Hounds of Love
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| Hounds of Love | ||
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| Studio album by Kate Bush | ||
| Released | 20 September 1985 | |
| Recorded | 1984 | |
| Genre | Art Rock, Pop Rock | |
| Length | 47:33 | |
| Label | EMI | |
| Producer(s) | Kate Bush | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Kate Bush chronology | ||
| The Dreaming (1982) |
Hounds of Love (1985) |
The Whole Story (1986) |
Hounds of Love is a 1985 album by Kate Bush. It is regarded as one of her most accessible albums by critics and fans alike. After self-producing The Dreaming, Bush went one step further with this album by producing it herself at her own custom built home studio. The album marked her breakthrough into the American charts with the Top 40 hit "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)". The album also yielded a set of videos, the most famous of which is "Cloudbusting", directed by Julian Doyle, co-starring movie star Donald Sutherland and inspired by the life of psychologist Wilhelm Reich.
The second half of the album (tracks 6 through 12) consists of a single long suite, The Ninth Wave.
The 1997 edition, which was released in commemoration of the first one hundred years of the EMI record company, featured six bonus tracks that had originally been released as b-sides to the four singles taken from the album.
In 1998, Q magazine readers voted Hounds of Love the 48th greatest album of all time, while in 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 20 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In January 2006, NME named it the 41st best British album of all time. The 19th edition of British Hit Singles & Albums, published by Guinness in May 2006, included a list of the Top 100 albums of all time, as voted by readers of the book and NME readers, which placed Hounds of Love at Number 70.
In February of 2005, the British band The Futureheads released their cover version of the song "Hounds of Love" as a single; it reached number 8 on the UK singles chart and was named by NME as the best song of 2005.
Swedish techno artist The Field sampled "Under Ice" extensively for his song "Over the Ice".
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Kate Bush.
- "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" – 5:03
- "Hounds of Love" – 3:02
- "The Big Sky" – 4:41
- "Mother Stands for Comfort" – 3:07
- "Cloudbusting" – 5:10
- "And Dream of Sheep" – 2:45
- "Under Ice" – 2:21
- "Waking the Witch" – 4:18
- "Watching You Without Me" – 4:06
- "Jig of Life" – 4:04)
- "Hello Earth" – 6:13
- "The Morning Fog" – 2:34
[edit] Bonus tracks (1997 EMI edition)
- "The Big Sky (Meteorological Mix)" (1986) – 7:44
- "Running Up That Hill (12" Mix)" – 5:45
- "Be Kind to My Mistakes" (1989) – 3:00
- "Under the Ivy" (b-side to "Running Up That Hill" 7") – 2:08
- "Burning Bridge" (b-side to "Cloudbusting" 7") – 4:38
- "My Lagan Love" (b-side to "Cloudbusting 12"") – 2:30
[edit] Personnel
- Kate Bush – vocals, Fairlight CMI, piano
- Stuart Elliott – drums on 1 2 4 5 9 10 11
- Del Palmer – bass on 1 10, handclapping on 3, backing vocals on 5, Fairlight bass on 8, Linn programming
- Alan Murphy – guitar on 1 3 8
- Paddy Bush – violins on 12, balalaika on 1, backing vocals on 5, didjeridu on 3, harmonic vocals on 7, fujara on 12
- Charlie Morgan – drums on 2 3 5 8 10, handclapping on 3
[edit] Additional personnel
- Jonathan Williams – cello on 2
- Youth – bass on 3
- Morris Pert – percussion on 3
- Eberhard Weber – bass on 4 11
- The Medici Sextet – strings on 5
- Dave Lawson – string arrangements on 5
- Brian Bath – backing vocals on 5, guitar on 11
- John Carder Bush – backing vocals on 5, narration on 10
- Donal Lunny – bouzouki on 6 11, irish bouzouki on 10
- John Sheahan – whistles on 6
- Kevin McAlea – synthesiser sequences on 8, synthesiser on 12
- Pink Floyd – helicopter from The Wall on 8
- Danny Thompson – double bass on 9
- Liam O'Flynn – uilleann pipes on 10 11
- The Richard Hickox Singers – choir on 11
- Richard Hickox – vocals, choir master on 11
- Michael Berkeley – vocal arrangements on 11
- John Williams – guitar on 12
[edit] Production personnel
- Del Palmer – engineer
- Haydn Bendall – engineer
- Brian Tench – engineer, mixing
- Paul Hardiman – engineer
- Nigel Walker – engineer
- James Guthrie – engineer
- Bill Somerville-Large – engineer at Windmill Lane Studios
- Pearce Dunne – assistant engineer
- Julian Mendelsohn – mixing on 2 4
- Chris Blair – digital remastering
- Ian Cooper – cutting engineer
[edit] Charts
Album
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1985 | The Billboard 200 | 33/41 |
| 1985 | Australian albums chart | 6 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1985 | "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" | UK Singles Chart | 3 |
| 1985 | "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" | Australian Singles Chart | 6 |
| 1985 | "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" | U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play | 13 |
| 1985 | "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" | U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales | 21 |
| 1985 | "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" | U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks | 34 |
| 1985 | "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" | U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 30 |
| 1985 | "Cloudbusting" | UK Singles Chart | 20 |
| 1986 | "Hounds of Love" | UK Singles Chart | 18 |
| 1986 | "The Big Sky" | UK Singles Chart | 37 |
[edit] Certifications
| Organization | Level | Date |
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| BPI – UK | Gold | October 7, 1985 |
| BPI – UK | Platinum | October 30, 1985 |
| CRIA – Canada | Gold | December 6, 1985 |
| CRIA – Canada | Platinum | December 6, 1985 |
| BPI – UK | Double Platinum | December 23, 1986 |
The RIAA did not certify sales figures for this album. Listed below are the total certified sales of Hounds of Love in the United States from Soundscan, in November 2005 since 1991. Figures are unavailable for period 1985 to 1991, when bulk of sales would arguably have occurred.[1][2] [3].
| Released year | Title | Total sales |
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| 1985 | Hounds of Love | 206,000 |
| Kate Bush discography |
| Studio releases: The Kick Inside | Lionheart | Never for Ever | The Dreaming | Hounds of Love | The Sensual World | The Red Shoes | Aerial Compilations: The Single File | The Whole Story | This Woman's Work | Live @ Hammersmith |
