The great André Matos did a male, metal cover that is quite remarkable. Then Dan Vasc covered the Matos arrangement. Check out Dan's version for a surprising take on "Wuthering Heights." 😊
As others have pointed out the song itself is deliberately sung as if a ghost was singing outside your bedroom window and Kate wanted to make herself sound like someone who was undead, a spirit from beyond the grave come to haunt, and drive mad, her still living love. To get a feel for Kate's singing voice and not 'Cathy's' singing voice from off this her first album, you could try 'The Man With The Child In His Eyes' which she wrote when she was about 13 and recorded hen she was about 16. Thanks for this - I really enjoyed it.
At one time (2022), she was the youngest (19. 1978, "Wuthering Heights") and also the oldest (63, 2022, "Running Up That Hill") artist (at the same time) to have a #1 in the UK charts, and also "the longest time between two #1 hits" with 44 years, because that 1985 song was heavily showcased in the IV-th season of "Stranger Things" on Netflix after 37 years of existence.
This popularity with younger audience resulted in a positive vote at her 4th nomination for the "Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame" last year. She was introduced in 2023 class on November 3th, together with George Michael, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott and others... Laudator was Big Boi from Outcast.
@@UntitledtotheGrave Kate saw the last 5 minutes or so of a TV movie from 1958 as a teenager and was inspired to do this song, before reading the novel to the end! She also mentioned, that "Cathy" was a nickname in her youth, and that Emily Brontë shares her birthday with her (July 30th - 1958 vs. 1848).
Oh boy did you jump in the deep end. Kate it is actually a wonderful vocalist with great range, this stylised high pitch was representative of a banshee or whaling ghost which she was playing. (Cathy) Kate Bush does her own choreography and videos as well as musical compositions and usually has a theatrical video to accompany her songs. You will be amazed by the variety in her music if you dig deeper and she had a good back catalogue of hits and acclaimed pieces.
Wuthering is not a word used often or understood in English today. It refers to a very windy, blowy place and Wuthering Heights is the title of the novel by Emily Bronte (who incidentally shares a birthday with Kate Bush).
As a young man you can be forgiven for not having heard this song before. It is quite famous and iconic but was from 1978 when Kate Bush released it as her debut single - first woman to reach No. 1 in the UK singles charts with a self-written song. As others have mentioned, Kate is singing in character as a ghost come back to haunt her lover, hence the high pitched heavily inflected vocals. As well as a trained dancer she was also trained in mime and was able to support the song’s narrative with movement, gestures and facial expressions. It was performance art, the appreciation of which seems these days to be beyond so many young people. What is surprising is that you did not recognise the name ‘Kate Bush’ given the re-emergence of her classic song ‘Running Up That Hill’ which blew up all other the world in 2022 following its placement within the Netflix show ‘Stranger Things’.
@@UntitledtotheGrave Kate's1988 piano ballad "This Woman's Work" has more recently been used on multiple Netflix and Hollywood productions, including Tom Hanks and Jennifer Lopez movies. She's made about 5 million dollars in royalties from the recent use those two songs alone.
One of the very rare songs in which the lyrics are sung from the perspective of a dead character.🥶 "Wuthering Heights", the 19th century novel, is considered as one of the world's masterpieces in litterature. One of the best books I've ever read. Gothic, romantic and quite shocking on the era it was published. It deals with wild subjects such as perversion, cruelty, necrophilia, incest, revenge, rape. A very dark story which has been adapted so many times in movies but, to me, Kate Bush's song is the best thing that was created out of it. In the book, the reader never witnesses when the ghost of Cathy appears to Heathcliff just before his death. That's what she describes in this song.
The maturity of the writing, as much as the voice, was what drew me to this on release. I bought the album weeks later and was blown away by the writing, from a teenage girl, which was mature and totally fearless, covering as it did topics such as menstruation, lust, suicide and incest. Kate has never been afraid to 'go further'
A while before Wuthering Heights was written, a younger Kate managed to catch the tail end of a BBC adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel Wuthering Heights when the ghostly Cathy was outside a window of Heathcliff's house wanting to be let in. In order to get a feel for Cathy Kate read part of the book, interestingly when she did get round to reading all of it after finishing writing the song, Kate noticed certain phrases from parts that she hadn't initially read had ended up in the Lyrics anyway. Kate said that when she sung this song, she was Cathy, she was channelling the character. Kate had to fight her record company to get Wuthering Heights to be her debut single, EMI had chosen a completely different track from her "The Kick Inside" album, in the end EMI released Wuthering Heights because they thought that it would fail and teach Kate a lesson, instead it became a worldwide smash hit. Hitting number 1 in Australia, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal and the UK. It was at least a top 10 (or better) in nine other countries. It reached number 6 in Sweden. NOTE: when it got to the UK number 1, it knocked ABBA's "Take a Chance on Me" off the top spot and it stayed at Number 1 for four weeks. A single chart performance that would only be surpassed in 2022 by "Running Up That Hill".
To do justice to the song you really need to know the story behind it. A book written by Emily Brontë Wuthering heights. Cathy and Heathcliff have a toxic love throughout. Cathy dies he condemns her to hount him till the day he dies. So Kate Bush is Cathy's ghost.
Kate - an unknown teenager - stood up to the head of EMI to insist on this being released as her debut track. They thought she’d learn her place when it bombed...it went to number 1 - the first self written number one by a female artist to do so. Kate has taken more and more control of her art ever since. She’s a genius, .
"Wuthering Heights" not Withering Heights". It's the name of a large house on the Yorkshire moors in England. From a classic novel written by Emily Bronte in 1847.
Ms Bush is kinda bonkers...Bless her. Its a song written about the characters in a very old novel. Romantic novel. It is totally fine if you don't get it... She sounds like a wailing Banshee on heat...which today sounds exactly the same. (She sounds like this in every song tbh...) "Running up that Road" was used in the Netflix show Stranger Things so now it is popular....an odd way to suggest contemporary pop music is dreadful but one we can all agree on.
Very interesting story from a book that describes how bleak it is to live in the moors of scotland. Her love for a man who was as dark and moody as the moors itself. Its a good dark story
which is a terrible adaptation of the novel...🤢Only two film directors really understood what was going on in this book: Kiju Yoshida ("Onimaru", the japanese version, is such an interesting and beautiful rendition of "Wuthering Heights") and Andrea Arnold. I could never understand people who think the Laurence Olivier version was a good one.🙄
@@cuckoofan Thank you... I love to learn new things every day and I don't think those two different versions have ever been shown here in Portugal... Anyway my comment(s) were only meant to help our friend above to enjoy Kate Bush song a little better! But I love the book!
@@mariaarmindapinheirobarbar4885 You're wellcome Maria, and sorry if you thought my comment to your suggestion was a bit rough, I didn't mean to be unkind in any way and I understand you were trying to help. I just think this movie version didn't do justice to such a masterpiece in litterature. I don't know if the movie versions I mentioned were released in Portugal, they were in France. But I think you might find them as dvds, at least the Andrea Arnold movie, but I'm not sure they provided portuguese subtitles. If you have the chance to watch them, don't miss them, they are very interesting adaptations. Cheers!😉
@@WarrenBridges-um5cg Yep. The whole point of this song is to be atmospheric, ethereal and ghosty, not some MOR radio-friendly soulless nothing burger.
@@quagsnake I love some of their work, but you can't deny Kate's genius on this one. Props to Andrew Powell for the gorgeous production. Kate must've been over the moon with the results.
Essential to know: She plays the ghost of deceased "Cathy" here, knocking on the window of her lover "Heathcliff"!
Yes. I don't watch the video. I see the movie in my head. That's why her voice sounds so otherworldly...
The vocals were recorded in one take, which is exceptional!
The great André Matos did a male, metal cover that is quite remarkable. Then Dan Vasc covered the Matos arrangement. Check out Dan's version for a surprising take on "Wuthering Heights." 😊
Thanks for all the info😃
As others have pointed out the song itself is deliberately sung as if a ghost was singing outside your bedroom window and Kate wanted to make herself sound like someone who was undead, a spirit from beyond the grave come to haunt, and drive mad, her still living love.
To get a feel for Kate's singing voice and not 'Cathy's' singing voice from off this her first album, you could try 'The Man With The Child In His Eyes' which she wrote when she was about 13 and recorded hen she was about 16.
Thanks for this - I really enjoyed it.
The guitar solo was performed by Ian Bairnson, who died last year...
At one time (2022), she was the youngest (19. 1978, "Wuthering Heights") and also the oldest (63, 2022, "Running Up That Hill") artist (at the same time) to have a #1 in the UK charts, and also "the longest time between two #1 hits" with 44 years, because that 1985 song was heavily showcased in the IV-th season of "Stranger Things" on Netflix after 37 years of existence.
This popularity with younger audience resulted in a positive vote at her 4th nomination for the "Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame" last year. She was introduced in 2023 class on November 3th, together with George Michael, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott and others... Laudator was Big Boi from Outcast.
Based on the novel "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte.
Oh I got a feeling it was based off something, thank you
@@UntitledtotheGrave Kate saw the last 5 minutes or so of a TV movie from 1958 as a teenager and was inspired to do this song, before reading the novel to the end! She also mentioned, that "Cathy" was a nickname in her youth, and that Emily Brontë shares her birthday with her (July 30th - 1958 vs. 1848).
@@rainerzufall42 Oh that's cool. When I read the lyrics I thought of Kate being Cathy in the story.
@@UntitledtotheGrave Well she does sing "It's me, it's me I'm Cathy," so no extra points there. 😃
Oh boy did you jump in the deep end.
Kate it is actually a wonderful vocalist with great range, this stylised high pitch was representative of a banshee or whaling ghost which she was playing. (Cathy)
Kate Bush does her own choreography and videos as well as musical compositions and usually has a theatrical video to accompany her songs.
You will be amazed by the variety in her music if you dig deeper and she had a good back catalogue of hits and acclaimed pieces.
Wuthering is not a word used often or understood in English today. It refers to a very windy, blowy place and Wuthering Heights is the title of the novel by Emily Bronte (who incidentally shares a birthday with Kate Bush).
As a young man you can be forgiven for not having heard this song before. It is quite famous and iconic but was from 1978 when Kate Bush released it as her debut single - first woman to reach No. 1 in the UK singles charts with a self-written song. As others have mentioned, Kate is singing in character as a ghost come back to haunt her lover, hence the high pitched heavily inflected vocals. As well as a trained dancer she was also trained in mime and was able to support the song’s narrative with movement, gestures and facial expressions. It was performance art, the appreciation of which seems these days to be beyond so many young people. What is surprising is that you did not recognise the name ‘Kate Bush’ given the re-emergence of her classic song ‘Running Up That Hill’ which blew up all other the world in 2022 following its placement within the Netflix show ‘Stranger Things’.
Interesting. Yes but I have not watched Stranger Things. I know they have featured a lot of old well known songs though :)
@@UntitledtotheGrave Kate's1988 piano ballad "This Woman's Work" has more recently been used on multiple Netflix and Hollywood productions, including Tom Hanks and Jennifer Lopez movies. She's made about 5 million dollars in royalties from the recent use those two songs alone.
One of the very rare songs in which the lyrics are sung from the perspective of a dead character.🥶 "Wuthering Heights", the 19th century novel, is considered as one of the world's masterpieces in litterature. One of the best books I've ever read. Gothic, romantic and quite shocking on the era it was published. It deals with wild subjects such as perversion, cruelty, necrophilia, incest, revenge, rape. A very dark story which has been adapted so many times in movies but, to me, Kate Bush's song is the best thing that was created out of it. In the book, the reader never witnesses when the ghost of Cathy appears to Heathcliff just before his death. That's what she describes in this song.
It's a fiction BOOK called WUTHERING HEIGHTS... Lordy!
The maturity of the writing, as much as the voice, was what drew me to this on release. I bought the album weeks later and was blown away by the writing, from a teenage girl, which was mature and totally fearless, covering as it did topics such as menstruation, lust, suicide and incest. Kate has never been afraid to 'go further'
Her backing band was The Alan Parson Project more or less. Awesome band.
A while before Wuthering Heights was written, a younger Kate managed to catch the tail end of a BBC adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel Wuthering Heights when the ghostly Cathy was outside a window of Heathcliff's house wanting to be let in. In order to get a feel for Cathy Kate read part of the book, interestingly when she did get round to reading all of it after finishing writing the song, Kate noticed certain phrases from parts that she hadn't initially read had ended up in the Lyrics anyway.
Kate said that when she sung this song, she was Cathy, she was channelling the character.
Kate had to fight her record company to get Wuthering Heights to be her debut single, EMI had chosen a completely different track from her "The Kick Inside" album, in the end EMI released Wuthering Heights because they thought that it would fail and teach Kate a lesson, instead it became a worldwide smash hit. Hitting number 1 in Australia, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal and the UK. It was at least a top 10 (or better) in nine other countries. It reached number 6 in Sweden. NOTE: when it got to the UK number 1, it knocked ABBA's "Take a Chance on Me" off the top spot and it stayed at Number 1 for four weeks.
A single chart performance that would only be surpassed in 2022 by "Running Up That Hill".
To do justice to the song you really need to know the story behind it.
A book written by Emily Brontë Wuthering heights.
Cathy and Heathcliff have a toxic love throughout.
Cathy dies he condemns her to hount him till the day he dies.
So Kate Bush is Cathy's ghost.
8 years, Kate Bush rerecorded this song with a lower key on her Best-Of album 1986...
Kate - an unknown teenager - stood up to the head of EMI to insist on this being released as her debut track. They thought she’d learn her place when it bombed...it went to number 1 - the first self written number one by a female artist to do so. Kate has taken more and more control of her art ever since. She’s a genius, .
Another reactor with LOVEBITES *and* Kate Bush! Great!
"Wuthering" or "whithering" comes from the Old Norse and means roaring like the wind on a stormy day.
"Wuthering Heights" not Withering Heights". It's the name of a large house on the Yorkshire moors in England. From a classic novel written by Emily Bronte in 1847.
Kate Bush is phenomenal
The Faerie Goddess. A true one of a kind.
You can't come in cold without having seen the book, film tv series, play, opera etc
You should read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte...
You gotta see Dan Vascs cover of this song. Not many reactors have done it, but it is one of his most impressive.
Ms Bush is kinda bonkers...Bless her.
Its a song written about the characters in a very old novel. Romantic novel. It is totally fine if you don't get it...
She sounds like a wailing Banshee on heat...which today sounds exactly the same.
(She sounds like this in every song tbh...)
"Running up that Road" was used in the Netflix show Stranger Things so now it is popular....an odd way to suggest contemporary pop music is dreadful but one we can all agree on.
Yeah I definitely heard and appreciated the artistic expressions :)
Great fuqin song
Very interesting story from a book that describes how bleak it is to live in the moors of scotland. Her love for a man who was as dark and moody as the moors itself. Its a good dark story
The Moors of Yorkshire, not Scotland.
Like.the red dress one so much more ..
Or see the film with Sir Laurence Olivier...
which is a terrible adaptation of the novel...🤢Only two film directors really understood what was going on in this book: Kiju Yoshida ("Onimaru", the japanese version, is such an interesting and beautiful rendition of "Wuthering Heights") and Andrea Arnold. I could never understand people who think the Laurence Olivier version was a good one.🙄
@@cuckoofan Thank you... I love to learn new things every day and I don't think those two different versions have ever been shown here in Portugal... Anyway my comment(s) were only meant to help our friend above to enjoy Kate Bush song a little better! But I love the book!
@@mariaarmindapinheirobarbar4885 You're wellcome Maria, and sorry if you thought my comment to your suggestion was a bit rough, I didn't mean to be unkind in any way and I understand you were trying to help. I just think this movie version didn't do justice to such a masterpiece in litterature. I don't know if the movie versions I mentioned were released in Portugal, they were in France. But I think you might find them as dvds, at least the Andrea Arnold movie, but I'm not sure they provided portuguese subtitles. If you have the chance to watch them, don't miss them, they are very interesting adaptations. Cheers!😉
Thanks! But Kate's Music is way beyond YT reaction videos...
Pat Benetar Did it SO MUCH BETTER
@icuddlecats1 Pat and Neil turned it into a ho hum, generic, 80s power ballad. None of Kate's originality, authenticity or imagination.
@@WarrenBridges-um5cg Yep. The whole point of this song is to be atmospheric, ethereal and ghosty, not some MOR radio-friendly soulless nothing burger.
@@quagsnake I love some of their work, but you can't deny Kate's genius on this one. Props to Andrew Powell for the gorgeous production. Kate must've been over the moon with the results.