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Post by ropardoe on Oct 10, 2016 8:50:11 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Oct 10, 2016 9:26:56 GMT
Much to our collective shame, there's been no designated Kate Bush thread until now, just several references and the occasional photo scattered about the place. Inspired by Daniel Pietersen's very lovely piece, maybe we could attempt one centred around the celestial one's most Gothic-Horror moments?
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 10, 2016 10:57:00 GMT
I only like two Kate Bush songs, "The Hounds of Love" and "The Sensual World." The former incorporates a sample from NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1957), however, which even makes it an M R James connection.
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 10, 2016 11:25:58 GMT
I only like two Kate Bush songs, "The Hounds of Love" and "The Sensual World." The former incorporates a sample from NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1957), however, which even makes it an M R James connection. That's pretty well known, I think. I'm not a Kate Bush completist by any means - in fact, I think I've only ever owned three albums by her - but I love most of what I know of hers. Of these, the most horrific track I can think of - I find it truly terrifying - is the witch trial track, "Waking the Witch", from Hounds of Love.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 10, 2016 11:45:49 GMT
Kate Bush? Is she in a popular beat combo?
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 10, 2016 12:08:33 GMT
That's pretty well known, I think. I shall try to be more obscure henceforth.
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 10, 2016 15:05:03 GMT
That's pretty well known, I think. I shall try to be more obscure henceforth. Quite right too!
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 10, 2016 15:55:22 GMT
It occurs to me that I also like "Running Up That Hill" and "The Dreaming," so perhaps I am something of a fan, actually, although very reluctantly. The video of "The Dreaming" has a supremely eerie moment at the end where a face under the sand says something.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Oct 10, 2016 16:51:18 GMT
I quite liked her song "Hammer Horror", a Vault title if ever there was one.
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 10, 2016 18:40:46 GMT
Kate Bush? Is she in a popular beat combo? That's the one!
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 10, 2016 18:46:02 GMT
It occurs to me that I also like "Running Up That Hill" and "The Dreaming," so perhaps I am something of a fan, actually, although very reluctantly. The video of "The Dreaming" has a supremely eerie moment at the end where a face under the sand says something. Why "very reluctantly"? There was a superb version of "Running Up That Hill" in an episode of Warehouse 13 when a favourite character died (though it was one of those shows where people didn't always stay dead - he didn't!). It was utterly heart-wrenching, and better than Kate Bush's own performance of it. I don't know who the band who did it was, though.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 10, 2016 18:53:05 GMT
I quite liked her song "Hammer Horror", a Vault title if ever there was one. "... All I want to do is forget YOU, but ...." all then-me's teenage angst captured in one simple soulful line. Still love it. Breathing is kind of sci-horror. "Chips of Plutonium are twinkling in every lung." You weren't gonna get a line like that in one of the 'Fizz's chart-toppers, that's for sure. Was Tom Tesarek, writing in Paperback Fanatic #34, first alerted him to "the connection between Kate Bush's costume in the Babooshka video and [Luis Rojo's] Raven covers." Lots of Kate on this thread: The Occult & Young PeopleThere was a superb version of "Running Up That Hill" in an episode of Warehouse 13 when a favourite character died (though it was one of those shows where people didn't always stay dead - he didn't!). It was utterly heart-wrenching, and better than Kate Bush's own performance of it. I don't know who the band who did it was, though. The band are Track And Field. It's the only record of theirs I ever heard.
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Post by cromagnonman on Oct 10, 2016 21:48:05 GMT
I quite liked her song "Hammer Horror", a Vault title if ever there was one. "... All I want to do is forget YOU, but ...." all then-me's teenage angst captured in one simple soulful line. Still love it. Breathing is kind of sci-horror. "Chips of Plutonium are twinkling in every lung." You weren't gonna get a line like that in one of the 'Fizz's chart-toppers, that's for sure. Was Tom Tesarek, writing in Paperback Fanatic #34, first alerted him to "the connection between Kate Bush's costume in the Babooshka video and [Luis Rojo's] Raven covers." But there is no connection between the costume and the Rojo covers. The delectable Ms B was actually homaging Chris Achilleos's original Raven design from the Corgi paperbacks: the first one SWORDSMISTRESS OF CHAOS specifically. Have always regretted that she didn't subsequently adopt the look from the second one, A TIME OF GHOSTS.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 11, 2016 5:49:27 GMT
But there is no connection between the costume and the Rojo covers. The delectable Ms B was actually homaging Chris Achilleos's original Raven design from the Corgi paperbacks: the first one SWORDSMISTRESS OF CHAOS specifically. Have always regretted that she didn't subsequently adopt the look from the second one, A TIME OF GHOSTS. Ah, thank you for setting me straight (my mistake, not Tom's who didn't specify artist. Should have referred back to PF33, where the Chris Achillieos covers are reproduced in all their glory). Cover scans courtesy of Chris Achillieous.
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Post by Mike Brough on Oct 11, 2016 7:13:46 GMT
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