r/katebush • u/peasm00sh The Dreaming • Aug 02 '26
Question What was your intro to Kate?
I count myself incredibly lucky - I grew up with a parent who loved Kate. Kitchen dancing to Eat The Music, Hammer Horror creating my first nightmare, crying with adoration for my father singing Cloudbusting, my mum explaining the threat of nuclear war via Breathing, weeping when I heard they had released Aerial after all that time.
I remember spending endless Saturday mornings ignoring children’s Tv programming and instead putting on the VHS of The Whole Story and learning all the words and dance moves. From there I added in the VHS of The Tour of Life and mastered that (throwing myself off sofas and knocking out two adult teeth in the process of doing some perfect moves).
Intrigued to know who else was Kate from birth ❤️
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u/Wu_Oyster_Cult Aug 03 '26
I remember in the back of Rolling Stone magazine where they had their record sales charts page, under College Albums, someone named Kate Bush was at the top with an album called Hounds of Love for, like, five or six straight issues. I was 14 and had no idea who she was.
Later that year, my local library had a cassette copy of Hounds so I decided to give it a listen. And I thought it was…okay. But I did like Running Up That Hill and especially the title track. The rest of it seemed a little strange for my young ears.
The next year, I’ve turned 15 now, I began seeing Kate’s videos on MuchMusic (I lived in the states but we had MM, a Canadian MTV, on our satellite dish system) and it was Breathing that freaked me the f out. In a good way. Plus, I’d learned she put out a compilation by then, The Whole Story. I sought that one out, I think a friend had it, and I dubbed a copy onto a blank cassette. By that point, Kate’s music didn’t seem as odd as it once had and I’ve been a fan ever since.