Kate Bush appreciation thread

noni wrote: Love her music and like to marry her,  though slightly plump now !!

I'm sure she won't hold a little plumpness against you.

noni wrote: Love her music and like to marry her,  though slightly plump now !!

Kate Bush is the pinnacle to me. I love Annette Peacock, Joni Mitchell, Sandy Denny also. 

It was some years I read Bush book, so if I remember right, both lionheart & red shoes are albums she wasn´t very satisfied (not also totally satisfied the Kick Inside & Never For Ever, I believe she liked the most the Dreaming, that is one of my big faves too & the Hounds of Love). The reason she made Director´s cut is just dissatisfaction to Sensuel World and Red Shoes or at least some parts of them.

I'm not a big fan of The Red Shoes but once I met a lady who said that in her opionion The Red Shoes is Kate's strongest work, the lyrics in particular mean a lot to her, and this made me put some effort into appreciating it. And I kind of do. This is Kate Bush in a state in her life to which I may have a hard time to relate, or a hard time to her artistic expression of it, but surely it is a very emotional and original album. Surely what's wrong with it is not that it's just a boring weak or derivative album, what's "wrong" with it is that I find it hard to relate to the aesthetic of it. But I think I will get back to the album regularly to see whether it grows on me (or rather whether I'll grow into it), because obviously and clearly even to those who don't like it, there is as much to discover on it as on any other of Kate's albums, and whether we can relate to it is up to us ultimately.

(I should probably have given it another listen directly before writing this so I could say something more in detail but I just came across this discussion and wrote what I think quickly without extra research.) 

richardh wrote: Before The Dawn   I know its been said plenty of times already but really should have been released with a DVD. Sorry Kate but this is just bad form even if you are generally amazing.

Mortte wrote: Well, I think Red Shoes is the weakest Bush-album

So what's everyone's opinion of The Red Shoes (album)? I used to belong to a Kate Bush FB group (before it became too weird) and it used to get a lot of stick.

40 years since Wuthering Heights made number 1 in the UK and in 2014 she had 8 albums in the UK top 40. Kate Bush is pretty much in a category in her own.

Kingsnake wrote: I don't even know what is so bad about Theresa May. She is a conservative?

Yep, that's about it.

I think you're right, Kate's comment was more that she was glad to see a woman in a position of power, I don't think she has any great political leanings.