DEEP DISCOG DIVE: Kate Bush 

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I remember being a small child thinking that Kate Bush was just George Bush's wife

She's probably one of the most influential artists of the last 50 years. Every artsy female artist these days gets compared to Kate Bush, but she has such a unique artistic vision. There will never be another her.

Big Boi is going to *love* this episode.

I am politely begging for a Joni Mitchell DDD, it'd be SO interesting, her discography is WILD

"'Misty' depicts a woman having a one night stand with a snowman" Damn, get that carrot, girl!

One thing about Kate that you didn’t really mention is her vocal range. As a first soprano myself who wanted to sing pop rather than classical, she was a massive influence on me. Most 80s female vocalists were belting in the alto range, but Kate was singing unapologetically very high, swooping across her entire range, growling and screaming one minute then switching to a clear pure tone the next. Singing along to her albums thousands of times made me the singer that I am. This might also be why I like her earlier albums more than you do (although I love them all). Also the first time I listened to Hounds Of Love I was 15 and alone in the house… Under Ice and Waking the Witch came on and my heart started pounding with actual visceral terror… I’ve never been frightened by music like that since… And then I sang along to it a thousand times

Listened to The Dreaming for the first time this year and I’ve been mildly obsessed since. Thank you for this!

Her style is so ethereal and unique. This woman’s work makes me cry every.single.damn.time.

I hope people are finding this video after hearing Running Up That Hill in Stranger Things. Kate Bush is one of the greats, so I hope the younger generation is getting to fully discover her music

It's funny how geography makes such a huge difference to legacy. Wuthering Heights and Babooshka have really stuck around in the UK, and I have never heard that Women's Work song in my entire life.

THE GAYS WON IN PRIDE MONTH HALLELUJAH Jokes aside, I was really looking forward to this one. Stellar work as always!

Manifesting this blows up after the new season of stranger things has caused a Kate Bush resurgence!!

I like Hounds of Love, but when i heard The Dreaming my brain completely changed forever

For the record, Kate was just 13 when she wrote The Man with the Child in his eyes

"Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" breaks me every time and I love it, but in terms of that first half of Hounds of Love, I always forget how incredible "Big Sky" is until I hear it again, and "Cloudbusting" and the title track are just wonderful.

The Dreaming is my favourite Kate Bush album. Hounds of Love is a masterpiece which I love too, but The Dreaming just floors me every single time I hear it.

The "bagpipes" are in fact uilleann pipes. A traditional Irish instrument that is different from the more commonly know bagpipes that originated in Scotland. Kate's mother was Irish and Kate has recorded music in Ireland which probably why she incorporated them in her music.

it’s pretty remarkable that she was producing her own albums at 22 years old, especially unheard of for a woman in what was a completely male-dominated industry back then

The queen of progressive magical pop. Glad to see a DDC on her. She should be respected for the genius she is. PS: Vote Car Seat Headrest. We can do it

Thought the Rocket Man cover would’ve been an existential, ambient thing - like she’s lost in space the entire time. Lots of pillowy synths and little electronic flashes, like she’s colliding with stardust.

also her love of Celtic music came from her mother being Irish, Kate and her brothers grew up playing Irish music

Kate is the most singularly impactful artist of my life, and while I love all her work, it is "Aerial" that is my absolute favourite. It's the perfect album for isolation and domesticity, and long walks in nature. It's like Björk's Vespertine but older, more contented and less romantic. It's bliss.

Running Up That Hill was the song that made me understand why I felt so unhappy in an abusive relationship that drained me so much. Her songwriting has always felt like a hug from someone you love and as I get older, I understand her lyrics more and more.

The Dreaming and Hounds of Love are definitely my favorite albums from KB so far. She's outstanding. Thanks for sharing her story

Hounds of Love is just so good. From Running up the Hill and its absolutely catchy hook to Under Ice and its ethereal feel.

So The Dreaming shouldn't be the first album I listened to? Oops, I did and I instantly fell in love with it. Leave it Open is one of my favorite songs. And I'm shocked that you didn't mention Mother Stands For Comfort, that's my favorite song in Hounds Of Love.

My reaction to seeing this in my inbox: WOOOOOW WOOOOOW WOOOOW

This video is gonna blow up for obvious reasons

I only recently discovered Kate Bush and she’s a once in a lifetime kind of artist. I love The Kick Inside and Hounds of Love.

I don’t know if the Mouth Silence reference is a hint to a future video, but please make a deep discography dive on Neil Cicierega/Lemon Demon. His work is so interesting when comparing it to the progression of internet culture. Also, great video!!

Okay that shout out to Orgonon Gurlz has made me unironically want a Deep Discog Dive for Neil Cicierega

The first album I heard by Kate Bush was The Dreaming and I immediately clicked with it, which I didn't with The Sensual World.

this is obviously gaining traction bc of Running Up That Hill's recent renaissance and I literally _just_ watched a 4 yr old pitchfork vid of Big Boi explaining his Kate Bush love so I appreciate you fitting that in here, too

Never Forever is the KB album I listen to the most. It’s just so much darn fun (except when it’s achingly not, as in Army Dreamers and Breathing). The variety is huge... I mean, ‘Violin’ followed by ‘Infant Kiss’! Overall, a huge leap in sonic inventiveness and variety, songwriting skills (every song is really good), finding-her-voice-ness (Bowie and other obvious influences are gone), etc. Whilst I get why the ‘transitional album’ descriptor is used when discussing Never Forever, my heart sinks a little when it’s leant on heavily. So it’s lovely to hear the album discussed in-depth and really appreciated in this vid. But dash it all, Mic the Snare, I demand you breathlessly recommend it from now on!!

The dreaming is the shit. Don't wait to listen to it.

My introduction to KB was the Dreaming and it totally rearranged my sense of music. You didn’t even talk about the deep deep cuts like All the Love and Houdini, that stuff is just, wow! The creative courage and confidence on that album blows me away. I love them all but the Dreaming and Hounds of Love are the masterworks.

The Dreaming remains one of my favorite albums of the 80's. Pull out the Pin alone is reason enough. She wrote a song from a Viet Cong soldier's point of view, who else would go there? It was her own fearless vision that makes The Dreaming such an influence on so many musicians.

I really wanna see you cover The Beach Boys, Sublime, and all the solo Beatles (maybe as a pt 2 to the eventual beatles DDD?) also Bob Dylan, I don’t think he’s on there but man I would love to see that

the dreaming really challenged my perception of what music should sound like. or rather, it helped me to realize that music shouldn't have to sound any particular way to be good music. suspended in gaffa is one of my all time favorite songs and i just can't believe it wasn't more appreciated at the time!!

LIONHEART is insanely UNDER-rated in her catalogue. It's a fantastic and spooky album between HAMMER HORROR, Wow, and Fullhouse... so many haunting and beautiful tracks and honestly one of my favorites.

PJ Harvey would be perfect in the future for DDD!

The Dreaming and Hounds Of Love are 2 of the greatest albums ever made.

I was 4th row at one of Kate's live gigs in 2014. It was phenomenal. The set she did before plunging into The Ninth Wave got a standing, extended ovation after every song. I have never been part of a crowd so utterly in love with the performer on stage.

I watched this when it originally released but I come back to it because im always enamored with Kate Bush's journey as an artist. I love the influence shes had. Also, Rocket's Tail is one of my all time favourite songs because of your video so thank you!

I would recommend "Aeriel", especially the second side with the birds, it's so incredibly beautiful. Goodness, showing my age "second side" but seriously, if this album had been released on vinyl I would have completely worn it out by now.

"The Dreaming" is the record that I keep going back to. Regardless of how it did with the critics, I see that album as the distillation of her youth. It's filled with all the fantasy and childlike melodrama that was on her earlier albums, but it's not filtered by other executive voices in the production...it's all her. oh, and the "bagpipes" on the records is a more specifically Irish instrument called Uilleann pipes (pronounced "illin") played by her brother Paddy.

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS AND I STILL AM NOT READY

YES SOMEONE MENTIONED JIG OF LIFE AS A GREAT SONG THANK CHRIST

Kate Bush is a literal musical genius! I got "The Dreaming" tattooed on my arm. Her music really changed the way i see the world tbh

Hounds Of Love is her masterpiece, but I also love The Sensual World. You can't get more emotional with This Woman's Work.

Song: Cloudbusting Album: The Dreaming Music Video: Them Heavy People Related Thing: I agree that Red Shoes is oddly underrated! And thanks so much for covering her she's fantastically unique in so many ways.

Putting in a word for The Roots for DDD. Arguably the most consistent discography in hip hop.

The Mother of music if you ask my 29-year-old self opinion. Her sound can be heard by the girls running the music industry today. I get chills remembering listening to her whole discography for the first time, confused as to how something I thought I heard and thought of the music today was groundbreaking, has already been done and perfected DECADES AGO! Iconoclast!

Get out of my house is a long time favorite song. The creepy atmosphere, the shrieking donkey, it’s just so different and unique.

How To Be Invisible is one of my favourite Kate Bush songs. Beautiful stuff.

Never for Ever is probably my favourite. Doesn’t seem to get nearly enough fanfare.

I need to know if you're getting a boost in views for this video after Stranger Things lol

Hi can u add Manic Street Preachers to the poll for DDD? Very storied career and interesting backstory.

The dreaming is one of the greatest albums ever made

The Kate Bush rocket man cover would sound like a contemporary art piece with a lot of movement and maybe screaming?

I love love LOVE the second side of Aerial - 'A Sky of Honey'. It's sublime. The way it tracks the course of a day with Sunset and Nocturn being standouts. Just, WOW. Listening to it with eyes closed and headphones on took me to another world that I'd not visited since 'The Ninth Wave' side of 'Hounds of Love'. It deserves far more recognition and praise imo..

Kate Bush has a voice of an angel.

Never thought I’d see a Dunkey reference in a MTS video. I’ve now ascended to a higher level of living

I just discovered her work earlier this year, and I am OBSESSED. Hounds of Love is a 10/10 masterpiece in its concept, its production, and its songwriting. I'm trying to listen to her other ones as well, but I just keep going back to Hounds of Love. And it's basic, but I'd say "Running Up That Hill" is my fav song from it right now; along with "The Big Sky" and "Cloudbusting." I'm so glad I have this new catalogue of music to dive into and discover more from; there's an ABUNDANCE of wealth and detail in her work. I'm so glad you did this Deep Discog Dive; I was so excited to see it in my feed!!

I feel like Kate Bush would make a good song for a James Bond film.

ALGORITHM COME GET THIS CHEESE

Fun Fact: Neil Gaimen named the Dreaming in the Sandman series after her album (it was originally the Dreamtime)

Running up that hill video made me realize dancing was a great form of art

I recommend listening to her work in chronological order. It allows the listener to follow Kate’s creative journey.

Pull Out The Pin is possibly Kate Bush's most underrated song- incredibly evocative and raw. Love that whole album. Another great obscure Kate Bush song is Humming (rumored to have been written about David Bowie), off of a collection of B-sides and demos called The Other Sides- worth checking out, along with the rest of the stuff on that collection of songs.

Gated reverb also needs to be credited to producer Hugh Padgham, who worked with Phil Collins. It’s said he discovered the “snare sound of the 80’s” prior to “in the air tonight” while working with XTC on “Making Plans for Nigel”, and OH BOY, do they deserve a DDD. Amazing video as always :)

YES also, casting my bimonthly futile vote for Ween and crossing my fingers extra hard

The Dreaming was my first Kate Bush album and boy was it the perfect introduction for me. I definitely recommend checking out some of her leaked demos btw. Stranded On The Moonbase was written and recorded when she was like 17 or something? It’s really good

Mic is always ahead of the trend

this series has inspired me to do deep discography dives for artists I never listened to much before and I can't thank you enough for the inspiration. currently working through the beach boys and that's definitely an interesting ride, consider that a polite request

And one year later from this video Kate Bush is breaking records, giving her first interview in years and being an icon to a whole new generation

Been a fan of Kate Bush since 1980, when she released Babooshka, as I was just 10 years old. And she's still my favorite artist because her albums are so deep and special. I've got a lot of favorite songs: Cloudbusting, Moments of Pleasure, The Man with the Child in his eyes, A Coral Room, Hello Earth, Breathing, Night of The Swallow, Suspended in Gaffa, Army Dreamers, Nocturn, Misty are among my favorite ones.

Mrs. Bartolozzi is a song of her’s that is criminally underrated. I think most people find it clunky because of the “washing machine” lyric, but I think it perfectly captures the mundanity she’s singing about and it makes it that much more powerful when it’s juxtaposed with the passionate memories of her dead husband in the lyrics. “I watch them going round and round, my blouse wrapping itself around your trousers” … the song’s about a lot more than laundry, honey! Also, the line that says “out of the corner of my eye, I think I see you standing outside but it’s just your shirt hanging on the washing line waving it’s arm as the wind blows by and it looks so alive nice and white just like it’s climbed right out of my washing machine” evokes such imagery and coupled with her vocal performance…I always stop breathing during that part.

It seems Hounds of Love is the favorite for most, but The Kick Inside is so damn smooth.

I simply adore LEAVE IT OPEN, her voice, the arrangements.. Oh boy. A masterpiece!

Kate Bush definitely changed my life forever. I remember I found out about her 'cause I started to read Wuthering Heigths and then wanted to look for reviews on RU-vid, but I was really not expecting to be listening to this high-pitched voice and looking at this eery and theatrical choreography, however, I fell in love with it instantly. Then I dived into The Kicked Inside, and it felt as if a new world was being discovered, and I don't think words are enough to describe how much I love this woman.

For me the Kate Bush song that had the most impact on me was The Dreaming. I just loved it she had so many amazing songs.

That’s so cool! I also just recently read about and discovered Peter Gabriel’s Melt and it’s many sonic nuances like gated reverb. Great video, Mic! I’ll have to check out Hounds of Love now. Always wanted to get into Kate Bush’s discog after seeing dunkey’s top ten music videos lmao

Never been so excited for a DDD. Love Kate.

This is the one! The commentary is on point and has me wanting to check out more of her music. Incredible work

Loved the video man! You deserve way more subscribers! Could you add Genesis to the next poll? They are my favorite band and you got me wanting it talking about Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel

Thank you for doing this right after I did my own deep dive, this was tremendous. I listened to Hounds of Love without the knowledge that it was her seminal classic. It frikkin blew me to space. I love her and this dive, thanks mic

I guess I am one "of the few people" who really, really, really fucking enjoyed Never Forever..

What a good video. I'm sure it won't get attention after some kind of coincidence involving a song she released and a random tv show

This threw me back to the first time I'd ever heard Running Up That Hill, through the Track and Field cover used in Warehouse 13

this woman's work makes me sob more consistently than any other song in existence. i'm already tearing up from the 10 second snippet that played in this video

This was great, dude. I've always thought Never for Ever is a terribly underrated album. I used to recomend it as a good intro to her because of that transitional thing you mention. Many years later now i kinda understand your point (im 52). On the other hand, im so glad you have such love for 50 Words. Another underrated album. Stellar career!!!!!

The way I really did not think about you covering her discography but I absolutely needed this?

Hey Mic/Nick. I love your work on this series. Even when talking about an artist I know nothing about, you make everything super engaging. May I make a humble request/suggestion that you consider covering Rush in this series someday, or at least add them to future polls? I'd love to hear your fresh takes on their albums, as most Rush related content on RU-vid feels very biased.

The "computer generated voice" in the new version of deeper understanding is actually Kates son, Bertie, but with Fx overlay. In an Interview Kate actually mentioned how sad she was, having to distort his beautiful singing with those effects to get a sound that suited her vision. Sidenote, I listened to the dreaming first and loved it immediately. I had some trouble listening to the red shoes at first, but I love it nowadays. Great video!

Man With The Child in His Eyes is one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs I have ever heard.

thank u to youtube for recommending this video to me 11 months later. i can only assume it’s because of stranger things.

I’ve only heard Running Up that Hill, Wuthering Heights and Babooshka and i love them. RUTH is my favorite, so magical and beautiful. And the Most Wuthering Heights Day every year is amazing ✨

What a great video! She's by some distance my favourite artist, and it's great to see such a comprehensive and insightful overview of her work. Also, I enjoyed seeing 50WordsForSnow getting the appreciation it deserves, as it's an album that can often be overlooked, but I think it's an immaculate, perfect masterpiece.