Guitarist REACTS to Kate Bush - The Dreaming

[@thomasovens478]

"The Dreaming" album from 1982 - a masterpiece. At the time the majority of critics were so scathing and were not willing to give the album the praise it now receives. Kate was and still is a true pioneer. Always willing to take risks. It might not be the easiest listen but then again it's not meant to be. She takes you on a journey with each song - there is a story behind everything she creates. All done under her own strict control and when she wants to release it. I'd actually love to watch you react to one of the very few covers that Kate has done - Elton John's ",Rocket Man." It will give you an idea of how creative Kate is even if it's not her own song!

[@BryPazReacts]

Thats cool! Gotta be willing to take risks in the name of creativity. An Elton John cover? I’ll add that to my list!

[@carmensandiego7749]

Find the video here on KZbin for Experiment IV, which wasn't on any prior album before it came out on the compilation CD The Whole Story. The video features a young Hugh Laurie of House.

[@carmensandiego7749]

The Dreaming has didgeridoo, I don't think bagpipes through maybe they're mixed in there because bagpipes are definitely elsewhere on the album if not on this track. It's about Australia 🦘. It's about the white man displacing aboriginals people in order to mine their land, and a ritual they have called Dreamtime I think.

[@SilentAssassin01234]

The Dreaming, this song, is about the destruction of Aboriginal Australian homelands by the West. This album is a masterpiece to say Kate wrote and produced it soley on her own.

[@BryPazReacts]

Wow thats cool!

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

@@BryPazReacts specially for uranium ore

[@Kairon111161]

I love the background vocals (that she's overdubbing) when she says "DRRRR-EEEE-AAAAMM--TTTT-IIII-MMMMMMe" or the Aboriginal "DREAMTIME" -- and her many overdubbed voices saying "dreamtime"sound like a flock of sheep (Australia -- get it?). She is very deep and very heartfelt, incredibly creative, and very witty.

[@stever7732]

Great reaction. Another example of Kate’s dancing skills. As a trained dancer and mime she can tell a story using only body movement and facial expression. One of the most unique artists ever, and one who a great number of artists who came after her cite as an influence. The highly experimental ‘The Dreaming’ album can be quite challenging to fully engage with on first listen but is is an album that rewards perseverance. The world wasn’t ready for it in 1982 but today many feel it is her greatest work - well that and the ‘The Ninth Wave’ concept suite on the Hounds of Love album. The Dreaming (her fourth album) was the first one on which she was sole producer, as she would be for every album that came after that.

[@BryPazReacts]

Thanks! And that’s Interesting… A lot of people talk about this album… must have quite the songs on them!!

[@MGrayl-ib5fo]

@@BryPazReacts Aboriginal instrumentation - the digeridoo drone in the background & it's set in the Australian outback - it's about the white colonisation of Australia & the displacement of the native people. Sound familiar? LOL

[@jdjohnson7299]

Thanks for playing this. This whole album is a trip and an amazing sonic exploration. Keep diving deep into the rabbit hole that is Kate Bush music! This vibe is taken from the aboriginal music of Australia/New Zealand. They trance and go into a state called walkabout. The album "The Dreaming" is very expressionistic, similar to expressionism in art, at least to me. This was the album before her "Hounds of Love" album.

[@warrenbridges1891]

JD Johnson Walkabout was simply a right of passage for young aboriginal males. Nowadays at various stages through their lives, they will leave the security of a job (working on cattle stations for example) and disappear for months at a time to go walkabout. They come back when it suits them.

[@jdjohnson7299]

@@warrenbridges1891 Evonne Goolagong, who was an aboriginal female tennis player and one of the top ranked players on the tour in her day said that sometimes she would go into walkabouts during matches and would just not play well. She said it was a state of mind, sort of like a trance-like state, so that is where I got my reference. Maybe she was using the term inappropriately, but I assumed she would know. Thanks for the explanation.

[@BryPazReacts]

Glad you enjoyed! Sounds like This is quite the Album. Aboriginal music?? Thats new to me! Something to look into, thanks!

[@warrenbridges1891]

@@jdjohnson7299 Mate I wouldn't doubt it. I've worked with plenty of them . They went walkabout without even leaving the factory yard.

[@warrenbridges1891]

@@BryPazReacts In Australia aboriginal bands have incorporated traditional instruments with rock music. a good example is "Treaty" by Yothu Yindi

[@antjackson4471]

A really respectful response. Kate Bush is a genius for many reasons. She sings in her own English accent which is unusual. The song is about Australian aborigines. Check out Kate Bush and Prince - why should I love u

[@MGrayl-ib5fo]

Lovely to see a musician (who obviously has perfect pitch) reacting to Kate Bush - you have a new subscriber here, man!

[@BryPazReacts]

ahh ya got me 😆 thanks for tuning in, and for the subscribe!!

[@MGrayl-ib5fo]

@@BryPazReacts You're most welcome! Now get onto some more Kate Bush, she's astonishing! :-)

[@MGrayl-ib5fo]

@@BryPazReacts One more sub & you can choose your official URL! Yay!

[@leslieturner8276]

BTW at the time here in the UK there was a guy called Percy Edwards who was an animal impersonator of animals from all over the world. Kate wanted Australian animals to appear on the song and Percy Edwards was able to provide a selection of Australian ones. "The Dreaming" album is her most experimental, most "out there" album and it was the 1st time that Kate was the sole producer. It wasn't received well initially but in recent years it has undergone a reevaluation and is now generally considered to be a groundbreaking piece of work, Kate then used techniques employed on the album and used them on her iconic "Hounds Of Love" album. My personal favourite album is "The Dreaming" with "Hounds Of Love" in second place.

[@BryPazReacts]

Hindsight is 20/20, many people can’t see things for what they are until time has passed. Percy Edwards… 🤔 People seem to have a lot of good things to say about “The Dreaming” album!

[@Vindrag]

Thank you for a great reaction. Kate Bush is my hero since I was 6. I discovered this album back then and it inspired me like nothing else. You have interesting comments. Good luck!

[@bunnylarese2161]

Us Kate Bush fans are nuts! ❤️❤️

[@warrenbridges1891]

Buny Larese OH NO!............................I'm far worse.

[@heathcliff1096]

The drone earthy sound you mentioned is the use of the Didgeridoo which is the main Aboriginal instrument in Australia pre-invasion of the British. The song relates to the Aboriginal culture ("Dreamtime") and also how their land was exploited : "The civilised keep alive the territorial war, Erase the race that claim the place and say we dig for ore". Kate's work is to be fully studied to understand and realise how it encapsulates such a wide range of themes. She is taking inspiration from literature, movies, spirituality, theatre, paintings, sculptures, nature, dance and mime and so much more and mixes it with her own approach to music and always relates it to human experience. She is the musical Shakespeare of our time. I've been listening and exploring her work since the age of 8 and now I'm 51 and I'm still discovering new themes in her work or rediscovering aspects of them thinking I got it all but did not. Kate's work either captivates you straight away or for some it is impossible to grasp as she is unpredictable. There is not one album that is the same than the next. That is what drives her appetite for creation, hence the gap in time between two albums which can be very very long for fans. She is not interested in repeating the same music experience for her and for her fans, and it also applies to her visual work, interviews, shows (only two in her whole career) and TV appearances (not performing any now). Thank you for your reaction.

[@BryPazReacts]

Wow, thats so cool! Musical Shakespeare of our time?? 😮 I’m still discovering her work, so Maybe someday I’ll understand what you mean! Thanks for sharing, and thanks for watching!

[@warrenbridges1891]

Heathcliff I think one reason Kate's lyrics seem so cryptic is because she doesn't spell things out to you like you're an idiot. She gives the listener more credit. If you know what she's talking about, that's great. If you don't, you're dying to find out. Always thought provoking.

[@jdjohnson7299]

I think you would really love the percussion on another song on this album called "Sat In My Lap"

[@BryPazReacts]

Will add to my list!

[@warrenbridges1891]

@@BryPazReacts Just a word of warning. Some people mistake the costumes for KKK. They're actually wearing "Dunce" hats, which school teachers made dumb kids wear in the old days

[@warrenbridges1891]

JD Johnson Good choice JD. She's wacko, but the lyrics are brilliant.

[@spiderbass65]

I loved how you got your guitar to riff along with this! I'm like man, he's in for it! I think this album is revolutionary. Great reaction! She does a tune with one of my favorites, Jeff Beck called You're The One. Or And So Is Love with Eric Clapton. Or Rocket's Tail with Davis Gilmore. Or Why Should I Love You with Prince. Lots of good guitar tunes.

[@Kairon111161]

And BTW, I'm loving your relatively new channel -- BRY PAZ REACTS -- I especially love that you're using your guitar to analyze these chord progressions, melodies, etc. You're very talented too.

[@BryPazReacts]

Thank you!! Glad to have you here!

[@darrinwyatt2923]

I'm really digging your Kate Bush reactions. Breathing is a great song, and video too. The Kick Inside video is cool too. She has a lot of great songs that don't have videos. Like Night of the Swallow, and The Infant Kiss. Keep up the good work.

[@youngbloodk]

The next song on this album, The Dreaming, is the song Night Of The Swallow, and is well worth a listen.

[@paddynoble]

I love your reactions to Kate Bush. She has a huge catalogue of material. The album the Dreaming is amazing. And this song is about the disenfranchisement of Aboriginal people from their lands. At first when this song came out I didn't know how take it. But after listening I was hooked. Kate Bush was ahead of her time. She always incorporates a form of dance is some of her music. Please check out babooshka

[@BryPazReacts]

Thanks! Glad to hear! I hope you’re subscribed because there’s more Kate Bush videos coming! The Dreaming sounds like quite the album! I think I have Babooshka on my list, so you’ll be seeing that in the future!

[@paddynoble]

@@BryPazReacts yes I subscribed to you. In her hounds of love Album on the A and B side is amazing. On the B side the ninth wave is a concept of a woman lost out in sea. And it is a reflection of her going in and out of conciseness out in the sea.

[@BryPazReacts]

@@paddynoble great, thanks!! The Ninth wave? 🤔 is that another one I should add to my list? 🤔

[@paddynoble]

@@BryPazReacts it's the B side of her Hounds of Love Album. Maybe a listen to the all the B side will guide you about the ninth wave. And dream of sleep. Under the ice. And waking the Witch.

[@MGrayl-ib5fo]

She's truly eclectic in the most wonderful way - check out "Moving" something different again!

[@pushpak]

The Dreaming ”The period of creation before time as we know it existed is known to the Australian Aboriginal people as The Dreaming. The lessons of this period of enlightenment and the ability to live in peace and harmony are encapsulated within The Dreaming and passed on to the next generation in the oral traditions. This is when the very essence of human nature came to be understood. Dreamtime is a word first used by a European anthropologist in the early 1900’s to define what he perceived, as a religion. He used this word to describe the all-encompassing mystical period of Aboriginal beginning.”

[@markjohnson4217]

What is most fascinating about the 'Dreamtime' is that ALL THINGS are within in it including the modern colonial intrusions and the wanton digging and mining for weapons grade uranium in the outback. The Dreamtime us not simply to be understood as an ancient a long time ago, but also exists in the present and in the future and holds records of every era which are accessible to the indigenous shaman..

[@SilentAssassin01234]

As a guitarist I would to hear your reaction to The Smiths, Johnny Marr is a really underrated guitarist from the 80s. This Charming Man has a great riff running throughout that isn't easy to play.

[@BryPazReacts]

Oh cool! Sounds it’ll be like a fun riff to try! I’ll add that to my list. Be sure to subscribe, so you catch it when I post it in the future! 🙂

[@MGrayl-ib5fo]

Good luck jamming along with this one LMAO

[@markjohnson4217]

This song is about the aboriginal culture of Australia being intruded upon and endangered by European colonialism. Specifically the heavy mining for weapons grade Uranium. There were also underground nuclear detonations in remote areas of the outback, which was horrific to the indigenous bushmen. "The civilized keep alive tbe territorial WARRR.. he raze the race that claim the place and say 'we dig for ore, He dangle devils in a bottle and push em from the pull o the bush... See the light ram thru the gaps in the land... See the light bounce off the rocks to the sand..see the sun set in ths hand of the man." This is clearly NOT natural light she is talking about. Sunlight doesn't violently RAM Thru the gaps in the land ...One particularly potent image is when they are literally pulling the light beam out of the bushman's body. I think that one image best sums up the real meaning of this song.

[@BryPazReacts]

Oh wow. Super deep meaning in this!! That Takes a lot of brains!!

[@warrenbridges1891]

Not Celtic influenced. Kate is using an Australian accent. The drone is a traditional Australian aboriginal instrument called a "Didgeridoo". The song is about the plight of Australian natives and how their lands have been exploited. "Dreamtime" is aboriginal history/folklore. Kate spent some time on vacation in Australia with her family as a child.

[@BryPazReacts]

Oh wow thats interesting!

[@warrenbridges1891]

@@BryPazReacts A lot of Kate's music does have Celtic influence, such as "Jig Of Life" (part of a 7 song prog rock suite on "Hounds Of Love" titled "The Ninth Wave") or "The Red Shoes" based on a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale. On "The Dreaming" album there is "Night Of The Swallow". This woman has explored so many different genres it's beyond ridiculous. She even sings "Mna na hEireann" (Women Of Ireland) in Gaelic language. I can't understand a single word of it, but it's gorgeous.

[@markjohnson4217]

It is inspired by traditional aboriginal music and the digeridoo with the stones slapping is very primal, BUT the melody she sings in those verses actually IS with celtic influenced intervals. It is a weirdly major pentatonic melody sung over the deep hypnotic drone, which expesses the cultural clash between British colonialism and the indigenous.

[@BryPazReacts]

@@markjohnson4217 ahhh so maybe that’s what got me thinking. They play Celtic music on my radio every Sunday, so the music’s been seeping into my consciousness lately

[@BryPazReacts]

@@warrenbridges1891 oh wow cool, should I add those to my list?

[@blindazabat9527]

Cool that you have your guitar with you. Hopefully you'll react to songs where you can use it more.

[@rodcampbell5766]

I have been waiting for years for KZbin to discover Kate Bush. You have chosen some great songs and have some interesting analytical views. Do yourself a favor and react to her song 'Hammer Horror'

[@sophiapangloss2149]

Don't worry at all about your confusion, great reaction, and that's how we all reacted at the time... What?! (We had got to know her unique ways over the previous 3 years, but this is where her experimentation *really* took off) Stick with this, I think you'll love mining the seam of gold that is Kate Bush, I guarantee she'll never disappoint you. I love your reaction to the reaction, Kate Bush fans are all on a high right now because of Running Up That Hill and the deserved accolades she's getting. You'll not be short of suggestions to follow, but mine would be to try Breathing and Army Dreamers, 2 tracks from the album before this one. Her videos were ground-breaking, I'm sure Jackson, Madonna and the rest all took cues from Kate Bush's videos (Oh, This Woman's Work, you have to do that one) and though her music arguably just got more beautiful as she got older, she did fewer videos, so her later work is mostly a listening exercise, you'll still love it, betcha. One more suggestion would be her best duet, Don't Give Up, a song she did with Peter Gabriel, who was a good friend of hers. Looking forward to watching you open your eyes and ears to Kate.

[@marceloduartepoppolino9772]

React to Rocket's tail

[@BryPazReacts]

By Kate Bush? Added to the list!

[@warrenbridges1891]

@@BryPazReacts Banger! Dave Gilmour guitar on "Rocket's Tail"

[@Kairon111161]

And YOU just helped me understand something I never quite got about this video, even though I've been watching it for 40 years, on and off. And that's that it has an alien planet feel, or she's dressed like an astronaut. I think she's making the point that, to the Australian Aborigines, the Westerner, the White Man, must have seemed like something from another planet to them -- which I think is true, and something that Kate Bush would definitely have thought of and purposefully included.

[@BryPazReacts]

Oh wow that’s cool!

[@luigitrotti6023]

They are in australia...with all australian vibes (the drone us a didgeridoo)

[@joecampos5624]

React to Laura nyro brown earth she's a amazing singer songwriter

[@BryPazReacts]

Brown Earth by Laura Nyro? Will add to my list!

[@heathcliff1096]

I recommend you to watch and listen "The Sensual World" title track, the inital version of 1989 with the video. It is pure poetry. She wrote the song taking inspiration from "Ulysses" by James Joyce. There is a youtuber who made a video about it explaining the creation process and what she intended to do which is very good. If you react to the song and you are interested I'll try and find it and post it for you in the comments. Thanks.

[@BryPazReacts]

Will add to my list! I hope you’re subscribed so you can catch it once I post!

[@warrenbridges1891]

@@BryPazReacts She wanted to use the original text from the novel, but Joyce's estate wouldn't allow it, so she wrote her own lyrics. Years later she did a remake and asked them again. This time they said yes. The song was then renamed "Flower Of The Mountain". Kate was a book and movie nut.

[@tedbus7708]

This song is about aboriginal resistance to oil drilling..many an Aborigine mistaken for a tree..the influence of alcohol..is dangle devils in the bottle..also..come in with the golden light in the morning..with no warning...we bring in the rigging.. OK she's cute..youve got abit of a crush..if you're really interested you will know within one or two listens..im pretty interested in her music as a lifelong artistic appreciation..bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van..push em from a pull of the bush...the dreaming is Australian aboriginal language..its vibe is ecological cultural survival..

[@tedbus7708]

With Kate it's very much a listen and learn experience.. The composition of the dreaming will grow on you.. I'd like to hear your take on THE JUG OF LIFE..lol I'm enjoying your attempt at unwarvelling our many collective years of Kate, as a next generation listener and learner..

[@benoitdesmarais2948]

Turn off the lights and listen to the whole album!

[@gretagarbeige]

You gotta pay much more attention to the lyrics 🙏🏻❤️

[@BryPazReacts]

Very true!

[@luxmoto7344]

For a musician you seem to be very distracted by the images. Music is about listening, not about watching.

[@tess5747]

Love any reactions to the brilliant Kate Bush but I do wish people not so familiar with her would do some research. The Dreaming is about the aboriginal Dreamtime/oppression of the aborigines (indigenous Australians). It just makes it easier than wondering what it’s all about when the viewer most likely is a fan and already knows. The ‘pipes’ are a didgeridoo. It’s a brilliant record. Her stuff never dates. I’ll subscribe to see where you go with KB🙂