairlight CMI. Those sounds after the wife had revealed herself to her husband, signified that she had wrecked the relationship.
Nice thoughtful reaction/analysis. Kate was most often associated with the art pop/art rock/prog rock genres just to try fitting her somewhere, but she was really her own genre. She is very special and did it all - singer, songwriter, composer, pianist, music revolutionary, producer, dancer, mime, choreographer, video director and innovator, visionary. Laughable that it took until 2023 for her to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, something she is clearly over qualified for. Debatable whether any other female artist, past or present, has come close to her comprehensive set of abilities and contributions to the world of music, with the exception perhaps of Joni Mitchell. Has influenced so many artists (male and female) across multiple genres. Didn’t really do mainstream and only did the one live tour back in 1979 at the age of 20. Never toured the US, did little to promote her work there, and did not fit well anywhere in America’s format driven radio network at that time. The fact that she was known at all in the US prior to the 1985 release of ‘Running Up That Hill’ owed much to college radio. Actually had the release of her early albums delayed in America by several years after pissing off the American label/distributor by turning down the chance to support Fleetwood Mac on their ‘Rumours’ tour.
So she is testing her husband to see if he remains faithful. She is older now and sends him letters pretending to be a younger woman. When they meet he realizes she is his own wife and basically he looses trust in her for not trusting him and he leaves her. That’s why the shattered glass at the end: she ruined everything by not trusting him. You should read the lyrics it’s pretty straightforward. Great reaction, you guys always crack me up and put a smile on my face. Thank you. ❤️
Kate Bush was sort of popular in the US when I was in High School in the late 80s, more among the Drama Club crowd and "Scene" girls, but not really enjoying the mainstream popularity of other British acts of the time. Her album covers always drew a lot of a attention though! She was hot and the costumes she wore looked like she came out of the 80s fantasy movie wardrobe!
Part of the reason she didn't really take off in the US was because she never toured there. She hated to fly and was also not a fan of performing live.
I was lucky to see her in Liverpool 1979 (I think). Never heard of her before. My cousins took me to it. Became a lifelong fan. I was very lucky to be there because she experienced major stage fright and rarely performed in concert.
I was a bit nervous with this reaction because Kate is a little out-there for some people. But I shouldnt have worried, you guys get music and appreciate the art.
@@smokeyrameriz478 me too 😎 got to think outside of the box to love art in all forms. Love your reactions you both seem like top fellas ! (I’m from Wales UK btw) 😁
Kate released her debut The Kick Inside in Feb 1978. and she became a mega star all over Europe and tbe UK right away. she was only 17 or 18. How the American market didn't catch on, is a strange thing since it made the list of top 100 pop rock albums from the 70s in Rolling Stone magazine. She had incredible success from that Debut snd after performing a grueling tour, she decided she wanted to spend more time on her studio albums rather than performing live, and because of this every single release was outstanding, but not touring kept her out of the spotlight for many years evrn though she was still adored as an underground legend by musicians and artists the world over. Her influence upon subsequent female artists and songwriters is beyond estimation.
Babooshka is a Russian/Eastern European word. Means a kerchief on head usually worn buy an older lady. It's also means grandmother but also is a term of endearment to a loved one.
Art Rock: Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, some Bowie, for starters. A loose term, as are most terms for musical genres. Quite an overlap with Progressive (Prog) Rock.
She became frigid and he became distant, so she tried to see what would happen if she flirted with him as someone else and he didn't appreciate it, hence the breaking glass
Kate's discography is immense so it's hard to know where to try next. Among my favourites are "Cloudbusting" with Donald Sutherland having a major role in the video. The Sensual World is a completely different side to her that you may really enjoy. My personal fave is "Moments of Pleasure", which you should read the back story on first.
Kate is one of my favourite iconic UK artists, incredible creativity and with the talent to back it up. If you want to hear the really wild, experimental Kate, try 'Get out of my house' from the fantastic 'The Dreaming' Album. Cheers.
In the 1980s and 90s to break America you had to tour and appear on 900 regional radio stations. Kate never toured anywhere for 4 decades and rarely did any interviews. Even in the UK there are like 6 or something she did at her peak popularity. That's mainly why she didn't have the same impact there but still managed a top 40 chart place with Running Up That Hill despite as far as I know never even going to the USA. KB has different priorities to most, she doesn't make commercial decisions, she does what she wants to do. Even when she played live again she chose a small venue that sold out in minutes. She could have made so much money playing the O2 for 30 dates, they'd have sold out easily but she didn't.
You have to sit each of her songs in their particular time. You're right "Running Up That Hill" isn't art rock, it was released in mid 80s. "Babooshka" is a little earlier, early 80s I think. The songs like "Wuthering Heights," "Wow!," "The Saxophone Song" basically her first 2 albums are from the 70s. And when she first started releasing music, they had no idea how to classify her. She was being backed by David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), she was heavily influenced by the art rockers and when you get to know her music a bit more you'll realised she is a musician, musicologist, dancer, choreographer, storyteller... an all-rounder, therefore "art rock." She was a phenom. Her first two albums are songs she wrote as young as 15.
An ‘art rock artist’ ?? Really, what does that even mean? It’s just Kate Bush and she was simply a unique and original artist, period! Like you said leave genres alone, meaningless!
Art rock because it was actually its own category during the time frame in which this was released. That doesn't mean that she subscribed to the notion that that's who she was but, context is important. The British press especially was very favorable towards bands that had a progressive element, and thus artists that never really got big in the United States could sell out Arena tours in the UK and elsewhere. A good example of this would be Marillion, early Genesis very much also falls in the art rock category
Kate Bush is the greatest female songwriter the UK has ever produced, without challenge. Check out her album 'The Dreaming', Big Boi from OutKast says it's his favourite record ever made.
@@smokeyrameriz478 the vid has Donald Sutherland cameo’ing. The style is a little off the wall but it’s so catchy. Wilhelm I believe was the inspiration
Her demos were rejected by all labels, Ricky Hopper who worked in the music industry as a publicist had asked Gilmour for his help... Hopper was friend of John Carder Bush, her brother.... Gilmour did a favor to a friend...
Want a weird one to react to? Try Nitin Sawhney's "Dead Man" from the album Philtre. (The album track is probably a better example than the live versions.)
She sets him up because the relationship has become stagnant, the husband is really excited about babooshka because she reminds him of his wife when they first met. The cello represents the husband, the veil is the wife and the other character is babooshka. Kate Bush never became huge in the US because she didn't like to tour.
Wife is being frigid. Husband becomes distant, so wife decides to come on to him an alter ego.. it did not work out for the best. Which is the reason why the glass is breaking.... This has a bad ending, while the pina colada song ends well
Kate Bush is an absolute genius. Songwriting, choreography ,musical and vocal abilities second to none. Hilariously,.....Tori Amos was compared to her.....no comparison I'm afraid.
Hi, and glad you enjoyed this. This song was on John Lennon's personal playlist just prior to his death and when he was recording his final album, he took the album this song is taken from in to play to those who were working on that final album of his.
As to where to go next with the Kate Bush discography, there are very many songs worth including, quite a few with official videos and just as many without any. But I guess you could probably take a look at the official video for her song "This Woman's Work' which is very different from this and much more 'normal.' She wrote the song, does all of the instrumentation, all f the vocals, the produced it and she directed the video. It was originally written for a movie to match some movie footage that had already be shot. It was written from the perspective of a man whose wife and unborn baby are fighting for their lives during childbirth and he is confronted with the possibility of losing both of them. And it is designed to rip your heart out.
Thanks again - glad you enjoyed it.
Oh wow thats crazy about John Lennon. Also yes you are absolutely right this is one we enjoyed. We have done 2 songs by Kate and both of them are fire. Thank you so much for all your love and support on Patreon Tommy. 🙏🙏🙏
@@Hollywood6IX yes the John Lennon connection does seem odd because it is hard to think of them as being contemporary. Yet, for a brief period they were. Just a couple of months before he was Killed, Kate Bush was interviewed on radio and cited his song '#9 Dream' as her all time favourite song.
But her list of famous fans of her music is just wild. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin called her a genius. Elton John spoke of her as a once in a lifetime talent. Prince called her his favourite woman after being pretty much hypnotized by her album 'Hounds of Love' (the album that included 'Running Up That Hill'). David Gilmour of Pink Floyd personally paid to have her first professional quality demo recording done and has called her completely unique. Alanis Morissette said that Kate Bush was the reason that she wanted to be a singer. Patti Smith called her a UFO. Dusty Springfield said she was left staggered at Kate Bush's talent. Bjork once called her 'Mother.' Members of Metallica have said that when they were recording 'Masters of Puppets' Kate Bush was one of the artists they were listening to. It is well publicised how much of a Kate Bush fan Big Boi is, but is less well known that Tupac was a fan. Annie Lennox has called her magical. Tori Amos described her as one of the very few recording artists, male or female, whose music actually matters. From within Punk, John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) of the Sex Pistols has called her music beauty beyond compare. World famous US Jazz singer Cecile Mclorin Salvant has talked openly about being obsessed by her music since about the age of 16. From within Classical music, Nigel Kennedy, at one time the biggest selling classical musician in the world, has called her one of the greatest composers of the century.
The Kate Bush discography is extraordinary. There are many songs I could point you to, but as you are both still very new to her, then instead of her more experimental risk taking songs, I do think that you will get quite a bit out of the official video for "This Woman's Work."
Thanks so much for taking the time to reply.
@@tommydevlin702 So glad to meet another big KT fan. There's so much to say about her, that it's impossible to know where to begin. My favorite singer-songwriter of all time - imho the best all-round artist in human history - writing, composing, singing, playing, choreographing, dancing, producing and just a beautiful and sweet soul. Not to make this about me, but would you like to listen to our version of Wuthering Heights sung from Heathcliff's point of view? It's on my music channel here: ruclips.net/video/3CJsvboXEo8/видео.html Cheers!
Hilarious to see the initially confused faces and then "This is Fire!". Kate Bush was a proper trailblazer for women in the pop industry. She went on to produce her own songs and it's great a new generation are finding her work. This is from her earlier sometimes quirky days but you should check out "The Man with the Child in his Eyes" which is a haunting piano based song that was an early big hit for her. She wrote it at just 13 and it was recorded when she was 16.
She was 19 doing this clip.
Second on "The Man with the Child in his Eyes". Superb song.
When she released her first song they showed a video on Swedish TV. This was when we only had two TV channels. Ten minutes later I met my friends at the youth center. Everyone had seen it.We all had a new favorite artist. This is another favorite.
Babooshka is apparently also Russian slang for an old lady and 'old lady' is British slang for someone's wife. It makes sense when you listen to the lyrics. The sampled smashing crockery at the end is the wife throwing it at her 'cheating' husband.
Except Kate has said multiple times that she had no clue about the meaning of babooshka when she recorded this song...
@@Critter68she used it cos it sounds like an exotic name... About the fact she didn't know.... Err, no.... Babooshka was among her demos, around 1975....song recorded in 1980, so no one on the studio, among the musicians, the coproducer, her mum, brothers, father, friends, absolutely no one during the production of the album have asked, c'mon....she knew the meaning, like the sound of the word and just want to keep it. That's it... Simple...
@@isobeljames1328 just repeating what Kate Bush herself said.
Is it true? I don't know any more than you do.
All I know is what she said.
Babushka
A massive talent - a soup to nuts kind of artist - writing, playing, recording, producing, choreography, dance, video concepts. Makes today's "stars" - with a staff numbering in the hundreds - look like the vacuous corporate constructions they truly are. Give her track "Hammer Horror" a spin - my personal favourite - guaranteed chills.
Kate Bush is British/Irish (irish citizenship is automatic with an Irish parent) She was born and raised in London to an English father (a doctor and amateur pianist) and an Irish mother (hospital nurse and Irish dancer). She has two older brothers who introduced her to Irish and British folk music and progressive rock.
Kate is a musical genius, plays instruments , produces , writes , choreographs her own videos and a wonderful singer . she was a child prodigy her documentary is on you tube of her when she was very young.
Kate Bush was discovered by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. David has a new record out where his daughter sings the lead. It’s a great tune with a brilliant Gilmour guitar solo.
He did not discover her, he did a favor to a friend(Ricky Hopper) of her brother... It's not like you can't find videos interviews of Gilmour telling the real story. Just sayin'.
Wonderful song, best video ever (I've been in love with Kate for 46 years and counting) and she is so talented and her work is so diverse that she defies categorisation, she is her own genre. Listen to The Man With The Child In His Eyes (another stunning video), hauntingly beautiful song written when she was thirteen and released three years later. This Woman's Work is another heart wrenching slice of beauty, there's so much to discover once you fall down the rabbit hole. Genius.
So happy you guys are doing Kate bush. I recommend the whole albums. Kate is pure Celtic soul.
She just never wanted to tour. She turned down opening for Fleetwood Mac in the late 70s, and it pissed her new American label off really bad. Very private person, but so brilliant. I think its kind of a shame she never wanted to tour the world. But would she have gotten big in America? Idk, honestly. She is way too cerebral for here haha.
Legend. The Late Bush rabbit hole is SUPER satisfying. Tons of incredible music over multiple decades.great storyteller as well as versatile vox. Dig.
She didn't have much music😢
Never heard this...couldn't have been a hit
@michaelasay8587 that is an interesting mindset. If you have not personally been familiar with something, then the most logical conclusion is that the song could not have been of any great consequence. This means that you as lorekeeper of all knowledge about all music have a huge responsibility in terms of cataloging everything to understand exactly where it fits in the great scheme of music releases throughout the world in all territories . That sounds exhausting keeping track of all that.
It was Kate in both outfits. Hence the contrast in appearance dovetails the song lyrics. All it took was wearing glasses for Clark Kent to disguise himself... Cloudbusting, Hounds of Love and Army Dreamers are great picks.
You will dig the video of Peter Gabriel- Don't Give Up featuring Kate Bush. Sweet vibes
Well you'll dig the song. The video just shows them hugging and maybe singing a bit haha but it's sweet vibes
One of the greatest fretless bass lines ever.
Kate is full of fretless and it’s fire. You should check out mother stands for comfort. Very different topic and song but damn that bass
John Giblin. I agree, it was one of his best lines ever, even better than the technically flasher stuff he did with ‘Brand X’,( himself and Phil Collins were a hell of a rhythm section). ‘Breathing’ from the same album as this, also has wonderful bass playing.
Not sure what the comment section in your previous Kate Bush videos were on about, but Kate is generally considered Art Pop. She does have Art Rock songs like James And The Cold Gun and Violin (both great songs!) but she's mostly a Pop-oriented musician.
Art Rock and Art Pop are simply more creative and slightly experimental variations of their parent genres. Where a Rock song can be a standard riff, beat, and good time energy about partying and playing shows, an Art Rock song can have experiments with electronica, orchestral elements, sound effects, samples, tribal elements, classical elements, and many more liberally creative choices that would otherwise be considered a bit much for a typical radio single. If that sounds like Progressive music, you'd be right! To many, they are one in the same, but others would tell you that the difference lies in exactly how dedicated to experimental structure the song is. A Prog song will likely have a lot of meter changes, more aggressive mood dynamics and virtuosic instrumentation, while an Art song can be simpler but still unique and creative. There will of course be the argument that All music is Art so the term is redundant. There is surely a point to be made there, but I'd say that there's a spectrum between music made for entertainment and music made for creative expression. A Pop hit single or a Rock bar tune may be further to the former, while an experimental piece with fusions and changing moods may be more on the latter.
Art Rock/Pop artists include Kate Bush, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Björk, Peter Gabriel, Fiona Apple, and Queen. Plenty of these artists often are known for multiple genres which is very much a pattern trait for more liberally creative artists in these genres.
Thanks for that info Black Queen! This is the kind of info we need
Agreed, and I would add Roxy Music and David Byrne/Talking Heads.
@@DrStrangelove3891 I had Roxy Music initially but I figured Brian Eno of the group was a better representative of the genre. Talking Heads are an interesting choice, perhaps Art Punk? Closer to New Wave which is rather artsy already but I can certainly see the Art Rock side of them!
As a kid Kate Bush in that "Warrior Woman" outfit gave me feelings that I wouldn't understand until years later.
😂😂😂 this is brilliant!
She was really popular in Australia and across Europe. She’s still celebrated every July with gatherings in many countries of red dress clad people who dance to Wuthering Heights ruclips.net/video/zLKTnB2xuLQ/видео.htmlsi=l_PfXhydP5wpgCUF
Saw her on her very fist tour in 1979. Ariel is my favourite album and like Bjork she is a genius.
So many great songs by Kate. 😊 I love The man with the child in his eyes and Army dreamers.
Shes just brillant, i think of her as an progressive Artist.
Check out pull out the pin ( dave gilmour on backing vocals) from her the Dreaming Album, its a Gem
Kate is one of the most reluctant singer /producers /dancers, rarely gives interviews, took 12 years out of the public eye when she had her son, yet in 2014 sold out concerts in London for 22 nights in just 15 minutes, one thing she asked for was no phones or filming by the audiences, she wanted to preform in front of the audience and not a sea of mobiles. I know she lived and possibly still has the house in a village where I grew up, rarely seen but when she was no one took any notice, and she bought another place on the coast, not going to say where these places are as Kate has chosen to keep her private life just that. I know she has had many hits in the top 40 in the UK at least 20-ish and is known across the globe, but you won't find Kate turning up too the opening of an envelope, doesn't do anything associated with publicity in this way, trained dancer which is why you'll have videos such as you've seen so far, she writes everything herself, and produces everything including her videos
Your dissection of the lyrics makes me think of ‘Escape (the Pina Colada Song)’… “we’ve been married for years and we were about to cheat on each other but lol! I never knew you liked pina coladas!” 😆
Yes i would say Babooska is historical version of Escape.
Babushka basically translates as middle aged or elderly Mother as well as being a headscarf.
Fantastic artist. 'Pull Out the Pin' or anything from 'The Dreaming'. Also 'Cloudbusting' from 'Hounds of Love' and Live at the Hammersmith Odeon.
The only Kate Bush song I've heard besides Running Up That Hill. It's going to be stuck in my head all day
Try Wuthering Heights. And Get Out Of My House.
One world - one Kate Bush! 😍Thanks guys!
Listen to the B-side of her album Hounds of love.
Absolutely magnificent.
it's the law.
It was the first hit single to include a sample (the smashing sounds, which I understand was crockery from the Abbey Road studios canteen) using the Fairlight CMI. Those sounds after the wife had revealed herself to her husband, signified that she had wrecked the relationship.
Nice thoughtful reaction/analysis. Kate was most often associated with the art pop/art rock/prog rock genres just to try fitting her somewhere, but she was really her own genre. She is very special and did it all - singer, songwriter, composer, pianist, music revolutionary, producer, dancer, mime, choreographer, video director and innovator, visionary. Laughable that it took until 2023 for her to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, something she is clearly over qualified for. Debatable whether any other female artist, past or present, has come close to her comprehensive set of abilities and contributions to the world of music, with the exception perhaps of Joni Mitchell. Has influenced so many artists (male and female) across multiple genres. Didn’t really do mainstream and only did the one live tour back in 1979 at the age of 20. Never toured the US, did little to promote her work there, and did not fit well anywhere in America’s format driven radio network at that time. The fact that she was known at all in the US prior to the 1985 release of ‘Running Up That Hill’ owed much to college radio. Actually had the release of her early albums delayed in America by several years after pissing off the American label/distributor by turning down the chance to support Fleetwood Mac on their ‘Rumours’ tour.
She was both dancers
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd "discovered" Kate Bush, when she was 15. 🌺
No, he did not, he did a favor to a friend who was friend with John Bush, her brother...
Kate Bush was huge in the UK. Hounds Of Love next.
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So she is testing her husband to see if he remains faithful. She is older now and sends him letters pretending to be a younger woman. When they meet he realizes she is his own wife and basically he looses trust in her for not trusting him and he leaves her. That’s why the shattered glass at the end: she ruined everything by not trusting him. You should read the lyrics it’s pretty straightforward. Great reaction, you guys always crack me up and put a smile on my face. Thank you. ❤️
Kate Bush was sort of popular in the US when I was in High School in the late 80s, more among the Drama Club crowd and "Scene" girls, but not really enjoying the mainstream popularity of other British acts of the time. Her album covers always drew a lot of a attention though! She was hot and the costumes she wore looked like she came out of the 80s fantasy movie wardrobe!
Part of the reason she didn't really take off in the US was because she never toured there. She hated to fly and was also not a fan of performing live.
you should try DONT GIVE UP. it’s a duet with KATE BUSH and PETER GABRIEL. epic!!
Her hit A woman's work is popular too. A good one to react to.
She is an absolute icon influenced byork and many ither artists completely original and never bettered welcome to planet kate
I was lucky to see her in Liverpool 1979 (I think). Never heard of her before. My cousins took me to it. Became a lifelong fan. I was very lucky to be there because she experienced major stage fright and rarely performed in concert.
Cloudbusting next please.
Donald Sutherland who just passed is in the video.rip
I was a bit nervous with this reaction because Kate is a little out-there for some people. But I shouldnt have worried, you guys get music and appreciate the art.
We are out there also! Thank you
@@smokeyrameriz478 me too 😎 got to think outside of the box to love art in all forms. Love your reactions you both seem like top fellas ! (I’m from Wales UK btw) 😁
My hero Kate Bush! One of the most creative musicians of all time ❤🔥
Something about the chorus reminds me of Justin Hawkins from The Darkness 🤷♀️
I liked it 😊
Kate's outfit is probably only 2nd to Princess Leia on the bedroom fantasy rolepaly
Kate released her debut The Kick Inside in Feb 1978. and she became a mega star all over Europe and tbe UK right away. she was only 17 or 18. How the American market didn't catch on, is a strange thing since it made the list of top 100 pop rock albums from the 70s in Rolling Stone magazine. She had incredible success from that Debut snd after performing a grueling tour, she decided she wanted to spend more time on her studio albums rather than performing live, and because of this
every single release was outstanding, but not touring kept her out of the spotlight for many years evrn though she was still adored as an underground legend by musicians and artists the world over. Her influence upon subsequent female artists and songwriters is beyond estimation.
She's born in 1958, do in 1978, she's 20 years old, just sayin'.
Babooshka is a Russian/Eastern European word. Means a kerchief on head usually worn buy an older lady. It's also means grandmother but also is a term of endearment to a loved one.
Art Rock: Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, some Bowie, for starters. A loose term, as are most terms for musical genres.
Quite an overlap with Progressive (Prog) Rock.
I don't think the husband knew - and when he found out....Crash! Bang! Whallop! - all that broken crockery and a broken marriage!!
She became frigid and he became distant, so she tried to see what would happen if she flirted with him as someone else and he didn't appreciate it, hence the breaking glass
Sort of like “The Pina Colada Song”
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Except this one doesn't have a good ending.
Really interesting twist in your analysis lads, dont think anyone has expressed the husbands POV before! Excellent.
Kate's discography is immense so it's hard to know where to try next. Among my favourites are "Cloudbusting" with Donald Sutherland having a major role in the video. The Sensual World is a completely different side to her that you may really enjoy. My personal fave is "Moments of Pleasure", which you should read the back story on first.
oh you are in for a treat she is somethihg to behold!
This womans work is a great song that maxwell covered and it was a huge hit in US.
Kate is one of my favourite iconic UK artists, incredible creativity and with the talent to back it up. If you want to hear the really wild, experimental Kate, try 'Get out of my house' from the fantastic 'The Dreaming' Album. Cheers.
Kate was the Babushka, both characters in fact, i had that poster on my wall, stunning woman.
In the 1980s and 90s to break America you had to tour and appear on 900 regional radio stations. Kate never toured anywhere for 4 decades and rarely did any interviews. Even in the UK there are like 6 or something she did at her peak popularity. That's mainly why she didn't have the same impact there but still managed a top 40 chart place with Running Up That Hill despite as far as I know never even going to the USA.
KB has different priorities to most, she doesn't make commercial decisions, she does what she wants to do. Even when she played live again she chose a small venue that sold out in minutes. She could have made so much money playing the O2 for 30 dates, they'd have sold out easily but she didn't.
There are tons of interviews of Kate Bush, if you just Google search or RUclips search Kate Bush interviews...
Kate was 5 in 1963. Try Cloudbusting next. Pax
You have to sit each of her songs in their particular time. You're right "Running Up That Hill" isn't art rock, it was released in mid 80s.
"Babooshka" is a little earlier, early 80s I think.
The songs like "Wuthering Heights," "Wow!," "The Saxophone Song" basically her first 2 albums are from the 70s. And when she first started releasing music, they had no idea how to classify her. She was being backed by David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), she was heavily influenced by the art rockers and when you get to know her music a bit more you'll realised she is a musician, musicologist, dancer, choreographer, storyteller... an all-rounder, therefore "art rock."
She was a phenom. Her first two albums are songs she wrote as young as 15.
Next up for Kate Bush, Cloudbusting or Hounds of Love?
An ‘art rock artist’ ?? Really, what does that even mean? It’s just Kate Bush and she was simply a unique and original artist, period! Like you said leave genres alone, meaningless!
Art rock because it was actually its own category during the time frame in which this was released. That doesn't mean that she subscribed to the notion that that's who she was but, context is important. The British press especially was very favorable towards bands that had a progressive element, and thus artists that never really got big in the United States could sell out Arena tours in the UK and elsewhere. A good example of this would be Marillion, early Genesis very much also falls in the art rock category
Art Rock is an actual rock subgenre. Maybe use Google before commenting if you don't know something.
I love this brilliant girl. 🥰
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Kate Bush is the greatest female songwriter the UK has ever produced, without challenge. Check out her album 'The Dreaming', Big Boi from OutKast says it's his favourite record ever made.
You guys gotta check out her song Experiment 4. Great tune about a conspiracy theory. Make sure to watch the video because it is 🔥
The song she did with Peter Gabriel is one you should react to next. Its called "Don't Give Up".
Kate is HUGE worldwide. USA has missed out.
I think army dreamer and cloud busting are my favourite Kate bush songs
Cloud busting sounds interesting. Like Wilhelm Reich's Orgon experiments?
@@smokeyrameriz478 the vid has Donald Sutherland cameo’ing. The style is a little off the wall but it’s so catchy. Wilhelm I believe was the inspiration
She was discovered by Dave gilmor of pink floyd
Her demos were rejected by all labels, Ricky Hopper who worked in the music industry as a publicist had asked Gilmour for his help... Hopper was friend of John Carder Bush, her brother.... Gilmour did a favor to a friend...
Babooshka is russian for old woman/grandmother!!
She is so talented and underrated.
Want a weird one to react to? Try Nitin Sawhney's "Dead Man" from the album Philtre. (The album track is probably a better example than the live versions.)
Please do "Don't give up.", her duet with Peter Gabriel. Its really something.
Cloudbusting and Sensual World from the great Kate
Kate is the absolute best.
Kate is in a class of her own man. No one can touch Kate
Kate was, is, a perfect woman. Absolutely stunning, the voice of an Angel
Women’s work is excellent to watch
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She sets him up because the relationship has become stagnant, the husband is really excited about babooshka because she reminds him of his wife when they first met. The cello represents the husband, the veil is the wife and the other character is babooshka. Kate Bush never became huge in the US because she didn't like to tour.
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Wife is being frigid. Husband becomes distant, so wife decides to come on to him an alter ego.. it did not work out for the best. Which is the reason why the glass is breaking....
This has a bad ending, while the pina colada song ends well
I would put Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, and Bjork in the Art Rock category as well
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If i was in that position with my wife, I'd tell her that i never cheat but this woman was strangely irresistible - and that i now know why 😉
The song name was from her friend's cat.
For curiosity: бабушка = babushka = granny but by the storytelling... well 🙂
she certainly was fit when she was young
Write it, composed it, coproduced it...
maybe her song "wow" explains why she was not big in America
Next up this womans work by Kate bush 😊😊
wow by kate Bush check it out
She would have been 5 yrs old in 1963
Only in America are elderly women worn on the head.
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Kate.
You need to react to a woman's work
Kate Bush is an absolute genius. Songwriting, choreography ,musical and vocal abilities second to none. Hilariously,.....Tori Amos was compared to her.....no comparison I'm afraid.
Tori Amos aspired to be like Kate bush
@andywatts8654 unfortunately, she failed miserably and only perspired!!!
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@@isobeljames1328 what about Tori🤔😏
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I wouldn't have picked Babooshka.
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