Hounds of Love

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Hounds of Love

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
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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 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".

1 Track listing
- 1.1 Bonus tracks (1997 EMI edition)
2 Personnel
- 2.1 Additional personnel
3 Production personnel
4 Charts
5 Certifications

[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
1985	The Billboard 200	33
1985	Australian albums chart	6

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
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
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
1985	Hounds of Love	206,000

v • d • e 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