A Sense of Doubt blog post #2943 - "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush Live from 1987 with David Gilmour - Music Week 2023 #03

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2943 - "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush Live from 1987 with David Gilmour - Music Week 2023 #03

I remember when Hounds of Love came out. I bought it immediately. It was the summer after I graduated from college. I had tried to work in the K-College summer theatre, but I didn't realize that I was expected to do actual work, ALL DAY. Also, I was salty about painting sets when I felt I should be directing, even acting, but I was not valued much in that way by those in charge.

By August, when this album came out, I had moved back home.

Within a month, I had broken up with my girlfriend from the last quarter at K and had a new girlfriend whom I met at WMU as I finished classes there and started a program to be a secondary ed teacher (which I never finished when I instead entered graduate school and the MFA program).

I remember bonding with the new girlfriend at her apartment over this other albums (such as Suzanne Vega's first album and Jane Sibery's The Speckless Sky). This young woman (I am purposefully avoiding names) had her stereo (or a roommate's) set in front of this big picture window facing southwest, so sun streamed in during the afternoon and early evening. 

I remember our relationship in many ways formed itself in that sunlight to that music, especially this first song on The Hounds of Love: "Running up that Hill (A Deal With God)."

I had forgotten about this segment in which Bush performed the song live with Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour -- who is credited with discovering Bush -- in the Secret Policeman's Third Ball. 

I can still feel the sunlight on my face every time I hear this song.

"Running up that Hill (A Deal With God)" - Wiki

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Kate Bush & David Gilmour - Running Up That Hill (Live 1987)

Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) Lyrics

[Verse 1]
It doesn't hurt me (Yeah, yeah, yo)
Do you wanna feel how it feels? (Yeah, yeah, yo)
Do you wanna know, know that it doesn't hurt me? (Yeah, yeah, yo)
Do you wanna hear about the deal that I'm makin'? (Yeah, yeah, yo)

[Pre-Chorus]
You
It's you and me

[Chorus]
And if I only could
I'd make a deal with God
And I'd get him to swap our places
Be runnin' up that road
Be runnin' up that hill
Be runnin' up that buildin'
Say, if I only could, oh

[Verse 2]
You don't wanna hurt me (Yeah, yeah, yo)
But see how deep the bullet lies (Yeah, yeah, yo)
Unaware, I'm tearin' you asunder (Yeah, yeah, yo)
Oh, there is thunder in our hearts (Yeah, yeah, yo)
Is there so much hate for the ones we love? (Yeah, yeah, yo)
Oh, tell me, we both matter, don't we? (Yeah, yeah, yo)

[Pre-Chorus]
You
It's you and me
It's you and me, won't be unhappy

[Chorus]
And if I only could
I'd make a deal with God
And I'd get him to swap our places
Be runnin' up that road
Be runnin' up that hill
Be runnin' up that buildin' (Yo)
Say, if I only could, oh

[Post-Chorus]
You (Yeah, yeah, yo)
It's you and me
It's you and me, won't be unhappy (Yeah, yeah, yo)

[Bridge]
Oh, come on, baby (Yeah)
Oh, come on, darlin' (Yo)
Let me steal this moment from you now
Oh, come on, angel
Come on, come on, darlin'
Let's exchange the experience (Yo, ooh, ooh)

[Chorus]
And if I only could
I'd make a deal with God
And I'd get him to swap our places
I'd be runnin' up that road
Be runnin' up that hill
With no problems
Say, if I only could
I'd make a deal with God
And I'd get him to swap our places
I'd be runnin' up that road
Be runnin' up that hill
With no problems
Say, if I only could
I'd make a deal with God
And I'd get him to swap our places
I'd be runnin' up that road
Be runnin' up that hill
With no problems

[Outro]
Say, if I only could
I'd be runnin' up that hill
With no problems
(If I only could, be runnin' up that hill)
(If I only could, be runnin' up that hill)

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A Sense of Doubt blog post #2942 - "I Might Be Wrong" - Radiohead - Music Week 2023 #02

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2942 - "I Might Be Wrong" - Radiohead - Music Week 2023 #02

These music posts were meant to be a way to do quick posts in an effort to catch up.

I have held at nine days behind for a few days now, managing only to complete one post per day.

Then again, I am also doing final grades.

I have seven-eight hours of grading facing me tomorrow and a little less but close to the same on Monday. I am posting from March 18th.

So, "I Might Be Wrong" is meaningful in that these music posts are taking longer than I believed they would when I decided to use the series to catch up.

But the song resonates to my personal life in many others ways.

Thanks for tuning in.

"I Might Be Wrong" - Radiohead - Wiki

Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong

‘I Might Be Wrong’ is taken from ‘Amnesiac’ out on XL Recordings, 21 years old today.

Directed by Chris Bran

Commissioned by Dilly Gent

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Buy and stream KID A MNESIA: https://radiohead.ffm.to/kid-a-mnesia 

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https://genius.com/Radiohead-i-might-be-wrong-lyrics

I Might Be Wrong Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I might be wrong, I might be wrong
I could have sworn I saw a light coming on
I used to think, I used to think
There was no future left at all
I used to think

[Pre-Chorus]
Open up, begin again

[Chorus]
Let's go down the waterfall
Think about the good times and never look back
Never look back
[Verse 2]
What would I do? What would I do?
If I did not have you?

[Pre-Chorus]
Open up and let me in

[Chorus]
Let's go down the waterfall
Have ourselves a good time, it's nothing at all
It's nothing at all, nothing at all

[Outro]
Keep it moving
Keep it moving

ABOUT

Although the album version is heavily produced by Nigel Godrich and Radiohead, with a more electronic texture, I Might Be Wrong is one of the more guitar-oriented songs on Amnesiac. The song uses a blues riff written by Jonny Greenwood, in Drop D tuning. The guitar riff has a repetitive and looping quality, partly the result of the slides to reach some notes and the pull-offs.

The title “I might be wrong” may be taken from infamous quote by Bertrand Russell:

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

It perfectly fits into the next line “I used to think there was no future left at all”. This Apocalyptic view is also conveying a metaphoric view to our beliefs as drops of water, as they makes us wet and then they just vanish like they have never existed.

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A Sense of Doubt blog post #2941 - "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" - Marvin Gaye - Music Week 2023 #01

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2941 - "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" - Marvin Gaye - Music Week 2023 #01

We were all cheated when Marvin Gaye was killed by his father in 1984 at the age of 44.

And so for my "first" song of MUSIC WEEK 2023 (which will be over a dozen posts and "first" because yesterday's was #00 and Monday's was the usual Music Monday post), I am going with the last track off what ROLLING STONE considers the greatest album ever made.

I wrote about the album here: 

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2302 - What's Going On? Marvin Gaye - Musical Monday for 2106.07

Fantastic album and fantastic song!

The man has his own forever stamp!

And many think so.

https://afro.com/the-greatness-genius-of-marvin-gaye/

He was  the man that became the first star in the history of Motown to break away from that label’s formula for producing music and took the reins himself and controlled all aspects of production, from concept to engineering. And in the process he paved the way for people like Stevie to do the same.

Sean Yoes https://afro.com/the-greatness-genius-of-marvin-gaye/

Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

Marvin Gaye

Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) · Marvin Gaye

What's Going On

℗ A Motown Records Release; ℗ 1971 UMG Recordings, Inc.

Released on: 1971-05-21

Producer: Marvin Gaye

Studio  Personnel, Mix  Engineer, Recording  Engineer: Lawrence Miles

Studio  Personnel, Recording  Engineer: Art Stewart

Studio  Personnel, Recording  Engineer: Joe Atkinson

Studio  Personnel, Recording  Engineer: James Green

Associated  Performer, Orchestra  Contractor: David Van dePitte

Composer  Lyricist: Marvin Gaye

Composer  Lyricist: James Nyx

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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.