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release date: Feb. 17, 1978
format: vinyl / cd / cd (2018 remaster)
[album rate: 4,5 / 5] [4,36]
producer: Andrew Powell
label: EMI - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "Moving" (4 / 5) - 2. "The Saxophone Song" (5 / 5) - 4. "Kite" - 5. "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" (4,5 / 5) - 6. "Wuthering Heights" (5 / 5) - 7. "James and the Cold Gun" - 8. "Feel It" - 9. "Oh to Be in Love" - 11. "Them Heavy People"
Studio album debut by Kate Bush and what a stunning debut, and later that year: Lionheart (Nov. 1978). My gosh, she was so extremely talented, there's hardly words to describe it! She composed and wrote all songs on her own, and she was 19 when the debut was released and she had only just turned 20 as her second album was issued. Only too bad that the punk rock-wave flooded everything and took away focus on progressive, art pop and all the traditional musical styles, and her whole persona came to appear old-fashioned despite the greatness of the songs as well as the arrangements.
After her first two albums, she toured the UK with an extraordinary scene show mixed with theatre, dance and performance art - Bush designed costumes and sceneries for the performances and alledgedly changed her costume 17 times at each occassion. Apparently, the whole experience was so exasperating that she never again made another tour. Another thing that adds to her experience with the press and media is that many saw her music and herself as 'out-of-time' phenomenon - something otherworldly and belong to another time and place. She soon became an object of parody. However, she nevertheless produced 5 great albums in a row - from this, her great debut, to Hounds of Love (1985) - what an amazing release history! After her fifth studio album she slowed down on the musical production - and in my mind never again made another really great album.
The Kick Inside is like a rough diamond. Even if she had never released any music again, she would by this album only forever be remembered as a shining star and unique performer. Many have criticised her theatrical style, which is evident if you watch her early live performance or videos, and it was somewhat out of sync with current time. I guess, some would call it anachronistic referring to experimental ballet from late 1960s and early '70s, and then you could of course argue that she brought other ways of expression to music, which was anything but old fashioned, which instead put her in the forefront of the scene of popular music. Well, she was just so talented and was inspired by many expressions of art. She wrote everything on her own and she played several instruments aside from owing an extremely powerful, well-balanced, and unequalled singing voice. Some of the songs from her debut had been written and composed at age 11! She was the first woman in music history to make an album of her own songs that ended up topping the charts. I have always fancied her music but at times I get sort of full of her style and sound and has to leave it for a while, but only for a period of time, because I always return to these her first albums, which I truly enjoy as musical works of art. Naturally, the album is enlisted in various best of album lists comprising the best albums of all time. This is really an amazing debut.
[ allmusic.com 4 / 5 ]
Five essential albums by Kate Bush
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After her first two albums, she toured the UK with an extraordinary scene show mixed with theatre, dance and performance art - Bush designed costumes and sceneries for the performances and alledgedly changed her costume 17 times at each occassion. Apparently, the whole experience was so exasperating that she never again made another tour. Another thing that adds to her experience with the press and media is that many saw her music and herself as 'out-of-time' phenomenon - something otherworldly and belong to another time and place. She soon became an object of parody. However, she nevertheless produced 5 great albums in a row - from this, her great debut, to Hounds of Love (1985) - what an amazing release history! After her fifth studio album she slowed down on the musical production - and in my mind never again made another really great album.
The Kick Inside is like a rough diamond. Even if she had never released any music again, she would by this album only forever be remembered as a shining star and unique performer. Many have criticised her theatrical style, which is evident if you watch her early live performance or videos, and it was somewhat out of sync with current time. I guess, some would call it anachronistic referring to experimental ballet from late 1960s and early '70s, and then you could of course argue that she brought other ways of expression to music, which was anything but old fashioned, which instead put her in the forefront of the scene of popular music. Well, she was just so talented and was inspired by many expressions of art. She wrote everything on her own and she played several instruments aside from owing an extremely powerful, well-balanced, and unequalled singing voice. Some of the songs from her debut had been written and composed at age 11! She was the first woman in music history to make an album of her own songs that ended up topping the charts. I have always fancied her music but at times I get sort of full of her style and sound and has to leave it for a while, but only for a period of time, because I always return to these her first albums, which I truly enjoy as musical works of art. Naturally, the album is enlisted in various best of album lists comprising the best albums of all time. This is really an amazing debut.
[ allmusic.com 4 / 5 ]
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| (4,5 / 5) The Kick Inside (Feb. 1978) | (4 / 5) Lionheart (Nov. 1978) | (4 / 5) Never for Ever (Sep. 1980) | (4 / 5) The Dreaming (Sep. 1982) | (4 / 5) Hounds of Love (Sep. 1985) |
Five essential albums by Kate Bush
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This post is part of MyMusicJourney, which enlists key releases that have shaped my musical taste when growing up and until age 14. Most of these releases come from my parents' and / or my older brother's collection.
