#Hounds of love series#

I mean, it's about time they have a bit of help. During the performance, a video of John Carder Bush appears on a television screen, reciting the poem at the end of the track.Īt this point in the story, it's the future self of this person coming to visit them to give them a bit of help here. “ In 2014, Kate performed 'Jig Of Life' live during all the shows of Before The Dawn. Radio 1 (UK), aired 26 January 1992)” – Kate Bush Encyclopaedia Ahhhh' (Richard Skinner, 'Classic Albums interview: Hounds Of Love. And at this point, when they say, you know, 'my god, it's me,' you know, 'it's me under the ice. And at the end of it, it's the idea of seeing themselves under the ice in the river, so I mean we're talking real nightmare stuff here. (.) Again it's very lonely, it's terribly lonely, they're all alone on like this frozen lake. I mean we did the whole thing in a day, I guess. And it sounded very operatic and I thought 'well, great' because it, you know, it conjured up the image of ice and was really simple to record. And this was all kinda coming together by itself, I didn't have much to do with this, I just sat down and wrote this little tune on the Fairlight with the cello sound. And this is the dream, and it's really meant to be quite nightmarish. “ Well at this point, although they didn't want to go to sleep, of course they do. (Richard Skinner, 'Classic Albums interview: Hounds Of Love.

You know, the little finale where everyone does a little dance and then the bow and then they leave the stage. And it was also meant to be one of those kind of 'thank you and goodnight' songs. And it's very much a song of seeing perspective, of really, you know, of being so grateful for everything that you have, that you're never grateful of in ordinary life because you just abuse it totally. And although it doesn't say so, in my mind this was the song where they were rescued, where they get pulled out of the water. You know, the weightiness is gone and here's the morning, and it's meant to feel very positive and bright and uplifting from the rest of dense, darkness of the previous track. Well, that's really meant to be the rescue of the whole situation, where now suddenly out of all this darkness and weight comes light. “ There is only one studio version of this song.Ī live version appears on the album Before The Dawn. BBC Radio 1 (UK), 26 January 1992)” – Kate Bush Encyclopaedia It's a bit of a strange matter, isn't it really? (Richard Skinner, 'Classic Albums Interview: Hounds Of Love'. 'Cause in a way it's also suggesting that the son is using the mother, as much as the mother is protecting him. There are many different kinds of love and the track's really talking about the love of a mother, and in this case she's the mother of a murderer, in that she's basically prepared to protect her son against anything. And the cold qualities of synths and machines were appropriate here. Well, the personality that sings this track is very unfeeling in a way. Most other sounds are most probably provided by the Fairlight A flat drum pattern, just kick and snare, provides the metronomic basis upon which the whole percussion pattern, piano chords and a sinuous upright bass melody are built. The track seems to be the most skeletal of the album. Originally released on the album Hounds Of Love in 1985. Maybe the being involved isn't as horrific as your imagination can build it up to being - perhaps these baying hounds are really friendly. They can involve pain, confusion and responsibilities, and I think a lot of people are particularly scared of responsibility. I wonder if everyone is perhaps ruled by fear, and afraid of getting into relationships on some level or another. is really about someone who is afraid of being caught by the hounds that are chasing him. The intro features a quote from a line spoken in the film Night Of The Demon by Maurice Denham. The song is about being afraid to fall in love in the song this feeling is compared to being chased by a pack of hounds.

Also released as the third single from the album on 24 February 1986. Originally released on her fifth studio album Hounds Of Love. Before getting to the tracks, here is some information from the Kate Bush Encyclopaedia: I would encourage people to buy the album on vinyl.

Everyone has their opinions as to which songs on Hounds of Love are superior. There is nothing even slightly weak on the album but, as some are better than others, I am deciding which are the very best. Regarded as Kate Bush’s finest album, I am ranking the tracks from it.

#Hounds of love series#

Of this seven/eight-edition series comes on to 1985’s Hounds of Love.