# AMA about Kate Bush **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [June 7, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841 "2022-06-07T22:28:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/1 "2022-06-07T22:28:00Z")
Fanatic since 1978. No matter how long I go without listening to he r albums (I know that all note for note) she remains the cente of my musical instruments verse. For decades the only people I knew who were aware of her, with a couple of notable exceptions (@equipoise), were people I had introduced her to. Almost tearfully grateful to see her finally gaining some mainstream recognition in the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/2 "2022-06-07T22:32:39Z")
So why is the American Medical Association concerned with Kate Bush? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/3 "2022-06-07T22:35:05Z")
That’s a question about the American Medical Association, not about Kate Bush ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/4 "2022-06-07T22:45:19Z")
Although I had a somewhat sheltered life, a co-worker of my mom’s introduced me to KT’s music in the early 80’s when I was a young teen. He had videos, and shared his albums as well. Hipster cred 🕶 ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/5 "2022-06-07T22:45:32Z")
I’m unfamiliar with Kate Bush. What songs is she known for? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/6 "2022-06-07T22:52:14Z")
I only knew about her as one of my best friends in the Navy was a big fan of her. She didn’t get airplay on my rock stations. I always liked her since then. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/7 "2022-06-07T23:01:47Z")
“Running Up That Hill” and “Babooshka” are probably her most well known. They get played on an alternative radio station here in Chicago from time to time. I’m a little surprised as to how obscure Kate Bush seems to be in the US, as she was reasonably known among the crowd I hung out with in Chicago. A bunch of Chicago musicians also put together a tribute album called “I Wanna Be Kate” back in 1998 with covers of her work. She was certainly well loved here if you were in the right crowd. ETA: Smack my head. “Hounds of Love,” too. ETA2: She’s also featured as the female voice in Peter Gabriel’s “Games Without Frontiers.” ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/8 "2022-06-07T23:02:20Z")
I used to hear “Hounds of Love” a lot on college radio. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/9 "2022-06-07T23:17:51Z")
Yes I was peripherally involved in “I Wanna Be Kate.” ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/10 "2022-06-07T23:18:54Z")
She’s currently climbing global charts after “Running Up That Hill” was used on Stranger things. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/11 "2022-06-07T23:25:29Z")
And “Wuthering Heights”. Pat Benatar’s version was a cover. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-1pMMIe4hb4/hqdefault.jpg "Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights - Official Music Video - Version 1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/12 "2022-06-07T23:28:04Z")
Oh, very cool! A cafe coworker of mine (Eddie Carlson) played bass on the Aluminum Group and I think Mouse songs. (Mouse was formed at the cafe a few years previous to me working there.) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/13 "2022-06-07T23:40:47Z")
Pretty good article on how the Duffer Brothers picked the song to use for Max. _ **Spoilers if you watched the shows.** _ > **[Here's How "Stranger Things" Decided To Use "Running Up That Hill" For Max's...](https://www.buzzfeed.com/noradominick/stranger-things-running-up-that-hill-kate-bush)** > > "Running Up That Hill" has become a smash hit 37 years after its release thanks to Stranger Things Season 4. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/14 "2022-06-07T23:47:13Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > She’s also featured as the female voice in Peter Gabriel’s “Games Without Frontiers.” In addition to “Games Without Frontiers,” she sang a duet with Gabriel on his song “Don’t Give Up.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VjEq-r2agqc/maxresdefault.jpg "Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up (ft. Kate Bush)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjEq-r2agqc) ---
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> [@lissener](#): > > Fanatic since 1978. No matter how long I go without listening to he r albums (I know that all note for note) she remains the cente of my musical instruments verse. For decades the only people I knew who were aware of her, with a couple of notable exceptions (@equipoise), were people I had introduced her to. I’ve only been aware of her since 2009 or so, though I had heard her sing with both Peter Garbiel on “Don’t Give Up” and with George Harrison on “Dream Away” from the soundtrack to _Time Bandits_ without know it’s her. She’s something of an, uh, acquired taste for most Americans I think. The first song I saw from her was “Wuthering Heights” I think, and it led me down a rabbit hole to “Army Dreamers,” “Them Heavy People,” “Hammer Horror,” and “Babooshka,” and “Running Up that Hill.” She’s a bit weird, but I’ve enjoyed what I’ve seen. I’m flabbergasted that she’s rocketed up the charts because _Stranger Things_ introduced her to a wider audience here. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/16 "2022-06-08T01:32:27Z")
I don’t know how much of a household name she has been in America, but she’s certainly been influential, as this list on Wikipedia suggests. > **[Kate Bush | Influence and legacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bush#Influence_and_legacy)** > > Musicians who have stated their admiration for Bush's work include Cher, Elton John, Tori Amos, Annie Lennox, Björk, Ron Mael and Russell Mael of Sparks, Alanis Morissette, Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins, Sinead O'Connor, Dido, Anohni of Antony and the Johnsons, Big Boi of OutKast, Nigel Godrich, Damon Albarn, Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, Suzanne Vega, Joanna Newsom, Fever Ray, Beth Orton, Fiona Ap It still blows my mind that when she wrote “The Man with the Child in His Eyes,” she was all of 13 years old. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/NAj8suae3WY/hqdefault.jpg "Kate Bush - The Man with the Child in His Eyes - Official Music Video") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAj8suae3WY) ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/17 "2022-06-08T01:41:15Z")
And recorded it at 15 if I remember right. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/18 "2022-06-08T01:49:44Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > They get played on an alternative radio station here in Chicago from time to time. You may be thinking of the [Meg Myers cover from 2019](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7iVWK2W48o). Y’know, the better one. The thing is, these “Billboard #1” type of ratings these days come from stream counts and Google searches. People aren’t looking her up because they like her suddenly. They’re doing it because they heard the song in Stranger Things, episode 4, and went “I didn’t know that 2019 alt-rock song was a cover! Who sang the original?” and presto, instantly to the top of the charts. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/19 "2022-06-08T01:53:21Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > You may be thinking of the [Meg Myers cover from 2019](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7iVWK2W48o). Y’know, the better one. I’ve heard her being played on that station since at least the 90s, so I’m not thinking of that. (Though they also play the Myers version, as far as I remember.) Not that I’m going to be able to dig deeply into their playlist, but here’s a playlist from 2020 where they played the Kate Bush version (though the cover was mentioned by the DJ): > **[Fresh Listen: WXRT Chicago - RadioInsight](https://radioinsight.com/blogs/196507/fresh-listen-wxrt-chicago/)** > > It’s been a recurring theme in this column over the last five months, but I’ve been particularly drawn to those stations that still “do radio,” including those that really relate to their music and their markets. It’s hard to observe the tenets of... > [@](#): > > Here’s WXRT just before 3 p.m., August 25 with p.m. driver Marty Lennartz: > > - **U2,** “Beautiful Day” > - **Billie Joe of Green Day,** “I Think We’re Alone Now” > - **Black Pumas,** “Colors” > - **Clash,** “London Calling” > - **Led Zeppelin,** “Dazed And Confused” > - **Nathan Rateliff & Nightsweats,** “You Worry Me” > - **Red Hot Chili Peppers,** “Give It Away” > - **Santana,** “Winning” > - **Siouxsie & the Banshees,** “Dear Prudence” > - **Coldplay,** “Viva La Vida” > - **Cage the Elephant,** “Cigarette Daydreams” > - **Jayhawks,** “This Forgotten Town” > > > - **Kate Bush,** “Running Up That Hill” > > - **Lovely The Band,** “Broken” > - **Elvis Costello,** “Veronica” ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841/20 "2022-06-08T01:56:45Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > I’m unfamiliar with Kate Bush. What songs is she known for? Nobody mentioned “Love and Anger.” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xyEHKGDSg5I/hqdefault.jpg "Kate Bush - Love and Anger - Official Music Video") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyEHKGDSg5I) Lyrics: > **[Kate Bush – Love and Anger](https://genius.com/Kate-bush-love-and-anger-lyrics)** > > The second track on Kate Bush’s 6th studio LP, “Love and Anger” was the third and final single released from the album in 1990. Reaching No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Modern Rock So you’re going to pin my arm behind my back and demand I name my favorite Kate Bush song? For the expressiveness of her voice… [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/owAkE4GLH4w/hqdefault.jpg "Kate Bush - The Song Of Solomon") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAkE4GLH4w) And instead of demanding that I cry “Uncle” you want me to tell you which two albums you should begin with? 1. Hounds of Love 2. The Red Shoes A friend of mine, who knew some about recording, said he couldn’t imagine how the engineers handled her. [“Give me a bonus track before I let go of your arm, you bastard!”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW5hjWVS3ho) OK I will. Just being alive, it can really hurt… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-about-kate-bush/965841.md?page=2)