Song · Kate Bush
“Love and Anger” by Kate Bush
From the album The Sensual World (1989)
“Love and Anger” by Kate Bush appears on 6 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1989 and 2022. It was first released in 1989 on the album The Sensual World. Its best result is #11 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 1989. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #48 alternative song of 1989, #4,495 alternative song of all time and #339 of the '80s.
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"Love and Anger" comes from The Sensual World, Kate Bush's sixth album, and it's the record's big, driving rock moment, with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour adding guitar. Bush wrote it and produced it, and the band is a tight one: John Giblin on bass, Stuart Elliott on drums, and Paddy Bush on backing vocals and the valiha, with Del Palmer recording and Kevin Killen mixing.
In America it was her first single for her new label, Columbia, and airplay carried it to the top of Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks in December 1989; no other Bush single would top an American chart of any kind until 2022. Britain got it as the album's third and final single in February 1990, backed with music Bush wrote for an episode of The Comic Strip.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 59 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1989 | 107 |
| 1989 | 11 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1989 | 90 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 283 | Live 105 | Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1990) | 299 |
| 2002 | 1523 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 1013 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2022 | 337 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
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