- Audio CD (Mar 28 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Original recording remastered
- Label: EMI Music Canada
- ASIN: B00004R7TP
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | LP Record
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (113 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #19,718 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) |
| 2. Hounds Of Love |
| 3. The Big Sky |
| 4. Mother Stands For Comfort |
| 5. Cloudbusting |
| 6. And Dream Of Sheep |
| 7. Under Ice |
| 8. Waking The Witch |
| 9. Watching You Without Me |
| 10. Jig Of Life |
| 11. Hello Earth |
| 12. The Morning Fog |
| 13. The Big Sky (Meteorogical Mix) |
| 14. "Running Up That Hill (12"" Mix) |
| 15. Be Kind To My Mistakes |
| 16. Under The Ivy |
| 17. Burning Bridge |
| 18. My Lagan Love |
Product Description
From Amazon.com
Few women have expanded the vocabulary of rock as bewitchingly as Kate Bush; among male stars, only Prince may have taken as many risks. Hounds of Love saw Bush reining in the kookier aspects of The Dreaming, channelling them into epic electro-pop that tackled big issues of life and death and God with gripping drama and intensity. "Running Up That Hill" was one of the great singles of the '80s; "Cloudbusting" was string-driven, magically pretty; "Jig of Life" showed that Bush is one of the few pop artists who can flirt with Celtic mysticism without sounding twee or trite. Forget the riot grrrls: Bush is the real thing. --Barney Hoskyns
Album Description
Import only digitally-remastered reissue for her landmark 1985 album with six bonus tracks, 'The Big Sky' (Meteorological Mix), 'Running Up That Hill' (12-inch Mix), 'BeKind To My Mistakes', 'Under The Ivy', 'Burning Bridge' and 'My Lagan Love' all were previously only available through her box set (which is unavailable in the US.) 18 tracks in total. EMI.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love / A++ Sound,
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This review is from: Hounds of Love (Vinyl) (LP Record)
I love this album !!The marbled vinyl is freaky when searching for a seperate track. The overall quality sound of the album is awesome with songs I remember from my college days. Go buy it !!!! Waiting for "The Kick Inside" to get the same audiophile treatment. James
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the truly great eighties albums,
By pnotley@hotmail.com (Edmonton, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hounds of Love (Audio CD)
"Hounds of Love" is the best Kate Bush album, her most successful, and yet it may be her least accessible. Certainly it contains a much wider musical range than most albums in 1985, what with the drums, guitars and pianos, followed by the bouzoukis, fiddles, uillean pipes, cellos and balalaikas. The album also has a wide range of allusion. Not only does it include a clip from "The Wall," but it also makes reference to Tennyson and Reich. Even more amazingly it actually make the portentous imperialist and the pseudo-scientific quack sympathetic and aesthetically successful. It starts off with the unusual love song "Running up that Hill," ("I'd make a deal with God/And get him to swap our places"). The video consists of a strange, intimate pair of dancers, which slowly spirals out of the attic where they are dancing to a strange foreign runway. "The Hounds of Love" is next and it is probably the song I care about the least. But then there is the joyful cheeriness of "The Big Sky." Then there is the carefully understated "Mother Stands for Comfort," ("She knows that I've been doing something wrong/But she won't say anything.") "Cloudbusting," one of Kate Bush's triumphs, refers to William Reich and his crackpot belief that by manipulating "orgone energy" (energy from orgasms) he could make it rain. Yet the song is a moving success, with its cello-driven melody, notwithstanding the fact that in both the song and the video Bush is playing a boy. ("Ooh I just know that something good is going to happen/And I don't know when/But just saying it could even make it happen.")Then there is the second side, "The Ninth Wave." The songs are all clearly different from each other, in style and tempo and instrumentation, and they discuss such subjects as sleeping, ice-skating, witch-hunts, ghosts, Irish jigs, the evening and a statement of love. But they are all united in their theme about a drowning woman. It starts off with the apparently soft and increasingly sinister "And Dream of Sheep." ("Like poppies, heavy with seed/They take me deeper and deeper"). Then there is the short, effective and quite chilling violin driven "Under Ice." The dramatic "Waking the Witch" follows, where Bush is confronted by a demonic inquisitor and which contains the aforementioned Pink Floyd reference, a forceful drumbeat as well as a brief sequence of bells. But the best cut is "Watching you Without Me," about the strange ghostlike presence, which is my favourite Kate Bush song of all. Here her voice, singing relatively understated material, shows off its true power and nuance. Then there is "Jig of Life" as well as "Hello Earth." The latter is the longest song on the album, as it starts off with childish innocence (Hello Earth/With just one hand help up high/I can blot you out,) and then moves on to a threatening storm. Finally there is "The Morning Fog," with its simple melody, relatively simple arrangement and genuine expression of love for her family. (The 1998 CD includes six other songs, including remixes of "Running up that Hill" and "The Big Sky." The four unreleased songs are all good, though they do not cohere with the original album. The best of them is "Burning Bridge.")
5.0 out of 5 stars
An incredible piece of work from an original songstress,
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This review is from: Hounds of Love (Audio CD)
Being a product of the '80s, well technically the '70s however I don't remember that decade as well as the '80s, one of my personal favorite songs has always been Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)". I always thought that Kate Bush had one of the most unique voices in music. I have to admit that I only own one Kate Bush cd and that is "Hounds of Love". I recently dug the cd out of my mountain of mostly useless cds that I stash in my closet. I decided to play the cd and I soon found myself falling in love with "Hounds of Love" all over again. I am no expert on Kate Bush or her music as a lot of reviewers appear to be here so I am going to have to review on what I heard. I think it is a given to say that without Kate Bush, there would have been no Tori Amos. The similiarities are obvious, especially to Tori fans (such as myself). As I said earlier, Kate has a unique voice as does Tori. Both women are constantly changing the octaves in their voices as they sing. The oblique, if not abstract lyrics are seen in both women's songs. In regards to "Hounds of Love", I found myself enjoying the "Hounds of Love" side slightly more of than "The Ninth Wave". I find myself more drawn to songs like "Mother Stands For Comfort" and "Cloudbusting". Nevertheless, all the songs are wonderful. Kate Bush has a real knack for songwriting. I just don't see or hear enough artists like Kate nowadays. Artists like Kate Bush comes once in a blue moon. "Hounds of Love" is an incredible piece of pop music and certainly deserves a remaster treatment like The Cocteau Twins' catalog were given.
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