Her videos are fantastic. 'Wow' is one of my favorites, it's so sparse and yet it's impossible look away.
I think that there's a lot of deliberate camp in her videos/performances that some people don't get.

AWESOME!!!!! I mean, they are completely ridiculous but that's what makes them so brilliant! Who else would twirl through a wood at sunset in a giant long-sleeved plum gown with a matching reverse trapezoid hat and veil? Who else would do interpretative dance/mime in a red elf dress and color coordinated elf shoes? Who else could pull off a rollerskating/laser dance sequence in a clown outfit and dunce cap? Kate Bush is a CAMPY GENIUS. Also, the 1979 BBC Christmas Special is a TROVE of splendiforously LOLlarious performances: Violin! The Wedding List! EGYPT!!!

Ultimately, the videos work because of her strong performances and utter dedication to embodying whatever character she is being at that moment.

Definitely awesome. Anyone who doesn't understand that they are supposed to be campy and theatrical is dumb as shit.

My first exposure to a Kate Bush video was on an Alaska Airlines flight between Seattle and Anchorage. I rented one of their "Dig-E-Players", these little video devices with movies, TV shows, and music videos. One of the music videos on there was Wuthering Heights...and having been a marginal fan of Kate's for quite a while (I had only listened to Hounds of Love at that point), I checked it out.

I seriously had to bite the inside of my cheek to keep from busting out laughing the whole time on a full flight. LOVE IT.

I love all of her videos, actually. They all capture something unique and different and weirdly wonderful.

The red dress video single-handedly won myself and several friends over as a fan.

Some are shit, some are great. I'd say all videos since 1989 have been more or less shit, with KOTM and Deeper Understanding being a huge pile of steaming shit. But her 1980 - 1985 videos are great. The 1970's videos are also interesting in their own naive way.

I love the Rubberband Girl video! The dude who's dancing Kate around like a puppet is totally fuckable. Just sayin'.

Most have not aged well. That's the main problem.

The Sensual World video feels like an archetypal example of video aesthetics.

I don't really see how most of them could age badly given that they are just Kate singing and dancing on very simple stage sets. What's there to date them? The costumes?

But anyway... where is this from?! I want HQ!!

That's from the Dr. Hook Special, which aired on BBC2 in the UK on April 7, 1980. The Delius performance was also re-broadcast later that year on a documentary about Delius

(Also shown November 25, 1980 as part of a programme about the composer Frederick Delius from the U.K. TV series The Russell Harty Show) This video, which was never included among Kate's commercial video packages, was made very quickly but after careful preparation (see Paddy Bush's reminiscences about the shoot in an issue of the Newsletter). The setting is a quiet, lazy English riverbank filled with reeds and grass. By the bank is a wheelchair-ridden old man, his body covered by a throw-rug, his head obscured by a large yellow disk resembling a sun. This figure presents an image of Delius much like the one which was depicted in a BBC television film about Delius's late years which was directed by Ken Russell in the early 1970s and which had greatly impressed Kate as a child. Gliding along on the river is a young swan-girl, represented by Kate in a gossamer white gown with wings. The imagery for this performance might nearly as well have served to illustrate Kate's cover version of Donovan's Lord of the Reedy River, as well, so compatible is the imagery. (No video was ever made for the Donovan song.) Also note the re-use of the sun-mask in a scene from the Breathing video.

I haven't seen her videos in a long time, but I always think of Cloudbusting. Cinematic. (Loved Kate's boyish haircut)

Kate's videos - awesome or shit?
 

I discovered Kate when I was in my teens. I used to adore her videos, her dancing, costumes, etc, and I figured every who loved Kate probably felt the way I did - the performances are integral to the music. But more often than ever now, I run into fans who just can't tolerate her music videos!! And before that, I also thought her videos were a great way to introduce people to Kate's music - omg, SO WRONG!! Everyone just laughs at them... and while a lot of her videos are, I think, supposed to be campy and funny, these people laugh because they think it's stupid. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/frown.gif

Is it just an American thing? I feel like I "get it" but other people don't.

Awesome! Especially Babooshka, Hounds of Love and Sat in Your Lap. Some of them are a bit shit, like Suspended in Gaffa (and Deeper Understanding!)

AWESOME. Hounds of Love is my favorite music video. And Suspended in Gaffa, which I only saw very recently, is just FANTASTIC. Especially the little "crying" thing she does. safofkdsf. Someone needs to make a GIF of that, by the way.

Some of them I haven't seen in so long. But I always loved the thing she did with her eyes in time with the music on "Army Dreamers," the flaily arms and all-around WTF amazingness of "Sat In Your Lap," and then "Babooshka" and "Wuthering Heights" (both versions, red dress in field and white dress in studio) are so incredibly iconic (and I think a big part of how people remember her, in the UK anyway.)

Definitely, you really need to 'get' what she was trying to do with them. I don't know if that's perhaps partially a British thing where so much of our pop culture is camp and eccentric and a bit bewildering. Even something completely simple like the Wuthering Heights video (or hell, even that song) - I can understand why somebody would be completely baffled by it, but as menju says it is considered a very iconic and watershed piece of work in the UK.

It could very well be a cultural/regional thing. A lot of my friends don't "get" Kate just like they don't "get" Mighty Boosh or Monty Python or whatever.

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.