Video: "Running Up That Hill"
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Showing posts with label Kate Bush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kate Bush. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Album Anniversary - September 16, 2015
Today is the 30th anniversary of Hounds of Love, the fifth album from Kate Bush.
Friday, October 17, 2014
Album Anniversary - October 17
Today is the 25th Anniversary of "The Sensual World" by Kate Bush
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It is also the 50th Anniversary of "12 x 5," the second American album by the Rolling Stones
Video: "Love and Anger" by Kate Bush
Video: "Time is on My Side" by the Rolling Stones
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
July 30, 2014
Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...
Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848):
“If he loved with all the
powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could
in a day.”
Kate Bush (1958 - ):
“Is there so much hate for the
ones we love?
Tell me we both matter don't
we?”
and
“You don't want to hurt me,
But see how deep the bullet
lies.”
Richard Linklater (1960 - ):
“I always think that I’m still
this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to
live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.”
and
“We all give ourselves a lot of
leeway, but we want consistency from other people.”
and
“Being alone is better than
sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.”
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Great Songs from My Favorite Year in Music: 1985, Part 5
Kate Bush - "Running Up That Hill"
(Single Release: August 1985)
The driving beat of the drums propels this song ever forward, matching the sentiment in the title. As happens with many great songs, the original has been somewhat forgotten by everyone other than the stalwart fans, if heard at all. That's because successful cover versions tend to steal the spotlight, as with Placebo's more recent version, which has been featured in nearly every CW show under the sun. But, voice-wise, Brian Molko does not equal Kate Bush. Sometimes thought to be a plea to switch places with God, the true interpretation, as per Bush, is that it is a plea with God to switch the gender roles in the relationship so they can better understand each other. The lines "Is there so much hate for the ones we love? / Tell me we both matter, don't we?" are devastating.
(Single Release: August 1985)
The driving beat of the drums propels this song ever forward, matching the sentiment in the title. As happens with many great songs, the original has been somewhat forgotten by everyone other than the stalwart fans, if heard at all. That's because successful cover versions tend to steal the spotlight, as with Placebo's more recent version, which has been featured in nearly every CW show under the sun. But, voice-wise, Brian Molko does not equal Kate Bush. Sometimes thought to be a plea to switch places with God, the true interpretation, as per Bush, is that it is a plea with God to switch the gender roles in the relationship so they can better understand each other. The lines "Is there so much hate for the ones we love? / Tell me we both matter, don't we?" are devastating.
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