The Other Sides - 2018

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The first CD offers 12″ remixes of Bush hymns such as Running Up That Hill, The Big Sky and Hounds Of Love, but it’s the two CDs of non-chronological B-sides that inevitably intrigue. She has always been about quality control, but it’s hard to believe that these gems were mere flip-sides. Verging on the twee, 1993’s Home For Christmas is a shoo-in for an anaemic cover on the next Yuletide John Lewis advert, should their evil marketing bods catch wind of it. It’s a rare Bush misstep: far more typical is Passing Through Air, a crystalline meditation that was the flip to Army Dreamers.

She kept the record label at arms’ length throughout. This was probably just as well as EMI, and its new boss, David Munns, would surely have been alarmed by the avant-garde ambitions of “The Ninth Wave”. This series of linked compositions took its title from a line in the Tennyson poem “ Idylls of the King: The Coming of Arthur”. Bush’s ambition was to bring the listener on a voyage into death and rebirth with fear of drowning a recurring metaphor. Flower of the Mountain 5.15 [originally released as "The Sensual World" on THE SENSUAL WORLD, 1989]

Song written by Kate Bush, released as her debut single in January 1978. She wrote the song after seeing the last ten minutes of the 1967 BBC mini-series based on the book ‘Wuthering Heights’, written by Emily Brontë. Reportedly, she wrote the song within the space of just a few hours late at night. The actual date of writing is estimated to be March 5, 1977.

This Woman's Work 3.31 (single mix) // Be Kind To My Mistakes 3.02 / I'm Still Waiting 4.26 (EMI 12EM 119) Don't Give Up 6.30 // In Your Eyes (Special Mix) 7.15 / This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds) 4.18 (12": PGS 212) A-side originally recorded in Nov 1979, produced by Kate Bush and Jon Kelly. It was never released, but was updated in early Nov 1980 There are two versions of ‘Wuthering Heights’. The album version remains the best known version, but there is also an edited version of 3 minutes and 44 seconds, fading out earlier than the album version, which was released on the first version of the 7″ single.

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Wuthering Heights’ was released as a 7” single worldwide. The B-side featured the song Kite. In the UK, there were two versions: in a custom EMI record company sleeve as well as a picture bag, featuring the ‘Kite’ design. This design was also used on several international releases. Other versions of the sleeve used photographs from a session with Gered Mankowitz. Versions

Babooshka 3.20 [1980] / Suspended in Gaffa 3.56 [1982] / Un Baiser D'Enfant (The Infant Kiss) 3.00 (US LP: EMI America, MLP-19004) Or consider when "This Woman's Work" opened the second season of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale. The show took a song full of twinkling chords and lilting vocals, written for a John Hughes movie, and played it over the horrifying image of 45 bound and muzzled handmaids being fitted with nooses on a gallows. In Hughes's 1988 romcom She’s Having a Baby, "This Woman's Work" scores a scene in which Kevin Bacon's character waits for his wife, played by Elizabeth Montgomery, to come out of the complicated delivery of their first child. Bush wrote the lyrics from a man's point of view as he reflects on his love and longing for a wife in the middle of her "woman's work"—that is, childbirth: "I stand outside this woman's work, this woman's world," she sings. "Oh, it's hard on the man, now his part is over." In Handmaid's Tale, set in a dystopian—and not too unimaginable—future where reproductive rights are a nonstarter and women are chattel, the song is played for wrenching irony. Versions of the song have played in everything from Love & Basketball to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Hermes, Will (8 March 2019). "Review: Kate Bush's 'The Other Sides' is a Motherlode of Must-Hear Rarities". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 19 October 2021. Kate re-recorded ‘Wuthering Heights’ for the compilation album ‘The Whole Story’ in 1986. It was released as ‘Wuthering Heights (New Vocal)’. Wuthering Heights – UK 7″ single sleeve Still from the music video of ‘Wuthering Heights’ directed by Keef Lyrics for ‘Wuthering Heights’, handwritten by Kate Music video

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Reissue review: Kate Bush – The Other Sides". Classic Pop Magazine. 2 May 2019 . Retrieved 19 October 2021. This material was already available within the Kate Bush Remastered CD Box 2, which may trigger a few grumbles from completists who bought that pricey set purely to obtain it. Yet more casual Bush fans will find plenty here to treasure.