Wow! 😢 for her. 😢 for the baby. 😢 for the brother. 😭

.......WHAT??? 🤧

Yikes

@@addisonratcatcher3287 He's right.

Some added details on the song: "The Kick Inside" is inspired by "The Ballad Of Lizie Wan" which is Scottish / English in origin. In the ballad, Lizie told her brother about the incest pregnancy so he kills her to hide the crime. The truth is soon discovered and he is driven from home. "The Ballad Of Lizie Wan" is directly referenced in an early demo recording of "The Kick Inside" in the second verse: "You and me on the bobbing knee / Welling eyes from identifying with Lizie Wan's story." The final version of "The Kick Inside" replaced that verse.

They're show offs on that one almost :)

I want to be buried while somebody plays this song in an old stereo

Who did that?? Mozart, and...?

It's from Chapter 3 of the novel, where Cathy's ghost appears to Lockwood about 20 years after her death. There's a video in which I read Chapter 3 on youtube.

I've always interpreted the man to be her father, who has the child he loves (Kate) in his eyes. Probably the best written song of the decade (and the 70s was FULL of songwriters) not least due to her age when she wrote it.

Indeed get all the albums. Such a unique talent. So many stunning songs.

Also there is no gay theme in Cloud Busting but Kate had a song addressing exactly that called Kashka from Bagdad. "Kashka from Baghdad lives in sin they say With another man" "At night they're seen Laughing, loving They know the way To be happy"

Sure was fun hearing her for the first time wasn't it?

cloudbusting*

@Stephen Greenhorn immensely. Just can’t have such a masterpiece wrongly named you get me bruv

Wuthering Heights, her debut, dropped when she was 18. Some songs on the album she wrote and recorded at 16 and would be worthy masterpieces on Streisand level artists, peak career.

@@xenne. After Peter Reich's book. Real story. See the music video, people!

This Woman's Work*

In the video the boys father played by Donald Sutherland is a scientist who has invented a machine that makes rain. The government don't like this and arrest him and destroy his research. Unaware the machine still exists. When travelling in the car in which the government are taking him away he gestures to his son to start the machine and make it rain. Brilliant stuff.

That's all correct but I don't think the lyric "Your son's coming out" is a mistake. She would've been well aware of the double meaning. The phrase "coming out" has been around since the 70s, probably even earlier. But yes, Kashka is THE gay song and one of my faves!

Mozart moment rugby there. At 13, must other legend we know were just learning to tie their shoes. Even Michael Jackson didn't have any work of his own then I think?

Man with the child in his eyes has always been the most perfect Bush song for me. Just so short! I want it to go on forever…

thats one of my favorite of her songs, and the music video for it as well.

Aw thank you!

Lmao next time just @ mention miss Cazzie 😭😭😭

And a true story while it seems bizarro world sci-fi.

Hounds of Love is her most balanced album, commercial and arty. The Dreaming, now that is an album that you need to brace your self for. As her first self produced album, its about as full on and unfiltered Kate Bush as you ever going to get. I'm not surprised Bjork rates it, I have also heard it said that Tori Amos based here entire career on track "Suspended in Gaffa" and after hearing that, I can't unhear it.

​@@jon-paulfilkins7820 The Dreaming is stil my fave Kate Bush album

@@yardengali me too houdini

@@timjamesfit I just love the beautifully haunting Night of the Swallow.

@@muskndusk There Goes a Tenner, though not my favorite, was so quirky and fun and stood out in such contrast from the rest of the album, it was stuck in my head for months

I will never get over that. No wonder she decided to DROP Wuthering Heights when the time had come to launch and she'd already grown to that level of writing. Her discarded songs from 13-18 are likely beyond GOLD. She seemed to do school, working at the piano and later done dance classes for the videos she wanted to be able to perform.

Thanks for all the info and suggestions!! Not sure if I'll react to every album in full but definitely the hounds of love

I had no idea her mother passed during 'The Red Shoes'....actually made me tear up. 'Moments of Pleasure' hits even harder now. "Every old sock, meets an old shoe" :;(

That's completely mad and so amazing hahaha it's really cool to hear music from an artist who approaches storytelling in such a different way and with such an earnest feeling

By then, she'd barely had time to be inspired by others. Just pure creation. Channeling angels.

Exactly - taat's why the track sounds 'ethereal' !

I didn't like Kate's voice for years because it is so theatrical, particularly in this performance-she sounded too much to me like Bernadette Peters in a stage musical. Kate quickly became my second-favorite musical artist after I began to listen to and interpret her lyrics from Hounds of Love songs, Breathing, This Woman' Work and other exceptional 'story' songs. It was years before I realized that Kate is *not* singing straightforwardly in Wuthering Heights. It *is* a musical theatre performance of a sort in that her vocal performance was contrived to convey an uncomfortable and haunting listening experience-she is Cathy, after all, a vengeful, lusty ghost who is stalking Heathcliff and who ultimately is the cause of his demise. And it makes absolute sense. How could anyone possibly faithfully deliver an impression ("It's me, I'm Cathy!") of Cathy from Wuthering Heights with a lovely voice? She absolutely terrorized Heathcliff, drove him mad and lured him to his death. Taking all that in mind, Kate performed her song with a vocal that communicates Cathy's maddening character. It's really the 'sparkly' music that somewhat undermines the terror of the situation, but that contradiction also is what makes the bansheelike nature of the song more interesting than something that is arranged to sound scary or ominous.

@@DavidMichaelCommer What intrigues me, though, and you might not feel comfortable about this, is why everything about Kate and her music seems to be steeped in LGBT issues, one way or another? Gays have always been huge fans of Kate and her music and I believe that this is what is driving her current resurgence in 2022. Any thoughts?

​@@stephenthorpe8457 I'm not sure what to say about this. I discovered Tori Amos in 1996--the same year I graduated from high school, deeply damaged because of how I was treated by my peers from middle school through high school. Tori's music appealed to me (and still does) in a way no other music ever had before. It had nothing to do with my sexual orientation, but as I learned more about Tori as a person, I learned that she came of age playing piano in gay bars in Washington, D.C. (where I grew up and now live), and I learned that she had a very large following among gay misfits like me. I was magnetized to her music without anything LGBT-related in mind, but I learned that she has always been a supporter of LGBT people and surrounded herself with them, and that did end up being empowering. I only discovered Kate about a decade or so ago because *so many* Tori Amos fans told me I *had* to give her a chance and would love her. They proved to be right. The point of mentioning Tori above is to say that I became a Tori fan because of her music itself, not because of anything having to do with gay issues or gay people. And I became a Kate fan because of her music, not because of anything having to do with gay issues or gay people. I was born in 1978--the year Wuthering Heights was released--and to my memory, I never heard any music by Kate Bush until I was about 30 years old. So I wasn't there during the Kate zeitgeist and if she always had a large gay following, I don't really know anything about that and I don't think of her in those terms. I think of her only as a brilliantly unique artist--and that's about it. I don't know anything about her personally except that she has a son named Bertie and she was attacked for saying something supportive of Theresa May as the UK prime minister several years ago, as people questioned her politics. If she's an LGBT ally, that's amazing--it's honestly news to me. If she's on the LGBT identity spectrum, that's cool--it's honestly irrelevant to me, though, because she has such an exceptional artistic vision and heart and mind that I think of her as a standalone human being who doesn't really belong in any group such as gay or straight or anything else. Some of her music has included bold sexual and sensual references, always from the level of human empathy, not about politics (to my knowledge), and to me, that's the best kind of person any person could ever be, just working to understand other people and respect them no matter who they are. I don't really understand your suggestion about "gays...driving her current resurgence in 2022." Would you mind elaborating on that thought? I don't see it. I'm not really a fan of Stranger Things, but it seems very clear to me that Kate's sudden popularity among younger people is due entirely to her music being part of that show's soundtrack--and that has nothing to do with LGBT issues to my knowledge. I work with some younger people on the Millennial/Gen Z cusp who have been asking me if I know about Kate Bush because of that show, and these aren't LGBT people. They're just people who think Running Up That Hill "sounds cool" and want to know if her other music is as "cool." (I don't understand why they wouldn't just listen to other music by her and make their own decisions...) As a gay man who came of age at a time when being gay was considered not a crime but unspeakable in "polite company," and at a time when being a gay man was equated with dying from AIDS, I always have been and always will be an advocate and at times an activist for LGBT equality. I'm also an artist and I appreciate art for art's sake. My favorite artist of any medium is Tori Amos on the basis of her musical brilliance and her poetic writing and her insights. My favorite visual artist is Marc Chagall, who was married to a succession of women and was not gay. I appreciate his art because it moves me. I have a master's degree in creative writing and few of my favorite authors are gay or write about "gay issues." I just appreciate art on the basis of tapping into something moving or arousing or articulating something deeply human or otherworldly, and while I do appreciate people who are activists or advocates for equality, I find any kind of politics to be a reductive level of human experience as compared with empathy and spirituality and sensuality (as opposed to sex acts)--areas of life Kate, Tori, Chagall, Faulkner, Morrison, Saramago, Ishiguro and others address with their creative works.

@@stephenthorpe8457 I was only able to watch about half of the video this morning. I just got to the part with his speculation that Cloudbusting has a gay theme at its center because it's about a son's relationship with his father, and the reviewer picked up on the line "like your son coming out." I think that's a completely normal and natural misinterpretation of that lyric--that is a much more obvious seeming meaning in today's lingo than Kate's actual meaning. The song is so cryptic that I think anyone listening to it would pick out any lines that they can make any sense of and try to put the puzzle together. He also was struck by the line "I can't hide you from the government." That and "like your son coming out" do stand out among the lyrics and I totally get why anyone would begin an interpretation with those lines. When a writer is as enigmatic as Kate is with this song's lyrics, I wouldn't judge someone for making major misinterpretations based on a first listen with no other information available to them. Songs like "This Woman's Work" are much more self-evident in their meanings based on the lyrics alone, and songs like "Wuthering Heights" are very straightforward if you're familiar with the novel, but if you're not familiar with the novel, it's a totally bonkers song. Ironically, Wilhelm Reich, who the song is about (the father who was arrested and died in prison for inventing the cloudbuster and doing therapy based on "orgone" sexual energy he believed he had discovered) was aggressively homophobic. Yet aside from being anti-gay, he coined the term "sexual revolution" and he encouraged "free love," and he had free love with his patients.

Song recommendations: Symphony in blue, Night of the swallow, Delius, Sunset, Moving, Why should I love you? AND if you wanna listen to a whole album I think you would like "The sensual world", a very beautiful album if you ask me. Or start from the beginning!

@@tove8719 Symphony in Blue😍

Agreed - but also heartbreaking (An utter paean to heartbreaking yearning - guaranteed to make you weep)!

The poem is one thing. The music as well, bro...

I loved it too x

And what about burning bridge?

I mean he was way off on most of them, but I guess a song is what it means to you not necessarily what the writer intends.

I’ve never heard anything like Kate Bush and that’s why I love her music. She was continuously writing out of the box and different music, that is just incredible. It’s just crazy to me that at about 16 she had about 200 songs written. That’s unheard of even today especially at that age. The songs that you listed are some of my favorites, especially Night Of The Swallow.

Yes some of your interpretations were interesting. But as Kate herself has said she doesn't mind if people put their own meaning to her songs. Once out in the World she feels that every one owns the songs and can get their own meaning from them. Even if it is not what she originally intended.

My mom made me look that one up and I teared up so hard on it. This woman's work hurts so deep. 😭

Kate calls The Dreaming her "She's gone mad" album. 😂