This week we start with my ultimate 1980s crush, Kate Bush.
My friend Steve had me over to his house to watch MTV in 1984 and when Kate Bush's 'Suspended in Gaffa' came on, we both instantly fell in love with her. Kate is having a bit of a resurgence lately because of the TV show 'Stranger Things,' which prominently features the song 'Running Up That Hill' as a major plot point in the 1980s-based show. The song re-entered the charts, hit #4 in the US (way above its original #30), and it has been the #1 song globally for the last two weeks, now falling to #3.
Hounds of Love (where 'Running Up That Hill' is from) is a GREAT album, but for me, her best album hands down is 'The Dreaming.' That album was far and away ahead of its time. If you played it for a person today and said "it's a new artist," no one would even question it. It inspired pretty much every major alternative female artist of the 90s, and still, today many artists point to Kate as a major inspiration.
Three videos from her, including the one which turned my love into a pure infatuation, 'The Dreaming.' There was 1980s hot, and then there was Kate Bush.
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