Hounds of Love

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Few women have expanded the vocabulary of rock as bewitchingly as Kate Bush; among male stars, only Prince may have taken as many risks. Hounds of Love saw Bush reining in the kookier aspects of The Dreaming, channelling them into epic electro-pop that tackled big issues of life and death and God with gripping drama and intensity. "Running Up That Hill" was one of the great singles of the '80s; "Cloudbusting" was string-driven, magically pretty; "Jig of Life" showed that Bush is one of the few pop artists who can flirt with Celtic mysticism without sounding twee or trite. Forget the riot grrrls: Bush is the real thing. --Barney Hoskyns

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Hounds of Love

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You Need This Album
Masterpiece Material
theres a lot, maybe too much, going on here
On my wish list
Not a serious Kate Bush fan but...

Hounds of Love
Kate Bush
Manufacturer: EMI
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ASIN: B00004R7TP
Release Date: 1992-05-18

Tracks:

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Hounds Of Love
The Big Sky
Mother Stands For Comfort
Cloudbusting
And Dream Of Sheep
Under Ice
Waking The Witch
Watching You Without Me
Jig Of Life
Hello Earth
The Morning Fog
The Big Sky (Meteorogical Mix)
"Running Up That Hill (12"" Mix)
Be Kind To My Mistakes
Under The Ivy
Burning Bridge
My Lagan Love

Album Description

Import only digitally-remastered reissue for her landmark 1985 album with six bonus tracks, 'The Big Sky' (Meteorological Mix), 'Running Up That Hill' (12-inch Mix), 'BeKind To My Mistakes', 'Under The Ivy', 'Burning Bridge' and'My Lagan Love' all were previously only available through her box set (which is unavailable in the US.) 18 tracks in total. EMI.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition of Ms. Bush's Masterpiece, Originally Released in 1985. The Album was Self-produced and Primarily Recorded on her Fairlight Keyboard. Bush Weaves Intricate Tapestries of Sound and Imagery with Songs that Span the Range of all Emotion, from the Most Intimate to the Most Frightening. This Special Edition Adds Six Bonus Tracks of 12 Inch Mixes and Single B-sides Released in Conjunction with the Album, Including "Big Sky (Meterorogical Mix)", "Running Up that Hill (12" Mix)", "be Kind to My Mistakes", "Under the Ivy", "Burning Bridge" and "my Lagan Love".

Customer Reviews:

You Need This Album.......2007-01-20

This album is the definitive Kate Bush album. If you are new to her and are curious, this is the album for you. She was Tori Amos before anyone had even heard of Tori Amos.

Masterpiece Material.......2006-11-13

I can easily say this is the best Kate disc ever offered to the public. Each song running perfectly in unison, taking the listener a long walk through a forest. At first, it all feels fun and carefree until the trail leads to insomnia and then the waking of the witch. For me, this cd is so powerful because though it is filled with pop hooks, Kate allows for new and inventive way to present them. Each song is a gem. A truly remarkable feat.

theres a lot, maybe too much, going on here.......2006-09-09

I like this cd but I do not love it. I never understood why this is the most beloved by her fanatical fans. The cd is too busy with too many sounds going on. The lack of songs makes it hard to listen to repeatedly. This would be hard to put in your car and listen to over and over again.

As for purely good songs, I count 4. "Running up the Hill" kicks off the album, has a throbbing, tribal drumbeat, and is the strongest track. "Big Sky" utilizes Bushes etheral voice and passionate vocals. "Cloudbursting" is interesting, had a pretty cool video with Donald Sutherland, and creates a weird drama to the song. "Dream of Sheep" is a sensual, quite song.

I have always thought that this cd is more interesting rather than being a collection of great songs. Kate Bush is an acquired taste...she is not for everybody.

This cd is good when you are using headphones and get to hear all the little strange noises, groans and yelps by Bush. This is not music to crank up in a car.

I have always liked her debut "Kick Inside" the best b/c I feel that is her most organic, conventional work.

While Kate Bush is a very talented artist, she is also really eccentric. Many of her fans that rave about her work are also eccentric and therefore over exagerate the quality of her work. They love Kate Bush and all her mysterious romance as opposed to just loving her music.

On my wish list.......2006-08-11

I first heard Kate Bush on MTV late at night when they played the video for "running up that hill". I remember the host saying "it's an aquired taste, but once you aquire it what a taste it is". I then went out and bought the album, and figured out it was her on Peter Gabriel's "games without frontiers". Album is great, have the origonal on CD and tape hoping I will get this new issue soon. The sensual world is also stellar. Great music for those with a romatic spirit and who like music that does not fit into any one category.

Not a serious Kate Bush fan but..........2006-07-10

I must begin with the disclaimer that I am not a real Kate Bush fan but I love and never seem to tire of, what are for me, the mysterious and haunting qualities of "Running Up That Hill". I also find the short and sweet "The Morning Fog", a catchy and beautiful song with wonderful bass line and nice background vocals. Given the musicically picky person that I am, I recommend the CD and am, overall, pleased with my purchase.

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Perfection
Best of 80s
Kate Bush's masterpiece
The greatest album ever recorded.
Ravishing.

Hounds of Love
Kate Bush
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002U9E
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Hounds Of Love
The Big Sky
Mother Stands For Comfort
Cloudbusting
And Dream Of Sheep
Under Ice
Waking The Witch
Watching You Without Me
Jig Of Life
Hello Earth
The Morning Fog

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Few women have expanded the vocabulary of rock as bewitchingly as Kate Bush; among male stars, only Prince may have taken as many risks. Hounds of Love saw Bush reining in the kookier aspects of The Dreaming, channelling them into epic electro-pop that tackled big issues of life and death and God with gripping drama and intensity. "Running Up That Hill" was one of the great singles of the '80s; "Cloudbusting" was string-driven, magically pretty; "Jig of Life" showed that Bush is one of the few pop artists who can flirt with Celtic mysticism without sounding twee or trite. Forget the riot grrrls: Bush is the real thing. --Barney Hoskyns

Customer Reviews:

Perfection.......2007-03-02

I bought this in 1986, having heard Bill Humphries sing the praises of Kate Bush for months. It was the Spring-Summer of my triumphant return to UT Austin (before the inevitable Second Fall from Grace that was to occur a couple of years later), and while I had listened to this album quite a bit during my commute back and forth to classes that Spring, it cemented its hold in my heart during Winedale summer, as I prepared for the Shakespeare course that Mike Godwin had instructed me to enroll in during the Spring, then followed up for an intensive Summer section. Listening to it now reminds me of that summer, especially the first song, "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" and the entire "Ninth Wave" second half, in that I had indeed made a deal with God that I would try and turn my school life around and I was immersed, not so much in water, but in the creativity and spirit of Winedale. The album is somewhat bittersweet, and so was that summer, for while I indeed did well that year, it was a rough period, made more so by the ties I had been making with my girlfriend of the time (who would eventually become my wife, uhm, ten years later).

I had been primed to fall for the Divine Miss Bush for years, having spent my high school years listening to a progression of pop music (Elton John and Fleetwood Mac) to "hard rock" (Styx and Journey) to "art rock" (Genesis, Rush and Yes). The next step along that road was to experimental rock, and Laurie Anderson had been my introduction and Kate Bush became my guide in the form. At the time, since I hadn't heard much of Bush's previous work, I simply saw her as a companion to Peter Gabriel (she had, after all, performed a duet with him on his recent album, So, as had Anderson), who also went into the studio to drench her songs in layers and layers of production. The strangeness of some of "The Ninth Wave" washed over me, and it wasn't until years later that I actually took notice of how many things were actually going on in those songs. Now that I look at this album and compare it to her previous work, I see how some had rightly accused Bush of "selling out" to pop music, much like they had accused Gabriel of the same (my favorite memory of which is my friend Karl Rehn's rewrite of the chorus of "Sledgehammer" as "I want to be / Phil Collins"). Hounds of Love is defiantly pop, but this is pop with an edge.

Take, for example, the opening song, whose title was changed because her record company feared that "A Deal with God" would raise fundamentalist hackles in the States and Italy. Its insistent drum beat over the atmospheric synths belie the lyrics, which have nothing whatsover to do with the diety, but instead describe the love/hate symbiosis in most relationships. The titular deal is the narrator's urgent desire to be able to switch places, so as to better understand each other. (Of course, in all modesty, you could also read the lyrics as the narrator wanting to swap places with her lover so they could experience orgasm from each other's point of view. I'm just saying, and those moans in the background bear me out on this, I think.)

"It's in the trees! It's coming!" What? This is a pop record? What was that? That was the beginning to the second song, "Hounds of Love," that's even more over the top in its attempt to describe how much it feels to be the object of someone's affection, or perhaps the narrator's fear of being in love itself. As she runs from those hounds, she's unsure if she wants to be in love or to be pursued by love or to give in to her own feelings. I was 20, and in the throes of my first love affair, and I knew how she felt to be hounded by love.

"The Big Sky" changes the mood to be a little more light-hearted, almost childish, as the narrator rolls in the grass and focuses her attention on the shapes that she can see in the clouds. What I like most about this song is the vocal nonsense sounds in the background that are almost like Philip Glass in their repetition. Each of these first three songs are "big music," in the phraseology of Mike Scott of the Waterboys: they fill the room/car/arena with their sounds, so much so that the louder you play the song the more you hear going on.

But, as celebratory as the last song was, Bush quickly turns to a darker subject, and one of my favorite songs she has ever done, "Mother Stands for Comfort." Unlike the ambiguous nature of the first couple of songs, it's not hard to follow the lyrics on this one: from the breaking glass at the beginning, to the industrial background sounds, this is a song about a broken person, who adores his mother who "knows that I've been doing something wrong / But she won't say anything." In the chorus, the narrator even calls himself a madman. This is a sincerely creepy song, in which the music both supports its eerie theme as well as coats it over in slinkiness.

From one child to another, "Cloudbusting" is told from the point-of-view of Peter Reich, the young son of Wilhelm Reich. Drawn directly from Peter's book about his experience, it tells the story of when the government agents came for his father, interspersed with a child's love for his father and the dreams his father had instilled in him. It's an effective piece in that it makes you want to know more about Reich and his beliefs about Organon.

Thus ends side one on the album (for this was when artists still thought of Side A and Side B to match the order of songs on a piece of vinyl). Side B has an overall title of "The Ninth Wave," and describes a shipwreck survivor lost at sea, struggling to keep his or her head above the water. The opening song, "And Dream of Sleep," sets up this situation, and also manages to prefigure some of the experimental sections that follow in its small snippets of sound that merge into a collage all the while Bush sings sweetly about being seduced by sleep, which she cannot fall into lest she drop into the deep water and drown. The next section, "Under Ice," is chilling (pun intended), for the water the protagonist is in is cold, and the very real danger that she faces is underpinned by the minor key and urgent violin part. "Waking the Witch" puts the sound collage in the foreground, like a view into the protagonist's mind, a jumble of phrases and voices that abruptly seques into a call and response between a sinister male-type voice and a desperately stuttering staccato female voice, separated by sections of childlike chanting. This is the weirdest song on this album, and while there's nothing as outre in it as the braying donkey in "Get Out of the House" on The Dreaming, it would be hard to describe this as pop. (Interestingly enough, it's theme of judge and jury and the helicopter sample that ends it recalls, unintentionally I think, Pink Floyd's The Wall.) Returning to a more sedate, if still not normal, mood, "Watching You Without Me" starts as a lullabye, broken by a bridge of either nonsense or foreign lyrics not repeated in the liner notes as well as a repeat of the stuttering "talk to me, talk to me, talk to me" heard earlier. The point of the song, I think, is to provide a calm trough between "Waking the Witch" and "Jig of Life," the latter being a minor-key and darkly urgent variation on the traditional jig. By this time, the drowning theme has been downplayed to some extent, as these middle songs likely portray an inner struggle in the protagonist. "Hello Earth" brings us back to the story, however, by an implied comparison of the drowning person in the overall black sea to the Earth in the inky depths of the Universe. "With just one hand held up high / I can blot you out / out of sight" is a line written as if the Earth is viewed from off-Earth (the Moon or a space capsule), and later in the song the viewer sees storms forming over America and tries to warn the sailors and other in the water, including the poor drowning person, who is in the path of the storm. And then the finale comes, like the calm following the storm, a simple love song that is either the protagonists parting thoughts or, if you want to believe that she is actually rescued before drowning, her affirmation of life and understanding of the tenuousness of our existence by reiterating what she plans to do: "I'll kiss the ground / I'll tell my mother / I'll tell my father / I'll tell my loved one / I'll tell my brothers / How much I love them."

Is this pop? Maybe, perhaps, somewhat. Bush had always played with pop music tropes from her first success, the book turned song "Wuthering Heights," and each successive album contained some nods towards a simple ballad, but it wouldn't be until two albums following this one that Miss Bush would write her own "Sledgehammer" in "Rubberband Girl" (on The Red Shoes, an album that would also feature a song co-written and performed as a duet with his purpleness, Prince). To me, though, Hounds of Love is Bush's career high point, where her experimental art sensibilities were leavened with enough pop understanding to achieve a masterpiece of production, performance, and purpose, propelled with a singular power of vision and which wraps up in a peaceful platitude. Other albums contain highlights; only this one is perfection.

Best of 80s.......2007-02-17

To me, Kate Bush's Hounds of Love album exemplifies what 80s music was truly meant to be. Big sound, sweeping synthesizers, bold yet ethereal voice, powerful lyrics. On vacation last summer in Cape Cod, I borrowed the album from the local library there (my family and friends had brought along a selection of music CDs that was too mellow for my mood one day). Because our location was a little isolated, and everyone else had gone out fishing or shopping, I put this album on and blasted it. I was totally transported by Bush's singing and the wave of sound. I hit repeat 2 or 3 times and basked in the glory of this ultimate aural experience.

Kate Bush's masterpiece.......2007-01-09

Kate Bush's albums that came before Hounds Of Love are interesting and exciting in their own right, and those that followed displayed their own perspectives of Kate's musical genius - but Hounds Of Love is the pinnacle of Kate's skill, ability and, most importantly, her art.

Very few albums from 20+ years ago can still sound as contemporary and dynamic today as they did on the day they were released. But this album could be released tomorrow and would easily garner the critical praise and audience excitement and that it did in the mid-80s.

The greatest album ever recorded........2006-05-15

I saw Kate Bush in a dream last night, for only the second time (the first was before the release of _The Sensual World_). This is why I am here now.

I first heard Kate Bush on the radio while on the graveyard shift at work, in 1985. I was intrigued by the unusual sound of the music, and for a wonder, the DJ actually gave the name of the song, the album, and the artist -- it was Kate Bush singing "Running Up that Hill" on _Hounds of Love_. I went and bought the album, and though it didn't hugely impress me at first, it grew on me. The music on this album has a cryptic mysterious quality that one finds only in the greatest of art.

All of Kate's albums are at least very good, but this one is the best, and is my all-time favorite (see review title). There is a remastered edition of this CD with bonus tracks, but the original edition maintains an artistic unity which in my opinion is vitiated by the extra material. You would do well to buy either.

Ravishing........2006-04-26

AMAZING album. Everything about it is perfect. The songs, the imagery, the execution. On a song like the title track "Hounds of Love", you can really hear and feel Kate's ambition. Beautiful.

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Follow-up album a work of art
fantabulous classic

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Yalloppin' Hounds
Manufacturer: Yalloppin Ent
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ASIN: B00005UKLM
Release Date: 2001-10-16

Tracks:

Romantic Thugz
Sun Ray
You're Taken
Thugbrat
Reason for My Pain
Swing Free Rider
Keep It Tight
Don't Hate on the Hounds
Jacquet, Here's Ya Jacket!
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Get Out That Hole
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Why?

Album Description

The freshest musical entity for the new millennium. An innovative blend of the Hip-Hop attitude with real authentic Harlem Swing, as played by some of the best jazz musicians in the world today, who have paid dues with some of the Royalty of Swing, such as Lionel Hampton, the Louis Armstrong Band, Illinois Jacquet, and Panama Francis. They represent a return to truly original melodies, along with lyrics that are pertinent to life in the times we live in, rather than being retro. And...most of all, they swing their butts off!

Customer Reviews:

Follow-up album a work of art.......2003-08-07

This album, the much anticipated follow-up to the Hound's ground-breaking Ghetto Swing Extreme does not disappoint.

The lyrics are as usual beautiful and breathtaking and the musicianship is tight, the Mad Komposa's performances being no exception.

G-Clef's slice of life, original writing is a refreshing change to the countless cover bands trite renditions of classic swing songs that now typify the modern swing movement and cause the old masters to roll over in their graves.

The vocalist on this album is no other than Star Search Winner Vickie Natale, whose smooth melodic tones accentuate the solid musicianship. Peter Hartmann's Chet Baker-esque tones float lightly along the meloncholic track "You're Taken".

There is not a bad song on this album! However, this reviewer's personal favorites are Sunray and Letting Go.

Lord Sledge, Jeremy Bacon, and Herman X appear on this album as they did on GSE and their performances do not dissapoint. Mark McGowan, who also did a disc "Live at Showman's " with G-Clef is also showcased, as is the young, up-and-coming drummer, Marlon Sobol.

fantabulous classic.......2003-07-28

All I can say is.... everyone who knows the swing ressurgence knows this album as a classic now, with Sun Ray, Thugbrat and Romantic Thugs on it, not only is this one a classic for those who want an entire album to swing dance to, but musically speaking this one's far and above the rest. This may have been far and away the best Hounds' LP.

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NOT THE REMASTER!
Kate's Best Album Comes in Great Packaging but Not So Great Sound!

Hounds of Love
Kate Bush
Manufacturer: Toshiba EMI Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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The Whole Story

ASIN: B000BDJ61U
Release Date: 2005-11-14

Tracks:

Running up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Hounds of Love
Big Sky
Mother Stands for Comfort
Cloudbusting
And Dream of Sheep
Under Ice
Waking the Witch
Watching You Without Me
Jig of Life
Hello Earth
Morning Fog

Album Description

Japanese pressing of Kate's 1985 album. Comes packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. 12 tracks in total. Toshiba. 2005.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

Customer Reviews:

NOT THE REMASTER!.......2006-12-15

For some reason, Toshiba did not include the 18-track 1997 EMI remaster in this package.

Unless you just HAVE TO HAVE this mini-sleeve version, you would be spending 4X for inferior audio and six less tracks.

Kate's Best Album Comes in Great Packaging but Not So Great Sound!.......2005-12-14

This is an expensive version of Kate Bush's best album which is simply a work of art. Beautiful in many ways where every single track is a masterpiece of composition. Now this album mini-lp sleeve packaging is a work of art in itself and like most art, costs a bundle. The sound quality is patchy and the volume levels are higher for some tracks than they are for others. As this version of the disc is not remastered either, you'll have to decide whether or not to pay the much higher price for this disc if you either already have the remastered version of this or even any other version if the packaging is not important to you. If you are new to Kate's work and don't yet have this, you may have to decide if sound quality is important to you as well. Otherwise, although the tracks are good and the album itself is worth getting, I'm not sure if it makes economic sense to pay so much just for the mlps. Just my 2cts worth.

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Hounds of Love
Kate Bush
Manufacturer: Musicrama/Koch
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ASIN: B0002B9S14
Release Date: 2003-11-25

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PHONES' remix takes the brilliant original to a whole new level!

Hounds of Love
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Manufacturer: Wea International
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ASIN: B0007PLZ20
Release Date: 2005-02-28

Tracks:

Album Version
Phones' Wolf At The Door Remix

Album Description

The single has received amazing support from Radio (Radio 1 daytime C-list five week up front and Jo Whiley single of the Week) and TV (MTV2 aired the video 70 times in its first week, and it's on the MTVUK C-list). 679 Records. 2005.

Album Details

Following Up the Success of "Decent Days and Nights" and "Meantime", this Third Single (From their Self Titled Debut Album) is an Amazing Interpretation of the Kate Bush Classic. Includes an Exclusive B- Track, "Phone's Wolf at the Door". The Band Toured on the 2005 Nme Shockwaves Tour with the Killers, Bloc Party and the Kaiser Chiefs.

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PHONES' remix takes the brilliant original to a whole new level!.......2005-08-10

You thought FUTUREHEADS' stunnning, soaring remake of KATE BUSH's HOUNDS OF LOVE was smashing? Now try PHONES' mind-blowing remix, taking the original mix of the remake to a whole new level on the dancefloor or in your own headphones - the sound of things falling apart never sound this good - sorta glitch house deconstruction - HERBERT on steroids - WOW!

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Hounds of Love
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Skip to the End

ASIN: B0007PLZ2A
Release Date: 2005-02-28

Tracks:

Hounds of Love
Decent Days and Nights [Acoustic]
Hounds of Love [Mystery Jet's Pirate Invasion]
Man Made (A Mistake)
Hounds of Love [Multimedia Track]

Album Description

Album Details

Following Up the Success of "Decent Days and Nights" and "Meantime", this Third Single (From their Self Titled Debut Album) is an Amazing Interpretation of the Kate Bush Classic. Includes Exclusive B- Tracks and the Enhanced Video of the Title Track. The Band Toured on the 2005 Nme Shockwaves Tour with the Killers, Bloc Party and the Kaiser Chiefs.

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NOT A GOOD DEAL

Hounds of Love/Sensual World
Kate Bush
Manufacturer: EMI
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002RK8VC
Release Date: 2004-09-13

Tracks:

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Hounds Of Love
The Big Sky
Mother Stands For Comfort
Cloudbusting
And Dream Of Sheep
Under Ice
Waking The Witch
Watching You Without Me
Jig Of Life
Hello Earth
The Morning Fog
The Big Sky (Meteorogical Mix)
Running Up That Hill (12 Inch Mix)
Be Kind To My Mistakes
Under The Ivy
Burning Bridge
My Lagan Love

Tracks:

The Sensual World
Love And Anger
The Fog
Reaching Out
Heads We're Dancing
Deeper Understanding
Between A Man And A Woman
Never Be Mine
Rocket's Tail
This Woman's Work
Walk Straight Down The Middle

Album Description

Limited edition box-set combines the iconic singer/songwriter's 1985 & 1989 albums. Two CD set packaged in a slipcase. EMI. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

NOT A GOOD DEAL.......2006-02-23

The "Hounds" CD included here is the 1997 remastered, expanded version.

However, "Sensual" is the original 1989 release (that has never been remastered and sounds terrible on CD).

So, the added expense of this set, which offers nothing more than a cheap outside slipcover to the two discs, isn't a "best buy". You can readily purchase the stand-alone remastered "Hounds" for less than half the price of this set.

There was much 'net chatter two years ago that Kate was remastering her catalog, but nothing has ever been released.

That includes the 2006 release of the expensive Japanese "LP mini-sleeve" CD's; they are the same old masters that have been around for 20 years.

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Release The Hounds
Sand Rubies , sidewinders , and Rich Hopkins
Manufacturer: san Jacinto
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000LXWXXS

Product Description

THIS CD IS OUT OF PRINT (OOP),IT WAS A LIMITED EDITION . LIMITED TO ONLY 1,000 PRESSED. THIS CD FEATURES RARE & MOSTLY EXCLUSIVE UNRELEASED TRACKS AND OUT TAKES & LIVE RECORDINGGS from the Sidewinders and Sand Rubies. Tracks: When The Time Comes, (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone, Memories Are Made Of This, Nature's Way, All Along The Watchtower, You're Gonna Miss Me, I Should've Known Better, Grey Riders, Little Black Egg, Starry Eyes, Rockin' In The Free World, Signed D.C.