Stevie Nicks Loves Kate Bush Ahhhhh!!!

[mdakd]

Just listened to Stevie's selections on the Ken Bruce show where she's doing "Tracks of my Years" and she picked "Running Up That Hill" as one of the songs.

She said she even wanted to record the song after hearing it, but she realized she couldn't outdo it so she didn't. But still! Knowing that she admires Kate Bush....big points Stevie!

P.S. If you want to listen to it, you can go to the link here and listen to it on the player. It starts around 16:30 with the Eagles story and then goes into it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0140tjc

This is so crazy and music-affirming!

[mezzoforte]

Well done, Nicks.

I ove it when Stevie loves the same things I do. It helps me get past her admiration for Katy Perry and for those sparkly, softball-playing vampires.

[fringed n fab]

I've listened to music since I was in Pampers and still have no clue who this Kate Bush is. Is she a UK artist or something and popular over there? Or here?? IDK. I must've missed her songs on the airwaves.

[Pyewacket]

Ha...I just posted the audio on another thread.

[Nickingham]

She's a UK artist that got big in the 80's.And still is.Like Stevie said,Kate Bush is a good writer and I agree but, I don't like the way she sings.

[Pyewacket]

Originally Posted by fringed n fab

I've listened to music since I was in Pampers and still have no clue who this Kate Bush is. Is she a UK artist or something and popular over there? Or here?? IDK. I must've missed her songs on the airwaves.

Kate Bush has had hits just about everywhere except in the US since her 1978 UK debut. It wasn't until 1985 before Kate had a bona fide hit in the US, which was "Running Up That Hill" (the song Stevie's just said she considered recording). That song only made it to #30 on our charts, and was Kate's only charting US hit.

She's certainly worth a look...she's an amazing songwriter, self-producer and conceptualist (she's long been the director of her own videos). She's been compared with Stevie by many (myself included), but she's really more like Lindsay, being someone who fiddles in the studio with bizarre (often third-world) instruments and creates offbeat soundscapes to accompany her songs.

Here's "Running Up That Hill" for starters.

[Somajoseph]

That is so cool! I was literally just watching Kate's video for the Sensual World on You Tube earlier tonight.
I cant say I was a huge fan, but I did buy & enjoy the Sensual World CD back in 89. I think Stevie & Kate have alot in common. Both very unique & feminine artists .

[desertangel]

Yep, I love it when we have the same taste in things too! Loved this song since it came out. It's haunting. Found a copy of the vinyl LP at a thrift store a few years back, burned it onto a mix CD and shared with some folks who also love it. Good stuff! I would be interested in hearing Stevie's interpretation though. Check this one out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzI0thK61Dc

[BombaySapphire3]

I 've been both a Kate and Stevie fan for decades and had no idea that Stevie had ever considered recording RUTH and she's right she could not do it better than Kate any more than Kate could do Edge better than Stevie. They are both such idiosyncratic singers and writers it makes them very difficult for anyone to cover..just take a listen to Pat Benatar's screechingly awful cover of Kate's Wuthering Heights..what a botch.

[Dodfather]

I love Kate! Her new album, 500 Words For Snow, is out in November - the official annnouncement came earlier this week.

[golddustboy71]

Kate bush is a sublime genius...there is no one really quite like her...best album probaly The Hounds of Love or The Sensual World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJc64xncBt4

[mitzo]

I adored both Stevie and Kate in the '80's and went for weeks listening to nothing but those two.

I still adore them.

[mikebise]

I would consider "This Woman's Work" to be a true hit in the US for Kate. Just about everyone knows it, whether from its initial release on the 1988 She's Having A Baby soundtrack, its 1989 single release here, and the many cover versions that have been hits.

Kate's gay US audience would probably know her more because of her video hits "Cloudbusting", "Experiment IV", "Love And Anger" and "Rubberband Girl". All of those were insanely popular in Dallas gay bars, and Texas overall.

My ex Eric and I used to think Kate was paying tribute to Stevie's "I Can't Wait" video in "Rubberband Girl" with dancing in front of the giant stairway, like Stevie does. Kate seems to be imitating Janis in there, so why not Stevie, too?

[tothegypsy]

Originally Posted by Somajoseph

That is so cool! I was literally just watching Kate's video for the Sensual World on You Tube earlier tonight.
I cant say I was a huge fan, but I did buy & enjoy the Sensual World CD back in 89. I think Stevie & Kate have alot in common. Both very unique & feminine artists .

If that's the only full album of hers that you've listened to, you must must must try Hounds of Love

[mezzoforte]

Originally Posted by tothegypsy

If that's the only full album of hers that you've listened to, you must must must try Hounds of Love

Seconded! The title track is one of the best songs ever written, imo.