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Get Out of My House

The closing track of The Dreaming, inspired by Stephen King's The Shining.
Kate Bush, from The Dreaming (1982)

Bush wrote, arranged and produced it, and it closes the second side of The Dreaming at 5:25. It was not a single; the album's singles were "Sat in Your Lap", "The Dreaming", "There Goes a Tenner", "Suspended in Gaffa" and "Night of the Swallow". The song draws on Stephen King's novel The Shining. Far Out Magazine quotes Bush, without naming the interview, saying it was more to do with the book than the film, and that The Shining is the only book she has read that frightened her.

Hugh Padgham engineered the backing track in his brief early stint on the album, and Nick Launay later took over at Townhouse; the album was recorded from September 1980 to May 1982 at Advision, Odyssey, Abbey Road and Townhouse in London. On this track Bush sings and plays the Fairlight CMI, with Jimmy Bain on bass, Preston Heyman on drums, Alan Murphy on electric guitar and Paddy Bush on backing vocals, Paul Hardiman supplying an Eeyore voice and Esmail Sheikh the drum talk. We found no video, live history or covers. Our upload is a fan-run lyric video, so we could not confirm the version beyond the title.

More songs by Kate Bush

Wuthering Heights, Sat in Your Lap, Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God), Cloudbusting, The Sensual World, This Woman's Work

Sources

  1. The Dreaming (album), Wikipedia
  2. Kate Bush's five creepiest songs, Far Out Magazine (2024-05-27)