Song · Kate Bush
“Sat in Your Lap” by Kate Bush
From the album The Dreaming (1982)
“Sat in Your Lap” by Kate Bush appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2003 and 2004. It was first released in 1982 on the album The Dreaming. Its best result is #344 on the WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,606 alternative song of all time.
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"Sat in Your Lap" was Kate Bush's opening shot for The Dreaming, her fourth album, sent out as a single a full 15 months before the 1982 record itself arrived. She produced it herself, and it's a stampede: faster and far more percussive than anything she had put out before, with Preston Heyman's kit taped in the Townhouse's stone room in London, and Heyman and Paddy Bush swishing bamboo canes through the air for that whip-crack percussion.
Bush plays piano and synthesizer, Geoff Downes adds more synth, Jimmy Bain is on bass, and Paddy Bush and Ian Bairnson sing behind her. The song wrestles with existential frustration and the hunger to know, and biographer Graeme Thomson heard a hint of enlightenment through sex in the title. The album got a slightly remixed version, with some parts cut again.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 1668 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2004 | 344 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) | 885 |
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