Suspended in Gaffa

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"Suspended in Gaffa"
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German 7" single cover
Single by Kate Bush
from the album The Dreaming
B-side"Ne t'enfuis pas"
Released2 November 1982
17 January 1983 (Australia)[1]
Recorded1982
Genre
Length3:50
LabelEMI
Songwriter(s)Kate Bush
Producer(s)Kate Bush
Kate Bush singles chronology
"There Goes a Tenner"
(1982) 		"Suspended in Gaffa"
(1982) 		"Ne t'enfuis pas"
(1983)
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"Suspended in Gaffa" on YouTube
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"Suspended in Gaffa" is a song recorded by Kate Bush. It was the third single release from her album The Dreaming. "Suspended in Gaffa" was released as a single in continental Europe and Australia, but not in the UK, where "There Goes a Tenner" was released instead.

The song lyrics are about seeing something one really wants (God in this case), then not being able to see or experience it ever again.[2] The "gaffa" of the title and chorus refers to gaffer tape, the strong matte black tape used by technicians in the film and concert industries.[3]

The B-side is the original mix of "Ne t'enfuis pas", which is misspelled on the original sleeve as "Ne T'en Fui Pas", and was only released on a handful of singles in late 1982. "Ne t'enfuis pas" is a French phrase which means "don't run away". In some countries, the B-side was "Dreamtime" (which originally appeared as the B-side to "The Dreaming").

Music video[]

A music video was produced for the song, which features Bush performing an interpretive dance in what appears to be a barn.

Personnel[]

Charts[]

Chart (1983) Peak
position
France (SNEP)[citation needed] 33
Netherlands (MegaCharts)[4] 50
Spain (AFYVE)[citation needed] 38

Covers[]

A cover of "Suspended in Gaffa" appears on Syracuse-based indie rock band Ra Ra Riot's debut album The Rhumb Line.[5]

In popular culture[]

Rec.music.gaffa[6] has been the name for the Kate Bush Usenet newsgroup since 16 August 1985,[7] and is now resident at Google Groups and other Kate-Bush-related websites.[8]

"Kate Boosh" by Brooklyn-based rapper Himanshu "Heems" Suri samples the two-line post-chorus vocal of this song and co-opts it as a chorus. The song appears on Suri's 2012 mixtape Nehru Jackets.

References[]

  1. ^ "Platterlog; Singles – 17 January 1983". Imgur.com (original document published by Platterlog). Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Kate Bush in Her Own Words". gaffa.org. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  3. ^ "Kate's KBC article, Issue 16, Untitled & Interview". gaffa.org. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  4. ^ "dutchcharts.nl > Kate Bush – Suspended in Gaffa". Hung Medien. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  5. ^ "Ra Ra Riot: The Rhumb Line". Pitchfork. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  6. ^ http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.gaffa/topics
  7. ^ "FAQ: rec.music.gaffa - Love-Hounds - Kate Bush". faqs.org. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  8. ^ "Gaffaweb - A Tribute to Kate Bush and her fans". gaffa.org. Retrieved 12 July 2017.

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