the tracklist sounds chilling doesnt it? Vibe set already

Only seven songs? Unless they're all over 5 minutes long, won't this be classed as an EP.

Anyway, I like the theme, but at the same time I feel like she should be doing more with it.

I want really glacial artwork for this.

the total running time is 65 minutes i think so you can safely bet they are longer than 5 minutes.

Bloody hell!

I guess I shouldn't be too shocked; lots or art rock songs can go to lengths like 12 minutes but I like to have a few short tunes to be digestable on my ipod.

i'm sure some will be shorter than others...you may get one around 4-5 minutes for yer ipod!

BUMP this thread up!

Played Hounds Of Love in full yesterday and by damn it is just.....as with all her stuff really....TIMELESS! Like you have her more huge anthemic, radio friendly style songs to launch the album and then that divide into The Ninth Wave is stunning.

Also i love playing The Dreaming it is the maddest album ever made most definitely! Played it earlier today in full for the first in ages.

Awww i have missed Kate, right after Madonna and Prince she is my fave artist....certainly my favorite British Artist of all time. I mean she is just....well she is EPIC! she sets the mood in each song and creates this cinematic escape and it is vivid, you can imagine Spielberg, Burton and Fincher directing these absurd visual templates for each song! It is often macabre, beautiful and elegant to hear.

Just cannot wait for this new album. I am glad artists like FLorence Welch, Katy B, Adele have brought back that brash British Female artist back. That eccentricity and that appeal blended together in either mainstream or niche markets definitely

this is Kate's finest hour in her early career....i love this album played rediculously loud through ear-phones
the ninth wave is a masterpiece, i can't imagine any other artist having the talent to pull that off!!

Only Kate can do music like she does really. The Dreaming out of her first 4 albums really stands out doesnt it, i feel it is her most overlooked phase in her career too.

It is played loud definitely like she instructs

And The Ninth Wave only she could do! It is epic. Like the EPIC famous anthems and then WHAM into The Ninth Wave. Hounds Of Love is truly a fave but one of those albums that is just the best ever you know?

The Sensual World i will play today. I still need to buy The Red Shoes and Lionheart yet! Dont think i will get Directors Cut because loads have given it mixed reviews....but i may do! As that has Red Shoes remastered too and Sensual World remastered (although i have it already). But would be nice gift as well as 50 WOrds Of Snow new album

glad you bumped with that comment. These are timeless albums. I was listening to some of her demos this afternoon and stumbled across one for Leave It Open (which sounds pretty much like the album version) but it was remarkably original.
I've said it before but I really wish she'd dust off the old Fairlight and make an album just using this, as she clearly knew how to work that thing. And using an 80's synthesizer wouldn't necessarily result in 80's sounding work, since NFE, HOL nor The Dreaming sound particularly 80's.

And perhaps one day she will, since I read that her recent re-issue of The Red Shoes was actually quite radically regressive, in that she converted it from digital to analogue (which I wasn't aware of). So, I'm kinda hoping, perhaps next year when we get the new album , we'll see a bit more of that synth experimentation which has been missing from her work for so long.

But for this forthcoming album (all about snow) I'm hoping for a bit of crooning around a piano.

I do see what you mean, her music in the 80s was not necessarily "80s" they have impacted the 80s Pop Scene but not necessarily being typical of a "movement" she wasnt in the Madonna, Prince, MJ titans of the decade in Pop, but not in the kinda tat shoved in the end of the decade with S/A/W productions NOR New Wave styles. It was raw which was what made her a staple that decade and in actualy fact like Madonna, MJ, Prince has allowed her music to be accessible whenever and wherever for the future....Hounds Of Love is a powerful album and it proved it with longevity! As with all her 80s works, and even The Kick Inside is so absurd it could be made today (but not obv.)

That is what is special about her, she is a unique VERY talented individual that made the music to appeal to whoever was interested and it excelled a massive fanbase then and today proves how loyal her fanbase has become and the fact it has grown, but without her being "mainstream" or pushing her name out as a brand of her music, she was and forever is Kate Bush for what we love her as

And i hope we have a Studio album next year too. 50 Words For Snow looks set to really tide us over but i hope that is not it from the Pull Of The Bush

[quote=lil lexie;52885617]glad you bumped with that comment. These are timeless albums. I was listening to some of her demos this afternoon and stumbled across one for Leave It Open (which sounds pretty much like the album version) but it was remarkably original.
I've said it before but I really wish she'd dust off the old Fairlight and make an album just using this, as she clearly knew how to work that thing. And using an 80's synthesizer wouldn't necessarily result in 80's sounding work, since NFE, HOL nor The Dreaming sound particularly 80's.

And perhaps one day she will, since I read that her recent re-issue of The Red Shoes was actually quite radically regressive, in that she converted it from digital to analogue (which I wasn't aware of). So, I'm kinda hoping, perhaps next year when we get the new album , we'll see a bit more of that synth experimentation which has been missing from her work for so long.

But for this forthcoming album (all about snow) I'm hoping for a bit of crooning around a piano.[/QUOTE]


i'll have some of that but i'm also hoping for some massive orchestral numbers with lots of choir and cinematic type sound....bells, whistles the lot!!

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mmm yes! i woud love that too!

Orchestral sounds, minimalistic but powerful! Would love to hear Kate in acapella delivery perhaps too....that would be so haunting and beautiful

Kate's Xmas Special 1979. Thanks to katebushfilms


http://youtu.be/whbeIH-Sn80

I would lvoe for Kate Bush to do a WInter special to coincide with her album.

An audience with Kate Bush? style show...or a Jools Holland special. It would be fantastic.

And considering there is FLorence Welch and RIhanna and various other mainstream artists releasing across Novemeber it would be fantastic promotion for Kate too. While the reserved attitude she has is part of her characer i would love for her to reconnect and perform massive classics and hits as well as her new album material LIVE

No chance of that, Josh, sadly.

Never know

with Kate anything can happen. But i remain optimistic....at least we have new material. But i do miss Kate

Isn't it annoying she doesn't tour? Such a waste in my opinion.

From what i saw of The Tour Of Life...she should have done more world tours!

Especially after a break for Hounds Of Love. She should have really performed The Ninth Wave live, and THOSE absolute anthemic hits! Would have been astounding concerts.

I agree. Love that album. In a way she's kind of robbed her fans. For most artists touring is the best part of their career and it's where they make most of their profit. Sadly though, I think Kate is past her prime and the idea of a tour now is nearly impossisble.

The Hounds Of Love is theatre on an album and i cannot understand why Kate wouldnt have toured with that album. I mean it was a career relaunch! In so many ways and one of the greatest albums ever made!

And The Sensual World i think could have had a very greek themed world tour perhaps! Would be very unusual i think. But she could have toured in 1989 to promote that album.

Even Arial she could have done a few concerts.

But hey!

You mean Ariel? :P I love that album too. I think HOL and that are my faves. Only been listening to her the last 2 or so years though. Can't wait for this new album.

Well being born in 1992....i have only been a fan for small time...but i think it was when i heard RUnning Up That Hill on radio and i asked who she was....probs 2001/2 but got her The Whole Story compilation christmas 2005! and also knew of King Of The Mountain then being released so got that album summer 06.

HOL is right alongside Like A Prayer, Ray Of Light, Erotica and Sign Of The Times my fave albums of all time top 5 3 by Madonna, 1 Prince, 1 Kate....perfect for me.

ANd of course The Dreaming is in my top 10 albums of all time too. I feel it is one of the maddest Pop albums ever made! Still to date and is so overlooked

I was listening to Ray of Light the other day. It's amazing! What are your fave live Kate videos? I've not seen much.

Always is,would have loved to have seen how M would have toured with ROL but due to her being preggers with Rocco it and Music were kinda on tour together. But again like Hounds Of Love you can visualise a video for each and every song.

Back onto The Pull Of The Bush As for live shows i dont really know as i havent seen much of Kates live concert material to be honest. Which is a shame but Tour Of Life i have seen bits of.

And a comic relief video i think too.

a few words from Kate..........
http://www.katebushnews.com/index.ph...-to-new-album/