The Universe and Me

Sunday, October 02, 2005

She's here! she's here!

Although the release date is supposed to be October 24th, Radio 2 has been playing the new Kate Bush single, “King of the Mountain.” Her new album Aerial is to be released November 7th and while that’s quite a wait, we’ve all been waiting twelve years for something new from her, so I guess I can wait another month. The music world sure needs her return. Especially since a few weeks ago Gunnhild from Gåte announced her band is “on a break” for an indeterminate time as she wants to do something else. Excuse me for being selfish, but someone that talented shouldn’t be doing anything else. Back to Kate, the Bronte sister’s nightmare with the windmilling arms. I first saw her performing in 1977 (also a November 7th, the internet tells me) on Saturday Night Live and went “what the huh?” The song was the gorgeous “The Man with the Child in his Eyes” whose lyrics ended up haunting me to this day. Of course lame American radio wouldn’t play her music, so it wasn’t until Canadian radio started playing singles from Hounds of Love that I became a true fan. Early reviews of Aerial are excellent: “a melodic, organic sprawl of wind, sea, seasons, time passing, dreams, secrecy and revelation” with the words astonishing and masterpiece also being thrown around. Now if we could just convince Harriet Wheeler to release something!

1 Comments:

  • At 7:51 AM, October 06, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Looks like "King of the Mountain" is about Orson Welles.
    Lyrics:

    Could you see the aisles of women?
    Could you see them screaming and weeping?
    Could you see the storm rising?
    Could you see the guy who was driving?
    Could you climb higher and higher?
    Could you climb right over the top?
    Why does a multi-millionaire
    Fill up his home with priceless junk?

    The wind is whistling
    The wind is whistling
    Through the house

    Elvis are you out there somewhere
    Looking like a happy man?
    In the snow with Rosebud
    And king of the mountain

    Another Hollywood waitress
    Is telling us she´s having your baby
    And there´s a rumour that you´re on ice
    And you will rise again someday
    And that there´s a photograph
    Where you´re dancing on your grave

    The wind is whistling
    The wind is whistling
    Through the house

    Elvis are you out there somewhere
    Looking like a happy man?
    In the snow with Rosebud
    And king of the mountain

    The wind it blows
    The wind it blows the door closed

     

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