Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- In this video we're listening to one more from Kate Bush. It being the holiday season, this song fits right in. This was in her Christmas special in 1979. We're intrigued. What does a Kate Bush Christmas song sound like. Let's find out! Enjoy!
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For me, Kate Bush is the best female artist of the last fifty years
This was a hit in the UK in 1980 and I think in Europe. I adore this song and is in my top favourite 5 Christmas songs. I’ve always loved her music because she’s an original. It might not be everyone’s cup of tea but her voice and that whole Lionheart period feel does it for me. Maybe not so outside the UK. I was 20 the year this came out, I was young, in love and Christmas was coming. It’s a wonderful memory especially given how the world has now become everything from then feels like a lost Eden
Often nowadays Kate is seen as a cult artist rather than mainstream, but the fact she had a Xmas special on the BBC shows how big she was. She decided, on her own terms, to take a step back from that level of fame. Another great song 🙂
My favorite Christmas song, Kate is just amazing.
I do remember this song but don’t think I’ve heard it SINCE 1979..
Pure example of early Kate , not one of her top releases but it’s Kate Bush .. so I’m required by UK legislation to like it .. 😉
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Kia Ora hello brother Jay I've just got myself into a state listening to Kate and thinking about my girlfriend and her/our female friends teasing me while singing Kate's music and started 😭 thinking about my girlfriend Mandy 11-4-74 20-5-97 it's been a long long time and it still hurts we grew up together our teens and twenties 9 years and gone 😢
I love Kate Bush. She dared to be different, and she really flew despite her detractors🏴🏴☠️🇬🇧
@@colrhodes377 I've got nothing bad to say about Kate she's awesome 👍
Yes that is true ! But u might have to re do your application form on said legislation , due to "Chicken Flu" !!!! and fill it in Gallic !
@@heathcornbeefToo right Pard !!!
Can never get enough of Kate Bush, such a massive talent with a wealth of music and i can understand every word she sings.
She has stunning voice. Lover her high and low registers. No one swoops up and down like she does. She is a magical talent.
My favourite artist & probably the most underrated Xmas record of all time ❤
She has such a beautiful voice.
Kate is such a special part of my life story and this song creates great nostalgia for me and emotional hearing it xxx💚🙏🎶🎄
She sings anything sounds great
Kate Bush is a British national treasure and the soundtrack of my life.
Thank you for playing this, the more times you hear it the better it gets - even after 1000's of times :)
The word "placement" is definitely where you have the problem. If you go back again with have the lyrics in front of you, you'll see how she does it and how she gets that unique sound. It's very clever, because nobody else did it or could ever get away with it.
I'm with you Cynthia... there are several Kate Bush songs that I absolutely love 💗... however there are a lot of her songs that don't "speak to me".
She is a creative genius on so many levels. Totally original and one of a kind.
Hi and thanks for a really enjoyable reaction video. I'm glad you enjoyed this song. While I don't think it is anywhere close to being one of Kate Bush's great songs I do like it very much. It is quite typical of her 'early voice' (although I do think that sometimes we over stress the way her voice changes - there are early songs where she uses her lower range quite a lot and it sounds quite a lot like her later voice) and her early songs - and it was her 'early voice' and songs that I first heard and fell in love with and became a fan right from the very beginning.
But there is not doubt that the way she often articulates her lyrics are deliberately intended to add to the sense of the song demanding your attention. But when you have a voice that do whatever it wants and you have such utter control over it then why not. In one interview the interviewer told her that they found her music 'interesting.' She replied by saying that she would rather have her music described as interesting than 'turd-like.' But in this particular song, the way that she sings it, despite the space between notes and the way she lowers her voice on the word 'fall' you hear her sing:
"see how I fall
see how I fall
like the snow"
35 years after this song was first released Kate brought out her most recent album '50 Word For Snow.' And although it contains her very ear pleasing duet with Elton John that I know you have already reacted to and liked, '50 Words..' is not an easy listening album - it is very challenging (although I like enormously). It contains some of her her longest songs one of which is almost 14 minutes long and recounts her doing very bad things (or maybe I should say very wonderful things) to a snowman who melts in her hands on her bed. But the album opens with a song called 'Snowflake' which itself is almost 10 minutes long. 'Snowflake' tells the story of the life of a snowflake as it falls to earth from the sky - just as Kate sings here in 'December Will be Magic Again' about 'see how I fall... like the snow.' I have always found it interesting that separated by 35 years she delves into this idea singing about how snow falls to the ground from out of the sky.
I think it is very possible that you might not fall in love with 'Snowflake,' but it is a very 'interesting' song. In it she sings a duet with her son, Bertie who sings the character of the snowflake falling from the sky while she sings as the mother on earth waiting to catch him and reassuring him that no matter how far he has to fall and no matter how dark the world might be, she will always catch him. And I do think that at very least you will find it intriguing. The song never moves and it is essentially just a piano and drums. Kate never really moves her voice away from her lowest register. Everything just seems to sit completely still for almost 10 minutes with huge spaces between notes.
The entire album is set around the theme of songs for the dead of winter, set right at the end of the tree line with the dark great forest behind you, the tundra in front of you and and a snowy wasteland all around you. And so you hunker down in the darkness waiting for the sun to return. '50 Words...' is not an album filled with fireworks and short radio friendly commercial songs. Rather it is stark, bare, almost foreboding and yet it still has a dark beauty to it - even though it moves as slowly as a glacier. It forces you to stop and see that even when the sun is gone from view for weeks on end, there is still beauty in the gloom of the far north and all of the beating heart and heartbreak that is cloaked by that long winter.
Thanks again. I really enjoyed this - as I always do with your reaction videos.
Wow .. that was a TREATISE..😮
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I adore '50 words for snow' and Kates son opening it with his soaring voice of the snow flake singing ' I am skyyyyyyy' just beautiful 💚🙏🎶☃️
Nice reaction. Yes, “Kate Bush” and “does what people expect” do not go together in the same sentence. I also find it hard to follow a lot of the lyrics when she sings in a high register, but I would say the same about other female singers when they sing that high. It is also the case that microphone and recording technology was not as good back in 1978/79 compared to what it is now, and Kate was taking demands on that technology into new areas.
My favourite Christmas song.Some can't handle her very high register on her earlier music when she was young but i love it.A bit like Billy mackenzie of The Associates,it's a marmite thing.
I enjoyed your reaction. I must say, I find this to be a curate's egg - good in parts. However, it's interesting to hear how firmly this is anchored in the piano. Kate was later to be a pioneer of synthesizers and her music benefitted hugely as a result, IMHO. You only have to hear her Hounds Of Love album to realise how technology freed her creativity. Incidentally, I had a lot of difficulty making out the high vocals too.
I've always loved this song of Kate's, thank you for doing it, C and C.
A few seasonal song suggestions for you:
"Donna Summer - Winter Melody",
"Otis Redding - Merry Christmas Baby",
"David Bowie & Bing Crosby - The Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy",
"Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby",
"Jethro Tull - Ring Out, Solstice Bells",
"Jethro Tull - Christmas Song",
"Stevie Wonder - Someday at Christmas",
"Siouxsie and The Banshees - Israel",
"Siouxsie and The Banshees - Il Est Né, Le Divin Enfant",
"All About Eve - December",
"All About Eve - What Kind of Fool (Autumn Rhapsody)",
"Kurtis Blow - Christmas Wrapping".
This Christmas 🎄 in England ...The Fairytale of New York by The Pogues will top the charts & it will be bittersweet with the recent passing of Shane & his partner on the duet Kirsty MacCool has long since passed on as well. Happy that Kate is knewly inducted into The Rock & Roll HOF.
I think you also have to remember Kate’s lyrics are never straight forward. She’s an intelligent writer and her illusions are deep. For me the song is how the snow covers the dirt of life and how it makes it beautiful plus with her high notes she makes my spine tingle she did in 1980 and still does. I’m biased but I adore the lady she’s a one of.
Thanks so much for doing the wonderful Kate Bush .. Although this is not one of my favourites, it is a very pretty song, and one very worthy of being on any Christmas playlist .. I am a huge fan of hers, but I can understand why some people only partially like her music, and others don't get her at all .. She has such a unique style that it's just not going to connect with everyone.
I can't believe I'd never heard this song before! 🤯
And apart from the sleigh bells, it could've well been on one of her first two albums 🙂
As soon as I heard it play I was reminded of being a kid with my Kate Bush records. I'd play The Kick Inside, Lionheart and the On Stage EP in that time period. I also loved the Never For Ever album.
@@liveitup67All great albums.
It was, I think. 1978/9.
Tis an old one for sure ! Ace isnt it ?
@@liveitup67 Yep , proper agree with you on those Albums ! I have those as well first time round , Brill !
Have A Good weeK !! Cheers !
Kate performed a version of this song on her 1979 BBC special simply called Kate and broadcast during the Christmas holidays.
Although, to be honest the programme was quite unusual for one that was broadcast at that time of year.
One of my all-time favorite Christmas songs. Probably Top 10... and that's saying A LOT. Just GLORIOUS.
Another few Christmas gems: PRETENDERS "3000 Miles"... 3 WISE MEN (Otherwise known as XTC!) "Thanks For Christmas"... and ... GRANDADDY "Alan Parson's In A Winter Wonderland"
XTC did another festive track, Countdown To Christmas Party Time, which I think is even better than Thanks For Christmas.
3000 miles is bloody awesome i Love The Pretenders
I'm happy to hear that the kangaroo is safe and sound. 🦘
I have owned Kate's first three albums since their initial releases, including the live EP 'On Stage'.
Her 70's sound always takes me back to that time. I know people have their own relationship with music, but I just can't imagine my kids having the same experience with their whatever music that Hayley and I had with the music we grew up on . We used to lay on our beds and let Kate's voice and stories take us to another place. Her music was whimsical and melancholy, and her album artwork was something you could spend time gazing at. In spite of her being highly exposed in Australia (she was always on Countdown), she still felt personal and unknown to the rest of the world. Still love her work to this day, and I'm pleased to see my daughter (a big Stranger Things fan) enjoys her work too.
Kia Ora hello my friend how are you doing?. Hay when i was in my early twenties when ever we got on the turps my girlfriend and her friends would surround me and sing weathering heights while doing Kate's arm waving dance it used to bug the shit out of me HOW STUPID I WAS I'd have sexy Punk girls teasing me and get GRUMPY what a DICK
I do really like Kate but man those girls would torment me dancing around Heathcliff it's me it's cathy woo woo woo
Mandy (r.i.p) suicide not a day goes by idon't think about my babe.Megan Tracie Alene Page Lisa you horrible girls 😅 I'm scared for life 😊
Speaking of marsupials. An English zoo was closing down in the 70s, and nobody would take their wallabies, so it was decided that they would release them onto either Dartmoor or Exmoor ( I can't remember which ) and let them take their chances. I'm happy to report that they have thrived throughout the years, and they're still there now.
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This single came out in 1980 and did chart in the UK, but only reached #29.
I was 8 when it came out (and a regular Top Of The Pops viewer) but have no memory of it.
It’s never become part of the UK Xmas “hit list” that you can’t avoid in shops or on the radio (like Wham, Slade, The Pogues etc.) and I only heard it for the first time about 15 years ago.
Really like the track and wish it had become a UK Xmas staple (rather than some of the other ones!)
Thanks for the kangaroo update as well! 👍
I'd disagree. It's played on Radio 2 over the festive period.
Another great Kate song , you should check out her performing this on. The Abba Snowitime TV special, Kate is so adorable.
I have loved Kate Bush since 1978, Wuthering Heights and The man with the child in his eyes. My other favourite is Slade so work that one out !
Sounds spot on to me Alan ✅
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I play this song everyday in December 🥳
@@alanwhitney3263 I try NOT to play The msn with the child in his eyes as it’s guaranteed to make me cry .. every time ! So beautiful .. sigh
( ahem .. please be kind enough to not mention the crying thing Alan as I’m Scottish and that sorta thing is illegal in Scotland 🏴.. especially not to SPK as he could report me ! .. we good ?.. right , you ain’t seen me okay ?.. cheers 🍻 )
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Hey guys,
Denny Laine of Wings has passed away. I have mentioned being a big fan of Paul McCartney and Wings, and one of my favourite songs by them was 'Mull Of Kintyre'. Please do a reaction of the *music video* of Mull Of Kintyre. The song was # 1 in Australia and several other countries, and it was a song I'd play repeatedly on my little 45 player. The song also played on radio constantly, and I never grew sick of it. I don't think 'Mull Of Kintyre' ever got as big in your part of the world. I had been wanting to request 'Mull Of Kintyre' for a long time, but I don't think I ever got round to requesting the song. It means a lot to me.
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Can you add Lemmy's version of "Run Rudolph Run" to the Xmas List, Ta.
Oh for goodness sake Haniers ! This has been a terrible week for world renowned musicians and arguably the biggest loss of all I’ve just heard about , Denny Laine best known for being the guitarist and part writer of some huge songs with Paul McCartney and Wings AND the Moody Blues AND on his own , died today aged 79 .
I’m genuinely sad about this as I absolutely respected him . He wrote “ Go now “ which was a monster hit as well as Co-writing Mull of Kintyre with Paul McCartney . Really sad tbh
Anyway , I’m hoping you can fit in a fitting tribute to him if you possibly can ? Can I ask for the live version of Bluebird from “ Rockshow” from Wings ,which features all of them lined up with guitars and beautiful blended harmonies ?
Failing that , his own version of his own classic but overlooked “ Go now “…..
if that’s not possible I’ll understand , if it is I’ll be eternally grateful as Wings were extremely important to me . 🙏
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Do you think it would be helpful to have the lyrics at hand when you do reactions in the future either on a piece of paper or on your phones, you might fine you catch more of the meaning the singer was trying convey. As always, I enjoy your reactions and look forward to seeing more of them, thank you.
Hi guys,
I know you’ve reacted to the huge Slade hit Merry Christmas Everybody but how about their other ‘Christmas Hit’ a decade later in 1983, My oh My was No.2 for a few weeks, kept off the top spot….in my view by a novelty act…totally different to most of their other upbeat songs
A good Christmas pop song is a rare thing. This is one, but my favourite has to be Ring Out, Solstice Bells by Jethro Tull. That said, Bill Nelson (ex-Be Bop Deluxe) has released a guitar-based instrumental Christmas track every year since 2007, and they're all very good (and still on RUclips).
I'm sure we did that Jethro Tull song last December.
@@Owlstretchingtime78don’t listen to him C n C .. there’s a flute brandished in this song and auld hippies wearing tops rank with body odour .. once seen you can never unsee it - you’ve been warned 😮
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@@Owlstretchingtime78 and I love Jesus but next time I see him means I’m dead ! So that’s not a good thing ! 😅
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@@Owlstretchingtime78 Och aye 🙏
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We did that Jethro Tull song last Christmas season.
Shear Brilliance ! Have not heard this for fair while , Certainly rather hear this a Gazillion times ,every year ! than that really annoying
cant mention the "Slade " song effort ! A great Kate Bush tune for another time "Oh England my Lion Heart "
Cheers ! Great reaction .
G … omg ! Your the very FIRST person I’ve ever heard being down on Merry Xmas by Slade ..🤯.. it’s only MY opinion but if I was given a choice between Slades Opus Magnus and Kates effort then I’d 💯 ( and I NEVER thought I’d ever use this phrase 🤮) .. I’d have to kick Kate to the kerb … SO HERE IT IS MERRY XMAS.. every-bodys having fun … it’s such an integral part of Xmas that it should be taught in schools .. Kate might excite the last vestige of my auld goat Libido but Slades Xmas standard excites me totally … though I do respect your opinion G.. I’m required to say ..🤣
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering Ha !
Well how could one take up a contrary view on that pearl of wisdom ! Yes should be taught in Schools !
Think im probably in the realms of dirty old goat , might be able to !!! No cant kick Kate into the Kerb ! Try saying that with a few Sherberts on board !! bOOM , Boom
@@ghichens3418 of course your right about that .. even today I think she’s a fox.. and before anyone gets all “eww she’s in her 60’s”.. SO AM I .. !
“ Well hello Kate - so nice to meet you , hi , I’m Jay , what’s your sign ? “… ah the auld chat up lines are the best G… never ever worked for me strangely enough though 🤷♂️
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_BletheringHa !
Legend . Yay to older fartery I turned 60 years disgraceful on Saturday so now I can really start to piss people off in a more mature manor of course ! And Yes Kate was always a Fox ! BTW kate and I were married at a Secret location when I was 15 !
Not many people know that !!! No the star sign bit never worked me either !!! "Oh the two Finger sign with a rolling of the eyes "
Yep had that one a few times !! Take care
Oh. Jay of the Family of Blethering , G
@@ghichens3418Lol x 10 G . She was in a secret relationship with her bass player for years .. I found that one out about 10 years ago and I’m not sure what emotion drives it , but every time I see her old vids on RUclips and he’s in it .. I just HATE the guy .. never met him , don’t know anything about him , he could be a modern day St Francis of Guildford .. but none of that matters .. oh yeah , I recognise that emotion now .. ROARING NAKED JEALOUSY !!! 😠
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Seasonal suggestion
Kevin Bloody Wilson - Hey Santa Claus🎶
Love this and only recently recommend this to another reactor. Maybe it’s in the ether ❤
Even as a fan, some of her vocals can be a little annoying 😂
just a suggestion, why don't u react 2 a lyric video ? happy holidays !
Dont bring your happy holidays nonsense in here sir ..
It’s Happy Hanukkah , which finishes in the 15th this year or more reasonably Merry Xmas !!! 👀
Happy holidays really gets up my kilt , it’s not needed nor required - sorry for rant , that’s a real hot button for me .
I’m ALL for inclusivity but not when it means Merry Xmas gets banned ..😠
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This was a great Single but I don't think it was on any of the LPs.
Parts of it reminded me of 'Strange Phenomena' from her debut album 'The Kick Inside' 🙂
@@mightyV444 I prefer her first Three
@@SPKdesign1- I still have not yet heard anything she did after 'The Red Shoes' (which had rather underwhelmed me), except for the single 'King Of The Mountain'!
Otherwise, each of her first 6 albums speak to me, depending on my mood 😊
@@mightyV444 There are a few of the recent ones I haven't bothered with.
Think u is right ! As Ive spent a few futile minutes trying to find it on my Records !
If only there was some way to learn what the lyrics are, some resource accessible to people.