First time I heard “Running Up That Hill” — and Kate Bush — was on Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 in 1985. I think it was the record’s chart debut that week, because he said something like, “She’s gone to number one in the UK, but this is her first top 40 hit here in the US.” The song got pretty substantial airplay as I recall, mostly on a “progressive” FM station (WXRT), but even some on the top 40 stations.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 18 June 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
So, to answer Josh's question, radio's just picking it up in the States. The song hasn't finished peakingg.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 June 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
*peaking
Finally watched the Stranger Things a few days ago and really baffled by this brief scene being enough to trigger this level of virality.
― nashwan, Saturday, 18 June 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
I was too until I watched further into the season, where the song is pivotal to a pivotal scene on which the season pivots.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 18 June 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
Yeah, there's a tiny bit of it in the first ep, but then a lot more of it more prominently in the fourth or something.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 June 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
”When I sing along to Jerry GarciaSorry, this made me laugh
― Bunheads Pilot Enthusiast (morrisp), Saturday, 18 June 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
Favorite RUTH cover is Chromatics. Doesn’t do anything wildly different but the update in arrangements with the disco guitar and production is great.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 18 June 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
I was the age my eldest is now when it hit #3 in late summer ‘85. Quite funny that she told me last night how annoying this wave of Bushmania is when she was an “OG fan”. Right, you mean when you liked Babooshka in 2009.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 18 June 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
loool
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 18 June 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
I see Katemania as a reminder of other music that is popular, music I abhor. But I love Kate so my feelings kind of cancel themselves out.
― V/R\V/R\V/R (FlopsyDuck), Saturday, 18 June 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
Finally watched this and while Kate Bush is given pride of place, the Musical Youth song is the one that's been stuck in my head all week.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 19 June 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
hahaha same
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Sunday, 19 June 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
heard the song on a pop station last night! of course they felt the need to frontsell the connection to stranger things and the version they played was edited down pretty dramatically. i don't remember exactly what was cut in the edit but they might have just removed the entire second verse???
― dyl, Monday, 20 June 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
omigod I hung out by the pool with my 12 y/o niece yesterday and after I sung the first half of the chorus she completed it. It has sunk in!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 June 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
I want "Wuthering Heights" to catch on now
― Slowzy LOLtidore (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 June 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
This would be a great time for Netflix to acquire a concert film of Before The Dawn (assuming one was made).
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Monday, 20 June 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
At least one of the concerts was filmed and there was supposed to be a Blu-ray released but she changed her mind for some reason.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 20 June 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
When Nancy poses as a psychiatrist in episode 4 she assumes the name "Ruth."
It's all a rich tapestry.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 20 June 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
then in school the art teacher instructs them to open their textbooks to Chapter 4: Shadowing
― Slowzy LOLtidore (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 June 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
JRN, thinking back on this, I realized this may not have been clear - basically, broadly, in 18th and 19th century classical music, there is a kind of shared language where chords follow a certain syntax where every chord in a key is assigned a particular role (function) in a progression, like words have different grammatical functions, so there are tonic chords like I that connote stability and rest at beginnings and ends of phrases, dominant chords like V that connote tension and anticipation and seek resolution to I, and predominant chords like ii and IV that build towards dominant from tonic, and progressions move in a certain direction from one to the other; other chords can substitute for these, there are ways to prolong or elaborate on the various parts of a progression. Tin Pan Alley era pop still follows these rules for the most part a lot of the time but a lot of rock and contemporary pop doesn't, exactly, even when it uses these chords (though there is plenty that does!).
Thank you. I did look into functional harmony a little bit after your previous post about it, but no explanation I found was as clear as this one.
― JRN, Thursday, 23 June 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
Big Boi has to be thinking about dropping that Kate Bush collab that he has in the can.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 23 June 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
codytie between never hungover again and the s/ttie between million dollars to kill me and 40 oz to fresnoof all things i will soon grow tired (hate to be someone who thinks of this particularly weird charming little record (in a catalog of weird charming little records) as their worst but something has to be)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 June 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
oh lol wrong thread
I remember when this came out, I remember playing it in the car and taking it so personally.
I'm happy it's a big hit, but that's to the credit of the younger generation.
Listening to it now it just doesn't feel so personal and I feel a sense of loss but maybe I was just too young and sensitive then.
― I Met Mr. Mathis (I M Losted), Sunday, 26 June 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
Also, I know about a stalker who sent this song to her victim.
Ew.
One of the unintended consequences of increased visibility is that something's intention can be perverted.
― I Met Mr. Mathis (I M Losted), Sunday, 26 June 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
But it's great to think of utter cads listening to lines like "unaware I'm tearing you asunder".
Although not sure it means anything anymore.
― I Met Mr. Mathis (I M Losted), Monday, 27 June 2022 03:11 (one year ago) link
I feel lucky to still be about as solipsistic about Kate Bush as I was in junior high.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Monday, 27 June 2022 04:23 (one year ago) link
Looking like Metallica could be next in line to benefit from Stranger Things
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 08:00 (one year ago) link
apparently Spellbound is getting traction, which I heard about before finishing the series so I kept wondering when it was showing up (it's over the end credits of the last episode)
― akm, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 13:19 (one year ago) link
"At least one of the concerts was filmed and there was supposed to be a Blu-ray released but she changed her mind for some reason."
Jon Carin (who is annoying AF on FB but occasionally lets out some interesting info) stated in a comment on FB that the film turned out very poorly (direction, I guess) which is why it didn't get released.
― akm, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 13:21 (one year ago) link
I'd heard from a person at the record company that she wasn't happy with the way she looked.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
given that people were talking about her weight when the shows were happening, I'm not surprised; people are awful
― akm, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 13:50 (one year ago) link
So true, and she looked fucking amazing on stage, the gig was incredible.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 13:55 (one year ago) link
― groovypanda, Wednesday, July 6, 2022 4:00 AM bookmarkflaglink
I mean, it'll be a boost, sure, but Metallica is kind of already a cult worldwide by this point.
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
at my last poker game the topic of Kate Bush was brought up. these people still listen to the Bloodhound Gang for god's sake. so yeah it's definitely catching on
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
Oh I know that but think their highest ever chart placing single is #5 for Enter Sandman xp
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
I finally heard "Running..." on top 40 radio last Friday! A much abridged version, though.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
After weeks on the charts now "Running Up that Hill" is at 357 million Spotify streams--"Master of Puppets" was already at 430 million before appearing in ST
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 14:13 (one year ago) link
these people still listen to the Bloodhound Gang
still? I didn't know people did this past one week in 1997
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
I think the Bloodhound Gang have moved on to foreign policy circles:
On July 30, 2013, during a concert in Kyiv, Ukraine, band member Jared Hasselhoff was seen urinating on the flag of Ukraine while on stage.[27] The incident drew outrage from local politicians,[28] and the band faced criminal charges of hooliganism. Days later, after an onstage stunt involving the flag of Russia in Odessa, where Hasselhoff stuffed the flag down the front of his pants and pulled it out of the back, the band's show in Anapa, Russia was cancelled, and the band members were assaulted at the airport, including being pelted with eggs and rotten tomatoes. A flag of the United States was also trampled and spat on.
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
i have heard it on the radio a couple more times now. its airplay is now quite a bit stronger (not on the level of most current hits, but still) and its streaming has surged following the premiere of the rest of the season to the extent that it will probably reach a new chart peak in america and could even challenge for the top
― dyl, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
seriously heard a little robo-intro-clip on a radio station say "playing nothing but today's best new hits! kate bush, running up that hill" before the song and... well okay
― bule bulak oying (cat), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
cat, hi.
friendly reminder that time doesn't exist.
"WYNT: today's biggest hits: all catalogue music, all the time. why not?"
this revival thing just keeps getting better, i say.
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
It's everywhere even when it's not. Listening to Tim Hecker's "In Mother Earth Phase" and feeling like I'm hearing it subtly...
― Evan, Friday, 8 July 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
For what it's worth I only know of the Bloodhound Gang from the "here comes Pac-Man" video that was popular a while back.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyDG6y08YOA
As for the word "asunder", that's one of those words that was in the UK Transformers comic a lot:https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Special:Search?search=asunder
Simon Furman had a distinctive way with words. It is over - finished. That was one of his stock phrases. Furmanisms. He's not invincible. He can be hurt. I must not - will not - die. Etc.
Which raises the question of whether Kate Bush was a rotten plagiarist who drew all of her ideas from the UK Transformers comic. I have a distinct childhood memory of reading an issue while watching Live Aid live on the television, and judging by the Wiki above that must have been issue 22, which was published on the very same day as Live Aid:https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/3/3a/MarvelUK-022.jpg
Meanwhile Kate Bush was putting the finishing touches on Hounds of Love. The album was written and recorded during the first year of the Transformers' G1 pre-rubsign heyday. I refuse to believe that it didn't influence her. Transformers was massive! Do you remember when Soundwave was the leader of the Decepticons? Megatron wasn't released in the UK until a year later. Originally Soundwave was the leader of the Decepticons, at least on the back of the toy boxes, and that's where "The Ninth Wave" comes from.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Friday, 8 July 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
hi Austin!! time! from the beginning of time people been asking, what time is it? do u have the time? wtf even is time? is time a thing? radio station robo intro voice has pounded the final nail into the coffin of time as a concept. the tyranny of time is broken at last, we are free, thank you based kate bush, took u long enough
― i REFUSE to pay for my own cbd (cat), Saturday, 9 July 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
Ashley — it never ends.
― carson dial, Saturday, 9 July 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link
I heard RUTH on the hit radio station today. They introed it with “We keep you safe from the Upside Down”
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Sunday, 10 July 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
[looks around, sees no monsters] mr presidetn i would like to buy your radio station
― i REFUSE to pay for my own cbd (cat), Sunday, 10 July 2022 04:28 (one year ago) link