1985's Hounds of Love
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there's piano in parts & some synthesizers.
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This jaw-dropping album could almost be called the feminine counterpart to Bowie's 'Low': it has the same structure (half pop songs, half prog experiment) but 'Hounds Of Love' has much stronger themes (childhood, isolation, obsession, witchcraft, skating) and is very much its own beast. Footnote: 'Hounds Of Love' + psilocybin = space travel.
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Far and away the greatest album ever recorded. Very few artists can create such vivid images and elicit such powerful emotion through music. The first section of the album,
Hounds Of Love, contains some of the best pop songs of the 80's,
Cloudbusting being arguably one of the best songs ever written. The string arrangement is flawless, the gradual crescendo of the drums is seamless, the moving, literary lyrics are timeless.
The last seven songs, a concept album entitled
The Ninth Wave, tell of a woman stranded at sea, drifting in and out of consciousness, presumably thrown from a ship during a storm. The brilliance is simply beyond words; songs like
Watching You Without Me and
Hello Earth not only tell a story, but create a scene and
bring you to it. There's no way to describe this album other than that it pulls you in and makes you
feel the songs in ways few other albums can.