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Side one concludes with the track ‘Cloudbusting’, a song based on the book ‘Book of Dreams’ by Peter Reich about his childhood with his father, the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. Taking the idea of being hunted almost haunted by love, Bush sounds thrilled from adrenaline while still being horrified at the thought of being chased by the hounds of love, as if they were instead the dogs of war.
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Beginning with a sampled voice from the horror movie “Night of the Demon”, Bush again builds on a solid LinnDrum base, using Fairlight to provide the atmospheric synths while live strings round out the piece. Next up is the title track, made famous by Kate Bush and then made famous all over again thirty years later thanks to a cover by The Futureheads. Notably, Kate Bush wanted to name the track ‘A Deal With God’ but relented to label pressure due to a fear that the track wouldn’t gain sufficient radio play in highly religious countries, likely meaning Ronald Reagan’s United States. It’s no great surprise that this track was selected for ‘Stranger Things’ given the power dynamics, earworm chorus, and tension driving percussion. Behind the lyrics is a synth melody that captivates thanks to the way each note swells, short and fast while the underrated star of the show is the tense LinnDrum beat that never relents, as if Bush spends the entire track running up the hill feet stomping, her deal made with God.
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As an underrated feminist anthem, told from a place of dominance, Kate Bush controls the narrative in a way that suggests that if she only swapped places with her partner, she’d be able to be free of them, “running up that hill with no problems”. Using this powerful delivery, she tells her lover that she’d swap places with him so they could more easily understand one another, and if she was successful it would be the end to her problems. Perhaps Kate Bush’s biggest hit, it displays the power and dominance in her vocal delivery, filled with strength and determination. Opening with what has gone on to become arguably the album’s biggest hit, ‘Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)’ begins with a slow atmospheric build before a bass heavy drum beat joins in and is quickly joined by the now familiar synth melody.
The result is an organic album that was one of the first to blur the line between acoustic instrumentation and digital manipulation. The resulting tracks were fully formed enough and of appropriate quality that Bush decided not to re-record them but instead to add overdubs using live instrumentation and additional vocalists. Knowing that time spent in a studio was going to be impossibly expensive, she built a new studio in a barn near her family home and began writing demos using a synthesizer and sampler, the Fairlight CMI, and a drum machine, the LinnDrum. As her first self-produced album, Bush had learned lessons while crafting ‘The Dreaming’ and while her label was not fully enthused about her taking sole control over her next release, Bush felt that her artistic vision was of prime importance. When her previous album, ‘The Dreaming’, had failed to perform as well as her earlier releases she had spent time getting to grips with whether chart performance or artistic vision were more important to her. Released in 1985, Bush had been quietly working away on ‘Hounds of Love’ for three years. The influence of the album is therefore clear, but what is it about Kate Bush’s fifth LP that makes it a classic?
As new, younger audiences once again discover Kate Bush, some may also discover that the 2005 track ‘Hounds of Love’ by The Futureheads is a cover of Bush’s title track. It is therefore the perfect time to reflect on the album from which it is the opening track, ‘Hounds of Love’.
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Thanks to a dramatic and prominent placement in the TV show ‘Stranger Things’, Kate Bush’s nearly 40 year old single ‘Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)’ found itself on the top of the UK singles chart.
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