Groggy morning; listening to Kate Bush
November 17th, 2005 by Bill
Shit. I had written an entire post and lost it when I accidently closed the browser instead of the tab - I hate getting used to a new computer. As I’ve already written …
I am groggy because the phone rang early and I was up late reading and listening to Kate Bush’s latest, Aerial. It sounds like morning, at least some of it, but that probably won’t mean anything to you if you haven’t listrened to the disc. Kate is still odd but also musically interesting. It’s not what you would call a toe-tapping party disc. It’s the sort of music you actually listen to.
And it occurs to me I must be old school since the other disc I picked up recently was Cyndi Lauper - The Body Acoustic. Though in this case I didn’t buy the disc since I didn’t want Sony putting crap on my computer. So I downloaded it from iTunes (each song, one by one). And I absolutely love it - it’s different (acoustic), and she has some interesting people on the disc. (The only non-acoustic song is a ska version of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun which she does with a Japanese girl group, Puffy AmiYumi.)
And why am I rambling about all this music stuff? Because I’m putting off paying bills. So dispiriting, that.
But it must be done. (By the way, it also occurs to me one of the other reasons I like both Aerial and The Body Acoustic is that neither is angry and whiney. Both are actually quite bright, even happy. Talk about being out of the mainstream of things!)
Update: As an aside, Kate Bush’s Aerial doesn’t do much for me through the speakers, filling the room. Maybe I don’t play it loud enough - I dunno. But on the iPod, through the buds - wow! I love it. There’s a lot going on in there.
Tag: Music, Kate Bush,Cyndi Lauper, Puffy AmiYumi
As an aside … who but Kate Bush would write a song about doing laundry?
Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy
Get that dirty shirty clean
Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy
Male those cuffs and collars gleam
Everything clean and shiny.”
I used to love Kate Bush. I’ll definitely check this out. And she still looks beautiful.
Kate Bush? I haven’t listened to her since the early 80s when my ex would play it LOUD when I had a migraine (to get me out of bed and doing whatever it was that he thought I should be doing). I can still hear the high-pitched whine as I type this.
Why would anyone listen to that?
Cyndi Lauper, now, that’s a different story. I will have to get that. She has been a hero of mine ever since she was voted “best dressed” for (I dunno, 83? 84?) and said “what did I do wrong?”