FIRST TIME HEARING Kate Bush - Cloudbusting - Official Music Video ( REACTION )

[@johnnyrich1]

Everyone is underplaying this lol. Kate Bush is a music legend in the UK. She has a huge following, and wrote the rulebook for all female singers that follow her, you hear her influence everywhere. She was discovered as a teenager by Dave Gilmore from Pink Floyd and it turns out she had been writing songs since she was 11/12 and they are the songs her first two albums are full of. Wuthering Heights was her first in 1978 and noone had ever heard anything like it, based on the book, she sings the song as if she's the ghost of Kathy, come to haunt Heathcliffe and she plays it scary. It was a number one and she was 18. She never wanted fame and she is quite reclusive, she doesn't tour or play live and suddenly issues new music every decade or two to tho it's been ages now. Wuthering heights (white dress video) is my recommendation followed by Man with the child in his eyes, and moments of pleasure.

[@personalcheeses8073]

Like who would dare to underplay the genius that is Kate Bush?

[@crazycatpetera1404]

Completely! For me she’s arguably the most naturally gifted, well-rounded female artist EVER in music - she’s exceptional as a song-writer, as a producer, as a singer, as a dancer, as a musician and I can’t think of any other women who does all of those at the level Kate does.

[@garryashton7093]

She's a goddess completely original and never bettered

[@anyrei]

I remember my first reaction to the video was ohhhh Donald Sutherland is playing the Dad!!

[@garycoates4987]

Kate Bush is a pure artist,, so many great songs for you to listen to

[@carstens.1844]

Kate Bush is not only a Singer she is a Songwriter, Producer and a Musican Hounds of Love is one of the best Albums other one Annie Lennox (Why , Sweet Dreams) Cyndi Lauper (True Colors, I Drove all Night )

[@jons.105]

There was a real cloudbuster. It was designed by Wilhelm Reich of Austria, who hoped to produce rain by manipulating what he called "orgone energy" present in the atmosphere. Kate was inspired to write this song after reading Reich's story. The cloudbuster worked like a lightning rod: by focusing it on a location in the sky and grounding it in some material that was presumed to absorb orgone-such as a body of water-it would draw the orgone energy out of the atmosphere, causing the formation of clouds and rain.

[@yoyolol22]

It didn't exist btw

[@personalcheeses8073]

@@yoyolol22 Oh yes it did. And it looked very much Ive the machine on this video

[@yoyolol22]

@@personalcheeses8073 proof?

[@shanna9650]

Reich was imprisoned by the Nazis

[@NeilHoward]

@@yoyolol22 His life & experiments are well documented .. truedemocracyparty.net/2012/07/wilhelm-reich-orgone-energy-cloudbuster-the-rainmaker-let-it-rain/ kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHzMfGiXm72Mnck

[@samguberman2288]

It's an astonishing video and song from an amazing artist.

[@philipmatthews2107]

For me this story was always a kind of an allegory of a single father raising his child, doing all his best to teach them about life because he knows one day he will be gone. So the machine is basically all the teachings he was able to provide: hope, love, ideas, dreams, persistence... The men in black symbolize the big cruel world ahead of every child that sooner or later they will have to face, finally taking the father away from the child - the moment of death. And as the dad is on his way to eternity, he is still observing his kid, worrying, hoping and praying his lessons and all the love had planted a seed and the child will be able to utilize the knowledge and use the 'machine' to further navigate safely through the world and life, alone.

[@MaceAroundTheWorld]

Love your thoughts on this 😄

[@77NickDale]

A beautiful interpretation. I agree with this.

[@1959219]

Its about william reich. He was a scientist that got arrested. He had a good relationship with his young son.

[@personalcheeses8073]

Kate is untouchable

[@Kae6502]

Kate Bush is my musical idol. No other artist has ever touched my soul the way she has.

[@RH1812]

The ‘Every Time it Rains’ with the ring …producer Kate!

[@j-rmarimoutou7767]

You have so much to learn about her. And so many songs to listen : army dreamers, symphony in blue, this women works, suspended in gaffa...

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

and the batshit crazy one the dreaming

[@FloBran]

Great song in a time when music videos could still tell a story. R.I.P. Donald! 💔

[@monsterparty5324]

I envy anyone hearing this song for the first time

[@henriknilsson1565]

Yeah! Welcome to Kate Bush land! I've been waiting for you to react to her.

[@dianelindsay4695]

Kate is amazing, that is her playing the son. Can you please listen to Moments of pleasure and Running up that hill. There are endless incredible tracks.

[@Crod999]

Its flawless.... victory....

[@terencemcgaughey4944]

I love how it’s difficult to tell what is a real instrument and what Kate is playing on the Fairlight sampler. She is the only one who used the Fairlight sampler like an alchemical device, only My Bloody Valentine would achieve the same effect years later when samplers were cheaper and easier to program and play and they would sample their guitar feedback and turn them into these uncanny musical textures. Back in the early to mid 1980s you had to employ two or three engineers to help program the Fairlight sampler, and they were always crashing or freezing if you got too complicated with them. Kate basically helped to make sampling a key part of music production and she hardly ever gets credit for it.

[@cuckoofan]

@Terence McGaughey :I agree about the last thing you said in your comment, but you're wrong about the fact she was the only one to be the fairlight pioneer. Actually Peter Gabriel (her friend she contributed with musically in several occasions) introduced her to this sampler. Both of them used it for the first time in 1980 in their respective albums, lightly for KB in "Never for Ever", to full effect for PG on "PG3 -Melt'. But from her next album "The Dreaming" (1982), her use of the Fairlight CMI has been much more impressive. Both are great artists and music pioneers.

[@terencemcgaughey4944]

@@cuckoofan I suppose what I meant was her alchemical use of sampling, Gabriel was much more straightforward in his use of it, and yes I know he introduced her to it.

[@cuckoofan]

@@terencemcgaughey4944 I now see what you mean. Maybe it has to do with the fact that Kate Bush kept on associating the fairlight with the exploration of accoustic (and sometimes rare) instruments when Gabriel relied more on the fairlight on itself alongside rythms exploration. But in some tracks like "Leave it open" or "The Dreaming" or maybe "Running up that Hill", her approach really sounds like Gabriel's.

[@shanna9650]

Bush certainly was a pioneer with the Fairlight, but not the only one. There were certainly just a handful. Bush was introduced to the Fairlight by Peter Gabriel, but took her own journey with it, and worked with it longer than most. Bush also pioneered wireless headsets with stage engineers in the late 70s so that she could dance and perform her music. Its imperative to note that Bush is and always has been in control of her music almost from the start. From writing, arranging, playing instruments, hiring her band members, singing, producing, and all the visual elements. Her brother Paddy certainly played a key part in helping add and perform traditional instruments and her former SO Del Palmer worked with her as well. But make no mistake. Kate Bush from start to finish is a full on artist.

[@shirkophobe]

With all due respect to Kate Bush’s use of the Fairlight, you really need to credit Trevor Horn and the Art of Noise as real pioneers in its use on a large scale in Pop music. Their heavy usage of it in 1982’s Duck Rock by Malcolm McLaren and 1983’s Into Battle EP by Art of Noise as well as the debut Frankie Goes To Hollywood album the next year all predate Kate Bush’s use of the Fairlight.

[@JollyRogerVF84]

All her songs are epic.

[@PROUST_EFFECT]

Kate is very short, AND Donald is very tall. Plus he was higher in the hill. Loved your reaction, this is one of my favorite songs!

[@alistairmcdougall9625]

Totally Unique & a true National treasure 🇬🇧🌹

[@poorang900]

yay kate bush reaction

[@davijoski]

Terry Gilliam, animator of the Monte Python troop designed the cloud buster. In an interview Kate said it's still sitting in her garage.

[@AdamStraughan]

You NEED to listen to Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

[@kentmains7763]

The one and only Kate Bush.

[@ppzav]

great reaction!

[@darrenocallaghan8932]

When you consider that Kate Bush wrote "The man with the child in his eye's" when she was only 12yrs, finished it when she was 15 then recorded the song when she was 17. That should give you some idea of who you're dealing with!

[@giannipaladini2929]

The song and the video are inspired by the biography of Wilhelm Reich, a rebellious scientist who was a student of Freud and died in 1957 in the Lewisburg penitentiary.

[@j.k.1963]

How great to discover a new artist, Kate Bush nevertheless too. Great video to start this adventure with. This is a kind of straight forward song for her. There are more, but beware some songs will confuse you. You'll either love it or hate it. Kate is a very authentic artist, one of a kind. She started her career in 1978 at age 19, but was 'discovered' 4 years prior by David Gilmour (Pink Floyd). He made sure she got a record deal after listening to tons of home demos by Kate. At age 11 she really started songwriting on a serious basis. The Man With The Child In His Eyes was one of 5 songs he made sure got recorded professionally to present her with to the music company. It was her second hitsingle, following Wuthering Heights, with which she stunned the world as a debutsingle, reaching number one in many countries. Kate had her own timepath and released less and less records over the years. Her last studiowork dates from 2011. But I would not be surprised if suddenly there will be an anouncement about an upcoming release someday. Enjoy this ride!

[@personalcheeses8073]

He never even commented on the song or Kate Bush.

[@j.k.1963]

@@personalcheeses8073 he did, after the first seconds. And his bodylanguage is also a means of communication. Besides the wonderful video draws all the attention. But I get your point.

[@merrillhess5626]

Kate was a pioneer of music video. Pink Floyd's David Gilmore helped her record her first single Wurhering Heights, which became an instant No. 1 hit. In the beginning of this video she speaks of Orgone energy, an ether like energy the subject of this video promoted. This is a late-life episode of Wilhelm Reich, who believed he could make a rainmaking machine. Bush plays his son Peter in this video. The book she pulls out of his pocket is a copy of the son's biography of his father. Reich was a controversial character who had some pretty fringe beliefs. He was arrested on some pretty lame charges regarding the sales of one of his inventions and was imprisoned for the rest of his life. He was a strange individual with a history too long to summarize here.

[@robertotorres5898]

Art= Kate Bush

[@mervinmannas7671]

The idea behind the video as well what Jon S. (never knew that) says below is that governments in days gone by would be afraid of a man who could control the weather. It could unbalance the natural order of things. Also it could create rain in desert areas etc making them less dependent on the west and the colonial governments controling them. This why the video has a very 1940's era look to it with the cars and costume. Kate was a genius and wrote ALL her own material. She had total control over everything artistically. Occasionally a bit bonkers but one of the greatest artists the UK has produced.

[@zimbo65a]

the sad story of the austrian scientist Wilhelm Reich who died in a prison in Pennsylvania while the McCarthy era.

[@neildencer7835]

Donald sutherland is the man in the video.

[@joaquinpacheco9651]

this is basically Rick and Morty.

[@applepie3276]

I love this lmao

[@tonigray8465]

As great as the video is, you need to spend a bit more time talking about the actual music rather than trying to explain the video. We can all already see the video. More interested in what you think about the song. Kate Bush is an absolute legend.

[@roadrunnerwb]

one of the best 80s Videos, a real FILM, not how today a Man sing bla bla, yaya, two Chicks🐔🐓 a little stupid dance and END....

[@MrRadioFloyd]

Utah Saints - Something Good f/ Kate Bush (Original Version 1992)

[@carmenorozco5134]

En este video participa el actor Donald Sutherland

[@treylane]

I wish you'd have done that research after and included your results at the end of this video

[@karstenmieder8176]

gruss aus germany

[@debbie3028]

What did you think of the song?

[@rx7dude2006]

Check out Eva Cassidy for a really amazing voice.

[@AdamStraughan]

Agreed!

[@marco69tits]

No don't. Stay with a genius

[@rx7dude2006]

@@marco69tits Eva Cassidy was a genius.

[@BP-kx2ig]

No comment about the music but all about the video?

[@MrSpikeMilligan]

Why not say what you think of the song? The story in the video is obvious.

[@dj-um7el]

Kate Bush is aheead of her time! I thought that this and Running Up That ycame out today, but nah, 80s.

[@thoru4367]

Could you do The Smiths - Heaven Knows I Am Miserable Now

[@kevinsievert4531]

Kate's visuals and concepts often discourage intent listening. In this instance, your voiceovers not synched to the video are the distracting part. Trust you are aware the two (audio and visual) went off the rails somewhere.

[@martinburke362]

Americans are far to literal for Kate Bush, doesn't have a clue!!

[@personalcheeses8073]

So no actual comment about the song or Kate Bush’s talent. So you are one not to subscribe to

[@alisoneyers2450]

Are you mad. Play the video through then yap!!!!!!

[@pommelhorsepommelhorse8731]

stop interrupting and listen

[@glenn20081965]

Wilhelm Reich en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich