A sun filled blue sky day is written all over this song. Showing her depth of knowledge and perception. Kate’s British accent provides a regal sound to everything she does and her playful way of singing takes the listener right along with her.ģ. “I found a fox caught by dogs.” “His little heart it beat so fast.” It’s the delivery of these lines which makes this such a great song. Hounds of Love – Drums, and then that perfect vocal instrument jumps out at you, “When I was child running in the night, afraid of what might be hiding in the dark.” “I don’t know what’s good for me.” Then one of the best lines in the song. This song certainly builds on that legacy.Ģ. Kate makes you think throughout her catalog of work. There would be more songs later that would create controversy, like the idea of the military using music for war, but the idea and dream that we could trade places with God is an interesting cognitive exercise. Kate is well known for interesting ideas brought to music. Kate opens, “It doesn’t hurt me.” “But you want to feel how it feels” Kate’s backing vocals are just as warm as the lead. But this is a vocal driven song, and Kate’s delivery of the lyrics act as another perfectly tuned instrument. Just before the power drums kick in and more synths meander about. Running Up The Hill – That winding synth is so immediately familiar. Nowhere was it more apparent than on this album, her fifth, recorded in her own time, at her own studio.ġ. Her imagination and ability to capture the power of an idea, especially what it means to be English, and bring it through her music is incomparable. She is in a league with some of the greatest female singers of all time. “In 2002, Q Magazine named Hounds of Love the third Greatest Album of All-Time by a Female Artist, and in 2000, the twentieth Greatest British Artist of All Time (Wikipedia, Hounds Of Love 2010)įew female vocalists can be compared to Peter Gabriel, Greg Lake, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, or Roger Daltrey, but Kate Bush IMHO sits atop the pinnacle of female vocalists of rock since the 60s and 70s.
Other videos would follow, along with double platinum status in the UK, selling more than 3 million albums worldwide.
She also used the medium of MTV to its maximum by creating a short film with Donald Sutherland for the song Cloudbusting, based on the novel A Book of Dreams, by Wilhelm Reich. Her album previous to Hounds, The Dreaming had done well in the US, but Hounds would take her to stardom. With this setting as a backdrop Kate Bush would launch herself, with the aid of her record company and MTV videos, high on the American stage. “Microsoft releases its first version of Windows” (Wikipedia 1985, 2010). “Mike Tyson makes his debut in Albany, New York with a first round knockout” There would be many more. “William Schroeder becomes the first artificial heart patient to leave the hospital” “DNA is first used in a criminal case”īack to the Future helps launch a back to the 50s explosion in movies and nostalgia. “British Telecom announces it is going to phase out their famous red telephone boxes. But we’re in the final throws of the deep Cold War and the Soviet Union for that matter. Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party in the USSR. There still was a USSR, and Reagan is sworn in for his second term as President. But no, video did not kill the radio star. It’s 1985, and MTV is near its zenith, and the Live Aid concert that summer coupled with the “We Are the World” single, and the Band Aid video from the Christmas of 1984 would make the channel the most important thing in music.
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