The Sensual World

I didn't like the first Kate Bush album we had to listen to, and I like this one less. Like a lot less. This annoyed the crap out of me. Her voice is just so annoying.

Nothing more sensual than Kate Bush tbh

Listened to it, as soon as it ended I started the album again. This Woman's Work at the end is unreal, just perfect

I am feeling Love And Anger. Heads We're Dancing is another bop. Kate Bush's voice is above all transcendent. Rockets Tail slaps. A second, more intentioned listening of this record is down right necessary

Just wasn't feeling it, but it's one of her weaker albums.

Musically this is a really good album. Not a massive Kate Bush fan but can see why this should be on the list.

One of my favourite Kate Bush albums, there are really some fantastic songs on here. "Deeper Understanding" is weirdly both nostalgic now and also quite prescient. "This Woman's Work" always gets an emotional reaction from me.

I only just recently heard of Kate Bush after she became famous again for her song Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) being used in the Netflix series Stranger Things. That song is a weird 80's pop song, so I assumed this album would be similar. I was correct.

Kate Bush is like if Madonna was a much less sexual, artsy hipster who wrote shitty poetry that requires an engineering degree to comprehend and has no discernable rhyming scheme, then paired it up to very bland, 80's pop music that it doesn't mesh with.

There are so many layers of sound and shit going on on this album, that for the whole album, I had to read her lyrics because I could barely hear and discern them behind the noise of the backing music. For example, I mostly heard moaning in the song The Sensual World until she started talking about her breasts for some reason.

Since her lyrics are so confusing, here's what I gathered from some of the songs on this album:

In the song Heads We're Dancing, Hitler told her he was flipping a coin, and if it landed on heads, they were dancing...

In the song Deeper Understanding she became obsessed with her computer because it showed her the "love and deeper understanding" which she wasn't getting from people. It became so bad, people had to intervene...

I think in the song Rocket's Tail, she dresses up like a rocket, jumps off of a bridge, and kills herself?!?.... Fucked if I know....here are some of the lyrics from that song:

I put on my cloudiest suit
Size 5 lightning boots, too
'cause I am a rocket
On fire
Look at me go, with my tail on fire

This Woman's Work is actually a heartbreaking song about watching a loved one die, the first song on this album to actually have a clear direction and theme.

She took to making bird calls in the song Walk Straight Down The Middle for some fucking reason.

Overall, a very weird album. Not something I will ever listen to again, but points for her voice, it is actually beautiful. And the music, even though it didn't jive with the lyrics at all, was decent as well.

Favourite song: Rocket's Tail, This Woman's Work

Least favourite songs: The Sensual World, Love and Anger, Reaching Out, Never Be Mine, Walk Straight Down the Middle

2/5

Sounds very like Lorde, which they would probably both be happy with! Not especially catchy, but very pleasant and atmospheric

Is Kate Bush always this prog? It's great!

Escuché otro disco de ella y me gustó bastante más. No es malo, pero no me dice nada. Prescindible.

A lot of people whose tastes I generally trust are way into Kate Bush. Idk if I'm sold yet. This was pretty good, maybe a bit slower than 80s music I normally like

Always a fan of her unique expression. I feel like I need to listen to her more.