An enchanting songstress, Kate Bush reflects the most heavenly views of love on the aptly titled The Sensual World. On the follow-up to Hounds of Love, Bush is unafraid to be a temptress, vocally and lyrically. She's a romantic, frolicking over lust and love, but also a lover of life and its spirituality. The album's title track exudes the most sensually abrasive side of Bush, but she is also one to remain emotionally intact with her heart and head. The majority of The Sensual World beams with a carefree spirit of strength and independence. "Love and Anger," which features blistering riffs by Bush's mentor and cohort David Gilmour, thrives on self-analysis -- how typically cathartic of Bush. Michael Nyman's delicate string arrangements allow the melodic "Reaching Out" to simply arrive, freely floating with Bush's lush vocalic declaration -- "reaching out for the star/reaching out for the star that explodes" -- for she's always searching for a common peace, a commonality to make comfort. What makes this artist so intriguing is her look toward the future -- she appears to look beyond what's present and find a peculiar celestial atmosphere in which human beings do exist. She's conscious of technology on "Deeper Understanding" and of a greater life on the glam rock experimental "Rocket's Tail (For Rocket)," yet she's still intrinsic to the reality of an individual's heart. "Between a Man and a Woman" depicts pressure and heartbreak, but it's the beauty of "This Woman's Work" that makes The Sensual World the outstanding piece of work that it is. She possesses maternal warmth that's surely inviting, and it's something that's made her one of the most prolific female singer/songwriters to emerge during the 1980s. She's never belonged to a core scene. Bush's intelligence, both as an artist and as a woman, undoubtedly casts her in a league of her own.
In my last post, I asked you to revisit a long-neglected album from your collection and tell us about it. Since I'm not the kind of guy who will ask the troops to do something I'm unwilling to do, I sat down this morning, tabbing through my albums for something I hadn't heard in a while. I found Kate Bush's The Sensual World, which was the first CD I bought, back in 1989. I was 16 or 17 and a y...
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From one of only a couple of 90's TV appearances, Kate doing "Moments of Pleasure" on the piano Some moments that I've had Some moments of pleasure I think about us lying Lying on a beach somewhere I think about us diving Diving off a rock, into another moment The case of George the Wipe Oh God I can't stop laughing This sense of humour of mine It isn't funny at all Oh but we sit up all night...
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In my last post, I asked you to revisit a long-neglected album from your collection and tell us about it. Since I'm not the kind of guy who will ask the troops to do something I'm unwilling to do, I sat down this morning, tabbing through my albums for something I hadn't heard in a while. I found Kate Bush's The Sensual World, which was the first CD I bought, back in 1989. I was 16 or 17 and a y...
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 The Sensual World |
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| 2 Love and Anger |
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| 3 The Fog |
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| 4 Reaching Out |
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| 5 Heads We're Dancing |
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| 6 Deeper Understanding |
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| 7 Between a Man and a Woman |
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| 8 Never Be Mine |
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| 9 Rocket's Tail |
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| 10 This Woman's Work |
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| 11 Walk Straight Down the Middle |
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