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I have been pulling my hair out trying to track down a cover of a Kate Bush song that was done within the last two years. It's for either Running Up That Hill or Cloudbusting, I think. I know this is kinda vague, but I'd love your help!

― Clarissa Richardson (allurala), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Placebo's cover of "Running Up That Hill" is pretty classic. Maxwell's "This Woman's Work" is as well.

Destroy: the Futureheads version of "Hounds of Love"

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:03 (twenty years ago)

Within Temptation did a version of "Running Up That Hill" that I think is slightly better than Placebo's.

Also search, possibly: Mr Floppy's "Wuthering Heights". Actually, don't.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:13 (twenty years ago)

I love the Futureheads' cover.

Search: Pat Benatar's "Wuthering Heights."

The very best: Utah Saints' "Something Good," which appropriates a sample of "Cloudbusting." It might surpass anything Bush ever did.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:15 (twenty years ago)

kiki & herb to thread

― the enduring pueblo (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:18 (twenty years ago)

a bunch of people have covered "the man with the child in his eyes"

― the enduring pueblo (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:19 (twenty years ago)

The Futureheads cover is amazing. But seriously overplayed. Which is a shame.

― JoseMaria (JoseMaria), Thursday, 20 April 2006 08:45 (twenty years ago)

China Drum: "Wuthering Heights"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 April 2006 08:55 (twenty years ago)

I really like the Futureheads' cover. Just for the "oh-oh-oh" parts (obvious, I know).

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Is it Charlotte Church? Tell me it's Charlotte Church you're looking for. It's Charlotte Church, ain't it?

To actually be a bit helpful: there's an entire album of Kate covers, should the suggestions that people have made not panned out.

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:19 (twenty years ago)

a bunch of people have covered "the man with the child in his eyes"

I like Hue and Cry's.

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:19 (twenty years ago)

The very best: Utah Saints' "Something Good,"

YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES

maxwell has covered 'this woman's work' though i have no recollection of how it sounds.

the futureheads cover is a fucking atrocity and i can't believe they dared. how dare they violate Our Kate? how dare they? even worse than travis desecrating britney.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:28 (twenty years ago)

Violate her! Fling dirt! Ecrasez l'infame!

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:17 (twenty years ago)

The Decemberists do "Wuthering Heights" live. It's pretty good.

― TheKing, Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:14 (twenty years ago)

The lovely Debra Stephenson did a version on Baboushka (somewhat badly) on her recent album.

― eyesteel (eyesteel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

The cover i'll wager you are looking for is Cloudbusting by Swimmer One and can be found for free over 'ere - http://www.dogboxrecords.co.uk/4.RELEASE.html

― Duke of Earl Grey, Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

maxwell's cover is fairly faithful to the original. and alfred OTM about "something good," that song is pretty much perfect.

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 22 April 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Patrick Wolf does a pretty awesome cover of "running up that hill" live.

― danzig (danzig), Saturday, 22 April 2006 20:56 (twenty years ago)

fourteen years pass...

It occurred to me while listening to Jennie Abrahamson's album Gemini Gemini from 2014 that she's perhaps the closest we have to a Kate Bush impressionist today. It turns out that she and Malin Dahlström (of Niki & the Dove) did a Kate Bush tribute concert with the Gothenburg Symphony in March 2018. There's some inherent cheese with symphonic covers of pop, but this is as good as one could hope, at least while the orchestra/chorus is keeping to a supporting role. Abrahamson's "Running up that Hill" at 1:18:39 is a highlight.

― oblique allergies (Sanpaku), Friday, 4 December 2020 15:19 (five years ago)

White Flag's power pop version of "Wuthering Heights" is perfection.

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 4 December 2020 20:59 (five years ago)

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