S05E16 – The Handsome Cabin Boy | Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush Podcast

S02E09 – Coffee Homeground: We promise we won’t be getting you with any Belladonna or arsenic in the pot of tea. Instead, we’ll just be serving up a rather harmless episode of Strange Phenomena! This week, we’re talking about the very theatrical song Coffee Homeground, perhaps the most musical theater song that Kate Bush has ever done (and that’s saying … Continue reading S02E09 – Coffee Homeground by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

71 min listen

S02E10 – Hammer Horror: If you know all the signs of Notre Dame, then come join us for a discussion of the final track on Lionheart, the theatrical Hammer Horror. Zoey P joins us again to talk about one of her top ten favorite Kate songs, and tells us why this is one of her go-to Kate songs. Cecilee also … Continue reading S02E10 – Hammer Horror by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

79 min listen

S01E13 – The Kick Inside: At last, we come to the final track on The Kick Inside, the title track. This week’s episode features a very special guest: Graeme Thomson, the author of the music biography Under the Ivy: The Life and Music of Kate Bush. Cecilee and Graeme discuss the original Celtic murder ballad that this song comes from (whether you … Continue reading S01E13 – The Kick Inside by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

61 min listen

S01E06 – Wuthering Heights: At last, we come to the song that started it all, the worldwide (except for the US) mega-hit Wuthering Heights. In this special episode, Cecilee and special guest, musician and Wuthering Heights fanatic Luke McQuillan, hope you’ll let them in at your window as they discuss this important song. Cecilee and Luke discuss the unusual chord progression, the … Continue reading S01E06 – Wuthering Heights by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

73 min listen

S03E16 – Warm and Soothing: For a song that was probably meant, like The Empty Bullring, as a quick runthrough as she acclimated herself to a new studio, Kate sure came up with something beautiful and criminally underrated. This week, we’re discussing a b-side featuring just Kate and her piano, the flip of December Will Be Magic Again, called Warm and Soothing, a song … Continue reading S03E16 – Warm and Soothing by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

46 min listen

S02E04 – Don’t Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

58 min listen

S04E05 – Leave It Open by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

56 min listen

S03E05 – Egypt: Are you ready for a traveling episode? We sure hope so! For this week’s song, the ethereal Egypt, we make a call to Serbia to chat with a young fan named Uroš about his love for this song, the fifth track from Never For Ever. Uroš is a young Kate fan from Serbia who has always loved … Continue reading S03E05 – Egypt by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

52 min listen

S02E07 – In the Warm Room: Come with us to where the mellow wallows for a discussion of the seventh track on Lionheart, In the Warm Room. We get to make a long-distance call (our longest yet!) to Sydney, Australia to discuss this song with super fan Sarit Vandegraaff. Sarit tells us why this song means so much to her, why it … Continue reading S02E07 – In the Warm Room by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

55 min listen

S03E01 – Babooshka: Welcome to the first song episode of the Never For Ever season. And we’re starting it with the album opener, Babooshka. What a way to start an album! Babooshka is not just the album opener, but it was also the second single released from Never For Ever. It was a huge hit everywhere it was released, … Continue reading S03E01 – Babooshka by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

65 min listen

S01E05 – The Man with the Child in His Eyes: Ooo it’s here again: another episode of Strange Phenomena. In this weeks’ episode, Cecilee Linke gets to discuss one of Kate’s most famous songs, The Man with the Child in His Eyes, with her first call-in guest, Jason Taub, another American Kate fan. Jason and Cecilee talk about this song’s live appearance on Saturday Night Live in … Continue reading S01E05 – The Man with the Child in His Eyes by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

59 min listen

S02E03 – Wow: We hope you think this episode is just as wow and unbelievable as we think it is! This week’s song is the third song from Lionheart, and the most successful of the two songs released from the album for the radio, the iconic song Wow. Our guest this week is Zoey, who you might remember … Continue reading S02E03 – Wow by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

66 min listen

S02E05 – Oh England, My Lionheart by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

63 min listen

S03E02 – Delius (Song of Summer): We promise we won’t be moody in this episode all about the beautiful song Delius (Song of Summer), the second track from Never For Ever. As a matter of fact, this episode will be cheery as the summer, since this is Cecilee’s favorite song on Never For Ever, so she has a lot to say! And so … Continue reading S03E02 – Delius (Song of Summer) by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

52 min listen

S02E01 – Symphony in Blue: Get ready to spend a lot of your time looking at blue as you listen to the first song episode of the Lionheart season! This week’s song is Symphony in Blue, the first track from Kate’s second album Lionheart, a rather jazzy sounding opening track that gives a great tone to the rest of the … Continue reading S02E01 – Symphony in Blue by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

69 min listen

S02E12 – Lionheart Era Tracks – Another Day: Another day, and another episode, the last one of the Lionheart season! We’re closing out the Lionheart era tracks with a song that, like last week’s song, has never been officially released in any capacity. Another Day, a Roy Harper song, was performed by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush for her 1979 Christmas special, an … Continue reading S02E12 – Lionheart Era Tracks – Another Day by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

42 min listen

S03E10 – Army Dreamers: After a short break, we’re back with another song episode! And almost in time for the 38th anniversary of this single being released! On September 22, 1980, the final single from Never For Ever was released: Army Dreamers. Compared to the previous two singles, Army Dreamers was quite a change of pace from Breathing (prog-rock, Kate’s “little symphony”) and Babooshka … Continue reading S03E10 – Army Dreamers by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

47 min listen

S03E03 – Blow Away (For Bill): One of the band told us last night that we’d be coming out with a new episode of Strange Phenomena this week! In this episode, we get to fly away with the third track from Never For Ever, Blow Away (For Bill). This week, Cecilee is joined by Alex Dale, a writer from London who considers this song to be … Continue reading S03E03 – Blow Away (For Bill) by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

57 min listen

S02E08 – Kashka from Baghdad: Travel with us to the Middle East for a discussion of Kashka from Baghdad, an exotic-flavored song about a gay couple. Our guest for the show this week is Zoey P, who you will remember from several other episodes this season! We talk about the Oriental perspectives that Kate uses in this song, the live … Continue reading S02E08 – Kashka from Baghdad by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

68 min listen

S03E08 – The Infant Kiss: All our barriers are going. Time to bring you another episode of Strange Phenomena! Can you believe we’re almost done with Never For Ever album songs? We can’t either. Our song for discussion this week is a rather controversial Kate Bush song inspired by a movie (of course!) that was inspired by a story (of … Continue reading S03E08 – The Infant Kiss by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

64 min listen

S02E00 – Lionheart Album Introduction: Welcome to a special Album Introduction episode! Before we start Season 2 of the show, we’re going to start with an Introduction episode where we get to talk about the history of the album to come and general personal thoughts on it. We’ll also talk about where this album fits into Kate Bush’s canon and … Continue reading S02E00 – Lionheart Album Introduction by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

62 min listen

S02E06 – Fullhouse: Driving back in your car, you can listen to this discussion of a lesser-known Kate Bush album track, called Fullhouse. This week, we’re joined by Zoey P, who you might remember from the Lionheart album intro and Wow episodes. Zoey joins the discussion this week for a song that Cecilee admits isn’t a favorite, but … Continue reading S02E06 – Fullhouse by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

66 min listen

S03E06 – The Wedding List: We hope you can give the hunt up for another episode of Strange Phenomena! Because it’s here! The Wedding List is the first song on Side B of Never For Ever, and what a way to start that side! We’ve gone from the ethereal Egypt to one of the most rocking songs that Kate has ever … Continue reading S03E06 – The Wedding List by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

66 min listen

S05E01 – Running Up That Hill: The year is 1985. And all over the radio in the last summer is the first bit of new music from Kate in a very long time. Three years, to be exact. Not only is it something new but it’s the first single for a new album! Running Up That Hill turns out to be … Continue reading S05E01 – Running Up That Hill by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

91 min listen

S02E11 – Lionheart Era Tracks – The Magician: Now that we’re done talking about all the album tracks from Lionheart, it’s time to dig into the Lionheart era tracks. The first of two tracks for this season is the ultra-rare song The Magician. Written by big-time film composer Maurice Jarre and Paul Webster, this song was written for the obscure 1979 film The Magician of Lublin, … Continue reading S02E11 – Lionheart Era Tracks – The Magician by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

49 min listen

S03E07 – Violin: Are you ready to climb with Paganini up to the chimney to jig along with the fiddle-dee-diddle-dee-dee? If you are, then get ready for a rocking discussion of the violin-infused, well, Violin, the seventh track from Never For Ever. We are joined by two guests for this episode: Wayne Henderson, who you’ll remember from last season’s … Continue reading S03E07 – Violin by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

48 min listen

S02E02 – In Search of Peter Pan: Come fly with us as we search for Peter Pan. Three different fans from all over the world have taken part in this episode to talk about why they love In Search of Peter Pan, this week’s song: Rebecca Kormind, a long-time fan from Denmark; Rick Campbell, an actor from Toronto, Canada; and Wayne Henderson, … Continue reading S02E02 – In Search of Peter Pan by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

82 min listen

S03E18 – I Don’t Remember (Peter Gabriel Song): And so now begins the collaborations portion of this third season of the show! There will be a total of five collaboration episodes this season, three of them with the same artist: Peter Gabriel. I Don’t Remember was first sung by Peter and Kate together on stage for the Bill Duffield benefit concert in May … Continue reading S03E18 – I Don’t Remember (Peter Gabriel Song) by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

35 min listen

S03E12 – The Empty Bullring: After a short break, we’re back with a new song episode. So come disappear through a window and out of your mind into our discussion of The Empty Bullring, the first released non-album track of Kate’s career so far and the first b-side of this season. The Empty Bullring was the b-side to Never For Ever‘s lead single Breathing. … Continue reading S03E12 – The Empty Bullring by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

44 min listen

S03E04 – All We Ever Look For: All we ever want for you is to listen to this new episode of Strange Phenomena! All We Ever Look For doesn’t seem to be a song that is discussed much in the Kate Bush canon, and it’s really quite a shame! Because we found not one but TWO fans of this song to discuss … Continue reading S03E04 – All We Ever Look For by Strange Phenomena: The Music of Kate Bush

77 min listen

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