

That Bush is having a resurgence and connecting with a whole new generation thanks to “Running Up That Hill‘s” appearance in Season 4 of “ Stranger Things” - more than a sync, the song is a recurring plot point in the ‘80s-pastiche series - is cosmically perfect. Here’s a deeper dive into her one-of-a-kind discography. Thanks to its use in the new season of ‘Stranger Things,’ Bush’s 1985 song tops the Spotify U.S. Music Can’t stop listening to ‘Running Up That Hill’? Here are 10 more great Kate Bush songs


Now she was a groundbreaking if misunderstood multihyphenate whom Spin and NME both proclaimed a genius. for her sweeping, symphonic piano rock that entwined her interests in glam, folk, new wave, classical and prog. Bush had already been an unusual star, famous in the U.K. It remains an eternal lighthouse in the night of being other. It was tacit proof of a woman musician and technician winning by directing it all: Bush was writer, producer, vocalist, keyboardist and arranger. The first song from the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Kate Bush, its opening weave of vanguard Fairlight synthesizer and booming Linn drum signified a cloud-parting rupture in her career and in music writ large. It was a landmark and a genesis, an anthemic fount of agency and illumination. To the extent that the story of popular music in the past half-century has also been, in considerable part, a story of women gaining evermore control of it, 1985’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” was bigger than a hit.
