Kate Bush-Hounds of Love
This is definitely one of my favorite albums of all time and I've realized more and more how much it's informed my own music. Along with the title track, 'Cloudbusting' and 'Jig of Life' (no cracks about Irish heritage, please) are the sort of things I think of when the subject of religious experience comes up in conversation. Last night a friend ventured that she's sort of like the female David Bowie. In certain ways this statement is totally right on. It's somewhere between the queer theatrical pomp involved and the completely unbridled or uninhibited creative underpinning of their respective catalogs.
Hounds of Love has, for me, an intense feminine presence as well. Not just as a result of its emotional breadth. I'm reminded of listening to Marshall and Mark J wistfully opining in great detail of their love of women. Both of them continually would return to the same ethereal, mysterious ubiety that permeates Kate Bush's music. I'll stop short of any condescending claims that this is due to her being a 'powerful' woman. But it is possibly the most immediate and fundamental element of Hounds of Love.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!
"never never say goodbye
to that part of your life.
no no no nono
'let me live'
she said
'come on let me live'
-from Jig of Life
With that out of the way, I'm gonna go get drunk and watch Obama take the white house. WOO!!
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