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So on the drive up to the cabin Friday afternoon, I started listening to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. I’ve never read it it before, but after reading about Heathcliff being “the most hated character in English literature” in various Thursday Next novels, I’ve been meaning to find out why.
Well. This is certainly a novel filled with much mewling and whining and carrying on and people willing themselves to death hither and thither. And Heathcliff truly is a cruel, arrogant fiend. But even worse… ever since I started listening to the audiobook, I’ve had the Kate Bush song “Wuthering Heights” going through my head (here’s the video if you’re brave or foolish). Yes, indeed, ever since Friday afternoon, no matter what else I listen to instead, I hear Kate Bush warbling, “Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy. Come home. I’m so cold! Let me in your window. Heathcliff…”
Make it stop! Make it stop! Argh!!!
“NOOOOO!! NOOOOO!! I don’t want that song stuck in my head, either, Mom!! Run away!!!” -Chaos
“Moooooooooom!! That song melted my ears!!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!” -Mayhem
Now I’ve got it playing in my head! Email me when you find a solution.
I’ve never been able to get through “Wuthering Heights”. It just annoys me.
Nope, not even going there.
You know what’s worse than the Kate Bush version of that song? The Pat Benatar version of that song.
Which is now running through my head. Um, thanks.
Thank. You. Very. Much. And I don’t even like Kate Bush that much.
I entered your contest…pretty sure I did?
Heh, I read WH when I was in my early teens… took me a long time to finish because I hated everyone and everything in it and kept putting it away. Loved the counseling session in Fforde’s book!
Oh, I love Wuthering Heights. And Jane Eyre. Which I saw at the Guthrie last night.
I’ve never read Wuthering Heights, and I have no desire to. LOL. I just can’t get in to books like that.
I’m trying to think of a song that will take the dreadful Kate Bush song out of your head. Ummm…
In the town where I was born,
Lived a man who sailed to sea,
And he told us of his life,
In the land of submarines,
So we sailed up to the sun,
Till we found a sea of green,
And we lived beneath the waves,
In our yellow submarine,
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine,
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine…
Fortunately, I’ve never heard that song!
That’s on my list of listening, too, but since I just got Outlander, I think I’ll be involved for a long while…
(((hugs)))
LOL when we had to read that book in my Vict. Lit class everyone hated it and all the discussions were focused on why she chose that book instead of something else.
But you do get 10 bonus points for the day for working hither and thither into a conversation. Hell… make it 20. 🙂
The song won’t get stuck in my head because I’m ranting various lines from The Exorcist. (“Mother, make it stop!” or”Your mother sucks rocks in Hell.” Lines like that.)
Thanks, now I’ll break into lines from Whatever happened to Baby Jane. (“But ya are, Blanche, ya are…”)
No more coffee for me today.
Think we need to call the waaambulance for Mayhem!
Oh yea, and Wuthering Heights makes me want to bang my head against a wall. Give me Jane Eyre any day…
Chris- I liked Wuthering Heights and Kate Bush.
But I can see where both would get on your nerves, especially the ear worm.
…”I’ve written a letter to Daddy, his address is heaven above”.
I’ve never heard the Kate Bush song. Those people in the book needed therapy though. Usually I get “The Love Boat” theme song or something else equally annoying stuck in my head.
Drat you have me sining it now too!
oops can’t type! I’m not sining, I’m singing 🙂
Here you go, this unstucks any song…
What you gonna do
You want to get down
Tell me what you gonna do
You want to get down
Get down on it
Get down on it
Come on and
(Repeat)
How you gonna do if you really
Don’t want to dance by standing on the wall
Get your back up off the wall
Tell me
How you gonna do if you really
Don’t want to dance by standing on the wall
Get your back up off the wall
Cause I heard all the people sayin’
Get down on it
Come on and
Get down on it, if you really want it
Get down on it, You gotta feel it
Get down on it
Come and
baby baby
Get on it
I say people what
What you gonna do
You’re gotta get on the groove
If you want your body to move
Tell me baby
How you gonna do it if you really
Don’t want to dance by standing on the wall
Let your back up off the wall
Tell me
How you gonna do it
if you really won’t take a chance
by standing on the wall
Let your back up off the wall
Cause I heard all the people sayin’
Get down on it
(Repeat)
when you’re dancing
Get down on it
Get down on it
Get down on it
Get down on it
Da Da Ba Da Ba Da Ba Do
What you gonna do
Do you want to get down
What you gonna do
Get your back up off the wall
Dance come on
Dance come on
Get down on it – Come on and
Get down on it – If you really want it
Get down on it – Gotta feel it
Get down on it – Get down on it
Get down on it – Come on and
Get down on it – Baby baby
Hpw you gonna do it if you really
don’t want to dance by standing on the wall
Get your back up off the wall
How you gonna do it if you really
won’t take a chance
By standing on the wall
Listen baby
*gloats about my immunity*
You poor people!
I’ve never met a single person who enjoyed Wuthering Heights.
And I think it’s possible that listening to the audiobook might be worse than reading it….
Here. This always does it for me:
A wimoweh, a-wimoweh a-wimoweh, a wimoweh
A wimoweh, a-wimoweh a-wimoweh, a wimoweh
A wimoweh, a-wimoweh a-wimoweh, a wimoweh
A wimoweh, a-wimoweh a-wimoweh, a wimoweh
In the jungle the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle the quiet jungle the lion sleeps tonight
It’s not that bad a song if Kate wasn’t singing so dang high. There a guy singing it on youtube with guitar.
I didn’t hate Heathcliff after I read Wurthering Heights. I can see how you could though, but in those days and how he was treated…I’ll stop now so I don’t ruin it for you.
Never heard Kate Bush sing that song, but I have Pat stuck in my head. Fortunately for me, I don’t hate the song. But I always hated the book–ranks right up there with the other horrible books they made us read in high school–Grapes of Wrath and Of Human Bondage. Just shoot me.
I’ve appreciated WH more in recent years as I could stand back from it and look at the wildness of the romantic imagination that created it — the Brontes were a straaaange bunch — and delve into the wealth of themes that it confronts (womanhood, wealth, love, etc). Can’t say as I’ve ever liked the book though.
Love the song. Always have. Now I have to go look at the video.
I reread it about a year ago, and I too kept hearing that song.Thanks for the comment on the kittens, the comments are’nt showing up on my email so I can’t respond to them. My computer has been having problems lately
I first read “Wuthering Heights” when I was in middle school. When I reread it in grad school, it occurred to me that it’s actually perfect reading for 13-year-old girls — overly melodramatic, filled with gothic longing, and featuring spoiled characters. Try listening with your repressed seventh grade self and see if that helps…
The video though — makes Britney’s MTV Awards performance look normal.
Earworms… *sigh*
So glad I don’t know that song! Such silliness at Casa Chaos y Mayhem.
As a teacher of British Literature, I have this to say: “Wuthering Heights” is a ghastly book. FLEE! And I’ve never been able to decide which was worse — Cathy or Heathcliff. But they definitely deserve each other. The only good thing is it provided the line “It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It’s like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting ‘Cathy’ and banging your head against a tree.” from “Bridget Jones’ Diary.”
I don’t say this about many books, but it’s not even worth finishing. Her sister did well with “Jane Eyre,” but the rest of the family should have had their pens taken away.
I’m sorry – I must be in the wrong place. I was looking for pirate speak.
Ugh, no, no, no! I liked Jane Eyre though, I think that was pretty wild.
Poor kitty ears, just because you are torturing yourself, doesn’t mean you should torture them too. Got a job btw…and other stuff.
have a totally different earworm thanks to Jeanne.
Isn’t there a cartoon cat named Heathcliff? Off to google…
thought so…..
http://tinyurl.com/35aar7
Thanks, now I’ve got “Wuthering Heights” and “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” stuck in my head.
Thank goodness I read some of the other comments because even though my tired brain is trying, it still can’t remember Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights although it has now locked onto The Lion Sleeps Tonight….!
ARgh matey, doncha know ye’ll be put in the stocks for meltin kitty ears??!!
I love Kate Bush, and that song, and oddly enough, so does my husband. (And we both think her most recent album sucks.)
You really ought to quit torturing your kitties, I may have to come catnap them and give them a safe haven from Wuthering Heights 🙂
What is up with that choreography!?!?
I personally always preferred the Monty Python version – you know, Wuthering Heights in semaphore.
So glad to see others having issues with WH. I like me a good book filled with angst, but I just didn’t get that one, and couldn’t figure out why people talked about that book in that literary tone…”ohhhhh Wuthering Heighttttssss.” I always wanted to ask if we were reading the same edition of the same book!
Give me Edith Wharton angst any day. If I’m in the mood for angst, that is. Usually I’m more in the mood for murder (mysteries). 🙂
Cripe, Wuthering Heights (book)… I always had this impression that it was this terribly romantic book, but when I finally read it last year, I decided that everyone in it was just stupid.
I’ll go with Michaele – Wuthering Heights in Semaphore is hilarious – especially the bit with the baby.
Ok, but the song? The song I love. The worst Kate Bush song is “Babushka” – which is about a woman trying to be sexy and signing her secret love letters “Babushka.” Where I grew up, Babushka was a Polish grandmother. While not meant disrespectfully, it was zero amounts of sexy.
Kate Bush? No thanks.
thanks for that earworm Chris –
now I’ll have bloody KB in my head all night :]
Hee! I love that song. Haven’t gotten through the book, yet, though. I’m currently reading Jane Eyre.
That really was one of the worst books ever written. And Kate Bush. I have this imaginary spaceship that makes runs to Pluto with people I can’t stand and leaves them there. She gets a seat in the front row, in the middle seat between Celine Dion and Dionne Warwick.
Now if you want a song to stick in your head to replace that one, try “Do You Know The Way to San Jose”. Whoa whoa whoa, wa wa wa whoa whoa.
Run, cats! The bad songs are coming!!