Coming up behind hind hind is a new episode of Strange Phenomena! In this episode, we're digging into the third to last track on The Red Shoes: Big Stripey Lie. A song that almost didn't make the final track listing for the album, Big Stripey Lie sits toward the end of the album and is probably the most cryptic song on the album. In this episode, Cecilee and her guest Matthew Song, a long-time Kate fan, dig into this song. They speculate on what a big stripey lie actually is, where it sits on th...
Dec 10, 2023•47 min
Get your telescopes ready! We're coming at you with a full report of the ninth track from Kate Bush's seventh album The Red Shoes. For this week's episode, we have Diego Ortega on the show to discuss Constellation of the Heart, his favorite Kate Bush song. This week we talk about the Prince influence in this song, what the lyrics mean, and also, speaking of lyrics, our favorite lyrics from this song! We also talk about Kate trying something new stylistically and what we think the song is about! ...
Dec 02, 2023•41 min
One more step to the top of the city, where another episode of Strange Phenomena is waiting for you (as well as a couple of pigeons). This week we're talking about the amazing album track Top of the City, the eighth song on Kate Bush's seventh album The Red Shoes. Eric Orange, a long-time Kate fan, is our guest this week as we talk about why we love this song so much, as well as what we think the song is about! You'll be on the angel's shoulders after hearing our discussion! Learn more about you...
Nov 18, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 7Ep. 8
With no words and no song, you can dance a dream with your body on as you listen to this episode about the title track to Kate Bush's seventh album The Red Shoes! For this episode, we get to talk with a long-time Kate Bush fan, David Manuel, who cites this song as one of his favorites (and spoiler alert: this is a top ten favorite song for our host as well!). We get to talk about the 1940s movie The Red Shoes, a movie that was most likely the inspiration for this song, as well as the Hans Christ...
Oct 15, 2023•1 hr 19 min
Do you have Gabriel before you, Raphael behind you, Michael to your right and Uriel on your left side? If you do, time to put on the sixth track on Kate Bush's seventh album The Red Shoes: the undeniable Lily! As you'll hear in this episode, this song has quite a bit of history AND even had a live version too, recorded during Kate Bush's 2014 London residency show Before the Dawn! For this episode, we have a new fan of the show, Daniel, who has joined us to talk about this rocking song! So come ...
Oct 05, 2023•59 min
This is the newest episode, the episode for everyone who wants to listen to another discussion of a Kate Bush song! But of course you want to listen! We're talking this week about The Song of Solomon, the fifth track from Kate Bush's album The Red Shoes. We're in album track territory for this one and we have a long-time Kate fan to talk about this song with us this week: Diego Ortega! In this episode, we talk about our history with the song, the several references made in the song (the Rose of ...
Sep 11, 2023•45 min
Now that we've danced a bit, it's time to get a little emotional with the single Moments of Pleasure. Released as a single in late 1993, Moments of Pleasure is a beloved song by many a Kate fan and it's not hard to see why. Emotional lyrics? Check. Sweeping string arrangement? Check. Amazing vocal performance? Oh yeah! Big check right there! In this episode, Cecilee talks with Rick Campbell again about this song's history, what it means to us, and how the song has grown with us as we've gotten o...
Aug 06, 2023•1 hr 1 min
It's summer and time to party it up with Eat the Music! So grab a banana, a sultana, and hey, would you like guava while we're at it? And while you're munching on a fruity snack or two, take a listen to our latest episode of the show! Cecilee sits down with long-time Canadian Kate fan Rick Campbell to talk about this song and its history, the lyrics, the iconic music video as shown in The Line, The Cross, and the Curve and what the song means to us! What are we singing? A song of seeds, the food...
Jun 18, 2023•57 min•Season 7Ep. 3
Now it's time to slow it down a little for all you lovers out there. We have another beautiful Kate Bush song discussion coming right to your ears, and this time, we're talking about track #2 from The Red Shoes: And So Is Love. Listen as Cecilee chats with long-time Kate fan Emery Bonannella, who cites this song as one of her favorite Kate Bush songs. We talk about the history of the song, our own history with it and discovering Kate at a young age, and so much more! This was recorded in June 20...
Jan 08, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Are you ready to bounce back to life like a rubberband? We hope so! Because ready or not, here's the newest episode of Strange Phenomena! This week, we're starting the new season with the first song from The Red Shoes album, the bouncy (appropriately so!) Rubberband Girl! Released as a single in September 1993, Rubberband Girl was the first of five singles from The Red Shoes. It was a top 20 hit in the UK and was even released as a single in the United States! Cecilee is joined by fellow Kate fa...
Nov 23, 2022•40 min•Season 7Ep. 1
Welcome to a very special episode of the show this week! Get ready to pop some popcorn and plug in your VCRs, because this week, we're watching the 1993 musical short film, The Line, The Cross, and the Curve, directed by Kate Bush herself! Cecilee is joined by friend of the show Zoey to watch this movie and give commentary and history on this film. Kate Bush may not think this movie is great, but we enjoy it, and we think you will too! This episode is meant to be a commentary track! So fire up w...
Oct 23, 2022•1 hr 4 min
See those trees bend in the wind..... It's another episode of Strange Phenomena coming right to you! A podcast bouncing back to life! This week we're starting a NEW SEASON of the show. We've made it through six albums so far, and now here's album #7: The Red Shoes! Listen as Zoey and Cecilee kick off the season by talking about the basics of the album, the story behind it, our favorite songs, and also about The Line, The Cross and the Curve, the Kate Bush-directed film released after The Red Sho...
Oct 15, 2022•1 hr 32 min
Well what a week it has been! Our lovely Kate is now sitting at #1 on Spotify, she has scored her first top 10 hit in the US, she's reentered the UK charts..... And it's all because of a Netflix show! This week, we're adding on to the story of Running Up That Hill, which you may remember I recorded back in 2019 here! Well, now there's more to the story! The show Stranger Things used Running Up That Hill in the current season as a favorite song for one of the main characters, Max. In the fourth e...
Jun 09, 2022•32 min
And now we come to the final collaboration and the final episode for the Sensual World season. Roy Harper is a critically acclaimed English singer/songwriter who has been around since the 60s and whose music has been a bit part of Kate's life. We've talked about him before on the podcast when Kate covered his song Another Day in the Lionheart season, and when Kate sang on Roy's original song You (The Game Part II) in the Never For Ever season. Now we get to talk about a third time when his name ...
Mar 19, 2022•25 min
Now on to collaboration #2 for the Sensual World era! What does the frontman for an 80s synth rock band and Kate Bush have in common? Why, this song! Midge Ure is best known as the frontman for the band Ultravox, who were known for huge 80s hits like Vienna (voted in the UK the best #2 hit of all time and for good reason!), Dancing With Tears In My Eyes, and Reap the Wild Wind (their only US chart entry). In 1985, he went solo with an album called The Gift. His follow-up album, Answers to Nothin...
Mar 12, 2022•33 min
Now we're on to the last three episodes of the Sensual World season, and we're starting this part with three collaborations that our lovely Kate took part in! The first is a song she recorded in the background for the pop group Go West. Stylistically very different from the upbeat pop that the group was known for, The King is Dead benefits from a jazzy style and of course, our lovely Kate in the background! If you love the show, come support us on Patreon! You can also follow on Twitter and Face...
Mar 05, 2022•20 min
It won't be such a long long time before the next episode of Strange Phenomena: it's here now! This week, we're talking about a cover song (yes! a cover song) by our lovely Kate, of one of her musical heroes: Elton John. Recorded for a compilation album in 1991, Rocket Man was also a charting UK and European hit. And for our discussion of the song this week, we have frequent guest Diego Ortega, to talk about our thoughts on Kate's cover version and also what the song is about underneath that che...
Feb 26, 2022•47 min
Do you think you'll have a minute for a beautiful Kate Bush instrumental? We hope so! This week's episode is about a short instrumental called One Last Look Around the House Before We Go, a b-side from the single Love and Anger and also a track used in the TV movie GLC: The Carnage Continues. Listen as we talk about Kate Bush's instrumental skills, the way she can evoke emotion with simplicity, and our own personal thoughts on the song! If you love the show, come support us on Patreon! You can a...
Feb 19, 2022•18 min
What a way to start off the new year 2022: with a new episode of Strange Phenomena! We're back from our holiday break to finish out the Sensual World era of Kate's music. This week, it's just Cecilee as she talks about the instrumental track The Confrontation, a b-side from the Love and Anger single and a song written specifically for a movie. In this case, like with Ken, written for the Comic Strip movie GLC: The Carnage Continues. So join us as we talk about this instrumental, one of the few t...
Jan 15, 2022•23 min
Who's the funky sex machine? Who's the man we all need? KEN!!!!! This week, we're talking about a b-side from Kate Bush's Sensual World era, a song used in a TV movie called GLC: The Carnage Continues, and a song that our host didn't quite like the first time she heard it, but which she now appreciates, especially after talking with our transatlantic guest! Alex Dale is on the show to talk about this song and explain the British references and just what that TV movie really is about. We also tal...
Nov 14, 2021•51 min
No need to wait any longer for this week's episode: it's now here!! This week we're talking (or rather, just Cecilee!) is talking about a favorite b-side of hers from the Sensual World era, I'm Still Waiting. This nugget of a song was released in several different places over the years (This Woman's Work single! Box sets! American-only EPs!) but not even Kate seems to have talked about this song! So we're talking about it this week! Cecilee talks about why this is one of her favorites from the S...
Jul 31, 2021•34 min
And now it's time for the b-sides, collaborations, and other era songs for The Sensual World era of Kate's music. This week, we're talking about a song that's both a b-side AND an album track. Or at least, a bonus track, if you bought the cassette or the CD. And that is a song that Kate recorded in about 24 hours (!!) and was the last song recorded for the album: Walk Straight Down The Middle. We have a frequent guest for this show, young Kate fan Diego Ortega, to talk about this song, which he ...
Jun 19, 2021•44 min
Now that we're back down to earth after the previous song... it's time to sit with our feelings for a bit, for the epic, emotional album closer This Woman's Work. Paul Tate, a fellow American Kate fan, is on this week to talk about one of his favorite songs. Whenever Paul is on, we always nerd out about the musicality of Kate's songs and what makes them so uniquely her. This song is no exception! We also talk about the inspiration for this song and its use in the movie it was written for, the 19...
Jun 05, 2021•1 hr 21 min
Get ready to shoot off into the sky on a chilly November night, with track number 9 from The Sensual World, Rocket's Tail! And to join us on the show is friend of (and also outside of!) the show, Zoey, who cites this song as one of her underrated favorites from Kate's catalog! In this episode, we talk about the dialogue (yes, this is a dialogue song!) between the characters in the song, we speculate about WHO exactly is shooting off into the night, and we talk about, of course, the lovely Trio B...
Mar 07, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Even if the thrill and the hurting will never be yours, this episode can be! This week, we're talking about the lovely, yearning Never Be Mine, with long-time Kate fan Craig Houston from Ohio. And we have another top 10 favorite form our host in this week's song! For this episode, Craig and Cecilee talk about the imagery-laden lyrics and how they touch each of them, as well as the music (of course) and the chord structure of the song as well (of course!), and how the chord structure give the son...
Feb 28, 2021•1 hr 30 min
Welcome to another episode of the show this week! This week, it's just Cecilee and we're going into the seventh song on The Sensual World, called Between a Man and a Woman! Listen as we talk about the movie reference that led to this song's genesis (hint: family saga) and talk about the lyrics and, of course, the musical structure! If you're familiar with the song, you know the structure is pretty free-flowing, more than most Kate songs up to this point, so Cecilee goes into the chords and how t...
Feb 21, 2021•41 min
Happy New Year 2021 (even if it's a month late!) Time to flip over the record and begin side two of The Sensual World. This week, we get to talk about one of Kate's most thought-provoking tracks, especially when listening to it in 2021 as a worldwide pandemic rages on: Deeper Understanding, the sixth song from The Sensual World. And also the first audible appearance of the lovely Trio Bulgarka! We're calling over to Austria this week for a chat with Paul, a Patreon supporter and fellow Kate Bush...
Feb 06, 2021•1 hr 21 min
Merry Christmas to all you loyal listeners of the Strange Phenomena podcast!! We have here a VERY special episode: a discussion AND commentary for the Kate Bush Christmas Special, first broadcast in December 1979. Never released officially on DVD (or even video for that matter), but now it can be widely seen on YouTube these days! And thank goodness for that! A few weeks ago, Zoey and Cecilee got together over Zoom (seeing each other for the first time!) to talk about and watch this timeless and...
Dec 25, 2020•1 hr 11 min
This week, we're going back to '39, before the music started, to a night that someone would rather forget, a night when they danced with the devil: Hitler. Heads We're Dancing is the fifth track on The Sensual World, and is one of the more propulsive songs Kate has ever done. It might even be one of the darkest songs she's ever done as well. Author James di Benedetto is on the show this week to talk about this song, which is one of his Kate favorites! We talk about our favorite lyrics, the inspi...
Dec 20, 2020•43 min•Season 6Ep. 5
This week, we're reaching out to you through your smartphone or wherever you happen to be listening to this show, to give you an episode all about this Kate Bush album track, track four from The Sensual World, called Reaching Out! To discuss the song this week, we have our good friend Zoey, as well as a quick blurb from a Reaching Out superfan who contacted the show on Twitter! If you're enjoying the show and would like to further support the show, you can check out our Patreon page! This show i...
Dec 13, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 6Ep. 4
