Running Up That Hill

By Kate Bush

[ORIGINAL] (released 1985)

"Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" was the first single from Kate Bush's 1985 album Hounds of Love. Written by Bush, it was released as a single in the UK on August 5, 1985. Bush was signed by EMI at the age of 16 after being recommended by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour.

By Placebo

(2003)

Placebo covered "Running Up That Hill", releasing it originally on the bonus disc of their 2003 album Sleeping with Ghosts.

By Within Temptation

(2003)

A symphonic twist of Kate Bush's original, released in 2003 

By Chromatics

(2007)

Covered by Chromatics appearing in the album Nightdrive, Ruth Radelet's voice is just mesmerizing

"I was trying to say that, really, a man and a woman, can't understand each other because we are a man and a woman. And if we could actually swap each other's roles, if we could actually be in each others place for a while, I think we'd both be very surprised! And I think it would be lead to a greater understanding. And really the only way I could think it could be done was either... you know, I thought a deal with the devil, you know. And I thought, 'well, no, why not a deal with God!' You know, because in a way it's so much more powerful the whole idea of asking God to make a deal with you. You see, for me it is still called "Deal With God", that was its title. But we were told that if we kept this title that it wouldn't be played in any of the religious countries, Italy wouldn't play it, France wouldn't play it, and Australia wouldn't play it! Ireland wouldn't play it, and that generally we might get it blacked purely because it had 'God' in the title."

- Kate Bush