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[cleolinda]

I'm drowning in new music right now--y'all know me and my obsessiveness; it could take me weeks to get through all these tracks, because I'll get stuck on one for hours, if not days, at a time. So thanks to everyone for all the music--I'm getting swept away as fast as I can. : )

Since I mentioned "Wuthering Heights," I thought I'd give you the two versions to compare. I used to have the "old" Kate Bush version (computer crash, woe), which is kind of scary-old-witch sounding, but I do have and adore the "new vocal" version. The Pat Benatar cover uses more guitar and her phrasing is pleasantly different, but it sounds a lot more like the Bush version than you'd think (it's not "Wuthering Heights Is a Battlefield," if that's what you're worried about). Both these versions are great, in my opinion. (ETA: Thanks for the old version, lady_elina!)

Kate Bush, "Wuthering Heights" (1978)
http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=229XXEO9DQFMV1D4BI642UIIL8

Kate Bush, "Wuthering Heights" (new vocal)
http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0NTYRQGK3MN2B2MT7FSYI8AQDG
http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RL3CEKRNGC0E0QUPEDAEE8JX6

Pat Benatar, "Wuthering Heights" (cover)
http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ZR8K0KPR0Q69090CWZOYNDL9U

Bonus song: Hélène Ségara, "Un voix dans la nuit" ("A Voice in the Night"), which may or may not be an actual cover of Donna Summer's "On the Radio" but definitely references it, if nothing else, in a slower, driving-at-night-under-the-neon-lights, pop ballad kind of way. (Lyrics, in French, here.)

http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2PFMDCGFUWSFZ1O4WWUWCLADLE


Let me know if/when the links run out.

Comments

[itshardtosay.livejournal.com]

If you're in the market for new music, you could check out a friend of mine: Michelle Cross (http://www.michellecross.com). Her debut EP is available for download, free of charge, and she has 3 or 4 full length songs from her full-length album that are free as well.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

Ms. Cross is very good. (i never know when to put miss or ms)

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Wuthering Heights Is a Battlefield
*sporfle*

I'm listening to the Pat Benatar version RIGHT NOW. RIGHT WHEN THIS POST POPPED UP. O.O

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

wheee...i love getting new music...its the highlight of my days...that and fanfiction.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

You would love audiography, then.

Thanks for the tunes, hon!

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

They're just what I need tonight.

[hail-atlantis.livejournal.com]

I love that "Wuthering Heights" song. And I love Pat Benatar. This is surely a dream! ;)

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! For the longest time I thought I was the only fan of the Pat Benatar version (as well as, not instead of Kate Bush's).

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm actually having to listen to both versions, because I can't decide which one I like better. It may be impossible to choose. So--yeah, you're not the only one. : )

[sefia.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Thanks for the easy access! I'm lovin' the new version, so much more... pleasing. If you're up for music suggestions, I strongly recommend Beulah's upbeat stuff. "Sunday Under Glass" and "If We Can Land a Man on the Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart" in particular. Enjoy!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really like the new KB a lot more than the old KB, although the original does have its charms.

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

New music is love.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

that oughta be a color bar

[shoukinkasegi.livejournal.com]

Cleo's doing audio ups now? Whoa! (:

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

What, you missed the other two posts I did? ; )

[disgruntledjenn.livejournal.com]

Hayley Westenra sings Wuthering Heights on her first album too, and it's really REALLY good. I actually like it better than the Kate Bush version.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

Oooo I'd like to hear that! I'm a rabid "hear all the versions" nut. I have like 20 versions of Tam Lin.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I like both Wuthering songs, and now I have some new music to listen to. I am so timid about trying new music, I don't know how I'd find 10,000 songs to put in my pockets. The good news is, I love pockets and have plenty.

[jennnk.livejournal.com]

I wonder why, when I took the Literary Criticism class that focused solely on this god-forsaken book, I hadn't heard of this. Seriously, it would have made reading the cracked-out because Marxism didn't EXIST at the time of WH's publishing Marxist theory interpretation of the story a LOT less sleep-inducing more bearable.

[whitewithsnow.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know there was a mraxist interpretation of the story. Could you, erm, enlighten me?

[laerwen.livejournal.com]

And here is (http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2MFCVO39302X51AHWSXE0KESXT) another version of Wuthering Heights by the very young and extremely talented Kiwi singer, Hayley Westenra. I have most of the rest of her album, Pure, and she's got a gorgeous voice.

I've never heard the Kate Bush original, so thanks for the dl! :D

[jasonbeast.livejournal.com]

Kate Bush's newer vocal rendition of "Wuthering Heights" is amazing. The original was horrifyingly screechy, but she was what, 14 when she recorded it???

Another track by her that I love is "Running Up That Hill" ... the second verse is brutal, it's one of my favorite songs ever.

[bakednudel.livejournal.com]

Wow thanks so much for all the great links...I have a great love for the original KB version given the time and place I was when it came out, but am happy to have her "new' vocal version. And Pat Benatar is terrific--I hadn't heard that one. AND Helen Westenra.. it is really a vocal showcase, isn't it?

Love the French song as well, makes me dream I'm on vacation in France...

[tigereyed24.livejournal.com]

whee, I love the new music love. And just because I love it so, I will repay you for your kindess by mirroring these for you, since I'm sure they will run out shortly.

Here's the first one: http://s36.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3BFC8LTAESBTV2V0JA3W8RXNFA (http://s36.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3BFC8LTAESBTV2V0JA3W8RXNFA)

Second: http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2YCFYN52AV6031EXP52D5D82W3 (http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2YCFYN52AV6031EXP52D5D82W3)

french one:http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3J3ZGRARE3ZOB1OPHKS6M3AW9Y (http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3J3ZGRARE3ZOB1OPHKS6M3AW9Y)

[bakednudel.livejournal.com]

Love your icon! Can I nick it to put in an LJ entry (not actually use it..)??

[chorusgirl.livejournal.com]

My god. "Une Voix Dans La Nuit" is gorgeous.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I thought so. : )

[sexion8.livejournal.com]

Kate Bush sounds like Glenda of Wizard of Oz. "Are you a good Heathcliff...or a bad one?" I far prefer Benatar's version. I've loved it since High School. <3

Speaking of Wuthering Heights, do you like the old classical movie with Sir Lawrence Olivier or the made-for-tv movie with Ralph Fiennes and Juliet Binoche?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I like the Olivier version, but I have to confess that the Ralph Fiennes version was the first movie I ever saw him in--damn, that was 12 years ago! I came for Juliette (I had seen Blue a little before that) and I stayed for Ralph. So I have a deep, deep affection for that version. And for the score, which is gorgeous--and that reminds me, I used to have the Ryuichi Sakamoto track they ran over the credits, but I lost it in the crash. I have to find that again...

[jennnk.livejournal.com]

umm, I clicked the "in French" link, and my pop-up blocker scrolled up from 2-75 before I closed the window (about 4 seconds)...have to check for spyware now...and I hope no one with IE had to go through that!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, yikes, sorry about that. I have two different pop-up blockers, so I didn't see the windows.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Hey,

I like the new vocals on Bush's, even if I do miss Warbley Witch Kate! Nice to understand the lyrics this time round!! *g*

Wirrrn!

[methodicmadness.livejournal.com]

Right, so, this has nothing to do with what you just posted, but I just wanted to say your icon is gorgeous. Where's the art from?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Reiko Shimizu's Miracle Tarot, which I hope to own one day if I can find a decent copy. : )

[verylisa.livejournal.com]

You may not have mentioned the Mr Floppy version of "Wuthering Heights" out of horror or revulsion rather than ignorance of its existence, but just in case you've never heard it:

http://s34.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=36DE04HJ19T7S12DE1VK531NWN

It's ... different.

[lady-elina.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the downloads - I'd actually never heard the Pat Benatar version, but the new vocal version by Kate has been one of my favourite songs for the past ten years. I even have a thing for the original, the creepy ultra-high voice is kind of fitting for the ghost-child Cathy.

[whitewithsnow.livejournal.com]

Would it be possible for you to upload the original version? I just can't find it... Thanks.

Breaking News!

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

sneaker328 and jeeperstseepers have set up a couple boards for FT refugees.

FTHarryPotter (http://fthp.hosted-forum.com/) for Harry Potter discussion and To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good (http://bibliophiles.hosted-forum.com/) for Publishing and Media discussion (home of your future thread!). They're very pretty.

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

You like Helene? She was Esmeralda in Notre Dame de Paris a few years back. I've got the entire soundtrack, if you'd like it. I'll be back at college tonight, so I'll have my connection back then, and can get it up to YSI.

(And if you go looking for it on your own, the English cast is decent, but not really quite as good. Tina Arena and Celine Dion are on the English cast album, and I've never been able to find the Las Vegas full cast album.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Ooo, awesome.