Posted on 05/30/2022 9:32:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
As soon as Stranger Things: Season 4 dropped on Netflix, English singer-songwriter Kate Bush's 1985 hit, Running Up That Hill (Deal With God) started sprinting up the iTunes and Spotify charts, as a new generation of audience started to discover the powerful song after it was featured significantly in the show.
According to LA Times, Running Up That Hill was top on iTunes on Sunday (May 29). It is also currently #13 on Spotify's Daily Top 200. People have also apparently been searching for the song after the season debuted last week, so Google-search traffic has also spiked.
The song was the first single from Bush's 1985 album, Hounds of Love, and was the most successful of the singer's releases from that decade, entering the UK Singles Chart at number nine, and eventually peaking at number three.
The song also charted in the US, providing Bush with her first chart hit there since 1978, where it reached the top 30 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Running Up That Hill can be heard in Stranger Things: Season 4 premiere through the Walkman of Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink), one of the show's main leads. The horror themed show plays on 1980s nostalgia, and has proven to be a hit since it first debuted in 2016.
The first part of Stranger Things: Season 4 is currently on Netflix, with the second half of the season to begin streaming on July 1, 2022.
If the song has gotten you reminiscing about the '80s, check out our playlist of classic pop culture hits on Spotify to get you back into the groove.
Kate Bush - Yes.
Cori Bush - No. Hell no.
Years ago the lesser known Claudia Brucken (with Andrew Poppy) did a scaled down covers album with Kate’s song on it…
I adored her
Guilty.
Downloaded a tab, and have been playing that stupid song all day for the grandkids. Simple tune, but catchy.
I think it sounds better without the 80s synthesizer vamp imho.
Good news this. Perhaps the folks listening to it will get turned onto Eno, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel that are in her circle circa that time.
My favorite is her on Games Without Frontiers singing Je Sans Frontier. So chilling.
Roxy Music might belong on that list.
I tried watching Season 4 of STRANGER THINGS last week.
It is totally unwatchable. All drugs and homos, all the time.
This will be the last season.
Get woke, go broke.
I’ve never seen it, but I thought it took place in the 80s, when that wasn’t front and center.
Season 4 changed.
Placebo did a good cover of it:
It seems like someone else covered it, but I can’t think of who that is now.
The original MTV video was pure bliss and blissiosity.
Can’t even find it now.
Closest I can find
https://ok.ru/video/45479299751
And never forget Babooshka
https://ok.ru/video/38088739462
Heh.
Immediately I was thinking of Gabriel, too.
I have a particular fondness for “Intruder”
As much as I love Phil, Peter was the one.
Apropos of nothing, this Brazilian “Viking” makes me want to go out and sack pillage every time I hear it.
It’s that final growl that does it.
;D
https://youtu.be/ERuGkbtdDlw?list=RDMM
And she was quite the looker back in the 80's.
Placebo’s version is intriguing.
She sounds ethereal on Don’t Give Up.
Her best song is Experiment IV.
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