Kate Bush-The Sensual World (1989)


 

Artist: Kate Bush

Title: The Sensual World

Label: Columbia

Format: CD

Cat #:CK 44164

Year of Release: 1989

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1989

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 4/6/22

Sell Price: $3.99

Discogs Last Sold: 3/24/22 $3.00

Low: $0.99

Median: $2.29

Average: $2.47

High: $5.00

Current low price: $1.50

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 58

Have/Want: 1048/89

Where Sold: Bellingham, WA

Time it took to sell: 11 years

Where and When Bought: half.com late aughts used 

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B

Sad To See It Go: No

I liked the EMI years of Kate Bush in the 80's but dropped off during the Columbia years.  For whatever reason, I decided to catch up on her discography around the time Aerial came out in 2007 and got all her prior CD catalog for dirt cheap on half.com.

This was merely a move toward completion, and the records themselves maybe got a single play.  So now I focus on Kate's commercially successful Gold in the US album from 1989, The Sensual World. This was certified in 1993 and to date the only album of Kate's to reach this status.  She was Platinum in the UK.  The grand finale "This Woman's Work" was in the film She's Having A Baby, which I never bore witness to but clearly enough people did to sell this album on it's own.

Somehow I never realized that her mentor David Gilmour plays on the album with also has tracks orchestrated by Michael Kamen who did some later Floyd.  Gilmour plays on the number 1 Billboard Alternative Airplay hit "Love and Anger."  That I managed to not retain this for over several decades says something.  In 1989 I might've still been excited if someone told me "Gilmour's all over the new Kate Bush!"  Alas, that conversation never happened.  He was only on two cuts, the other was, "Rocket's Tall (For Rocket)" was the one that made me check if Gilmour was indeed playing.    It blows my mind that until today, I never witnessed the video of Bush dancing with Gilmour in the video band.

I started to wonder if every track had a corresponding video.  The opening title track was one of the original three.  In 2011 the album was reissued in Bush's "Director's Cut" series with 4 tracks re-recorded.  The new "Deeper Understanding" and the revised opener retitled "Flower Of The Mountain" due to James Joyce's estate letting Bush use some unpublished text they denied upon the initial release.

So damn complicated!


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