The Other Sides - 2018

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Watching this video, after listening to Kate’s music for so many years, I am struck by the consistent quality of her work. It’s so singular and self-contained in its two minutes and 10 seconds, it’s no wonder she released it as a b-side, as it might throw most any album off-course. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. THE OTHER SIDES offers a plethora of B-sides, 12” mixes, and other rare tracks, including an entire disc’s worth of covers recorded by Bush, including a couple of classic Elton John songs (“Candle in the Wind,” “Rocket Man”) and “The Man I Love,” written by George and Ira Gershwin.

But lately its brilliance feels especially prescient, reflected variously in the sound and approach of (among others) Robyn, Florence Welch, and Annie St. A lot of these b-side tracks were never published anywhere else, so when I realised they were finally released as a special CD collection, I was relieved to have back so much of what I had lost. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. Previous Fish People releases were marginally better value, but when the collection is a fine and desirable - if imperfect - one any Kate Bush fan should obtain a copy. stars out of 5 -- "34 tracks, including some of the avant-pop auteur’s most gorgeous, extravagant, intimate, and bonkers material -- b-sides, remixes, and an album’s-worth of stray, often strange covers.

It isn't a complete rarities collection as tracks like The Empty Bullring are omitted, but it saves hunting down all the CD singles and means you can play, for instance, the 12-inch versions of Hounds of Love singles in one go (that's Disc One) or Kate's covers of other peoples' songs (Disc Four). There was, however, one aspect of this reissue campaign which proved frustrating for some fans, and that was the inclusion of THE OTHER SIDES, a compilation that rounded up all of Bush’s rarities. The Billie Holiday vehicle “The Man I Love” gets a less-radical transformation, with production/arrangement by George Martin in the style of Lady Day’s 1939 Vocalion recording, complete with muted trumpet. Most artists in the mid seventies played guitar but Elton played piano and I dreamed of being able to play like him. This set finally bundles the evidence: 34 tracks, including some of the avant-pop auteur’s most gorgeous, extravagant, intimate, and bonkers material — b-sides, remixes, and an album’s-worth of stray, often strange covers.

Classic Pop magazine rated the set 9/10, stating "it's hard to believe these gems were mere flip-sides". Track 2-8 taken from Ne T'enfuis Pas / Un Baiser D'enfant (French single B-side – EMI 50999 1 65152 7, 1983). It looks like a complete overview, but there are still tracks missing, like ‘Ken’, or ‘Not this time’. Burning Bridge” is one of her most dizzying vocals; at point she sounds like she’s making herself seasick. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.

I wanted to make it different from the original and thought it could be fun to turn it into a reggae version. Track 4-6 taken from Brazil (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Milan 74321 11124-2, 1992).Bob is the author of the Top 100 Canadian Albums, a national best-seller published in 2007, and The Top 100 Canadian Singles, published in September 2010, both from Goose Lane Editions. His Marilyn Monroe tribute “Candle In The Wind,” meanwhile, gets swirled into ambient synth-pop, Bush veering midsong, it seems, from fangirl into Monroe herself, as she chirps the word “superstar” — a state Bush knew plenty about herself when she tracked this in ’91, years before the song was reimagined as a tribute to another British icon. Under The Ivy” is just a handful of piano chords and Bush’s raw voice, with a touch of electronic processing, the singer first beckoning, then imploring a listener to burrow into a secret place, conjuring intimacy, invention, self-discovery and sex with a slightly frightening intensity. The French version of Never For Ever’s “The Infant Kiss” (“Un Baiser D’Enfant”), based on the 1961 film The Innocents, and the French original “Ne T’Enfuis Pas,” make a diptych suggesting Bush might’ve had a nifty collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg. There are so many accolades used when discussing Kate’s work, and deservedly so, that it seems useless for me to add any more.