Kate Bush

”When I sing along to Jerry Garcia

Sorry, this made me laugh

Favorite RUTH cover is Chromatics. Doesn’t do anything wildly different but the update in arrangements with the disco guitar and production is great.

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.

loool

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.

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.

hahaha same

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???

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!

I want "Wuthering Heights" to catch on now

This would be a great time for Netflix to acquire a concert film of Before The Dawn (assuming one was made).

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.

When Nancy poses as a psychiatrist in episode 4 she assumes the name "Ruth."

It's all a rich tapestry.

then in school the art teacher instructs them to open their textbooks to Chapter 4: Shadowing

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.

Big Boi has to be thinking about dropping that Kate Bush collab that he has in the can.

cody
tie between never hungover again and the s/t
tie between million dollars to kill me and 40 oz to fresno
of 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)

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.

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.

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 feel lucky to still be about as solipsistic about Kate Bush as I was in junior high.

Looking like Metallica could be next in line to benefit from Stranger Things

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)

"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.

I'd heard from a person at the record company that she wasn't happy with the way she looked.

given that people were talking about her weight when the shows were happening, I'm not surprised; people are awful

So true, and she looked fucking amazing on stage, the gig was incredible.

Looking like Metallica could be next in line to benefit from Stranger Things

― 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.

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

Oh I know that but think their highest ever chart placing single is #5 for Enter Sandman xp

I finally heard "Running..." on top 40 radio last Friday! A much abridged version, though.

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

these people still listen to the Bloodhound Gang

still? I didn't know people did this past one week in 1997

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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

Ashley — it never ends.

I heard RUTH on the hit radio station today. They introed it with “We keep you safe from the Upside Down”

[looks around, sees no monsters] mr presidetn i would like to buy your radio station

Kate Bush couldn't save Earth - what chance to we have? She now has power - beyond measure! We thought she was dead - we killed her! She swooped into the charts like some great predatory bird - of the two-legged variety!

And so forth. Also the theme song for Transformers: The Movie was "The Touch", by Stan Bush. It's obvious that the film-makers wanted to hire Kate Bush instead, but they couldn't remember who she was. "The Touch" even sounds like a Kate Bush song title.

Oh, I give up. There isn't a formal connection between Kate Bush and the Transformers franchise. The problem with building a joke of this nature is that there needs to be something, some plausible-sounding link between the two, and there isn't any. The toy franchise's heyday happened in the gap between two of Kate Bush's albums, and although the UK Marvel comic was highly-rated it didn't have much influence over the franchise as a whole. Its creative hearts were in the US, where Kate Bush was a non-entity, and to a much lesser extent Japan, where I understand she had a small cult following. There are no photos of Kate Bush sitting in the studio with a row of Transformers toys in the background.

As a kid I always felt sorry for girls because they had such crap toys. Kate Bush grew up in that era. Who knows how she might have turned out if her parents had bought her an AT-AT or something. The other kids would have flocked to play with her AT-AT and she would have learned at an early age that people only value you for what you have, not who you are. But as a girl she probably learned that when she hit puberty. Who knows. They're unknowable.

Still, it amuses me that a thread about Kate Bush has degenerated into a mixture of half-baked jokes and a couple of posts by I REFUSE etc that are so baffling I can't tell whether they're relevant or not. It's like when Ilxor threads start going on about "Bruenig stans". I mean, what?

Just heard RUTH twice on the radio in cabs in Mexico City last week. She's saturating globally at this stage. You love to see it!

Right, that's it she's touring Mexico next year ..

sorry Ashley! i am being a nonsense and you can safely ignore me

Wait she’s doing a concert in Mexico? When? I can’t find info

I think that was a joke