Album of the Month: Kate Bush "The Hounds of Love"

With the song "Running up that Hill (A Deal with God)" by Kate Bush becoming popular again with new and old fans, it is a good showcase for this month's featured album. 

Released on September 16, 1985, The Hounds of Love was Bush's 5th album. Considered her best album by fans and critics, it went double platinum in the UK. 

Containing two suites. The first side is called "The Hounds of Love" which is considered the pop side. The second side contains "The Ninth Wave". This section takes Kate on an out-of-body trial and judgement vision quest of death and rebirth in the vein of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Arthurian poems. 

I did not get into Kate Bush's music until college. I remember when it was first released and saw the video for "Running Up that Hill" on MTV, I did not care for it. It was too "artsy. I was a metalhead back then, so it did not appeal to my musical tastes.  Plus, I remember seeing her on Saturday Night Live back in 1978. She performed "The Man with the Child in his Eyes" and "Them Heavy People". Even then, it was too "artsy" for me. But I was 11 years old and KISS was my world at this time. 

Some cool facts. The album release party was at the London Planetarium. Also, world renown classical guitarist John Williams played on "The Morning Fog".