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Kate Bush - The Sensual World (FIRST REACTION)
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2024
- Following Kate's critically acclaimed "The Dreaming" and "Hounds of Love", I have extremely high expectations coming into this. Will it meet those exceptations? Let's find out...
fav tracks: The Fog, Reaching Out, Heads We're Dancing, Rocket's Tail, This Woman's Work
least fav tracks: Love And Anger
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0:00 intro
0:46 The Sensual World
2:41 Love And Anger
4:38 The Fog
7:26 Reaching Out
9:48 Heads We're Dancing
12:08 Deeper Understanding
15:20 Between A Man And A Woman
17:32 Never Be Mine
19:47 Rocket's Tail
23:06 This Woman's Work
25:22 final thoughts
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I think you have fallen in a trap that many people fall into, without Kate being weird you guys feel cheated.
This album is incredible.
I almost fell into this trap as well after hearing Hounds of Love first and then expecting everything else to be on that level of weird. Thankfully I went back and listened to her music in chronological order and was able to appreciate the beauty of her less "weird" stuff. The Sensual World may not be a big favourite of mine but I think it's one of Kate's most lush, emotional albums.
it's an excellent album, but the production overwhelms kate's voice a lot of the time and makes it a difficult listen for some people. it's not as fun to listen to kate when you can't hear her stunning vocals very well.
You nailed it. I love KB because every one of her albums is different.
@@andreygirl yeah that's the issue I've always had with this album. The production is lush but at times Kate's voice gets buried in the mix which makes is a detriment to the music cause Kate has a remarkable voice and it's one of the strongest aspects of her sound. I really wish the 2018 remaster had fixed this problem.
‘Hounds of love’ and ‘The Dreaming’ are probably her most experimental but there isn’t a straightforward Kate Bush album. The first few albums are great, culminating in the jewel that is ‘Never forever’ where she starts to assume production control. Her latter albums like ‘Aerial’ are more soundscapes which will probably need a few listens in the background before trying to pick out individual tracks but it definitely rewards the effort. Well done for your considered, thoughtful reactions.
Heads We’re Dancing is actually written about the time one of Kate’s friends met a charming stranger at a dance only to later realise he was Oppenheimer, the inventor of the atomic bomb. It remains one of my all time fave Kate cuts 🙏
I *love* your Kate Bush reactions! It would be very intresting to see you react to her debut album ‘The Kick Inside’. Including her huge no. 1 breakthough single ‘Wuthering Heights’ and fan favourites like ‘Moving’ and ‘The Man With the Child In His Eyes’.
doing that next!
My fave on The Kick Inside is called "Oh To Be In Love"
@@DAVECHER Looking forward to it!
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A fair reaction. Most don’t see this album as being quite as strong as The Dreaming and Hounds of Love. Kate herself said this was her most feminine album, and it is certainly more accessible than the two previous albums
With an Irish mother, Kate was brought up a catholic and attend a catholic convent school. Her two older brothers were probably her main world music influences due to the traditional music they played while she was growing up. Paddy collected and played (including on many of her recordings) all kinds of world music instruments.
I wouldn't exactly say The Sensual World is part of a trilogy with The Dreaming and HoL. Never for Ever is where Kate began experimenting heavily with sonic textures and was a bridge from the more singer-songwriter sound of her first two albums and the experimental The Dreaming and Hounds of Love. I would recommend listening to Never for Ever next or maybe The Kick Inside first and then Never for Ever
Definitely agree.
Rocket's Tail is THE BOP !
As far as Kate Bush goes, for me Never Forever is the most easy to listen to, and my personal favorite. But also, 50 Words for Snow is incredible, so slow, so beautiful, so relaxing.
I am curious about your reaction to the red shoes, especially for Big Stripey Lie.
Re: your opening comment. In my gay experience, listening to Kate Bush basically guarantees you action 🤣. I agree in her creative trilogy, this is my least favorite, but still a huge fan. I'm not sure where you're going next for reactions but Aerial and 50 Words for Snow, much later in her discography, are great listens, and very distinct from her 80s output. Once you've listened to all her albums, Director's Cut is also a cool listen...it's reworked versions of many songs she previously recorded.
To me, this was the album where she went from experimental/art rock to adult contemporary. She had also turned 30 so I think that's reflected in the mood and style.
Love your reviews .As a lifelong UK based Kate Bush fan it's great to get your perspective on her work. She's been an icon for us here in Britain since 1978, good to see her getting airtime across the Atlantic. The Sensual World didn't grab me in 1989, my favourite albums are Nevee Forever,The Dreaming,Hounds of Love,Aerial. I love her at her most experimental. Which album of hers are you reviewing next?
The opening track is inspired by Molly Bloom's soliloquy, the last chapter of James Joyce's "Ulysses". It's eight huge sentences. The text you read out is the final sentence of the book.
We neee Never For Ever next ! Love your reactions, especially for Kate Bush
NEVER FOR EVER next
You should check out Aerial. I think it is a great
Aerial was a brilliant comeback album!!
A good review. Pretty much what I thought when I first heard it when it was released. I will say that it deepens with more listens and I do like it now. But for for me Hounds of Love and The Dreaming are stronger.
Just a few notes on some of the songs for you:
The words on Sensual World are slightly nonsense. Kate initially had put the Molly Bloom soliloquy from the James Joyce's book Ulysses to music. But his estate wouldn't let her use it. They later changed their minds and a different version (with changed words) is on Kate's album Director's Cut.
The backing vocals on a few songs - particularly Rockets Tail - are provided by a Bulgarian folk group doing 'throat singing'. Its an incredible and unique sound.
And finally, the extra track Walk Straight Down The Middle was the B-side when The Sensual World song was released as a physical single on vinyl. It was later added to some of the digital versions of the album. It's not a particularly strong track in my opinion.
I hope you continue with your Kate Bush journey, there are some good things for you still to find.
yet another kate bush reaction, let’s go! 💗
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Great reaction! Much of its charm is due to the Bulgarian women trio "Trio Bulgarka". TWW was written for a soundtrack and came back as the closer here. (I love Heads we're dancing!) Go to Never for Ever next, please!
I love that you’re continuing with Kate! Walk Straight Down the Middle was a B-Side, but I think on one of the reissues it got tagged on as an extra track. Rocket’s Tail! The angelic voices on this track, plus Deeper Understanding and Never Be Mine are the Trio Bulgarka, a female Bulgarian folk music group. The Bulgarian State Folk Singers had a massive worldwide set of albums around the time TSW came out, so you can probably find those if you look for them. As with other Kate albums you can dig into the stories of the songs a bit, but I would agree that it would be difficult for anyone, no matter how much genius they possess, to top Hounds of Love. I think Kate deliberately went in a different direction to change things up.
When I first started listening to Kate I felt like you about this album, it didn't stand out to me and felt kinda meh but now it's grown to be my favourite. I actually think it's the opposite of what you're saying in a sense, it's not that easy to get into because it doesn't have as many catchy melodies, things that stand out and tempo as the other albums, so at first listen it may seem a bit dull and everything kinda sounds the same. But I find that the more I listen the more I enjoy it. The album has such a beautiful, etheral atmosphere/soundscape. I love dancing to it or having it on in the background as I paint or something in the evening.
My favorite is also Rocket's Tail (the acapella background singing is done by a Bulgarian vocal trio btw), but I also love This woman's work, The fog, Reaching out and Never be mine.
Oh and I forgot, but on my spotify the 11th track is there too, so maybe it's not released in America for some reason?
The Fog is transcendent. I feel like time stops for me when I hear that song.
This album also didn't wow me much when I first heard it because it felt a little too tame in comparison to The Dreaming, Hounds of Love, and Never For Ever. It's grown on me a lot since then and i feel now as I'm at the age when Kate recorded it that I can relate more to the songs than I did when I was in my early 20s.
@@Missjunebugfreak I think The Fog has the most beautiful melody she's written
Not to pile on, but this is a grown up album, which she rejects with the next album The Red Shoes. Sex is great but it makes fairy tales and moon swooning take a back seat that, at first, seems permanent. It is melancholy
Really enjoyed your reaction to this : I’d love to see you react to all her albums but especially Never for Ever and Aerial. Also : please - react to Bjorks’s albums !
Kate wasn't happy with the 80's sound not aging well (the drum sound in particular) so she re-recorded some of the songs from The Sensual World and The Red Shoes on Director's Cut. Given your reaction to this one, if you want more you should probably go back to the one right before The Dreaming, Never Forever. But prepare yourself to NOT get any more Hounds of Love.
I've been following your Kate Bush reactions and love it. I laughed when you correlated listening to her on the Sensual World Album we're not getting any action. I laughed so much. And I think your right lol I'm loving your journey with Kate Bush. I love her weirdness. Almost Alien like. There are many favorite track on this album is rocket tail. It will blow your ears off at full volume.
Kate Bush loves sex, she believes that sex is good for us, and she wants everyone to be able to experience sex as the life enhancing and generative force that, at its best, sex is. As such sex is a part of the sensual world, that includes anything and everything that we experience through our senses, and process emotionally, rather than via intellectual abstractions. In one interview she remarked that she thought of sexuality as something that is projected, whereas sensuality is something that we experience. It's a pretty solid observation, and invaluable to understanding Kate's supposed 'weirdness' and eccentricity, which are in fact illustrative of her openness and sensitivity to the world around her.
I love many of the songs on this album as much as anything in her oeuvre, but I won't compare it to her other albums in order to give it a ranking. The world is obsessed with lists and charts and scores and preferences, which I understand, but regard as antithetical to art. Rather than asking yourself whether you prefer this one to that, free yourself of the need to compare them and listen instead to what the artist is trying to say in each work. It's a much more fulfilling way of listening to music. You will still have your favourites, but they will emerge more naturally, more sensually, perhaps, than by some artificial system of comparison and scoring. Just a thought, a suggestion for you to consider. It's fantastic that you are listening to and appreciating the sublime artistry of Kate Bush, an artist I have loved and admired since my twelve year old self was first enthralled by her extraordinary voice and imagination, in the song that introduced her to the world, Wuthering Heights. It's very moving to see new generations of young people being as captivated by her as I was, almost fifty years ago. She is one of those artists who, once heard, will stay with you for a lifetime.
I love all of Kate's albums, but for me the ones I can't live without are: The Dreaming, Hounds, Never for Ever, and The Kick Inside. This album definitely has it's great moments, though! Great reaction. I'd love to see you do Never For Ever.
Aerial has some of her finest work too :)
@@billida I've just recently been listening to Aerial more thoroughly and I agree!
I feel 'Never For Ever' - 'The Dreaming' - 'Hounds Of Love' are all part of a sort of a magical tryptic. I also adore 'The Kick Inside' and 'Lionheart'. 'The Sensual World' has its peaks and remains such an original album. Thankyou so much for your intense review :)
PS if you feel like, give 'Never For Ever' a good listen. It will be a wonderful journey.
Actually, I would consider the holy trinity to be "Never For Ever," "The Dreaming," and "Hounds Of Love." So I would recommend that you listen to "Never For Ever" next. You could also try her debut album: "The Kick Inside" which demonstrated that Kate was fearless from the start WRT what subjects were covered.
The 'distorted saxophone' is Uilleann pipes (small celtic bagpipes) played by Davy Spillane
Also, although it's hard to listen to this album in isolation from Hounds and Never, with repeated listens for me it emerged as an extraordinary (in its own right) mature and grounded set of songs. Comet's Tail is also my favourite, the Trio Bulgarka backing is inspired, and getting David Gilmour to do the guitar solo wasn't a bad idea either...
If you want to be musically challenged again like with The Dreaming, you'll have to give Nina Hagen's "Nunsexmonkrock" a chance. You won't know what hit you.
If you check the ORIGINAL album cover, you'll just know you'll have to hear it :)
There's a later edition with a few extra tracks, don't pay attention to that one.
I love Reaching out it is such a beautiful song!
Love and Anger is one of my top 5 KB songs. I didn't get it at first (back in 89!), but keep listening to it - over and over. It will hit you and make sense. For me, it's about secrets and letting go. It's about being yourself. Having the courage to be yourself. It's about taking chances and being open to other peoples' influences. Go with it and play it loud!
Try watching the video for This Woman’s Work and not tear up!
If you haven’t,you should listen to bjorks-vespertine!! Art-pop classic/essential
just reacted to it today. it'll be out early next month!
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@@DAVECHER hell yes my dude, looking forward to that one
Maybe you came to this with the wrong expectation, not every album from her is so experimental like The dreaming or Hounds of Love. But there are albums with different concepts reamining. Maybe you should listen to Aerial album next.
Kate Bush is into Bohemian/Celtic/Medieval ancient culture and spirituality. That is why she has The Bohemian singer from the Republic of Czech singing in the background. So, everything is deep and has a not religious but spiritual tone to her music.
Walk Straight Down the Middle was a B-side on I think This Woman's Work that was included in a deluxe version of the album (but I don't think it works very well as an ending to the album compared to TWW so it's better left off tbh).
I’m in your boat: definitely in the third position compared to Dreaming and Hounds. Some amazing material when she is in less strictly melodic quiet rock mode (like Rocket and especially Heads, a banging dance track with an incredibly audacious conceit). PS - that weird thing that popped up during the title track’s lyrics is an excerpt from James Joyce’s classic novel Ulysses, a character of which she’s portraying in the song (aka her huge first hot, Wuthering Heights).
This Woman's Work is probably the most popular song on the album. It was written for She's Having A Baby, a John Hughes movie starring Kevin Bacon (you can find the scene on CZcams); covered by Maxwell; and used with great effect in Handmaid's Tail (season 2, episode 1, also on CZcams).
Do „the Kick inside“. I love your reactions. Intelligent young man 😘
I love your review of this!
Kate Bush is literally the greatest.
I love the use of the Bulgarian's women's choir in "Rocket's Tail"
Really can’t wait for you to react to The Red Shoes!
I don't think The Fog has anything to do with The Morning Fog (or Hounds Of Love, for that matter). TMF was part of a story she created but The Fog feels like a look into her personal life, particularly her upbringing.
The original CD has the ending track called "Straight Down The Middle". It's a good track too. Worth listening to. I don't know why the track isn't on here.
Dave you are legally not allowed to listen to this. This music for adults.
the track 11 is a bonus track called "walk straight down the middle". if you search the original album (not the remastered one) it's there! she then remastered it as well and its on the selection of b sides from 2018. it's a very interesting track, it's a little addicting to me heh. it was originally the side b for the single "the sensual world". the song was made in 24 hours.
You are missing something. The Sensual World is a song based on Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of Ulysses by Irish writer, James Joyce. At the time of writing she asked James Joyce's estate if she could use the soliloquy and they refused. So she changed up a few of the lyrics and changed the title to The Sensual World. Years later Kate revisited tracks from The Sensual World and The Red Shoes and rerecorded them, the album is called Director's Cut and on that album is a track called Flower of the Mountain, which is a re-working of The Sensual World track, only this time she was given permission to use the soliloquy and the title.
You've got to ask yourself; what is the purpose of experiment? To me, it is to further your understanding. If The Dreaming and Hounds of Love can be considered experimental, then this album is making use of things that were discovered through those experiments. HOL is my favorite album (by anyone) but objectively speaking, the songs on this one are richer and more mature than anything she has done before. Listen loud in open air with a real stereo system. If you can get the neighbors to call the cops on you, then you're doing it right. Headphones are cool but this needs space. Same as HOL. If you're not hearing it loud enough so that you can feel it also, you're cheating yourself.
If you compare the cover art of The Dreaming to this cover art, it kinda' says it all. This is not abstract art, it's portraiture. (comparatively speaking)
Track 2, Love and Anger, is possibly my favorite tune by her. It took a lot of listening for it to strike me a certain way. I wore this album out for years, starting with the year it came out. Still love it... Rocket's Tail started out as my favorite track and got taken down by the other tracks bit by bit as they washed over me. Reaching Out climbed from the bottom to nearly the top over the years.
This Woman's Work = This Woman's Labour. Telling her dying youngborn what she regrets doing and not doing while she was pregnant. That's how I understand this song. Sad.
I love pretty much ever Kate album up until this one, except Lionheart which is basically glorified B sides. My personal favorite of hers is Never Forever, her debut is also quite good, I think Sensual World pales in comparison, as solid as its best tracks are.
Until now, I thought this album had 11 tracks, with the actual closing track my favorite on the album. Don't know why the Spotify version omitted it. But I love every track except Reaching Out (one of her worst songs ever) and Deeper Understanding (which is good but subpar).
My ranking is: 1. HOL, 2. Aerial (Disk 2), 3. Sensual World, 4. The Dreaming, 5. The Red Shoes, 6. NFE, 7. 50 Words for Snow, 8. Aerial (Disk 1), 9. Lionheart, 10. TKI.
Her next, The Red Shoes, is similar to this one but much more pop so you probably won't like it lol. Every track is a very upbeat Love and Anger-type song except for a couple of ballads.
But I'd definitely recommend Disk 2 of Aerial. That would complete 'the essential Kate Bush' IMO. In a recent interview she said that HOL are her two best albums and I would agree, despite most fans picking Dreaming and HOL.
I certainly wouldn't rank 'This Woman's Work' at the bottom of ANY list. I think it's one of the most beautiful songs Kate Bush has ever written.
Try to listen to "Never for Ever" album, the one before "The Dreaming". It has some experimental stuff as well ;)
Forgot to say _ I bought this the day it was released and I remember being a bit disappointed because I was hoping for more extreme vocal and experimental type work. You’re right I do think it’s one of her her most accessible / commercial albums and I have grown to like it a lot but not in my top 5 Kate albums at all.
Walk Straight Down The Middle was the b side to the sensual world single and was available on the CD and cassette version of the album but not LP.
Rockets tail....oooof!
Maybe because I listened to The Sensual World first back in the day, then traced back to Hounds of Love, then The Dreaming, so I didn't feel so let down by The Sensual World like you seemed to. I think that by that point in her career, she didn't feel that she had to be so out there like with The Dreaming, or balance her commercial appeal with authenticity like with Hounds of Love. So The Sensual World sounds more mellow and mature, simply because that's what she wanted to be then.
Don’t read too much into rockets tails - it’s a song she wrote about her cat called Rocket.
You must also make a video reaction of the others three earlier albums " The kick inside", "Lionheart" and Never for ever, just remembering that they were made in 1978 and 1980
2:12 LOOOOOL i remember someone writing psychotic nonsense in the genius comments for Running Up That Hill, it seems you’ve found him too 😂
Watching music videos will be whole different experience
You should watch The sensual World video clip. It’s gorgeous.
You should check out The Sensual World video it's lush
Have you listened to ‘ directors cut ‘ and ‘ before the dawn ( 2014 - live )? Be interested in your thoughts 💭 :) lovely 😊 review as usual - deep :)
Check NEVER FOR EVER by Kate Bush
oh god you cut the footage before the high note in Reaching Out EVERY TIME 😭😭😭
I would rank The Dreaming as my least favorite. I think Hounds of Love unquestionably one of the best albums of all time - so the clear winner of the three you compare. And certainly most adventurous musically.
That said, The Sensual World is hands down the one I listen to the most. I’d recommend spending time just listening to it deeply and let it wash over you. Put on some good headphones, go on a long walk and just listen start to finish. It’s certainly the most cohesive of the albums you are looking at.
(FWIW, I think the more you listen to Love & Anger, the more it grows on you. Especially the lyrics. But definitely it’s the most “commercial” song on the album. So while you’re right that - by Bush standards - it might be lacking, it is a pretty fantastic pop song of the era. I think you’ll come to like it more than you do now.)
To clarify - I don’t dislike The Dreaming. In fact, I love a lot of it and it’s certainly more challenging and experimental than Sensual World. It’s not a knock against it, but I rarely listen to it in its entirety.
Don’t know how you can properly listen talking all the way through and just reading the lyrics …
It’s frustrating as this is a subtle album where the benefits are in the small details and texture ….
I don't just read the lyrics and the reason you hear me talking is because I cut out the parts where I'm just silently sitting there not adding anything to the video.
BJORK
You need to listen divorced lawyers I shaved my head one of my favorites albums at least u should look into it it's very very good
the album includes a few boring tracks I always used to skip. I beleive her Red Shoes album is much better. Check something different - This Mortal Coil projects, Associates - Perhaps album...
I doubt you are getting any, no matter what you listen to.
(it's a picture of Hitler)
I've just found your channel but please don't use terms like toxic masculinity, there's no such such thing
yikes
Hey does she remind you of Tori Amos?