Kate Bush "Cloudbusting"
Jul 18, 2005 21:49:12 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2005 21:49:12 GMT -5
I love this song. One of my favorites by her. It's complete lyrical and musical ecstasy, just like most of her work.
Here's the All Music Guide review.
Here's the All Music Guide review.
One of Kate Bush’s best ever singles, 1985’s ”Cloudbusting”, was her retelling of Peter Reich’s classic A Book of Dreams. Very simply, it is the tale of a scientist father’s relationship with his son, imaged through the experience of cloud seeding as seen through the boy’s eyes. The song fell easily into the rich earth of imagery that Bush has tilled throughout her entire career, emerging both tender and brutal. The guilelessness of youth is tempered with the blinding realization of lost innocence as the child’s father is arrested and taken away. Safety and danger are threaded through the song, via both a thoughtful lyric and a compulsive cello-driven melody. Even more startling, but hardly surprising, is the ease with which Bush was able to capture the moment when a child first realizes that adults are fallible and the parental cocoon is tenuous at best.
”Cloudbusting’s magnificence was furthered by an outstanding 12” extended mix (like the LP, impeccably produced by Bush herself), which kept the song’s hypnotic mantric effects and then transcended them without resorting to any of the pointless rock-ish filler that more often than not plagued such releases. And, as if that wasn’t enough, the 12” mix was dignified with an absolutely breathtakingly huge video, directed by Julian Doyle, and co-starring Donald Sutherland. The visualization of Bush’s interpretation of Reich’s story, the video emerged a complete film, becoming one of the finest examples of how powerful the medium could be.
”Cloudbusting’s magnificence was furthered by an outstanding 12” extended mix (like the LP, impeccably produced by Bush herself), which kept the song’s hypnotic mantric effects and then transcended them without resorting to any of the pointless rock-ish filler that more often than not plagued such releases. And, as if that wasn’t enough, the 12” mix was dignified with an absolutely breathtakingly huge video, directed by Julian Doyle, and co-starring Donald Sutherland. The visualization of Bush’s interpretation of Reich’s story, the video emerged a complete film, becoming one of the finest examples of how powerful the medium could be.
