Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
- Moving (3:01)
- The Saxophone Song (3:52)
- Strange Phenomena (2:58)
- Kite (2:57)
- The Man With The Child In His Eyes (2:41)
- Wuthering Heights (4:29)
- James And The Cold Gun (3:36)
- Feel It (3:02)
- Oh To Be In Love (3:18)
- L'Amour Looks Something Like You (2:28)
- Them Heavy People (3:05)
- Room For The Life (4:05)
- The Kick Inside (3:34)
EMI, 1978
also by Kate Bush:
- Lionheart
(1978)
- Never For Ever
(1980)
- The Dreaming
(1982)
- Hounds Of Love
(1985)
- The Sensual World
(1989)
- The Red Shoes
(1993)
- Aerial
(2005)
see also... Tori Amos, Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel
Kate Bush's first album is quite endearing. Her squeaky voice, self-harmonising and piano flourishes are distinctive and much-imitated, but a lot of this album has aged badly. The arrangements are very middle-of-the-road 70's - think the Carpenters. It's at its best with just Kate's voice and piano, when she sings in a simple, clear tone without any squeaking, silly voices or theatricals. "Kite" is a particularly annoying example of this bad taste. The lyrics are firmly in the realms of innocent female adolescence, tackling such thorny subjects as babies, periods and fantasy crushes. It's a good thing that this album had a couple of huge hit singles to give her a foot up into the business, from where she could start to do much more interesting things...
October 7, 2003
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