Since I'm listening to her classic 'Hounds of Love' for the first time I decided to start a thread. Any fans? My introduction to her was her work with Peter Gabriel.

Have to say I'm loving the second half of the album, surpisingly unique

"The Man with The Child in his Eyes" is one of the best songs ever written IMO.

The latest album was pretty good as well, songs about washing machines, Pi and Rolf Harris!

Yep, another fan here, my other half has a couple of her early albums on ye olde cassette tape, although they're almost 30 years old and the tape's nearly worn out, so we don't play them any more. 'Hounds Of Love' is a classic, I have 'Aerial' (her latest album) but haven't listened to it much - in fact, I think I'll give it a spin in a minute!

'Surprisingly unique' is right, I can't think of anybody quite like Kate.

Isn't Guy a big fan too? I think he's mentioned it on his 6 Music show.

Hey that's cool! I love it when artists I like.. like other artists I like. Eh? Seems to me that Kate Bush deserves my attention so I'm gonna dig a bit deeper into her catalogue.

I love Kate Bush. Have been a fan since Wuthering Heights came out. I was ill in bed with chicken pox and reading Lord Of The Rings when it was released. Hearing that song always reminds of that time.
I love the song sequence of The Ninth Wave (side 2 of Hounds of Love). Definitely unique. It's about a woman drowning out at sea , if you didn't know

My other favourite stuff is Never for Ever where she first started experimenting with sound, and The Dreaming. She described The Dreaming as her 'bonkers' album and I remember it being panned at the time. I loved it then and I still do. I believe it's now regarded as something of a classic. Lionheart is a typical 'difficult second album'. It was rushed and is my least favourite album. The Red Shoes is overly long and a bit patchy. Other than that, fill your boots.

I love Kate Bush, too. It's weird, actually, she was one of those "institutions" when I was growing up and hearing people who've never heard her would make me feel really old if I bothered about that sort of thing.
However, I remember when Wuthering Heights came out it drove me mad - I hated it. But a friend bullied me with the Kick Inside album for ages, and I thought the music and lyrics were so good I had to get used to her voice. Which I did and have loved her ever since. It's great to hear someone loving the Dreaming - so do I; I love it's weirdness and could never understand why it was hated so much - it's great when an artist develops from album to album and isn't afraid to experiment. My personal favourites are Hounds of Love and The Sensual World, where she works with the amazing Trio Bulgarka singers.
As an aside I've always enjoyed the contribution from her brother, Paddy Bush, and wondered why he isn't better known as a musician - then I recently tracked down an album "Skyscraping" he made as Bushtucker with Colin Lloyd Tucker which is a lovely album.

....Not a fan.... in fact, with the exception of a few songs, she annoys the living daylights out of me...perhaps now would be a good time to run and hide from y'all, before you start throwing rotten vegetables in my general direction.

No problem, judging from my early opinion/experience I'd have no room to talk.

I like a lot of Kate Bush's music but not all of it. I found a version of Kate and Peter Gabriel singing Roy Harper's "Another Day" a couple of weeks ago on youtube and it was magical.

You mean this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKAOu37oMkM

Thanks for telling me about it! Never seen or heard of it before, amazing. Back when they were both a lot thinner

Mind you I can talk...

That's the one! They look so young

Thanks for that. One I'd never seen or heard of before. That was fabulous.

I really like Kate Bush. She is so special.
And I think, that duet with Gabriel is so heartrending beautiful that I don't want to know the original somehow...
btw, Guy Garvey likes her too, he said he feels like she could be some kind of a elder sister for him.

Memory lane... I saw that TV show in '79 and the Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel duet haunted me ever since (it was in the days before we had a VCR even) - especially when a friend introduced me to some Roy Harer albums a few years later & I recognised the song immediately! I tracked down a dodgy DVD of it (the Kate Bush prog) a few years ago, and it's since become widely available on YouTube, thank goodness. :-) TL, you really should hear the Roy Harper version; it's gorgeous, but in a different way of course (but then I've been a big Roy Harper fan for many years).

OOOO another Roy Harper fan! I think he is so underated, and his version is just as you say. Have not heard any of his new stuff tho, is it any good? Stormcock is an excellent album.