Lush - Nothing Natural
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Lush released the Black Spring EP in October 1991. This is the lead track, 'Nothing Natural' which also features on the 'Spooky' album.
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Fun fact: miki and emma hated this video because they thought it looked like a makeup commercial
Maybe it's maybelline?
That’s why I dislike it, too. Something so much cooler could have been done with a video for this amazing song.
Wow, never knew about this fact! I always thought the basic idea of this video is actually to mock "something that's not natural" through their "overly polished" act.
They hated even more the contact lenses the director asked them to wear : they were nearly stinging their eyes ! Hence the passive-agressive look from Emma to the camera towards the end.
They're right. It's not a good video. It really doesn't do them justice. Yes they were young and good-looking but they were so much more than this. Still, brings back memories.
When I was 17, I saw Lush open up for Cocteau Twins, December 1990, in Los Angeles.
Luckyyyyyy. I had The Cranes & The Cure in 92. Kids these days just don’t know.
@@spiritdanimal9302 And not to mention Dinosaur Jr. They also opened up for Cure along with The Cranes. :)
I was 7 when this happened and i'm still pissed. I need to invent a time machine just to go back and watch all my favorite artists live.
Sektion9
Well, once you get that up and running, I would also suggest the Siouxsie & The Banshees “Superstition” tour in 1991. One song is particularly memorable to me because they killed every light in the Florida Theatre (Jacksonville) and cast a single, low power blue lamp on Siouxsie, alone in the middle of the stage. The song is called “Softly”. It was epic.
@@spiritdanimal9302 I saw the Cranes and Cure in Sacramento in 92.
I wonder what an 18 year old in 2020 would think of this. Thats about how old I was when this song came out and I find it mind blowing. Beautiful and steadily building power that makes feel like I will burst.
Found out abt this band from an instagram post, decided to check them out so here i am so i can tell you that an 18yr old in 2020 feels the same as you
I'm 19 yo and this is the best genre I ever listen. Just the audio production seems amazing
Listen to Soda Stereo, is the biggest influence of dream pop in spanish
Pd: from Argentina whit love
i'm 17 and i absolutely love this
@@diebartdie2837 The early/mid 90s was in my opinion the last flurry of great creative music. the shoegaze, electronic and Manchester bands were great.
im 19 lmao
This is such a harmonically complex song, Love the ambience it creates.
Lush have some crazy chord progressions and melodies
@@ilyas_elouchihi uhhhh not really. still enjoyable.
@@rickdeckard1075 🤓
@@ClarenceFM ok, clarence.
it indicates that this is 90s song, in 90s there were lots of interesting harmonies & melodies, and after music industry commercialisation it all gone, now you won't find anything even close@@ilyas_elouchihi
I was in love with the singers and their music 31 years ago. Can't believe it's been so long. The music is still excellent all these years later.
A friendly acquaintance was the Canadian stringer (I tried to spell correspondent and failed) for Melody Maker in the early 1990s. Backstage at a Lush concert, Miki gave him a homemade bracelet strung with wooden beads. For years, he never washed that wrist.
Before I met you I was blind
Pills and liquid filled my mind
Beneath your outline I was new
Overflowing with your tune
And don't you know you're beautiful
Next month I missed you like a child
Couldn't see past you though I tried
And don't you know you're beautiful
And don't you know you're beautiful
Now I think of every hour
When you still retained your power
And the precious nights we'd share
When we'd breathe in common air
The feeling now you've gone
This wretched life goes on
The knife inside of me
It turns just like a key
The sunlight always comes too soon
My body asks me what to do
I was so small and vulnerable
And you were only beautiful
The seasons shining in your hair
And it was more than I could bare
But I can see you in my smile
And you are only beautiful
Keep writing I've written a bunch of modern poetry/prose
Lovely song....⏳🧞♀️🩰🦓💖💟🕯️🎠👗👖🎇🙏💕🌊
2024 first time here, and loved it
You are late st 32 years!!!
Cheers!😂🎉
the memory of chris lives on in uploads like this. fantastic band
Yes..he seemed like such a beautiful soul😢
produced by Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) .....golden years
Probably my favourite Lush song. Ethereal
Perfect way to describe it. This song embodies everything u think of when you hear 'ethereal'. It's pure bliss.
@@nkvd1606 Definitely pure bliss! the layering of the guitars and the vocals are really hazy and dreamy. Ethereal and melancholic are always the first things that come to mind. love it.
for a moment I got confused because they have a song called "ethereal". hahaha
If only Strawberry Switchblade took the same direction.
No :/ no doubt it would've been good or if they did some evil sounding synth post punk , but damn SSB are legends with that synth pop styyyyyyle
Lush "Nothing Natural" should have 50 million views. I have listened to this song myself at least 300 times since it was created when shoe gazing genre was first coined a style. Perfection sound
It seems like it’d be a famous hit in general. Not just people into the dream pop or shoegaze niche.
I have a cd of Gala in the cd player in my car. That's how much I listen to Lush. yeah, obsessed.
That transition starting at about 3:00 till the end of the song! Takes this song to a whole different level. AMAZING! Love the ethereal quality of the video. Sometimes, at the birth of something, we do not see or comprehend the utter perfection and beauty in its simplicity. This video stands the test of time very well. ♥🎵🎵♥
quite interesting how life in its vast mystery and the spiritual beauty and nature of it all works in such a way where the often rare minority of us out there are truly able to sense and feel aspects of life like this type music where others typically never notice or have ability to feel some thing other worldly .
Both Miki and Emma are absolutely drop dead gorgeous in this video. I have no problem with saying this out loud.
Yes- I used to watch 120 Minutes on MTV just to see them in this video.
Agree, particularly Emma.
Me too, miki is stunning in this.
@@patricksmith4424 I was surprised they never became much bigger, had some great songs as well.
@@VincentRE79 Because the best female musicians (cute or not) DON'T push their sexuality. And these LOSH chicks never did. Yes they are QTs but they are TALENTED rock'n'roll QTs and the pop music world wants videogenic dingbats, lip-synching overchoreographed sex robots and dumb broads such as Spice Girls and Britney Spears and such. Sad but true.
My friend's brother would always sing this song I never knew the name or really the lyrics and 13 years later thank god I've found this masterpiece 👏🏼
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as Lush and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere.
What would our lives have been without British bands?
And while I am here, thank you, admiration and adoration from Palermo, Sicily, also to Cocteau Twins, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Discharge, Wire, Colin Newman, Killing Joke, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Broadcast, The Smiths, Human League, Curve, Skunk Anansie, Genesis, Steve Hackett, Boards Of Canada, Adam & The Ants, Public Image Limited, Prefab Sprout, Lloyd Cole & The Commotion, The The, Napalm Death, Cranes, Cardiacs, Led Zeppelin, Yazoo, Iron Maiden, Police, Blur, Fall, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Jamiroquai, Seal, Slowdive, Clash, Madness, Cure, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, New Order, Radiohead, Goldfrapp, Dubstar, Charlatans, Ride, Heaven 17, Judas Priest, Marillion, The Buggles, Throbbing Gristle, Japan, Nick Drake, This Mortal Coil, Pet Shop Boys, Cardiacs, Damned, Dire Straits, Echobelly, Teardrop Explodes, Carcass, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Eurythmics, Soft Cell, Thrilled Skinny, Dead Or Alive, Psychedelic Furs, Simple Minds, XTC, The Streets, Pretenders, The Queen, Lily Allen, Tears For Fears, Supertramp, The Kooks, Duran Duran, Brian Eno, Magazine, Groove Armada, Amy Winehouse, Coldplay, Saxon, Dead Can Dance, Massive Attack, Electric Light Orchestra, The Who, Inspiral Carpets, The Wedding Presents, Kate Bush, Cabaret Voltaire, Placebo, The Rolling Stones, Housemartins, Visage, Culture Club, Expelled, Aphex Twin, The Jam, P.J. Harvey, Gary Numan, Howard Jones, Suede, Everything But The Girl, Roxy Music, Thrilled Skinny, Freur, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, 10cc, Ladytron, Japan, Morcheeba, Helen Love, The Beatles, Spiritualized, Loop, Th' Faith Healers, Mark Ronson, Pretenders, Bauhaus, Kate Nash, Lotus Eaters, Black Sabbath, Oasis, The Sundays, All Saints, Portishead, Verve, Exploited, David Bowie, Talk Talk, Bauhaus, Elastica, Hey Elastica!, David Gray, Joe Jackson, Nick Kershaw, Spandau Ballet, Supergrass, The Korgis, Badly Drawn Boy, Tricky, Pale Saints, The Creatures, Bronski Beat, Fine Young Cannibals, Madness, Extreme Noise Terror, Stranglers, Stereolab, Keane, Motorhead...
Stereo lab were French, no?
@@hustler3of4culture3
Only the main female singer Lætitia Sadier is French. The rest of them are/were British and Australian.
Also the band formed in London, not in France.
Y la cuenta es interminable! Caro amigo , saludos desde Latinoamérica! 👋👋👋
@@benedettobruno1669 thanks for the info. Never knew that. Appreciated
You forgot someone
Long live the 90's !
Back when Neopsychodelic music ruled the charts worldwide!!!!
Long live the 80's
The last great decade.
I hate to be the one to break it to you but....
The 90s died 22 years ago
@@somebloke2238 you think your comment makes you cool?
Love this song. It's perfect therapy for drowning out worries in your life.
I can't believe 117 gave this a thumbs down ! I Love Lush since Spooky and Gala came to the states. Their sound is sooooo original. The video is so dreamy like shoe gaze is supposed to be. Just look at Miki and Emma. 😍❤💓
rethugliKKKans only like songs about nazi's,, like spring time for hitler.
Aside from their heavenly vocals, these two shoegaze goddesses were absolutely visually stunning.
gorgeous, sexy, and talented women!
And you are a level Omega MANGINA.
@City Nat I think it started in the early 90s when some artists were criticized for looking down at their shoes too much and not being showy like rock stars. This was because they were messing with their guitar pedals so much and probably shy. Hence they were made fun of and called shoegazers
@City Nat it started where else but in the music press...bored music journos with nothing better to do decided to create a scene (as ever) and lump a lot of vaguely similar sounding bands together...some of the vitriol from certain journalists was particularly vicious and vindictive...where are you now Jonathan Selzer?
@City Nat I think it was from NME
This song is pure beauty cosmic feminity.
I love this song and music video. Early 90's shoegaze was epic back in the day.
Never seen or heard of them before, this is so cool.
If you like this have you heard the Coctau Twins stuff?
@@aikighost Fuck the Cocteau Twins, this is LUSH!
Truth!!!! I grew up in Podunk dick Texas and still managed to see them 3 times by the time Spooky came out !!! Lush was THE band as far as I was concerned.
Anki Hansen No, fuck you! Cocteau Twins were a huge influence on Lush. Go listen to Britpop if that’s the kind of stupid tribal attitude you approach music with.
@@aikighost or slowdive, my bloody valentine
Amazing, I remember listening to this on the radio in the early 90's and thinking it was cool, but there was no way to know at the time which bands were going to pass the test of time and be recognized much later for how brilliant they were ... it only becomes clear after the passage of many years.
junior year in college in Vermont. Watching this video in late 1991 on "MTV's 120 Minutes" (midnight on Sundays, the time when MTV would actually show new / alternative music....yes, even back then we were annoyed that MTV didnt play enough music videos) in the dorm TV lounge with friends.....fun times. Days before the cellphone, right before the Internet became a household word.......we can never go back....but I will say, the music was SO much better back then.
back in days when people WROTE MUSIC
Man I pictured that. Just stumbled across lush despite being a bloody valentine fan for about 15 years. Yes music was better back then
As well as the chart show at 11am every Saturday morning around that time 😊
But be that as it may I would still like to extend mah sincere appreciation fo sharing this rare and awesome gem from the vaults of 4AD✊🏼
Probably my favourite Lush song. Had a massive crush on Emma!! Don't think i was the only one....
I have a thing for rocker chicks with hair color that is nothing natural. :)
My favorite Lush song, thanks for uploading this 🎶💖🎸
This song encapsulates the 90s and that wonderful decade it was. Peak humanity
UK Alternative 90s
When bad times happens in your life songs like this is the best way to go through them
I was hoping they would kiss.
Never understood the single mix of this. Emma's soaring backing vocals are absolutely buried, which... why? The freaking centerpiece of the song.
Mulholland Drive
#shoegazeforever
4AD just keep getting it right :) Ah 1992, buying Spooky (with free t-shirt!) from Red Eye in Sydney, meeting my first girlfriend in June, then watching Lush at the Marquee on 8th December - heady days indeed
High Cloud Walker I remember buying Spooky as well that year. I didn’t get a t shirt - I don’t think they offered it in the USA.
I was at the same show, I went with my brother, and ran into a couple of friends there. I remember everything about the night except seeing them playing, which is kind of strange.
@@CyberNancy I didn't get a free t-shirt, either. But I bought one when I saw Lush in San Francisco on the Spooky tour. I still wear it on occasion.
Finally.... when you guys pulled it down from underrated’s channel I thought I’d never see it again
Same here!
Emma closed her eyes constantly like an idea of feeling the ethereal song, it’s the effect of Lush that a few people can recognize in dream pop bands, when you pay attention to the deep and real message, in the middle of the guitars, there no just a melody, it’s an idea and, overall, a feeling. Emma just felt that in that moment also.
it's probably the fan in her face causing her to blink
I think the fan and strobe lights are a reason too.
Emma I love you!!!❤😂🎉
saw them live got a kiss came twice i love them so much lotsa acid
jeffg
real??????
2024. Still EPIC. Lights out, incense lit. Ethereal music. Astounding how they managed to encapsulate such darkness and light at the same time.
Always had a crush on Miki................................................................................................................................................., still do!
LYRICS: 😁👍✨
Before I met you I was blind
Pills and liquid filled my mind
Beneath your outline I was new
Overflowing with your tune
And don't you know you're beautiful
Next month I missed you like a child
Couldn't see past you though I tried
And don't you know you're beautiful
Now I think of every hour
When you still retained your power
And the precious nights we'd share
When we'd breathe in common air
The feeling now you're gone
This wretched life goes on
The knife inside of me
It turns just like a key
The sunlight always comes too soon
My body asks me what to do
I was so small and vulnerable
And you were only beautiful
The seasons shining in your hair
And it was more than I could bear
But I can see you in my smile
And you are only beautiful.
What are they saying at the end though?
dryerjj sounds like they’re saying
“Don’t die, baby don’t die”
@@dasdead Damn, that's chilling if that's what they say, considering that the drummer later committed suicide.
@@davidl570 wow. brutally chilling. these lyrics are so heavy. never knew them til now, 30 years later+
@@sizone Ditto! Appreciate skrap5461 posting them!
My personal favourite thing about this song is an additional guitar layer that turns on at 1:03 (and in further parts) and fades out after a couple of seconds. It's majestic and funny at the same time. Because it creates so much volume and then slides away so fast that lack of it is actually pretty noticeable. Don't know why it's mixed that way but I like the pure shoegazy feeling it gives.
The flourishes are a nice double track
Loving Miki's book!
Emma anderson is so beatiful❤
Yes and that plus $3.00 will get you a cup of coffee.
She definitely had her day in the sun
Short version. Beatiful song, beautiful band, beautiful women ❤❤❤
Sirens calling me to an endless sleep
I am 59 proto GenXer and I'll never forget how much LUSH influenced me. I owwe her thar color haie think its next
One of my all-time favorite bands. Brilliant songwriting and no one sounds like them
I absolutely love this song 😂❤
Mikki and her cute little overbite...my gawd what a sexy, beautiful woman.
Lyrics
Before I met you I was blind
Pills and liquid filled my mind
Beneath your outline I was new
Overflowing with your tune
And don't you know you're beautiful
Next month I missed you like a child
Couldn't see past you though I tried
And don't you know you're beautiful
Now I think of every hour
When you still retained your power
And the precious nights we'd share
When we'd breathe in common air
The feeling now you're gone
This wretched life goes on
The knife inside of me
It turns just like a key
The sunlight always comes too soon
My body asks me what to do
I was so small and vulnerable
And you were only beautiful
The seasons shining in your hair
And it was more than I could bear
But I can see you in my smile
And you are only beautiful
Songwriters: Emma Victoria Jane Anderson / Emma Anderson
Lush, The Cocteau Punk Twins :)
😂😂😂😂
Super ahead of thier time.... 🥺🥺🥺
? I mean I like them and everything, but come on... This music is very much of the specific time it came out.
Still are
Miki always so Beautiful!!
She is outstanding and gorgeous. I love her vocals too hahahaha.
The MV oF Nothing Natural is much shorter than the actual song 😤. Same thing happened wit Nirvana and Smells like teen Spirit 😡!
Record companies do this a lot; they're called "single edits." They're so they can get played in heavier rotation with the catchy parts accentuated.
@@respobabs However you look at it single edits still suck 💯!
@@DiZZaYWhALeY yeah i don't think i've heard one i like. it's a product of the radio system.
NEXT generation (KATE and ASHLEY( 日本で。Ⅰ V O san..？ Not meaning any TIME BANDITs just mentioning up and coming LUSHness...
Gorgeous and talented girls.
Good band and tune, but the video director makes it look like the two singers are conjoined at the head.
Emma looks so beautiful
Miki said she looked like a "rabbit caught in headlights" in this video, lol.
@@julosx Was it deliberate, having her look away from the camera ???
Cuz she is.
Yeah, I kind of had a small celebrity crush on Emma back in the 90s. It was a teenage thing. Still love Lush’s music with all my heart.
I saw them play Norwich Arts Centre in the very early 90’s. Emma seemed to spend most of the gig staring directly at me in the audience. She probably couldn’t even see me, but even though she was pretty hot it really began to freak me out! Huzzah for drunken paranoia!
5th March 1990, according to google
Great shoegazing rock music. And those ladies are quite cute and LUSH, aren't they? But they're no pop tarts, they write and play guitars. TALENTED LUSH goddesses backed by a crack male rhythm section.
Nothing Natural.
Great song.
Saw their first US/college tour at my school. Must've been 70 of us there. They were utterly FANTASTIC!! Instant fan - for years. ;)
best song everr
The art of subtle dissonance. All other musicians here will know what I mean. Glorious album.
Åbsølutely_
This is one of the things I've tried to explain to many of my bandmates through the years, who sadly couldn't have been open minded about music as fans or musicians if you paid them to_
super dope at 3:07
Lush/Curve/Siouxie and the Banshees/The Cure ... Greatest bands of our time, at that time. ♥♥♥
at some point can we HQ these videos please..
we have the technology, we can rebuild them..
I'm not totally into all of Lush's music but I absolutely love a few of their songs. This is one of them. Blows me away with it's power. This song is straight up fantastic.
4AD all your videos are too quiet sadly. Love the songs but repost them louder and higher quality please.
Love this band...what great production.
Did anyone else feel sorta awkward watching this cuz you can actually see how awkward they felt doing this video she even rolled her eyes in one part. But they have such great voices and such talent.
No. There is just sweetness and light.
gawd I wish this gets remaster, I love the bassline in this tune!
Go listen on my channel dude.
Funny, the bass line in this song IS great, but it must have been monotonous and tedious as hell for the bassist. It's the same riff over and over again with no deviation whatsoever.
it's a bit - Strawberry Switchblade - nice Jazz Fenders
There's something about Miki Berenyi that's absolutely captivating in this video. Like a part of me absolutely wants her to take my soul and do whatever she wants with it. Or maybe I'm just really drunk right now lol.
Living Abstraction
You lush.
she's a goddess
@@notoriousbastards11 they were the girls in your early 90s student hangout that you looked at but most definitely couldn't touch.
Lush never sounded or looked dated, timeless IMHO..
They still sound great even today
Lightweights. They would have been more successful as Cover Girl makeup models. Sue me.
Some would say this is a cross between The Stone Roses and The Cranberries.
I would say it's something better.
The Stone Roses never really did for me, they had 1 really great song "I wanna be adored" The assessment that Lush sounded like a mix between Stone Roses and the Cranberries is pretty accurate, and you saying that they are something better is even more accurate. The Cranberries are great, and Lush reminds me of them in some ways, and in some ways Lush does have somewhat similar style to the Stone Roses, yet they made much better music than the Stone Roses. I can't fully put my finger on it but Lush had a great style and great music and atmosphere with beautiful vocals. They are from a lost time that somehow had vibes that felt very 80's yet very 90's too. They are like perfect night time or driving music. Its almost haunting, their presence,their vibes. I'm glad I discovered their music, even if it was much after their existence ended as a band.
@@notoriousbastards11 A really great comment!!!
@@notoriousbastards11 : I actually don't here much of the Cranberry's in Lush's style, but I would definitely say that in this track for instance, you can here a really 'Manchester Scene' vibe the likes of Charlatans UK, Happy Mondays and of course, The Stone Roses.
Well described Mr Moore. You clearly have a great musical ear for the 90s Madchester / Indie Rock genres.
I like bands.
I actually love the video, this is my first introduction to this band and I’m loving their energy
This kind of reminds me of the Love Like Blood video by Killing Joke
this isn’t a makeup commercial… this is really a music video…
Such a unique sounding song and band. Love it
They looking comically uncomfortable being forced to practically hug each other while attempting to mime and look sexy.
Incredible song by one of the best bands from
4AD RECORDS ever !!!...
Stray opens up the album and then right into this great song
True
Especially the ending part.
Shoegaze, great music, horrible videos.
OBRIGADO POR VOLTAR COM OS VIDEOS 4AD
RIP Chris Acland. Drummer Lush
Emma and Miki are both beautiful angels but I'm drawn in by Miki more. Her deep, hypnotic eyes, sensual lips and fiery red hair. Her beauty is so overwhelming that it makes me shiver in ecstasy watching her sing and play. Hungarian and Japanese ethnicity combined really bring out sexy oceanic vibes in this babe.
you're so right!! personally, I am very attracted to Emma's melancholy eyes, but they're both so beautiful girls
@@crissali Oh I TOTALLY didn't mean to leave out Emma. Her eyes aren't just melancholy but very soft and childlike. She's got a special beauty to her own that complements Miki.
@@lotusglobe2671 omg yes, the word complementation is ideal for them
what if supermodels ruled the world!!😎😄
I used to crush on these two so bad 😝
One of my favorites from Lush. Currently reading Miki’s book.
i just rediscovered this song from my youth...90s music in my opinion was a mixed bag of highs and lows and too many rough sounding tracks from grunge bands..this one plays smooth instead and has aged very well
emma looks like shes asleep lol
OMG!! THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS!
music good, video is horrible
definitely
My love for this band has never left me after all these years - thanks guys.
Emma and Miki. ❤💜💛💚💙💓💝💘💞💕
I hit play, and some of the best parts of the 90's just flows out of this.