Kate Bush Deep Cuts playlist sync

[ZenGiraffe]

I'm here. Looking forward to bangers and bops aplenty

 

[Iguana]

That dirty bass

 

[COB]

I'll show you how with FIRE!

 

[jivafox]

Right so this is the ONE Director's Cut song. Indulge me @Suedey @jivafox

The best one! So that’s okay.

 

[COB]

This opened the show at Before The Dawn, didn't it?

 

[jivafox]

Such DRAMA in this song.

 

[Iguana]

This opened the show at Before The Dawn, didn't it?

It did! I sort of copied her idea to be honest

 

[Tisch]

Yes! Definitely an improvement on Directors Cut! Not the only one mind.

 

[Tisch]

LOVE her screeching in this.

WHO'S ON THE LEFT!
WHO'S ON THE RIGHT!

 

[Iguana]

Ooh someone made the thread live

 

[Iguana]

GET THOSE DEMONS, KATE!!

 

[COB]

Still upset they took out the bit where she shouts THIS IS BEBO

 

[GinAg (39)]

Doing a @BoysForSeles and listening in the background.

 

[Iguana]

WAOOOAAAGGGHH!!

 

[ZenGiraffe]

For fuck sake.

@COB ”Now this bit, listen to what she doesn't say"

So I'm meant to judge her on her theoretical music?

 

[Iguana]

2. Never Be Mine
The Sensual World, 1989

"I want you as the dream, not the reality"

A wistful take on a life that might have been if you'd made different choices and a past relationship had worked out differently. "That clumsy goodbye-kiss could fool me, but looking back over my shoulder at you happy without me" - he's moved on with his life and she'll only ever be at the sidelines.

The lines "They're setting fire to the cornfields as you're taking me home. The smell of burning fields will now mean you and here" has always struck me as an evocative way to capture how a smell or taste can stick to a memory and they become intrinsically linked in your head.

 

[Raining on Me]

I'll show you how with FIRE!

This is the best bit of the entire song!

That and the screaming towards the end

 

[Iguana]

Oh I meant to say the backing vox on Lily were by MICA PARIS

 

[ButterTart]

Oh I meant to say the backing vox on Lily were by MICA PARIS

 

[COB]

I want you as the dream
Not the reality

 

[Iguana]

This is where I want to be, this is what I need...

 

[BoysForSeles]

Remembering how much I enjoy Never Be Mine now that my washing machine has come out of the spin cycle and I can hear it.

 

[jivafox]

Gosh this is a HEARTBREAK

 

[Iguana]

The out-of-placedness of this song really appealed to me when I was a teen

 

[ButterTart]

I'm rubbish with album tracks so this is an edumacation.

 

[GinAg (39)]

V. Lovely so far.

 

[jivafox]

One of my favourites from The Sensual World

 

[Iguana]

I'm rubbish with album tracks so this is an edumacation.

Well hopefully my synopses will not go to waste then

 

[Tisch]

I want you as the dream
Not the reality

 

[Raining on Me]

Oh my Never Be Mine is one of my all time faves. Absolutely heartbreaking. By Kate standards it's actually quite simple and conventional but the simplicity really pays off, the lyrics are crystal clear and even then there's still a LOT of detail going on in the background. Beautiful!

 

[Iguana]

3. How To Be Invisible
Aerial, 2005

"You stand in front of a million doors and each one holds a million more"

Kate plays the 'reclusive' card with a wink to her absence from the public eye in the 12 years between The Red Shoes and Aerial. It's a spell to become invisible but it subverts the usual witches' potion tropes - "Eye of Braille, hem of anorak, stem of wallflower, hair of doormat".

 

[RJN]

Well hopefully my synopses will not go to waste then

They're helpful because otherwise I would have literally no idea what any of these songs were about

 

[Iguana]

I found a book on hoooow to be invisible...

 

[COB]

How To Be Invisible is such a highlight of disc 1 of Aerial for me

 

[ZenGiraffe]

hem of anorak

 

[Tisch]

Always loved the guitar in this. Almost a bit Spanish-y!

 

[Iguana]

Can I take a moment to appreciate that picture I posted with Never Be Mine. What a dramatic beauty

 

[BoysForSeles]

This is probably my favourite from this album but I haven’t spent as much time with it as I should.

 

[Tisch]

Eye of Braille, hem of anorak, stem of wallflower, hair of doormat

I didn't know these lyrics! How clever.

 

[Iguana]

How To Be Invisible is such a highlight of disc 1 of Aerial for me

When MOJO interviewed her in 2005, they said they would it would make a good single and asked if she thought it would too. She just laughed.