(Conversation Disc Series, ABCD012, 1985) The ideas for 'Hounds Of Love', the title track, are very much to do with love itself and people being afraid of it, the idea of wanting to run away from love, not to let love catch them, and trap them, in case the hounds might want to tear them to pieces and it's very much using the imagery of love as something coming to get you and you've got to run away from it or you won't survive. Maybe the being involved isn't as horrific as your imagination can build it up to being - perhaps these baying hounds are really friendly. They can involve pain, confusion and responsibilities, and I think a lot of people are particularly scared of responsibility. I wonder if everyone is perhaps ruled by fear, and afraid of getting into relationships on some level or another.
“ is really about someone who is afraid of being caught by the hounds that are chasing him. I will discuss how various magazines and sites have ranked the song but, first, I want to draw from the Kate Bush Encyclopaedia, where we get some background to the song: When people rank the songs on Hounds of Love’s first side – the second side, The Ninth Wave, is a conceptual suite -, they normally put Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) first, and then Cloudbusting might come next. Now, I want to give an overview of a truly moment in Kate Bush’s career. With the single’s thirty-fifth anniversary occurring relatively soon, I may come back to the song and take a more specific look at it. Released on 24th February, 1986, it reached number-eighteen in the U.K. The title track was the third single from the album. The Hounds of Love album turned thirty-five back in September, and I was eager to explore it from a number of different angles and get behind individual songs. If I have already featured Hounds of Love then forgive repetition.
I have covered so many Kate Bush tracks, but I don’t think I have detailed this one – I wrote about The Big Sky, Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God), Mother Stands for Comfort, and Cloudbusting previously. To see if I have done a feature specifically about Hounds of Love’s title track.
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