Love and Anger

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"Love and Anger"
Single by Kate Bush
from the album The Sensual World
B-side "Ken"
"The Confrontation"
"One Last Look around the House before We Go"
Released 26 February 1990 (1990-02-26)
Format 7" vinyl, 12" vinyl, CD, Cassette
Recorded 1987-1989
Genre Art rock
Length 4:41
Label EMI (except U.S.)
Columbia Records (U.S.)
Writer(s) Kate Bush
Producer Kate Bush
Kate Bush singles chronology
"This Woman's Work"
(1989)
"Love and Anger"
(1990)
"Rocket Man"
(1991)
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"Love and Anger" is a song written and performed by the British singer Kate Bush. It was the third and final single to be released from her album The Sensual World in 1990, and peaked at no.38 on UK Singles Chart[1]. The song also reached no.1 on the U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart[2], Bush's only chart-topper on any U.S. chart.

"Love and Anger" was also Bush's debut single on her new U.S. label, Columbia Records. EMI America allegedly "forgot" to renew her contract, so Columbia picked her up.

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[edit] B-sides

The B-sides on the single were "Ken", "One Last Look around the House before We Go" and "The Confrontation", the latter two of which are instrumentals and were only available on the CD release and 12" version of this single. All three songs were written for the episode GLC: The Carnage Continues... of the British TV program The Comic Strip. "Ken" was the theme music for the episode's parody of a Hollywood action movie about British politician Ken Livingstone, whom Bush describes in the song as a 'funky sex machine'.

[edit] Music video

The video for "Love And Anger" was directed by Bush.

[edit] Track listings

7" and Cassette single (UK)

EMG 134 (limited edition, gatefold picture sleeve with photo insert and lyrics)

No. Title Length
1. "Love and Anger"   4:41
2. "Ken"   3:50
12" and CD single (UK and Germany)
No. Title Length
1. "Love and Anger"   4:41
2. "Ken"   3:50
3. "The Confrontation"   2:58
4. "One Last Look Around the House Before We Go"   1:03
CD promo (US)
No. Title Length
1. "Love and Anger"   4:41
2. "Walk Straight Down the Middle"   3:48
3. "Love and Anger"   4:41
4. "Walk Straight Down the Middle"   3:48

[edit] Chart performance

Chart (1989) Peak
position
US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks[2] 1
Chart (1990) Peak
position
UK Singles Chart[1] 38

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[edit] References

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