Hounds Of Love

KATE BUSH Released Her Classic 5th Album ‘HOUNDS OF LOVE’ Today 40 Years Ago

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

16 September 2025

Legendary songstress KATE BUSH (aged 67 now) released her 5th album
HOUNDS OF LOVE on 16 September 1985, today 40 years ago.

It topped the UK Charts and peaked at #30 in the USA

Hounds of Love received critical acclaim in both contemporary and retrospective
reviews. It is considered by many fans and music critics to be her best album.

The LP was produced as two suites, with side one being subtitled Hounds of Love and side two a seven-track concept piece subtitled The Ninth Wave. The album has been described as post-progressive because Bush voices themes of love and womanly passion rather than the usual male viewpoints associated with progressive rock.

Brett Anderson (frontman Suede): “I love the way it’s a record of two halves, and the second half is a concept record about fear of drowning. It’s an amazing record to listen to really late at night, unsettling and really jarring.”

Pitchfork said: “With her self-produced fifth album, Kate Bush became a total auteur, embracing the possibilities of digital sampling synthesizers and creating a perfect marriage
of technique and exploration. She became the most musically serious and yet outwardly whimsical star of her time.

KEY SINGLES

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KATE BUSH Released Her Delirious Hit Single ‘RUNNING UP THAT HILL’ 40 Years Ago Today

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Top singles from the past

5 August 2020

Highly influential icon KATE BUSH (67 now) released her delirious hit single
RUNNING UP THAT HILL today 40 years ago, on 5 August 1980. It featured
on her 5th LP Hounds Of Love .

It hit #3 in the UK,, it went top-10 in several
European countries and stranded at #30 in
the US.

Stuart Elliott (the drummer on the single): “The tension in that track is just remarkable. Every step of the way, there’s a little twist and turn that’s different from the previous verse,
an extra line or one line less, or a repeat just in the perfect places. There’s absolutely no dead space. It’s just so deceptively simple.”

Bush said the lyrics address the inability of men and women to understand each other. She imagined that by making “a deal with God”, they could exchange places and reach a greater understanding. The song was actually originally titled “A Deal with God“.

Her record label, EMI Records, felt this was sensitive and could limit its radio play. Bush agreed to change it as she had not had a hit song in some time and wanted to “give the album a chance“. But on the album, it was named “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)”.

Run, Kate.

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‘HOUNDS OF LOVE’ By FUTUREHEADS – Released 15 Years Ago Today…

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21 February 2020

Band: The Futureheads (2000–2013, 2018–present)
Single: Hounds Of Love
B-side: Man Made
Released: 21 February 2005 – 15 years ago today
Album: Self-titled debut LP  – released in 2004
Note 1: The song is a cover of Kate Bush’s title track
from her third album – released in 1985 – a song about
being afraid to fall in love, in the song this feeling is
compared to being chased by a pack of hounds
Note 2:When performing the song live the band
sometimes divided up the audience in two halves to sing
the a capella parts of the track which usually brought the
public into a state of euphoria (I experienced it myself once)
Score: The single peaked at #8 on the UK Singles Chart
and was NME’s track of the year

Here we go… Oh Oh Oh

Sing along live version (Glastonbury 2005)…

Kate Bush‘s original version…

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