Kate Bush - “Running Up That Hill” - REACTION

[@leslieturner8276]

To answer your questions, yes that is Kate Bush dancing in the music video, the style of dancing is known as interpretive dance. At the time when Kate was coming up her idea for this video, she felt that in too many videos that dance was been used in a trivial manner, so decided to have some serious dancing in this particular video. Regarding production Kate was a co-producer on her 3rd album "Never For Forever" which was the 1st album written by a British female solo artist to reach number 1 in the UK album chart and the first to enter straight into number 1. For her 4th album "The Dreaming" Kate produced it herself and this stage she was able to operate the Fairlight CMI, having used it for some tracks in "Never For Ever", although Kate started to spread her musical wings on that album, for "The Dreaming" Kate went for it and created her most experimental and "out there" album - for new fans I don't recommend that they go immediately to "The Dreaming" it's better to listen to some other albums before "The Dreaming" as it is very experimental - it's my favourite Kate Bush album - and after a negative reaction on release it has been reevaluated recently by critics who are now understanding just how important and groundbreaking the album is. Anyway, now the "Hounds Of Love" album from which "Running Up That Hill" comes, it's an album split into two sides, the first part contains the most commercial sounding tracks - so you can't go wrong with the other singles from the album which are: Cloudbusting, "Hounds Of Love" and "The Big Sky". The 2nd half entitled "The Ninth Wave" starting with "And Dream Of Sheep" is a suite of linked songs that together are a mini concept album. Released at around a similar time is "Don't Give Up" a duet with Kate and Peter Gabriel which features on his So album, the music video is so simple but so brilliant. Other Kate Bush songs after "Hounds Of Love" include: This Woman's Work, Love And Anger, The Sensual World, Rubberband Girl, Moments Of Pleasure. If you want to explore early Kate Bush songs then you should start at the beginning with "Wuthering Heights" her smash hit debut single which hit number 1 in a number of countries (including the UK) and charted highly elsewhere (but made little impact in America. WRT the UK singles charts Kate became the first female artist to have a self written song reach number 1. One thing to note about Wuthering Heights is that sings with a very high register, which is perfect for the song and was totally unlike anything else in the charts. Other songs from her 1st two albums include: The Man with the Child in His Eyes, Wow, Hammer Horror In relation to "The Dreaming" if you are interested these are the singles released from it: Sat In Your Lap, The Dreaming, Suspended In Gaffa, There Goes A Tenner That should be enough for now. As for Kate Bush she started writing songs at 11, by her mid teens and around when she was discovered she had amassed well over a hundred songs, some estimates state nearer two hundred. The circumstances on how EMI became aware of her talent is most unusual, but I won't cover that here. Kate has had 25 top 40 singles. When RUTH re-entered UK singles chart at number 8 Kate became the 1st female artist to have at least one top 12 single in the UK chart for six consecutive decades 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s Kate is multi-talented a singer songwriter, a musician, a dancer (trained in mime by Lindsay Kemp [RIP] who also trained David Bowie), record producer, video producer, video director (for some of her videos) Kate is regarded as somewhat like a National Treasure and a musical icon and pioneer elsewhere. An individual who has influenced countless artists- a Kate Bush website recently claimed about 200 have influenced in some way. Perhaps this massive surge of interest in Kate in America means that she will get the recognition that she deserves. Some have likened her to being the female equivalent of David Bowie, but to me she's just Kate Bush a unique talent and if the word genius can be applied to anyone it can be applied to Kate. Apart from Wikipedia, an extremely useful source of information is the website "Kate Bush Encyclopedia" You said that you have heard this song before RUTH is by far the Kate Bush song that has been covered the most, perhaps you heard a cover version?

[@youngbloodk]

Kate Bush's entire discography would be worth covering. She is a true musical genius, arguably, and in my personal opinion, the greatest female musical artist of the last fifty years.

[@ppzav]

I'm so ready for your Kate Bush journey !

[@stever7732]

Kate Bush - dancer, mime, pianist, songwriter, producer, actor, director. She’s not widely regarded as a multitalented genius for nothing. She generated most of that from a Fairlight CMI synthesiser (she, Peter Gabriel and Herby Hancock were the pioneers in using this new tool), with her boyfriend of that time and fellow band member Del Palmer generating the beat from a LinnDrum. You might have heard recent covers of this song. Placebo covered in 2003, and Meg Myers in 2019.

[@henriknilsson1565]

She is the dancer - and multitalented! Get The Ninth Wave or The Dreaming next.

[@BryPazReacts]

The dreaming reaction: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZ_dn3euqM-GgdE

[@MRoyClark]

You pointed out that "big snare" sound. We call it the "gated reverb" "gated snare" or just the "80s snare". It helped define the decade, sonically. That sound is actually (mistakenly) attributed to Phil Collins and Hugh Padgham, with the song "In the Air Tonight". That's not entirely untrue, but Phil and Hugh helped find the sound on a Peter Gabriel (Phil Collins' former Genesis bandmate) album track. Kate Bush (a close friend and frequent collaborator of Peter Gabriel's) was actually visiting the recording studio (to record vocals for the pre-chorus of Peter Gabriel's early solo hit "Games Without Frontiers") when they first landed on the gated reverb drum sound. Not a lot of people seem to know this, but Peter Gabriel has mentioned it in interviews.

[@BryPazReacts]

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Behind The Mask (1979) had some pretty 80’s sounding drums. not as reverby, but it was getting there

[@derekodriscoll7178]

You have to Visit 'Army Dreamer's' next my friend, you will love it 👌😎

[@rainerzufall42]

"Back To The Future" was released less than 2 months later in Germany, BTW (Aug 5 vs. Oct 3, 1985). For the U.S. it was the other way round: 1 month earlier (Aug 5 vs. Jul 3, 1985). Funny coincidence!

[@Kairon111161]

I appreciate that "80's" sound that is so "synth" as you say, NOW -- and I ALWAYS appreciated it in Kate Bush's work, from the time of their release. But that "synth" sound is precisely why, musically, culturally, I was SO TURNED OFF by the 1980's -- when I was 18 to 28 years old -- after the intense and passionate 1960's and the adventurous and visceral 1970's, it all sounded so fake and artificial and inhuman. I've come to appreciate it all more in the 40 years since -- but Kate Bush, I never felt that way about. I loved her stuff from 1978, when I was in London, that Summer and THE MAN WITH THE CHILD IN HER EYES was a huge hit there. I've been into her ever since -- then she did THEM HEAVY PEOPLE (about philosophers -- LOL) on SNL in 1979, and I was hooked!!

[@isobeljames1328]

Waouh ! You like the sound of your voice

[@quintfl]

Kate Bush sent me here

[@ssia6938]

You are way too distracted when viewing this video. It’s a beautiful piece to experience without interruption.

[@stephenthorpe8457]

It would be really impressive for you to take on the challenge of doing a reaction to this Kate Bush clip from her 1979 Christmas Special on U.K. TV! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGfQhauJptRqn6s [sardonic laughter fading slowly out!]

[@BryPazReacts]

Done! kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXaqaHVjl715p5Y

[@thomasovens478]

You only listened to 10 seconds of the song and didn't recognise it. Give it chance bud.

[@1234tori]

too stops during the song for me - thanks anyway

[@jons.105]

This is unwatchable.