Description
Kate Bush's first album, The Kick Inside, released when the singer/songwriter was only 19 years old (but featuring some songs written at 15 and recorded at 16), is her most unabashedly romantic, the sound of an impressionable and highly precocious teenager spreading her wings for the first time. The centerpiece is "Wuthering Heights," which was a hit everywhere except the United States (and propelled the Emily Brontë novel back onto the best seller lists in England), but there is a lot else here to enjoy: The disturbing "Man with the Child in His Eyes," the catchy rocker "James and the Cold Gun," and "Feel It," an early manifestation of Bush's explorations of sexual experience in song, which would culminate with "Hounds of Love." As those familiar with the latter well know, she would do better work in the future, but this is still a mightily impressive debut. ~ Bruce Eder, AMG
Product Details
- Artist
- Kate Bush
- Run Time (minutes)
- 43
- Label / Studio
- EMI
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- CD 30days Sales Rank
- #1209
- Media Content Format
- Album
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Year of release
- 1994
- Number of Discs
- 1
- WOW HD Sales Rank
- #1469
- Original year of release
- 1978
- SPARS Code
- AAD
- Cast & Crew
- Kate Bush (Music Performer)
- Andrew Powell (Producer)
- Dave Gilmour (Producer)
- John Kelly (Sound Engineer)
Press Reviews
Ranked #83 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time. NME (10/2/93, p.29)
Ranked #40 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of The '70s. NME (9/18/93, p.19)
Ranked # 42 in Rolling Stone's "Women in Rock: The 50 Essential Albums" - "...Bewitching... Rolling Stone (10/31/02, p.136)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Moving
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The Saxophone Song
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Strange Phenomena
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Kite
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The Man with the Child in His Eyes
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Wuthering Heights
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James and the Cold Gun
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Feel It
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Oh to Be in Love
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L'Amour Looks Something Like You
-
Them Heavy People
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Room for the Life
-
The Kick Inside
