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Kate Bush: The whole story

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s

Artist: Kate Bush
Title: The whole story
Released: 1986
Label: EMI Records
Time: 48:55
Producer(s): Kate Bush, Ion Kelly, Andrew Powell
Appears with:
Category: Pop/Rock
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  1998.01.02
Price in €: 14,46
Web address: www.katebush.com

 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Wuthering Heights (Bush) - 4:57
[2] Cloudbusting (Bush) - 5:09
[3] Man with the Child in His Eyes (Bush) - 2:38
[4] Breathing (Bush) - 5:28
[5] Wow (Bush) - 3:46
[6] Hounds of Love (Bush) - 3:02
[7] Running up That Hill (Bush) - 5:00
[8] Army Dreamers (Bush) - 3:13
[9] Sat in Your Lap (Bush) - 3:29
[10] Experiment IV (Bush) - 4:21
[11] Dreaming (Bush) - 4:14
[12] Babooshka (Bush) - 3:29
 

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


KATE BUSH - Piano, Keyboards, Vocals

DAVID KRANTZ - Orchestral contratcor
STUART ELLIOT - Drums
DAVID PATTON - Bass
ALAN PARKER - Organ
PAUL KEOGH - Guitars
IAN BRAINSON - Guitars
ALAN SKIDMORE - Saxophone

JOHN CARDER BUSH - Photography
IAN COOPER - Cut
ANTHONY YACOMINE - Hair Stylist
SUE ADAMS - Make-Up
 

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1986 CD EMI America E2-46414
1986 CD EMI America CDP7464142
1986 CS EMI 17242
1986 CS EMI America E4-46414

This is a best of Kate Bush compilation 1978 -1986. "Woundering heighs" reached 1978 no. 1 of charts.

THE WHOLE STORY is a sampler of the early tracks that show the promise of Kate Bush, who never contented herself as an ordinary singer/songwriter. The always-experimental Bush hada knack for populating her songs with peculiar characters. There's Catherine of "Wuthering Heights"; there's Peter Reich of "Cloudbusting" (an extraordinary track in every way); there's the mother in the lilting "Army Dreamers"; and there's also the womb-confined baby who documents a nuclear blast in the moving "Breathing".
Bush also looks to eclectic sources for inspiration. "The Dreaming" was inspired by Rolf Harris's "Sun Arise" and the Aboriginal song "Aeroplanes, Aeroplanes". "Hounds of Love" took its inspiration from the film "Night of the Demon". This compilation covers the first decade of Kate Bush's career (until 1986) and is a great place for discovering her myriad talents. Many have followed in her footsteps, but few have matched her.



Kate Bush's first best-of, The Whole Story, is an excellent compilation/overview, encompassing all her best-known songs (including "Wuthering Heights" with an improved, re-recorded vocal track) up through the major tracks off of Hounds of Love and her follow-up single, the haunting and dramatic "Experiment IV."

Bruce Eder, All-Music Guide



Schon nach Veröffentlichung des ersten Albums The Kick Inside der damals (1978) gerade mal 19-jährigen Kate Bush aus der englischen Grafschaft Kent waren die Kritiker wie selten zuvor einhellig begeistert. Doch dieses Monster-Album des introvertierten Teenagers mit der originären, zwischen Hysterie und Heiligkeit pendelnden Fünf-Oktaven-Stimme, war alles andere als eine Eintagsfliege. Der Nachfolger Lionheart klang zwar noch wie ein müder Aufguss des Debüts, doch Meisterwerke III und IV, Never For Ever bzw. The Dreaming, waren Meilensteine ihrer Art. Zum einen gab's da diese so unorthodoxe wie beeindruckende Kombination aus Pop und Folk, Theater und Rock, als Dreingabe noch rätselhaft-mystische Texte, die sich im Spannungsfeld zwischen Fantasy, Spiritualität, Erotik und Sensibilität bewegten. Auf der Anthologie The Whole Story, erschienen 1986, sind die zwölf Highlights aus der ersten Dekade der genialen Songwriterin vertreten -- moderne Klassiker wie "The Man With the Child In His Eyes", "Running Up That Hill", "Sat In Your Lap", "Babooshka" oder "Wuthering Heights". Schade, dass es seitdem so verdammt ruhig um das Wunderkind von einst geworden ist. Gegen einen ordentlichen Nachschlag aus der artifiziellen Rock-Ecke hätte sicher niemand etwas einzuwenden.

Michael Fuchs-Gamböck, Amazon.de

 L y r i c s


Wuthering Heights

Out on the wiley, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper, like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me?
When I needed to possess you
I hated you, I loved you too

Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights.

(Chorus)
Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy come home
I'm so cold, let me in-a-your window

Oh it gets dark, it gets lonely
On the other side from you
I pine alot, I find the lot
Falls through without you
I'm coming back love, cruel Heathcliff
My only one dream, my only master

Too long I roam in the night
I'm coming back to his side to put it right
I'm coming home to wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights                        (Chorus)

Oh let me have it, let me grab your soul away
Oh let me have it, let me grab your soul away
You know it's me, Cathy                  (Chorus)


Cloudbusting

I still dream of Organon.
I wake up crying.
You're making rain
And you're just in reach
When you and sleep escape me

You're like my yo-yo
That glowed in the dark

What made it special
Made it dangerous
So I bury it and forget.

Everytime it rains,
you're here in my head
Like the sun coming out -
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.

On top of the world
Looking over the edge
You could see them coming
You looked too small
In their big black car
To be a threat to the men in power.

I hid my yo-yo in the garden

I can't hide you from the government
Oh God, daddy - I won't forget

Your son's coming out


The Man With the Child in his Eyes

I hear him before I go to sleep
And focus on the day that's been
I realise he's there when I turn the light off
And turn over
Nobody knows about my man
They think he's lost on some horizon
And suddenly I find myself
Listening to a man I've never known before
Telling me about the sea
All his love, 'till eternity

(Chorus)
Ooh, he's here again-
The man with the child in his eyes

He's very understanding
And he's so aware of all my situations
And when I stay up late
He's always waiting
But I feel him hesitate
Oh, I'm so worried about my love
They say "No, no, it won't last forever"
And here I am again my girl
Wondering what on earth I'm doing here
Maybe he doesn't love me
I just took a trip on my love for him

(Chorus)


Breathing

Outside gets inside, Through her skin,
I've been out before
But this time it's much safer in.
Last night, in the sky,
Such a bright light.
My radar send me danger
But my instincts tell me to
Keep Breathing

Chorus
Breathing
Breathing my mother in,
Breathing, my beloved in,
Breathing, Breathing her nicotine, breathing
Breathing the fall out-in, out-in, out-in, out-in, out-in.

We've lost our chance, we're the first and last,
After the blast,
Chips of Plutonium are twinkling in every lung.
I love my beloved.
All and everywhere,
Only the fools blew it,
You and me knew life itself is breathing.

Chorus

What are we going to do without
Ooh, please, let me breathe,
Quick, breath in deep,
Leave us something to breathe,
Ooh, Life is-
Breathing.


WOW

We're all alone on the stage tonight,
We've been told we're not afraid of you,
We know all our lines so well, ah-ha,
We've said them so many times,
Time and time again,
Line and line again.

Ooh yeah, you're amazing,
We think you're incredible,
You say we're fantastic,
But stillwe don't head the bill,

Chorus WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW,
       Unbeliecable.

When the actor reaches his death,
You know it's not for real, he just golds his breath,
But he always dives too soon, too fast to save himself,

He'll never make the screen,
He'll never make "The Sweeney",
Be that movie queen,
He's too busy hitting the vaseline.

Ooh yeah you're amazing,
We think you are really cool,
We'd give you a part my love,
But you'd have to play the fool.

Chorus


Hounds Of Love

When I was a child
Running in the night
Afraid of what might be
Hiding in the dark
Hiding in the street
And of what was following me
Now hounds of love are hunting
I've always been a coward
And I don't know what's good for me
Here I go
It's coming for me thro' the trees
Help me someone, help me please
Take my shoes off and throw them in the lake.
And I'll be 2 steps on the water.
I found a fox caught by dogs
He let me take him in my hands
His little heart beats so fast
And I'm ashamed of running away,
From nothing real, I just can't deal with this
But I'm still afraid to be there,
Among your hounds of love.
And feel yours arms surround me
I've always been a coward
And never know what's good for me.
Here I go - Don't let me go - Hold me down
It's coming for me through the trees
Help me darling, help me please
Take my shores off and throw them in the lake
And I'll be two steps on the water
I don't know what's good for me,
I don't know what's good for me,
I need love, love, love, love, yeah -
your love.
Take your shoes off and throw them in the lake,
Do you know what I really need
Do you know what I really need
I need love, love, love, love.....


Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

It doesn't hurt me
Do you want to feel how it feels
Do you want to know, know that it doesn't hurt me
Do you want to hear 'bout the deal that I'm making
You, you and me,

CHORUS

And if I only could
I'd make a deal with God
And I'd get him to swap our places
Be running up that road
Be running up that hill
Be running up that building
If I only could oh...

You don't want to hurt me
But see how deep the bullet lies
Unaware I'm tearing you asunder
Ooh there is thunder in our hearts
Is there so much hate for the ones we love
'Tell me we both matter don't we
You
You and me
You and me won't be unhappy

And if I only could
I'd make a deal with god
And I'd get him to swap our places
Be running up that road
Be running up that hill
Be running up that building
If I only could oh...

You
You and me
You and me won't be unhappy
C'mon baby c'mon darlin'
Let me steal this moment from you now
Cone on angel, c'mon, c'mon darling
Let's exchange the experience oh,

And if I only could
I'd make a deal with God
And I'd get him to swap our places
Be running up that road
Be running up that hill
With no ploblems.

And if I only could
I'd make a deal with God
And I'd get him to swap our places
Be running up that road
Be running up that hill
With no ploblems.

And if I only could
I'd make a deal with God
And I'd get him to swap our places
Be running up that road
Be running up that hill
With no ploblems.

And if I only could
Be running up that hill
With no problems.


Army Dreamers

Our little Army Boy,
Is coming home from B.F.P.O.
I've a bunch of purple flowers
To decorate a mammy's hero.
Mourning in the aerodrome,
The weather warmer, he is colder,
Four men in uniform to carry home
My little soldier.

Chorus
What could he do? Should have been a rock star.
But he didn't have the money for a guitar.
What could he do? Should have been a politician,
But he never had a proper education.
What could he do? Should have been a father,
But he didn't even make it to his twenties.
What a waste,
Army Dreamers.

Tears o'er a tin box.
Oh Jesus Christ, he wasn't to know,
Like a chicken with a fox,
He cannot win the war with ego.
Give the kid the pick of pips,
And give him all your stripes and ribbons,
Now he's sitting in his hole,
He might as well have buttons and bows.

Chorus


Sat in Your Lap

I see the people working and see it working for them,
And so I want to join in, but then I find it hurts me.
Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
Some say that knowledge is something that you never have
I see the people happy, so can it happen for me?
'Cos when I have no energy, there's nothing that can move me
Some say that knowledge is something that you never have
Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
Some say that heaven is hell, some say that hell is heaven.
I must admit, just when I think I'm king (I just begin)
Just when I think I'm king, I must admit (I just begin)
Just when I think I'm king
(I just begin)
I've been doing it for years, my goal is moving near
It says "Look I'm over here" then it up and disappears
Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
Some say that knowledge is ho ho ho
I want to be a lawyer, I want to be a scholar
But I really can't be bothered, ooh just
Gimme it quick, gimme it, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Some say that knowledge is ho ho ho
Some say that knowledge is ho ho ho
Some say that heaven is hell, some say that hell is heaven
I must admit, just when I think I'm king (I just begin)
Just when I think I'm king, I must admit (I just begin)
Just when I think everything's going great (I just begin)
Hey I get the break
Hey I'm gonna take it all (I just begin)
When I'm king (just begin)
In my dome of ivory, a home of activity
I want the answers quickly, but I don't have no energy
I hold a cup of wisdom, but there is nothing within
My cup she never overfloweth and 'tis I that moan and groaneth
Some grey and white matter (give me the Karma Mama
A jet to Mecca, Tibet or Jeddah
To Salisbury, a monastery
The longest journey, across the desert
Across the weather, across the elements
Across the water)


Experiment IV

We were working secretly for the military
Our experiment in sound was nearly ready to begin
We only know in theory what we are doing
Music made for pleasure, music made to thrill
It was music we were making here until

(chorus)
They told us all they wanted
Was a sound that could kill someone from a distance
So we go ahead and the meters are over in the red
It's a mistake in the making

From the painful cries of mothers to a terrifying scream
We recorded it and put it into our machine

(chorus)

It could feel like falling in love
It could feel so bad
It could feel so good
It could sing you to sleep
But that dream is your enemy!!

We won't be there to be blamed
We won't be there to snitch
I just pray that someone there can hit the switch

(chorus)

And the public are warned to stay off.........


The Dreaming

``Bang'' goes another Kanga
On the bonnet of the van
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land)
Many an Aborigine's mistaken for a tree
'Til you near him on the motorway
The tree begin to breathe
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land)

Coming in with the golden light in the morning
Coming in with the golden light is the New Man
Coming in with the golden light in my dented van
        Woomera

CHORUS:
        DRE - A - M - T - I - ME

The civilised keep alive the territorial war
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land)
Erase the race that claim the place
And say we dig for Ore
Or dangle Devils in a bottle
And push them from the Pull Of The Bush
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land)
You find them in the road
(See the light bounce off the rocks to the sand)
In the road

Coming in with the golden light - in the morning
Coming in with the golden light - with no warning
Coming in with the golden light - we bring in the rigging
        Dig, dig, dig away

CHORUS

M-M-Many an Aborigine's mistaken for a tree
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land)
You near him on the motorway, the tree begin to breathe
Erase the race that claim the place and say we dig for Ore
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land)
Dangle Devils in a bottle and push them from the Pull Of The Bush
(See the sun set in the hand of the man)
``Bang'' goes another Kanga on the bonnet of the van
(See the light ram through the gaps in the land)
You find them in the road
In the road
(See the light)
Pull of the Bush
(See the light bounce off the rocks to the sand)
Push them from the - Pull of the Bush
See the sun set in the hand of the man


Babooshka

She wanted to test her husband,
She new exactly what to do,
A pseudonym to fool him,
She couldn't have made a worse move.
She sent him scented letters,
And he recieved them with a strange delight,
Just like his wife.
But how she was before the tears,
And how she was before the years flew by,
And how she was when she was beautiful.
She signed the letter:

Chorus
All yours, Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya

She wanted to take it further,
So she arranged a place to go,
Too see if he,
Would fall for her incognito.
 And when he laid eyes on her,
 He got the feelings they had met before,
Uncanny how she
Reminds him of his little lady,
Capacity to give him all he needs,
Just like his wife before she freezed on him,
Just like his wife when she was beautiful,
He shouted, I'm...

Chorus
 

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