Help settle a debate

[Saveman]

Please tell me what style of music is Kate Bush?

[The Pepsi Challenge]

I'd have to say Pop.

[Jeid]

I'd have to say Pop.

What he said...

[Bobinovich]

Could you not have asked an easier question like "Whats the meaning of life"?? As Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bush#Musical_style) eloquently put it "...difficult to define the musical genre of Bush's work because there are few other artists like her."

IMO she's one artist I don't think should/can be pidgeonholed.

[Deemac]

Singer / songwriter . . . . .

Pop just seems too 'vulgar' where Miss Bush is concerned.

At a push - Classic Pop!

[Saveman]

I should have said help settle a debate....in my favour!:D

Folk Pop anyone? Or am I listening to a different Kate Bush? ;)

[Jeemag_USA]

its a difficult one, and like you said I was leaning more towards folk, possibly creating a new genre and calling it contemporary folk rock or contemporary folk pop??

What about Glass Shattering Female Crooner :L

[Cedric Farthsbottom III]

I would say contemporary goth Kate Bush is.She's no pop she's no cheesy enough for that.

[Phoebus_Apollo]

She`s a mix of pop,rock,folk and classical - so that particular sub-genre would be defined as porofocla;)

[the_big_mac]

She`s a mix of pop,rock,folk and classical - so that particular sub-genre would be defined as porofocla;)

Well she's firmly filed under "Rubbish" with me ;)

[rob murray]

Pop ? ha ha ha ha ha ha, would you call Picasso a house painter, jeezo, whatever next, Led Zepp as a boy band, The Pistols as emo ( whatever that nonsense means ) Guns and Roses as a rockabilly act. I thought that the Foo Fighters were an ideal example of a pop group ( bit loud though ), she sounds sorta different to them in ways.

Good question actually, she is quite possibly one of a few who remain undefinable as regards a genre classification. Top girl, obviously causes plenty annoyance.

[Jeid]

Pop ? ha ha ha ha ha ha, would you call Picasso a house painter, jeezo, whatever next, Led Zepp as a boy band, The Pistols as emo ( whatever that nonsense means ) Guns and Roses as a rockabilly act. I thought that the Foo Fighters were an ideal example of a pop group ( bit loud though ), she sounds sorta different to them in ways.

Good question actually, she is quite possibly one of a few who remain undefinable as regards a genre classification. Top girl, obviously causes plenty annoyance.

Led Zep were a boy band Rob and the Pistols were the first official emo band... you heard it here first ;)

[Gizmo]

Avant-Garde Pop......she does push the boundries of what is generally accepted as pop.

[Gleber2]

Well she's firmly filed under "Rubbish" with me ;)
Me too!!!!!!

[rob murray]

Me too!!!!!!

Did you know that the bush one was 18 when she wrote her first album ! I would say that she was a one off !

[Gleber2]

Did you know that the bush one was 18 when she wrote her first album ! I would say that she was a one off !
Can't stand the woman's music whether she was ten years old or fifty when she wrote it. [evil]

[rob murray]

Can't stand the woman's music whether she was ten years old or fifty when she wrote it. [evil]

Thought that as an artist yourself you would at least appreciate her undoubted imagination and very youthful musical ability, dont really like her stuff myself but obviously millions of people do.

[The Pepsi Challenge]

Hanson recorded their first album when they were still in the womb, but it matters not. Kate Bush was a slightly eccentric, quite creative oddball who lends further weight to the suggestion that the 80s should be completely, and utterly, destroyed. Now Hazel O' Connor on the other hand...

[K dragon]

i would say kate bush in the eighties is alternative pop.

she wasnt bubble pop and it wasnt the 80's goth scene or the new romantics....the only genre i can say is alternative electro pop.

running up that hill and cloud busting personal faves.

[the_big_mac]

i would say kate bush in the eighties is alternative pop.

she wasnt bubble pop and it wasnt the 80's goth scene or the new romantics....the only genre i can say is alternative electro pop.

running up that hill and cloud busting personal faves.

I didnt realize there was a 80's goth scene?

[K dragon]

oh yeah, sisters of mercy etc etc

paradise lost, the misfits were punk goth,

even nine inch nails in the late nineteen eighties were part of the gothic scene.

[the_big_mac]

oh yeah, sisters of mercy etc etc

paradise lost, the misfits were punk goth,

even nine inch nails in the late nineteen eighties were part of the gothic scene.

For the exception of maybe the misfits, I would never have described any of that goth.

Just plain old heavy metal for me.

[Jeid]

Paradise Lost are goth I think... I'm pretty sure they put themselves into that category with the kids. Could be wrong though.

NiN however... nah, not goth. Pretty good though

[The Pepsi Challenge]

For what's it worth I always thought goth music was heavy metal only with more keyboards in it. NIN, in my view, were industrial metal, though not in the strictest sense of the word. exes-X44 were industrial metal. Speaking of Nine Inch Nails, them, alongside Rage Against The Machine, Slayer, Helmet and White Zombie, were some of the best gigs I'd ever seen - and am not a huge heavy rock/metal fan.

[rob murray]

For what's it worth I always thought goth music was heavy metal only with more keyboards in it. NIN, in my view, were industrial metal, though not in the strictest sense of the word. exes-X44 were industrial metal. Speaking of Nine Inch Nails, them, alongside Rage Against The Machine, Slayer, Helmet and White Zombie, were some of the best gigs I'd ever seen - and am not a huge heavy rock/metal fan.

Depends on what period you are placing "goth" ie The Banshee's, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, The Mission, Southern Death Cult, all early / mid 80's, not a trace of metal in any of them.

[The Pepsi Challenge]

... and there's where we differ.

[K dragon]

has anbody heard nine inch nails's ep/album pretty hate machine, it was at that time part of the underground goth scene.

but again its a prefrence isnt.

[The Pepsi Challenge]

PHM is a quality album: 80s without sounding totally 80s. You remember Reznor's first band before forming NIN? Imagine Depeche Mode on a bad hair day (which is saying something). I used to play Head Like A Hole with two bass players and two drummers. Quality track.

[Geo]

Kate Bush: Progressive folk pop.

[K dragon]

pepsi used to play head like a hole!!!

my world is tipped on its head lol

the album is amazing.