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Poll Question: What is your favorite song from the new album?
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    Posted: July 11 2015 at 12:56

Have had the album for a few years but had never really digested it until recently.  I can't say I'm a great fan of Kate Bush - I'd always admired her stuff but there was something about the glossy production and 80s synths that drove me off.....but Snow is different, as was Ariel - both excellent albums.

 
Just a bump for a word of exceptional beauty....ethereal, yet real; spacy, yet grounded; hazy, yet accessible. 
I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Snowflake is my favourite song from this collection of songs.
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Hi,
 
I can't vote for a favorite song ... for me the album is not a bunch of songs ... it's a magnificent stream of conssiousness, and beautifully done.
 
I could stand, at a party, and just read the poetry, and let it flow ... or publish it in a book ... and people would think that this is beautiful wording and work ... but in a place like this, it is totally wasted as just a song with lyrics!
 
Such a bummer!
 
Reducing this to "songs", is really sad ... and demeans, one of the most progressive albums I have heard in years ... but we can only hear songs and formats ... not music, anymore. We don't even know ... what music is anymore, unless it is, or sounds like, everything else!
  
How sad ... because this is, by far, the best album I have heard in the last 10 years. Djam Karet-Herd of Indentity get the 2nd nod by less than a millionth of an inch!


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Kate Bush.Her worst album,and in my top 10 of worst albums I've ever had the mis-fortune to hear.
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As good in July as it is in February.
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Kate is sexy!
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Snowing again up here, 50 words softly playing...


...Phenomenal Lake Tahoe.

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I adore it, but am saving it as a special "winter" experience.  I'll play it once or twice a year when snow is falling, and when I have time to sit there and really listen, then put it away till next time.  The magic isn't there on a hot August dayWink
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

50 Words for Snow is imho her best album. This is a close call between five tracks, but Misty is my favourite.
 
It is, by very far, one of the best things I have ever heard by anyone.
 
I particularly love her disdain for "format" in this album and just let the words and the music carry it away ... and I have not found a moment where I was bored, or tired of it yet ... and have listened to it several times in a row ... more than once already.
 
Also spectacular is Steve Gadd's touch on the drums to help accentuate things ... and it makes any "progressive" drummer look like a cheap and worthless metronome!
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Wot?  You don't like Kate's music???  Get him!!! AngryLOL
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The enjoyment of Kate Bush's music seems to mostly elude me, but I won't give up.  I guess that I just haven't found the right mindset yet.   In regards to the poll question, I went with Wild Man, which is a song off of here that I do enjoy. 

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I voted for Wheeler Street...... although to be really really honest I don't like Elton's voice on this, it's too much for this song. I love the song though, it's really moving and thought provoking. 

My fav KB album though?  I gotta say I'm still loving Aerial the best.   I haven't listened to this one enough though, although I'm enjoying it it's not my fav from her.  Always top quality from Kate though. 
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Lovely album. Enjoyed it very much, but haven't really taken the time to dig deeper yet. I need to listen to it more before I can single out favourites.  
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Originally posted by Chris S Chris S wrote:


 
I have one small criticism for this album and was wondering if anyone else shares this view....I find certain choruses/lines so damn hard to not repeat and repeat long after the album has ended. No other Bush album foes this except maybe " Kick Inside'
 
 


Certainly happens to me too with this album, but it also happens for me on most her albums.  Kate plays often in my head for days after playing an album. 
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

  1. The Dreaming
  2. Hounds Of Love
  3. Never For Ever
  4. Aerial
  5. The Kick Inside
  6. Lionheart
  7. The Sensual World
With Sensual world being easily in last place
 
thats pretty close to how I would rank them but would probably switch 1 and 2 round and also 6 and 7 round.Lionheart is not as 'cohesive' a work as SW imo.
 
As Chris suggest though they are at least good
 
Need more time to decide where 50 Words For Snow should be . At the moment my gut feeling is 4 or 5.
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:



In any case, I should not have sidetracked this into an album list thread...sorry.  Forget the lists, let's get back to SNOW!!  Smile

Alright then, why no love so far for Lake Tahoe and Among Angels? LOL



I love both, Lake Tahoe especially.  Those two and Misty are the "deeper" tracks which will reveal their greatness over time.  When first hearing the album, the "catchier" songs grab onto you, stuff like Tahoe sinks in later perhaps.  Just a theory. 
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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:



In any case, I should not have sidetracked this into an album list thread...sorry.  Forget the lists, let's get back to SNOW!!  Smile

Alright then, why no love so far for Lake Tahoe and Among Angels? LOL
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  1. The Dreaming
  2. Hounds Of Love
  3. Never For Ever
  4. Aerial
  5. The Kick Inside
  6. Lionheart
  7. The Sensual World
With Sensual world being easily in last place

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Originally posted by Chris S Chris S wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Oh come now mate, that's a dodge.  If you made a Kate list, there has to be one at the bottom.....even if you like all of them, you're going to like the others more than the final entry on your list.  Wink
 
I honestly don't have a poor Kate Bush album....how good is that?



OK, knowing Kate fans, I should have said.....if you could only take 8 Kate albums to the desert island, which one would you leave behindWink

In any case, I should not have sidetracked this into an album list thread...sorry.  Forget the lists, let's get back to SNOW!!  Smile
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