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From: pitzonka@daemen.UUCP (Parmenter PseudoEsq.)
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Subject: Re: Running Up That Hill video
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 11:39:26 EDT
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> Seconds ago, I just saw Kate Bush in the video for "Running Up That Hill"
> for the second time.  (It's sort of growing on me.)  Mind you, each of the
> two times I saw a completely different video.
> 
> The first time was on MTV a few days ago, and I was very very unimpressed.
> What I saw (only the latter half, I guess) was Kate and a bunch of guys
> (some of whom were strumming guitars) standing there staring into the
> distance with wind blowing looking a bit like a WHAM publicity shot, but
> with more flowing exotic clothing.
> 
> The second time (just now) was on a local video music channel (U-68, WWHT,
> in the NYC area) which has played a lot of alternative video (last night
> I saw Nico!).  This video was more a lyrical dance video, in which Bush
> and a male dancer embraced and flailed about (she was often trying to
> outstretch to exceed his ability to grasp her), followed by Bush trapped
> in a corridor trying to break out of a group of clones of some sort.
> 
> I assume the MTV version is the "acceptable" Americanized version for
> banal American markets.  Is the other the original British video?
> -- 
> "to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day
>  to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human
>  being can fight and never stop fighting."  - e. e. cummings
> 	Rich Rosen	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr

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Yes, that dance video is the originall British video.  MTV did air a portion
of this video once on their Top 20 Video Countdown (every week they count down
the Top 10 British singles; The video was shown the week Kate entered the
chart at #4).  The America video is the "acceptable" version filmed for a
British TV show ('Top of the Pops, I believe).

I think the dance video is much better, though!

                                        Bill Parmenter, PseudoEsq.