Talk:Wuthering Heights (song)

message: Perhaps this should be moved to the page devoted to the album.  Paul Klenk
Maybe, i'm just trying to tidy up the Wuthering Heights from the Brontë novel, I'll think about it after i'm finished. Cokehabit 23:02, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, the song was not inspired by the 1939 film, but rather 1971 Timothy Dalton TV version of the story. Kate has mentioned this several times, and quotes about this are collected hereK8 fan 02:56, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Move?

message: I am removing Within Temptation as a band which has done a cover of Wuthering Heights. None of their fans seems to know about it, and there are no independent sources on the net confirming that they have indeed recorded the song. They did make a cover of Running Up That Hill, though, which may explain the confusion. I may be wrong, of course, but I doubt it. --Thf1977 08:54, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing Within Temptation 

message: Is that bit about Tupac Shakur vandalism? As much as I think its probably total bullsh*t doubt its veracity, I hesitate to delete it on the chance that someone meant it genuinely. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 167.83.10.20 (talk) 18:37, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tupac? 

message: "Wuthering Heights eventually lost its crown...". "To lose the crown" ... well I do not think this is a neutral POV? -andy 91.32.76.200 16:22, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV issue? 

message: I've actually put this on the Kate Bush discussion, but perhaps feel that it's more appropriate here. The Whole Story album states that the single was released originally in November '77. Does this mean that it was re-released in early '78? I'll look into it a bit more, but if anyone knows right off, then that'd be handy. It would also mean that the song was originally a flop and should be mentioned in the article in some way.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 22:25, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The article had previously said 5 January 1978 but has been changed to 20 January - I wonder though if that is a difference between UK and US releases ? -- Beardo (talk) 05:38, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Note the article this:  So no surprise there is confusion over whether it was a 1977 single or a 1978 single. Certainly it was a hit only in 1978. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:53, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release date 

message: I'd edit this myself, but I'm lazy and forgot my login.  Please refer to the article for The Kick Inside.  There is an external link to an interview with the engineer who recorded this album, and he clearly states that the lead guitarist was Ian Bairnson, best known for his work with the Alan Parsons Project. In fact, he expresses regret at not having mixed Bairnson's solo higher.  I don't think he'd be apologizing about it to this day if it wasn't really Bairnson playing on that track.  In theory Gilmour *could* have played on The Kick Inside - he had just finished the Animals tour with Pink Floyd - but he was probably off on his yacht, taking a holiday before recording his first solo album later that year.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.243.131.36 (talk) 08:17, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The guitarist on this track is Ian Bairnson, not David Gilmour 

message: in the other [videoclip], the singer lip-syncs in an outdoor environment while wearing a red dress, the aricle says. It's  At 0.48 and 3.00 it's clearly not sync. Also there are cuts to a more total shot, at moments the lip-sync seems to (start) fail, as if the director wants to hide errors. Anyway, it's not that important, but then it should not be written. It's just a play-back, not the best example of lip-sync. Propose to delete the words. -DePiep (talk) 12:53, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough. Changed.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 15:09, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Out of lip-sinc 

message: The article briefly mentions that KB re-recorded the song in 1986 but gives no explanation. I vaguely remember that there was some issue with rights to the song which required it to be re-recorded but I can't find any info and may be mistaken. Some people prefer the original and some the re-recording, but the article would be improved by an explanation of why it took place. --80.176.142.11 (talk) 16:16, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Not aware of any issues since Bush wrote the song and was on the same record label. It was only the vocals the were re-recorded, so it's unlikely.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 09:22, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-recording 

message: ...really? I just hear her singing it in a Home Counties accent :p Either way, it's unsourced, save for a link confirming the existence of the Italian edition. Sordyne (talk) 21:24, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I just read that paragraph while listening to the song, she does not mispronounce it, and it's nothing like the "Wathering" claimed in the para. I'll remove that para as unsourced. DuncanHill (talk) 01:48, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Surely Bush's exuberant, even eccentric, vocal style lends itself to all kinds of "mis-pronunciations"? Martinevans123 (talk) 19:17, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: "Mispronunciation of title word"

message: I was just wondering why the China Drum cover that made it to #65 in the UK charts was not on the covers list.  I know it wasn't the best selling recording but it was certainly a staple of 90s alternative discos and the version that first got me interested in KB.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.105.160.33 (talk) 15:32, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  China Drum 

message: Can someone point out to me the moment in the chorus where the phrase "Let me in! I'm so cold!" is sung? So far as I've ever heard it, or seen the lyrics laid out, it goes: "Heathcliff! It's me, Cathy, I've come home! I'm so cold. Let me in your window (with melisma)."  Not nitpicking, but those just aren't the lyrics. o0drogue0o 11:30, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lyrics Section 

message: Here is why this song wasn't inspired by the 1970 film with Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff, as the article previously stated.
Some statements by Kate Bush about the origin of the song: 
* "And ah, and really what sparked that off was a TV thing I saw as a young child."
* "Well, it was originally from a TV series years ago and I'd just caught the very end of it. And it was like really freaky, cause there's this hand coming through the window and whispering voices and I've always been into that sort of thing you know and it just hung around in my head."
* "I developed a kind of fascination with Cathy after I saw the last 10 minutes of the television series where she was at the window and cutting herself with the glass. It always stuck in my brain."
Why the BBC mini-series of 1967 was most likely her inspiration:
* Kate Bush said the song was inspired by a television series. The only TV adaptation of WH she could have meant is the 1967 BBC series. The film featuring Timothy Dalton came out in 1970 and I guess it wasn't shown on TV until a few years later.
* Kate Bush said she saw the series as a young child. She would have been 9 years old when the TV series came out and almost 12 when the film started its run in cinemas.
* The 1970 film doesn't show a hand coming through a window, whispering voices and Cathy cutting herself with the glass - at least not in the last ten to twenty minutes. The 1967 series shows all those things.
* In the TV series Cathy's spirit says something like: "I'm Catherina Earnshaw. I've come back home. I got lost in the moors. Let me in!" which is strikingly similar to Kate Bush's lyrics.
You can watch the scene here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrXlc_Df9J0#t=1509
It starts at about 24:00.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.188.190.49 (talk) 14:19, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inspired by 1967 BBC mini-series 

message: I have been unable to find a valid source to add the follwing fact: the song shifts time signatures from 4/4 to 2/4, 3/4, and back to 4/4.----Design (talk) 08:05, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time signatures 

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