Kate Bush - Breathing - Official Music Video
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- Опубликовано: 23 дек 2010
- Official music video for the single "Breathing" by Kate Bush, the first cut from her 1980 album Never For Ever, with backing vocals by Roy Harper.
The single was issued on April 14, 1980, four months before the album was released, and reached number 16 in the UK charts.
The song was recorded over three days in early 1980. 
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"breathing my mother in" fuckin genius lyrics them she was amazing no one can replicate kate bush
Agreed, and she still is amazing!!! 😃👍
Fucking genius is right! ❤
“Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung.” Macabre and disturbing line in combination with the music.
That’s what we were truly afraid of then. It was so very real
Its called history too
The fact that she was only 21 when this was written and released just shows the quality of the artist.
According to one documentary she had made 100 songs by the age of 15. Of those she played "40 to 50" to David Gilmour so it's probably not just a legend.
McSlobo yeah I remember reading about the process of them culling songs down for The Kick Inside. She had like 100 songs by the time she recorded the first album lol
dancingduade Best feamle prog artist
I think all of her songs are to that quality tbf.
@@razrv3lc Just goes to show how much of a talent she is, and some artists today think they're so special when they only write half of what goes on their albums.
This should be on the playlist of every 'powerful', yet naked fragile leader on earth, right now...
her backing vocals 2:03 - 2:10 gives me goosebumps and has made me cry because its so good on multiple occasions
At nearly 58 years of age I'm sitting here with tears streaming down my face listening to this. There are artistes that can touch a part of your soul, Kate Bush is one of them.
Agreed, Tony. Kate's songs are, "Switch the world off, go back in time", music, very special indeed.
Soul healer she's unique.
So true! Only one Kate.
"My radar send me danger, but my instinct tells me to keep breathing"... 😥 that line gets me every time
Probably the most beautiful and unique 'protest' song ever written.
I would go out on a wimb and say you are 100% correct. The levels of depth this gets at is not easily rivaled.
What does reviled mean?
@@trod9850 "officially agree to or accept as satisfactory"
protest about nuclear war is bad lol
It truly is one of the most profound and powerful comments on the idiocy of the idea of total annihilation.
This song is so dark, probably one of the darkest in Bush's discography. And that ending is so powerful, she was really singing at the top of her lungs!
really?? i felt the most dark was Army Dreamers😅
"God, please leave us something to breathe!!"
Chills down my spine. Every. Single. Time.
Rafael Camargo Yes, it's a rather chilling song when you listen to the lyrics. Let's all just hope that it remains just a song.
lol why ?
@@PauloConstantino167 "Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung" - sounds quite chilling to me.
Powerful heartbreaking dream like and chilling ..that description of the effects of a bomb in different sizes sends my heart into panic mode
How close this could be to reality now in March 2022
This spent *many* years as the Top of My Pops!
She called IT "her little Opera". I LOVE it, and often IT brings Tears in my eyes. GREAT Song.
Greetings from Germany, O
This song got me out of a really bad acid trip once. Kate Bush telling me to breathe in and out was just what I needed.
Maybe you shouldn’t do acid anymore. It’s not good to do drugs man. Love yourself and be high on life
@@AK-gb9rp acid and other psychedelics have very few if any long term consequences and conversely can be used for a variety of medical purposes such as anti depressants. I have Tourette’s syndrome and acid is the only thing that helps mitigate the tics. Try not to judge without proper information. One bad trip doesn’t out weigh all the positive
Relatable
@@griffincofell4738 I have really come to regret not having been able to get over my own upbringing and try LSD or psilocybin when I was much younger. I never did any drugs, and could count on three fingers the amount of times I tried Mary. But now I am very old, and the real problem is that I am on a boat load of medications to control nerve pain from a late onset neurological condition on the left side of my brain. If I had known a lo more years ago, I would have not been such a stooge over it.
Don’t do acid my friend. I know this from experience. It’s not like it was in the 90’s mate.
Right now this song is more important than ever.
I agree. I'm pregnant too and I bawled my eyes out at this
@@eizzi321 You'll get through this!
Did we get nuked??
@@erika9763 In a manner of speaking, yes.
found many references to covid in this song...
A song for the times. Then, and now.
sadly true
This gives me Goosebumps every time I hear it and 40 years later it has renewed meaning for us all.
I got this on a cassette tape back in 1980. It was so haunting, with the Cold War running in the background. Now it seems to get a new meaning.
Even moreso nowadays (March 2022).
Climate change
06/04/2023 Very much so. Really well said.
It was back in the early 80s and I was up in the middle of the night, flipped on MTV and there was THIS VIDEO. It totally blew my mind. WHO WAS THIS??? I had to hear more, went out and bought the album, "The Dreaming," which this song is not on, but I wore that album out and her other albums since. Now it's 2023 and only now is she scheduled for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, decades overdue given her astonishing songwriting talents, gorgeous voice, artistic innovation, raw courage, fresh spirit and unacknowledged influence. Though she's long been an artist's artist, it probably took the Netflix TV show "Stranger Things" to finally get KB the recognition she's deserved. She's a very different artist than Joni, but of the same caliber, imo, or even more, as Kate's songwriting breadth went beyond her personal life and her artistry more complex and orchestral. Listen to Side B of "Hounds of Love"......"The Ninth Wave." It's a masterpiece.
After 25 years still I get tears when I listen to her masterpieces
I'm glad you still get tears after 25 years , its what we need. 💙💙💜💜
This song just totally rips my heart out, especially at the end when you can hear how desperate she is for air. I absolutely adore the bass in this song, and I love the detail of the twinkling sound when she says "twinkling", it's just brilliant. Kate always writes songs about things that have never been written about before, and she gets so into character. I love this video!
Pete Seegar wrote I Come and Stand At Every Door, a song about a 7-year-old ghost-child warning about the dangers of nuclear war. It is chilling, to say the least.
If you like this fretless base style, Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth has a lot of music similar in sound to that. Also another super slept on artist from the same time period.
hey have you ever heard frank zappa's ' apostrophe? It has lots of sound illustrations for the things he actually is saying on the song. Like in the case of this twinkling. Also, kate was a great fan this man works.
Beautiful words xx
"Chips of plutonium / Twinkling in ev'ry lung" is masterful poetry!
I never thought I'd find myself back to the nightmare of the nuclear threat on our doorstep once more.
Just leave us something to breathe.
Brilliant 😄
Outside
Gets inside
Through her skin
I've been out before
But this time it's much safer in
Last night in the sky
Such a bright light
My radar send me danger
But my instincts tell me to keep
Breathing
(Out, in, out, in, out, in)
Breathing
Breathing my mother in
Breathing my beloved in
Breathing
Breathing her nicotine
Breathing
Breathing the fall-out in
Out in, out in, out in, out in
We've lost our chance
We're the first and the last, ooh
After the blast
Chips of plutonium
Are twinkling in every lung
I love my
Beloved, ooh
All and everywhere
Only the fools blew it
You and me
Knew life itself is
Breathing
(Out, in, out, in, out, in)
Breathing
Breathing my mother in
Breathing my beloved in
Breathing
Breathing her nicotine
Breathing
Breathing the fall-out in
Out in, out in, out in, out in
Out in, out in, out in, out
(Out, out, out)
Ooh please!
(What are we going to do without)
Let me breathe!
(What are we going to do without)
Ooh, breath in
(We are all going to die without)
Leave me something to breathe!
(What are we going to do without)
Oh, leave me something to breathe!
(We are all going to die without)
Oh, God, please leave us something to breathe!
(What are we going to do without)
Oh, life is
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John Giblin. Your Bass playing contribution to this recording is so profound & well considered (as always) to this haunting masterpiece by Kate. A tragic loss to the music world. RIP
Just realised that this is a song about a pregnant woman in a nuclear attack/blast. It’s about the baby’s point of view. It’s so dark and haunting and yet still so amazing!!!
Oh wow! I never thought of that
CHASING PROPHECY IS A MANY SIDED THING.
THE UK WAS ADAMANT A NUCLEAR STRIKE WAS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE 80'S
KATE SINGS ABOUT EXPERIMENT IV
VERY TODAY!!!! FREQUENCIES ETC
CHASING PROPHECY IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO AVOID.
BUT NOOOO THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN... WAR OF THE WORLD'S.... UNTIL SATNAV GAVE THE SIGNAL AND DESTROYED THE WORLD WE KNEW.
H.G. WELLS... HE TRIED TO CHANGE THE FUTURE.... BUT NOOOO THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN
ON AND ON TIL NOW.
THIS IS THE EVE
Reminds me of the baby from Barefoot Gen!
Its about smoking whilst pregnant - " breathing, breathing your nicotine"
@@heidihans247 Nah if you watch the video and listen to the lyrics its pretty explicit in its nuclear bomb references.
This song is too good for words to describe it. She is the most innovative and incredible female signer of all time
I agree, Adam, we don't just hear Kate's songs, we feel them, live them, making them timeless.
Such a young age, intelligence, talent, foreseeing,
Relevant right now.
I remember hearing this song for the first time and being completely spellbound particularly because at the time there was much talk of Nuclear war in the 80's - there was a lot of fear. It is frightening song especially when the man's voice comes in talking about what to do in the event of hearing the warning siren..sends chills down my spine, even now.
To me she is the ultimate human being. Acutely sensitive and uniquely creative with the right instinct for when to say no to unnecessary demands. Kind, thoughtful, intelligent and with a beauty that glows internally and externally. Wish all women were allowed to be sweet, powerful, beautiful, clever and also to release their inner screaming banshee!
+marajadefire77
mmm yessss XD
She's amazing!
+marajadefire77 "To me she is the ultimate human being" - How beautifully said. So true.
+marajadefire77 Your words are fine and high praise. Well said. I would hope Ms. Bush gets to read such thoughts as yours. And furthermore you are not alone.
+marajadefire77 "Wish all women were allowed to be sweet, powerful, beautiful, clever and also to release their inner screaming banshee!" Hear, hear!
Yes she is a truly unique artiste. Part Earth mother, part Temptress, part Angel, part alien and and a whole lot more beside.....
Her voice, her artistry, so ahead of her time.
Not seen much to match our Kate over the last 40 years. Rarely see anyone with her capability in song writing.
Different, like no other...after all this time still one of a kind!
Beautyful !!!
The great K8T will always be one of a kind. Thank the Goddess for it.
Seriously, the vocals at the end are what I live for, how powerful
chills from that backing vocal
you are odd
Roy Harper (who also sings lead on Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar" ) provided the male vocals on this one.
Gives me the chills & goosbumps when it kicks in. Reminds me of Pink Floyd
This sounds like something out of The Wall or The Final Cut.
Think I've got an idea why Kate was pretty much overlooked by radio station management in America - cowardice. This masterpiece by Kate goes for the gut and rips your heart out at the same time. Plus, the lyrics were as valid, then, as they are, now. Bravo Kate.
Nit realy back then Brits breaking into the US market was pretty much not happening and wasn't importamt to them. To the point it could hurt their home career if they focused on trying to do so. Music was a lot more parochial then than it is now.
@@Dermacrosismeanwhile, Electric Light Orchestra, a Birmingham-based band, were more successful in the US than they were in their home country. But do go on
@@LTAD-xi6swwho said there wasn’t exceptions? But do go on
@@DermacrosisElton John's first hits were in America.
@LTAD-xi6sw Shalamar were small fry in the States but huge in the UK.
Kate Bush is one of the best singers songwriters and music producers of our time!
"We've lost our chance" Always gets me that line.
It's my "Kate-Binge" night, again, and this is such a super song & REALLY love the ending! Still loving Kate since 1979!
It's my 365th Kate Bush day....Everyday all day long! New lover of Kate Bush's music 🎶
I love how Kate moves with such purpose. She doesn't waste a motion.
shes naturally fluid in mind cement
can’t be taught
Kate Bush is just freaking brilliant, period. 😃💖🙏
joy
Yes
Very relevant now. Very powerful song. Incredible artist.
What are we going to do ...
most have taken the sitting duck position comfortably so it seem more accurate to state “what will they do while we duckle suckle”
Simply one of the best songs of all-time. And that vocal is just so stirring and incredible. To think its was only 2 years since Wuthering Heights... Kate bounding ahead!
The complete song... thing is she's achieved that many times... it is incredible how really talented she is... thank you so much Kate..
All of her work is just pure magic... Cant believe such a talent is so ignored in our days... Greetings from Brazil
Listening to this for the first time in about 30 years and still scares me how much artistry, foresight, passion and conviction exists in this song.
This music stands the test of time ⏲️
For me the best part is and always has been the long instrumental section from 2:60, particularly the BASS. I remember playing this after dark on a very warm and humid evening with all the windows at home thrown open.You could hear the rain coming down despite the warmth and Tulips in the garden were glistening as they filled and overflowed.A wonderfully natural thing to see when listening to something so melancholic as that bassline.
Just listened to this for the first time and couldn't stop crying. I've been a fan of Wuthering Heights for a long time, but just started checking out Kate's other music out today. and WOW it's brilliant.
You mean, "wow" the song, or "wow, that's good!"?
+Matt Vlogs I mean "WOW" Kate is amazing and all of her music is inspired and brilliant.
haha! Brilliant!
+Purple Rain welcome to her music been big fan for years check out her album hounds of love that a good one one of my favs
Wow is an amazing song 👌🏻
I really like this song. Only discovered it a few months ago. It's very atmospheric. I was not even alive when Kate was doing this. She is possibly the best songwriter I've ever heard.
Enchanting.🙂
Nuclear war was a real possibility when I was first listening to this 😮
@@NickSmith-ll3si Snap. All those years later people (me) are having the exact same experience.
I too was first hearing this while we are on the cusp of another very possible nuclear war.
ps I have a cousin called Nick Smith lol
Still simply amazing,, unequaled, superb voice amd questioning lyrics
Kate is incredible in every way. I feel lucky to be alive in her time. Wonderful.
"Chips of Plutonium... a twink-a-ling in Every lung ." What a brilliant lyric .
it's genius.
Oh, I so love it.
We've lost our chance
We're the first and the last, ooh
After the blast
Chips of plutonium
Are twinkling in every lung
God this shit brings tears to my eyes every time, maybe the most powerful song ever written
This song gets me through tough times. Kate tells me to keep breathing.
2020 and we are still breathing and listening to Kate.
Never for ever had it on tape and now CD still love it in 2020 love you Kate Bush thank you so much your a true star
2021 now...
2021 😊
And I shall listen for another 20+ years.
How beautiful is the bass playing by John Giblin on this song. Mesmerising.
I remember the first time I visited England. I was with my family, and it was in 1980. My brother and I decided to take a walk through Piccadilly Circus and check out the clubs, shops and theaters. It was amazing-all the stuff to see and take in! We walked into a record shop, and I believe "Never For Ever" had just been released. Everyone was all a buzz because Kate Bush was considered such royalty there and back then, but I'd never heard of her. After hearing both "Babooshka" and "Breathing", I was hooked immediately. It was eccentric, beautiful and absolutely brilliant! The rest is history!
'Never for Ever' was the first ever album by a British woman to top the UK charts. Fantastic album - to my mind hasn't aged at all. Just the way it was all put together; the sensual way that the track 'The Infant Kiss' (an often overlooked classic among Kate fans - those menacing strings...) runs into 'Night Scented Stock' which goes into 'Army Dreamers'. So classy. 'Hounds of Love' should've gone to number one and the fact that it only made number 3 (if memory serves) is indicative of the British public's descent into vulgarity in terms of cultural shifts. I'm English and I've watched it happen. Sad. I'll bet after Kate's 1980 achievement the record industry thought there'd be loads of Kate Bushes coming up. Didn't happen did it? Then again - she's a one off. I'm glad that you got into Kate Bush - because...the whole world should be in love with her. There's something wrong with people who can't find it in their heart to love Kate. Congratulations on your impeccable taste.
aerialkate Actually "Hounds of Love" debuted at number one and toped the UK Albums Chart for three non-consecutive weeks)
Chris MacKlarren...then my memory is buggered. I'm _old_ now so....
I came along slightly later with Hounds of Love, but I'm glad I found her. It's been a while since I've listened to Kate but she was the soundtrack for my life in the mid to late eighties.
THE most amazing female musician of all time. No question.
Agreed!!
Love her and Stevie, they both made life more enjoyable
Make
@@carpeomnia88 Same!😊💓
Amen
Pure art. Pure genius of this media. What a talent.
Authentic Humans like this show the rest of us what we COULD be.. That's why we love them.. They call to some faint glimmer of authenticity within us all..
Another Masterpiece by the Queen of Queens :)
Those drums at 'Last night....' still make shivers run down my spine after all this time.
I was reading your comment at exactly the moment those drums came in. Brilliant. Moments of Pleasure when she sings Just Being Alive does it for me.
A true, brilliant multi-talented artist...timeless
Dear Lady Kate Bush,
THANK YOU for so Many Magical Songs You gave us through the last 45 years.
😃 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
(From Brazil)
Kate devastates me still with her pure raw talent and depth. Few artists do for me. This was and so sadly is & will always be relevant - it’s truly incomprehensible the destruction humans create. I cry from her pleas. Let the loud voices of us peacekeepers prevail so that all life may.
I concur. She has brought me to tears more times than I can even count. And I'm mainly an extreme metal fan.
might be wrong cause idk her but seems she might have went thro a lot and overcame it to point much didn’t phase her
tho she dealt with deep subjects matters and things such as these giving it all and it shows.
but could be completely wrong tho this the impression i get
Another of many beautifully, haunting songs from Kate...a quite amazing talent.
I think this has to be one of the greatest songs ever. I think it is masterfully crafted and incredibly clever.
The "out in" I think has to be one of the most simply brilliant lines of music ever. Yes it represent breathing but it's abnormal. Conventially, we think breathing as being in then out. But that implies that we are breathing in healthy air. In this song, the persona kate has taken on (the baby) has no healthy air to breath in because of the fallout and so is left only able to breath out first. And when we think of the lack of healthy air, every time we hear that out in we are reminded that every breath out is a breath closer to death until eventually we are presented with the desperation. Kate is screaming for something to breath and then the song ends on that sucking inhale sound. It's the character trying desperately to breath in anything.
But to no avail and the song ends.
Kate is a literally genius.
Yessssss! The unnatural 'Out in' refrain almost makes me lose my own breath!
"Breathing the Fall-Out in, out, in, out, in.." simply brilliant and haunting lyrics
😅😮😮h
Merci Kate ! Hyper sensible à votre art et à votre créativité. Merci pour vos chansons et vos engagements ! Longue vie à vous ! En France aussi, on vous aime fort.
can't get this song out of my head these days
try army dreamers
One of the best tracks ever written
Is it possible we can compliment Kate's brilliant work without insulting other female artists? Because it should be totally possible, even easy.
That's because there's nobody else who lived through a possible Third World War..
Annie Lennox is pretty good so is Alison moyet
With the exception of everyone here today.
Ariel Couch You can do it insulting male artists too. Actually, it is way easier to insult male artists.
I turned 30 in 1994. I am so very glad because I actually experienced something we used to call alternative music as it was happening. I had all of her records; and, after all these decades, I still have some of her vinyl. It sounds relevant and amazing whenever I spin it on the old turntable :) Welcome to all you new Kate Bush fans :D
Operatic, ethereal and sublime!! Kate is beyond simple pop realities.
Somewhere between brilliance and genius. Peerless in terms of the sheer audacity of her music produced at such a young age. Few female musicians even come close. The album 'The kick Inside' is a masterpiece. How on earth did a teenager conceive of this music? One of my Desert Island Discs, without a doubt.
forgot how brilliant this is
first time watching this music video and i'm literally ecstatic. this woman is such an incredible force of nature, a genius artist, i can't even...
Discovering Kate Bush for the first time is a great moment in life.
Absolutely, an amazing genius artist. She still is.
Never For Ever is such an iconic album. My second favorite album.
Pretty much every album she released was iconic even the couple I dislike.
Awesome.
Congratulations Kate, from Brazil
Essentially a Prog Rock Classic
My ears listen in shock and then the tears flow every. single. time.
I love how they made this incredibly ethereal magical beautiful imagery with essentially plastic wrap and a giant clear beach ball. Amazing
Okay that was beautiful
Incredible, literally, no words
KATE BUSH = GENIUS
How amazing is this, way before her time, loved her as a teenager as now in my 50's
This is too beautiful- every time she sings 'breathing my mother in' it just moves me
Unbelievably brilliant. This is art. Art that speaks. Bless you Kate Bush.
this is remarkable, a work of art
She is the most amazing artist and shares messages in her songs, listen carefully, we have to wake up, God Bless ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yea there is hidden messages even in the cloud busting one I love how you said this !!!!! ♥️♥️
God bless!
When music is art and art is music....
It gets no better than this.
Every Kate Bush song is a hymn of emancipation and self-empowerment.
Love this song. Think about it a lot these days. Severe asthma issues. And of course my mother. And our nicotine addiction. And her last breath. Thx Catherine. X
Breathing (Never for Ever, 1980)
Kate adopts the persona of a foetus fearful of being born in the midst of a nuclear holocaust. With the Cold War intensifying, this was a pertinent, typically ambitious, risk-taking song and a highly unlikely hit single from Bush as she conjured yet another startlingly unique performance.
Great Britain, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 1836
Please comment more .Hoping your well.Her messages are still being shouted and ignored.Love her work.XXX
@@natashaharbour4273 Thank you. We're doing fine. How're you doing!
(Sat 24 Apr 2021 18h20)
THIS IS ART
❤
True!
1977/2023 and we still love listening to you!Kate Bush your music lives on in our hearts there will never be another Kate Bush who's listening 2023?
💜 Chills listening to Kate's beautiful music 💜
Is this not one of the most emotionally charged and important songs ever made! I weep every time xxxx
Same here m8...
Only 19 when she wrote it. Absolute genius
Truly one of her best songs
Kate Bush, you’re such a great artist. ❤
Cheers from France we love you 🇫🇷
Few understand how deep this song is heard, the lyrics and the music make me feel like I'm drowning with kate bush
Unreal vocal.
I adore Kate bush I'm 30 and I was brought up listening to her to me she is just magical 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 ❤️ xx
💖
+Jennifer Daw I'm 40 👍
+Jennifer Daw was lucky to be blessed to grow up liserning to this leg💖
I'm 53 and saw her live on tv singing wutherin heights..what a voice what a woman..she is amazing.
this one always gets me
Masterpiece.
To find this song at the end of the Never For Ever album was and is for me something hard to deal with. I mean the structure, the tone, but most of all the emotional impact the song has, so very distant from the other tracks on the album. It's like looking at our solar system and recognising the consistancy of the different celestial bodies and then outside this well balanced system you discover a blackhole or something else so different and grand...When I play the album, I never play this track and vice versa. It stands on its own and does a great job with that. A very important song which to me describes the unrest felt during the early eighties with a nuclear race going on between The Soviet Union and The United States during the cold war. Living in Western Europe at the time was living with anxiety. Missiles were directly aimed at us.
To know Kate wrote it at such an early age and have it recorded in just three days... she knew where she wanted to go with it. No doubt about it.
I love this comment so much