Kate Bush - Moments of Pleasure (Reaction/Request - Beautiful!)

[@mvellis3863]

In the song Kate looks back on her life and laments about different joys and sorrows. The "George the Wipe" reference is a studio technician that apparently erased a complete tape of one of Kate's recordings by accident (although some people in her circle have said that Kate pulled a practical joke on the guy, thus her lyrics "Oh God I can't stop laughing, this sense of humor of mine, it isn't funny at all"). Kate wrote the line "to those we love, to those who will survive" for her mother, Hannah, who was sick at the time of recording (who later passed away). At the end of the song, she mentions several people in her life who had died: "Maureen" was Kate's aunt, "Bubba" was Gary Hurst, one of her dance partners, "S'Murph" was her guitarist, Allan Murphy, "Teddy" was John Barrett, a sound engineer at Abbey Road studios where she recorded Never For Ever (they used to have chair spinning contests in the control room to see who would get sick first - Kate always won because she knew how to pirouette and move her head!!), "Michael" was famous film director Michael Powell (director of the movie The Red Shoes), whom she met on a snowy day in New York City shortly before his death from cancer in 1990, and finally, "Bill" was Bill Duffield, Kate's lighting director on her 1979 tour, who died in a tragic fall through a stage trap door just before the tour started

[@hilo6755]

Thanks for that X

[@hilo6755]

Do you turn the lights off, explain.

[@heathcliff1096]

This song makes me cry each time. Pure bliss....

[@nealm6764]

Great reaction! I think you have to have 5 or 6 decades of life under your belt to really get the snow sequence. How people flit into your life and entangle into your life for a bit, then float out of sight... Maybe not, but it certainly was needed in my case. I certainly didn't fully get it 30 years ago. it makes me cry now.

[@ap8eioul1]

One of the best story teller, singer, song writer, and she's her one producer.. Her Music is just beautiful. Great reaction

[@forgivemenot1]

She's a painter, her voice is the brush and her lyrics are the canvas.

[@marceltroia9750]

I shed a tear when I listen to this masterpiece, remembering beloved ones that in a perfect world would still be with us

[@nellies]

This is the most perfect Kate Bush reaction I've ever seen, it made me so happy! I love this song, one of the most beautiful songs ever written. It's definitely impossible to not cry to this song. The video is also art! It's from a musical short film she made. All of the people she sings about at the end is people she knew that have passed away. The saddest one for me is Bill, he was her lighting technician on her first tour and died within the first days after an accident, she has a song dedicated to him called Blow Away (For Bill) and it's one of my favorites. She does have more ballads similar to this, but most of her music is very different and hopefully you will like that side of her too! She will blow your mind.

[@anthonyblakely399]

Made me emotional and tears to my eyes ran down my cheeks.....and I have this album and song......remember when it first came out.....had to get the album.....I was going through a crises with loosing my partner to AIDS...Marty James..R.I.P. and we had moments of laughter that brought us to tears......So this song is special.....good to see you get emotional....let many other reactors.....it's Kate......a true artist. Another song on this masterpiece album, "Red Shoes," which is Fire!!!

[@rossdunning7018]

Here comes the hills of time.

[@stevetimms1219]

Sheer fucking art.

[@keithharrop_art]

Kate is so emotive and graceful when she spins. It never gets monotonous. It's so beautifully realized for the song.I've yet to watch this video without welling up.

[@marcusbengtson8570]

best reaction I've seen to this godess that is Kate Bush.

[@stever7732]

Welcome to the world of Kate Bush. One of the very few truly great geniuses and one of the most often cited performers who have influenced female (and male) singer/songwriters who came after her. It is one of the great injustices in music that she did not make it bigger in the States, even allowing for the fact she did not help herself by not touring (after 1979) or doing much promotion of her work. Writing songs from the age of thirteen, she is an accomplished pianist, trained in dance and mime, sole producer of her own records from her fourth album onwards and director of music videos. She is a one-off with a style all her own, and with one of the most unique voices in music. My recommendations for you to try out next include the iconic music videos for ‘Running Up That Hill’, ‘Cloudbusting’ and ‘Babooshka’, the emotionally charged videos for ‘This Woman’s Work’ and duet with Peter Gabriel ‘Don’t Give Up’, and then maybe her first single released when she was nineteen ‘Wuthering Heights’. Dive in and enjoy the world of Kate Bush. Actually, you can’t go wrong with any of Kate’s music videos.

[@Rhiannon011]

SteveR, I'm so disappointed that Kate did not receive the Rock and Roll Hall of fame award she was nominated for recently. I'm stunned she didn't get one, and stunned that so many did not vote her in. If anyone deserves it she most definitely did and does!

[@leslieturner8276]

In terms of music videos I would add "Army Dreamers" and Breathing from the album "Never For Ever", the "Hounds of Love" from the "Hounds of Love" Album. Then if are interested in something quite different from Kate I suggest "Sat In Your Lap", "Suspended In Gaffa" and "The Dreaming" from the album "The Dreaming". If you want to look at her earliest work then from her debut album "The Kick Inside" in addition to her debut single "Wuthering Heights", I also suggest "The Man With The Child In His Eyes". For Kate's second album "Lionheart", released in the same year, I would also consider Wow and "Hammer Horror". Then as a bonus you look at "Experiment IV" a brand new song that unexpectedly appeared on her compilation album "The Whole Story". If you want to gain an appreciation of how Kate has evolved over the years you could listen to her studio albums in release order: 1978 - "The Kick Inside" 1978 - Lionheart 1980 - Never for Ever 1982 - The Dreaming 1985 - Hounds of Love 1989 - The Sensual World 1993 - The Red Shoes 2005 - Aerial 2011 - Director's Cut [consists of songs from earlier albums which have been either remixed and restructured or re-recorded completely] 2011 - 50 Words for Song There's also a live album recorded during her 22-date sell out residency "Before the Dawn" at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, attended by people lucky enough to get a ticket when they went on sale. I include myself in that select group, since every ticket sold out in about 15 minutes! 2016 - Before the Dawn Queueing up waiting to go in, it was very interesting to find out where people had travelled from, for the concert, examples included America, Australia and New Zealand to name a few. Since I live in London my journey was rather shorter. I have been a fan of Kate from the beginning it helped that I resided in the same part of London as Kate did. I do find it to be a crying shame that she isn't as popular in America as she is in the rest of the world. I find it to be a disgrace that she failed for third time to be inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" if anyone deserves to be included it's Kate. Her legacy and the number of artists that say that she influenced them is just crazy.

[@canaryinacoalmine7267]

This isn't even considered one of Kate Bush's best songs. If that doesn't tell you how incredible her work is then nothing will. She is amazing.

[@colinsmith8908]

Oh it is, by me.

[@advocate1563]

Grief is rhe price we pay for love. Menories are iur solace.

[@stuartjohnrichardson]

This song and video always choke me up everytime. Such a moving video and track.

[@Rhiannon011]

I'm so glad you are appreciating one of my favorite musical artist Kate Bush and this song and video "Moments of Pleasure". Believe it or not some that react (onyoutube) to this song and video are like "what the heck is this, I don't get it, how stupid or bizarre", they completely do not get it! So thank you for being "deep enough" to be the kind of person "that gets it" about Kate's song and video! If you love her voice in this song, then you will love Kate's> "This woman's work", "And dream of sheep" and "Hello earth", her voice is so beautiful in these songs.

[@davidlynch433]

This song is sublime, Another one of Kate's masterpieces.

[@Heartwing37]

Kate Bush is everything

[@Muckylittleme]

Great reaction to an incredibly talented woman.

[@dmuhler]

Very rarely does a song touch the soul so profoundly, but this production, arranged so masterfully by Michael Kaman and sung by the incomparable Kate Bush manage to make that happen! Thanks Kate!

[@stever7732]

Alan Murphy, Kate’s guitarist, does get a mention in the song (“Smurph”) and did pass in the circumstances described. But the “waving his walking stick” lyric was a reference to a meeting Kate had with that great British film maker Michael Powell who she greatly admired. Powell, in partnership with Emeric Pressburger, made the film ‘The Red Shoes’. At the time of that meeting Powell was in his 80s and terminally ill from cancer.

[@DamonBowles]

One of my favourite songs. So meaningful. Kate Bush is next level x10.

[@Dbsabzbzb]

Yes! You get Kate Bush! Thank you, great reaction, her art reaches right down into my soul and yanks out emotion in dripping wet chunks, a more wonderful creature there has never been, some of the best that the human animal has to offer...

[@kevinwoodki]

For 40yrs Kate has been a ground breaker. She writes, plays and sings. Choreographs, dances and mimes. produces and directs not just her music but her videos. This video is a piece from a short film called "The line the cross and the curve" , hence the intro. She has 10 studio albums including a triple album of ther entire live performance "before the dawn". You are in the prescence of a goddess of her art. Go back to 1978 wuthering heights.Go on a journey with Kate Bush. It will change you.

[@garryashton7093]

Completely original and never bettered love her

[@AngelaMontague]

Thank you for your getting where she's coming from, not everyone does. Takes an open heart and mind. Her voice is astonishing. If you want another emotional punch 'This Woman's Work' will do that. 'Babooshka' will show your her earlier stuff and how some of her songs are like short stories. 'Running up That Hill' is the big hit of course, and an absolute banger and shows her dancing skills too.

[@philipperault498]

Message from Paris : Kate Bush : Original and sensitve Artist!

[@Oddworld2024]

Ya this is my favourite song of hers. Makes me reflect on life and people I know… past present future. The people who make us who we are… she’s a brilliant artist. Has a unique and beautiful way of sharing and expressing herself and talents.

[@JonseyWales]

Welcome to the world of those amazed by Kate Bush's talent. There's a deep deep well of sublime music to explore from this artistic genius and enigma! Maybe try the equally moving 'This Woman's work' next.........

[@Ozymandi_as]

Great response dude, you really connected with her. I hope you will react to more of her music and her artistry. She really is one of the greats of popular music, and 44 years after her extraordinary debut single, Wuthering Heights, went to number one in Britain, the British charts, she is back at the top of charts around the world with Running Up That Hill. It sounds as fresh today as it did when it was first released 37 years ago, because she sounds like no-one else. I believe she will continue to enchant and astonish listeners, just like yourself, for many, many years to come.

[@paulwild3676]

This is Bush’s masterpiece. It is very personal and we can all relate to it. Anyone who writes a line, “Just being alive, it can really hurt.” Is beyond genius.

[@Splitscreen83]

The world of Kate Bush. What a wonderful place ❤️

[@fortymillioncoins9066]

My favourite along with "Under the Ivy".

[@gaynorkerr820]

Your reaction was beautiful. Kate Bush is exceptional. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@patmurray2698]

Theatrical beautiful soul..I love Kate Bush.X

[@mikelondon7878]

Welcome to the genius that is Kate Bush. This Woman’s Work has to be checked out for emotion and vocal ability and Experiment IV for the video

[@michaelz9892]

Has to be one of the most beautiful music videos ever made.

[@holgerschink1341]

Masterpiece, i just love the music from Kate Bush. And yes, i am a huge fan - greets from germany, lovely 🙌reaction.

[@Oddworld2024]

Thanks for your reaction man… gunna subscribe based on this reaction… being open minded musically, shows intelligence openness Wonder and respect. So respects to you. Hope to see you do more Kate songs and others who were out side the norm in industry. Bjerknes is another unique. Very different then Kate but unique non the less. Dalbello is another underrated power house voice. And very enthusiastic and expressive with her wording. And how the words are said. Eleven is a good song. And black on black is one of her more famous songs. Popular mostly in the late 80s.

[@j.k.1963]

You are very worthy of reacting to Kate's music, unlike some other reactors who only could not stop laughing, because they did not get the message Kate is telling with her music. She is such a wonderful storyteller. Your reaction gives me chills of recognition. This piece is Kate being grateful for the mondain moments in life combined with the respect she gives to people she worked with, who have passed away during her career. Very very touching if you know the history. Great storytelling tracks: The Sensual World, Cloudbusting, The Fog, Mother Stands For Comfort, You're The One, Among Angels, This Woman's Work, A Coral Room. Also check out All The Love, Breathing, James And The Cold Gun, Moving, Houdini, The Man With The Child In His Eyes, Wow, Wuthering Heights (her debut). But if you really dare, the second half of the album Hounds Of Love beginning with And Dream Of Sheep (side two, a conceptpiece called 'The Ninth Wave') will portrait Kate at her strongest musicwriting. Running Up that Hill is the albumopener here by the way.

[@paddynoble]

Kate Bush is an amazing artist her vocals, lyrics, videos, and concept is amazing. For a more vocal analysis check out the track from her Sensual World Album 'Rocket Tail ' it is amazing. Please react.

[@dacsus]

Rocket tail is OK, but its for wider audience. There are much better songs from her.

[@tess5747]

I love Rockets Tail and was actually listening to it today while cooking. I love listening to Kate when I cook🙂

[@steveakhurst7845]

One of my fav artists....she writes so well and is so underated ...thanks for the reaction ... hopefully you dive deeper and listen to more from her

[@taja1976]

Love your reaction. Life is fleeting, a beautiful tapestry of memories. Kate expresses this like no other.

[@colinsmith8908]

No other song makes my eyes water like this. Every sock needs an old shoe. Isn't that a great saying.

[@teotorriate4466]

How much more touching could it get? Well, about 10 years later, Kate recorded another version of the song that is even more beautiful: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2G6nmermLdleq8

[@markjohnson4217]

Kate may be the single most influential female voice of the last three decades, now everone sounds like her, Lol.. Florence and the Machine, Beth Gibons, even Lady Gaga borrowed a few things. Kate brought it all out even before the end of the 70s and still in her teens..

[@philfoster8789]

Mark: Yes and no, sadly. (Unless - 'Lol' comment - you're being ironic...?) Unfortunately, most chart music nowadays seems to be autotuned material, bland, or rap: not very inspirational - and very "samey". Although, granted, the Kate Bush influence on Florence and the Machine has been noted, there is just no beating the original! (As musician, Del Palmer - who now won't work with other well-known artists - has stated: 'No one even comes close'.) Great to see "Running Up That Hill" charting again, though. (But it really shows up most of the other songs it is listed with!) Thanks for the comment - and take care.

[@markjohnson4217]

@@philfoster8789 I did mean that comment to be somewhat ironic... but also with some truth...I agree that the over-production , the automation, the 'freeze-dried poodle turd' effect of voices being squashed into nice neat little autotuned pellets, and the general descent into fast cheap and disposable pop songs is infinitely annoying.. But I HAVE noticed that many contemporary female vocalists have somehow 'inherited' those Kate-like tonal areas, the diction and inflections that punctuate her phrasing, etc. Florence and the Machine are wonderful, but by no means is she the only recent protege.

[@philfoster8789]

@@markjohnson4217 Mark: Thanks for your feedback and clarification. (And your point about Florence and the Machine etc. is well-taken.) Very best wishes to you.

[@muse9050]

Amazing song, great concept and she is an incredible artist.. I loved it when it first dropped.. Real stand out track but I haven't watched the video since.. Omg.. This destroyed me.. Having lost people in my life the last bit where everything comes together.. The lyrics.. The visuals the spinning. The humanity in it... Wow.. Could not stop crying.. The line. Give these moments back to those who will survive.... a gift from time xx beautiful n powerful reaction. Subscribed. She also reprised and reworked this song later in The Directors Cut album. And it's very different but it resonates because of the first.. You might want to check that out if you haven't already.. Its an older refracted version..

[@Barbara_M.]

Thank you for reacting to this amazingly talented artist. I'm a few years younger than Kate and I remember well the years she was on top of the charts with her songs, she sounded so different from tipical 80s music just as she sound different today, to me her music is timeless with such a magical flavour never sounding dated even after 40 years. Not only she has a soprano voice range with beautiful timbre she is also a pretty skilled singer and amazing songwriter, she used to create her music mainly with the Fairlight and liked to experiment a lot. In the 80s music video were pretty basic but everything you see in hers comes from her creativity. She studied interpretive dance and anything she does while performing has a specific meaning. Her lyrics are also deep and often about unusual topics even at young age (her breakthrough single "Wuthering Heights" when she wasn't yet 20yo was about the 1847 novel by Emily Bronte of the same title is told from such unique angle). My suggestion is that you check her single "This woman's work" .

[@colrhodes377]

You should check out Kate singing This woman's work. That will blow you away

[@johnmcintosh5413]

A nice appreciation of a great artist

[@Simon-re4jg]

Great reaction to a stunning song. As someone else has said you should try "This Woman's Work" next

[@tess5747]

Kate is a master songwriter and story teller - the best there is. No matter how many times I hear this song (and it’s been many many times over the years) it never fails to choke me up. Other songs of hers that choke me up are This Woman’s Work and A Choral Room (which was written with her mother’s death in mind so very poignant) which are worth a listen (or thousand).

[@dianelindsay4695]

Beautiful song. This was taken from a short film that she made called The line, the cross and the curve. It was based around the music from The red shoes album 🙂

[@frisco-2.0]

Yeedeed: You are right! Kate Bush is one of Eivør's biggest influences on her music. ❤️ There is an interview where Eivør talks about exactly that topic.

[@lewismaddox4132]

That intro is about the story of The Red Shoes which depicts shoes whose wearer becomes possessed and can't stop dancing.

[@Bobsherunkle]

One word. Genius.

[@sophiapangloss2149]

Very enjoyable reaction, Kate's been the soundtrack to my life, it's always warming to see someone else discover what they've been missing. The confusing start to that video makes a little more sense if seen within the full mini-movie (though not a lot more sense), that's the standout part from the movie. Others have recommended This Woman's Work as a next foray into her work, I'm sure you would enjoy that too, but frankly you can stick a pin in her discography and you won't come up short, a truly unique artist.

[@raycornford283]

If you want the beauty of Kate's voice, try 'This Woman's Work'

[@LightSearch]

Best match Kate has ever did of video and music was Sensual World. Give it a try, her voice (and her face and body) never sounded so beautiful.

[@davidferro2236]

Diane Lindsay commented that this is from a short film she made. This reminds me of a dancer on a music box

[@wimvandemeerendonk4720]

Welcome to the world of Kate Bush😀❤❤

[@brauliofernandesjunior3952]

Amazing reaction!

[@JohnHarbinger]

Lovely review.

[@TheTooomf]

Oh beautiful reaction video - so happy you saw this and so happy you found some time to just comment on the goddess! There is so much more than Running up that Hill as you are now probably aware of - check out her back catalog - seriously if you liked Moments of Pleasure, I’d kinda guess you would appreciate her other amazing surreal work. More Reviews please !!! Greetings from London, UK.

[@VoroninHop]

Allan Murphy is referenced at the end as 'Smurf' (that was his nickname). The reference to the elderly man with his cane 'like Douglas Fairbanks' is the film director Michael Powell, whom she met in New York just before he passed away.

[@paulwhite7972]

Its a beautiful, maybe Kates most beautiful song. Made all the more beautiful by the orchestral arrangement from the late Michael Kamen

[@joecampos5624]

Please react to Kate Bush the man with the child in his eyes. Very beautiful

[@peteford2434]

It's something special.

[@NicoruAmarfi]

The red shoes from the same movie as this one is amazing too.. Then there's waking the witch and Army dreamers. Just so many to listen to,

[@anthonyflynn6228]

She wrote and directed a short film “The Line, The Cross And The Curve” to go with The Red Shoes Album. This is video is an excerpt from it.

[@craigmartin3827]

This is one of my all-time favourite Kate Bush songs, and there's a lot to love! Another, which I recommend to you for reaction is the title track from her first album The Kick Inside. It's the last song on the album and possibly one of the most profound endings to an album in pop history. The way it lingers ....

[@MrDiddyDee]

The guy she mentions at the lift wasn't Alan Murphy the guitarist, it was the elderly Michael Powell, director of the film 'The red shoes' who gets another mention in the ending in the list of departed friends and family. The spoken intro is inspired by the classic 1948 film, which is about a troubled ballerina torn between love and ambition, either driven mentally ill, or even possessed by her ballet shoes, depending on your view. The film was in turn inspired by an extremely macabre 1845 fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson. This spoken section isn't really part of the song but a segue in a long form video of songs selected from her album 'The red shoes'. Kate has often taken inspiration for her songs from characters in film and literature, starting with her very first break through hit 'Wuthering Heights' when she was just 18.

[@darrenocallaghan8932]

She was actually considered a musical genius at a very young age , she did after all write over 200 songs before she was 17 including "The man with the child in his eye's"

[@davidholmes2283]

Behold an English Rose.

[@leslieturner8276]

"The Red Shoes" album was perhaps her most personal album, in that a number of songs (including this one) were inspired by her own experiences and in this case people she knew, but had departed. This was because Kate's personal life she was hit by a number of significant blows, her mother's terminal illness and her break up with her very long term partner. Normally, when Kate sibgs she's playing a character telling a story that isn't related to herself. The music videos for this album were part of a short 50 minute film directed by Kate, called "The Line, The Cross and the curve" which Kate later described as "a load of bollocks" 😂

[@BG-nb9gx]

This is my go to song when I need a boost

[@kennyturner583]

This is isn’t normal music. It’s from another time

[@kentmains7763]

Eivor does a fantastic cover of Kate's song Hounds of Love, you should do a back to back reaction to them.

[@anthonyflynn6228]

You would love the albums The Dreaming and The Ninth Wave (side two of Hounds Of Love)! Also check out Toyah and more Mylene Farmer please!

[@leebssolo]

Great reaction, just sent me down a Kate Bush memory lane playlist. Eivor did a cover of hounds of love. Maybe you could do a reaction of kates original and Eivors cover 🙂

[@ap8eioul1]

I'd like to suggest you a totally different side of Kate Bush by checking out her song Pull out the Pin from her the Dreaming Album.. A dark antiwar song featuring David Gilmour back vocals.. Great reaction

[@marceltroia9750]

Hope Mike will do that one

[@doctorlegume]

Yup

[@heliotropezzz333]

There was also a moment when Led Zeppelin were on stage when a dove flew onto singer Robert Plant's hand.

[@wendyb5979]

I believe she wrote everything on the album but there is a famous story about red shoes that possess the person wearing them

[@kf9346]

Wait until you hear her voice from her first couple albums when she was a teenager!

[@gurselali835]

All of those people and her mother had passed away the song is for loved ones who have died

[@malvanlondon8683]

Now try her song (and accompanying video) Cloudbusting, perhaps?

[@wendyb5979]

Check out her song this womans work

[@andyallan2909]

You said, "Wow!" a few times - now play the track, "Wow."

[@milionthemove]

Have you watched it yet?!

[@carolball5764]

Kate is emulating a wind up fairy dancer..