Four albums into her burgeoning career, Kate Bush's The Dreaming is a theatrical and abstract piece of work, as well as Bush's first effort in the production seat. She throws herself in head first, incorporating various vocal loops, sometimes campy, but always romantic and inquisitive of emotion. She's angry and pensive throughout the entire album, typically poetic while pushing around the notions of a male-dominated world. However, Kate Bush is a daydreamer. Unfortunately, The Dreaming, with all it's intricate mystical beauty, isn't fully embraced compared to her later work. Album opener "Sat in Your Lap" is a frightening slight on individual intellect, with a booming chorus echoing over throbbing percussion and a butchered brass section. "Leave It Open" is goth-like with Bush's dark brooding, which is a suspending scale of vocalic laments, but it's the vivacious and moody "Get Out of My House" that truly brings Bush's many talents for art and music to the forefront. It prances with dripping piano drops and gritty guitar, and the violent rage felt as she screams "Slamming," sparking a fury similar to what Tori Amos ignited during her inception throughout the 1990s. Not one to be in fear of fear, The Dreaming is one of Kate Bush's underrated achievements in depicting her own visions of love, relationships, and role play, not to mention a brilliant predecessor to the charming beauty of 1985's Hounds of Love.
i think this is one of kate's worst charting singles. but the song is fantastic, the video is fun, and kate looks hot! oh yeah we're here for the music. actually i had a really odd dream last night that involved some elaborate plan & explosives, so naturally i thought of this song. everything on this album is excellent. enjoy.
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Happy Birthday Kate Bush! Over the last 2 weeks, we have celebrated the gift that you are by featuring a rare or unreleased video or track each day as we countdown to Katemas.Today's post will feature a series of the official videos for other Kate songs we all know and love.Incredible she did so many before MTV existedThe DreamingLilySat in Your LapThe Big SkyCloudbustingDon't Give Up - with Pe...
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I have had my iPhone for a week now - and it is changing how I feel about "portable technology"You see, even though I have been part of th DotCom business world over the last 10 years, I have resisted blackberries and cell phones as much as was possibleI only truly adopted carrying a phone everywhere in recent years for family purposes.Now come a new device that offers a new way of interacting ...
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Today has ended in a most unusual way. I could not believe the headline and article I have just read. It made me realize we are living Science Fiction come to fact everyday. I wonder how much of this amazing technology we gloss over and take for granted. What people dreamed of in dime store novels and other forms of media 50 years ago is all around us.This morning while at the airport I was rea...
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Ahhh, Kate Bush. In 1982, when "The Dreaming' came out, there was absolutely nothing on the planet like it. It still sounds years ahead of it's time. The videos are totally dated, and Kate does her "jazz hands" thing in every one of them, but if you can get past the interpretive dance, its brilliant stuff.She didn't make a video for the best track on the album, "Houdini", which has an interesti...
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i think this is one of kate's worst charting singles. but the song is fantastic, the video is fun, and kate looks hot! oh yeah we're here for the music. actually i had a really odd dream last night that involved some elaborate plan & explosives, so naturally i thought of this song. everything on this album is excellent. enjoy.
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 Sat in Your Lap |
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| 2 There Goes a Tenner |
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| 3 Pull out the Pin |
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| 4 Suspended in Gaffa |
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| 5 Leave It Open |
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| 6 The Dreaming |
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| 7 Night of the Swallow |
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| 8 All the Love |
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| 9 Houdini |
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| 10 Get out of My House |
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