Kate Bush, 60 today
mainThe most astonishing vocal classic in the whole of rock music.
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Will someone explain why she is « The most astonishing vocal in the whole of rock music »
It’s definitely a British thing.
To some of the rest of us, she’s a marginal-at-best songwriter with a shrill, screechy voice that’s best neither heard nor seen.
No kidding. Sort of invites the response, “Stick to your day job.”
If you take time to read this, you will understand:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bush
I did read it. I do not understand why Kate Bush is of artistic interest to anyone…while fully appreciating that she is. I just lump her in with crumpets.
Kirsten Flagstad she ain’t.
If you take time to read this, you will understand:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bush
If you will take time to read this, you will understand:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bush
Priceless: The cover version by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FF0VaBxb27w
High art in comparison!
Met her in the mid-1990s. Nice girl, pretty shy.
You consider her “astonishing”? No wonder the thought police here delete comments on a regular basis.
The leap down of a 7th (e to f) in the first measure of the vocal line is hardly commonplace.
6 bar phrase with a half bar (2/4) tagged on at the end is another pecualirity.
Evidence of ballet training in the way she moves.
What a wonderful surprise to read about Kate Bush on this site. Happy Birthday indeed!
Boo!! Kate Bush is a bloody genius. If you don’t get her and her music it is your bloomin’ loss. Happy Birthday!
…and anything other than “marginal”
Jolly well said, Ricardo…some of these folks just don’t get it. I think they are basing their judgement on the one video posted when Kate was 19 years old. Her 40-year body of work is pure genius.
Kate Bush, a ‘bloody genius’ ?! Dracula is going to be very upset !!
Comment on a recent Grauniad thread: ‘One in the Bush is worth five in the hand’.
This should be censored, my man! It is sexist!