can we do The Sensual World (kate bush)?

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probably The Fog

Poll Results

OptionVotes
this woman's work 11
the sensual world 8
love and anger 3
rocket's tail 3
reaching out 2
never be mine 2
deeper understanding 1
the fog 1
between a man and a woman 0
heads we're dancing 0
walk straight down the middle 0


Surmounter, Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:33 (seventeen years ago)

title track

i'm educated in sex, yes (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:33 (seventeen years ago)

mmmmmmmmmmmmm yessss

i'm educated in sex, yes (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:33 (seventeen years ago)

def hard to beat

Surmounter, Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:34 (seventeen years ago)

I've never actually heard this one, I was always under the impression it was kind of sub-par.

Enormous Epic (Matt DC), Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:37 (seventeen years ago)

it is, but the highlights are pretty amazing. also, good work with the trio bulgarka

Surmounter, Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:38 (seventeen years ago)

Voted for 'The Fog'

Enemy Insects (NickB), Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:39 (seventeen years ago)

yes i said yes mmmmmmm yes

Jimmy Pursey Thrower (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:42 (seventeen years ago)

this woman's work

congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:43 (seventeen years ago)

This Woman's Work

Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:44 (seventeen years ago)

Just put your feet down child

Enemy Insects (NickB), Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

this has some reputation as being sub-par, and that reputation is completely wrong. the album is a little bit slick sounding, but it's still incredible; this is one of my favorite kate albums because it's really almost all downbeat depressing ballads. Anyway it's either the title track, this woman's work, or never be mine...

akm, Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:47 (seventeen years ago)

in fact, this album might have the highest ratio of great songs on it. the only song on here I wouldn't rank as exceptional is head's we're dancing and even that has great bass playing

akm, Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:48 (seventeen years ago)

Christgau: "The title track would give Henry James a boner."

Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 May 2009 15:29 (seventeen years ago)

title track or love and anger...

butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Thursday, 21 May 2009 15:34 (seventeen years ago)

this woman's work but i love deeper understanding

cutty, Thursday, 21 May 2009 15:48 (seventeen years ago)

that song that mentions computers

ambience chaser (S-), Thursday, 21 May 2009 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

Prince sampled that one nicely.

Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 May 2009 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

never be mine!

Turangalila, Thursday, 21 May 2009 18:19 (seventeen years ago)

"This Woman's Work" very easily, up there with "A Dream" or "After The Gold Rush" or "Waterloo Sunset" as one of the all-time great melodies of the rock era. And very much her best song (although A+ to Maxwell for just loving that melody!!).

Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 21 May 2009 18:36 (seventeen years ago)

'reaching out' has always been my fave, sentimental climaxes get me.

keythkeythkeyth, Friday, 22 May 2009 03:15 (seventeen years ago)

...sentimental climaxes get me

And sweeping Michael Nyman string arrangements. It's the guests that make for my favorite songs on the album: Nyman, Trio Bulgarka, David Gilmour. Although "This Woman's Work" gets by on the fact that it's fucking genius.

Hideous Lump, Friday, 22 May 2009 03:32 (seventeen years ago)

'this woman's work' is so beautiful. "i know you have a little life in you yet..", the way it builds to "oh, darling, make it go away..."

lex pretend, Friday, 22 May 2009 03:44 (seventeen years ago)

I hate to be the party pooper, here, but there is no WAY that This Woman's Work isn't going to win this. No WAY.

I'm happy today because my friend is here - we finally have the same day off work! - but he has to meet his brother for awhile so he will be back later.

I know he will come back because I'm the one with Kate Bush videos and he can't resist that shit.

Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 25 May 2009 17:57 (seventeen years ago)

Also I have all the Kate Bush b-sides on my new iPod now. "Passing Through Air", "Under The Ivy"...

Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 25 May 2009 17:59 (seventeen years ago)

Anyway I promise that now I will try to decide what to vote for in this poll. Love & Anger is a mighty force to be reckoned with isn't it?

Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 25 May 2009 18:00 (seventeen years ago)

i think Love And Anger is my least favorite kate bush song of all time

the guitars are noisy, enough for a headache, and the arch of the song is so plodding and bizarre

this is very difficult, between the title track and The Fog

altho rocket's tail is pretty fekkin cool

Surmounter, Monday, 25 May 2009 18:04 (seventeen years ago)

oH ramzi I'm sorry for the Love & Anger hate you have. Sorry for that.

Reaching Out? Am I voting for Reaching Out? Look I have to go to the store now and get some more beer for me & my friend. I love him to death. And I think he understands how much his friendship means to me.

Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 25 May 2009 18:07 (seventeen years ago)

also Reaching Out i kind of hate

Surmounter, Monday, 25 May 2009 18:08 (seventeen years ago)

it's like, all the nuance of texture from Hounds of Love and The Dreaming was just obliterated by electric guitar and very, very odd production

Surmounter, Monday, 25 May 2009 18:09 (seventeen years ago)

Okay, I've given this some deep thought, and I decided to vote for Deeper Understanding: the song about the internet before there was an internet yet!

But I almost voted for "Never Be Mine" because that is what my man will vote for. But it's too emotional for me right now, I think.

Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 25 May 2009 18:23 (seventeen years ago)

Also what the fuck is happening on Rocket's Tail? Is she making some kind of rock and roll point there?

Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 25 May 2009 18:24 (seventeen years ago)

but Ramzi what trax do you like from this? You said you liked the title track right?

Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 25 May 2009 18:28 (seventeen years ago)

i like:
the sensual world
the fog
this woman's work
rocket's tail
never be mine
deeper understanding

and i kind of like "heads we're dancing"

Surmounter, Monday, 25 May 2009 18:29 (seventeen years ago)

or head's, whatevers

Surmounter, Monday, 25 May 2009 18:30 (seventeen years ago)

wish "the first minute and a half or so of 'rocket's tail'" was an option. such a gorgeous arrangement and then...that guitar. bleh.

when an old mousketeer leaves the crease (donna rouge), Monday, 25 May 2009 18:37 (seventeen years ago)

"never be mine" way underrated btw

when an old mousketeer leaves the crease (donna rouge), Monday, 25 May 2009 18:38 (seventeen years ago)

it is very good

u know i don't mind the guitar in rocket's tail, i mean it seemed era-appropriate. but yea the opening arrangement is unreal

Surmounter, Monday, 25 May 2009 18:39 (seventeen years ago)

The title track is in a league of its own here.

Geir Hongro, Monday, 25 May 2009 20:09 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

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

System, Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

this woman's work is making me cry really hard right now

Tape Store, Friday, 7 August 2009 06:27 (sixteen years ago)

ugh I couldn't listen to it tonight

Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 7 August 2009 06:43 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

this woman's work

❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Sunday, 23 August 2009 22:05 (sixteen years ago)

seven months pass...

always surprised by the lack of love for this one. It might be my favorite of hers. The electric bass on this somehow reminds me a bit of 'Hejira' but whereas that album was always about losing oneself on the infinite open roads, 'Sensual World' strikes me as such a claustrophobic album, where one loses oneself mostly in a suffocating intimacy

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 16 April 2010 10:02 (sixteen years ago)

It's my favourite, but it's also the first Kate album I bought and my feelings toward it are all caught up in memories of an interesting time in my life.

New Hors d'œuvre (DavidM), Friday, 16 April 2010 10:14 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av4PezYZoBk

the strinnnnnnngs

i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Sunday, 6 June 2010 14:58 (fifteen years ago)

"Never Be Mine" is so perfect & underrated.

silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Sunday, 6 June 2010 15:00 (fifteen years ago)

i think Love And Anger is my least favorite kate bush song of all time

the guitars are noisy, enough for a headache, and the arch of the song is so plodding and bizarre

― Surmounter, Monday, May 25, 2009 1:04 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

;_; it's such a dope song tho!!

i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Sunday, 6 June 2010 15:03 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

^^ otm the slap bass is sooo killer

WEB SHERIFF ᶠᶸᶜᵏᵧₒᵤ (LOLK), Thursday, 1 July 2010 03:08 (fifteen years ago)

i'm not sure what to make of 'deeper understanding' it could either be the best thing i've ever heard or the worst thing
during the chorus i can't help but think of burns in the xfiles episode of the simpsons saying "i bring you peace"

so probably leaning towards the latter

WEB SHERIFF ᶠᶸᶜᵏᵧₒᵤ (LOLK), Thursday, 1 July 2010 03:10 (fifteen years ago)

IT WAS HITLER

the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 1 July 2010 06:56 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

Hi, I just listened to this for the first time, which marks the first time I've really listened to a Kate Bush album. Wowza

〈font face="papyrus"〉live, laugh, love〈/font〉 (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago)

your gay card. give it to me.

for the next throbbing minutes (corey), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:46 (fifteen years ago)

IT'S JUST A PICTURE OF HITLER

look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:46 (fifteen years ago)

weird design choice for a gay card imo but whateva

for the next throbbing minutes (corey), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 23:54 (fifteen years ago)

I'm listening to the whole thing again this morning. I knew this was good but never thought I'd enjoy it this much, pan flutes and all.

〈font face="papyrus"〉live, laugh, love〈/font〉 (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 13:31 (fifteen years ago)

that album has special resonance for me because I was listening to it a lot when I moved to Boston, the first time I'd moved away from home — walking around after midnight, not knowing anyone.

for the next throbbing minutes (corey), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 15:44 (fifteen years ago)

yeah for somewhat similar reasons this is my fave KB album

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 16:11 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fMOtFdcdh0

these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 30 March 2012 22:22 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

mmh yes

(no offence to people) (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 15:29 (ten years ago)

i know

surm, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 15:40 (ten years ago)

Mmh yes, indeed. Sensual World 12" which plays either vocal or instrumental version depending on which concentric groove you put the needle on is so classic too.

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 20:05 (ten years ago)

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Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 20:13 (ten years ago)

http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/8-05-2015/qFxGbN.gif

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 20:14 (ten years ago)

My favorite track got 0 votes :(

Walk Straight Down The Middle

The Once-ler, Thursday, 6 August 2015 02:16 (ten years ago)

tried to listen to the album yesterday but couldn't get through it. i love the title track so much, as well as the accompanying video (that dance/walk!) but a lot of the songs just drag on and don't reel me in in any specific way. still, mmmmmhh yes

(no offence to people) (dog latin), Thursday, 6 August 2015 09:30 (ten years ago)

I love the title track but overall I don't get much feels from this album. This album has taken me the longest to recognize each individual track. They always blended together like pretty wallpaper. However, when pressed to really focus on these tracks I was rewarded in the same way I've been rewarded with acquired taste albums. I still suspect that it will remain a pretty wallpaper but with a few more discovered moods that I didn't find on early listens.

I don't think this is merely a plain good album. That goes to Lionheart and 50WfS.

As someone who places Red Shoes near the top of the pack, I have no qualms with anyone putting this album near the top.

The Once-ler, Thursday, 6 August 2015 14:13 (ten years ago)

I prefer The Red Shoes, garish attempts at pop crossovers and all.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 August 2015 14:14 (ten years ago)

*(i wouldn't have qualms with anyone's choices among my favorite artists' albums)

The Once-ler, Thursday, 6 August 2015 14:27 (ten years ago)

Yeah, Red Shoes has a lot more going on tunes-wise. And in terms of her more atmospheric albums, I like Snow more than Sensual World.

But I'm happy to live in a world with all of these Kate Bush albums.

something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 6 August 2015 14:29 (ten years ago)

ugh such a good way to put it

this woman's work was honestly an icon of its time - written for a John Hughes movie no less - it sounds like icicles but yet so warm and her words are no less than astounding

surm, Thursday, 6 August 2015 14:46 (ten years ago)

four years pass...

I've been really enthralled by this album just lately.

This Woman's Work is so poised & majestic. It rises & arcs just enough to articulate the key, unraveling message of the song & then retreats just as quickly as if quietly shocked at the low-key head of team it has gathered.

I even really like some of the less celebrated tracks. Heads We're Dancing has a strange, refractory chorus that sticks with you against the odds & I do love how Never Be Mine collapses into that gentle, withdrawn funk upon delivery of the song's title.

The only track I really dislike is Rocket's tail, which is obviously spoiled by an awful, gaudy 80's solo from David Gilmour that misguidedly emerges as the centrepiece of the song.

charlie h, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 05:43 (six years ago)

two years pass...

shhhhh….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1yWe4FPwTM

Mhaw Keys • I Pray

celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Saturday, 26 March 2022 23:11 (four years ago)

eight months pass...

listening to it now and the fog is just so immense

scanner darkly, Saturday, 3 December 2022 06:19 (three years ago)

rocket's tail 3

deeper understanding 1
the fog 1

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f4/75/40/f47540ad743c4d606539ed5d79e3ef83.gif

ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Saturday, 3 December 2022 07:02 (three years ago)

“Heads We’re Dancing” and “Rocket’s Tail” are just stunning. The latter is an orgasm of emotion, and that solo from Gilmour might be his best ever

beamish13, Saturday, 3 December 2022 19:22 (three years ago)


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