Kate Bush 'Never For Ever' Poll

ah, missed the thread: Kate Bush: "Never For Ever" C/D?

"Army Dreamers", for sure. I'm not all that fond of most of these songs. "Egypt" is the only other song I ever really feel any urge to hear. I love the verse-melody of "Babooshka", but that damn chorus...

army dreamers

breathing, bombastic as it is

You have to really wonder if ALL that stuff came out of Kate Bush's vagina.
Including the swan.

-- EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, September 22, 2006 10:02 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

actually, i may have to go with breathing. so intense.

THANK YOU i was contemplating starting this last wk.

definitely NOT army dreamers. if you're going along those lines, it would be Infant Kiss but i'm prolly gonna go with Egypt. Though All We Ever Look For and Breathing are top-notch.

the crescendo of voices in Egypt tho, is unparalleled.

Well for me it has to be Babooshka (crash craaaassssh craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssshhhh crrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssshhhhhhhhhh)

i can't get over babooshka. what a horrible refrain.

"get into" not "get over"

u crazee

why is she singing about a babooshka. why is she using yiddish.

Shouldn't this be the NEVER POLL EVER poll?

seriously.

actually it's russian, my bad

still think it's kate at her most ridiculous. i prefer "hee haw hee haw hee haw hee haw hee haw"

babooshka's melody is really hook-y and awes, in the verses

i do love the verses. i just put on the album.

:)

i'm kind of biased tho cuz that was the first kate bush song i ever heard. at the time i was like what. the. fuck. is this. my mom's influence (gotta have something to thank her for!)

Voted "Delius" but this is seriously hard because

- The album is crowded with great tracks
- like most 80s Kate Bush album it works best as a whole

delius has a wonderful drum machine thing

delius and blow away are sooo romantic and gorgeous.

not sure if anything here stacks up quite to anything on the dreaming or HoL but "breathing" is def. one of my favorite apocalypse songs

the way it swells with the chorus at the end

Alright, alright, I'm gonna rip this to my iPod in a sec, but it really is one of my least fave Kate albums.

anyone who likes the sensual world better than never for ever is just wrong. sorry b <3

Ha!!! Actually I was just thinking that! I was like "this is my least fave album - oh wait um...oh yeah Sensual World is my least fave..." hahahahaah

controversial opinion: i think this is better than hounds of love

Ha! Ha! Ha...um. No.

I'd actually concur with this being better than Hounds -- or at least I've listened it to it much more. Many great songs on this, and I'm not sure I can pick just one standout.

This is a great album. There's some love. I'm voting for "All We Ever Look For," which I find frighteningly insightful in its simplicity.

My other favorites are: Babooshka, Infant Kiss (which I thnk might have a thread devoted to it somewhere here), Army Dreamer, and Breathing. Maybe Wedding List and Violin, although I used to like them more.

Not sure I agree at all that this works best as an album. I think the best tracks stand on their own fairly well and I'm not convinced my least favorite tracks really add anything.

"Insightful" isn't really the word I want either, but I think it cuts to the core of life (dare I say it). Lyrically it's an instance of where Kate Bush reminds me of Neil Young's best moments (lyrically): this ability to simply state something sort of obvious and yet have it carry a lot of punch. (I prefer Neil Young's lyrics when he's being abstract and direct to when he's indulging in concrete fantasies.)

The Sensual World is a great album, I've never understood the criticism of it. factor in the b-sides and it's even better.

yea all we ever look for is really poignant, in a simple way. also just arranged so beautifully. whatever that guitar thing is

the production on the sensual world sometimes makes me want to gag, and while it has some amazing tracks, some are so overwrought and unlistenable (love and anger)

And Rockist mentions Neil Young, just as I did on the Radiohead thread. I love it. Alright, alright, I'm going to put this album on my iPod right now.

I can tell you though right away though, that Army Dreamers is my fave. Sorry.

I find that interesting that you have that problem with the production, Surmounter. I never really gave much thought to the production on that, but you may be correct.

i find it noisy, clunky and distorted.

but obviously the great tracks are o_O

1. Delius
2. Egypt
3. everything else

I PUT IT ON THE WEDDING LIST

the chorus at the end of that song is FUCKING AMAZING AS WELL

The Infant Kiss for me. And the French language version, L'Baiser Enfant, is just peachy too.

Night Scented Stock!

It's the key to the Infant Kiss through Breathing chunk that I've been listening to every day lately.

But for real, I can't choose between Egypt, Infant Kiss, and Breathing. I'll have to think about this for a day or two.

"Army Dreamers" you contrarian mothers.

violin cracks me up every time

WHACK THAT DEVIL

One of my fave KB albums. "Blow Away" is especially gorgeous and so I voted for it. Hard to pick just one on here, though!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I still haven't played this album yet. Thanks Noodle for the vote of confidence. Army Dreamers all the fucking way.

I'm playing it now, like a good boy...

Everyone knows she's god.

fucking Delius, people. IS SHE NOT GOD????

THE WEDDING LIST

Army Dreamers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdHOm256N4

Here's probably the best Never For Ever-related video, "Egypt" from the Christmas special. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvA96fTftNU

And here's Wedding List from the same special http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7-DKGAeRgs

thanks

omg @ egypt video O_o

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

uh, i guess i forgot to vote cuz Egypt has no votes

this is almost as wrong as the RUTH landslide in the other one

how do you forget to vote

:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ymxgS4XHRA

guitar solo in "violin" instead of violin solo, c or d??

http://gaffa.org/wow/k49.jpg

^^^Her in the Babooshka video...I love that this is her conception of what some crazy homewrecker id woman looks like.

I have wanted to do that as a Halloween costume forever but it wld be a pain in the ass to explain to everyone what I was supposed to be.

The first British nunber one album to be written and performed by a woman: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/kate-bush-never-for-ever.html

would go to renfair with KB ++

i got so much love for Delius

All we ever look for was robbed. Some days I would say this is the best Bush album

Sync night scented stock with blow away bill for some bonus harmonies. Seriously

wedding list also robbed

how did Breathing not win this

0 votes for wedding list makes as much sense as a screen door on a submarine

Maybe I couldn't imagine anyone else writing Army Dreamers, but All We Ever Looked For is even more distinctively Kate. Absolutely can't imagine anyone else writing/recording anything close to that (prior to her doing so anyway).

(I showed restraint by not using the word "quintessentially.")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6IvSBJMOnU

"Blow Away."

love the sonic details in this album, like the suppressed choir from hell on "Egypt", or the radio chatter on "Breathing" and the voice saying "don't let go" in collision with her "let go" vocal on the infant kiss. Bush was more foreground in the production and this was a transitional album to the same sonic signifiers and tendency towards sonic experiments she would use on "the dreaming" and "the hounds of love" and further.

feel like what sets this record apart is it feels like the first expansion on the sonic ideas she may have initiated on tracks like "moving" (kick inside) without the laser-eye experimentation of "dreaming" or honing back to commercial whims on "Hounds of Love". and it's a good set of songs. the end

is that how night scented stock came to be? were those background vocals meant to be used on blow away?

Not sure the story tbh akm but it's a cool detail!

somewhere deep in my heart i know this is my favorite kate bush album

would've/should've??? voted "the infant kiss"

One of the things I love about this album is that I'm always a bit shocked by it when I put it on? Even after about 30 years of listening to it.

this is her only album where I have trouble remembering the songs but the quality is still high. So I'm always pleasantly surprised when I put it on and start realizing how many great songs there are. I'm not sure if that's what you meant, Tim, but that's my experience with it