She’s actually on two Gabriel songs that got (and still get) a lot of airplay: “Don’t Give Up” and “Games Without Frontiers” – it’s Bush singing the line “Jeux sans frontieres,” which a lot of people mis-hear as “She’s so popular.”
About the only one of her songs that got a lot of play was “Because the Night,” which she co-wrote with Bruce Springsteen. I’d be a little surprised if you’ve never heard it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_BcivBprM0
Supposedly Dolly is going to justify her inclusion by releasing a real rock album. It’s to be loaded with guest stars. Remember when Pat Boone donned leather and tried to rock?
I heard The Big Sky on college radio while driving one day and immediately went out and bought Hounds of Love. Still love that album, though for whatever reason that’s about where my interest stopped. But yeah, she was acknowledged royalty on the Indy/Alternative scene. I have zero real issues with her being inducted into the HoF.
She appears on Gabriels “No Self Control” also.
I like Kate Bush, but Wuthering Heights is a weird, weird song and I’m not surprised it never gained traction here in the United States.
Earlier today I was out in the desert with the dogs, and the USB was going alphabetically (that’s a whole 'nother thread) and Kate’s music came on, and I had to skip them all (I got a remote handy at all times). That was some screechy old bullshit. Totally queered the vibe I got from Juliana Hatfield. Thankfully Kicking Harold saved the afternoon!
And The Crew unearthed a mouse nest. Oh, The Rodentia!
It’s weird all right, but in a literate, unique, and absolutely haunting way. Pretty much like all of her works.
Artsy, fartsy, airy, fairy is how I’ve heard her music decribed. And screeching from the poster above me. Anyone who sings a song about Hammer horror movies is okay in my book though.
“U.S.-Centric Post-Mid-1950s Popular Music (except genres that Jann Wenner dislikes) Hall of Fame”
Yeah, but I also remember when Loretta Lynn decided to rock, and she got Jack White to collaborate with her and that album killed. Great from front to back.
I wouldn’t count Dolly out. The White Stripes did a hard rocking version of ‘Jolene’, and it was great. I think she could pull it off with the right collaborators.
More like, “Music in any genre that Jan Wenner and his cadre of acceptable rock critics likes.”
They tried to get away with exclusing prog from the RRHoF because Wenner hates prog, but fan pushback eventually made them cave. Zevon will not be so lucky, as he personally insulted Wenner once. No hall of fame for you!
Will it include Stairway to Heaven? https://youtu.be/fw_Codf29Pw/
Has the band “Bush” gotten anywhere close to this Hall of Fame? All I remember is that they were megapopular when i was in high school in the 90s. It would have been weird writing an article about Kate Bush if that band was floating in the background of the discussion. I read an article that was linked here and I couldn’t help but think of that band a few times in the way that “Bush” was used in it to refer to Kate Bush.
I went to high school in the early 90s, and I only remember Bush for “Comedown” and “Glycerine.” Maybe there’s another one. I only found out earlier this year that they were a British band. I always thought they were an American band. The music just doesn’t sound “British” to me, especially that era 90s. At any rate, they were okay, I guess.
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Listened to her in the early eighties. It seemed like evrery rock n roll band wanted to work iwith hervocals nd musicsl genius
I mean, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hasn’t been only “rock and roll.” Was Marvin Gaye rock? He was inducted the second year of the Hall, 1987. Sam Cooke? Inaugural year. Aretha Franklin? Johnny Cash? Sam & Dave. All pretty early inductees.
Kate Bush’s music, I guess, best fits under the blanket of “alternative pop” perhaps? I mean, it is kind of sui generis, but if we’re gonna put it somewhere. And plenty of her music has enough rock backbone that it could fit under that nebulous “art rock” category moreso than many people who have been inducted into the Hall that have absolutely zero (or almost zero) to do with rock music.
Thank you so much for clarifying for me who Kate Bush is and why I never paid any attention to her.
I was mesmerized by her SNL performance and may have eyeballed a record or two at Licorice Pizza when I was 15, but I hadn’t thought of her once between then and the Stranger Things hype. I recognized the song “Running Up That Hill” but never put a name to it.
I imagine Zevon would have been just fine with that.
I’ve always had trouble with that song; I find it almost unmusical, shifting from melody to melody randomly.
I mean, it’s not THE weirdest popular song of all time; that is, of course, “Rock Lobster.” But it’s weird.
I’ve always thought of doing a Keltner List for the RRHOF, and might get around to starting a thread on that.
Look, narwhals get very little representation in rock. I prefer my music to be narwhal inclusive.