Hounds of Love

Hounds Of Love
Studio album by Kate Bush
Released	16 September 1985
Recorded	1983-85
Genre	Art rock, baroque pop, New Wave, pop rock
Length	47:33
Label	EMI
Producer	Kate Bush
Kate Bush chronology
The Dreaming (1982) Hounds of Love (1985) The Whole Story (1986)
Singles from Hounds of Love
"Running Up That Hill" b/w "Under the Ivy" Released: August 5, 1985 (1985-08-05) "Cloudbusting" b/w "Burning Bridge" Released: October 14, 1985 (1985-10-14) "Hounds of Love" b/w "The Handsome Cabin Boy" Released: February 24, 1986 (1986-02-24) "The Big Sky" b/w "Not This Time" Released: April 28, 1986 (1986-04-28)

Hounds of Love is a 1985 album by the British singer Kate Bush. It was Bush's fifth studio album, and her second no. 1. It has since been certified Double Platinum in the UK.^[1] In 2002, Q Magazine named Hounds of Love the third Greatest Album of All-Time by a Female Artist, and in 2000, the twentieth Greatest British Album of All Time.^[2]

Contents 1 Overview 2 Reception 3 Track listing 3.1 Notes 4 Personnel 4.1 Additional personnel 4.2 Production personnel 5 Charts 5.1 Chart positions 5.2 Year-end charts 5.3 Certifications & Sales 6 See also 7 References

Overview

Bush's most successful album commercially, 1985's Hounds of Love reflects Bush's continuing growth as an artist and producer. To avoid the huge expense of her previous album, The Dreaming, and to support her increasingly slow and painstaking recording process, Bush was inspired to build her own 24-track studio in the barn behind her family home.^[3] Hounds of Love ultimately topped the charts in the UK, knocking Madonna's Like A Virgin from the number one position.^[4] Making extensive use of the Fairlight CMI synthesizer, piano, traditional Irish instruments, and layered vocals, Hounds of Love is a "complex and richly layered work."^[5]

The album takes advantage of the LP vinyl format, with Side One, titled "Hounds of Love", containing five unrelated songs linked only by the common theme of love and relationships; these include the four singles "Running Up That Hill", "Cloudbusting", "Hounds of Love", and "The Big Sky". "Running Up That Hill" became one of her biggest hits in the UK, and re-introduced Bush to American listeners, receiving considerable airplay at the time of its release. The second side of the album, titled "The Ninth Wave", takes its name from Tennyson's poem, "Idylls of the King", about the legendary King Arthur's reign, and is a single piece of music, a song cycle which Bush describes as "about a person who is alone in the water for the night...it's about their past, present and future coming to keep them awake, to stop them drowning, to stop them going to sleep until the morning comes."^[6] In an interview with French television in 1985, Bush said she thinks of the two sides as "two separate albums."^[7]

A 1997 CD re-release of the album included six bonus tracks: 12" mixes of "The Big Sky" and "Running Up That Hill", and the B-side singles "Under The Ivy", "Burning Bridge", "My Lagan Love", and "Be Kind To My Mistakes", which was written for the film Castaway starring Oliver Reed and Amanda Donohoe),^[8] and used for its opening title sequence.

In 2010, Audio Fidelity reissued Hounds of Love on vinyl with new mastering by Steve Hoffman.^[9]

A 10" pink vinyl version of the album was released for Record Store Day 2011, with 1,000 copies produced worldwide.^[10]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[11]
NME	(Highly Favourable) [12]
Robert Christgau	B [13]
Rolling Stone	(mixed) [14]
Stylus	(Highly Favourable) [15]
Paul Roland	[16]
Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[17]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	(8/10) [18]

In August 1985 the British music magazine NME featured Bush in a "Where Are They Now" article. Two days later, on The Wogan Show, the single "Running Up that Hill" was premiered for the first time. The single entered the UK singles chart at no.9 (a considerable feat at that time) and ultimately peaked in the top 3. The Hounds of Love album entered the UK album chart at no.1, knocking Madonna's Like a Virgin from the top position.^[19]

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, and co-starring Donald Sutherland. The video — like the song — was inspired by the life of psychologist Wilhelm Reich.

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 2006, Q magazine placed the album at #4 in its list of "40 Best Albums of the '80s".^[20] 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 2008, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said the album should be given consideration when listing albums released between 1978 and 1988 that have stood the test of time while remaining influential and enjoyable to this day.^[21]

Track listing

All songs written by Kate Bush.

Notes

The chorale in "Hello Earth" is a segment from the traditional Georgian song "Tsintskaro," performed by the Richard Hickox Singers.^[22]

"Be Kind to My Mistakes" was written for Nicolas Roeg's film Castaway (1986) and plays during the opening scene.

The lines "It's in the trees! It's coming!" from the beginning of the title track are taken from a seance scene from the 1957 British horror film Night of the Demon, spoken by actor Maurice Denham.

Placebo's cover of "Running Up that Hill" has been featured in a number of television shows.

Swedish techno artist The Field sampled "Under Ice" extensively for his song "Over the Ice."

Personnel

• Kate Bush – vocals, Fairlight CMI, piano
• Stuart Elliott – drums on tracks 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

Additional personnel

• Jonathan Williams – cello on 2
• Youth – bass on 3
• Morris Pert – percussion on 3
• Eberhard Weber – bass on 4, 11, 12
• 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
• Dónal 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

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

Charts

Chart positions Chart (1985/86) Position Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart[23] 6 Austrian Albums Chart[24] 14 Dutch Mega Albums Chart[25] 1 French SNEP Albums Chart [26] 9 German Media Control Albums Chart [27] 2 Japanese Oricon LP Chart[28] 36 New Zealand Albums Chart [29] 17 Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart[30] 12 Swedish Albums Chart[31] 9 Swiss Albums Chart[32] 3 UK Albums Chart [33] 1 United States Billboard 200[34] 33 Year-end charts Chart (1985) Position Australian Albums Chart[23] 79 Canadian Albums Chart[35] 32 UK Albums Chart[36] 14 Chart (1986) Position Canadian Albums Chart[37] 85 UK Albums Chart[36] 47

Certifications & Sales Region Certification Sales/shipments Canada (Music Canada)[38] Platinum 100,000^ France (SNEP)[39] Gold 134,300[40] Germany (BVMI)[41] Platinum 500,000^ Japan (Oricon Charts) 24,800[28] Netherlands (NVPI)[42] Gold 50,000^ United Kingdom (BPI)[43] 2× Platinum 630,000[36] United States (RIAA)[44] Platinum 1.600,000[36] ^shipments figures based on certification alone xunspecified figures based on certification alone

See also

• Kate Bush discography
• Kate Bush's Awards and Nominations

References

Preceded by Like a Virgin by Madonna Like a Virgin by Madonna	UK number one album September 28, 1985 – October 11, 1985 October 19, 1985 – October 25, 1985	Succeeded by Like a Virgin by Madonna The Love Songs by George Benson
Preceded by Ik zal je nooit vergeten by Koos Alberts	Dutch Mega Chart number-one album October 5 - October 12, 1985	Succeeded by Maid of the Mist by BZN

Kate Bush Studio albums The Kick Inside Lionheart Never for Ever The Dreaming Hounds of Love The Sensual World The Red Shoes Aerial Director's Cut 50 Words for Snow Extended plays On Stage Kate Bush Live albums and compilations Live at the Hammersmith Odeon The Single File The Whole Story This Woman's Work: Anthology 1978–1990 Videos Live at the Hammersmith Odeon The Single File The Hair of the Hound The Whole Story The Sensual World: The Videos The Line, the Cross & the Curve Singles "Wuthering Heights" "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" "Them Heavy People" "Moving" "Hammer Horror" "Wow" "Symphony in Blue" "Strange Phenomena" "Breathing" "Babooshka" "Army Dreamers" "December Will Be Magic Again" "Sat in Your Lap" "The Dreaming" "There Goes a Tenner" "Suspended in Gaffa" "Ne t'enfuis pas" "Night of the Swallow" "Running Up that Hill" "Cloudbusting" "Hounds of Love" "The Big Sky" "Don't Give Up" "Experiment IV" "The Sensual World" "This Woman's Work" "Love and Anger" "Rocket Man" "Rubberband Girl" "Eat the Music" "Moments of Pleasure" "The Red Shoes" "The Man I Love" "And So Is Love" "King of the Mountain" "Lyra" "Deeper Understanding" "Wild Man" Related articles Discography Awards and nominations The Tour of Life