Re: Kate Bush - Never For Ever (1980)

by Nightjar Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:32 pm

Everything Bush-wise comes together in perfect unison on this one.

Original, eccentric, tasteful, pretty, dark...

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:32 pm

Last track - Breathing.

by Nightjar Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:33 pm

Looney on the Bus alert! llama

by Nightjar Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:34 pm

With the previous track the album finishes on a quite a political note.

I think this one's about the threat of a nuclear war.

by Nightjar Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:35 pm

Crikey! Even this managed to get to 16 in the hit parade. gasp

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:36 pm

Talking.

by Nightjar Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:36 pm

Fretless bass! llama

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:36 pm

Coda.

by Nightjar Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:37 pm

The Wall style crunching guitars!

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:37 pm

Going a bit Pink Floyd.

by Nightjar Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:37 pm

Mass Roy Harpers on backing vocals! scared

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:39 pm

Is over.

It was a typical Kate Bush album. The singles are great and the other tracks are undisciplined cobblers.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:40 pm

I shall give it 3 stars.

by Nightjar Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:43 pm

Well, y'know, I think it's an underrated album.

As a whole it has a very closely studied but effective feel and sound.

It's a more ambitious tilt at actual art by KB, but I suppose she's a little embarrassed by some of it ("Babooshka" for sure), but it's a fascinating watershed album, spanning her nascent years and the more 'mature' - but to my mind less entertaining/bit tiresome and angular - phase of her career.

Ultimately:

Babooshka > The Dreaming

No Rolf on the former track neither.

by Nightjar Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:53 pm

In 2020, Grazia magazine conducted an interview with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

When asked about the 5 most influential women in his life, Johnson placed Kate Bush at the fifth spot after deliberating between nominating Queen Elizabeth II, Margaret Thatcher, and Bush.

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The bushiness or just rubbush?