LEGEND Used Her Own FLATULENCE On This 80s Classic! | Professor of Rock

[@ProfessorofRock]

Poll: What is your pick for the BEST SONG by a Female Artist or Female Band from the 80s?

[@Sweet--Richard.4981]

Barracuda

[@TerrickTerran]

Sweet Dreams are Made of This Annie Lennox

[@peterd.9978]

We Got The Beat! - The Go Gos

[@christineml1476]

Laura Branigan "Self Control"

[@killrmillr]

Pat Benatar - Promises In The Dark

[@johnwinnard5589]

I’m so old, mom used to whip me with the HotWheels tracks. 😂 when it was still legal! 😅😅😅

[@ProfessorofRock]

Oh man... I know what you mean!

[@RBS_]

....ha-HAAA!! ...I got a regular Ol' BELT! ...a TRUE roustabout, I was.......

[@cheesesteak22]

you could get some good whip goin' with that orange track 😫😆

[@johnwinnard5589]

@@ProfessorofRock I said to mom NO HOTWHEELS FOR CHRISTMAS!!!

[@craigs71]

Same here, I do also recall my mother hitting me with a poker too.​@@RBS_

[@CasualSpud]

You can't spell FART without ART

[@briankady1456]

Word!

[@wintersprite]

Similarly, you can’t spell slaughter without laughter.

[@briankady1456]

@@wintersprite Yep

[@TheGodParticle]

Very droll.

[@randylear8264]

Brings new meaning to “ Classical Gas”.

[@LaManteca76]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Charlesb88]

@@randylear8264 She should have done a colab with “Air Supply”.😁

[@hello-vs4dc]

LOL! I love this comment! 🥰🥰🥰

[@hello-vs4dc]

@@Charlesb88And your follow-up comment to the OP’s original post is great, too! LOL! 🥰🥰🥰

[@Elle_TF]

😂😂😂😂

[@mournblade1066]

Well, it's official: The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet has finally been identified: "Subways of Your Mind" by FEX, released in 1983. The band members had absolutely no idea that people were trying to find the source of the song.

[@bartbluemusic]

Wow! Finally! TY for sharing. :)

[@homeaccount5943]

Thanks for telling us ! Exciting stuff!

[@stevenfunderburg1623]

Professor isn't participating today if he didn't instantly respond to this.

[@stevenfunderburg1623]

When you say "released", what do you mean?

[@mournblade1066]

@@stevenfunderburg1623 It was actually recorded and released on an EP in Germany back in 1983.

[@DizzLexic]

"Running Up That Hill" sure takes on a whole new meaning now!!

[@kevinscheuller4429]

😂

[@ScruffyIslander]

I was fifteen when 'She's So Unusual' was released, but was immediately transfixed by Cyndi Lauper. I was already leaning towards more alternative artists, and Cyndi fit the bill perfectly. I also felt like this album was one of the best albums I had ever heard (of the 80's). Looking back on it now, Cyndi was probably my first celebrity crush. I LOVED her. I remember thinking that Cyndi Lauper was going to change the landscape of music going forward, and to this day I think she really was a pioneer for women who had influence in the music industry. I felt more than a little smug that so many songs from "unusual" actually charted, especially after all the weird looks I got when I bought it. To this day, Cyndi Lauper continues to hold my attention when I see her in interviews or speaking at events. Love that you did a story on her in this video! Thank you for always bringing up the most interesting tidbits about artists we both know and love!

[@redfacejoe7129]

Maybe Tina WAS in her 40's, but those legs were timeless!

[@AWGER58]

Amen

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

We’re the same height. I wish we could swap legs. 🤣

[@festivelady826]

I saw her in concert in San Antonio, Texas, in April 2000 when she was 61 years old and those legs were on full display. She put on a fabulous show for two hours, dancing the whole time. She worked for those gams, let me tell you.

[@harrytuttle1446]

Truly timeless and beautiful.

[@oldschoolfunkster1]

Yup! Ike Turner was an idiot!

[@jamesconnor1826]

I never knew Mark wrote Private Dancer , but as soon as you said it, I could hear him doing it. It is totally his song writing style. Brothers in Arms comes to mind....

[@BinaBecker]

"Private Dancer" is from the perspective of a dime-a-dance girl. It's kind of a days-gone-by job (and was even then, already) but Tina knocked it out of the ballroom. RIP, queen.

[@BinaBecker]

Also, I knew She Bop was about Cyndi's solo sexytimes (just look at all the silly double entendres in the video!), but I've never heard any Kate Bush song that samples toots, and I'm pretty sure I've heard (and loved) them all. I'm going to guess that her goofy gassy experimentation was just that, and none of that ever made it onto a record.

[@jonnypyro7713]

They are more than a dime now

[@billkeithchannel]

Yeah that is the video I remember. Like during WW2 era.

[@gaufrid1956]

Eva Peron was one of those "private dancers" before she met and married the man who was President Peron in Argentina. The video of the song "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" shows this part of her life.

[@makz524]

also called a taxi dancer

[@DeidreL9]

With Katie, I’d bet it’s just before the chorus starts towards the end of Babooshka. There’s a couple of strange little “drum” beats🤗🤭 God love her!♥️ She’s everything. PS good to see the Heart Little Queen LP in the background, my favourite album cover ever!

[@johnathansaegal3156]

"The Kick Inside" was an album I had to order as an import. In 1980 I paid $80 for it... and was blown away when I realized she had two more albums I could order. As a 12 year-old, that was months worth of mowing lawns to order all of them.

[@PrecociousFriand]

Blown away..teehee

[@hijackhypergamy]

Around $240-$300 in today's dollars.

[@billm8442]

Dang, what did you charge in 1980? I could barely afford a $5 cassette & bag of lemon drops

[@stevedonalson5675]

Congratulations! Great start to a new series! You are going to be busy. The amount of material you can find is incredible. Thank you for all you do. From the immortal words of old radio.. .“Chicken Man! He’ everywhere, He’s everywhere!”

[@cheesesteak22]

Maybe that's how Kate was able to "Run up that hill" 💨😳

[@ProfessorofRock]

Doh!

[@xamyx725]

Or, maybe it was “The Fog”… 😂

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

🥁

[@dukecraig2402]

She propelled herself right to the top.

[@gary1961]

Moving, the first track on The Kick Inside could have fart sounds hidden in with the whale sounds.

[@alangreenway6695]

Private Dancer wasn’t originally actually about a seedy topic. In the UK there were dancing clubs where people went to dance, and if an older gentleman was without a partner, he could pay a ‘taxi dancer’ for a dance. But then when it’s put into the words of a pop song it becomes more sordid.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks for sharing. Tina's video didn't help!

[@TheTrumpReaper]

There used to be taxi dancer clubs in Hel--uh, los angeles. They may still exist. (The song is very depressing.)

[@frustrateduser9933]

​@@TheTrumpReapernew york city as well.

[@johnroche7541]

The song "Private Dancer" was written by Mark Knopler(Dire Straits) and the guitar solo was the work of the late great Jeff Beck.

[@stephenkennedy8305]

Hate to break it to you, but they have dance clubs all over the world. And the vast majority are fronts for prostitution.

[@stevenator0281]

In the 1980's I was teaching English at a language school in Seoul, Korea. She Bop was quite popular on the radio. One of my students asked me what the song was about. What followed was one of the most interesting classes I had ever taught!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ha ha! How'd you do that?

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Haha! Were the girls laughing?

[@laurabailey1054]

@@ProfessorofRockvery carefully

[@alanstein5930]

The "She Bop" "controversy" is so ludicrous. The lyrics were covert, unlike the hit "I Touch Myself" in the early 90's or even "Darling Nicki" by Prince not long after "She Bop". And the subject matter has been around---although not necessarily openly discussed---for as long as humans have been around. Countries like France must openly mock our hypocrisy as we put on a veneer of shock and offense at the same time as we elect a man who openly espouses violence and threatens to jail all of his perceived enemies. Other democratic countries must think about how effed up we are. And they are so right 🎯 !

[@sirlawrence9161]

@@alanstein5930 Go back to your homeland then, The Pale

[@Boblobblaw88]

I fart into microphones all the time but I ain't never got no hits.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ha ha ha!

[@HighPlainsDrifter_2024]

Have you tried playin it backwards? At 78 speed? 😐

[@tennyceb]

Back splash?

[@twinstickpete]

Hahaa!

[@spanishpeaches2930]

How about some $hits ?

[@vinsgraphics]

My son likes to sample different sounds, instruments etc. He transcribes music as well. One track is music from the video game “Stray”, transcribed in full, which he then applied the car horn from our Kia to (in FL Studio). It sounds like a carnival track, pretty wild actually. Smart kid.

[@dawsonschmidt3714]

Thanks once again Professor. The synthesized horn section on Kate Bush's "Running up that Hill" is clear to me now.

[@michaelbell9811]

As a Brit growing up in the 70s and 80s Kate Bush was like nothing ever seen before and is my favourite artist. If I remember correctly, with Wuthering Heights she was the first British female singer-songwriter to have a number one single in the U.K. with her own composition. The 80s though was her peak and I think all four of her 80s original albums are sublime. My personal favourite is the Dreaming, although her best song and my absolute favourite song ever is Cloudbusting from the Hounds of Love.

[@dustybrand]

I love the interview with John Lydon where he talks about his mother watching Kate Bush on TOTPs with him in the 1970s only to turn to him and say: "Oh, John. She sounds like a bag of cats."

[@TheExtremenarcissist]

Cool. What’s a Brit? I’m English, so is Kate Bush. I think her mum was Irish.

[@sdgrattan]

@@dustybrand - Mum was spot on. Kate’s voice irritates me. She’s so bad. 😬

[@neilpatrickhairless]

John Lyndon sounds like a heroin junkie weirdo

[@thescarletandgrey2505]

Yes. I would add Lene Lovich as well, very original and mesmerizing artists both.

[@todhannigan8779]

Kate Bush rocks. Cant believe Private Dancer was written by Knopfler. What a hoot!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Right?

[@Scottocaster6668]

What a "Toot!"

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

The secret force behind an absolute classic!

[@Enjay001]

"Cant believe Private Dancer was written by Knopfler." I didn't realise either. However, now that I know, it's so obviously got that Knopfler/Dire Straits sound from the Love Over Gold period.

[@paulsimpson3113]

​@@Enjay001it really was hiding in plain sight, I had no idea but now I can almost hear him singing it

[@frustrateduser9933]

18:12 "song killer Tipper Gore" LOL! And totally true.

[@reneewatters7182]

Well she tried to kill music, but those warning stickers only increased sales for artists. Haha

[@Terran.Marine.2]

Yes

[@thetitleisours1]

Maybe that is what The Association song "Windy" was also influenced by. ;)

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ha ha!

[@cheesesteak22]

🤣 Everyone knows 🤫

[@flyingping]

Florida Keys probably? It is 'windy' there....

[@TheTrumpReaper]

I *HEART* Windy. 🌪️

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

HAHA!

[@sethpeck7179]

"The cat was out of the bag" ahahahahaha I see what you did there

[@kimberlyvespa]

Lol! Came here looking for this comment!😅😊

[@alfeersum]

Kate is a legend. And you know what? I expect farting into a Fairlight is probably one of the least weird things that she's done in pursuit of recording perfection. A unique genius.

[@rogertemple7193]

I graduated high school in 1983 and music of the 80's were from many different genres especially rock n roll and I really listened to a lot of Hard Rock, Southern Rock, New Wave and music like this thanks again for the Memories of Classic Rock n Roll.🎶🎤🎸🎸🎹🥁🎶

[@ProfessorofRock]

Amen! Thanks Roger!

[@scottyo64]

Ditto, class of 82

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

New wave galore!

[@laurabailey1054]

Class of 85.

[@stevemcphail9041]

Class of 83 here ! I raise a glass!

[@theshermer]

Never knew She Bop was about girl self love until I heard all the controversy about it. She was more subtle about it than the Divinyls I Touch Myself. I don’t remember as much flack about I Touch Myself as She Bop. But I still love listening to She Bop as well as I Touch Myself! Regarding Kate Bush, don’t know of the flatulence in any of her songs. But loved Running Up That Hill. One of her songs which I was surprised even though I should not have been was Wuthering Heights. I did not hear Kate’s version which is the original until after hearing Pat Benatar sing it from her Crimes of Passion album. I fell in love with the song. Years later I find out it was actually a cover of Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights. So of course I listen to it and actually love it. I will always love Pat Benatar’s cover of it though but actually can appreciate how Pat covered it slightly differently than Kate but made it sound beautiful!

[@laurak17]

I came here to mention the Divinyls “I touch myself”

[@TheBuccleuch]

Mark Knopfler is one of the greatest storytellers/songwriters in the business. "Tunnel of Love," "Telegraph Road," and many, many others.

[@lanedelker9161]

Many people don't know Mark Knopfler was the genius behind the music for the movie, "The Princess Bride."

[@GoodieWhiteHat]

He is in a league of his own.

[@bicyclist2]

I love Cindi Lauper and Tina Turner. Great episode. Great memories. Thank you.

[@thumperkreck]

Great video as always Mr Reader... Christy Amphlett from Divinyls comes to mind for "I touch myself," as well as great career overall. But it was 1990. But that is in a post for talent and pushing the envelope for her short time with us. Cheers 🍻...

[@shawnc5188]

I have a recollection that Chrissy went commando while performing on Countdown, and flashed the entire nation of Australia for Sunday tea.

[@craigparker4108]

Pleasure & pain from mid 80's. Great Aussie rock, taken to soon RIP Chrissy. 👍

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

He already did a video on it this summer.

[@craigparker4108]

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Thanks, hard to know who vids are on when they aren't named.

[@thumperkreck]

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 My mistake, must have missed it, but thank y ou for info...

[@FreddieVanDerMerwe-f9v]

Thanks for giving us everyday such a daily fix. The one song origin. The back in time top ten re do. All great to listen to. Makes enjoying rhe music so much more when you hear what artists went through to make their songs. Love it.

[@AmateurScaleModelBuildi-lj3so]

Just throwing this out there, I feel a video on the history of "the Shaggs" would be awesome, especially their hit song "My Pal foot foot"

[@ArtbyJoeH]

Who? 😵‍💫

[@AmateurScaleModelBuildi-lj3so]

@ArtbyJoeH you gotta type in.the search bar. You'll love them!

[@stefannelson]

I think the word “hit” is the word that should be in quotes.

[@KENBECKERART]

If Cyndi represented the ladies' side of "self-love" songs, you have to give the guys equal time with Billy Idol's "Dancing with Myself!"

[@randyswanson3300]

That song is a reference to the ladies in Japan going to the club. When Billy Idol went out to a club once in Japan, he noticed the dance floor was filled with women dancing by themselves.

[@jaxflfreebird]

Try Imaginary Lover and Rattlesnake Shake for male self love. There's also the song Pearl Necklace. I'm sure there are plenty of other jerking songs. There's the assist song by The Who. Mary Ann with the Shaky Hands.

[@blatherskite3009]

@@randyswanson3300 Marc Almond's song "Mother Fist" is absolutely about self-pleasuring. "Now I've been on my own for many a year, Seems like I'll never get love, Got me a hand on this brother of mine, And I'm gonna get me the rub" :) The James Bond styled theme song from "Monty Python's The Life of Brian" is pretty unsubtle about it, too, with its references to "having one off the wrist."

[@randyswanson3300]

@@blatherskite3009 I’m referring to the Billy Idol song. I even mention him by name in my response.

[@blatherskite3009]

@@randyswanson3300 Yes, that's obvious enough. The OP wanted male "self-love" songs and suggested the Idol track, you said the Idol track wasn't about that, so I suggested two that definitely were about that. 4D chess it is not.

[@Left-handed-liberal]

Better be good to me is one of Tina's best songs, and that some (or all?) Of The Fixx were involved is a nice bonus!

[@ProfessorofRock]

That's right. What a comeback!

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Tina kills it on that one.

[@dustybrand]

Ironic- I heard "Saved By Zero" yesterday for the first time in probably 30 years and was reflecting on how good it is. "Secret Separation" is another great one by The Fixx.

[@TerrickTerran]

These are some fun stories and I'd love to see this as a regular feature.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Cool!

[@Code.Name.V]

​@@ProfessorofRockI concur with Terrick!

[@ProfessorofRock]

@@Code.Name.V Will do!

[@DanielWorkmanResearch]

Song "Timothy" by The Buoys about cannibalism after a mine shaft collapse (written by Rupert Holmes of Pina Colada & Him fame)

[@normslivinski7483]

I played in the Buoys. Our song was in the 70s.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Have you seen my interview?

[@DanielWorkmanResearch]

@@ProfessorofRock I will now--great song!

[@normslivinski7483]

@@ProfessorofRock Yes I did. It was great. Thank you.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

That song is wild

[@VaultDwellerGal]

Great video! I’d like to think that in some other universe there’s a Kate Bush Bonnie Tyler collab of Total Eclipse of the Fart.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ha ha ha! Good one!

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Oh man.

[@dustybrand]

Bonnie Tyler could belt it. Man, she had a set of pipes. Did a great cover of "Going Through The Motions" by BOC which was written by Ian Hunter.

[@mournblade1066]

Tina Turner was fantastic in _Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome_ , and her song from that was amazing.

[@RBS_]

....loved "One Of The Living" ..."eeeyay-eee-yay-eee, YAH-OOOOH!!..." ..ha-HAA!

[@ProfessorofRock]

We Don't Need Another Hero!

[@RickyBrenner]

I agree. I even like “We Don’t Need Another Hero”, more than I do “What’s Love Got to Do With It” (which kind of got TOO popular and “played out”, IMHO).

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

We don’t need another hero!!!

[@dustybrand]

"....Who runs Bartertown?"

[@Roscoe-pi1gq]

I remember being at a concert at the student union at San Francisco State U. in 1983. The concert was a local band at a small venue with a small crowd. A flyer announced that the following week's act would be Tina Turner.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Wow. Right before the big comeback!

[@sharoncole4868]

I still have Kate Bush's first album. Saw her on SNL and got it then.

[@ryanwhittal6246]

This is hysterical! I am so naive!!!! I had no idea She Bop was about that. I thought it was just about excesses or addiction... It's got such a dark feel to it...

[@nebwachamp]

Ur video titles are top notch Reads like click bait but bc of ur reputation and body of work u know there will be a payoff. Great channel

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks a lot! Thanks for watching!

[@waynevia6976]

Private Dancer is my favorite Tina turner song. I love that song.

[@ProfessorofRock]

IT's a great song... and to think that Mark Knopfler wrote it!

[@tysonb3568]

Mine too!!! Well equally as much as Whats Love.

[@DDKaraokeOutlaw]

Mine is "Better Be Good to Me" from Private Dancer.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

I was listening to it the other day.

[@carrdoug99]

🤣 I am such a HUGE Kate Bush fan! God, I hope this story is true. 🤣

[@ProfessorofRock]

Isn't that funny?

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

I cannot even BELIEVE THIS.

[@calokid]

If nothing else it is an old rumor. I've heard about it 30 years ago.

[@JeffreyKyleJones]

Hey Professor. KISS had the song “Plaster Caster” about the women who went around to men artists and collected plaster copies of their “junk”. Might be a story there. Love the trips back to “my music” and nostalgia.

[@selenanoll8462]

I remember Pat Benatar doing a version of Wuthering Heights on Crimes of Passion. Loved it ❤

[@susanwallbrown7889]

Prefer Pat’s way over Bush, who sounded like Minnie Mouse

[@vikingsong2068]

Kate did several versions of Wuthering Height. Both of which are superior. The original version Kate recorded was supposed sound like Kathy's ghost.

[@nope-z5y]

Pat's version was stunningly good, not many people would have been able to pull that off.

[@don29334]

"The cat was out of the bag." 😂

[@ianh6626]

@ 10:30 Don't say mis-chee-vee-ous. It's mischievous.

[@johnmaynardable]

I had to tell my dog Rufus that you had his album on your record rack behind you. He was very happy.

[@JohnnyBoySoul]

Here’s one for you, Adam. “Turning Japanese” by The Vapors. A top 5 hit here in the UK in 1980 and a very popular song that has endured to this day. So what’s it all about? Well, let’s just say it’s the male equivalent of “She Bop” by Cyndi Lauper! I’ll leave you to research it from there. It sure would make for inclusion on a future video in the same vein as this one. Great vid btw, keep ‘em coming…

[@deborahbeswick1396]

Good for you. Not a lot of peeps know what it's all about.❤

[@hopeful5825]

That's not true. They have denied it for years

[@jmarsh5791]

Once you hear "Scot" in "What's Love Got to Do?" you can't unhear it. 🎶 What's love got to do, Scot to do with it?🎶 😂

[@OptomPilot]

The 80s were a real gas

[@jillwklausen]

😂

[@ericbgordon1575]

Cute!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ha!

[@catherine6653]

Jumping jack flash is a gas gas gas.

[@SuperPussyFinger]

Who gave Dad access to a keyboard?

[@KaikeTsU_n3kO]

Mark Knopfler writing Tina Turner's song and Kate Bush's fart art is something I didn't expect xD Also, bizarre samples sounds like a fun video idea, I hope to see that in the future

[@johndoe-ln4oi]

@18:39 -Given the subject matter of the song and Cyndi's purported state of undress while recording, your comment here made me LOL. Was that intentional on your part, Adam? :)

[@cassiewatson3870]

A couple of songs that I would like to suggest are: Little Red Corvette Raspberry Beret When Doves Cry. Prince made music from what I believe are some of his life experiences. I would like to hear where they possibly come from.

[@Chapps1941]

I've loved Kate Bush since 1978. Her _Kick Inside_ album is a brilliant piece of work. Some songs written at age 13. Such a mature album for one so young. You Yanks missed out. _Wuthering Heights_ the first song penned by a female and sung by the same to reach #1!!! Her albums are all brilliant.

[@JulesAl-Mighty]

Not all us Yanks! I’ve loved her music since I was a teen in the early 90’s, my daughter grew up listening to her music, she just walked down the aisle to an orchestra version of Hounds of Love.

[@Chapps1941]

@JulesAl-Mighty i love USA ... among other countries

[@usagi3919]

The best description of Kate Bush's voice I was told was it was like Carol Kane's character she played on Taxi - Simka. At the time I had no idea who she was.

[@Whisper_292]

Aaaand, Prof shows he's 12 like the rest of us. 😂

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ha ha. Sorry. It's a true story though!

[@Whisper_292]

​@@ProfessorofRockDon't be sorry. I laughed myself silly because I'm 12, too! 😂

[@CassandraElkin]

Makes me think of a particular version of Duran Duran's "The Reflex" in which (I think it's) John says something, and it's this sort of distorted Mwonk! sound. Listening with a friend, ww thought it sounded like a huge burp, so that version of the song will forever live in my mind as "The Reflux"

[@surlechapeau]

Tina's song "Look Me In The Heart", 1990, has has grown to be a top favorite! She got better with age!!

[@ProfessorofRock]

I love her voice! Gritty and tender!

[@ericbgordon1575]

If you think that love is blind.

[@RBS_]

...loooooooooooove that tune! ..."..we finally fell asleep, we couldnt help beee....further a-paaaart..." ...ha-HAAA!!

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

A true badass.

[@redfacejoe7129]

Just last week, Kate Bush's "Babooshka" started playing in my head out of nowhere, and stayed for about 5 days.

[@maestro80smusic93]

My first guess was Reflex by Duran Duran.... always thought there was a fart in that song

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ha ha!

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

No, I never heard a fart. Lol

[@muziktrkr]

Good reason to do a Nile Rodgers interview?

[@nonsuch]

Yeah, "Bopping your bologna" was a thing we used to say in the 80's 😂.

[@eggsngritstn]

Kate Bush is one of the greatest 1980's artists. Such a trailblazer.

[@thepman1964]

Check out 19-year old Kate's debut album "The Kick Inside" (1978). Really beautiful work.

[@lisaethridge666]

The man with the child in his eyes was the first song of hers I ever heard. I've been a huge fan ever since. ​@@thepman1964

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

She sure is. Thank God for Stranger Things.

[@Yohann67]

you either LOVE Kate Bush or you don’t, there doesn’t seem to be an in between. I am part of the former, always loved the quality of her work. ❤

[@gary1961]

@@thepman1964 In my opinion, The Kick Inside is the greatest debut album in the history of music. I remember buying a copy on its release date and was blown away.

[@chrismorale_]

Geeezus. You make 44 seem so old even though when we were 6 in the 80s, it seemed ancient. Now that im here, its nothing. I felt so horrible hearing her age. Lol

[@richardspank3909]

Note to self: Do NOT use microphone after Kate Bush

[@TS-qp6xv]

“I touch myself”. Then “Be Bop”. Might I suggest an episode on one of the truly great albums “Running on Empty” by Jackson Browne. That way you can include a few comments on “Rosie”, which my friends still don’t believe is about…well…that.

[@kevinstrade2752]

You nailed this. I didn't know what She Bop meant till I was much older. It's vague enough it could mean anything as a kid, but when you listen closer as an adult, it becomes more clear what it's about. I enjoy these history videos of yours, I am learning a lot. No I dont think She Bop should be banned, with WAP allowed blaring on the radios, lol lyrics don't need to be explicit to get thier points across, matter of fact they are more fun when they are indirect and open for interpretation. That makes a song, or even a movie more personable. In my humble opinion

[@dustybrand]

Agreed. If Nicki Minaj did a song called "Thumpin Tha Tic-Tac" it wouldn't shock me. She's such a grossout and her music is total ass.

[@macsnafu]

Well, the thing about sampling is that you can sample almost any sound at all and then use it in music. But they can also digitally modify and alter the sound to make it more "musical", but also so that it's entirely unrecognizable from its original sound. So there might be fart samples all over Kate's music, but not recognizably so.

[@mikearchibald744]

The entire 'percussive' section could be that. Or horn instruments. She's going to have to come clean otherwise ALL her eighties sounds will be attributed thusly!

[@kimberlyvespa]

@@mikearchibald744”come clean”…😂

[@Xedgehog1]

I never had any real idea about "She Bop". My mother, liked Cyndi. I had to copy the vinyl onto cassette so we could play it in the car...which makes me wonder if my mother knew about the song's meaning.

[@flavellinator]

I remember seeing the video for Tina's "Better Be Good to Me" and wondering how did Cy Curnin ever end up there?

[@ProfessorofRock]

RIght! She had some New Wave ties for a while!

[@RBS_]

......barefoot, no less! ...ha-HAAA!!

[@maxaroni2004]

Curnin & West-Oram🎸🎶

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

I know! Unlikely connection.

[@shawnc5188]

Kate was just inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, with St. Vincent performing Running Up That Hill.

[@BOBLAF88]

I saw Tena Turner with Ike and the Ike-ets in 1969 as a kid,(it was a rock festival) and even though I was there for other music I could really appreciate the performance and her talent 😎

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

Frankie Smiths Double Dutch Bus. There's a whole hella bunch of innuendo

[@Sweet--Richard.4981]

💩

[@petercena9497]

Used to hate that song when it came out. Like it now.

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

@petercena9497 Still not a fan if it . Just like sharing history of anything

[@SweptAway529]

I'd always heard it was about jumping rope - there's some hidden meaning behind it?

[@carlacook5181]

Thanks Adam, I watch videos from Trybals, one of those men was very taken by Cyndi Lauper, he painted a portrait of her which turned out very good, he was asked if he would sell it and said no, but he would do another, their videos are very interesting, things that we take for granted are so awesome to these men and women.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Interesting!

[@dustybrand]

I have to be careful watching Trybals with my wife. Pretty touching stuff and about every third video I'm like: "not crying, I've got something in my eye".

[@carlacook5181]

@@dustybrand yes, especially when watching the females

[@guyincognito9578]

It was actually David Bowie that saved her career. He had a gig several blocks up the street and he had decided to go and see Tina Turner who was playing down the street from where he was playing well as you can imagine it being David Bowie showing up and their brother turned up, and that’s what made people go out and start the lines for buying private dancer❤

[@Watcher4111]

Bowie even wanted to bang her, but she didnt want lol

[@christiancastro2442]

Mary jane girls " in my house " my fave sexy and catchy female led song in the 80s also nasty girl by vanity 6

[@ProfessorofRock]

That was in the Filthy 15.

[@christiancastro2442]

@@ProfessorofRock yessss

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Oh yes that song slaps! Haha

[@petersavieri]

“All FortheART right” 😂

[@sammyfamily2020]

"Turning Japanese" is supposed to about self love, from what I heard.

[@magiclantern66]

"Turning Japanese" by The Vapors is, indeed, about self-love. It's a bit racist really. The narrator is missing his girlfriend so much that he's 'doing it himself' and the title refers to his facial expression as he finishes the job.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Or turning into something different from himself.

[@davidhinkson8856]

I'd love to hear the story behind this song; still plays in my head to this day.

[@Cobra-ky9bt]

Yeah, it's absolutely not. David Fenton explained the meaning years ago. Not everything is filth, people. Back then most, if not all, of us related it to the Japanese tourists that were traveling in greater numbers and carrying several cameras each strapped around their necks.

[@magiclantern66]

@@Cobra-ky9bt How does that relate to the song?

[@marymitchell8986]

Loving seeing Little Queen album in the background 😍👍

[@ChadGriffey-w9m]

Cyndi was so cool and funky. I loved her from the start. Ya, right out of high school I listened to She Bop one day and this light went off in my head, oh ok now I get it.

[@samanthashine4506]

I still get goosebumps listening to Kate Bush. That voice, her music, so unique and full of feminine energy. Damn I miss her music.

[@randallcline1176]

Find your way back to it. You'll be glad you did.

[@MrCee71]

There's an interview online where Steve Broughton Lunt talks about making "She Bop" and how (from what I remember from the interview) and an exec and his 7 year old daughter were dancing to the song (without being aware of what it's actually about) you should check it out (if you want to hear more behind that song) Also, I should point out City Boy was producer's Robert John "Mutt" Lange's first production credit. And funny enough, Lunt was the lead singer for the band, but on their hit "5-7-0-5" the drummer sang on that, but when they went on Top of the Pops to mimed to the album track, Lunt is singing over the drummer's vocals and that was Mutt Lange's idea for Lunt for to do that, he told him "You're the Pretty Boy, You're the Lead Singer, Why don't you go mime it on TOTP" I thought you might like that info, it's actually funny.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Wow! You know your history!

[@MrCee71]

@@ProfessorofRock Thanks! Someone I talk to calls me a "Robot" cause of my knowledge

[@Sean1983]

I love Steve's song Don't Fear The Fire a lot.

[@MrCee71]

@@Sean1983 And Raccoons is what led me into discovering him, his career and City Boy 😀

[@stevelunt4309]

@@ProfessorofRock Firstly, great episode Prof! Secondly, thanks for the shout out, @MrCee71 . The part about the exec and his young daughter is almost accurate. We actually wanted to write a song about that subject and have this certain exec and his daughter be able to dance to the song, enjoying it for what it is, without either of them having to know what it was about. Cyndi is on record as describing the initial creation of "She Bop" a couple of slightly different ways. Neither of them are completely accurate, tbh, but not too far off. The Blueboy part is right. We originally had "Playboy" in that line as a placekeeper, as it sung really well, but we knew it didn't really make much sense and was a bit too corny and mainstream anyway. So we visited a newsagents (whatever happened to them??) around the corner from my NY apartment, and searched for a mag with a name that fit. Blueboy fit perfectly. I don't recall being tipsy though, although she did turn up with a 6-pack of Guinness! The City Boy part is pretty accurate. Thank you MrCee71!

[@DanielMonteiroNit]

Having just finished reading Martyn Ware's biography, this is really interesting to watch

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

WUTHERING HEIGHTS IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING SONGS EVER PUT ON WAX . THERE WAS 2 SONGS YOU PLAYED

[@Sweet--Richard.4981]

Shout it shout it out loud 💩

[@ProfessorofRock]

True.

[@OscarVaughn]

Oh the Fairlight, that thing was awesome. In 1983 that baby cost like 26 grand, in today's money that's around 75 to 80 grand and I actually seen one that still works to this day. I'd love to work with one of them.

[@Code.Name.V]

Greetings Music Junkies! This episode sounds particularly interesting! Enjoy!

[@TerrickTerran]

greetings, salutations and regards.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Let me know what you think!

[@Code.Name.V]

​@@ProfessorofRockI would definitely enjoy this on a regular basis.

[@continentalcoxons]

Love the channel. We share a very similar taste in music, especially R.E.M. Would love to see an episode talking about Automatic for the People. Much love from the UK.

[@thetitleisours1]

Hi POR! Was a show done on the song "One Tin Soldier" by Coven? That is one that probably has a good story to it

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ok. I'll look it up!

[@thetitleisours1]

@@ProfessorofRock Great!! Great lyrics for that time

[@carolmartin4413]

Three great all-time Class A musicians...with funny/hilarious side stories...ok..I'll listen. This was really enjoyable! More Strange Currencies will continue to get my attention! 👍

[@michaellazor5667]

Private dancer written by knopfler dropped my jaw for about 2 seconds. Then I totally got it

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

She Bops was like Donna Summers I Feel Love they sang nude in the booths !

[@Sweet--Richard.4981]

💩

[@ProfessorofRock]

I 've heard that!

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

@ProfessorofRock Have You ever heard Donna Summers Cooper or saw 👀 it?

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

You’ve seen it?

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Hey Silly Lilly 😜 I saw 15 seconds of the actual footage. The whole footage is in her husband's private collection.

[@Tanoshii00]

I was briefly in a band (all guys) at Penn State that covered She-bop at an outdoor concert called Northstock (in 94 or 95)

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

I knew the Poot part.

[@Sweet--Richard.4981]

❤💩

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Off the topic, dad bought a Sony tv just to watch sports and MTV back in the mid-'80s. He onced frowned when I asked him if I could watch cartoons and he said "cartoons can make you dumb. I watch the NBA because you will never see once-in-a-lifetime events again, some action and drama series because of the stories, and MTV to see musicians blend their music with their videos". I replied "but cartoons have all of those, too, minus the real people." And mom was able to convinced dad when she said "You'll deny a kid to watch and enjoy a 30-minute cartoon? He will never have the chance to see those episodes again". Who would have thought that KZbin and the internet would show reruns of our fave shows many decades later?

[@waynechapman9823]

“The Dreaming” is my favorite Kate Bush album. My college radio station was playing “Suspended in Gaffa” back in 1984, and when I started working there as a deejay, I listened to the whole record and was fascinated by it. Incredibly innovative and weird, but there was nothing that sounded like farts to me. I’ll have to pay close attention next time I listen to it. I used to listen to Casey Kasem’s radio show every Sunday morning, and after “She Bop” became a big hit and I was aware what it was about, I began to imagine hearing something like this: “And now we’re up to the song at #3. We reached out to Cyndi Lauper and asked her if she could talk about “She Bop,” and she said quote . . It’s about the act of self-gratification. If you think it’s about dancing, it’s okay. But there’s other things people do to have fun, and that’s okay too . . end quote. And there you have it! At #3, it’s “She Bop” by Cyndi Lauper.” Love “Private Dancer”! It’s such an evocative song beautifully sung by Tina. The whole album is fantastic. It’s like what “Nightclubbing” was for Grace Jones. Great material, great production, and great performances by a legendary artist.

[@dustybrand]

Grace Jones is incredibly underrated. Her cover of "Warm Leatherette" rules.

[@wietzejohanneskrikke1910]

No, no farts on Kate Bush albums at all. The melody of Running up that Hill was a sample of a cello

[@Horrorbabe4]

Who's to say there's no parts at all though

[@TheChristafershawn]

Yeah not buying the Kate Bush lore but the internet is gonna internet.

[@fivestring65ify]

This is what makes music great. The inspiration. So many things can inspire great music. Great episode, professor.

[@drwinstonOboogi]

twas a non-album b-side by Kate Bush called "Whoever Smelt It Dealt It"

[@sf-dn8rh]

When you got to fart then you got to fart