Hello everyone Kirk here with a little year-end bonus for you all a mini-soe that I recorded earlier

this year about one of the most talked-about songs of 2022, Kate Bush is running up that

hill a deal with God. This wasn't a full-length episode. I already did a full-length

episode on Kate Bush that actually ran in the feed again earlier this year, but it was still a lot of fun and I learned a ton about how this song works and how

Kate Bush produced it. She was so inventive not just as a songwriter, but as a sound designer and making this

really gave me a new appreciation for that. I originally published this in the

Patreon bonus feed which just as a reminder you can get access to that if you become a

patron at patreon.com slash strong songs

five bucks a month or higher just five bucks buy me a latte every month and you will

get more bonus episodes like the one you're about to listen to and you'll also

just support me as I make strong

songs. Anyway it's the end of the year and I wanted to put it out there for everyone in the

main feed as a holiday bonus so I hope you enjoy it. I hope that you're having a

happy holiday season and that you have a happy new year.

See you in 2023.

Hello lovely Strong Songs patrons welcome to another Strong Songs bonus mini-Soad.

Thank you all so much as always for supporting the creation of this show and hey let's get right into it.

So last week I published an episode

about Tori Amos about her song Silent All These Years. People really seem to

like it which is pretty cool. I loved working on it. I love that song and now I really love that

song. What a song so it's been really cool to see the positive response to

that episode and while working on it I got thinking about Kate Bush. Of course I did. Bush is one of Amos's clearest influences,

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