Kate Bush Deeper Understanding

From her 1989 album The Sensual World

Lyrics:

As the people here grow colder
I turn to my computer
And spend my evenings with it
Like a friend.

I was loading a new programme
I had ordered from a magazine:

"Are you lonely, are you lost?
This voice console is a must."
I press Execute.

"Hello, I know that you've been feeling tired.
I bring you love and deeper understanding.
Hello, I know that you're unhappy.
I bring you love and deeper understanding."

Well I've never felt such pleasure.
Nothing else seemed to matter.
I neglected my bodily needs.

I did not eat, I did not sleep,
The intensity increasing,
'Til my family found me and intervened.

But I was lonely, I was lost,
Without my little black box.
I pick up the phone and go, Execute.

"Hello, I know that you've been feeling tired.
I bring you love and deeper understanding.
Hello, I know that you're unhappy.
I bring you love and deeper understanding."

I turn to my computer like a friend.
I need deeper understanding.
Give me deeper understanding.

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[doubleder]

This song came out in 1989...but it speaks of obsessive computer addiction that many of us are guilty of these days. Speaking of which...I must check my facebook! "I turn to my computer...like a friend!"

[tipsydog3]

@TomModernMedia Wouldn't it be far more accurate to say that Digital Ghost sounds like this song given that Tori came after this brilliant artist and has admitted being influenced by Kate Bush?

[spectrelives]

@doubleder Have you heard the remake she did on Director's Cut (2011)? Hauntingly revamped.

[Sharpster7]

this is breathtaking. I got into this song from directors cut. I was too young to get into kate in the 80s and wow, why would she re-work this song? Was it just because she's playing it at her shows or something??

[Hausofdye]

Prefer the original to the one from Director's Cut. I don't like the new chorus sound..

[soundslikeblue]

@tapkae I think I understand your point. Well at least I feel something similar when it comes to some Classical music. I have some Old recordings (I'm remembering some Operas right now) that, even if recorded with basic technology, are some of the Best versions of those masterpieces for me. In some of them I also miss a bit more of Sound definition, but they have a magic atmosphere and creative interpretation. The essential is the artists' skills of course!

Thank you for answering! :)

[tapkae]

@tapkae ...that a bar band's instrumentation can't evoke. I think double drumming is great, and even double tracking bass has the power to make a track special. The fact is though, if you want a natural recording, then the way to do that is to have a badass ensemble and singer sing straight down one mic to the recorder. No multitrack. No overdubs. No editing. No compression or EQ. No mastering. No stereo, even. But as artistic as that can be, it isn't right for most artists. I dig rich mixes.

[tapkae]

@tapkae ...and even a symphony orchestra would sound rather unappealing if it were recorded in a "dry" room, or even if it was done with each instrument isolated on its own track. When I mix my stuff, I want to help make things seem they belong together. Even without using reverb, you can do that with compression which adds bigness. What a modern multitrack recording does is allow the composer to pretend she has an orchestra at her disposal to make a big sound to communicate an idea that a...

[tapkae]

@soundslikeblue Well, I have to say that the new version of Never Be Mine delights me just fine. And best of all, it doesn't displace the older one. But as a kid who grew up on the music of the 80s (though not all of it as nuanced as KB or Kershaw or other artists, I am used to enjoying a certain lushness of production. Some things, while close to the heart of the song, do not translate so well with less "big." Robert Fripp didn't add much to PG's 2nd album by ditching the sonic bigness.

[soundslikeblue]

@tapkae "Director's Cut" wasn't made to be some kind of a replacement for the original versions, but as a New Perspective about the concepts of those songs.

Kate still loves the originals, otherwise she could re-release the albuns re-working certain songs. (Other artists already did that)

Of course we are always free to compare, and in some cases I prefer the original version, But in other ones, like this song, I just started to listen more to the new version, I find it more heartfelt!

[tapkae]

@69umberlee I dig autotune in character but not enough to replace KB's timbre entirely. Miss the Trio. Dunno what KB was thinking. The new track sounds like she kept original parts and redid others. Two components don't sound like they fit well together. As far as the drums go, even if they were rerecorded in a more live space, there would be something of the power of the old mix. Fretless has more snarl than in jazz. Far louder in the mix. Adds male vocal-like color & antiphonal phrasing.