Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. What to Listen to This Week 2011’s “50 Words for Snow” isn’t often mentioned among the great Kate Bush albums, but it’s one of her best, most ambitious and most beautiful efforts—it also has a song about having sex with a snowman. IMAGE: Stephen Luft/Wiki Commons. SOMETHING OLD 2011's 50 Words for Snow isn't often mentioned among the great Kate Bush albums, but it's one of her best, most ambitious and most beautiful efforts. Her voice is duskier than in her youth, and when "Snowflake" and "Lake Tahoe" begin with other singers, the surge of power once she finally enters is hair-raising. The 13-minute centerpiece is "Misty," which is infamously about having sex with a snowman. He melts three minutes in—but "it's still snowing," she cries, which in her universe means "magic is real."