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Jul. 12th, 2009 10:52 pm
New Music Sundays Retro:
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Kate Bush Cloudbusting: a great song and film I miss this style of video that tells a story rather than showing the singer clutching their lumps or someone else's.
It was the second single released from her no.1 1985 album Hounds of Love. "Cloudbusting" peaked at no.20 in the UK Singles Chart. In the UK it was shown at some cinemas as an accompaniment to the main feature.
The song describes Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich's arrest and incarceration through the eyes of his son, Peter, who later wrote his father's story in "A Book of Dreams," published in 1973. The video was directed by Julian Doyle, conceived by Terry Gilliam and Kate Bush.
Wilhelm Reich's cloudbuster was the inspiration for the song. The cloudbuster (or cloud buster) was developed by Reich with the ostensible purpose of draining clouds of "orgone energy". Reich believed that such energy surrounded the earth, and that a cloudbuster would act as a rain-maker. In Reich's view, clouds and rainfall were natural accumulations of orgone energy, and cloudbusters used "orgone accumulators" attached to pipes. These were intended to focus and direct the collected energy into the atmosphere, thus stimulating cloud growth and rainfall. This is considered pseudoscience, despite Reich's claims of evidence of their operation in experiments he undertook.
Kate Bush Cloudbusting: a great song and film I miss this style of video that tells a story rather than showing the singer clutching their lumps or someone else's.
It was the second single released from her no.1 1985 album Hounds of Love. "Cloudbusting" peaked at no.20 in the UK Singles Chart. In the UK it was shown at some cinemas as an accompaniment to the main feature.
The song describes Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich's arrest and incarceration through the eyes of his son, Peter, who later wrote his father's story in "A Book of Dreams," published in 1973. The video was directed by Julian Doyle, conceived by Terry Gilliam and Kate Bush.
Wilhelm Reich's cloudbuster was the inspiration for the song. The cloudbuster (or cloud buster) was developed by Reich with the ostensible purpose of draining clouds of "orgone energy". Reich believed that such energy surrounded the earth, and that a cloudbuster would act as a rain-maker. In Reich's view, clouds and rainfall were natural accumulations of orgone energy, and cloudbusters used "orgone accumulators" attached to pipes. These were intended to focus and direct the collected energy into the atmosphere, thus stimulating cloud growth and rainfall. This is considered pseudoscience, despite Reich's claims of evidence of their operation in experiments he undertook.