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HOUNDS OF LOVE

Kate Bush

 

Crossover Prog

4.18 | 534 ratings

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BrufordFreak
4 stars Kate's most popular album--I remember it debuting (both album and first hit release, "Running Up That Hill") at number one in England and staying there a long time (despite pressure from The Pet Shop Boys' debut arrival). But, the songs are still a bit too foreign for this Yankee's ears and brain (and the videos all but ruin some of the songs for me). The so-called album long "suite," "The Ninth Wave," has awesome effects and melodies and shifts and sounds but somehow fails, to my mind and ears, to blend musically into a cohesive epic. A story told in seven successive songs, that I can accept, but I find it difficult to consider this one long prog epic. In its day I remember no mention to this being a side-long "epic" though I'd read of its concept theme. Today it is regarded as both. Still feels a bit like seven songs to me.

Favorite songs: "Under Ice" and "Waking the Witch" (10/10), "The Big Sky" (8/10), and the unforgettable "Running Up That Hill" (9/10).

3.5 stars rated up for quality and creativity.

BrufordFreak | 4/5 |

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