Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love | REACTION | Purely Unique

[@magicbrownie1357]

The Entire Hounds of Love album is an absolute modern masterpiece. Highly recommend listening to this album in one sitting, even off screen. It's really brilliant.

[@frakte]

Agreed. Easily one of the greatest albums it has ever been my pleasure to hear, and I never tire of it.

[@thabudmaster]

absolutely ! I hope everyone can experience this

[@dranet47]

Side one and side two are completely different. Fair warning! Side two is a journey.

[@kf9346]

It's one of the few complete musical texts I have on my list.

[@Muthrtung]

💯🔥

[@Gill3D]

Do listen to "The 9th Wave" in its entirety, not as individual songs. To my mind, it's the pinnacle of Prog Rock.

[@Rhiannon011]

Yes, that whole second side of "The 9th wave" is like something out of this world and I loved every single song of the story of "The 9th wave"..

[@cazzychaps]

It's brilliant

[@anthonyblakely399]

Don't forget to react to "Moments of Pleasure" by Kate Bush! Absolutely Beautiful song!!! It is another masterpiece from Kate.

[@tonyg5597]

You should give This Woman's Work a listen...always brings me to tears that one....imo her best

[@rk41gator]

'Army Dreamers' gets to me also.

[@LoneRanger100]

Man with the child in his eyes

[@markiebaby]

Running Up That Hill became popular so many years later than it’s release because it was featured in the soundtrack for Stranger Things

[@lamusiclover2264]

It was extremely popular when it first came out too. It's a timeless song.

[@RockChick63174]

It was a huge MTV hit. Stranger Things gave a lot of 80's music a reboot.

[@dacsus]

So, you have no idea how popular it was then - the whole album.

[@markiebaby]

@@dacsus I have every idea - I bought the original record on vinyl when it came out!!! I was explaining how it recently became popular again - I wish people wouldn’t assume things

[@dacsus]

@@markiebaby OK then. I also have all her CDs from time when they came out.

[@raycornford283]

Interesting that you thought this theatrical - Kate is, above all, a story-teller and many of her videos are a dramatic representation of the song - in particular the likes of "Cloudbusting", "Experiment IV" and "Breathing". The Ninth Wave should be listened to in one sitting to get the full effect of the "Story"

[@Judymoe]

Yes! She's so creative and brilliant, and above all, a wonderful storyteller. Her ability to tell stories from so many different perspectives is what has kept me a fan since 1979.

[@TheRatsCast]

@markiebaby is correct. The Netflix series used the song during an episode; which then reintroduced Bush to modern audiences. The song became so popular that Bush became the oldest female artist to have a number one, beating out Cher. Cher tweeted out her congratulations afterwards. I'd so wonderful for so many people to find her again after all this time.

[@reneeroxanneabeln2202]

Wonderful reaction! It took me awhile to "get" Kate Bush - her voice/style is a definite "flavor"! 😁Now I think she's a genius, and a complete ARTIST. I love this song in particular. A band called The Futureheads did a cover of it in the early 2000s - it's pretty fantastic, very different, more upbeat and new wave. Kate loved it. 😁

[@Joshualuv13]

Kate Bush music is extraordinary creative and beautiful.❤

[@greeleyman]

Kate Bush's later albums (from The Dreaming onward) are best experienced in one sitting- front to back. She got me through some lonely times when it was just me, my dog, and my cat living in a single-wide trailer on an acre of land while in my early 20s.

[@MDElam]

Yes, listening twice! Kate Bush is worth it every time!

[@drogna3905]

Please, please, do Cloudbusting.

[@Jivansings]

It's coming for me through the trees. Oh help me darling, help me please - what a lyric ! Her music is like a loyal friend you have traveled with through the decades - thanks boss

[@judyyurchuk4904]

She's so cool ❤

[@queengoddessb69]

The show Stranger Things brought people back to Kate's old work

[@Flatwoodsdad]

It is theatrical this was the debut of her classy british pop star caricature. This whole album is fantastic and of course unique. I heard an interview with her brother talking about her 2014 concerts. He said what made it special for him was for the first time she performed her work as Kate. Before she always did them in caricature.

[@peterdennis4394]

Oh man, those strings, sends shivers up my spine.

[@gabrielh815]

Please check "This Woman's Work" by Kate !!

[@O_Towne_Bear]

Ya, man. Keep her music coming. "Take my shoes off and throw them in the lake then I'll be, two steps on the water..." just brilliant. ALSO: "The Dreaming" is my fave KB album. Very experimental for her.

[@leslieturner8276]

My favourite as well. My top three are: 1 - The Dreaming 2 - Hounds Of Love 3 - Never For Ever - for me this is when Kate began to spread her musical wings

[@Missjunebugfreak]

​@leslieturner8276 Those are my top 3 as well. Although I'd swap 2 and 3 in placement.

[@aldoushuxley8239]

You can really tell that you're feeling this song. Great to see. Kate Bush is the real deal.

[@Newfie-zc7ug]

Sister Kate is a a brilliant artist along with being a great singer .................

[@joemachine4714]

I'm glad you played it a 2nd time without the video. This song is best visualized by imagination 👏

[@Muckylittleme]

Must hear songs from Kate that you haven't heard yet, "King of the Mountain" "This woman's work" "Moments of pleasure" "The man with the child in his eyes" "Hello Earth" "Sensual World" "Wow" "Rubber band girl" "Cloud busting" and many more.

[@silverascal]

There are sooo many great Kate Bush songs! “Suspended in Gaffa!”

[@kf9346]

"Running Up That Hill" became a hit again in 2022 because it appeared in "Stranger Things" and people who'd never heard it or of her went absolutely bonkers.

[@glenn20081965]

Out of the box music.........sublime artist.

[@kf9346]

The B side should be listened to from start to finish. It tells a story of death, reincarnation and other Kate Bush things. In every one of her songs, she is signing the part of a character, real, fictional, animate, inanimate... eg. her "50 Words for Snow" takes place in a snowglobe... after it has been shaken... Kate the Genius! I'm so happy you liked "Wuthering Heights," many people who like her newer stuff don't like the older. I was lucky to be introduced to the Lionheart album when I was 10 and have been in love with her ever since. From the same era, try: "Lionheart" "The Man With the Child In His Eyes" "Symphony In Blue"

[@andrewfaduk214]

Agree. Hounds of love is her masterpiece. Have everything Kate had recorded. Huge fan

[@carolmeindl9508]

I have always loved the line” take my shoes off and throw them in the lake and I’ll be two steps on the water”

[@Judymoe]

Not many singers will bark in their songs (or, you know, make mule sounds in another song). I've adored Kate since I was a teenage girl; she was my idol, and she still is - even if we're only a few years apart in age.

[@colrhodes377]

The Red Shoes album is also really worth exploring 👌

[@annewoodard6803]

“Big Sky” and “Cloudbusting” are excellent songs. Both are musts.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Strongly individualistic artist. Cloudbusting is another good one from this wonderful album

[@eggy1962]

Try these that are not mentioned……Them Heavy People…..Babooshka…plus her version of elton john’s -Rocket Man

[@Muthrtung]

Dude, what they all said👇👍 Kate is a one in a bazillion & always will be! You can soooo hear her influence in peeps like Florence Welsh, FKA Twigs, St Vincent, Bjork, Tori Amos, etc.... the list goes on & on! & she's been beloved by everyone from Stevie Nicks to Tupac, to Lorde, & beyond... & yeah, Running Up That Hill "became" again, bc Wynona Ryder suggested the track for Stranger Things, which she stars in. Sooo deserving, too. Shes always been a bit too odd for the mainstream US pallet, but as you can see, shes a genius! Her work is so intelligent, so peeps & musos in the know, know, yanno?! Lol If you didn't listen to it all at the time, maybe react to especially the while 2nd side of Hounds Of Love album: The Nineth Wave, suite! Its just incredible. About a woman who had to man-overboard, & her delirious journey afloat in the dark ocean, as she darts in & out of consciousness whilst trying not to drown. Play it all at once you wont regret it 🎉

[@LikkieAU]

You think it’s sounds avant garde now? Imagine how blown away we were 40 years ago…. This music is timeless

[@davidlionheart2438]

The opening line "It's in the trees...it's coming!" is sampled from the soundtrack of the classic and brilliant 1957 British horror film "Night Of The Demon". It is from actor Maurice Denham's dialogue in the film and is lip-synched by the actor in the video.

[@xScooterAZx]

I still have two of her vassettes from w hen I was riding my bicycle through France. She is so awesome. "Running Up That Hill" is my favorite.

[@mcolford]

Great reaction... so glad you listened to it twice! If you really want a journey -- an magical experience -- listen to side "2" of the Hounds of Love album, which is in itself titled, The Ninth Wave, and as you read in Wikipedia, is a conceptual piece telling the story of a woman trying to stay alive over night in the water. It's absolutely mesmerizing and brilliant, and should be listened to in one stretch. You won't be sorry.

[@SalvoG]

That sounds amazing. She definitely has found her way into my heart and I will be trying my best to explore her music more . Thanks Michael

[@rayname908]

I love how she found a fox caught by the hounds & it let her take him in her arms. then in the next verse she Is in the arms of a man. Every song except Mother Stands for Comfort is an A+. Under The Ivy is a great B-side

[@terrylewis_]

Kaaaaaaate

[@davidmaholchic6146]

Good one from Kate love you

[@Rhiannon011]

Salvo, You are just beginning the "journey of Kate Bush's" album "Hounds of love,", there is much much more to discover, experience and listen to, it will blow your mind! The second side of this album is called "The Ninth Wave" and it will blow your mind!! It is a whole story in itself, every single song leads you to the next, then "the conclusion" of the story. I'm never tired of listening to this album, I play it often and that's saying a lot since I got this album in the early 80's..

[@leebones4091]

I have the original album. I am 80s girl the moment I heard Kate Bush I was hypnotised. Kate Bush has always done her on thing. Trying to explain her is like fitting her in box and Kate Bush doesn't go in box

[@Judymoe]

I'd suggest "Cloudbusting" next, since you seem to vibe with this LP, and some of her other stuff can be...interesting. Plus, the video is beautiful. Kate is a journey, one best taken on the slow, meandering path.

[@heathcliff1096]

You are right, it is very theatrical and operatic. She is not a pop singer but a genuine artist, a serious one both musically and visually. She is a musical Shakespeare.

[@neilfleming2787]

so glad that I've found someone else doing a Kate Bush reaction, especially Hounds of Love, I have all those albums on vinyl. Most people listen to Wuthering Heights and give up on Kate. I was in love with her back in the day and I love the whole concert from Hammersmith Odeon ( some tracks are on EPs ). You have to do her video versions as they are masterpieces on their own...especially Cloudbusting and Babooshka. I believe (but don't quote me) that the mobile microphone headset was designed for Kate so she could do the dancing on stage that she was so good at.

[@ACinemafanatic]

Cloudbusting gets me everytime

[@davidetienne9404]

Her song, "Moments of Pleasure" is quite exceptional.

[@aletha460]

When my sisters were asking santa for pop records for christmas, i was asking for simon & garfunkle, plus kate bush, haha! I thought she was amazing. Think it unsettled my mum when i started wandering round the house singing the sensual world to myself though, 😅

[@mattleppard1964]

A masterpiece. The album (and most of her work really) is outstanding ❤ There is so so much to discover ❤❤

[@malvanlondon8683]

Dozens of songs from this great lady - we look forward to sharing the journey of discovery with you. Maybe Running Up That Hill or Babooshka (or Moving) next.

[@imaspoon4522]

Also do Cloudbusting. The song and video are intense!

[@hatake_romina]

Check the entire album!! You’re gonna love it! ❤

[@leslieturner8276]

BTW, Kate directed the music video, she's a person of all many different talents. Also, due to the resurgence caused by stranger things in 2022, the album returned to the US charts. Reaching number 12 in the Billboard 200. Also, number 1 in both the Billboard Top Alternative Albums and Billboard Top Catalog Albums, respectively. Plus, it reached number 2 in the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart. Here are a few suggestions of Kate Bush songs before Hounds Of Love: 📍The Man With The Child In His Eyes - 2nd UK single release after Wuthering Heights 📍Wow 📍Babooshka 📍Army Dreamers 📍Breathing 📍Sat In Your Lap

[@cyclops60]

I think you are spot on with your interpretation of Kate, unconventional, experimental and above all true to herself. An awful lot of people do get her but you have to work at it a little! If you want a really wild ride from Kate I highly recommend 'Get out of my house' from the Dreaming Album! Cheers.

[@RianSiniscalco]

Love your Kate bush reactions. Keep them coming

[@stephenharries8568]

Great review S

[@tommydevlin702]

Hi and thanks for this. Going from 'Wuthering Heights' to 'Hounds of Love' is an unusual initial step, given that the latter, while an excellent track , was something of only a minor hit. Now the album of the same name really is a masterpiece of an album and is rightly regarded as one of the very few flawless and one of the truly great albums that can stand alongside anything done by anyone else in the entire history of rock music (if you do decide to listen to the entire 'Hounds of Love' album it is probably a good thing to say that the second half of the album 'The Ninth Wave' really does need to be listened to in one sitting without any breaks - since it is a stand alone cycle or suite of songs that tells a single story of a woman lost at sea). But in terms of just listening to one off songs here and there from her musicyou will find a lot of diversity in them and quite few songs that on their own are just jaw dropping. For example: 'Rocket's Tail' - which features Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd) on guitar 'The Man With the Child In His Eyes' - written when she was about 13 'Babooshka' - with the official video - just trust me on that one 'Breathing' - the remastered audio version about a baby in the womb speaking about its terror at the prospect of a nuclear world war. 'Night of the Swallow' 'This Woman's Work' - with the video that she herself directed 'Army Dreamers' - with the video - eventually placed on a banned list by the BBC 11 years after it was released! 'The Kick Inside' - a song about incest, pregnancy and suicide written in the form of a suicide note from the sister to the brother. 'Violin' - remastered audio version - utterly mad!!! 'Delius' - about classical composer Frederick Delius battling against syphilis and trying to continue to compose his music. But thanks again for this. I really enjoyed it.

[@catserver8577]

Bought the cassette in high school, still have it. It's very worn.

[@rogerdaly6326]

The Dreaming and Hounds Of Love are just brilliant records. I would have loved to have seen her live but Kate is not fond of flying and i think she only toured the U.S. once. A truly unque artist in every sense.

[@bgfd1]

You must lisiten to the whole album and of course This Woman’s Work but don’t stop there. She is a total unique genius.

[@maha77]

'I found a fox, caught by dogs He let me take him in my hands His little heart, it beats so fast And I'm ashamed of running away From nothing real I just can't deal with this I'm still afraid to be there' this line is just so amazing

[@strangerthings88]

❤

[@ToIlluminateTheSun]

Man.. where to start with Kate Bush? 😅 I discovered you during your Fleetwood Mac posts as I began exploring the Macs discography for the 1st time, big Lindsey & Stevie fan myself. You got a great start with Wuthering Heights and Hounds of Love and have quite the Kate Bush journey ahead of you, gotta day I might be jealous. There is nothing better than listening to a Kate Bush song for the very first time. ☺️ My favorite album is The Dreaming followed by Hounds of Love although critics consider it her Magnum Opus. Personally, I tend to lean towards the more experimental, The Dreaming and it might be her most underrated but brilliant body of work. It's best consumed in its entirety rather than song by song. My recommendations in no particular order: -Running Up That Hill -Breathing -Cloudbusting -The Sensual World -Experiment IV -The Wedding List -Army Dreamers -Get out of my House -Night of The Swallow -Pull Out The Pin -Them Heavy People -Waking the Witch -Hammer Horror -Symphony in Blue -James & The Cold Gun

[@noheamike5036]

Even though this is drenched in 80s sounds, it still comes off fresh and vital. So much good Kate to check out, I'll recommend "Joanni“ from the album Aerial, a song about Joan of Arc.

[@Missjunebugfreak]

"Joanni" is one of her weakest songs imo. A better recommendation would be "King of The Mountain" or "How To Be Invisible". But Kate has so many great songs it's hard not to recommend everything from her.

[@jaseman]

Running Up That Hill gained new interested after it was featured in Stranger Things and a lot of younger people discovered Kate for the first time. Winona Ryder suggested using the song in the TV show as she is a fan of Kate Bush.

[@isobeljames1328]

The show has music supervisor Nora Sthing... Her job is to find music for scenes... Found ruthill and suggested it to the Duffer brothers.... Ryder has zero role the process.... Nora gave tons of interviews about it.

[@jonlight670]

Running up the Hill got popular again via Stranger Things hence the later no1 chart position. Do Cloudbusting next the video is great with Donald Sutherland. Plus afterwards do Utah Saints - Something Good! (It samples Cloudbusting) Being English we all love Kate Bush. She is amazing

[@annesmith2259]

The whole album is a masterpiece… ❤

[@jeffmartin1026]

Other women who do their own music, not worried so much about public reaction are Grace Slick (Silver Spoon, Manhole), Laurie Anderson (Let X = X/It Tango, Coolsville) and The Roches (Keep On Doing). A lot of Yoko Ono's later work is quite impressive as well.

[@noheamike5036]

If you do Woman's Work, I would recommend doing both the original on The Sensual World and her reworking on Director's Cut. The original is stunning, and I was surprised she redid it. Was definitely in the original camp when first heard the Director's Cut version, but have grown to prefer the later now. The versions are very different.

[@ami7mina]

My favorite album from her is the kick inside and the dreaming.

[@pervkhan]

Try reacting to "RUNNUNG UP THE HILL"I. believe this her best song.

[@anthonyblakely399]

Kate Bush was influenced by Frank Zappa. Broadway Musicals. Bohemian folk music. African rhythms. So, her music sounds like a combination of those previously mentioned. She's into Art. And her music like the band "Yes " composed music for the sake of art not for commercial success, for the love of music as "Art."😊😊😊 Running Up That Hill was the theme song for Netflix's Sci-fi series called, "Stranger Things, " which made her song "Running Up That Hill, No.1 in U.K. and No. 5 on the Billboard chart....She's one of the best artist in music history. 🎉🎉🎉Good reaction 🎉🎉🎉

[@lewismaddox4132]

You need to listen to The Ninth Wave! It's life changing.

[@Muckylittleme]

Glad to see you back with Kate Bush, a unique talent.

[@bartholomewswarmkrunsh3859]

Kate Bush and Joan Armatrading are my favourite female artists, with Stevie Nicks as a close runner-up.

[@honestpolitician6366]

Sat in your lap

[@joecveteticccvetetic4068]

Bjork..smart..I read her fav is the dreaming

[@brucedillinger9448]

This Woman's Work will pull at your heart strings.

[@Bobsherunkle]

Carry on settling in with the well known stuff before you go near The Dreaming. It’s the best album in her catalogue (IMHO) but very challenging for the casual listener. But your KB journey will eventually take you there and you will be rewarded with the greatest riches. She is a genius in the true sense of the word- and that’s a rarity these days

[@toddleslien1]

hi i am Giuseppe from Italy. You should make reaction videos of "Cloudbusting", "Running up that hill", "Babooshka", "Wow", Hammer horror"....

[@sweetwilly]

Not everyone gets Kate, and you’re right. She doesn’t care.

[@AllShadesAreGray]

Cloudbusting, This Woman’s Work, Running Up That Hill, Army Dreamers, all better songs than Hounds of Love, imo. Glad you’re diving in, though! 90s successor to Kate Bush is Tori Amos. If you aren’t familiar with her work, give her a listen. She’s awesome live, too.

[@terrybritteon5797]

you really need to listen to 'Womens Work' that'll have you in tears

[@henriknilsson1565]

Great reaction - please do the whole album and especially The Ninth Wave. Also listen to the alternative version from the 12" single where the vocals are (even) more uninhibited (kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4ObZ4lsaax_p5Y&pp=ygUaYWx0ZXJuYXRpdmUgaG91bmRzIG9mIGxvdmU%3D). This video is an hommage to Hitchcock's film "The 39 steps" - look out for the Hitchcock look-alike at the very beginning of the video.

[@roumiaou]

And you haven't scratched the surface yet....

[@LoneRanger100]

Babooshka next!

[@davidrauh8118]

Considered the weakest cut on side one. But I always loved it. Hope you listen to the rest of side one.

[@joecveteticccvetetic4068]

John lyndon speaks highly of kate..and as we all know, he hates most acts

[@grudzz7049]

Great chin..😂

[@markjohnson4217]

Ironically the weakest track on the album, Lol.. The first half of the album was the accessible pop side, but VERY top quality pop. The second half however, js her 7-part opus The Ninth Wave, this is a harrowing journey into the subconscious, expressed as the woman stranded at sea after a shipwreck, floating in a lifejacket, trying desperately to stay awake and stay alive, but she drifts into slumber and finds herself trapped on the threshold of life and death, the personal and collective unconscious. Also, that previous album The Dreaming, was her greatest masterpiece, but it scared the shit out of EMI, so they didn't really get behind it. But time and hindsight have spoken clearly, it was a pioneering work of genius. Her third release was also astounding, 'Never Forever' check out her albums, much like Pink Floyd and Genesis, Kate is an ALBUM artist..

[@universlp4699]

Vaya porqueria 😂

[@joecveteticccvetetic4068]

I'm a big Kate fan..but not a fan of this 1

[@spawn4582]

I don’t like it, I don’t understand what’s good about Kate Bush, an overrated performer

[@RockChick63174]

So it's not your thing. That doesn't make her overrated.

[@spawn4582]

@@RockChick63174 It's my opinion

[@Peter-gr2kl]

I’m sure you will LOVE Rocket’s Tail