Drummer reacts to "The Ninth Wave" by Kate Bush (Part 2) 

Kate Bush......genius......that word is banded around far too easily but in kate's case,she really is.

It's weird, when every I listen to 'Hello Earth' I could die happy but it also makes me want to live forever.

Hello Earth makes me cry every single time I hear it.

Try to imagine being an astronaut, looking out a porthole at earth and just covering it with your hand. Then simultaneously being back on earth, getting out of your car and looking up and seeing an object streaking by. You, observing you. She then goes on to write about the helplessness she'd feel because she can't warn all the people about to be swept away by a massive storm. Only she is capable of this range of feeling and expression. Kate doing Kate stuff is something to behold.

I agree with you about Hello Earth. For me that song is sacred music.

Her voice is so beautiful .. and her music so different

Lee hit the nail on the head with this one: One does not so much listen to the music of Kate Bush as fall under her spell.

She's beautiful inside and out 🎇

To call Hello Earth a song, seems so farcical. It's like a movie soundtrack and more of an ethereal other worldly experience that washes over you. I love listening to this album in the dark when I'm in bed almost asleep, it transports me to other places. Kate Bush is very special, shy girl who never showed any interest in fame and fortune, so she's always done her own thing, writes all her songs, plays piano, sings and even sings her won backing vocals, produces all her own work too, very experimental and imaginative, some of it works and some is too weird on first listen but the weird stuff does get better over time with multiple listens.

I really appreciate that you actually listened and "felt" the songs, the lyrics, the music from "The Ninth waves", as most youtubers that do react to "the Ninth wave" say things like WTF was that, I don't get it!! They don't want to "go deep", I suppose. Hello Earth is my favorite, as according to the story of her "lost at sea" and "thinking she is "slowly dying" all these songs express how and what she is feeling, thinking, "experiencing" and to me, from the lyrics of Hello Earth she is "looking down at the earth, seeing "storms gathering", "her spirit, her soul is "rising" and for a wee bit of time she is ""In the deep Universe looking down at earth" as a kind of "what death might feel like' but then she "awakens" and "The Morning fog" is about how she was rescued, she survives and she is expressing how grateful she is to be alive,>"I kiss the ground" and she tells her family and "loved ones how much she loves them". The Ninth wave is quite an experience and ride isn't? I've been listening to Kate Bush and the "Ninth Wave" for almost 40 years and still have never tired of listening to it. Even back in the 80's most people that I knew and who were my friends and family had never heard "The Ninth wave" the 2nd side of "Hounds of Love" until they heard me playing it and they still had no clue...even then. The only person that took the time to listen to it with me back then was my Dad, he was cool that way, he would go into my bedroom and get out some of my albums and then play them in the living room. He loved The Ninth wave and Kate Bush, he was mesmerized by it. He and I were alike in that way. plus he was a Pisces like me, so he loved music and was sensitive and open to all kinds of music. We used to sit out in the back yard late at night and he would point out all the stars and galaxies to me.. I still miss him but I have the wonderful memories and the good things "he taught me about life".

Kate takes us on this journey from a small boat lost at sea to the depths of hell to outer space and every place in between and makes it a path to remind us to tell those we love how much we love them. It would be an absolute amazement if it ended at "Hello, Earth" but "The Morning Fog" transcends all that has come before. That'll do, Kate.

The Morning Fog… I always picture the rescued storyteller wrapped in blankets inside a helicopter reassessing her life and feeling grateful for those she loves. Nice reaction to a one-off album Lee 👍🏼

The video to 'Cloudbusting' featured Kate and the great, and now late, Donald Sutherland. I watched it this morning. RIP Sir, one of a kind.

In my opinion and put quite simply, the best side of an album ever composed 🙂

Side B of this album is something special. A side has the big hits, but my god! B side is an absolut gem.

She’s a musical genius in terms of music-science! Thanks David Gilmour for the discovery!

Kate is a true artist, painting 4-dimensional art. Hello Earth features the Georgian traditional 'Tsinskaro'. In Jig Of Life the shipwrecked woman has an encounter with her future self, who is ugently telling her to hang on to life. Kate's mother was Irish and throughout Kate's career the Irish influence is very noticable in her music. The poem at the end of Jig is performed by her older brother John Carder Bush

What you said about her music changing how you see ordinary things is what happened to me too! It gives you those feelings of being young when anything was possible

The Red Shoes is really awesome too she even wove a spiritual protection spell into the best song

I really related to your reaction particularly regarding Hello Earth. I had a similar reaction all those years ago (1986 I think) when the album came out. When I play the album now I still get that that reaction and it has not dimished. She really is a beautiful genius (inside and out as some one said below) and such a humble lovely person. All the many many people from musicians, dancers, technicians. engineers etc she has worked with in the industry you never hear a bad word about her. Nothing but praise, admiration, respect what a joy she is to work with. I must say your reaction moved me.

This epic piece literally saved my life. I was 19 and going through a suicidal phase, and somehow wben this was released and I heard the Ninth Wave for the first time, something shifted in me. To actually hear with our ears what it is like to have a near death experience or a crossing over into the depths of the netherworld and return, this was to me some strange miracle. It actually helped me decide to live, and I don't even know why or how...

About a girl who is lost at sea. Gets enticed to drown and go over to the other side. But gets rescued at the very end when she is about to give up. The Morning Fog is too short. I used to play it 2 or 3 times back to back. Love KB.

That was beautiful man. Hello Earth is just sublime. You really have to tap into the Dreaming next. Warning though, you’ll need to buckle up.

Thank you Lee. I am always left struggling to breathe.That seems like it would be horrible, but it's not. I love how devastated she makes me feel. It's how we should all feel. It means we are connected.

Lee, YOU are an artist and its probably good that you don't know how beautiful you are

Great review! It's impossible not to have an emotional reaction to this masterpiece.

I was a total hard rocker, and totally smitten with Kate back in the day, and still am. The Ninth Wave is exceptional to say the least.

I bought thia album when it came out in 1985. I was 20 years old. When I listened to The Ninth Wave i suddenly realized how much i took for granted the people in my life who truly love me. After that, I made a vow to myself to never let that happen again. I truly appreciate and love the friends and family I have. They are more valuable to me than all of the gold in the world. ✌️♥️

Someone here mentioned Kates videos, Cloudbusting featuring the recently deceased and great Donald Sutherland is fantastic and the background to that song is another universe in itself.

Music that touches the heart, another one ticked off my favourites! You’re doing great kiddo ☮️ ❤️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Aside from Kate's first couple of albums, this is a fairly easy listen. I love it, it's brilliant, but she digs even deeper on Sensual World and The Dreaming. Red Shoes and Aerial are also bangers, an emotional and kaleidoscopic tempest of sound, sonic dreamscapes.

Thank you for your heartfelt and genuine reaction to the remainder of the masterpiece that's "The Ninth Wave." If you like challenging music, then I can certainly recommend Kate's previous studio album, "The Dreaming," which is considered to be her most experimental and the 1st one where she was the sole producer. Or you go back further to the album before that "Never For Ever" on which Kate was the co-producer and the first time that she employs the Fairlight CMI. This was Kate's first UK number 1 album. In fact, it went straight into number 1. Or you could go back to the very beginning with her first album, "The Kick Inside," which for a debut album is of extremely high quality and sold over a million copies in the UK. Wherever you decide to continue within Kate's discography, I'm sure that you will find it to be a rich and rewarding experience. Have fun.

The B-side to Running Up That Hill, Under The Ivy, is wonderful. My favorite Kate Bush song is This Woman's Work. She is wild and wonderful. Thanks

"The Big Sky" on Side 1 is the pop take on all things flight (awesome video with Kate giggling at the 'special effects' rain), but much of Side 2 I would describe as progressive folk. "Hello Earth" (her voice producing almost an ambient mood) looks at the sky from the space side, inspired by moon landing astronauts accounts of how small and vulnerable Earth looked from even a short distance away. Still awesome almost 39 years after release. Goodness I'm old.

Hounds of Love is one of the most perfect albums I have ever been privileged to hear. The radio-friendly first half is beautifully balanced by The Ninth Wave, with “Hello Earth” being the climax for me. Magnificently sublime.

A very heartfelt and honest review. Awesome buddy!! I have loved Kate Bush since I was young. I remember seeing the video for ruth (running up that hill) and I was floored with emotion and I could not wait for the album to drop!! And what an album it was or actually still is!!! Every song here is just breathtaking. She is a true musical genius, every album is it's own masterpiece. Masterpiece after Masterpiece, each mightier than the last.. haha - some fun wordplay. Thank so much!!

Great reaction mate! You still have the first half of the album to go which is very different build just as good 👍🏽

She's bewitchingly mesmerizing. Better be earful. I think Aerial with it's A Sky Of Honey is my favorite.. Just puts me in another world.

Hi Lee and thanks again for this further look at "The Ninth Wave." Now that you have finished it I guess the next question is where to go next with the one and only Kate Bush. You could do a lot worse than just flip over as it were and do side one of this magnificent album - that side is filled with very ear pleasing radio friendly (but still a little bit strange and skewed) songs. Otherwise I guess the time will come when you have to tackle "The Dreaming" and its thoroughly deserved fearsome reputation. As for this album, among other things, it was favourite of Prince. Metallica were listening to Kate when they were making "Masters of Puppets" and given the timeframe it is near certain that they were listening to this album. (although considering Cliff Burton's fondness for her music they might also have been listening to "The Dreaming" or "Never For Ever"). Regarding "Hello Earth" Kate Bush worked with renowned classical composer Michael Berkeley to arrange that choral in the chorus. Berkeley said of this experience that Kate Bush had told him, “while the key of this chorus would need to relate, it could arrive as something foreign, harmonically a surprise, as though from another world.” Berkeley would go on to say “I soon realised that Bush was pretty exacting on the precise fit of the "non-fit". Indeed, she was thrilled when I suggested we create our own new language for this chorus of the spheres. […] musicians like Bush […] are far more demanding of themselves in the studio than classical musicians can afford to be, and will spend days working on a tiny fragment. […] Come the recording day, a group of male choristers, more accustomed to singing church services than backing vocals, descended on Bush's home, which was equipped with its own studio. Doubtless they were imagining that they were about to meet a wild-eyed rock babe, but Kate, quiet and unassuming - the kind of sympathetic, slightly shy girl who greets you from behind the counter at the local chemist - introduced us to her friend the bass player Del Palmer, who engineered the session. None of the singers [...] had ever gone over and over four or five phrases so exactingly. No measure of Bach or Mozart had, in their experience, been subjected to such surgical scrutiny, and I began to worry that their voices might begin to tire. But Bush knew and got what she wanted and Hello Earth is, I think, a remarkable track.” Thanks again. I enjoyed this tremendously.

Lee, when this album came out I used to listen to side one in the light, then side two The Ninth Wave I used to lie down with the lights out and be taken away somewhere else. It still has the same effect now, 40 years later.

I always listen to her singing My Lagan Love after the end as a poignant coda.

Don't worry; I've been there but in 70 years I learned it Gets Better (all the time).

You have aa connection to John Lennon. HIs dad left when he was two or three and then his mom moved to another town and left John with his Aunt Mimi. He also had two other strong aunts in Liverpool. He reconnected with hi Mom when he was @ 16 and then she got run over by a police car. Liverpool was a matriarchal city; it was a seaport town and men worked on ships and were gone a lot. So, John says he credits all this to his understanding of women.

Just incredible. What can I say

Morning Fog is one of my favorite tracks from her. Thanks!

Intriguing voice paired with the strings, really nice 👍

Please listen to the official video of "The Man with the Child in His Eyes". Beautiful!!!!!

She also has a large number of Music Videos which she directs herself. There are so many I can't tell you where to start.

Great reaction, fellow Lee. When you have the time, go back and listen to it all in one sitting. As others have hinted, "The Morning Fog" really comes into its own when you've just heard the rest of the suite. If you try listening to it by itself, you end up asking yourself how it shows so well in context -- or at least I do. That said, "Hello Earth" will forever and always be my favorite song on this disc, one of my top handful of songs of all time. Happy this music could make your day better, it always does for me.

it's music that makes you more intelligent

Thanks for the video! Awesome from start to finish, even without a single cymbal! Lol I listened to that forever and one day it occurred to me that there's no cymbals (from what I can tell). Sorry that you're having a rough day, sending you love brother. I appreciate you, thanks!

I wonder how you'll feel about The Dreaming, the album that came before this! It's very abrasive and experimental so can be a bit much on a first listen but it's just as good-if not better-than Hounds of Love. The whole album is like Waking The Witch on acid.

Kate is the artist other artists listen to. While I love everything she did, An Architects Dream is my favorite song of hers. Don't know why, just is. Her 2014 live concert was a masterpiece. Here is An Architects Dream. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JTQuXr0pDuw.html

Man oh man what a life. Among the many challenges of parenting, I also lost my YT account. Life eh? Now I’m back - to this. Life saver. Please do loads more Kate. You are basically still cycling through music and artists I hold very very close to my heart, as it was from day 1. With Kate, some hidden gems are “All we Ever Want,” “Cloudbusting,” “Them Heavy People,” “Breathing” (helicopter sound sampled from The Wall), and the biggie “A Sky of Honey” ❤ You may yet try and like ABBA. I may even pay you to 😂 I’ll also try to remember to get on Discord. Cheers!

sounds like Sir Mann still has a tooth ache. I had an abscess over a weekend once with no dentist available. I learned Oral Gel is terrible. Sure, it numbs the pain for a couple minutes and then the nerves wake up three times more sensitive. I laid on the floor punching the wall until I made a hole, and my neighbors learned a lot of new cuss words.

It's odd but 'the ninth wave' didn't feel that unusual to me for Kate at the time, probably because I'd followed her from the beginning and I was used to her unique style. Hello earth and the morning fog are just a sublime ending. Get out of my house from the previous album, the dreaming is pretty wild, well worth a reaction! Cheers.

What happened to the other songs....?

"The Ninth Wave" is about a woman lost at sea over the course of a night. Kate Bush is a true one-off -- an absolute genius. (Now listen to "The Dreaming"!)