Kate Bush and Cloudbusting
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting - Official Music Video - YouTube
Although the cloudbuster is not quite accurate, it is accurate enough and more than that it references the spacegun at the end because it starts to shoot energy outwards rather than draw it in. Kate Bush had done her research.
I watched her groundbreaking video after being reminded of it by my good friend Ben Emlyn Jones of HPANWO Radio HPANWO Radio (hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com
There are hidden references to oranur and the Spacegun in the lyrics that I didn't know about before. It was perhaps Kate's video that planted the seed of interest in Peter Reich's book, which was in my Dad's psychotherapy collection. This got me into orgonomy when I was a teenager, A Book of Dreams - The Book That Inspired Kate Bush's Hit Song 'Cloudbusting': Amazon.co.uk: Reich, Peter: 9781786069627: Books
Cloudbusting
I still dream of Orgonon
I wake up crying
You're making rain
And you're just in reach
When you and sleep escape me
You're like my yo-yo (Reich’s pendulum experiments - see book The Cancer Biopathy/also perhaps referencing Reich’s radioactive watch that may have been used to stimulate the orgone).
That glowed in the dark (Reich’s radium watch glowed in the dark originally, before the orgone subdued the glow over many years at Orgonon, Reich's laboratory)
What made it special
Made it dangerous (ORUR – ORgonised URanium, Reich used small amounts of radium)
So I bury it (The orgonised radium was buried near Orgonon)
And forget
But every time it rains
You're here in my head
Like the sun coming out
Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen
I don't know when
But just saying it could even make it happen
On top of the world
Looking over the edge (Reich looked into the future)
You could see them coming
You looked too small
In their big black car
To be a threat to the men in power (men in black or MIBs which refers to Reich’s term HIGs or Hoodlums in Government. The Coca-cola phrase, 'The Real Thing' was also stolen from Reich).
I hid my yo-yo
In the garden
I can't hide you
From the government (The trial was crooked, it didn’t matter what Reich did, but he had already won in the war)
Oh, God, Daddy
I won't forget
'Cause every time it rains
You're here in my head
Like the sun coming out
Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen
I don't know when
But just saying it could even make it happen
And every time it rains
You're here in my head
Like the sun coming out
Like your son's coming out
Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen
And I don't know when
But just saying it could even make it happen
Ooh, just saying it could even make it happen
We've been cloudbusting daddy
Your son's coming out (a play on son and sun)
Your son's coming out