This is why I get up in the morning.

[leahbobet]

Because when I get home and read LJ, I will find out that one of my longtime favourite creepy quasi-goth bands, non-con lyrics a specialty, covered Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill".

I am putting this in the file where I keep the Johnny Hollow cover of "Nova Heart". And then I will hug it and hug it and make little squeeeeeee noises.

And write it a story.

In fact, I think I already know which story.

So there.

Squeeeeeeeeeeeee

Comments

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

Without even watching --

1) EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU LIKE PLACEBO!
2) EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! YOU LIKE KATE BUSH!
3) .....EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! MUST WATCH!

*watches*
*gets vaguely horrified*
*but intrigued*
*but scared!*
*but ... perplexed*
*but curious*
*but ...nose-wrinkly*

I think it's the video that's weirding me out. The cover's awesome. But the video... it's ... I just ... It scares me! And it's so weird to actually understand all the words without the '80s Echo of '80sness.

Also the video makes me think the song's about drugs. Which -- oh, Brian Moko, WHY IS IT ALWAYS ABOUT DRUGS WITH YOU?

Now I want to see Kate Bush cover "Without You I'm Nothing."

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

Also, I shake my fist at you, because I was TOTALLY going to manage going to bed before 2:00 AM today! TOTALLY! But you foiled my cunning plans! FOILED THEM!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

*foiler* :D

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

oh, Brian Moko, WHY IS IT ALWAYS ABOUT DRUGS WITH YOU?

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

That's okay. I avoid knowing anything about Brian Moko so I can keep all those songs as about S&M and relationships one really ought not to be in.

[sarcasm-hime.livejournal.com]

I agree, the video is too Myspace-y for me. I had to scroll away and just enjoy the song alone.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I admit I haven't watched the whole video straight through. I keep closing my eyes to gleeeeee. *g*

[hysteriachan.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have that version. ^^ I'm not all that familiar with Placebo, but I like this cover!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Placebo is full of...well. It's what I pull out to write violent and somewhat morally ambiguous yet hot sex.

Like I said, non-con lyrics (http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/9131/) a specialty (http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/9148/).

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

...when you said "non-con" I took it to mean "non-conservative."

I think I see now.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Oh. No.

The other kind. *cough*

[hysteriachan.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. ^^ Yep, I'd say that fits the bill.

[delta-november.livejournal.com]

Did you know that Frankfurt airport boasts the "Goethe Bar"? Now you do.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

...I salute the Frankfurt airport. :)

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeee! That? That is awesome.

You know, if Placebo wanted to take a few years and basically cover all of Kate Bush, I for one would not mind so very much.

I mean, Kate Bush is wonderful, but, like, 'Leave It Open', or 'Waking the Witch'...

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

...yeah, I'd pay cash money for that. :)

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

That? Was perfect. Just perfect. *g*

[cscole.livejournal.com]

I LOVE this version! Thanks!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Thank handful_ofdust, who mentioned it in passing and sent me into a scrambling hunt of squeeeeeeeeeeee. :)

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

Not fond of the video, but I loooove the song. I heard this and another cover before I ever heard the original song. I didn't like this one at first because it was *slow* and what's with all the people on the video?

But after listening to it a few billion times, it grows on you. It's pretty, and I love the steady heartbeat behind it.

(Even though I know it's totally not what they're talking about, I used it as a flight scene in Deluge.)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

What was the other cover? I have one other, but I don't like it so much.

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

Within Temptation. I don't have it; I found it on YouTube.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, this is the one I'm not so keen on. I like the instrumentation, just not so much her voice.

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

I like the band quite a lot; that song isn't the best example of her voice, unfortunately.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

*curious* You have linkies for a better one?