{"id":1124,"date":"2005-11-08T07:25:41","date_gmt":"2005-11-08T12:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2009-04-12T07:33:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T12:33:21","slug":"kate-bush-countdown-to-aerial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2005\/11\/08\/kate-bush-countdown-to-aerial\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Bush: countdown to Aerial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI&#8217;m not a Kate Bush fan; I got one album <cite>Hounds of Love<\/cite> and like the obvious singles (&#8220;Wuthering Heights&#8221;, &#8220;Running up That Hill&#8221; &#8220;Cloudbuster&#8221;) but that&#8217;s it. <a href=\"http:\/\/rocr.xepher.net\/weblog\/\">Reinder Dijkhuis<\/a> on the other hand is enough of a fan to have all her albums. In honour of the upcoming release of her new album, <cite>Aerial<\/cite>, he has provided reviews of all her albums:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"cite\">\n<ul class=\"nobullet\">\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rocr.xepher.net\/weblog\/archives\/001288.html\">Countdown to Aerial 1: The Kick Inside<\/a><br \/>\nI have no memory of a world without Kate Bush&#8217;s music. I suppose it must have been 1978 or 1980 when I first heard &#8220;Wuthering Heights&#8221;, and my musical memories simply don&#8217;t stretch back much further. I&#8217;ve pretty much always been a fan of her work, even when I only knew it as &#8220;that strange song with the high voice&#8221;.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rocr.xepher.net\/weblog\/archives\/001291.html\">Countdown to Aerial 2: Lionheart<\/a><br \/>\n It&#8217;s true, I&#8217;ll admit, that Kate&#8217;s second record doesn&#8217;t surprise the way her debut does, but on its own<br \/>\nmerits, it&#8217;s a very strong album. There&#8217;s no sense at all that the songs were mere leftovers from the previous batch &#8211; more likely they were deliberately kept in reserve.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rocr.xepher.net\/weblog\/archives\/001293.html\">Countdown to Aerial 3: Never For Ever<\/a><br \/>\n<cite>Never For Ever<\/cite> has quite a few rocking moments (she sounds like Nina Hagen in &#8220;Violin&#8221; and &#8220;The Wedding List&#8221;) and uses dynamics and crescendo a lot in the arrangements, so playing it at high volume definitely improves it.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rocr.xepher.net\/weblog\/archives\/001294.html\">Countdown to Aerial 4: The Dreaming<\/a><br \/>\n<cite>The Dreaming<\/cite> is not merely the best Kate Bush record; it&#8217;s <cite><strong>THE BEST RECORD EVER MADE BY ANYONE IN THE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC!!!<\/strong><\/cite> It&#8217;s perfect from beginning to end: strange, innovative, melodic, exciting, packed with raw emotion, violence and clever storytelling. It also has Kate braying like a donkey.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rocr.xepher.net\/weblog\/archives\/001298.html\">Countdown to Aerial 5: Hounds of Love<\/a><br \/>\n<cite>Hounds of Love<\/cite>, then, is really two great albums compressed into 40-odd minutes&#8217; playing time. It&#8217;s <strong>essential<\/strong>. The 1997 remaster has a few bonus tracks that are okay; a bit of a grab bag to be honest.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rocr.xepher.net\/weblog\/archives\/001299.html\">Countdown to Aerial 6: The Sensual World<\/a><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s plenty that&#8217;s good on the record though. The title track is lush and erotic &#8211; Kate is probably the only arranger who can make uillean pipes sound sexy.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rocr.xepher.net\/weblog\/archives\/001302.html\">Countdown to Aerial 7: The Red Shoes<\/a><br \/>\n[&#8230;]on the whole, <cite>The Red Shoes<\/cite> is listenable. It gets the odd spin at the studio, from people other than me, even. It just&#8230; doesn&#8217;t grab, doesn&#8217;t irritate, doesn&#8217;t connect.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rocr.xepher.net\/weblog\/archives\/001305.html\">Countdown to Aerial 8: Aerial<\/a><br \/>\nFor the most part, though, the album sticks to the background, prettily washing over this one listener<br \/>\njust like much of the previous record did. There is, on the whole, more to pique the interest in the first<br \/>\ndisk, the collection of Kate songs, than in the second, conceptual one, but in both, there simply isn&#8217;t enough.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a Kate Bush fan; I got one album Hounds of Love and like the obvious singles (&#8220;Wuthering Heights&#8221;, &#8220;Running up That Hill&#8221; &#8220;Cloudbuster&#8221;) but that&#8217;s it. Reinder Dijkhuis on the other hand is enough of a fan to have all her albums. 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