Love and Anger
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| "Love and Anger" | ||
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| Single by Kate Bush | ||
| B-side(s) | "Ken" "The Confrontation" "One Last Look Around The House Before We Go" |
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| Released | 26 February 1990 | |
| Format | 7" single / 12" single / CD single / Cassette single | |
| Recorded | 1987-1989 | |
| Genre | Art rock | |
| Length | 4:41 | |
| Label | EMI, Columbia Records(U.S only) | |
| Writer(s) | Kate Bush | |
| Producer(s) | Kate Bush | |
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| Kate Bush singles chronology | ||
| "This Woman's Work" (1989) |
"Love and Anger" (1990) |
"Rubberband Girl" (1993) |
"Love and Anger" is the third and final release from The Sensual World by Kate Bush.
"Love and Anger" was released on February 26, 1990 and made it to the number 38 in the UK Singles Chart. However "Love and Anger" was a lot more successful in the USA reaching number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, Bush's only chart-topper on any U.S. chart.
"Love and Anger" was also Bush's debut single on her new U.S. label, Columbia Records (EMI America allegedly "forgot" to renew her contract, so Columbia picked her up).
The lyrics are about knowing who you can trust and turn to when trouble arises, and having faith that things always work out in the end.
The B-sides on this single were "Ken", "One Last Look Around the House Before We Go" and "The Confrontation". "One Last Look Around the House Before We Go" and "The Confrontation" are instrumentals and were only available on the CD release and 12" version of this single. All three of them were written for an episode of the British TV program The Comic Strip. "Ken" features Kate describing Ken Livingstone (leader of the Greater London Council before Mrs Thatcher disbanded it) as a 'funky sex machine'.
