"Wuthering Heights" the gloriously bonkers video

[editor]

It's hard to imagine just how different this song was when it came out - or how weird Kate Bush appeared to most folks - but I loved it (even though I was a full on punk rocker by then).

Written by Bush when she was just 18, the song's lyrics are based on the story of the novel of the same name. Kate Bush was inspired to write the song by the last ten minutes of the 1970 film version of Wuthering Heights.[1] She then read the book and discovered that she shares her birthday (July 30) with Emily Brontë. Bush reportedly wrote the song, for her album The Kick Inside, within the space of just a few hours late at night, looking to the moon through her open bedroom window for inspiration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_(song)

Here's Kate waving her arms around in a field somewhere

Altogether now: "Heathcliff, it’s meee, Cath-eeey, come home now”

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BW3gKKiTvjs

 

[Griff]

This is the video that convinced me I was totally in love with Kate Bush as a nipper.

 

[Flashman]

Suspended in Gaffa

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun04/articles/classictracks.htm

Interesting article looking at the making of Wuthering Heights

 

[8ball]

When I was a kid my Gran would see Kate Bush on Top Of The Pops and be convinced she was a mad witch come to corrupt the kids with her weird mental ways.

I concurred sagely but I was secretly a bit of a fan.

 

[electrogirl]

I met someone who had never heard this song the other day.

I killed them.

 

[JeniD]

I love/d Kate Bush.

 

[Geri]

When I saw her on TOTP performing that song, I was totally blown away. It totally captures the essence of the book. My dad bought The Kick Inside and I never stopped playing it - don't think he ever saw it again! (I still have it). I remember one very cold December day cycling miles to the nearest record shop to buy 'December will be magic again'.

 

[tendril]

Jedeye's fucked up dubstep version

 

[david dissadent]

Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain. Modern jazz version of Wuthering Heights.

 

[Geri]

Hayley Westenra's version is surprisingly OK.

 

[goldenecitrone]

The first time I took acid, me and a good mate spent a very pleasureable couple of hours watching the video for the Whole Story. Great video for that.

 

[MysteryGuest]

 

[Cloo]

I remember seeing footage of her doing 'Babooshka' on TOTP - truly fruit'n'nuts!

 

[Kid_Eternity]

This is the video that convinced me I was totally in love with Kate Bush as a nipper.

She scared me shitless when I was a toddler, my mum used to play it and I'd just freak out. Too weird man.

 

[killer b]

there's a cracking kate bush medley towards the end of this alan partridge clip from comic relief '99...

http://www.alan-partridge.co.uk/mul...elief/Alan Partridge on Comic Relief 1999.wmv

 

[killer b]

bollocks, no there isn't.

here's a bit of it though. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PJbjAwvRWLs

 

[jayeola]

The man with the child in his eyes is the best song - eva

 

[Onket]

I seem to have lost my vinyl copy of this.

 

[Strumpet]

I loved Kate Bush
Beautiful and mad as a box of frogs.

 

[dweller]

this tribute is kind of sweet

 

[marty21]

she was a teenage fantasy for me too

had her poster on my bedroom wall

 

[dweller]

for those that don't have them,
the early kate bush demos
http://www.dongrays.com/kate-bush/mp3/

 

[Badger Kitten]

Running up that hill, featuring top Kate dancing

 

[Rollem]

kate bush rocks

i love the video to 'running up that hill'. "tell me we both matter, dont we?"

 

[Badger Kitten]

I have wanted to be her since I was 9

 

[Rollem]

I have wanted to be her since I was 9