Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush

I was just 10 years old when I first heard Wuthering Heights. It’s funny how moments in time are frozen in clarity. I was in the car with my Dad. I don’t remember where we had been but we were just driving home. Wuthering Heights came on the radio and I instantly fell in love. I remember praying for my Dad to drive really slowly so that I could hear the end of the song before we reached home. I also remember my Dad turning the radio up - a shared moment. I guess it was the inherent and obvious witchiness of Kate that captured me. She was just so different. It wasn’t until the Hounds of Love however that I bought any of her albums. I rarely ...  Read the complete review

Love or hate her, Kate Bush made a big impact with her very first single. Wuthering Heights was a huge surprise hit, but it was a very quirky song and many thought she would be no more than a one hit wonder. She proved everyone wrong by releasing a very successful album ‘The Kick Inside’ and then increased her musical standing further with the even better ‘Lion Heart’. Kate Bush has never been a pop artist in the true meaning of the term. She is serious about her music and even though her early song sold millions she never compromised what she wanted to do musically in order to achieve sales. Her next album ‘Never For Ever’ ...  Read the complete review

Kate Bush's 1985 album Hounds Of Love was a sensational comeback, particularly in light of her previous record's commercial failure. The Dreaming, released 3 years earlier, was just too weird for most people, with its bizarre title track and general sense of unhinged genius. Undaunted, she ensconced herself in her home studio and produced an ambitious piece of work that was as successful as it was daringly ambitious. Hounds Of Love is technically two distinct halves...the opening five song suite consisted of relatively straightforward pop songs (all things being relative in the workd of Kate Bush), while The Ninth Wave, a seven track song-cycle ...  Read the complete review

NOTE: I'm not going to list who produced, directed, conducted and played what on this album, as it's far too complicated....plus the print on the CD is so ridiculously small and in a bizarrely unreadable font - apologies! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ALBUM: Released: 1985 Reached no.1 in UK album charts in September 1985 SINGLES TAKEN FROM THE ALBUM: Running up that hill: No.3 in August 1985 Cloudbursting: No.20 in October 1985 Hounds of Love: No.18 in March 1986 The Big Sky: No.37 in May 1986 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DISCLAIMER: There have been many ...  Read the complete review

Talented. Sexy. Creative. Seductive. I'm not coming out of any closets, but I loved Kate Bush. I wanted to BE Kate Bush. Albums liked this only made the obsession worse. Forget any ideas of wailing, the singing on here is as smooth as silk. Kate certainly knows how to put a soul through a wringer, and whether you love her or loathe her, this album shows she doesn't really care. She does her stuff in her own inimitable way, and so what if it's not mainstream, the musical equivalent of publish and be damned. "Running Up That Hill", "Hounds Of Love", "Cloudbusting" (remember the video with Donald ...  Read the complete review