It also performed well in The States where college radio pushed it to number 30 in the American album charts. ‘Hounds Of Love’ is a concept record of sorts, an LP of two suites Side 1 ‘Hounds Of Love,’ Side 2 ‘The Ninth Wave,’ about a woman drifting alone in the sea at night. It went to number one in the British album charts pushing out Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”. Deciding that she liked the demos so much, Bush chose not to re-record them, but rather enhanced them by adding performances by live musicians in amongst her synth music. “Hounds of Love” was released in 1985 and became Kate Bush’s biggest commercial success. While writing the song, Kate envision the video where she played Peter and Donald Sutherland played the controversial psychoanalyst and physician who discovered orgone energy. “Cloudbusting” was inspired by Peter Reich’s memoir of his father, Wilhelm Reich. “Hello Earth” was inspired by Warner Herzog’s film version of “Nosferatu” and the title track opens with the line “It’s in the trees! It’s coming!” taken from the seance scene from the 1975 British Horror flick “Night of the Demon”. The album has a cinematic quality and was both inspired by films and also spawned short film ideas itself. The album was produced as two suites which suited the vinyl LP format and of which she later stated on French television that she thought of the two sides as two separate albums. The result of all the hard work was a highly structured song cycle where conceptual experimentation was married with pop conciseness balancing a variety of moods and a haunting beauty with incredible melodies. She could take as long as she wanted and she did, as it took 18 months to complete and 12 of those months were for mixing and overdubs alone.
HOUNDS OF LOVE BUSH FULL
This time there were no time pressures and Kate had full control.
She also wanted to ease the time and financial pressures of hiring a studio so she had her own 24 Track studio built in a barn on her parents farm. And everyone was saying, ‘Oh, she’s really gone mad now!’, but it was very important that it happened to me because it made me think, ‘Right, do I really want to produce my own stuff? Do I really care about being famous?’, and I was very please with myself that, no, it didn’t matter as much as making a good album.” * A Room to Call Her Own I felt the album had done very well to reach number three, but I felt under a lot of pressure and I wanted to stay as close to my work as possible. But she had some convincing to do as she remembered, “For the first time I felt I was actually meeting resistance artistically. When Kate Bush embarked upon recording her fifth album, she wanted to produce it herself as she had her previous album, “The Dreaming”.
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