View Full Version : WORST Kate single?
Raining On Me
03-07-2005, 09:30 PM
*yawn*
I couldn't think of an even more generic boredom poll..
Anyway she usually gets single choices right but there have a couple of dodgy selections along the way...
I've left out the ones I didn't think people would pick, though I'm sure some awkward bastard will!
Worst in HER case usually means "LEAST GOOD" naturally.
Vortex
03-07-2005, 09:44 PM
There Goes A Tenner
Most of those are GOOD anyway. :moopy:
Raining On Me
03-07-2005, 09:44 PM
I just know I've forgotten something obvious.
And anyone who votes for "And So Is Love" can go top themselves.
I would normally vote for "There Goes A Tenner" or "Sat In Your Lap", but BOTH have warmed on me considerably. In fact I have "The Dreaming" on right now and both sound bloody fabulous for the first time EVER.
"The Red Shoes" is just horrible...a pile of repetitive nonsense and sounds like the length of the song was the time it took to come up with it.
Homes Place
03-07-2005, 09:45 PM
I would have maybe gone for 'Them Heavy People' but out of that list - Hammer Horror :zombie:
Homes Place
03-07-2005, 09:46 PM
"The Red Shoes" is just horrible...a pile of repetitive nonsense and sounds like the length of the song was the time it took to come up with it.
Awww, it's not that bad. The repetitivness indicates the trance she's entering - it's all very fairytale like. I like the 'It's really happening to ya' bits.
I wont vote in this since Im not familiar with all those songs but hammer Horror is awful and I dont get the love for Experiment IV at all.
Raining On Me
03-07-2005, 09:53 PM
I would have maybe gone for 'Them Heavy People' but out of that list - Hammer Horror :zombie:
See, I forgot that. Wasn't it the live version though? Doesn't feel like a PROPER single as such...and no video I don't think, apart from the live performance...
jamatthews
03-07-2005, 10:01 PM
Wowowowowowowowow...UNBELIEVABLE :|
Homes Place
03-07-2005, 10:15 PM
See, I forgot that. Wasn't it the live version though? Doesn't feel like a PROPER single as such...and no video I don't think, apart from the live performance...
There was a video - if you get 'The Singles File' on video. This had all Kate's singles from 1978 to 1982 so you get exclusive videos to 'Hammer Horror', 'Wow', 'Them Heavy People', 'There Goes a Tenner' and 'Suspended in Gaffa'.
The 1986 'Whole Story' compilation changed the video of 'Wow' to clips from her live tour.
Anyway, 'Them Heavy People' video was very cheap from what I remember - she's wearing a butch coat and acting drunk with a couple of dancers at a table with a swinging light bulb.
Homes Place
03-07-2005, 10:16 PM
I wont vote in this since Im not familiar with all those songs but hammer Horror is awful and I dont get the love for Experiment IV at all.
Experiment IV is wonderful - so atmospheric and haunting. It's to Kate Bush what the Venus era was to Tori. It's probably my favourite ever Kate track.
her videography on gaffaweb is quite helpful:
http://gaffa.org/passing/index.html
the singles are here:
http://gaffa.org/discog/singles.html
Raining On Me
03-07-2005, 10:31 PM
There was a video - if you get 'The Singles File' on video.
Ahh...
Wasn't it the live version as the actual single release though, cause it was part of the Live EP wasn't it? :confused: Though if the studio version had a seperate video perhaps not...I dunno
*rubbish fan*
Homes Place
03-07-2005, 10:35 PM
No it wasn't a live video but it was kind of a studio reinactment of the live version. The soundtrack over the video was the live version though.
Have you ever watched her 'Live at Hammersmith' video - it's pretty damn good. Madonna probably learned a few things from that (the choreography and microphones attached to the head). You must seek it down.
Raining On Me
03-07-2005, 10:56 PM
No it wasn't a live video but it was kind of a studio reinactment of the live version. The soundtrack over the video was the live version though.
No, what I mean is, the single version that charted - that was part of the EP, right? I mean it didn't chart on its own merit as such? And that was LIVE, wasn't it?
That's what I thought anyway, and why it kinda seems like an anomaly as far as singles go...
"Wow" and "Hammer Horror" are both WONDERFUL. I'm not mad on "Cloudbusting" to be honest, but out of that list "Love and Anger" probably.
Raining On Me
04-07-2005, 12:02 AM
The only one I actively dislike now is "The Red Shoes". "The Dreaming" is okay, but the vast majority of the rest I love...they still fucked up the singles with "THe Dreaming" album though...the only one where they did.
Of course I'm not fond of "Moments of Pleasure" either...
Quandary
04-07-2005, 12:06 AM
Quite difficult to pick one, I'm probably in a minority liking "Wow" as "Hammer Horror". I just voted for "Love And Anger" because all the singles from The Sensual World(except the breathtaking "This Woman's Work" ofcourse) just bored me when I heard them..
Homes Place
04-07-2005, 12:45 AM
No, what I mean is, the single version that charted - that was part of the EP, right? I mean it didn't chart on its own merit as such? And that was LIVE, wasn't it?
That's what I thought anyway, and why it kinda seems like an anomaly as far as singles go...
Yep, only a live EP was released - no 7" came out, but THP was the main track the radio played. It's quite a surprise it went to no.10 (in the days when singles had to climb the way to get there and a top 10 hit was much rarer). Very few live eps have got released I think and very few go that high.
Raining On Me
04-07-2005, 02:55 AM
What version did they play on the radio? You'd think the studio version, but that wouldn't make sense when promoting a live EP...Hmmm!
Yeah, odd that it got to #10, gives an idea of how (briefly...ish) HUGE she was the time.
Are EPs even chart eligible these days?!
Unknown Obscurist
04-07-2005, 01:45 PM
I voted for Hammer Horror, but simply because Eat The Music wasn't listed. If Eat The Music was a single, it's by far my least fave.
Raining On Me
04-07-2005, 03:20 PM
It was released abroad in some countries. I agree though, pretty bad indeed..
Homes Place
04-07-2005, 06:50 PM
I bought a scratch and sniff sleeve version of Eat the Music - I believe it was a US import.
I don't mind it either :shy:
Christian
04-07-2005, 07:08 PM
Good poll.
Hammer Horror has never gone down well with me, so it's got to be that.
Wow is, of course, FABULOUS and shouldn't be in this list AT ALL.
I rather like Eat The Music too... :shy:
vBulletin® v3.7.1, Copyright ©2000-2009, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.