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- 'Another Day' (with Peter Gabriel) Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel - Another Day. Originally by Roy Harper, Kate Bush teamed up with Peter Gabriel for this one-off performance on her 1979 Christmas TV special.
- 'The Sensual World' Kate Bush - The Sensual World - Official Music Video. This song is from Kate's 1989 album of the same name, and is inspired by Molly Bloom stepping out of the two-dimensional pages of James Joyce's Ulysses into the real world.
- 'Under the Ivy' Kate Bush - Under The Ivy. Kate Bush recorded this song as a B-side to her 1985 song ‘Running Up That Hill’. Tracey Thorn recorded a cover in 2014, with husband and Everything But the Girl colleague Ben Watt on piano, and a string arrangement by Nick Ingman.
- 'December Will Be Magic Again' Kate Bush "December Will Be Magic Again" - Christmas Special 1979. Released in 1980, this one-off single was a Christmas-themed track that should have been a bigger hit at the time.
- Hounds Of Love. (from Hounds Of Love, 1985) Kate runs headlong from love and right into its clutches. No matter how refined the circumstances of its creation – built at leisure in Bush’s new 48-track studio – or how newfangled its production – still tangible in the hi-tech stabs and pads of Fairlight, and the crispness of Jonathan Williams’ cello – Hounds Of Love is red in tooth and claw, its breathless, atavistic fear of capture mixed with almost supernatural rapture.
- Wuthering Heights. (from The Kick Inside, 1978) Taking Brontë onto TOTPs and launching an oeuvre. A hit song that bypassed the prevailing genre staples – disco, MOR, punk/new wave, pap pop – for the singular realm of peculiarity and particularity.
- Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) (from Hounds Of Love, 1985) Mood-pop gender-swapping and a contract with the Godhead. Running Up That Hill’s appearance in Stranger Things’s series finale beamed Bush into the consciousness of thousands of minds previously unaware of her singular genius.
- This Woman’s Work. (from The Sensual World, 1989) Her greatest ballad, written to order for John Hughes’ film She’s Having A Baby. The emotions seeping from this ‘childbirth crisis’ are almost unbearable as Bush abandons symbolism for a direct hit of primal fear.
Kate Bush is a British art pop singer and songwriter from Bexleyheath, a suburb of London, England. Her debut single “Wuthering Heights” hit number one on the UK charts in 1978 ...
- Wuthering Heights (The Kick Inside, 1978) Every year on the singer’s birthday, July 30, fans celebrate The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever by recreating Bush’s dance routine in the iconic red dress from the music video.
- The Saxophone Song (The Kick Inside, 1978) Damian Wilson: “Her beautiful freedom within melody and the sensuality of her work simply captured me. The uplifting bursts still never cease to remind me of the excitement I felt when I first heard it.
- The Man With The Child In His Eyes (The Kick Inside, 1978) Steve Hogarth, Marillion: “I’m all about the lyrics, of course, and whenever I hear this song, I think of my dear departed dad tucking me in when I was small.
- Symphony In Blue (Lionheart, 1978) Conrad Keely, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead: “Something about the lyrics suggested an inquisitive mind describing the effects of synaesthesia, where colours evoke moods and sounds: ‘Blue, the colour of my room and my mood.’
- “Wuthering Heights”
- “Moving”
- “Wow”
- “Breathing”
- “Get Out of My House”
- “All The Love”
- “Running Up That Hill
- “Under The Ivy”
- “Hello Earth”
- “This Woman’S Work”
Bush’s first hit single, “Wuthering Heights” is an ode to the famous novel of the same name by Emily Brontë. In the BBC documentary, Bush said she got the idea for the song while catching the last five minutes of the 1967 TV series based on the book, in which the ghost of Catherine Earnshaw stood outside the window of Wuthering Heights, begging to ...
The first track on 1978’s The Kick Inside, “Moving” is a one of Bush’s most gorgeous songs. Like many of Bush’s songs, it makes use of sound samples. In this case, the song opens with a a whale song, giving it an almost cold, oceanic air. But once her voice comes in, sliding between octaves like “moving liquid”, the song takes on a warmer quality. ...
Nobody does drama like Kate Bush. “Wow” from her 1978 album Lionheartattests to this. The song is literally about drama and the daily grind of the acting world. In 1979, Bush told her fan club magazine the tune is about “show business in general”. Bush is a bit of thespian herself, dressing up and playing her characters in her videos. The video for...
In her earlier years, Kate Bush tended to sing from the point of view of someone other than herself. On the first single from her 1980 album Never for Ever, she sings from the point of view of a fetus worried about the prospect of a nuclear war. The song’s message is two-fold, addressing the reliance of a baby on its mother’s womb as well as how vu...
The last song on Bush’s fourth studio album, The Dreaming was partially inspired by Stephen King’s The Shining according to Bush in an 1982 interview with Melody Maker. The book aside, the song is the perfect example of why we love Kate Bush so much. “Get Out of My House” is incredibly wacky and riotous, making brilliant use of Bush’s vocal calisth...
Amid the brilliant lunacy of The Dreaming, “All the Love” is a quiet treasure. The song is a reminder to stay connected to those we love, even when we are at odds with them, since we never know when tragedy may strike. The song’s narrator is ignoring her own advice, waiting for her friends to contact her. The lines “So now when they ring, I get my ...
From the celebrated 1985 album Hounds of Love, “Running Up That Hill” is a Kate Bush classic. Not only was it the first song to give her a break in the U.S., it was also the single that saw the singer at her peak. The song is reportedly about making a pact with God in order to swap genders so that the sexes might have more empathy toward one anothe...
This b-side from the “Running Up That Hill” single is an example of how beautiful just Bush’s voice and a piano can be. The song is a melancholy petition from one person to another to meet at a clandestine place in a garden. When she sings desperately “I sit here in the thunder, the green on the grey, I feel it all around me”, she evokes such longi...
The second side of Hounds of Love is titled The Ninth Wave, a cluster of seven dreamy songs that are speculated to be inspired by Lord Tennyson’s ‘The Coming of Arthur”, quoted on the record sleeve. It is also said to have been inspired by Ivan Aivazovsky’s 1850 painting, The Ninth Wave, which depicts a group of people stranded on a stormy sea. In ...
Originally featured on the soundtrack of the 1988 John Hughes film She’s Having a Baby, “This Woman’s Work” was fortunately later released on The Sensual World. Bush originally wrote the song for the movie, particularly the scene in which Jake (played by Kevin Bacon) learns that his wife (Elizabeth McGovern) is having complications giving birth. Th...
Feb 9, 2022 · We've had to leave off some of our favourites (no room for the masterful 'Wow', 'Top of The City',' or 'The Sensual World', among many others), but here's our take on Kate Bush's greatest hits, which also works as the perfect beginner's guide. Babooshka. Kate Bush - Babooshka - Official Music Video.
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Mar 26, 2024 · Top 40 Kate Bush Songs. By Ian Wade | March 26, 2024. For our Top 40 list of the best Kate Bush songs we looked back over the singer’s 40-plus-year career….
