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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

S3 Episode 54 - At long last, "Wuthering Heights" the song

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

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Literature, Books, Arts, Alternative Comedy, Comedy, Audiobooks

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🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Your terrific host finally gets around to discussing the Kate Bush song of, coincidentally, the same name as the great American novel. Then, an uneventful chapter. Plus: your host crowns "Wuthering Heights" the "first contemporary BDSM novel." All in all, a terrific episode. 

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0:00.0

From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library, here in deepest, darkest, Savannah, Georgia, this

0:16.5

is obscure, season three, weathering heights, I am your host, your friend, your earlover,

0:24.5

your literary mansplanner in chief and a Georgianologist, Michael E. and Black Southern

0:29.5

gentlemen as Quaah! Returning for a moment at least to last week's episode, when I was

0:40.6

talking about the song Tainted Love and how that could be an appropriate thematic hypothesis

0:49.2

for weathering heights and then, of course, somebody mentioned, whoa, what about the song

0:54.4

weathering heights by Kate Bush? And look, I will admit to you that I did not know this

1:02.2

on weathering heights before starting to read weathering heights and then it got popular

1:08.6

because of stranger things and I realized I had heard it before but I've never been

1:13.5

a Kate Bush guy, people love Kate Bush, I have never quite been able to get on that

1:20.8

particular crazy train, I'm not saying Kate Bush is crazy, I don't know enough about

1:25.7

her to say but her voice to me is a little kooky, maybe that's by design, I don't know,

1:32.7

you know, she's kind of like, you know, she's like an ethereal Laurie Anderson who I also

1:39.4

was never quite able to get into, although I think I like Laurie Anderson better than

1:43.3

I like Kate Bush, it's not a competition, but, you know, there's that whole kind of,

1:49.9

you know, very cerebral, very, oh, I don't know, what's the word, white, there's a very

2:00.1

kind of white pop cerebral sensibility that I've never quite been able to wrap my

2:09.3

head around, David Byrne also falls into this camp, although maybe I like him a little

2:17.4

bit better, though, like am I ever like breaking out David Byrne albums to listen to?

2:21.7

Not really, no.

2:23.3

But the song, Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush, I was like, well, maybe I should take a look

2:28.1

at the lyrics just to see like exactly what it is, that is a, Wuthering, like why did

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