What is Your Favorite Kate Bush Song?

[Mike 03]

Parche's post about Peter Gabriel couldn't help but evoke memories of Kate Bush's work. (Thanks to Parche).

It seems like nobody talks much about her anymore, but she made some remarkable music. Not sure what has become of her.

If there are any Kate Bush fans here, do you have a favorite or several favorite songs?

No need to limit it to one; If there are several, feel free to name them.

Mine in order:


1. Wuthering Heights
2. Love and Anger
3. The Dreaming
4. Running up that Hill
5. The Sensual World

ON EDIT:

I flipped Wuthering Heights for The Dreaming. Wuthering Heights is one of the few songs that never ever fails to raise goosebumps on my skin. It's just one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard.

One important thing: Because she insists on directing and choreographing her own videos, they are so bad that I have even know people who initially loved a particular song to turn against it after seeing her videos. They suck.

Please, if you are listening to Kate Bush for the first time, listen to the music itself and attempt to disregard the visuals she puts to the songs, unless they are live.

You Tube has all of her videos, and they are awful.

They destroy the beauty of her music, IMO.

[blogslut]

1. Running up that Hill

:hi:

[applegrove]

9. Yes I love that song. I should put my shelves up so I can organize and access my CD collection.

I've had IKEA shelves, waiting to be put together, for nine months.

[MorningGlow]

2. "Wuthering Heights"

And "Man with the Child in His Eyes".

I remember back in the mid-90s--a young 'un friend of mine was enraptured by Tori Amos. I said meh--check out Kate Bush. She did it first. He was eternally grateful for the rec.

[denem]

3. This Women's Work

(in no particular order}

Army Dreamers
Breathing
Experiment IV
Watching You Without Me
Wuthering Heights (1996 vocal)
Somewhere in Between
Cloudbusting

[crim son]

31. This Woman's Work. Me too.

I've sort of outgrown it, but it still touches me.

[Arugula Latte]

4. Running Up That Hill

I wish I could buy it off of iTunes, but it's not on there.

[denem]

5. Did you know 'Running Up that Hill' was a sexual reference?

[Arugula Latte]

6. Really? I had no idea.

I'll have to google that one. :)

[Mike 03]

16. Here are the lyrics.

I had not picked up on that either. I thought it was something else, but thanks to my fellow DUers I'm learning a lot I didn't know about her work tonight. It's wonderful to know people have studied her work and can help explain it.


RUNNING UP THAT HILL lyrics


It doesn't hurt me.
Do you want to feel how it feels?
Do you want to know, know that it doesn't hurt me?
Do you want to hear about the deal that I'm making?
You, It's you and me.

And if I only could,
I'd make a deal with God,
And I'd get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building.
Say, If I only could, oh...

You don't want to hurt me,
But see how deep the bullet lies.
Unaware, I'm tearing you asunder.
Ooh, There is thunder in our hearts.

Is there so much hate for the ones who love?
Tell me we both matter don't we?

You,
It's you and me,
It's you and me who won't be unhappy.

And if I only could,
I'd make a deal with God,
And I'd get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building.
Say, If I only could, oh...

You,
It's you and me,
It's you and me who won't be unhappy.

Come on baby, come on darling
Let me steal this moment from you now
Oh come on angel, come on come on darlin'
Let's exchange the experience oh...

And if I only could,
I'd make a deal with God,
And I'd get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
With no problems...

Say if I only could,
I'd make a deal with God,
And I'd get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
With no problems...

Say if I only could,
I'd make a deal with God,
And I'd get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
With no problems...

Say, If I only could...
Oh...
Be running up that hill,
With no problems...

If only I could,
Be running up that hill...

[Number23]

33. I love that song. I've heard it just about every month for the last 14 years

But I have no idea what makes you say that song has anything to do with sex. Especially after you just posted the lyrics!

could you please point out what what's sexy about that song?? I honestly don't see it!

[denem]

21. Swapping roles here is swapping genders.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

35. I think you're right on with that...................

To me, this is the line that gives it away:

"Is there so much hate for the ones who love?
Tell me we both matter don't we?"

I've always seen it as either gender or role inequality.

[no name no slogan]

41. Every song ever written is a sexual reference, except for two:

"I Want Your Sex" by George Michael, and "Sex (I'm A...)" by Berlin, are the only two songs not about sex.

[no name no slogan]

38. Are you sure? I think I bought it off there a couple years ago

nt

[Arugula Latte]

7. Check out this Placebo cover of "Running Up That Hill" ... just found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKkaLM9NcSo

[UndertheOcean]

8. 1. the second half of "hounds of love" , I consider it one song

2) The second half of Ariel.

3) Breathing.

4) The sensual world

5)Reaching out

[denem]

10. CHECK OUT Dave Gilmour/ Kate Bush 'Running Up that Hill' - on Youtube (live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl9OKddQBRg

Sometimes I think Kate would have had more US success if she had moved away from the Fairlight a bit.

[Mike 03]

11. If you've never heard her, check this out, please.

You won't regret it.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Ej4WDybCQ&feature=related

Out on the winding, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green.
You had a temper like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy.
How could you leave me,
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you. but I loved you, too.

Bad dreams in the night
You told me I was going to lose the fight,
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights.

Heathcliff, it's me, I’m Cathy, I've come home and I´m so cold,
let me in your window

Heathcliff, it's me, I’m Cathy, I've come home and I´m so cold,
let me in your window.

Ooh, it gets dark! It gets lonely,
On the other side from you.
I pine a lot. I find the lot
Falls through without you.
I'm coming back, love,
Cruel Heathcliff, my one dream,
My only master.

Too long I roamed in the night.
I'm coming back to his side, to put it right.
I'm coming home to wuthering, wuthering,
Wuthering Heights,

Heathcliff, it's me, I’m Cathy, I've come home and I'm so cold,
let me in your window.

Heathcliff, it's me, I’m Cathy, I've come home and I'm so cold,
let me in your window.

Ooh! Let me have it.
Let me grab your soul away.
Ooh! Let me have it.
Let me grab your soul away.
You know it's me--Cathy!

Heathcliff, it's me, I’m Cathy, I've come home and I´m so cold,
let me in your window
Heathcliff, it's me, I’m Cathy, I've come home and I´m so cold,
let me in your window.

Heathcliff, it's me, I’m Cathy, I've come home and I'm so cold.

[bikebloke]

12. Babushka

I have it on cassette tape somewhere. Forgotten all about her until this thread.

[Mike 03]

13. What do you think this song is about?

I have been fascinated by it for a decade, but I still don't really "get it."

EDIT: This is a better link to a version of the song:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82G6UxbLH0Q&feature=related




It lay buried here. It lay deep inside me.
It's so deep I don't think that I can speak about it.
It could take me all of my life,
But it would only take a moment to

Tell you what I'm feeling,
But I don't know if I'm ready yet.
You come walking into this room
Like you're walking into my arms.
What would I do without you?

Take away the love and the anger,
And a little piece of hope holding us together.
Looking for a moment that'll never happen,
Living in the gap between past and future.
Take away the stone and the timber,
And a little piece of rope won't hold it together.

If you can't tell your sister,
If you can't tell a priest,
'Cause it's so deep you don't think that you can speak about it
To anyone,
Can you tell it to your heart?
Can you find it in your heart

To let go of these feelings
Like a bell to a Southerly wind?
We could be like two strings beating,
Speaking in sympathy...
What would we do without you?
Two strings speak in sympathy.

Take away the love and the anger,
And a little piece of hope holding us together.
Looking for a moment that'll never happen,
Living in the gap between past and future.
Take away the stone and the timber,
And a little piece of rope won't hold it together.

We're building a house of the future together.
(What would we do without you?)

Well, if it's so deep you don't think that you can speak about it,
Just remember to reach out and touch the past and the future.
Well, if it's so deep you don't think you can speak about it,
Don't ever think that you can't change the past and the future.
You might not, not think so now,
But just you wait and see--someone will come to help you.

[denem]

14. It's Suicide - Suicidal Ideation I think.

You can't tell your priest ...
But just you wait and see--someone will come to help you.

[Mike 03]

15. Wow, thank you. It's so nice to correspond with somebody else who appreciates this

great musician's work and can shed some light on its meaning, for those of us who love here but just don't always get it.

THANKS.

Go glad you saw this thread and contributed.

Kate Bush is AMAZING. I'm surprised that more people don't seem to know her work.

[denem]

17. I find "watching you without me" just as haunting.

The woman is shut out of her marriage, either by death, or a deeply broken relationship:

You cant hear me.
You cant feel me
Here in the room with you now.
You cant hear what Im saying.
You dont hear what Im saying, do you?

Cant let you know
Whats been happening.
Theres a ghost in our home,
Just watching you without me.
Im not here.

Then the heart wrenching sound cut up of her words

You dont hear me come in.
Help me, baby! help me, baby! talk to me! listen to me,
Listen to me! talk to me! help--
(you cant hear me.)
Listen, baby! listen to me, baby! help me, help me, baby!
Talk to me! talk to me! please, baby, talk to me!
(you cant hear me.)
You wont hear me leaving.

[Mike 03]

18. Denem, why do I find it so hard to understand if "Love and Anger" is an uplifting song or a

depressing song?

I'm assuming it is complex, as much of her work is.

During some dark times, I actually felt inspired by it, but I can't say why, and because I'm such a pragmatist, I need to know whether that song is uplifting or not.

Is it about overcoming suicidal thoughts? Or surrendering to them?

Or is it just about accepting them, or something?

Or is the song more depressing than I was thinking, and in some way the singer/narrator has actually harmed herself?

The reason I am asking is because I've drawn some strength from that song, but I would feel really stupid if I was misinterpreting it and it is more about giving in or giving up or something.

[denem]

19. I find it hopeful

By Accknowledging the darkest feeling of all - ending everything, lies the seeds of the future:

Well, if it's so deep you don't think that you can speak about it,
Just remember to reach out and touch the past and the future.
Well, if it's so deep you don't think you can speak about it,
Don't ever think that you can't change the past and the future.
You might not, not think so now,
But just you wait and see--someone will come to help you.

As someone who has suffered from depression, those words express the darkest hours of the soul. Can't change the past, can't the future, so end the present.

A relationship may be hanging by a thread, but life is a woven fabric.

[Mike 03]

22. Same here with respect to suffering from depression.

OMG, I see what you are saying. Yes, it makes perfect sense...

Yes.... Exactly.

THANK YOU.

Wow, you have no clue how much it means to me to learn this now.

THANK YOU.

ON EDIT:

Who comes to help us?

Who is the one who helps us? Or is it the song itself?

[denem]

24. I can only speak for myself:

Dumping the past. There are things from the past we need to grieve, that long "clean" pain. The person who helps is the person that needs our love, particularly ourselves. We give to others the love that we need. It reflects off a stainless steel around our hearts. In the words of Alanis Morrisette


You live you learn
You love you learn
You cry you learn
you lose you learn
You bleed you learn
you scream you learn

Throw it down
-the caution blocks you from the wind
Hold it up to the rays
You wait and see when the smoke clears

Wear it out
-the way a three-year-old would do
Melt it dow
-you're gonna have to eventually, anyway
The fire trucks are coming up around the bend

You grieve you learn
you choke you learn
You laugh you learn
you choose you learn
You pray you learn
You ask you learn
You live you learn

[Mike 03]

26. Thank you. This is more helpful than you have any idea.

Music means a lot to me, and understanding it means a lot more.

Thanks.

[denem]

27. That's me too. I love finding meanings within songs.

Take David Bowie's song: Ashes to Ashes. It's about drug addiction:

The shrieking of nothing is killing
Just pictures of jap girls in synthesis and i
Aint got no money and I aint got no hair
But Im hoping to kick but the planet its glowing

Time and again I tell myself
Ill stay clean tonight
But the little green wheels are following me
Oh no, not again
Im stuck with a valuable friend
Im happy, hope youre happy too
One flash of light but no smoking pistol

You would think the line
"We know Major Tom's a Junkie"
would give the game away,
but some people listen to music
like Musak.

[intheflow]

20. She recorded something other than Wuthering Heights?

Who knew? :shrug:



...well, you, obviously, but who else? Not I!

[Mike 03]

25. Self Deleted. NT

[Mike 03]

28. My deepest apologies for posting about Kate Bush, and I can't explain why so many

other people here know about her work.

But you are obviously right, nobody knows about her work other than "Wuthering Heights", and I'm so glad you felt impelled to post on this matter.

[intheflow]

29. Yes, and no one's ever been known to post something

smarmy and smart-alecky in the Lounge. :eyes:

[Mike 03]

43. You are right. I was being hypersenstive.

It's hard to explain, but I'm at a place in my life where I am almost desperate for answers or help, and I will find them anyware, even in a Kate Bush song.

Sorry.

LOL...


:loveya:

[derby378]

37. You are kidding, right?

You're doing just fine - no need to apologize for nothin'. :hi:

[Mike 03]

42. Thank you. I know. I was being way, way oversensitive. NT

[CrownPrinceBandar]

23. "The Morning Fog".............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxzpvSk6OuI

[OmahaBlueDog]

30. "Running Up That Hill" and "Don't Give Up" w/ Peter Gabriel

[progressoid]

32. yep - those two are my faves too.

Although, I've been quite taken by the Ariel CD too.

[TommyO]

34. Here are a few of mine, again in no particular order

Night of the Swallow
Under Ice running into Waking the Witch
Hammer Horror
Violin
Heads We're Dancing
Experiment IV

There is very little that I don't like, The Dreaming is my favorite album and begs to be listened to beginning to end.

[derby378]

36. She did turn out a couple of good videos...

I did enjoy the videos for The Dreaming and The Sensual World. But the video for Running Up That Hill wasn't her best.

Experiment IV was fun, though. Eeek, a Katemonster! :scared:

[dembotoz]

39. and now if we could only get her to do a concert tour in the states.....

or anywhere for that matter. Tickets would be due cause for an expedition pretty much anywhere....

I have loved her music for decades now.

Fav????
Prob Wuthering Heights

can't seem to get off you tube without playing at least one version

[mitchum]

40. "Shave 'em Dry"