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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!!!
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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.)
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I feel like I "get it" but other people don't. |
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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. |
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