Anyone know about "Wuthering Heights"?

[arewethereyet]

For extra points...what Led Zeppelin song mentions a place and character from JRR Tolkein's books - ya know - The Hobbit and LOTR.

[Brian37]

It is simple. I only knew "Wuthering Heights" as kid as a Pat Benatar Song. In reality, she based that on some old English literature she read, like one would read Harry Potter by JK Rolling or "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. "Wuthering Heights" was a novel by Emily Bronte published in 1846.

You supposedly have a college education and you just now heard of 'Wuthering Heights'?  You went to Trump's defunct school, didn't you?

I have also read the Oedipus Trilogies, although I only got the plot of Oedipus Rex and Antigone, Colonus was baffling to me. I have also read Tartuffe and Les Estrada. 

I am only asking about "Wuthering Heights" now, because it is new to me.

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Not the Pat Benatar song, just knowing it was based on literature. I did not know that until today.

[LastPoet]

So is ABBA. We know.

[Brian37]

So is ABBA. We know.

Yous knows dis kind of language makes you prime for tarring and feathering?

[Rev. Rye]

Am I seriously the first person to point out that Pat Benatar didn't write that song and that she was just covering a Kate Bush song?





It's a famous song, famous enough that people re-enacting Kate Bush's choreography en masse is actually a thing:





And listening to Pat Benatar's version, it really fucking pales in comparison.





Diction is pretty much the only positive Benatar has over the original. And I'm disappointed that even Kate Bush's version doesn't include the racism, sociopathy, or necrophilia from the original book.

[Brian37]

Am I seriously the first person to point out that Pat Benatar didn't write that song and that she was just covering a Kate Bush song?





It's a famous song, famous enough that people re-enacting Kate Bush's choreography en masse is actually a thing:

I am not interested in the lyrics at this point or the artist.

I want to understand the plot of the original story written by Emily Bronte.

[no one]

I knew about it when it was wuthering lows, but since stardom struck, I've been ostracized with the rest of the undesirables.

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The Battle Of Evermore, for the extra credit.

[Rev. Rye]

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[Pat Mustard]

It is some English thing. The reason I ask is that Pat Benatar has a song called "Wuthering Heights" based on that English lit. Even back then on the album "Crimes Of Passion" never understood the song. Even today I do not.


I did finely force myself to look up the plot of "Wuthering Heights", tonight, just now, but I don't get the plot.

It was long, complicated, but seemed like the stereotypical "love almost, and love lost" plot.

Heathcliff and Catherine (my guess) not understanding the plot, are supposed to end up lovers, but someone dies in all that and a spirit is all that is left to chase?

The Pat Banatar song is a cover of Kate Bush's debut single, which displace Take a chance on me at no1 in the UK charts 3 weeks after release. Needless to say, I've never heard the Pat Banatar version.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Am I seriously the first person to point out that Pat Benatar didn't write that song and that she was just covering a Kate Bush song?





It's a famous song, famous enough that people re-enacting Kate Bush's choreography en masse is actually a thing:

I am not interested in the lyrics at this point or the artist.

I want to understand the plot of the original story written by Emily Bronte.

Have you considered the radical notion of actually reading the fucking book?

Boru