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The Sensual World
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Studio album by Kate Bush
Released 16 October 1989
Recorded 1987�1989
Studio Wickham Farm Home Studio (Welling, England) and Windmill Lane Studios
Genre Art rock, baroque pop, progressive pop[1]
Length 42:10 (LP)
45:58 (CD)
Label EMI all territories except the US, Columbia (US)
Producer Kate Bush
Kate Bush chronology
The Whole Story
(1986) The Sensual World
(1989) This Woman's Work: Anthology 1978�1990
(1990)
Singles from The Sensual World
"The Sensual World"
Released: 18 September 1989
"This Woman's Work"
Released: 20 November 1989
"Love and Anger"
Released: 26 February 1990
The Sensual World is the sixth studio album by the English singer Kate Bush. It was
released in October 1989 and peaked at no. 2 on the UK Albums Chart. It has been
certified Platinum by the BPI for sales of 300,000 in the UK,[2] and Gold by the
RIAA in the US.[3]

Contents
1 Overview
2 Critical reception
3 Track listing
4 Personnel
5 Charts
5.1 Weekly charts
5.2 Year-end charts
5.3 Certifications and sales
6 The Sensual World � The Videos
7 See also
8 References
Overview
Bush drew inspiration for the title track from the novel Ulysses by James Joyce.
Bush realised that Molly Bloom's soliloquy, the closing passage of the novel, fit
the music she had created. When the Joyce estate refused to release the text, Bush
wrote original lyrics that echo the original passage, as Molly steps from the pages
of the book and revels in the real world.[4] She also alluded to "Jerusalem" by
William Blake in a reference to the song's gestation ("And my arrows of desire
rewrite the speech"). The song includes Irish instrumentation (uilleann pipes,
fiddle, whistle) under a breathy rendering of the orgasmic 'Yes' of the original
text.

The songs "Deeper Understanding", "Never Be Mine", and "Rocket's Tail" all feature
backing vocals by the Bulgarian vocal ensemble Trio Bulgarka. "Heads We're Dancing"
includes a characteristic Mick Karn fretless bassline. The song "This Woman's Work"
from the movie She's Having a Baby (1988) was re-edited for this album. On 27
November 2005 it was featured in the British TV drama Walk Away and I Stumble
starring Tamzin Outhwaite. Due to that broadcast, the song reached #3 on the UK
download chart in late 2005.[5] This song has also been used in a long-running UK
television advert for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, broadcast in 2005�2008, and in the Extras Christmas Special in 2007. A
version of the song was recorded by R&B artist Maxwell in 1997 for his MTV
Unplugged album.

Released as CD players were becoming increasingly popular, the original LP ended

with "This Woman's Work", whilst "Walk Straight Down the Middle" was included as a
bonus track on the CD and cassette versions of the album. The gap between these two
tracks is slightly longer to indicate the album was intended to finish with "This
Woman's Work".

A video collection called The Sensual World: The Videos was also released. It
contained videos for the title song, "Love and Anger", and "This Woman's Work" (all
directed by Bush herself), as well as excerpts from an interview Bush gave to the
music TV channel VH1.

In 1991, The Sensual World received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best
Alternative Music Album.[6]

Bush was also nominated for two BRIT Awards in 1990 as Best British Producer and
Best British Album of the Year for the album The Sensual World.

In May 2011, Bush released a new album, Director's Cut which featured new versions
of four songs from The Sensual World, including the title song now called "Flower
of the Mountain". Finally having received permission from the Joyce estate, Bush
recorded a new vocal using Molly Bloom's soliloquy as the lyric. Additionally, she
re-recorded a sparse, piano-only version of "This Woman's Work". The new version of
"Deeper Understanding" was released as a single, with an accompanying video.

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars[7]
Chicago Tribune 3/4 stars[8]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music 4/5 stars[9]
Los Angeles Times 4/5 stars[10]
NME 9/10[11]
Q 4/5 stars[12]
Record Mirror 5/5 stars[13]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4/5 stars[14]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 8/10[15]
The Village Voice B[16]
"While Bush's famously fey voice would probably be enough to hold the disparate
strands of The Sensual World together, the album takes its cue and colouring too
from the hypnotically sinuous sway of the pipes on the title track," wrote Robert
Sandall in Q. "There are some strapping power chords to be despatched here and
there, most notably on Love And Anger, but the dominant mood is of Oriental
reverie, similar in feel to that achieved latterly by Japan. And the last track on
A side, Heads We're Dancing, reproduces that mysteriously sproingy bass sound
favoured by Mick Karn."[12] Slant Magazine listed the album at number 55 on its
list of the "Best Albums of the 1980s", writing, "Blessed with one of music's most
wildly expressive voices, Bush takes each song further than she has to, resulting
in an album that forms its own unique world."[17]

Track listing
All tracks written by Kate Bush.

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "The Sensual World" 3:57
2. "Love and Anger" 4:42
3. "The Fog" 5:04
4. "Reaching Out" 3:11
5. "Heads We're Dancing" 5:17
Side two
No. Title Length
6. "Deeper Understanding" 4:46
7. "Between a Man and a Woman" 3:29
8. "Never Be Mine" 3:43
9. "Rocket's Tail" 4:06
10. "This Woman's Work" 3:32
CD bonus track
Personnel
Kate Bush - piano, keyboards, vocals, producer
Paddy Bush - mandolin (4), valiha (2), tupan (6), whip (swished fishing rod) (1),
backing vocals (2)
Dr. Bush (Robert Bush, Kate's father) - dialogue (3)
Clare Connors - violin (4)
Stuart Elliott - drums (2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
John Giblin - bass guitar (2, 6, 9)
David Gilmour - guitar (2, 9)
Michael Kamen - orchestra arrangement (3, 5, 10)
Mick Karn - bass guitar (5)
Nigel Kennedy - violin (3), viola (5)
D�nal Lunny - bouzouki (1)
Charlie Morgan - drums (1, 4, 6, 11)
Alan Murphy - guitar (3, 5, 7)
Michael Nyman - string arrangements (4)
Del Palmer - bass guitar (1, 4, 7), percussion (5), rhythm guitar (5), engineer,
Fairlight CMI percussion, mixing (11)
Justin Pearson - cello (4)
Dimitar Penev - arranger
Yanka Rupkina - solo vocalist (6, 9)
John Sheahan - fiddle (1)
Davy Spillane - whistle (3), uilleann pipes (1, 8)
Alan Stivell - Celtic harp (3, 7), backing vocals (7)
Trio Bulgarka - vocals (6, 8, 9)
Eberhard Weber - double bass (8, 11)
Bill Whelan - arranger
Jonathan Williams - cello (3, 5, 7)
Balanescu Quartet - strings (4)
Technical
Haydn Bendall - engineer
Andrew Boland - engineer
Paul Gomazel - engineer
Kevin Killen - engineer, mixing
Tom Leader - assistant engineer
John Grimes - assistant engineer
Ian Cooper - cutting engineer
Charts
Weekly charts
Chart (1989/90) Position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart[18] 30
Canadian RPM Albums Chart[19] 14
Dutch Mega Albums Chart[20] 16
French SNEP Albums Chart [21] 38
German Media Control Albums Chart [22] 10
Italian Albums Chart[23] 14
Japanese Oricon Albums Chart[24] 18
New Zealand Albums Chart [25] 27
Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart[26] 7
Swedish Albums Chart[27] 17
Swiss Albums Chart[28] 11
UK Albums Chart [29] 2
United States Billboard 200[30] 43
Year-end charts
Chart (1989) Position
Canadian Albums Chart[31] 93
Italian Albums Chart[23] 66
UK Albums Chart[32] 45
Certifications and sales
Region Certification Certified units/Sales
Canada (Music Canada)[33] Gold 50,000^
France (SNEP)[34] Gold 95,300 [35]*
Japan (Oricon Charts) 20,010[36]
United Kingdom (BPI)[37] Platinum 330,000[32]
United States (RIAA)[3] Gold 500,000^
Worldwide (IFPI) N/A 1,500,000+
^shipments figures based on certification alone
The Sensual World � The Videos
The Sensual World � The Videos
Video by Kate Bush
Released 1990
Recorded 1989�1990
Genre Alternative rock, art rock
Length 16 minutes
Label CMV Enterprises
Director Peter Richardson, Kate Bush
Kate Bush chronology
The Whole Story
(1987) The Sensual World � The Videos
(1990) The Line, the Cross & the Curve
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMovie 4/5 stars[39]
Track listing
"Interview" 0:36
"The Sensual World" 5:15
"Love and Anger" 4:43
"This Woman's Work" 6:31
See also
Kate Bush discography
List of awards and nominations received by Kate Bush
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