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Yup, she's definitely a hottie!
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
The guitar solo at the end is one of the most underappreciated ones in music history! And ALL radio channels playing it cut the song after the vocal bit is done. The bastards!
In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi, Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri; Ei gwrol ryfelwyr, gwladgarwyr tra m�d, Dros ryddid collasant eu gwaed. Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad. Tra m�r yn fur i'r bur hoff bau, O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau.
#3657329 - 10/05/1209:13 PMRe: Kate Bush..Wuthering Heights
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It's funny how as as kid they were just some old bird singing some crazy song, 30+ years later she's now tottie!
That Farrow bloke you executed today, are you sure he's dead? Well I chopped his head off, that usually does the trick. Yes, don't get clever with me Baldrick. I just thought you might have lopped off a leg or something by mistake. No, the thing I chopped off had a nose.
The guitar solo at the end is one of the most underappreciated ones in music history! And ALL radio channels playing it cut the song after the vocal bit is done. The bastards!
I watched a couple YouTube vids to get the version with the solo, and you're right - it is very good. Then I checked to see who played it:
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The guitar solo is played by Ian Bairnson, best known for his work with Alan Parsons. It is often mistakenly said that David Gilmour played the solo, possibly due to his professional associations with Kate Bush. It is placed rather unobtrusively in the mix, and later engineer Jon Kelly would regret not making the solo a little louder in the mix
I can't say I had any idea who it was, but Ian Bairnson wouldn't have come up in a million years. And Jon Kelly is wrong - it was PERFECT as recorded, no need to mix it louder. If I want something obtrusively loud compared to the rest of the song I can listen to one of Mike Portnoy's drum tracks.
As far as Kate herself, I'm like most Americans in that I know of her but the only song I'd ever heard was "Running Up That Hill" way back in the day. I wonder how many female artists were directly influenced by her?
Phil
“The biggest problem people have is they don’t think they’re supposed to have problems.” - Hayes Barnard
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I first heard of Kate Bush when she sang a duet with Peter Gabriel on the song "Don't Give Up".
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
I like Never for Ever, and most especially The Dreaming, where she got more adventoruous with her songwriting and arranging. Pull Out The Pin is especially good. And that donkey scream in Get Out Of My House used to scare the #%&*$# outta me when I was a kid.
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Beautiful woman, and a great artist in my book. What is puzzling to me, the Wuthering Heights video in the first post is apparently from 1978? I think she looks older than 19, as according to Wikipedia she was born on 07/30/58 and the song was released before she turned 20.
My mother bought her album The Kick Inside back then. Definitely one of the songs which I recall from 1978, I still like it. The next single of her which I recall was Babooshka from 1980, and then, already in 1985, Running Up That Hill was inevitable. Her voice is unique and has a posivitviely haunting quality for me.
