King of the Mountain [Single, Import]

Kate Bush | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 1, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single, Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B000BJE85I
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #681,896 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. King Of The Mountain

2. Sexual Healing

Editorial Reviews

First single in 12 years. Taken from the forthcoming double album 'Aerial' Features exclusive B-SIDE 'Sexual Healing' which is over 10 Minutes long. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Queen of the Mountain and Top of the Hill!, October 29, 2005

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Akimon Azuki - See all my reviews

This review is from: King of the Mountain (Audio CD)

If you love Kate, you will probably want get this single no matter what, and keep drooling all over it thinking about the upcoming album, but here's a quick scoop on why this is such a tasty release.
The sleeve design for starters: no glossy photos, just that beautiful drawing done by Kate's son, and the whole thing is printed on real cardboard paper, very shabby chic and very cool. Once you take the inner sleeve out, you get to see a beautiful photo of Kate, and the lyrics to King of the Hill are printed on the back of it.
The King of the Mountain is a great big song, trancey and building up to a kicking climax. It reminds me of Cloudbusting, but this is definitely new, different Kate. Her vocals start strange, with a very cotton-mouth, novocaine feel at first, but that makes perfect sense if you think about the lyrics and the Citizen Kane/Elvis story told in the song. Then she lets loose and her voice soars through these beautiful lines. I don't think Kate ever gets the full credit for how good she is as a singer, but as someone who runs in the classical music circles and spends a lot of time dissecting vocal technique, all I can say Kate's voice is top notch, perfectly controlled but so expressive at the same time.
The funky and trippy guitars and cool swooshy sound effects add flavor to the King of the Mountain. Fabulous song!
The B-side song on this single has Kate doing "Sexual Healing" and what a crazy version that is. Fast and springly, with a little touch of the swinging Roxy Music funk, and Kate sounding unbelievably girly. And it also has uilleann pipes jazzing in the background. If you never heard a Celtic flavoured take on that Marvin Gaye classic, here's your chance. It's as if Molly Bloom got plucked out of Sensual World and transported to a New York bar. Great stuff...
This single is a royal gift from Kate and a worthy herald for Aerial.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The nervous wait paid off, October 31, 2005

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ANDREW BIGGS (Bangkok, Thailand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: King of the Mountain (Audio CD)

I was so nervous as I tuned in to BBC Radio (all the way from here in Bangkok via the internet) to hear the first play of King of the Mountain. We Bush fans have been craving new material for 12 years. For the first couple of years after The Red Shoes we had to be content with an occasional track here and there ('Mna Na Eiran, Rocket Man and all those bootlegged demo tracks) but when oh when was Ms Bush going to put little Bertie into creche and get on with her real task at hand? Well here in late 2005 she finally did it. Six weeks after hearing KOTM for the first time I still love it; the creepy, creeping beginning which builds up to an almost terrifying climax with wind whistling, ghosts howling, and thankfully, Bush at her dramatic best. Now comes the agonizing wait for Aerial, and the knowledge that once I've listened to it, I won't be hearing anything else from Ms Bush until 2023.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I waited .... and was rewarded. :), November 6, 2005

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Scott Bennett (Madison, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: King of the Mountain (Audio CD)

The other reviewers have eloquently stated exactly what I would say so I would only be paraphrasing them. I'm actually numb, waiting until Tuesday when I can hear new Kate songs. It's like a dream. I put her above all others (ok, maybe equal with Annie Lennox) in the pantheon of Goddesses, and I CANNOT wait to have more. KOTM is a great song. What you get from Kate is never expected, but unique. Sadly, American radio is terrible and will probably never play it. Thankfully, we have the internet and other areas to listen to music these days. I know there are others out there that are faithfully awaiting this album, and if this single is any indication, we are in for quite the treat. Welcome back, Kate darling. We missed you.