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

[COB]

That Drake and Rihanna song was inspired by this, wasn't it? The video at least.

 

[Iguana]

Is that a TOTAL ECLIPSE in the background?

Not anymore!

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I gave up. No wonder Dolly did too.

If anything, not screechy enough.

2/10

 

[Soldi]

It doesn’t half PLOD ON A BIT for a Saturday night

 

[Tisch]

Not the most covid friendly video is it?

 

[GNL]

That Drake and Rihanna song was inspired by this, wasn't it? The video at least.

What's the square root of 69?

 

[Iguana]

I gave up. No wonder Dolly did too.

If anything, not screechy enough.

2/10

I will allow

 

[Iguana]

This is the piss break song tbh

 

[RJN]

Not the most covid friendly video is it?

Its ok, they're in tier 1

 

[GNL]

You'd let Peter Gabriel hold you for 4 minutes though, wouldn't you?

I mean, NOT NOW, but...

 

[Iguana]

Did they mistime the end of the video?

 

[RJN]

If I'm breaking COVID regulations for a man, we better be doing more than just hugging

 

[Soldi]

15. The Man With The Child In His Eyes (1978) from The Kick Inside

Average score: 8.25
Highest score: 10 (lolly, Gangsta Nancy Lam, jyxz)
Lowest score: 6 (Soldi, funky)

omg why did I rank this so low, I thought I’d given it a TEN!

 

[COB]

I always find this one hard to take seriously after it was part of Alan Partridge's Kate Bush Medley

 

[Tisch]

I don't think I've ever seen this video!

 

[GNL]

The Man with the Child in his Eyes is properly stunning.

 

[Iguana]

The Man With The Child In His Eyes will always make me think of @ButterTart

 

[Iguana]

This is very season 1 lighting

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Did she write this at 13? Way too simple.

Also she hadn't learned to screech yet.

5/10

 

[Iguana]

Did she write this at 13? Way too simple.

Also she hadn't learned to screech yet.

5/10

Actually she wrote it at 15, so not far off!

 

[RJN]

The piano kind of reminds me of Chicago's If You Leave Me Now

 

[Tisch]

Imagining poor @COB right now and the wrath he's getting from our Zen.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Imagining poor @COB right now and the wrath he's getting from our Zen.

HE BROUGHT IT ON HIMSELF

 

[Soldi]

14. The Big Sky (1986) from Hounds of Love

Average score: 8.3125
Highest score: 10 (VoR, Raining On Me, Kate)
Lowest score: 5 (funky)

 

[Tisch]

And that cloud.... That cloud... LOOKS LIKE IRELAND!

 

[COB]

Imagining poor @COB right now and the wrath he's getting from our Zen.

 

[Iguana]

Poor Kate had a terrible cold when she filmed this video

 

[Tisch]

CORONAVIRUS

 

[ZenGiraffe]

The extra commentary I'm getting about these songs from COB depresses me.

"She wrote this about a cat looking out the window"

Groundbreaking.

 

[GNL]

Storm the barricades, Kate!

 

[COB]

The extra commentary I'm getting about these songs from COB depresses me.

"She wrote this about a cat looking out the window"

Groundbreaking.

God you're rude to me!

 

[Iguana]

The extra commentary I'm getting about these songs from COB depresses me.

"She wrote this about a cat looking out the window"

Groundbreaking.

She did??

 

[Tisch]

Someone in the know (@Soldi @Iguana @Gangsta Nancy Lam @COB) please tell me, did she reherse this for Before the Dawn but ultimately didn't include it? I have a feeling she DID

 

[Soldi]

13. Army Dreamers (1980) from Never for Ever

Average score: 8.4375
Highest score: 10 (VoR, Tisch, Soldi, Raining On Me, Kate, straightorbroken)
Lowest score: 5 (ButterTart)

 

[Iguana]

GIRAFFES!!!

 

[COB]

I like The Big Sky enough, but it's definitely the least essential track from Hounds of Love for me.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Despite the ludicrous concept, it's the closest to a bop we've got all night.

Adequate Screeching.

8/10

 

[GNL]

God you're rude to me!

Suspend him in gaffa!

 

[Soldi]

Now Army Dreamers is a Kate TOP FIVE for moi

 

[Iguana]

Someone in the know (@Soldi @Iguana @Gangsta Nancy Lam @COB) please tell me, did she reherse this for Before the Dawn but ultimately didn't include it? I have a feeling she DID

She rehearsed it as the closer and Bertie convinced her to replace it with Cloudbusting

 

[Tisch]

ARMY DREAMERS. Right fun game everyone. You can only blink when she does. GO!