The Kate Bush Singles Rate: The Top 20 Countdown (Tonight at 20:45 GMT)

[ButterTart]

Bill looks like one of the Scousers from Harry Enfield.

 

[Tisch]

Ooh speaking of covers, I forgot she did this Libertines one!

 

[Iguana]

The man lead died a couple of years ago and Kate put up a lovely message about him on her website even though she hadn't seen him since this video shoot 30+ years ago

 

[COB]

Remembering the version of this from Before The Dawn...

Don't let me go! TIE me to the MAST!!!

 

[RJN]

Ooh speaking of covers, I forgot she did this Libertines one!

How could you confuse the Libertines and the Futureheads?

Which coincidentally is the only version of this I've heard

I like Kate's better

 

[ButterTart]

The video to Hounds of Love is absolutely awesome.

 

[Iguana]

Now THIS (Cloudbusting) is what you call a video

 

[ZenGiraffe]

The one thing I've noticed about Kate Bush, is that she seems to be a bit of a chorus sceptic. They've not really been jumping out at me. Which is a shame. But it's nice enough.

Not just screeching though, but BARKING

7/10

 

[Tisch]

Remembering the version of this from Before The Dawn...

Don't let me go! TIE me to the MAST!!!

Urgh, so DEAD right now

 

[GNL]

DRAG KING KATE

 

[Iguana]

Remembering the version of this from Before The Dawn...

Don't let me go! TIE me to the MAST!!!

YES!!

 

[Soldi]

4. Cloudbusting (1985) from Hounds of Love

Average score: 9.625
Highest score: 11 (Kate, jyxz)
Lowest score: 6 (Poor sad old funky)

 

[Tisch]

How could you confuse the Libertines and the Futureheads?

Which coincidentally is the only version of this I've heard

I like Kate's better

Oh really? oh I really thought I was Moopy's representative of mid 00's indie

Oh well. Obviously I much prefer Kate's too.

 

[Iguana]

The one thing I've noticed about Kate Bush, is that she seems to be a bit of a chorus sceptic. They've not really been jumping out at me. Which is a shame. But it's nice enough.

Not just screeching though, but BARKING

7/10

I think she knows she doesn't NEED a chorus to make a powerful song, to be honest

 

[ButterTart]

I assumed this would WIN.

 

[Soldi]

What a dreadful lockdown haircut Kate love

 

[COB]

The fact that William Reichs was a total fraud and the orgone energy people were basically a weird sex cult makes this even BETTER

 

[ButterTart]

There's no camera trickery at play in this video, Donald Sutherland is genuinely eleven feet tall.

 

[GNL]

What a dreadful lockdown haircut Kate love

She looks like JIM of 'Rosie and' fame.

 

[Iguana]

Love that they used an EXTENDED version of Cloudbusting for the video!

 

[Soldi]

She looks like JIM of 'Rosie and' fame.

!!!

 

[Tisch]

Remembering the extra loud backing singers to this at the live show. And their "ooh. Ooh-wee-ooh"'s. It worked so well. It ALL DID.

 

[GNL]

The fact that William Reichs was a total fraud and the orgone energy people were basically a weird sex cult makes this even BETTER

It's you and me... Daddy

 

[Tisch]

She looks like JIM of 'Rosie and' fame.

@Nancy

 

[Tisch]

Where does she get these ideas from? "Oh I'm gonna write a song about a machine that can change the weather lol". Urgh. Her mind.

 

[Iguana]

Just saying it could even make it happen

Such an emotive line

 

[ButterTart]

Donald Sutherland has been the same age since 1973. He was born in his early fifties and has just maintained that ever since.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

To my probable shame, I knew the Liz version first. But actually I'm here for the original as well. But with that many mentions of daddy she was always going to win me over.

If anything, Liz should screech more in her version.

9/10

 

[Iguana]

Where does she get these ideas from? "Oh I'm gonna write a song about a machine that can change the weather lol". Urgh. Her mind.

In this case, from a book

 

[ButterTart]

Where does she get these ideas from? "Oh I'm gonna write a song about a machine that can change the weather lol". Urgh. Her mind.

It's about an actual person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich

 

[Soldi]

It's you and me... Daddy

Hi Iguana x

 

[RJN]

I'm much more familiar with Something Good (Utah Saints) but I like this version too. The strings are so dramatic And yet again the topic is insane

 

[Soldi]

3. This Woman’s Work (1989) from The Sensual World

Average score: 9.6875
Highest score: 10 (Peekaboo, lolly, Raining On Me, funky, Kate, straightorbroken, ButterTart, Ag, Gangsta Nancy Lam, wurst, jyxz)
Lowest score: 9 (VoR, Tisch, Iguana, Soldi, COB)

That’s EVERYONE!

 

[Soldi]

So it’s between her debut Wuthering Heights and Running Up That Hill (aka the God song) for number 1!

 

[Iguana]

3. This Woman’s Work (1989) from The Sensual World

Average score: 9.6875
Highest score: 10 (Peekaboo, lolly, Raining On Me, funky, Kate, straightorbroken, ButterTart, Ag, Gangsta Nancy Lam, wurst, jyxz)
Lowest score: 9 (VoR, Tisch, Iguana, Soldi, COB)

That’s EVERYONE!

OMG!! Those scores! Even funky!

 

[Tisch]

In this case, from a book

It's about an actual person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich

Okay you CLEVER BUMS. It's still a very interesting topic to decide to write a song about. No getting down n' durrty in a club is it!

 

[Soldi]

I can see this reaching #1 when she dies

 

[Soldi]

And people who prefers the other version deserves to be shot x

 

[Iguana]

Kate directed this video herself

 

[Soldi]

Also where is the lovely @wurst