Why The '80's Didn't Suck: Kate Bush

These four albums forever mark my life. 

Edited by Slartibartfast - May 13 2011 at 23:22

The Kick was 1978 not bad as the prog giants were starting to wind down. 



Edited by Slartibartfast - May 13 2011 at 23:30

Atavachron wrote: Brian check your inbox

My inbox was displaying 0   I had two when I pulled it up.  Should report it probably but it's a Friday evening and I don't give a damn.
Cranking up Get Out Of My House, so glad to be out of that damned apartment.
After Get Out, I'm Running.


Edited by Slartibartfast - May 13 2011 at 23:38

Hounds Of Love.

Edited by richardh - May 14 2011 at 02:04

I just want to take time to agree with that title.
Oh and The Dreaming, the best album of the 80s.

Hounds of Love is absolutely wonderful, it's proof positive that you don't have to sacrifice accessibility, atmosphere and emotion to get experimental at the same time.

moe_blunts wrote: I voted Never For Ever because it is my current favorite Bush album.  Infant Kiss is particularly...well, disturbing.  Great stuff.

Hounds followed by never for ever

Sean Trane wrote: Well my preferred KB albums are from the 70's.... Sooooo the 80's did suck after all !!!     All kidding aside, even if there is the odd good album that was released in that dreaded decade, they are usually the exception that confirms the rule....

Odd good album?  Nightfly,  The Dreaming/Hounds of Love, Synchronicity/Ghosts in a Machine, Moving Pictures/Signals, Fire of Unknown origin, Discipline, Remain in Light, Gaucho, Metal Fatigue...there's no shortage of good albums from the 80s. Yes, it was no match for the 70s (so what!) but I really doubt the conventional wisdom of the 90s being so much better than the 80s these days. Yeah, if you really hate the guts out of all accessible music, then maybe.  80s production values were awful but the albums weren't necessarily so.

EDIT: On topic, I love the first three of these chronologically almost equally for different reasons but got to give it to Dreaming for just how mad it is.  An incredible and bold metamorphosis of a talented artist.


Edited by rogerthat - June 16 2011 at 10:13

Chris S wrote: Hounds of Love is such a powerful work, yet individual albums appeal at different times.

That is exactly right. Her albums appeal for different reasons and yet it's possible to like a good many of her albums too.  In spite of Hounds of Love's commercial success, I'd have to say she's somewhat underrated.  She has amazing control working within essentially pop form, paints varied and highly evocative textures and writes unusual chord progressions that are still effective and expressive enough to have immediate appeal.  And rarer still is she seems to be able to pull a different ace to bank on in different albums, whereas composers typically identify their strengths early on and tap them to the hilt.  If the first two albums seem to draw more on the conventional focal points of melody and harmony, Hounds of Love relies more on texture and rhythm and I can't say she is less effective as a composer in either approach.


Edited by rogerthat - June 16 2011 at 12:01