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[scythrop]

Happy Katemas!

It is a golden jubilee this year, as Ms. Bush turns 50 today. In celebration, five YouTube favorites...

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[ilovecupcakes]

HAPPY KATE DAY !!!!!!!!!

[gandydancer]

i love that version of the wedding list

[tessemily]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!

[tessemily]

you are totally my bestest kb friend on lj <3

[primroseport]

This marks one year since you revealed Kate to me. In this time I have taken the first three albums to heart, loved them dearly, and learned to play a bunch of songs from those albums, but I still don't like anything else I've heard. As soon as she stopped composing on piano the charm seems to have died (at least for me). I'll keep trying.

Her dancing/choreography is the best dancing/choreography. In army dreamers she is crazy hot.

[scythrop]

Crazy hot. Agreed.

If you are trying to go chronologically through her albums and have hit a stumbling block with The Dreaming, you would not be the first. Apparently to go from piano ballads to braying mules and heavily processed backwards vocals was a bit of a stretch for some people ;)

I think with that album maybe she was trying to radically reorient her career. It still blows me away that she did the whole bizarre thing, essentially by herself, at 23 years old.

The albums that come after, I feel, integrate both the experimentation and the precocious, girlish songwriter. (Though there's an argument to be made that she had already achieved it with Never For Ever.) Have you listened to Hounds of Love or Aerial much? Kate at her best, as far as I'm concerned.

[primroseport]

I had an immediate aversion to Hounds of Love. I own it and have tried to plow through it several times and train myself to like it but I just don't. I think the harmonies are either simplistic, too conventional, or just not interesting. Her vocal melodies are more disjunct in a way I find unlovely, and she seems to sing a particular series of intervals a few too many times, preventing songs from standing out. I even dislike the lower register of her voice as she aged (I tend to like either very low-pitched female singers or very high-pitched, and she dipped down from that sweet upper register that had previously attracted me. The suite of songs at the end are better, but bore me. In general, I mourn the organic sound she used to have. I'm not anti-electronic, by the way--one of my favorite bands is The Legendary Pink Dots. Running Up (the/that?) Hill kicks things off terribly for me. Repetitive, predictable chord progressions with redundant, disjunct singing

[hazel_rah]

Happy Katemas! I'll take this opportunity to say that A Sky of Honey is so good I can't believe it. I can't hardly listen to any of her other records these days. On headphones or giant speakers, nothing sounds better.

[scythrop]

Isn't it sublime? The wait was worth it for that disc alone. More to say but still busy celebrating!

[magneticwoman]

yeah that album blew me away... i can't believe how awesome she still is. that woman is unstoppable.