Kate Bush Albums Ranked From Worst to Best
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- More so than usual, this week's Listography was an exercise in discovering an artists that we weren't very familiar with. (At least for 2 of us) Joe began devouring her catalog several months ago and has fallen head over heels for her music. Jason tackled her discography for the very first time in the week leading up to the recording of this video. Does this invalidate our lists? We don't think so, but take them for what they are. First impressions of singular artist.
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Catherine Bush CBE (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. In 1978, aged 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single "Wuthering Heights", becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song. She has since released 25 UK Top 40 singles, including the Top 10 hits "The Man with the Child in His Eyes", "Babooshka", "Running Up That Hill", "Don't Give Up" (a duet with Peter Gabriel), and "King of the Mountain". All 10 of her studio albums reached the UK Top 10, including the UK number-one albums Never for Ever (1980), Hounds of Love (1985), and the compilation The Whole Story (1986). She was the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts and the first female artist to enter the album chart at number one.
Bush began writing songs at 11. She was signed to EMI Records after Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour helped produce a demo tape. Her debut album, The Kick Inside, was released in 1978. Bush slowly gained artistic independence in album production and has produced all her studio albums since The Dreaming (1982). She took a hiatus between her seventh and eighth albums, The Red Shoes (1993) and Aerial (2005). She drew attention again in 2014 with her concert residency Before the Dawn, her first shows since 1979's The Tour of Life.
Bush's eclectic and experimental musical style, unconventional lyrics, and literary themes have influenced a diverse range of artists. She has been nominated for 13 British Phonographic Industry accolades, winning for Best British Female Artist in 1987, and has been nominated for three Grammy Awards. In 2002, she was recognised with an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. In October 2017 she was nominated for induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. Bush was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to music.
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Albums Discussed:
The Kick Inside
Lionheart
Never for Ever
The Dreaming
Hounds of Love
The Sensual World
The Red Shoes
Aerial
50 Words for Snow
Let us know how you rank em down in the comments. Thanks for watching!
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The Dreaming is her best album imo. But I understand why someone could hate it, it’s her more experimental record.
Well that depends on whether or not you think that the more intricate and experimental and proggy something is, the better it is lol
Joe is spot on. The Dreaming is her best album for me. The lyrics are amazing. The call and response format. It's her most challenging album, and for me, her most amazing.
I really wish that people had gotten The Dreaming when it came out because I would have loved to see where she might have gone if that album had had more commercial success, because she might have been less restrained and commercial going forward.
The only album that's had a more profound effect on me is Astral Weeks by Van Morrison, and I liken this album to Kate's Astral Weeks.
Hounds of Love is her Moondance, which I love equally, but The Dreaming is authentically Kate: Wild, experimental, and equal parts soothing, theatrical, and angry.
Just as there will never be another Astral Weeks in rock history, there will never be another "The Dreaming," but we should all be thankful that these masterpieces happened once.
I don’t like Van Morrison and I hate Astral Weeks, but I see what you’re saying with The Dreaming, although I do think Hounds of Love is better.
Kate Bush is a genius.
this title is offensive, it should be 'from best to bestest'
It’s true. Sometimes worst has the wrong connotations. - Joe
Exactly.
Even her "worst" album is very good!
Joe if you appreciate awesome female singers try out heather nova you won't be disappointed.
Joe's sad head shaking when the others put the dreaming so low. HILARIOUS. Love kate Bush been following her since wuthering heights. HUGE here in England.
Steve from liverpool
We love Liverpool in the US but Americans really haven't taken to her. I don't like her songs or her many voices. She is annoying, vocally. I went as far as I could with Tori Amos, swallowed the pain with the pleasure and yes I liked some of Tori's songs. I can't even understand Kate's lyrics but they just have to be so arty and literate. Her many voices are not as good as Tori's many voices, what a tug of war that would be. I can hear some Roxy Music in her singing and sax but she pales next to Bryan Ferry. Why is Lloyd Cole not in the Hall? His 2 solo records to kick his solo career off were ignored. The listenable but inferior band Duran Duran introduced Roxy Music into the Hall of Shambles and the unlistenable Bjork should introduce Kate to the Rock and Roll Art Museum. When Kate sings, Everybody Hurts said Michael Stipe.
Joe gets it. He let the weirdness in.
Immersing yourself in Kate's music is like receiving unconditional love from the most intelligent person you've ever met.
Kate Bush is a genre all her own like the Beatles , Bowie and Hendrix
Hard to encapsulate the impact she had in the UK when Wuthering Heights reached No.1 in early 1978. She literally came out of nowhere and as you accurately describe - there was no reference point for her sound. Wuthering Heights could have been a one-off novelty hit but then she followed up with The Man With The Child In His Eyes - another strange, confounding song (written when she was 13!). And so it went on - an astonishing, unique talent in a world too often dominated by drab conformity.
The criticism of The Dreaming here is just nuts. Easily her most sophisticated and rewarding work. It was made with the aid of the Fairlight CMI, a synth/sampler that goat over $20kUSD in 1982, and the sound is incredibly dense and singular
Hearing the US perspective on an artist who's a national treasure here in the UK was very intriguing indeed. I know the three of you gents are big Peter Gabriel fans and I put Kate and Peter in the same ballpark as great British eccentrics who are true artists who never compromise. I do think Kate and Peter are the kinds of artists who's music you have to live with for quite a while to really appreciate it all. I was lucky enough to see one of her 22 shows at the Hammersmith Apollo, London in 2014 and like her music, the show was a truly original experience, a cross between theatre and a pop gig and something we're unlikely to see again, especially from her.
My list. The top 2 never change.
1. The Dreaming
2. Hounds Of Love
3. Never For Ever
4. The Kick Inside
5. Sensual World
6. Lionheart
7. Aerial
8.The Red Shoes
9. 50 Words For Snow
Have to agree with "Outlier Joe" here in that he ranks "The Dreaming" at the top. Like him, that album took several listens for me to digest, decode, and fully appreciate. One I did that, I was fully hooked. It's a masterpiece of sonic Surrealism. I hope Dali had a chance to hear this by the time he passed away about a decade after it was released.
Okay but hear me out:
1. The Dreaming, the most innovative album ever made, blows my mind everytime.
2. Hounds of Love, a masterpiece, basically shares 1st place.
3. Never for Ever, she started slowly going more experimental and more mature and serious, but still had that magic and theatricality.
4. The Kick Inside, just so magical, whimsical and innocent, my comfort album.
5. Aerial, criminally underrated, it's so stunning, especially side B is just bliss.
6. The Sensual World, it's gorgeous, it's a bit more 80s but still experimental and it's very deep and emotional.
7. Lionheart, it's like TKI but darker, it's so magical but maybe doesn't feel as inspired and sadly I have to rank them...
8. 50 Words for Snow, so beautiful and atmospheric and so underrated but it's such a specific mood.
9. The Red Shoes, I love it but it's just not as creative in my opinion, but still a 10 honestly.
You’re speaking my language. - Joe
To have not lived through the Kate Bush era is something that's hard to imagine. I'm a Brit and have been in love with her since 1978, well, maybe a little before that. She is a legend and a Goddess in the UK world of music....... ask any artist. Here in the US, where I live now, you never really knew her. You have no idea what you missed out on.
I agree.. I think you have to have ‘been there’ from the beginning .. Not being funny ,but these guys just don’t cut it for me.. she’s gone way over their head…lol
The masterpieces: The Dreaming, Hounds of Love, Sensual World.
Exactly right. No one since can match these three albums..
@@blairwheaton8905 True !!
Exactly!!
Wow just wow. Knew most of her stuff, and while there are a few lesser songs in her catalogue I don't think she has a single bad album and most of them are great.
9. 50 Words for Snow (2011) ★★★
8. The Red Shoes (1993) ★★★½
7. Aerial (2005) ★★★½
6. Lionheart (1978) ★★★½
5. The Sensual World (1989) ★★★★
4. The Dreaming (1982) ★★★★
3. Never for Ever (1980) ★★★★½
2. The Kick Inside (1978) ★★★★½
1. Hounds of Love (1985) ★★★★★
★★★★★ - Masterpiece
★★★★½ - Really great
★★★★ - Great
★★★½ - Really good
★★★ - Good
★★½ - OK
★★ - Bad
★½ - Really bad
★ - Awful
½ - The worst
Shout out to Joe for his obstinate reckoning of The Dreaming. What a great record, not quite up there with Hounds but close. Thanks for bringing the genius of this up..👍
Agree with Joe. The Dreaming is i.m.o her best album, experimental and so daring. Superb!
The Dreaming is an album that really grows on you. I started listening to Kate Bush in 1985 when Running Up That Hill was released in the US. I bought The Whole Story in '86, which introduced me to her older songs. I then bought all of her albums. For many years after that my top three were Hounds of Love, The Kick Inside, and Never Forever. But over time The Dreaming slowly crept up the list until it eventually displaced Hounds of Love. I think The Dreaming is Kate Bush's Revolver, and Hounds of Love is her Sgt. Pepper. Hounds of Love gets all the largely deserved hype, but after a thousand listens, The Dreaming is the better album.
As usual, Joe is the only one who makes sense to me.
It really helps to understand Kate & her music if you've grown up as a child & then into adulthood & gone on her musical journey with her to really understand how important she has been to the music industry in the UK, I completely understand what a difficult job it was for you guys to rate her music 30 +years later, I'm a massive Kate Bush fan & even I've had to listen to some of her albums several times before I actually liked them, but great job for giving it a go you couldn't of picked a harder artist to judge kates totally unique & revered in this country not just for her music but for the complete control she has on what she does by sticking her 2 fingers up at these big record companies, & when she wrote the man with the child in her eyes she was only 15,👍❤️
Hey Joe!
I was you in 1978 an obsessive Kate Bush armed with her fisrt two albums, The Kick Inside and Lionheart. The Kick Inside is still my favourite just because the songwriting is so strong and her youthful exuberance is infectious. Lionheart is a step down musically. Never Forever more interesting but sees the beginnings of her hit-and-miss experimentation with production and singing. The Dreaming is completely out there experimentally and for me, has extreme highs and extreme lows. At the time, as a Kate Bush fan, though she was a loveable eccentric, we wondered if she had completely lost the plot. So, when Hounds of Love turned up, side one showed her at her most mature but she couldn't resist going into wacky mode for side two. The Sensual World, paradoxically, would see her more serious and mature and somehow we missed her wackiness. And her later albums warrant more listens and the maturity is more focussed and the wackiness more refined but they lack the sheer daring of her earlier work.
So, my list would be
9 50 Words For Snow
8 Aerial
7 The Red Shoes
6 Lionheart
5 Never For Ever
4 The Sensual World
3 The Dreaming
2 Hounds of Love
NUMBER ONE: THE KICK INSIDE
Jesus! "50 Words For Snow", and "The Dreaming" are some of my favorite albums by her. "The Red Shoes", did disappoint me though, and she said when she made this record, it was a difficult time in her life, mostly because of losing her mother. I liked Aerial, but it is a bit uneven. The best song on here is "The Coral Room", about her love for her mother.
Agreed.
Prince had a big influence and hand in the production of THE RED SHOE so his fingerprints are all over the album.
Never for Ever for me is the best because there is no weak track and its very theatrical
Babooskha: tells the story of the suspicious house wife
Delius: is about a conposer who had syphilis
Blow away: her light guy who died when she was on tour
All we ever look for: great instrumentals and beautiful vocals
Egypt: a beautiful homage to the country
Wedding list: a wifes revenge on her husband's murderer
Violin: a upbeat rock song about the instrument
Infant kiss: a governess who is in love with the child she looks after because she believes it's posseded by her ex lover
Army dreamers: a anti war song with a strong message and great vocals
Breathing: tells the story of a fetus during a nuclear fall-out
Sat in Your Lap is crazy mad and beautiful
It’s incredible. - Joe
The Dreaming last? Jason are you sure? It’s my very favourite. I can understand you not having it right at the top but she has worse albums surely. Kramzer putting it at 7 is surprising too.
Joe gets it!
Great video guys
I guess I need to revisit it to try to figure out what everyone else is getting that I’m not. The whole time I was listening to it I just wanted it to stop, had to force my way through it. Maybe I just wasn’t in the right frame of mind? -Jason
The Dreaming is wonderful & unique, but like many great albums it takes a few listens to sink in. My favourite too.
Her first self Produced Album, she's very skilled and she surely experimented on the Dreaming. One of my faves
@@TastesLikeMusic It's sonically layered. There's a lot going on. It takes a while to process.
Listen to it five or six times and read the lyrics.
The Dreaming was Bjork's favourite album; it's a groundbreaking, influential album.
Joe is right, the Kate Bush fan base is not happy with a lot of the criticisms from the other two :) I'm an American and have been a Kate Bush fanatic since I first saw her on Saturday Night Live in December of 1978, where she sat on a piano (played by Paul Schaefer) and sang "The Man With The Child In His Eyes" in a gold bodysuit. I was 18 at the time and completely mesmerized by her. There is just no one like her, she is a one-of-a-kind genius, a brilliant and innovative composer, lyricist, vocalist (with a 4 octave range), pianist, dancer, mime, choreographer, record producer, video producer - she even helped develop the first cordless headset microphone used for the first time on her 1979 tour. By the time Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour discovered her at the age of 15, she had already written over 250 songs. She is hugely influential and HIGHLY respected by musicians worldwide (including the U.S.!!), Kate was one of the first female musicians to take total production and artistic control over her work. She’s been a real pioneer for
women in the music industry for the last 40 years. While I love all her work, I prefer her later albums and her beautiful mature voice. Aerial is her supreme masterpiece in my opinion, followed by Hounds of Love. Side B of that album, The Ninth Wave, is one of the greatest pieces of conceptual prog music of all time. Pure genius.
I love Kate Bush! She was a pioneer and a huge influence on many musicians.
My top ones are 1 Hounds. 2. The Dreaming. The rest are interchangeable depending on my mood. Her 2014 live album, Before The Dawn is a Masterpiece.
Just watched this again - welled up almost at the end with Joe’s summary of Kate Bush - he totally gets it and her (I’m British) also - I am going to boast - seeing her live in 2014 (twice) was the best night of my life ❤️
Ariel and 50 Words are two of my favorites. I like the slow pace of 50 Words. The second half of Ariel is stunning. Oh well. I've been listening to KB since the Kick Inside. Not so keen on the first 3 albums these days. Hounds and Sensual World are fantastic. Never liked Red Shoes at all. Hard to rank these albums.
One album you won't mention because it's a compilation is The Whole Story, but I think I speak for lots of her fans in America that that album is the first exposure many of us had to Kate and it's such an amazing compilation - each and every track is sensational. It came out in 1986 just months after Peter Gabriel's So, which of course features his duet with Kate and put her on the radar of many fans. I remember hearing Running Up That Hill and a friend had Hounds of Love, but I never really paid much attention until her duet with Peter and then had to hear more and The Whole Story was an album I played over and over again for a whole year or more after I bought it in 1986. Love Kate - thanks for your lists!
Never forever was my first Kate record. Anything you say it will always be my favorite.❤
Talking about artists you are overlooking in the USA, Nick Cave is a clear example. Greatest artist nowadays. It would be great if you guys make a listography about him
Absolutely ! Unlikely to happen but my head would pop like a balloon if they did Nick.
@@johnkennedy7786 Why unlikely? Might be unlikely that Joe would participate, but I think Kram and I could get behind this idea. -Jason
@@TastesLikeMusic Wow Jason, that would be awesome! I think that Nick has a bunch of tracks that Joe would appreciate. Stuff like Get Ready for Love, Stagger Lee, Dig Lazarus Dig or There She Goes My Beautiful World...
Other artists that are possibly overlooked by many people in the USA: Joe Jackson (to me he is similar to but even better than Elvis Costello), Midnight Oil (the greatest band from the southern hemispheres imho), Al Stewart (quintessentially English), or the Manic Street Preachers.
Yes, Nick Cave!
01 Never For Ever
02 The Kick Inside
03 Hounds Of Love
04 The Sensual World
05 Lionheart
06 The Dreaming
07 Aerial
08 The Red Shoes
09 50 Words For Snow
I tend to agree about the low rankings for 50 Words For Snow. However... you guys are missing it with Misty. Yes, it's 13 minutes long, but it is truly a wonder. You have to appreciate it on her terms, but the piano work is beautiful and the drumming is terrific. The last 4 minutes of the song is breathtaking. Again, you have to be in the right mood perhaps, but I'd suggest giving it another try.
Brilliant you guys. Watching these is my new addiction
COME ON AERIAL IS SO GOOD
9. The Red Shoes
8. Lionheart
7. The Kick Inside
6. Aerial
5. 50 Words For Snow
4. Never For Ever
3. The Sensual World
2. Houds of Love
1. The Dreaming
Interesting video guys. 'Shopping for herbal supplements', that raised a chuckle. I think there's always a slight element of surprise when UK music fans realise how little Kate Bush has impinged on the north American musical consciousness. I got into music in the year 1978, which was the year Kate debuted in the British charts, so for me she has always been there in a way. Wuthering Heights made a massive impact on the entire country when it came out - even people who knew nothing about pop music and had no interest knew about it. She is a unique and important artist and I love her early records a lot, but there are UK-fans a lot more dedicated and obsessed than I am. For example, 'The Dreaming' is often held up as her masterpiece by a lot of British fans, but that is one album I don't really know very well. For me her best albums are the first three or four, with my favourite being Never Forever. I do like the pop flavour of The Red Shoes though. Cheers, James
Small correction to your comment: "how little Kate Bush has impinged on the north American consciousness ". I think that if you just say American you're pretty accurate, but here in Canada she has a very deep and devoted following. We are not culturally homogeneous with our southern neighbours. I find it impossible to rank her albums as my favourite depends on my mood (and is usually the one that I'm listening to at the moment), but, if pressed, I'd probably go with Hounds of Love as my #1. Cheers.
my top 5:
1. The kick inside
2. Never for ever
3. Lionheart
4. The Sensual world
5. Hounds of love
Keep up the good work guys, nice distraction in covid-days, greetings from Holland
1. The Dreaming
2. Never For Ever
3. Hounds of Love
4. The Kick Inside
5. Lionheart
But all of them are masterpieces...
Now this is more like it. I love me some Bush. 50 words for snow is my no.1. followed by Hounds of Love and Ariel no.3.
I was aware of Kate and loved Wuthering Heights from the beginning. Even so, as a younger man I didn't quite get her. She had an offbeat sound and a darkness to her art that didn't quite draw me in. Something kind of dark and scary about it :) I bought The Kick Inside in the early 90's and was immediately smitten. Her writing and singing were so sensual and unique. I am now digesting her entire catalogue chronologically, but am only up to The Dreaming. I have to be the voice of dissent on Hounds of Love. For me, so, far, her least interesting and most mainstream record. I think this is when she started writing more songs around drums and rhythm rather than constructing melodies first. This leads to less interesting vocals as they seem to be afterthoughts as opposed to the focal point. That record just doesn't have the magic of the first four. The Dreaming, at first, was a bit much and didn't register with me, but after a few listens it just clicked. I started to see the beauty of the songs and the vocals under the lavish and quirky production. I have to say this record is in my top three. That said, The Kick Inside and Never Forever are my two favorites so far. These records are Kate at her peak, at least to my taste. I dig every cut on those records as Kate is at her most passionate and creative on them. I could change my mind as I continue listening, but Hounds of Love may drop further down my list. To me, that one is kind of Kate lite and lacks the dark, melodic , genius of the other three. It lacks some twists and hard (and not so hard) left turns that really define the essence of her genius. Her early songs always have elements of the familiar combined with the the beautifully unexpected. She truly is an artist who you have to keep listening to to truly absorb and appreciate.
Loved this. I have been listening to Kate Bush since 1978. She my favorite woman artist. Give the later albums more time. Aerial and 'Snow ( a musical tone poem to the Winter) are much better with more listens.
1. Hounds of Love
2. Never Forever
3. The Dreaming
4. Aerial
5. Sensual World
6. The Kick Inside
7. 'Snow
8. Lionheart
9. The Red Shoes
She sings on The Seer by Big Country and Games Without Frontiers by Peter Gabriel (+ of course, Don't Give Up), also Roy Harper's Once.
You can also probably count her being sampled in Utah Saints’ very successful “Something Good”
1. Never for Ever: sue me i l ove it no weak song perfect album from start to finish
2. The kick inside: very mellow warm album to me definitely a comfort album
3. Hounds of love: great album no weak points like the split suites
4. The sensual World: Great, beautiful album full of emotion from kate.
5. The dreaming: Some absolutely fantastic tracks but one or two that id skip experimental in the best way
6. Lionheart: very whimsical and dark album it is a overshadowed by TKI unfortunately
7. Aerial: great album just not listened to often by me
8. Red Shoes: while a tad commercial, kate does great with this love the 80s sound oddly
9. 50 words for snow: Nothing bad about this album just wish the tracks were a little shorter
First impressions. As someone who knows quite a bit of Russian, I was biased after hearing Babushka, but I like the combination of jazz, kind of baroque, hard rock, backing vocals and the mix of experimentation and traditional styles on Never For Ever, but the top 4 are all excellent in my opinion, and quite good from 5 to 7.
1. Never For Ever
2. The Kick Inside
3. The Dreaming
4. The Sensual World
5. LionHeart
6. Hounds of Love
7. The Red Shoes
8. Aerial
9. 50 Worlds for Snow
I must say that I like the three different opinions with you guys because it is more interesting and better than being completely sycophantic or critical of the artists. Keep up the good work. Yours is the one site I look forward to every week.
I retired from work last year, took one day of in all that time working and that was to get Kate Bush to autograph Never For Ever and it’s release date. Just the most amazing artist ever.
Jason, love the Mott the Hoople shirt, but apart from that........The Dreaming at number 9, think you must have been dreaming.
I was too upset. - Joe
She is on my Mt Rushmore of music genius. She is so unbelievably original.
Thanks for the video, you guys :) I guess you would have had to be around when she first came out but all I know, when she released, "The Kick Inside", I was stunned, felt very moved by some of the songs and became a totally devoted fan, (I could probably sing along to every song on her first four albums). A very interesting factual tidbit as well....Elton John has said that when he throws dinner parties and such, the question that he gets most asked is to please, please introduce them to Kate Bush :)....and agree with Joe as well about "The Dreaming"...and the song itself was controversial and many white Australians were outraged but she became an anti-racism hero to so many of us young folk at the time with that song :)
1. Hounds of Love (5 stars)
2. The Dreaming (5 stars)
3. Never For Ever (4 stars)
4. The Kick Inside (4 stars)
5. Aerial (4 stars)
6. Lionheart (3 stars)
7. The Sensual World (3 stars)
8. 50 Words for Snow (3 stars)
9. Director's Cut (2 stars)
10.The Red Shoes (2 stars)
Really enjoyed this video. I tend to favor the HoundsOfLove/SensualWorld albums due to her more "womanly" voice (not quite as piercing and girlish as earlier albums), plus she still retains that marvelous compositional ingenuity in these two albums. So they're perfect for these ears.
Thanks! I think her voice is best on those albums as well, by a lot. But so many commenters are RAVING about The Dreaming. Guess I have to go back and try to figure out what I’m missing. 🤷🏻♂️
@@TastesLikeMusic I was obsessed with The Dreaming when it first came out and drove my friends and roommates crazy playing it. I still love it but the Fairlight computer thing grates on my ears more today than then.
CalicoSilver I’m obsessed with it right now. Surprisingly (to me) anyway, I’m not minding the electronic texture and sound. Even though I was critical of it on things like Remain in Light. - Joe
Not an easy task, like choosing your favourite dog over the years this never going to be definitive and a real order depends on my mood as much as the albums themselves. I therefore reserve the right to change my mind completely. A bit shocked on the thoughts on Aerial
1 - Aerial
1 - Hounds of Love
3 - The Dreaming
3 - The Kick Inside
3 - Sensual World
3 - Never Forever
7 - 50 Words (for Snow) - bonus +2 activated if it's winter!
8 - The Red shoes
My ranking:
1) Never for Ever (was my first CD of hers, and it has Violin, Babooshka, Breathing and my favourite song Egypt on it)
2)50 Words For Snow (everyone seems to dislike it, but I really like it. She has not the same voice as even in "Aerial", it is more raw and deeper, but that is great in its own way. I love the instrumentation and the lenght of the tracks. Also the duet with sir Elton John is great. I just like it that she stayed experimental...it sounds a bit like the ninth wave for me, but darker and calmer in a good way!)
3)Hounds Of Love (although i can't stand the phone-calls and the industrial electronic escapades on the whole album like in waking the wich. some find it boring, but "Hello Earth" is sooo beautiful: the lyrics, the key changes, the gregorian chant....And "Running Up That Hill" was the only song I already knew of her before discovering her genius.)
4)The Kick inside (little short gems that show her talent as a singer, a writer and as a piano player. I really like Moving and Wuthering heights, but also James and the Cold gun and Oh to be in love)
5)The Sensual World (Title track is one of my favourites, and i like the violins and the three-women-choir on it. it is pop and rock and at the same time eperimental)
the following are the ones I don't really like that much like her others, due to lyrics, instruments, writing or the overall sound itself:
6) Lionheart (more good than bad songs like Kashka from bagdhad or Hammer Horror, but she herself said she never really liked it because she was pushed to release it and wasn't fully able to work it out the way she wanted, and I agree with her that she has released better albums.)
7)The Dreaming (love the title track and Night of the swallow, the other tracks are not that good for me)
8)The Red Shoes (don't really like the concept of it and the tracks are ok but not peculiar as most of her songs are which is the reason i like her so much: she is different. but this album doesn't show that for me)
9) Aerial (to be honest, I really can't stand it. I don't like the concept of it and although i love the guitars and piano on it the overall sound is, of course, well produced, but just not right on top for me. But even if this sounds a bit harsh, I don't hate this album, I just can't find enough passages I like to...like it)
I hope she is not done yet and will release something again...anything...please. She is one of my top 5 Artists and always will be!!!
1. The Dreaming
2. Hounds of Love / The Ninth Wave
3. Never for Ever
4. The Sensual World
5. Arial (I pretend, CD1 does not exist)
6. 50 Words for Snow (50 Words for Slow) (Giggle)
7. The Red Shoes
8. The Kick Inside
9. Wow
Kick inside so low?
Best to worst:
1) The Kick Inside / Lionheart / Never For Ever (can't decide... they are equally fabulous);
2) The Dreaming;
3) Hounds Of Love;
4) The Sensual World;
5) Aerial / Director's Cut;
6) 50 Words For Snow;
7) The Red Shoes.
LOOOOOVE KATE BUSH
9. Red Shoes
8. Lionheart
7. 50 Words For Snow
6. The Sensual World
5. The Kick Inside
4. Never For Ever
3. Hounds Of Love
2. The Dreaming (loooove the experimental stuff)
1. Aerial
Right now mine is 1. The Dreaming 2. Hounds Of Love 3. Never For Ever 4. Aerial 5. The Kick Inside 6. Lionheart 7. 50 Words For Snow 8. The Sensual World 9. The Red Shoes. I guess it’s the Genesis fan in me that’s super into all the different character voices and production madness. I’ve never really warmed up to the more mature “grounded in reality” approach to The Sensual World that much, but it’s still an alright album. I think I also had 50 Words For Snow at #6 initially, but yeah, the slowness and length is a bit much on that one.
You might be on to something, seeing as my favorite of hers is Sensual World and my favorite Genesis is Abacab. -Jason
As a Brit it's hard to comprehend how America missed out on this lady - we grew up with Kate who made No. 1 in 1978. I'm so pleased to find someone else who believes that the sheer lunacy of The Dreaming places it firmly as her best album Nice one guys. Interesting stuff.
America totally blew it. As they often do with music. - Joe
Good old USA - we also missed out on the best Britpop bands (Suede; Sleeper) whilst fawning over inconsequential stuff like Oasis.
No one comes close to Kate Bush for me. I think it's great you all shared your thoughts. And Joe, for only knowing her stuff a couple of months, you really seemed to have tapped into her. You shared a lot of good stuff.
Hounds Of Love
The Dreaming
Aerial
The Kick Inside
The Sensual World
Never For Ever
50 Words For Snow
The Red Shoes
Lionheart
She's a genius artist, not a bad album in her catalogue.
Well done on taking on Kate Bush, given her low profile in the US. As you say she's considered a living legend here in the UK. Evidence: Tickets for her 2014 residency in London's Apollo theatre sold out in 15 mins, and unlike Led Zep who "reformed" in 2007 for one concert she gave her fans 22! Albeit in a smaller venue - but that's no bad thing in itself. Anyway lads, keep up the good Listography!
Interesting lists...
1. The Dreaming
2. Hounds Of Love
3. Aerial
4. The Sensual World
5. The Red Shoes
6. 50 Words For Snow
7. Never For Ever
8. The Kick Inside
9. Lionheart
Interesting to hear her being reviewed by Americans. To just now be discovering Wuthering Heights is amazing. I think it's great but I'm almost sick of hearing the song as it has not off the radio in UK for last 40 years!!
Good reviews
Hell yeah, Kate Bush rocks! Hounds of Love is definitely her best work as it’s strikes that perfect balance between experimental and accessible. Although, I do think it could use a resequencing. Am I the only one who thinks that The Big Sky should’ve closed the album?
The Dreaming is Kate's #1, bar none! Good pick, Joe.
I haven't really listened to 50 Words for Snow, so I will leave it off, but I will split Aerial into two separate works. Given that my list, after almost forty years is as follows. Though I rank it lowish, I listen to Lionheart a lot, really probably more than any of them besides The Dreaming. So it probably should be higher. And in the lower ranked albums, I really like the Coral Room, and several songs from Senual World, especially This Woman's Work and Rocket's Tail.
1. The Dreaming / Sky of Honey
2. Hounds of Love
3. The Kick Inside
4. Never Forever
5. Lionheart
6. The Sensual World
7. The Red Shoes
8. Sea of Honey
Blind spot for me. I love Wuthering Heihts and Running Up That Hill for a long time, but I tried the albums and they didn't make it for me
"I WISH", BABOOSHKA is the Thermometer, or the Barometer. Kate BUSH's WORST WORK ends up being better than most artist's BEST SHOT.
Good lord re-listen to the Dreaming you two. The run of tracks from Suspended in Gaffa to Night of the Swallow is a high point in music in my opinion.
How do u guys feel about her in the rock and roll hall of fame again I really hope she gets in
She should have been in years ago. Obviously. - Joe
Joe is right. The Dreaming is a great album. Dark, gothic, edgy, and mysterious, it is a fine work. It's her number 2 best album, I.M.O.
01. The Dreaming
02. Hounds of Love
03. The Sensual World
04. Aerial
05. Never For Ever
06. The Kick Inside
07. The Red Shoes
08. Lionheart
09. 50 Words for Snow
Knocked it out the park again boys.
I’m old enough to remember Wuthering Heights getting to #1 in the uk growing up but it took me many years later to truly fall in love with it. This is difficult for me as she is held in such awe over here (in the UK) and I do think she’s brilliant but I’d take Carol King or Roberta Flack over her as my fave female solo artist.
There are some amazing songs and I think that you’ll probably get a list out of me tomorrow.
Keeps getting better and your choice of artist is great as ever
i can't do the squeaky voice so i really like Aerial and Hounds Of Love.
The Dreaming is absolutely her best work. Two of you should Go and rinse your ears out!
Two years later I still can’t believe it
Tool or Leonard Cohen album ranking would be cool
1.Hounds Of Love: 10/10 : I knew this was her most popular album but it is just her best. Side 1 is fun and still experiemental while side 2 or *The Ninth Wave* is
2.Never For Ever: 9,5/10 : One of the best progressive pop albums of all time and it is what I would really like if you had just described it
3.The Dreaming: 9,25/10: This is her most experimental album and it is one of her best. Nothing much to say about it.
4.The Kick Inside: 9/10 : A great art pop album with so many great tunes and nothing much to say, maybe not many favorites but still
5.Lionheart: 8,5/10 : The kick inside b-sides
6.Aerial: 8,25/10 : This album is the most grand album from her and it is just amazing but the main problem is that the 2nd disc brings the average down even though it has an amazing ending
7.50 Words For Snow: 8/10: Surprisingly good for me and I don't mind how long the tracks are
8.The Sensual World: 6/10 : This album Is hounds of love but all of the stuff that made that album interesting is gone and it's just pop
9.The Red Shoes: 5/10 : This album is a mess and feels like a phil collins album to be honest
If you dont like Babooshka you havent seen the video. Same goes with cloudbusting. And regarding blindspot: maybe its because her last tour was in the eighties, and she has 10 years+ gaps between her albums. However she can still outsell big venues within seconds.. she is a genius
Well she's a lot more tolerable than Bjork that's for sure.
Lol, The Dreaming at no. 9, and "sounds cheesy and dated" is the funniest fucking thing. Never for Ever not having many good songs? No wonder Kate didn't take off over there.
Don’t lump me in with those heathens. - Joe
Kate Bush is the Best! "The Dreaming" is the best album ever..."Running Up That Hill" best single ever...I could go on...
There is no worst Kate Bush album.
I’ve been listening to Kate Bush since the summer of 1980 when I visited my cousin in West Berlin. Sigmund and his friends turned me on to some really interesting music and when I came home I had Kate Bush’s first two albums packed in my suitcase along with Nina Hagen Band and Peter Gabriel Ein Deutsches Album (his third album sung in German). Since then, I’ve listened to each and every Kate Bush album a thousand times or more and each one has grown on me with each listening. I couldn’t pick a favorite if I tried. So, you nouveau Bush fans, if you think you like her now, just wait.
I couldn't pick a favourite either. However, I'd like to make a case for 'Never for Ever' as her most _magical_ album. It does tend to get overlooked during retrospectives, because 'The Dreaming' was so bold and 'Hounds' so commercially successful. There's something about the way 'Night Scented Stock' goes into 'Army Dreamers' that is so enchanting. Even though Army Dreamers is a sad song. Next track is 'Breathing' - a real leap for Kate in terms of piano-based songwriting and utilising the studio. 'Never' was very successful here (in UK ) too. I was 10 when it came out and remember 'Babooshka' being everywhere on radio / TV. In the late 1980s, as a Kate obsessive, I bought the gatefold vinyl album and it was such a beautiful piece of art in itself. It just transported you - it did.
With 'The Dreaming' she went hell for leather anti-twee! Because that record was misunderstood at the time, I think reviewers over praise it now in compensation. Don't get me wrong, any album featuring 'Night of the Swallow' has my admiration. For me, that was the best combination of piano and blowsy drum machine on 'The Dreaming'. But..for those early years in her career - there was a child-like quality to her music and it ended with Never for Ever. What was yet to come was magnificent. However, it was kind of a shame to see the old Kate go...
@@reesemorgan2259 , well stated. I agree, Never for Ever is magical.
Nice one chaps - appreciate all the content. Any chance of a Nick Cave list? Everyone has differing opinions so be good to hear your thoughts.
I do love Kate's first 3 LPs best with Kick Inside at the top. I will say this, Kram made maybe the single best description/explanation of Kate's spectacular early period work in that although she has this amazing musical ability, she still does not yet have a full, life experience to draw on and that gives that early work such a mystique... Great artist to feature guys!
I understand why you didn't put Directors Cut on the list, but it would've been interesting to hear everyone's thoughts on it as an honourable mention.
Edit: Aerial is my favourite.
Happy to see Joe safe from the clutches of post-rock. Man, Explosions In The Sky vs Joe...would be more epic than the epics that band aspires too
Yeah her more challenging work are growers Airiel especially. It’s taken me several listens to click and as I mature it seems to mature. I loved 50 words almost immediately so have never understood why others struggle with it
❤ this video. I live in England so grew up with Kate Bush. Such a pioneer in so many things (including the microphone headset).
❤ Jason's choice for number 1!! Sensual World for me has to be her best work, such great songs and using The Trio Bulgarka to underpin the songs was just genius.
I was never a big fan of the acclaimed 9th Wave, so it's nice to see alternative top picks.
The Dreaming is art ( and thus her best) the rest is pop... And it's not a "synth" album but there is frequent use of the sampler. Apart from that it's a very acoustic album.
Well she does not tour, that does not help. Kate is my Favorite Female singer. I was introduced to her in 1981. I believe The Dreaming is her best.Hounds of Love her second.
I'm also not very familiar with her work. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
The Dreaming
Hounds of Love
The sensual world
Red shoes
Never for ever
Before the dawn
Lion heart
The kick inside
Arial
50 words for snow
It's interesting to see a list like this by people who are now discovering her discography. It kinda changes everything, in some ways.
About The Dreaming controversy, lol, it's an impressively experimental album made with ovaries of steel. It's soooooo impressive in it''s scope. But the production qualities are a bit grating, and you have to put it in context. It's a lot of novell technologie here being used in creative and unorthodox ways.
Great video interesting to see such big differences of opinion definitely a unique artist
If David Gilmore, Elton John, Peter Gabriel, Eric Clapton, and Prince say she is a genius, we should probably listen.
I say so, too. - Joe
Agreed - Kramzer
@@TastesLikeMusic Thanks Joe for understanding The Dreaming..The fractured, extreme, dizzying approach to the production was intentional and was absolutely right for the material. Kate is not a "songstress", she is an "album" artist, and with total creative control as writer, arranger, performer and producer. So there are NO instances of blind experiments per se. The Dreaming, as the title indicates, is like a foray into the Jungian collective unconscious..or rather, the Archetypal realm coming out to visit US!! Lol...
It's like all the dreams, visions , terrors, joys, and nightmares from some hidden part of our psyche have leaped out into the waking world, and now we can't "unhear" it, Lol....
This was a great episode...awesome to see Kate Bush get some love...super underrated artist
For future episodes, would love to see rankings on:
Fleetwood Mac
Smashing Pumpkins
Springsteen
The Mountain Goats
Modest Mouse
Keep up the awesome work guys!
We have a Springsteen one! - Joe
It depends on how one feels about her albums. To generalize it as best or worst. How does one rank the works of Kate Bush. It really depends on the listener.
You guys took too much to digest in too little time. Kramzer: "Hurry up and be over, song. I'm trying to rank your album." For Joe:
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