A Kate Bush fix
I fell for Kate Bush’s music -and her-aged eleven. A now defunct but long-running UK show called The Chart Show (which doesn’t sound a radical name for a music show, but it had no presenters, which seemed pretty radical in 1988) show had a feature where they would show three videos from one artist, and one day they showed Kate Bush’s videos for ‘Babooshka,’ ‘Running Up That Hill’ (which I knew because it had been the theme tune to what I can only describe as a children’s thriller called Running Scared) and ‘The Big Sky.’ I rented a video of The Whole Story from the local video shop (look, it was twenty years ago, there was no YouTube)…and that was me smitten.
Thing was, i had to keep on investigating. The Whole Story -which partly soundtracked the beginning of my relationship with the woman who is now Mrs. 17 Seconds - does not have all her hits on it, even for the time. So a few that should have been on it, I think.
Is this the great lost Kate Bush single?
About the only one of her singles never to chart in the UK, from her weird and wonderful fourth album The Dreaming, I think this is one of her best.
Kate Bush - ‘There Goes a Tenner.’
This track missed the forty as well, and this is still possibly my favourite kate Bush song of all…from her second album, Lionheart
Kate Bush -’Hammer Horror.’
This song was the final single off The Hounds Of Love album, which might explain its’ fairly low chart placing. A fairly low chart placing but she’s clearly having fun.
Kate Bush -’The Big Sky.’
running scared….that name is SO familiar. Remind me?
Was it the gangster/protection racket story that hung on half a pair of glasses?
Yes! It was indeed. Very good, and quite scary in a good sort of way…
cor, that took a bit of dredging. We read the book in english in 2nd or maybe 3rd year at high school, and then the tv was wheeled in and we were given the privilege of watching the tv version. I can sort of envisage where the music fitted in. That would have been about 1996/7- the quality of the programme was still excellent, despite it looking incredibly dated. Yes quality stuff- I can’t say I can remember most of the books we read in English!
I missed out on the whole Kate Bush thing (story of my life) but I’m intrigued enough to finally investigate.
Ed or anyone - want to suggest an album or two as a starting point?
David - I’m kinda biased, in that I would tell you to buy all her albums, but I would say a really good place to start is the aforementioned album ‘The Whole Story.’ Hounds Of Love and Never For Ever are probably my favourite studio albums. Anyone else…?
Yeah, me. How you doin’ buddy? Been out of the loop for a while: that’s what redundancy on no pay does to you, I guess.
‘Lion Heart’…it has to be that.
All the best to you and Sam, and will get in touch soon.
david…sounds like Lionheart should be where you start. usually available fairly cheaply in the UK whether Italy has the same ‘mid-price’ sort of thing.
Steve - sorry you’re still job-searching, hope things pick up soon, and will look forward to speaking and catching up very soon.
Ed
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