It was Andy Warhol who wanted Lou Reed and John Cale to let his beautiful new friend Nico sing with their avant-garde rock band. The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967), The Velvet Underground But first, the olde English meaning of list, or “lyst”: shush and harken. Hopefully, you’ll use the comment section to tell us what surprised you and what confirmed your suspicions. Hopefully you can hear the influence of these albums on some of your own favourites. Hopefully you can still feel the electricity of invention in The Beatles’ Revolver, Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and Nas’s Illmatic. Most of our personal favourites aren’t here, because we’ve tried to pick the records that broke new ground rather than those that refined old sounds. We’ve included classics and curveballs, because “to list” can also mean to tilt. This list is designed for anybody interested in extending their aural attention span and genuinely challenging their preconceptions. Watching it blow his mind, I changed mine. Then I played it to my nine-year-old son, who doesn’t share any of my cultural baggage. I didn’t want to include Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Consequently we can end up believing we have solid opinions on records we may never have given our honest and sustained attention. Cool male artists love her, too.When was the last time you listened to an old album from start to finish? With our ears set to shuffle since the death of the CD, only the vinyl fetishists seem to do it any more. Kate has since inspired a host of artists including Bjork, Tori Amos, Bat for Lashes and Florence and the Machine. It also performed well in The States where college radio pushed it to number 30 in the American album charts. It went to number one in the British album charts pushing out Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”. “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.
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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”.