Pitchfork name Running Up That Hill best song of the 80's..
..by a female artist! Pitchfork has recently published a list featuring the 200 best songs of the 80's. Producer, songwriter, and Queen of Art Rock Kate Bush had her song Running Up That Hill listed at #6, higher than any other female artist including Madonna and Whitney!
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After a half decade spent wandering the forests of art-damage, Kate Bush re-emerged (dressed as a druid, on tea-time TV) with one of the most warmhearted distillations of desire ever committed to pop. Compassion was in short supply in the Britain of 1985; meanwhile "Running Up That Hill" longs to be understood, but to better understand someone else, too, capturing the balancing act in its tussle between atavism and futurism, vulnerability and might, empathy and lust. On 1982's The Dreaming, Bush, self-producing for the first time, used her newly discovered Fairlight to generate a smorgasbord of exotic samples, indicating gazes set down the rabbit hole. Here, the synth is a divining rod, the padded footprints to Stuart Elliott's heartbeat snare, and the effect is epic without employing her regular windy signifiers of scale. Bush's regained direction is utterly piercing without sacrificing "Running"'s complex and perilous ascent: Thirty years on, the view from the top is still breathtaking every time. —Laura Snapes
