In 1988, movie audiences first heard Bush's hit "This Woman's Work" in the John Hughes romance She's Having a Baby, more than a year and a half before it appeared on The Sensual World. Last week "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" cracked the Billboard Hot 100's top 10 - the first time the singer-songwriter has ever had a hit that high on the chart.īut there's far more to Kate Bush's discography than "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)." The artist's catalog of witchy, shape-shifting pop is full of songs ripe for the cinematic treatment, from the kooky vocals of "Babooshka" to the Emily Brontë-inspired "Wuthering Heights." Here, several NPR Music staffers convene to offer up the quintessential Bush tracks we think deserve a powerful resurgence in a TV show or movie, or would have changed the course of cinema history had they only been deployed in movies that, sigh, went in another direction. After Bush's 1985 song "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" was featured in the newest season of the '80s-set Netflix show Stranger Things, it appeared that a completely new, much younger audience had been exposed to Bush's music for the first time, and they naturally began to stream the cult classic en masse. Are there any artists more deserving of a chart-altering, paradigm-shifting music sync than Kate Bush? This past week, the British artist was thrust into a new spotlight.
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