Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ is having a renaissance even though it never really left
Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” is back on the charts after its inclusion in the newest season of Stranger Things, and long-time fans are all too happy to see this queerly-beloved power ballad thriving.
However, they aren’t quite as thrilled with the idea of anyone thinking “Running Up That Hill” is a new discovery–or, god forbid, a “Stranger Things song.” To offer a little perspective, here are five past TV scenes the song soundtracked that show we never stopped running up said hill…“Running Up That Hill” soundtracks the opening montage to the fourth season of The O.C., capturing the events of the five months after Marissa (Mischa Barton) died in that fiery crash at the end of season 3.
The show opted for the 2003 Placebo cover instead of the original, and they wouldn’t be the last instance of this ’00s alternative version pervading TV dramas.Bones is another of those ’00s dramas that opted for the Placebo cover over Kate Bush’s.
Where other series using it over tense or melodramatic moments, Bones used “Running Up That Hill” as a soundtrack for a straight-up murder.
