Kate Bush | "Experiment IV"
Jun 24, 2011 11:56:06 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2011 11:56:06 GMT -5
While Kate has released some bizarre singles over the years, this one might take the cake. It peaked at #23 in the UK in November 1986 as a single from her greatest hits collection The Whole Story. This remains one of my favorite Kate Bush singles. It also has a wonderful video (featuring a young Hugh Laurie) which was actually banned from Top of the Pops for being too violent, which seems ridiculous by 2011 standards. I don't think she gets enough credit for her excellent music videos.
Here is an overview from Wikipedia.
"The song tells a story about a secret military plan to create a sound that is horrific enough to kill people. The ending of the story is unclear, but in the music video nearly every person working on the project is killed by the horrific sound, which is personified by Bush herself as she changed from an angelic woman into a banshee (a horrifying screaming apparition of Irish lore).
The song is also notable for featuring Nigel Kennedy on violin, who at one point replicates the screeching violins from Bernard Herrmann's famous scoring of the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho. At the end of the song a helicopter is heard which was taken from Pink Floyd's "The Happiest Days of our Lives" from their 1979 album, The Wall."
Here is an overview from Wikipedia.
"The song tells a story about a secret military plan to create a sound that is horrific enough to kill people. The ending of the story is unclear, but in the music video nearly every person working on the project is killed by the horrific sound, which is personified by Bush herself as she changed from an angelic woman into a banshee (a horrifying screaming apparition of Irish lore).
The song is also notable for featuring Nigel Kennedy on violin, who at one point replicates the screeching violins from Bernard Herrmann's famous scoring of the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho. At the end of the song a helicopter is heard which was taken from Pink Floyd's "The Happiest Days of our Lives" from their 1979 album, The Wall."
