Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow

01 Snowflake

02 Lake Tahoe

03 Misty

04 Wildman

05 Snowed in at Wheeler Street

06 50 Words for Snow

07 Among Angels

I like her. What is this? I don't like the artwork.

I don't like that artwork either. Its creepy. Plus the typography is probably the laziest I've ever seen.

This is her new album. Seven tracks and sixty-five minutes long apparently.

I thought the artwork was rather sweet

Looking forward to hearing what she's been up to. It was interesting when she went and back and did the remakes of her first couple.

New KT!.. Great news!!!

This looks potentially like some serious granny music, but I'll give Kate the benefit of the doubt.

According to twitter she called in Stephen Fry to provide his voice for it. That is worrying.

  On 9/13/2011 at 8:50 PM, tec said:

According to twitter she called in Stephen Fry to provide his voice for it. That is worrying.

Well, at least it isn't Rolf Harris again. :)

As long as Eric Clapton isnt on there

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We're very excited to confirm that 50 Words For Snow features three special guest musicians:

• Andy Fairweather Low appears on Wild Man,
  
• Elton John appears on Snowed In At Wheeler Street,
  
• Stephen Fry appears on the song sharing the same name as the album, 50 Words For Snow.
  

This is an artist whose greatest work is over twenty years ago.

I did buy the last album but there was so much pretentious crap (the whole of the second disc) that I was frankly embarrassed.

Stephen Fry is one of the most annoying, smug celebrities I can imagine.

Even more reason to avoid it.

  On 10/4/2011 at 5:56 PM, fumi said:

This is an artist whose greatest work is over twenty years ago.

 

I did buy the last album but there was so much pretentious crap (the whole of the second disc) that I was frankly embarrassed.

 

Stephen Fry is one of the most annoying, smug celebrities I can imagine.

 

Even more reason to avoid it.

And yet astonishingly, I know more people who believe the precise opposite than would agree with any of that. :)

I actually didn't really care for 'Aerial' all that much either. However, I couldn't care less if her "supposed" best works were over twenty years ago. Terrible artwork and misguided recent rework projects aside, I'm not going to make a decision about whether to avoid this new album or not until well after at least one track is made available to preview. I have to admit, I'm not optimistic, which is unusual for me.

I am happy for you, though, that Steven Fry is the most annoying and smug celebrity you can imagine, because you're saving yourself from a whole world of hurt! The television pukes things at me I would prefer to erase from history, let alone forget! :D

Loved Aerial, not quite the same level as Hounds of Love but that was verging on genius. I wouldn't call her pretentious; if anyone writes from the heart it's Kate. She is a perfectionist though, so maybe her music comes across sometimes as too thought about.

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/13/142133269/first-listen-kate-bush-50-words-for-snow#playlist

I expected it to be similar or worse than Aerial which I didn't like at all. But damn this is amazing. Some tracks at least.

It's certainly not what I was expecting either, after hearing the frankly awful "Wild Man".

Listening to this after Fred Mcgriff put a track on his monday spotify playlist. it's very nice

it's a great album, i spend a lot of my time driving over the Snake_Pass (where the Anvil Vapre track names are taken from) and this CD (the missus' actually) has been in my car for a long time - it fits a snowy remote drive in the dead of night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am78PQI-fH0

I honestly never expected to like this album - I mean a song with Stephen Fry intoning 50 made-up words for snow? Sounds fucking awful. Only got round to listening to it last month.

Strangely though it's great, first 3 songs especially.

bought it on vinyl yesterday actually. one of my favorites from last year.

the stephen fry is the worst song on there

just 22 to gooooo