Kate Bush And Dream of Sheep + Under Ice

Hounds of Love is a 1985 album by the British singer Kate Bush. It was Bush's fifth studio album, and her second no.1. It has since been certified Double Platinum in the UK for sales of over 600,000 copies, making it her most successful studio album.

In 2002, Q Magazine named "Hounds of Love" the 3rd Greatest Album of All-Time by a Female Artist.


Despite being Bush's most successful album commercially, 1985's Hounds of Love is no less experimental from a production standpoint than its predecessors. Not only did she produce it herself, but for this album, stung by the huge costs she had run up hiring studio space for her previous album The Dreaming, she built a private 24 track studio near her home where she could work at her own pace.

The album is split into two sides, with the first side, "Hounds of Love", containing five "accessible" pop songs, including the four singles: "Running Up That Hill," "Cloudbusting," "Hounds of Love," and "The Big Sky". "Running Up That Hill" became one of her biggest hits in the UK, and re-introduced Bush to American listeners, receiving considerable airplay at the time of its release. The second side is entitled "The Ninth Wave", whose title is taken from a poem by Tennyson. As part of a concept, each track helps to convey the story of a woman who is lost at sea, facing death by drowning, and the tortured night she spends in the water. Bush uses samples and vocals played in reverse to synthesized sounds and folk instrumentation.

A 1997 re-release of the album included 6 bonus tracks: 12" mixes of "The Big Sky" and "Running Up That Hill", and the B-sides "Be Kind To My Mistakes" (which featured on the opening to the film "Castaway" starring Oliver Reed and Amanda Donohoe),[4] "Under The Ivy", "Burning Bridge" and "My Lagan Love".

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• hounds of love
• and dream of sheep
• under ice

[thegasworks]

Great song and wonderful video JD.

[77r4355]

THank u Frances :)

[DosDog]

and with what did you produce the visualization?

[arielterr]

my sweenite song.

[phoenixshade3]

The Ninth Wave (i.e., the second half of the Hounds of Love album) is incredible and haunting. If you haven't listened to it in a while, give it a spin some time when you are alone in a dark room... or better still, under the stars on a beach.

[duremikaina85]

"Wish I had my radio" childish and beautiful....

[TheGoodOldBoy]

This is just so beautiful