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}} ''Hounds of Love'' is the fifth studio album by the English singer Kate Bush, released by EMI Records on 16 September 1985. It was a commercial success and marked a return to the public eye for Bush after the relatively poor sales of her previous album ''The Dreaming''. It was Bush's second album to top the UK Albums Chart and her best-selling studio album, having been certified double platinum for 600,000 sales in the UK,〔(British Phonographic Industry searchable website )〕 and by 1998 it had sold 1.1 million copies worldwide. In the US, it reached the top 40 on the Billboard 200. The album's lead single, "Running Up That Hill", became one of Bush's biggest hits, and it produced three further successful singles, "Cloudbusting", "Hounds of Love", and "The Big Sky", all taken from the album's first side. The second side forms a concept album about a person drifting alone in the sea at night. ''Hounds of Love'' received critical acclaim on its release and in retrospective reviews. It is considered by many fans and music critics to be Bush's best album, and has been regularly voted one of the greatest albums of all time. The album was nominated at the 1986 BRIT Awards for Best Album, where Bush was also nominated for the awards for Best Producer, Best Female Artist, and for Best Single ("Running Up That Hill"). ==Production== Following the disappointing performance of her fourth album ''The Dreaming'' and its singles, executives at Bush's label were concerned about sales largely due to the long time period it took to produce the album. "I finished my last album, did the promotion, then found myself in a kind of limbo," she later explained. "It took me four or five months to be able even to write again. It's very difficult when you've been working for years, doing one album after another. You need fresh things to stimulate you. That's why I decided to take a bit of the summer out and spend time with my boyfriend and with my family and friends, just relaxing. Not being Kate Bush the singer; just being myself."〔Goodman, Clive: 'Return of the vanishing lady', ''Daily Mail'' 6 August 1985〕 In the summer of 1983 Bush built her own 48-track studio in the barn behind her family home which she could use to her advantage and at anytime she liked.〔http://gaffa.org/reaching/i85_q1.html〕 With the studio more or less completed, Bush began recording demos for the album in January 1984. Rather than re-record music, Bush took the original rough demos and enhanced them during the recording sessions. After five months, Bush began overdubbing and mixing the album in a process that took a full year. The recording sessions included use of the Fairlight CMI synthesiser, piano, traditional Irish instruments, and layered vocals. The chorale in "Hello Earth" is a segment from the traditional Georgian song "Tsintskaro," performed by the Richard Hickox Singers. The lines "It's in the trees! It's coming!" from the beginning of the title track are taken from a seance scene from the 1957 British horror film ''Night of the Demon'', spoken by actor Reginald Beckwith.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viAAMs7aCGE&t=35s )〕 The album was produced as two suites - side one being "Hounds of Love" and side two a seven-track concept piece called "The Ninth Wave". Bush described it as being "About a person who is alone in the water for the night. It's about their past, present and future coming to keep them awake, to stop them drowning, to stop them going to sleep until the morning comes." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hounds of Love」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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