There is only one Kate Bush (although Tori Amos would like to be another , she fails dismally). A true original artist who ploughs her own very individual furrow. No-one else in popular music does what he does in the way that she does it. She has consistently produced work which is innovative and interesting, never following fashionable trends. She uses techniques and sounds in unusual musical settings that are never heard elsewhere. In video she is not afraid to try new things and to interpret her songs through movement. I am not sure how much input she has into her videos but I am sure she must have, given the results on screen.
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beresfordjd5 February 2006
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Kate Bush, phenomenal British singer/songwriter/keyboardist, truly shines in this collection of music videos which span her career from her first hit (the ethereal "Wuthering Heights") through the pinnacle of her career (videos of several songs from the excellent "Hounds of Love" LP), and even includes a never-before-released song from that time period (the chilling "Experiment IV").
For those of you who don't know who Kate Bush is ... she's a soprano with a very mutable and expressive voice. Her songs tend to be very theatrical, and a lot of them seem to be sung from the point of view of fictional or semi-fictional characters. She frequently adopts accents (Aussie in "Dreamtime," Yorkshire [I think] in "Army Dreamers") to get into the character from whose viewpoint she has written.
A master of multimedia before the word existed, Kate Bush never, ever toured; aside from several performances at the Royal Albert Hall, years ago, she has very seldom performed live. Her videos are well developed and mesh well with her music, especially "Cloudbusting," which features a prominent role by Donald Sutherland!
Fans of Ms. Bush or slightly-out-of-mainstream '80's music will enjoy this a lot. -
heffer9 September 2000I admit, I'm a huge fan of Kate Bush and that this may come over as somewhat biased, but hey! Them's the breaks.
Cloudbusting, which is based on Christopher Reichs "Books of Dreams" (memoirs of his life with his Father Wilhelm, yes THAT Wilhelm), is a strangely affecting video and puts Reich into the almost surreal position of being "sympathetic hero".
Featuring Donald Sutherland as Wilhelm and Kate Bush as Christopher, I have to say that I honestly think this is one of Sutherlands greatest performances; beautifully understated and fantastically uplifting.
The Cloudbuster itself is a wonderful piece of cartoon Gothic machinery which you can almost beleive does what it should.....
One of the few music videos that can reduce me to tears.......