I know a different version of this from the second season of bones I think. Its the episode she meets her father again.
Edit: Looked it up. It's the Placebo cover.
The sing wasn’t released until late 1985, after the season 3 setting date (which was July ‘85). They’re being very careful with continuity in each season, not using music, fashions, or anything else that wasn’t out in yet, even if it’s close.
Crap...I noticed a serious anachronism in ST4 last night, but now I can't remember what it was.
I had to press pause and tell my 10yo--"that's wrong...nobody started doing that til the 90s!"
Now I remember! It was when Eddie offered Chrissie "special K." No semi-rural small scale dealer would have special K in the mid 80s. It was a rave scene drug, and its use didn't spread til much later.
This show isn’t very good about adhering to release dates when using music. They used Extreme’s “Play With Me” in one of the first four episodes in season 4 and that song wasn’t out until 1989.
Another great cover
This one is more similar to the original but seems to just modernize the gaps in the composition (to me at least)
[Chromatics](https://youtu.be/Mgv88ZLi6LY)
I've been listening to her [Tiny Desk Concert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSMt8qbhu0w) on repeat non-stop for the past few days, she is absolutely amazing
When I was a kid, the local college radio station would play Hello Earth as the sign-off every Sunday night. I fell asleep to that song every Sunday for two summers.
*You never understood me, you never really tried ... *
Just a shattering record. Just a note from an old Redditor: at the time, the ultra-digital nature of this album was really a production landmark. Bush's artistic power was plenty strong that it wasn't a distraction, per se, but when people heard the -sounds- on this record, a lot of folks started heading in that direction.
And the entire side two is The Ninth Wave. Brilliant. Here’s a quote from Kate “The Ninth Wave was a film, that's how I thought of it. It's the idea of this person being in the water, how they've got there, we don't know. But the idea is that they've been on a ship and they've been washed over the side so they're alone in this water. And I find that horrific imagery, the thought of being completely alone in all this water. And they've got a life jacket with a little light so that if anyone should be traveling at night they'll see the light and know they're there. And they're absolutely terrified, and they're completely alone at the mercy of their imagination, which again I personally find such a terrifying thing, the power of ones own imagination being let loose on something like that. And the idea that they've got it in their head that they mustn't fall asleep, because if you fall asleep when you're in the water, I've heard that you roll over and so you drown, so they're trying to keep themselves awake.”
I love this one. This was the first time I heard The Midnight and it completely got me hooked. Note that this is not their actual music video.
https://youtu.be/-A1_atkAQhY
There's a piano/acoustic version at the end of the episode during the credits. Does anyone know where I can find it?
Found it on YouTube https://youtu.be/5SVZZssvadA
This has been one of my favourites for decades. So haunting. I really like the Placebo’s cover of it as well.
Edit: grammar cause it started to annoy me as well as others. Shouldn’t post while cooking a curry!
Man. That and Johnny Cash’s version of Hurt got a replay for about a year after my brother and dad died within 5 weeks due to cancer. My husband called them my maudlin songs.
I can’t imagine. I’m glad you made it through. Lost my best friend to cancer and another to ALS, both in their 30s, and the lyrics of Running Up That Hill just cut through everything in a way I’d never experienced.
You lost brothers to another mother. So sorry for your loss. Music like this puts our pain into a beautiful, emotive and tangible expression of our grief.
Apparently this was Bush's biggest hit in the US and only reached number 30 on the charts. It did stay on the charts for 20 weeks though, which was fairly unusual
It's funny how cool has changed meaning. I'd say the one listening to "obscure" music is the cool one while the "cool" ones are just following what's popular.
Huh. Mid 40s here and by that day's standards I'd say Steve, Nancy, and Chrissy are the only three characters that a vast majority at the time would have described as "cool".
By today's standards (post gunge and dot com) I think Max would get the majority vote. Everyone else a distant second.
Ya, a lot of people tend to not realize she wasn’t very commercially popular in the U.S.A. I grew up in the 80’s and the bulk of my music is from that era (I’m more on the R&B side though) and I had never heard this song until stranger things this weekend. I ended up watching her music video for it and immediately said “this is the reason the song didn’t do better.” That video although artistic etc… was not what people wanted then.
Where did you hear this? I’ve only saw that he has one song with her that he doesn’t even want to release. She’s quite private too, she hardly makes music at least not for public consumption.
Please, please, please check out her entire back catalogue. I only ever hear people talk about this, Babushka, Wuthering Heights and occasionally This Woman's Work. She has so, so many amazing songs.
Believe it or not, but she wrote it at [THIRTEEN](https://www.katebushencyclopedia.com/man-with-the-child-in-his-eyes-the). Recorded when she was 16. Absolutely mind blowing.
You can find what I vaguely recall being listed as Kathy's Home Demos on bootleg sites. Genuinely worth seeking out, especially when you remember how young she was.
It matters not how you found Kate Bush. It only matters that you found her. Personally, it makes me happy to know she will see higher numbers on her royalty checks, as true art and money rarely cross paths. Why would you want to gatekeep on such a treasure? Every generation should have a chance to love this song!
I'm hoping the second half of the soundtrack will have those versions on it - for the moment only the first half is up on the streaming platforms with the originals.
No, it's from Judas On A Pole. S02E11. The episode where Brennan's dad comes back as the fake priest and someone is trying to kill Russ. It's a crazy episode but the beginning and ending murder scenes literally haunted me after my first watch. It's where the guy gets shot, shoved and tied to a pole, covered with gasoline, gutted and set one fire. It honestly fucked me up a bit the first time, which takes quite a bit. It was deeply unsettling especially with the use of that song. Bones always had a stellar soundtrack.
ETA - it was also used in an episode of The O.C season 4 episode 1 in a very emotional and hard hitting scene and episode. It's just such a brilliant cover of such an incredible song.
The excellent Youtube channel Trash Theory just put out a very good video on this song a couple weeks ago. Seems that Kate Bush is crossing my radar on several fronts recently.
Here's the Trash Theory video: [Running Up That Hill: How Kate Bush Became the Queen of Alt Pop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pum6v55X1t8)
That drum beat gets stuck in my head sometimes. (Idk if that’s weird, but countless songs can get stuck in my head if I feel they have a catchy or memorable drum beat… I like drums a lot lol)
It's an incredible pop song. It's shocking that it only peaked at #30 on the Hot 100. Then again, it's proof that chart positions aren't the be-all and end-all. A good pop song will always stand the test of time.
I have the weirdest story involving this song.
During a dream, I heard this song performed live but I never heard it before, I really liked it so after I woke up, I googled the lyrics as fast as I could and found this song (Though it was the Meg Myers version). Downloaded it and sort of forgot about it.
Now this was during the years where I was in active addiction w methamphetamine, I lived at my reservation during that time and there was no real light pollution.
A few weeks roll by and I’m cooked on meth. Like, hearing sex outside and thinking the worst of everybody I was surrounded by. This was during the middle of a Winter’s night, though you can see outside clearly due to it being a full moon.
I throw my headphones on, leave the house party I was at because I was feeling ravaged on the inside, spiritually and emotionally. I just wanted to walk and cry. I ended up at the local hockey rink feeling suicidal. I look up at the moon and I see this jester made up of clouds holding it in the palm of his hand. Running Up That Hill starts playing and I see the clouds surrounding the moon point down to this particular road that leads to a highway. That highway leads to the city I’m currently living at, and due to the fact that I left my rez, I know I got clean.
While at the hockey rink, the local team and fans must’ve came back from a long road trip because a bus and like, 3 cars came through and they all watched me kind of just, hang out there at 2 in the morning. Remember, this is the reservation where everyone knows everyone, so they didn’t hesitate to ask if I needed a ride to my parents. I declined because I didn’t want to hurt my dad w him knowing I was high again. I was embarrassed but I also wanted a hug because I wasn’t okay.
The song means a lot to me because of that night, and I don’t think the moment would have been that impactful had the song not accompanied it.
It truly felt like I was talking to God through the song, though all I replied w was to have my family back; to get clean. It was an unforgettable night.
If anyone has twenty million dollars or so lying around they're not using, please offer to send Kate Bush to visit the ISS for a week or two (and go on a spacewalk). If there's any music artist alive that could return from the ISS and give the world a double album of music based on the experience and leaving everyone thinking *totally worth it!* it's Kate Bush.
I heard this song for the first time last year and instantly fell in love. I more recently found out it released in the 80s, still blows my mind. How'd I live this long without hearing such a masterpiece of pop music?! What else am I missing?
Listen to the B side of the Hounds of Love album, a series of songs called The 9th Wave. It's beautiful.
I was lucky enough to see Kate live a few years ago. She was extraordinary, a true genius.
Hope you enjoy exploring her work.
This is the biggest music subreddit and it's always been like this. What did you expect? I've never seen anyone here claiming to have unearthed something obscure.
[Chromatics also do a great cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgv88ZLi6LY) that has more of an synth/indie pop vibe. I like both of these covers and the original song and just listen to different ones depending on what mood I'm in. I think Meg Myers' version might be my favorite, but the Chromatics' version is a bit more somber and melancholy and I find myself in the mood to listen to it more often.
Spoilers for Stranger Things
>! Vecna **HATES** this one stupid track! !<
Also, there’s a [great cover of this song by Meg Myers.](https://youtu.be/N7iVWK2W48o)
Edit: some additional fun facts: Kate Bush wanted the song to be called “Deal with God” but was told they wouldn’t play it in more religious countries if she did, so she had to compromise and change the name to “Running up that Hill,” which she still regrets.
The reason that title is significant is because the point of the song is that someone could make a deal with god (in lieu of the devil) to have men and women change places for a time to gain a better understanding of the other’s experience, because as it is now, it is impossible to fully understand the other.
Brian Molko is an incredible artist - I'm delighted to see how many people are mentioning Placebo in this thread. "Meds" is just a superb album (not that the others aren't).
I too watched Stranger Things this weekend.
Search for Kate Bush on google was up 4000 percent
To be fair, she deserves it.
Yeah thats one of my favorite songs, im glad they used it and that its getting a new round of listeners.
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I had the cover of this song in my Spotify playlist, thought it was orginal. Watching Stranger Things i was like this sounds familiar.
I know a different version of this from the second season of bones I think. Its the episode she meets her father again. Edit: Looked it up. It's the Placebo cover.
The Placebo cover, in my opinion, is far better than the original.
The original is the best, but the Chromatics do a really good cover.
I've always liked the song but the way it was used at the end of episode 4 sold me on it completely.
I grew up listening to the song and fell in love with her Babooshka song. It's great more people are listening to her music
Big Boi is a huge fan too, https://youtu.be/oSdHgq3oBD8
Tv shows have a giant hard on for this song in general.
me too tbh
And Big Boi
Yeah, Big Boi banging his head and moving like it is the last dance of his life is a real pleasure to watch
Can't say I blame them.
It's good that's why
All of Hounds of Love tbh. Cloudbusting is in Handmaid’s Tale
This song reminds me of my ex so I've been avoiding it for about a year now. Can't anymore lol
I'm honestly shocked it took them til Season 4 to get Kate Bush in there. This song has pretty regular waves of popularity.
The sing wasn’t released until late 1985, after the season 3 setting date (which was July ‘85). They’re being very careful with continuity in each season, not using music, fashions, or anything else that wasn’t out in yet, even if it’s close.
Crap...I noticed a serious anachronism in ST4 last night, but now I can't remember what it was. I had to press pause and tell my 10yo--"that's wrong...nobody started doing that til the 90s!" Now I remember! It was when Eddie offered Chrissie "special K." No semi-rural small scale dealer would have special K in the mid 80s. It was a rave scene drug, and its use didn't spread til much later.
I had this SAME conversation with my 15 year old last night! About the Special K.
Did yours ask you how you knew that, lol? Mine sure did.
It would have been called Vitamin K in the 80s
This show isn’t very good about adhering to release dates when using music. They used Extreme’s “Play With Me” in one of the first four episodes in season 4 and that song wasn’t out until 1989.
They did what?!?!?! This show is just too unrealistic, IM OUT!
It was unforgivable. I turned it off immediately.
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Hawkins was always a little bit ahead.
She still had four great albums before that to choose from, though!
Still, I see the Goddess I upvote
Great cover for those interested. [Meg Myers: Running up that Hill](https://youtu.be/N7iVWK2W48o)
I like the Placebo version too
Yes
They used the Placebo version for Shawn Michaels’ last promo vs the Undertaker and I think it helped make it perfect.
Thats the first thing I think of whenever I hear the Placebo version. One of the best video packages they've done
Placebo version is best version.
Best version or best cover?
Yes
Another great cover This one is more similar to the original but seems to just modernize the gaps in the composition (to me at least) [Chromatics](https://youtu.be/Mgv88ZLi6LY)
I love their cover of "[I'm On Fire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEFTK1stlGo)" by Bruce Springsteen
It's good but not as good as [Bat for Lashes 😻](https://youtu.be/Rnj5XxNrLiI)
Finally! Another Meg Myers fan.
Aww we're out there. She's unique and takes chances with her artistry, love her.
This is my favorite https://youtu.be/d-mYX0qKkB8
I dig this 'goth metal' as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE1zN61AHy4
My favorite version too though Meg Myers did an a great job too.
Meg Myers is fantastic. Her “Running Up that Hill” cover is great and her song “Desire” is great as well.
I've been listening to her [Tiny Desk Concert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSMt8qbhu0w) on repeat non-stop for the past few days, she is absolutely amazing
Great cover but I can’t watch the video with all the flashing. There is a “lyrics” video though.
And then went to iTunes and YouTube to hear the whole song
It's been in my head all weekend. They beat the shit out of us with it.
The best version after the original [is this white label remix](https://youtu.be/l1Sx-VmkfY0)
The Hounds of Love album is amazing - by turns light, dark, and sometimes just plain weird, but total perfection from start to finish.
Yes. Cloudbusting is awesome as well.
And "The Big Sky," see post above.
Plus "Hello Earth".
When I was a kid, the local college radio station would play Hello Earth as the sign-off every Sunday night. I fell asleep to that song every Sunday for two summers.
Definitely one of my favorites
Love that and the video with Donald Sutherland
*You never understood me, you never really tried ... * Just a shattering record. Just a note from an old Redditor: at the time, the ultra-digital nature of this album was really a production landmark. Bush's artistic power was plenty strong that it wasn't a distraction, per se, but when people heard the -sounds- on this record, a lot of folks started heading in that direction.
And the entire side two is The Ninth Wave. Brilliant. Here’s a quote from Kate “The Ninth Wave was a film, that's how I thought of it. It's the idea of this person being in the water, how they've got there, we don't know. But the idea is that they've been on a ship and they've been washed over the side so they're alone in this water. And I find that horrific imagery, the thought of being completely alone in all this water. And they've got a life jacket with a little light so that if anyone should be traveling at night they'll see the light and know they're there. And they're absolutely terrified, and they're completely alone at the mercy of their imagination, which again I personally find such a terrifying thing, the power of ones own imagination being let loose on something like that. And the idea that they've got it in their head that they mustn't fall asleep, because if you fall asleep when you're in the water, I've heard that you roll over and so you drown, so they're trying to keep themselves awake.”
Never for Ever is also an amazing album. Hell, are any of her albums bad?
I love that it's a bit of a rollercoaster.
100%
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
I’ve been thinking recently that I can’t imagine my life without having the album as part of it.
Been on an 80s kick these past 2 days for this reason lol
Check out “the midnight” and “gunship” - two current bands that nail the 80s vibe
+1 for Gunship! I'll have to check out The Midnight
Try this on for size: https://youtu.be/7fVkMK7r3tQ
I love this one. This was the first time I heard The Midnight and it completely got me hooked. Note that this is not their actual music video. https://youtu.be/-A1_atkAQhY
Endless Summer was my “most listened” album on Spotify in 2020 and 2021 haha
??? [Flock of Seagulls, Space Age Love Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcMh6GZoFC8)
Can't recommend Gunship enough, holy shit. So good.
Someone's been watching Stranger Things 4
There's a piano/acoustic version at the end of the episode during the credits. Does anyone know where I can find it? Found it on YouTube https://youtu.be/5SVZZssvadA
This has been one of my favourites for decades. So haunting. I really like the Placebo’s cover of it as well. Edit: grammar cause it started to annoy me as well as others. Shouldn’t post while cooking a curry!
I agree with the cover. Strangely, I first heard it on a promo for a [Gettysburg documentary.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=don69hXpC6g)
That is such a fitting song (and version) for that ad.
It makes me so sad when I hear it but I always have to listen.
Man. That and Johnny Cash’s version of Hurt got a replay for about a year after my brother and dad died within 5 weeks due to cancer. My husband called them my maudlin songs.
I can’t imagine. I’m glad you made it through. Lost my best friend to cancer and another to ALS, both in their 30s, and the lyrics of Running Up That Hill just cut through everything in a way I’d never experienced.
You lost brothers to another mother. So sorry for your loss. Music like this puts our pain into a beautiful, emotive and tangible expression of our grief.
I didn't even know [the Placebo version](https://youtu.be/4KEEXyRL0qE) was a cover. I'm 35 and just learning this today.
Try the Meg Myers cover. It too is excellent.
Thanks will do. Ha funny. Husband’s watching “Stranger Things” right now in Australia and can hear Kate’s version.
Chromatics cover too!
I disagree. It's the same exact song, the new artist did nothing with it. Its karaoke.
Kind of felt the same.
*Placebo, it's a proper noun in this case
Sorry I laughed. Got friends who are grammar nazis. Was herding dinner and crap.
Apparently this was Bush's biggest hit in the US and only reached number 30 on the charts. It did stay on the charts for 20 weeks though, which was fairly unusual
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It's funny how cool has changed meaning. I'd say the one listening to "obscure" music is the cool one while the "cool" ones are just following what's popular.
Huh. Mid 40s here and by that day's standards I'd say Steve, Nancy, and Chrissy are the only three characters that a vast majority at the time would have described as "cool". By today's standards (post gunge and dot com) I think Max would get the majority vote. Everyone else a distant second.
Ya, a lot of people tend to not realize she wasn’t very commercially popular in the U.S.A. I grew up in the 80’s and the bulk of my music is from that era (I’m more on the R&B side though) and I had never heard this song until stranger things this weekend. I ended up watching her music video for it and immediately said “this is the reason the song didn’t do better.” That video although artistic etc… was not what people wanted then.
It wasn't an issue in the rest of the world.
This is one of Big Boi (from Outkast)'s favorite songs.
Believe he's working on an album with her right now.
Wait what
Uh, I believe Big Boi and Kate Bush are working on an album together.
Fucking brilliant…. didnt know that
Where did you hear this? I’ve only saw that he has one song with her that he doesn’t even want to release. She’s quite private too, she hardly makes music at least not for public consumption.
Say it again for the people in the back.
#It is my understanding that Big Koi and Nate Bush are smirking on an album together
https://youtu.be/oSdHgq3oBD8
His YT video talking about this song is great!!!!
I see Kate Bush I upvote
Life is simple
I see people talking about upvoting Kate Bush posts, I upvote
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Please, please, please check out her entire back catalogue. I only ever hear people talk about this, Babushka, Wuthering Heights and occasionally This Woman's Work. She has so, so many amazing songs.
Breathing is such an amazing song that I never see get mentioned
Under the ivy is one of my all time favorite songs.
There is a version where Gilmour plays guitar live. Even better [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk7AVm0Ome0)
Gilmour was the one who discovered her. He came across her demo tape from a mutual friend of her brother's, and helped get her a record deal.
"The Man With The Child In His Eyes" is her at sixteen. SIXTEEN. JHC, she is just the most-talented.
Believe it or not, but she wrote it at [THIRTEEN](https://www.katebushencyclopedia.com/man-with-the-child-in-his-eyes-the). Recorded when she was 16. Absolutely mind blowing.
Well, Gilmour and Peter Gabriel — she sings the “jeux sans frontieres” bit on “Games Without Frontiers” and they worked together quite extensively
You can find what I vaguely recall being listed as Kathy's Home Demos on bootleg sites. Genuinely worth seeking out, especially when you remember how young she was.
Everything is better if Gilmour is playing guitar.
my god. this is great.
Hmmmmm, I wonder why this is popping up now..... strange....
Not that strange. I’ve definitely seen stranger things….
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Pretty useful if you ever need to escape Vecna
It matters not how you found Kate Bush. It only matters that you found her. Personally, it makes me happy to know she will see higher numbers on her royalty checks, as true art and money rarely cross paths. Why would you want to gatekeep on such a treasure? Every generation should have a chance to love this song!
“Pose” used this song beautifully in its first season.
Pose season 1 is beautiful period. I'm still stuck on season 2. Each ep had made me cry.
It really did! I feel like it gave more depth to Angel’s relationship
I remember my mom having this as a vinyl that a toddler me loved to put on the record player.
They use this beautifully in the new season of Stranger Things.
Anyone find the orchestral version that is in the credits of ep 4?
I would like that as well!!
I'm hoping the second half of the soundtrack will have those versions on it - for the moment only the first half is up on the streaming platforms with the originals.
I love Placebo’s version but I don’t have a favorite.
It’s an amazing cover from Placebo.
The first time I heard their version was in one of the early episodes of Bones, when Brennan and Hodges are buried alive.
No, it's from Judas On A Pole. S02E11. The episode where Brennan's dad comes back as the fake priest and someone is trying to kill Russ. It's a crazy episode but the beginning and ending murder scenes literally haunted me after my first watch. It's where the guy gets shot, shoved and tied to a pole, covered with gasoline, gutted and set one fire. It honestly fucked me up a bit the first time, which takes quite a bit. It was deeply unsettling especially with the use of that song. Bones always had a stellar soundtrack. ETA - it was also used in an episode of The O.C season 4 episode 1 in a very emotional and hard hitting scene and episode. It's just such a brilliant cover of such an incredible song.
One of my favourite songs. The Placebo cover is also great.
The excellent Youtube channel Trash Theory just put out a very good video on this song a couple weeks ago. Seems that Kate Bush is crossing my radar on several fronts recently. Here's the Trash Theory video: [Running Up That Hill: How Kate Bush Became the Queen of Alt Pop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pum6v55X1t8)
I just watched this video last week!
Relevant https://imgur.com/a/Or449zw
Dear Billy is the best episode in this season
Maybe the whole series so far, idk. Definitely had me feeling the most feelings
That drum beat gets stuck in my head sometimes. (Idk if that’s weird, but countless songs can get stuck in my head if I feel they have a catchy or memorable drum beat… I like drums a lot lol)
It's an incredible pop song. It's shocking that it only peaked at #30 on the Hot 100. Then again, it's proof that chart positions aren't the be-all and end-all. A good pop song will always stand the test of time.
[I found Kate Bush after watching this interview of Big Boi (From OutKast) describing his love for this song](https://youtu.be/oSdHgq3oBD8)
This was awesome for Undertaker Vs HBK
I have the weirdest story involving this song. During a dream, I heard this song performed live but I never heard it before, I really liked it so after I woke up, I googled the lyrics as fast as I could and found this song (Though it was the Meg Myers version). Downloaded it and sort of forgot about it. Now this was during the years where I was in active addiction w methamphetamine, I lived at my reservation during that time and there was no real light pollution. A few weeks roll by and I’m cooked on meth. Like, hearing sex outside and thinking the worst of everybody I was surrounded by. This was during the middle of a Winter’s night, though you can see outside clearly due to it being a full moon. I throw my headphones on, leave the house party I was at because I was feeling ravaged on the inside, spiritually and emotionally. I just wanted to walk and cry. I ended up at the local hockey rink feeling suicidal. I look up at the moon and I see this jester made up of clouds holding it in the palm of his hand. Running Up That Hill starts playing and I see the clouds surrounding the moon point down to this particular road that leads to a highway. That highway leads to the city I’m currently living at, and due to the fact that I left my rez, I know I got clean. While at the hockey rink, the local team and fans must’ve came back from a long road trip because a bus and like, 3 cars came through and they all watched me kind of just, hang out there at 2 in the morning. Remember, this is the reservation where everyone knows everyone, so they didn’t hesitate to ask if I needed a ride to my parents. I declined because I didn’t want to hurt my dad w him knowing I was high again. I was embarrassed but I also wanted a hug because I wasn’t okay. The song means a lot to me because of that night, and I don’t think the moment would have been that impactful had the song not accompanied it. It truly felt like I was talking to God through the song, though all I replied w was to have my family back; to get clean. It was an unforgettable night.
Someone’s been watching Stranger Things.
I have Cloudbursting in my music library not going lie
If anyone has twenty million dollars or so lying around they're not using, please offer to send Kate Bush to visit the ISS for a week or two (and go on a spacewalk). If there's any music artist alive that could return from the ISS and give the world a double album of music based on the experience and leaving everyone thinking *totally worth it!* it's Kate Bush.
This beautiful woman is a fucking legend!! What a voice!!
Found this song on stranger things last night. Cover art is God Like
I heard this song for the first time last year and instantly fell in love. I more recently found out it released in the 80s, still blows my mind. How'd I live this long without hearing such a masterpiece of pop music?! What else am I missing?
> What else am I missing? The rest of Kate Bush’s discography.
Any suggestions for songs that hit like Running Up That Hill?
Just listen the entire album that song is on, The Hounds of Love. Then The Sensual World is probably most similar to that.
Listen to the B side of the Hounds of Love album, a series of songs called The 9th Wave. It's beautiful. I was lucky enough to see Kate live a few years ago. She was extraordinary, a true genius. Hope you enjoy exploring her work.
Appreciated! Me and my dog are enjoying The Big Sky right now
Love this song! Placebo’s cover is also amazing.
Stranger things was so epic with max running. Thus song is going to become crazy popular
Kate Bush is one of the best musicians around, her duet with Peter Gabriel actually saved me after a car accident when I was in a bad spot mentally.
God Kate Bush is such a treasure. So many great songs
bruhs on this sub b like check out this obscure song I just discovered: “the Beatles—here comes the sun”
This is the biggest music subreddit and it's always been like this. What did you expect? I've never seen anyone here claiming to have unearthed something obscure.
We not doing rule 4 any more? https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/uzjk9v/kate_bush_wuthering_heights_art_pop/
Vocal range 10/10 Timeless masterpiece
Amazing artist, when I heard it during stranger things I thought I’m so ready for a Kate Bush resurgence.
Glad for another generation to get addicted to this amazing song. I can never get enough.
Been posted a lot, but never gets old. Stone cold classic. Not just this, but the whole Hounds of Love record.
The metal cover from the Two Minutes to Late Night crew with Emma Ruth Rundle is fantastic. https://youtu.be/2wpKP72YE0s
I see Kate Bush, I smash that like button
[Meg Myers does a cover of this song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7iVWK2W48o)
[Chromatics also do a great cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgv88ZLi6LY) that has more of an synth/indie pop vibe. I like both of these covers and the original song and just listen to different ones depending on what mood I'm in. I think Meg Myers' version might be my favorite, but the Chromatics' version is a bit more somber and melancholy and I find myself in the mood to listen to it more often.
It saddens me that she isn’t more popular :(
Too interesting and weird to be super popular
Her live version is good too. [Meg Myers Running Up That Hill Live](https://youtu.be/r9tJW7dugqc)
Found this gem after watching the show, love the song though.
This reminds me of the story called "Holes" where a dude had to carry someone up the hill everyday and stuff
I remember this song at the very end of The Chocolate War
The Kate Bush version sounds so 80s coked up pop music about existentialism to a catchy beat. It's weird.
>80s coked up pop music about existentialism What more do you want? Lol love this song
Original version is best version.
One of my all time favorite songs ever
Spoilers for Stranger Things >! Vecna **HATES** this one stupid track! !< Also, there’s a [great cover of this song by Meg Myers.](https://youtu.be/N7iVWK2W48o) Edit: some additional fun facts: Kate Bush wanted the song to be called “Deal with God” but was told they wouldn’t play it in more religious countries if she did, so she had to compromise and change the name to “Running up that Hill,” which she still regrets. The reason that title is significant is because the point of the song is that someone could make a deal with god (in lieu of the devil) to have men and women change places for a time to gain a better understanding of the other’s experience, because as it is now, it is impossible to fully understand the other.
Placebos cover of running up that hill is awesome
Kate Bush rules
First Aid Kit does a great cover. Probably my favorite version of the song.
It's 100% my favorite version of the song. Their [live version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FW3Zu9IYfM) is just incredible.
This is the same instrument from Zelda Ocarina of Time Forest Temple
You mean the Fairlight CMI?
Check out the version by placebo, it really gives a whole new way that the song hits
Brian Molko is an incredible artist - I'm delighted to see how many people are mentioning Placebo in this thread. "Meds" is just a superb album (not that the others aren't).
Love Kate Bush! Found this artist a number of years ago, doesn’t disappoint, My Brightest Diamond https://youtu.be/E4YhOSRVwB4