[AffipgyncDync]

Awesome! The video of Wuthering Heights (the white dress version) was what convinced me I needed to start listening to Kate. Those eyes!

But no, I probably wouldn't try to convert someone to Kate via her videos, speaking as an American.

[ergyuu]

One thing I noticed, she really liked spinning on one spot in her earlier videos.

[Catalogov]

AWESOME! I was planning to start a thread on Rank Your Video with poll but I didn't think it'd take! Mine:

1. Hounds of Love
2. Wedding List (the priest's reaction = priceless!)
3. Cloudbusting

If there were one singer I wish had really made visualettes for all her songs, it'd be Kate. Get Out of My House and Waking the Witch would've been so phenomenal.

ooh, if we're including performances from the Xmas special and other stuff, then I'm going to have a tough time picking favorites. I will say that Them Heavy People, both the video and the Xmas version, is as iconic as Wuthering Heights and Babooshka to me. I love the intentional comedy of that whole routine.

[astefecyAvevy]

I have never seen the Delius one! Awesome.

[GrileVege]

When my stepdaughter was little I played her some Kate videos and she didn't think they were stupid, she thought they were scary.

I'm of the opinion that Kate's performances are (as you say, Jim) integral to her music. Army Dreamers used to be my favorite but now I like Cloudbusting better I think, and maybe The Sensual World.

Even the little things like the gestures she does to accompany "you crush the lily in my soul" in the Hammersmith Odeon video version of Moving are still magical to me.

[Andromino]

Some of her videos are older than MTV - and the development of the pop promo into music videos as we know them was only really happening over the course of the 70's and really exploded in the 80's with the arrival of MTV in the USA, following on from TOTP and other shows that showed pop promos increasingly more often.

But Kate is interesting, as she was merging theatre, dance and full costume ideas for each video - not simply just showcasing the band. Other acts were doing similar things, but not with the same visual language that Kate was doing in the early days. Of course, she was over-run and passed by in the late 80's, but her videos from HOL era are wonderful, and the best she's ever done in my opinion.

Though, I would like to see her work with other directors and not self-direct these days. I think the visual language of music videos has really surpassed whatever visual creative talent she has. She's definitely a better music creator than video artist since the late 80's, in my opinion.

[gambleingsites]

I agree with your analysis. It's spot on.

[Rurcextedutty]

I remember watching the Whole Story vhs tape once with a friend of mine, and we got to the "Sat in Your Lap" video. She never saw a "dunce" hat before and was like.. "why is there kkk members on roller skates?".

[AdipexAdipex]

Well, awesome, of course! Kate's videos are a treasure trove of happiness for me. Hand in hand with the discovery of the albums came the videos, and there are few I dislike. We can go from the simplistic early videos showcasing a remarkable talent for performance, technical genius and a fabulous, funny, camp sensibility. The cinematic 80s, the pinnacle of which for me is the magnificent Experiment IV. The 90s, consisting largely of just the videos that make up The Line, the Cross and the Curve. I'm fond of it, and think Kate does rather well on what is clearly a very stretched budget. Bringing things up to date, I like King of the Mountain, I couldn't help but be happy to see Kate in a video again after so long, and, whilst there was such a long gap, it still manages to have that intrinsic feel of a Kate Bush video. Deeper Understanding I'm less fond of. Here's hoping for that long overdue DVD collection (ideally with the delicious Kate Show as a much-deserved extra feature). After enduring the wilderness years I am over the moon to have an active, busy Kate Bush once again, giving us two albums in one year (not happened since 1978, that), actually going to collect an award, and now releasing a great new version of RUTH. That she has put music at the top of the priorities list is great, but I do hope that she'll dip a toe back into visual media once again. As a previous poster suggested, perhaps working with alternative video producers - if this could get Kate back in front of the camera, I'd be the first to applaud.

Gareth

[yurawerj]

I find the RUTH video to be a great, classy homage to Dance in Video.

[mikefertynnz]

I've always found them very enjoyable. And they never do anything (the ones I've seen anyway) that detracts from the music, but at the same time are rather hypnotic to watch. It must be quite hard to get that kind of balance.

And Cloudbusting in particular I think accentuates the emotional response from the song.

I recently saw the Suspended In Gaffa video and thought it was hilarious - she looked like she was having so much fun, and so free-spirited

[Catalogov]

I think the Sat in Your Lap video is probably her worst. The dunce cap itself should be easy to recognize, but when you've got the dancers in white masks dressed in all white, it really does look like she's dancing with Klansmen. I can't explain why this is unappealing to me, it just...IS. Also, the jesters popping up and the cartoon dunce cap guys... it's just too corny, even by her standards.

[mikefertynnz]

I think the Sat in Your Lap video is probably her worst. The dunce cap itself should be easy to recognize, but when you've got the dancers in white masks dressed in all white, it really does look like she's dancing with Klansmen. I can't explain why this is unappealing to me, it just...IS. Also, the jesters popping up and the cartoon dunce cap guys... it's just too corny, even by her standards.

That video makes seense when you realise what it really is. Illuminati!!! The ritualistic element of the "Klansmen" flanking the virginal white-frocked Kate, the horned "bulls" (which really represent the devil) a close up of an eye (the all-seeing eye), a formation into an inverted pentagram...

Evil stuff.












Only kidding xD Been watching too many of those "Illuminati Symbolism" youtube videos

[AnypecekceS]

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment...-1226031904466



REBECCA Black's global humiliation with her debut song Friday is a reminder that, thanks to the internet and sites like YouTube, embarrassing musical follies don't easily go away.
With a few notable exceptions before MTV, music clips were basically four people from a band standing on a stage looking at a camera - often with bored and confused expressions and limp hand actions.

Then in the '80s a new awareness of the power of the visual medium swept the music industry leading to increasingly elaborate videos - think Michael Jackson's Thriller or Madonna's Express Yourself.
Today stars like Lady Gaga and Rihanna are known for their clips as much as their music.

To celebrate three decades of video hits and misses, News.com.au has compiled some of our favourite "so bad they're good (or perhaps just bad)" clips. We challenge you to find worse and tell us below with a comment.

Kate Bush: Sat in Your Lap, 1981 - From the "she's gone mad album" The Dreaming
There’s "out there" and then there’s this. Kate Bush is undoubtedly a talented and intriguing artist, yet that does not excuse this video. How she got funding to shoot herself dancing with minotaurs and what look like members of the Ku Klux Clan (they are supposed to be dunces) is just another one of the many mysteries surrounding this woman. Despite her bizarre interpretative dancing and the fact most of the cast are on roller skates this somehow managed to peak at no. 11 on the UK Singles Chart.

[QHdy5Z3A]

Since this threads been boosted; what are people's thoughts on the '50 Words for Snow' animations? I think they work spectacularly well, particularly the Lake Tahoe shadow puppetry. Early in this thread, ebby expressed a wish that she collaborate with other artists and directors, but I never would have imagined that she'd be dabbling in claymation and the like. I think they are great mini-films, even though I wouldn't call them 'music videos' per se.

[Ijkavylo]

I agree the animatuettes are brilliant, though I wish she'd done at least one complete song.

I can't believe this thread title even exists as a question really, but I can see where it's coming from, people are so conservative now. I only just read the moronic article above, good god music journalists really can all DIAF. It's sad that smug lovers of blandness like this have succeeded in killing the mainstream music video, you hardly ever see anything other than people getting down on da flurr if there's a beat or dreary posing if there isn't. Unthinkable for any kind of dance that isn't urban street inspired to get a look in in a big video. Bland bland bland, even when humping a crucifix.

That writer's genuinely too* stupid to grasp the word in the final sentence should be "because", not "despite". Even people too up themselves to enjoy Kate's videos were talking about them. *amputate! amputate!*


ETA:*Haha I spelt "to stupid" wrong. Muphry's Law in action.

[indianstory]

I love all of her videos, even the silly ones. Hammer Horror is my fave. She looks fabulous and I love the dance moves.