Somebody Explain Kate Bush to me
Somebody Explain Kate Bush to me
I tried listening to Wuthering Heights for the umpteenth time and I still don't get it. A lot of pfaffing about and being too-cute-by-half over mid-70s AM piano music.
It's got a sinister Pop Culture For Tories vibe to it, too.
It's got a sinister Pop Culture For Tories vibe to it, too.
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Re: Somebody Explain Kate Bush to me
Try Babushka or Running Up that Hill.
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Re: Somebody Explain Kate Bush to me
Gotta say that I'm mostly with Inder here. I don't dislike her by any means—and I quite like "Running Up That Hill" and "Experiment IV"—but the adulation she receives tells me I'm not hearing what others do.
edit: I really and truly dislike "This Woman's Work." Maybe the lyrics are wonderful, I dunno, but the sound is so grating I can't flee fast enough.
edit: I really and truly dislike "This Woman's Work." Maybe the lyrics are wonderful, I dunno, but the sound is so grating I can't flee fast enough.
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"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Re: Somebody Explain Kate Bush to me
I also like Hounds of Love.
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Re: Somebody Explain Kate Bush to me
I like some of her early material but do suspect her reputation is somewhat exaggerated because of the mysterious and aloof persona she has cultivated, at least partly anyway. Remember listening to Aerial when it came out a few years back, massively hyped and acclaimed but I couldn't detect any significant musical value in it whatsoever.
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I like the early stuff but can’t say I know much if any of her later stuff but agree with Low Down her reclusiveness added to her reputation.
Re: Somebody Explain Kate Bush to me
Same here, just without the quotation marks.
Who pfaffed the pfaff? Who got pfaffed tonight?
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Re: Somebody Explain Kate Bush to me
*snort* Even if it's the Volkswagen bikini team shift?
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Re: Somebody Explain Kate Bush to me
this woman = KBDr. Medulla wrote: ↑11 Aug 2018, 7:23pm*snort* Even if it's the Volkswagen bikini team shift?
Who pfaffed the pfaff? Who got pfaffed tonight?
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Whoops—I thought you were making a joke about not liking to do housework (i.e., "women's work").
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You got to love it when you get outjoked by the GermanDr. Medulla wrote: ↑11 Aug 2018, 7:59pmWhoops—I thought you were making a joke about not liking to do housework (i.e., "women's work").
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101Walterton wrote: ↑11 Aug 2018, 8:54pmYou got to love it when you get outjoked by the GermanDr. Medulla wrote: ↑11 Aug 2018, 7:59pmWhoops—I thought you were making a joke about not liking to do housework (i.e., "women's work").
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Re: Somebody Explain Kate Bush to me
She's fucking rubbish.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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Re: Somebody Explain Kate Bush to me
Vehemently Indeston.