Kate Bush – Babooshka
I do like Kate Bush. She’s as mad as a sack of badgers, her music is a pompous, deranged, hippy festival of insanity, but somehow I nearly always enjoy her songs. This despite the fact that I always find myself laughing at them and wanting to wave my arms in the air in faux-expressive dance. But somehow, ridiculous as they are, they are always great fun.
A very good friend of mine, who I worked with down South before my Edinburgh days, brought this most splendidly silly song to the office music collection and whenever work got a little too tedious (every other day) on would come Babooshka. Most of the office would burst into wails of protest and Matt & I would cackle with laughter and start bouncing up and down in our chairs and elaborately shrieking along to the words – or some vague approximation of what we guessed them to be.
How juvenile.
Kate Bush – Babooshka
[Disclaimer: I am actually on holiday at the moment, probably fucking up my brother's wedding by swearing too much in the best man's speech, so it's all a bit minimal at the moment. Normal service will be resumed after we return on about the 25th July]
Yeah, Kate Bush. Oooooh Ive always appreciated Kate’s finer charms. Mad as the seventh daughter of the Mad Hatter and March Hare – yes. Interesting musician and gorgeous to boot – yes as well.
I was born at the beginning of the 80s, I somehow grew up hearing Kate Bush and her likes simply hating them all. When I turned 24, I rediscovered her music and character. Her songs are so well written that she makes me forget about the keyboards and fancy drum loops. Glad you put Babooshka online. Thanks.
My mom used to make me listen to Kate Bush all the time during the late ’80s. I hated Kate Bush for years as a result. But sometime in high school, my mom made me listen to her again during a car ride, and suddenly I noticed that her music was completely batty (for some reason this had slipped by my five-year old self). A newfound appreciation was had!
Anyway, the moral of the story is to not play The Sensual World when your young kids are around, as they’ll resent you for it in the years to come.