Kate Bush

Ahhhh...one more time...try this:
https://tinyurl.com/katebushvideos

Yeah that Japanese clip is wild! Apparently on that same show ("Sounds in S"?) they did let Kate sing some Beatles songs and lip-sync/dance to her own "Moving" and "The Man with the Child in His Eyes".

I'd like to imagine that top performance changed some kid's life when it was broadcast. Pure vibes.

Can anyone explain this?

any new kate bush fans must see this VERY IMPORTANT video of her pouring tea pic.twitter.com/1lDIPOLKzQ

— ada #ISit (@enayessa) May 29, 2022

She's emulating Ozzy pouring orange juice in The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, released the previous year.

irl lol

The "new fans" are apparently via tv show use:

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/kate-bush-running-up-that-hill-stranger-things-spotify-1235079096/

I wonder if 'Tarzan Boy' by Baltimora will spike too.

Apparently most people born after 1990 thought the original was by Placebo. I wasn't even aware the Placebo cover was that popular.

I feel like the Placebo version popped up on quite a few TV shows in the last couple decades.

At first I thought you were talking about a Placebo cover of Tarzan Boy.

Took the Coyote edit to make me realize how much I love Nocturne. Great song.

At first I thought you were talking about a Placebo cover of Tarzan Boy.

― peace, man, Wednesday, June 1, 2022 11:17 AM

I DID NOT GOOGLE PLACEBO TARZAN BOY MY COMPUTER HAS A VIRUS

On Monday we bought some cheap inflatable pool and dumped the kids in there and I put on Hounds of Love for whatever reason and immediately my next door neighbors were yelling over the fence "OOH KATE BUSH! Y'ALL BEEN WATCHING THE NEW STRANGERS THINGS SEASON?" and without knowing anything about it, I somehow sensed what was going on with Running Up That Hill. I guess because I wouldn't expect those neighbors to be familiar with that song. I immediately turned it off. Not sure why it bummed me out but it did.

On the other hand, if there was a sudden Tarzan Boy frenzy I would be super happy.

<not kate bush>I wonder if the Philip Glass music is in Stranger Things because it sounds spooky, or if it's because he was big in the 1980s? Or both? Or not? I mean, it's timeless enough that it doesn't belong to a particular era, but at the same time it's not timeless if you lived through the 1980s because he was hip then.</not kate bush>

Hmm why would that bum you out? I know you said "not sure", but now I'm curious... Do you not like your neighbors? Is it bad that general public has discovered the music through a popular show?

xp

I don't know! It was a gut reaction that confused me. I really like my neighbors! Maybe it's because I don't like Stranger Things? Gonna have to do some soul searching.

idk maybe it's a cynical reaction towards a massively popular 80's throwback show mining things that were actually pure and good

I dont really love the show but I do enjoy it and find their love of 80's ephemera to be pretty genuine, so it don't bother me. but I can see how someone might feel otherwise.

Ah I think it's because I was unwittingly participating in the current Running Up That Hill frenzy and it felt jarring. Like taking a big swig from a glass of orange juice but actually it's grapefruit juice and your brain can't accept it, even though you are normally totally fine with grapefruit juice.

just one doofus’s take: having old songs for non-digetic music is extremely overused and almost always corny

It’s extremely diagetic

there's some hipster component to it too, like I've always loved "The Rubberband Man" and played it frequently at parties, now everyone's just like "oh cool it's that song from Guardians of the Galaxy" and my kneejerk reaction is "I knew of it way before that!!"

Have to admit I don't like the idea of playing a beloved song and somebody saying "oh I'm so sick of that advert" or assuming I'm a big fan of a tv show that I don't know about. And I'd probably be oblivious.

It’s extremely diagetic

xp for a second there i thought you meant Rubberband Girl

there's some hipster component to it too, like I've always loved "The Rubberband Man" and played it frequently at parties, now everyone's just like "oh cool it's that song from Guardians of the Galaxy" and my kneejerk reaction is "I knew of it way before that!!"

― frogbs, Wednesday, June 1, 2022 3:28 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I remember a period about ten years ago when I was astonished to learn that all the 9-13 year old kids in my family knew Danzig and QOTSA songs, and then one day it dawned on me: Guitar Hero.

Not that that somehow lessens the coolness of talking to a ten year old born in 2005 about a Danzig riff from 1988. It beats talking to them about Power Rangers

I definitely remember it happening with Tony Hawk Pro Skater

some 10 year old was talking to me about the lana del rey song "video games" the other day, like what, that song came out the year you were born. and then it hit me .... video games.

I posted a list of favorite songs here recently and I think calstars replied “do you live in vice city?”

At first I thought you were talking about a Placebo cover of Tarzan Boy.

― peace, man, Wednesday, June 1, 2022 6:17 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just saying it could even make it happen....

Suddenly I thought of a Doja Cat cover of "Tarzan Boy."

paul otm and totally skippable sidebar of a post BUT— instant rapport builder for me because i'm in that weird interzone where i missed some classics the first time around and know them from the revival but share the same amount of enthusiasm as the og fans (ex: "bohemian rhapsody" in wayne's world).

and heck, it goes both ways. someone on the spotify topic pointed out that public enemy's most popular song is some recent thing used on a film soundtrack (or something else similar). i never would have heard it otherwise because i checked out from pe years ago, but the song is really good!

anyway. as you were.

(i enjoy my occasional trips through vice city, btw)

i first got into "running up that hill"/hounds of love around 2009 or so and i distinctly recall that at the time, the youtube comments for the music video were full of messages along the lines of 'hmmm i guess this is good and i appreciate her for writing the song, but i just think placebo did it WAY better!!' seemed outrageous to me even then

i think i developed an irrational hatred for the placebo cover based on that alone. syncing a song to shots of ppl in eyeliner exhaling deeply with their eyes closed does not make a recording more emotionally resonant!

the chromatics cover isn't bad, but the aesthetic is similar enough that the much weaker vocal makes me not really need to hear it ever

*similar enough to the original

the placebo cover, on the other hand, is movie trailer-core before that regrettably became a thing

there's some hipster component to it too, like I've always loved "The Rubberband Man" and played it frequently at parties, now everyone's just like "oh cool it's that song from Guardians of the Galaxy" and my kneejerk reaction is "I knew of it way before that!!"

― frogbs, Wednesday, June 1, 2022 3:28 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

"I knew about it from the OfficeMax commercial!"

Yet another RUTH cover (by Kim Petras):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3WQ7RxIiII

I like it because it's kind of my thing but really it's just the original with maybe a louder beat and fuller vocals.

I posted a list of favorite songs here recently and I think calstars replied “do you live in vice city?”

― brimstead

It always felt a little weird to me when I hear people who are my age (mid-30s) who say "Oh I was introduced to that song through Vice City", with even the most popular of 80s songs.

that makes sense, I'm mid-30s too and don't really remember those tracks at the time. the first new song I remember hearing on the radio was probably "U Can't Touch This". by the time I became aware of this stuff they were oldies

Oh wow now I really want a Placebo cover of Tarzan Boy.

True, I'm just thinking there's a lot of stuff that to me feels like standard radio/vh1/grocery store fodder that it surprises me that it took Grand Theft Auto to discover the song. Then again I might be in the rare group of people that takes notice to what is playing in a grocery store.

Aren't ppl often the most clueless about stuff that came out in the decade they were born (with exceptions, of course)? I was born in the '70s, and knew almost nothing about '70s music/culture growing up... there were big, mainstream aspects of it that I was only introduced to via Pulp Fiction, or whatever.

(for context - I originally heard that "decade you were born" theory expressed by a coworker who was born in the '80s, and didn't know much about '80s stuff... and it rang true to me)

I knew a lot of that stuff because I watched VH1 & sometimes listened to "classic rock" radio. feel like most people did neither. definitely had some "what is that playing in the grocery store" moments but it was always hard to figure out!! very difficult to make out lyrics over the loudspeaker sometimes.

doesn't really hold up if you were born in the first few years of the decade lol

signed, 1990 baby

well, sure

yep, `81 here and have lots of (admittedly mostly late) 80s pop culture memories.