Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

So I know it's been a while since we've put out an episode...... And I do apologize for the long wait. That said, I owe it to you guys to let you know the future of the show! So in this episode, I'll be talking to you about plans for the show going forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coming up behind hind hind is a new episode of Strange Phenomena! In this episode, we're digging into the third to last track on The Red Shoes: Big Stripey Lie. A song that almost didn't make the final track listing for the album, Big Stripey Lie sits toward the end of the album and is probably the most cryptic song on the album. In this episode, Cecilee and her guest Matthew Song, a long-time Kat...

Get your telescopes ready! We're coming at you with a full report of the ninth track from Kate Bush's seventh album The Red Shoes. For this week's episode, we have Diego Ortega on the show to discuss Constellation of the Heart, his favorite Kate Bush song. This week we talk about the Prince influence in this song, what the lyrics mean, and also, speaking of lyrics, our favorite lyrics from this so...

One more step to the top of the city, where another episode of Strange Phenomena is waiting for you (as well as a couple of pigeons). This week we're talking about the amazing album track Top of the City, the eighth song on Kate Bush's seventh album The Red Shoes. Eric Orange, a long-time Kate fan, is our guest this week as we talk about why we love this song so much, as well as what we think the...

With no words and no song, you can dance a dream with your body on as you listen to this episode about the title track to Kate Bush's seventh album The Red Shoes! For this episode, we get to talk with a long-time Kate Bush fan, David Manuel, who cites this song as one of his favorites (and spoiler alert: this is a top ten favorite song for our host as well!). We get to talk about the 1940s movie T...

Do you have Gabriel before you, Raphael behind you, Michael to your right and Uriel on your left side? If you do, time to put on the sixth track on Kate Bush's seventh album The Red Shoes: the undeniable Lily! As you'll hear in this episode, this song has quite a bit of history AND even had a live version too, recorded during Kate Bush's 2014 London residency show Before the Dawn! For this episode...

This is the newest episode, the episode for everyone who wants to listen to another discussion of a Kate Bush song! But of course you want to listen! We're talking this week about The Song of Solomon, the fifth track from Kate Bush's album The Red Shoes. We're in album track territory for this one and we have a long-time Kate fan to talk about this song with us this week: Diego Ortega! In this epi...

Now that we've danced a bit, it's time to get a little emotional with the single Moments of Pleasure. Released as a single in late 1993, Moments of Pleasure is a beloved song by many a Kate fan and it's not hard to see why. Emotional lyrics? Check. Sweeping string arrangement? Check. Amazing vocal performance? Oh yeah! Big check right there! In this episode, Cecilee talks with Rick Campbell again...

It's summer and time to party it up with Eat the Music! So grab a banana, a sultana, and hey, would you like guava while we're at it? And while you're munching on a fruity snack or two, take a listen to our latest episode of the show! Cecilee sits down with long-time Canadian Kate fan Rick Campbell to talk about this song and its history, the lyrics, the iconic music video as shown in The Line, Th...

Now it's time to slow it down a little for all you lovers out there. We have another beautiful Kate Bush song discussion coming right to your ears, and this time, we're talking about track #2 from The Red Shoes: And So Is Love.   Listen as Cecilee chats with long-time Kate fan Emery Bonannella, who cites this song as one of her favorite Kate Bush songs. We talk about the history of the song, our o...

Are you ready to bounce back to life like a rubberband? We hope so! Because ready or not, here's the newest episode of Strange Phenomena! This week, we're starting the new season with the first song from The Red Shoes album, the bouncy (appropriately so!) Rubberband Girl! Released as a single in September 1993, Rubberband Girl was the first of five singles from The Red Shoes. It was a top 20 hit i...

Welcome to a very special episode of the show this week! Get ready to pop some popcorn and plug in your VCRs, because this week, we're watching the 1993 musical short film, The Line, The Cross, and the Curve, directed by Kate Bush herself! Cecilee is joined by friend of the show Zoey to watch this movie and give commentary and history on this film. Kate Bush may not think this movie is great, but...

See those trees bend in the wind..... It's another episode of Strange Phenomena coming right to you! A podcast bouncing back to life!   This week we're starting a NEW SEASON of the show. We've made it through six albums so far, and now here's album #7: The Red Shoes! Listen as Zoey and Cecilee kick off the season by talking about the basics of the album, the story behind it, our favorite songs, an...

Well what a week it has been! Our lovely Kate is now sitting at #1 on Spotify, she has scored her first top 10 hit in the US, she's reentered the UK charts..... And it's all because of a Netflix show! This week, we're adding on to the story of Running Up That Hill, which you may remember I recorded back in 2019 here! Well, now there's more to the story! The show Stranger Things used Running Up Tha...

And now we come to the final collaboration and the final episode for the Sensual World season. Roy Harper is a critically acclaimed English singer/songwriter who has been around since the 60s and whose music has been a bit part of Kate's life. We've talked about him before on the podcast when Kate covered his song Another Day in the Lionheart season, and when Kate sang on Roy's original song You (...

Now on to collaboration #2 for the Sensual World era! What does the frontman for an 80s synth rock band and Kate Bush have in common? Why, this song! Midge Ure is best known as the frontman for the band Ultravox, who were known for huge 80s hits like Vienna (voted in the UK the best #2 hit of all time and for good reason!), Dancing With Tears In My Eyes, and Reap the Wild Wind (their only US chart...

Now we're on to the last three episodes of the Sensual World season, and we're starting this part with three collaborations that our lovely Kate took part in! The first is a song she recorded in the background for the pop group Go West. Stylistically very different from the upbeat pop that the group was known for, The King is Dead benefits from a jazzy style and of course, our lovely Kate in the b...

It won't be such a long long time before the next episode of Strange Phenomena: it's here now! This week, we're talking about a cover song (yes! a cover song) by our lovely Kate, of one of her musical heroes: Elton John. Recorded for a compilation album in 1991, Rocket Man was also a charting UK and European hit. And for our discussion of the song this week, we have frequent guest Diego Ortega, to...

Do you think you'll have a minute for a beautiful Kate Bush instrumental? We hope so! This week's episode is about a short instrumental called One Last Look Around the House Before We Go, a b-side from the single Love and Anger and also a track used in the TV movie GLC: The Carnage Continues. Listen as we talk about Kate Bush's instrumental skills, the way she can evoke emotion with simplicity, an...

What a way to start off the new year 2022: with a new episode of Strange Phenomena! We're back from our holiday break to finish out the Sensual World era of Kate's music. This week, it's just Cecilee as she talks about the instrumental track The Confrontation, a b-side from the Love and Anger single and a song written specifically for a movie. In this case, like with Ken, written for the Comic Str...

Who's the funky sex machine? Who's the man we all need? KEN!!!!! This week, we're talking about a b-side from Kate Bush's Sensual World era, a song used in a TV movie called GLC: The Carnage Continues, and a song that our host didn't quite like the first time she heard it, but which she now appreciates, especially after talking with our transatlantic guest! Alex Dale is on the show to talk about t...

No need to wait any longer for this week's episode: it's now here!! This week we're talking (or rather, just Cecilee!) is talking about a favorite b-side of hers from the Sensual World era, I'm Still Waiting. This nugget of a song was released in several different places over the years (This Woman's Work single! Box sets! American-only EPs!) but not even Kate seems to have talked about this song!...

And now it's time for the b-sides, collaborations, and other era songs for The Sensual World era of Kate's music. This week, we're talking about a song that's both a b-side AND an album track. Or at least, a bonus track, if you bought the cassette or the CD. And that is a song that Kate recorded in about 24 hours (!!) and was the last song recorded for the album: Walk Straight Down The Middle. We...

Now that we're back down to earth after the previous song... it's time to sit with our feelings for a bit, for the epic, emotional album closer This Woman's Work. Paul Tate, a fellow American Kate fan, is on this week to talk about one of his favorite songs. Whenever Paul is on, we always nerd out about the musicality of Kate's songs and what makes them so uniquely her. This song is no exception!...

Get ready to shoot off into the sky on a chilly November night, with track number 9 from The Sensual World, Rocket's Tail! And to join us on the show is friend of (and also outside of!) the show, Zoey, who cites this song as one of her underrated favorites from Kate's catalog! In this episode, we talk about the dialogue (yes, this is a dialogue song!) between the characters in the song, we specula...