In light of Bloomsday, here is Kate Bush’s The Sensual World, a song inspired by Ulysses and drawing from Molly Bloom’s soliloquy
In light of Bloomsday, here is Kate Bush’s The Sensual World, a song inspired by Ulysses and drawing from Molly Bloom’s soliloquy
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Lovely. Kind of elated that Zoomers are enjoying her music as a result of Stranger Things. This is an oft neglected hit.
Fun fact: there are two versions of this song – the original (in the OP) which has lyrics based on the soliloquy, but which had to be changed from the original text because Bush couldn’t get the rights to it from Joyce’s estate.
Years late, she did manage to get the rights and recorded a second version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqn033CsviI
Both versions are great. I’m really pleased to see more people getting to know her music – I was lucky enough to see her live in London a couple of years ago, which was really cool as she almost never does live shows.
So bloomsday was meant to be an almight piss up, now it’s the twat class play dress up
Fuck me, I’m always forgetting what a musical genius Kate Bush is.
Hers is the weakest chapter tbh