for me some of the singles on the album seem a bit muffled/muted sounding (and I'm not just referring to the inclusion of the 7" mix of Big Sky). Disjunctive, idiosyncratic and so very, very inventive, Kate Bush's 1985 magnum opus, "Hounds of Love", was the intentionally streamlined yet defiant response to complaints regarding her efficiency in the studio and detractors of the lyrical and structural esotericism inherent in her work. It is a perfectly good remix for the radio/single, but loses some of the impact of the original album version. In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases. centre gatefold (Kate, being hoisted by sea creatures, in her life jacket with flashing solar powered red LED light!

I’ve adored Kate for 45 years – and I love “Timorous Beasties” too – and the issue does look beautiful but I really cannot justify that kind of money on yet another version of “Hounds Of Love. All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Bush weaves intricate tapestries of sound and imagery with songs that span the range of all emotion, from the most intimate to the most frightening. Side B "The Ninth Wave" is a concept piece with all tracks segued into each other to appear as 'continuous audio'. Featuring "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)", it has since been certified Double Platinum in the UK by the British Phonographic Industry. Hounds of Love" arrived at a wonderfully opportune moment, and it was an easy sell: MTV were becoming inclusive of other genres and artists, and record labels more willing to spend vast sums on videos due to their established promotional advantages. Even under contemporaneous scrutiny, both parts, replete with layered electronic instrumentation, sound effects, and expressive yet refined vocal acrobatics, successfully cohere, and, if persevered with, the full measure still holds up and works incredibly well despite its ambitious structure.

Side 1, Big Sky has been changed, so it runs shorter I expect and fits on the remastered album better. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I've been a US lover of kate bush for years as a hippie dude(listening to David Gilmour lead to me wuthering heights, still one of my favorite songs of all time, that guitar outro!The title has received universal acclaim and has been enshrined into pop-culture history Q magazine readers voted Hounds of Love the 48th greatest album of all time, while two years later the same magazine placed it at number 20 in its list of the "100 Greatest British Albums Ever". The answer is no, it doesn't spoil or ruin the album as some people would have you believe and believe me it's in their heads if not the trees. The boxes are also accompanied on Kate’s updated site with an unboxing video which features a voiceover by Sir Ian McKellan! Her style and material has always been unique, eccentric even, but Hounds of Love is probably the strongest mix of controlled musical experimentation and lyrical expression.

Inside the gatefold is a LED light (“little light…shining”) which doesn’t require batteries since it’s powered via a solar panel on the rear of the product! Hounds Of Love remains the only Kate Bush studio album that has been expanded into any kind of ‘deluxe’ edition when in 1997 EMI issued a new CD edition as part of its Centenary celebrations with a modest six extra tracks.

It's her most accessible pop album but the dreaming is her best art and wuthering heights is one of the best songs of all time. Should it have been on a 2 vinyl set, perhaps a limited a run of 45 rpm would have been nice, but actually the sound is excellent and I don't really think you want four sides, it's a lot of flipping disks, especially side 2, as flipping half way would be intrusive to the ninth wave IMO.

Release Date: 21st December Kate Bush has overseen these meticulously produced represses of her back catalogue. As was promised earlier this year when Kate moved her distribution to The State51 Conspiracy, special presentations of Hounds of Love have just been announced on Kate’s newly re-launched official Fish People site.

It’s very exciting to see the resurgence of appreciation for the physical presence of albums released on vinyl. Hello my copy seems to have a press release large gatefold sleeve with a picture of the front cover of hounds of love with the text The Album hounds of love with a purple ribbon and a double sided purple A4 sheets. The 80s production sharp edges on drums etc have presumably been smoothed down a bit in remastering, more in keeping with the production of her later albums.