KATE BUSH - THE KICK INSIDE - Laminated sleeve - EX/NM - Double Vinyl LP

	£		14
	$		19

Laminated Sleeve

Vinyl LP

1978 original release vinyl LP on the EMI record label Cat n#  EMC 3223 Made in GT BRITAIN 

The album cover is in EX/NM condition. no splits or tears, 2 or 3 light creases on the laminate ,the inner plain white sleeve is in EX/NM condition, no splits or tears,.

The vinyl itself is in EX/NM condition. there are 2 or 3 light papercuts/scuffs seen under a 1500watt strong light which can barely be heard when the LP is played, there are no deep scratches on this LP.

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THIS IS AS GOOD EXAMPLE OF WELL LOOKED AFTER OLD LP RECORD

Full track list

Side one

1. "Moving"   3:01
2. "The Saxophone Song"   3:51
3. "Strange Phenomena"   2:57
4. "Kite"   2:56
5. "The Man with the Child in His Eyes"   2:39
6. "Wuthering Heights"   4:28    .

Side two

7. "James and the Cold Gun"   3:34
8. "Feel It"   3:02
9. "Oh to Be in Love"   3:18
10. "L'Amour Looks Something like You"   2:27
11. "Them Heavy People"   3:04
12. "Room for the Life"   4:03
13. "The Kick Inside"   3:30    .

All songs written and composed by Kate Bush. .

The Band

Kate Bush - piano, Composer, keyboards, vocals, background vocals
Ian Bairnson - guitar, vocals, background vocals, bottle
Paul Keogh - guitar
Alan Parker - guitar
Paddy Bush - harmonica, mandolin, vocals
Duncan Mackay - organ, synthesizer, keyboards, electric piano, clavinet
Andrew Powell - synthesizer, keyboards, electric piano, producer
Alan Skidmore - saxophone
David Paton - bass, background vocals
Bruce Lynch - bass
Barry DeSouza - drums
Stuart Elliott - drums
Morris Pert - percussion
David Katz - violin, orchestra contractor
Jon Kelly - recording engineer
David Gilmour - executive producer on "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" and "The Saxophone Song"
Wally Traugott - mastering .

The Kick Inside is the debut album by English singer-songwriter and musician Kate Bush. It was released on 17 February 1978 and contains her UK number one hit, "Wuthering Heights". The album peaked at number three in the UK album charts and has been certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry.[1] The production included efforts by several progressive rock veterans, including Duncan Mackay, Ian Bairnson, David Paton, Andrew Powell, and Stuart Elliott of The Alan Parsons Project, and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.

Overview

The Kick Inside was released when Bush was 19 years old. She had written some of the songs when she was only 13.[2] The album opens with 20 seconds of whale song, which leads into the first track, "Moving", inspired by her dance teacher Lindsay Kemp.

Her cinematic and literary influences, two qualities considered her trademarks, were most obvious in the song "Wuthering Heights", the album's first single. The song was not initially inspired by Emily Brontë's novel but by a television adaptation, although Bush read the novel later in order to (in her own words) "get the research right".[3] Further influences can be found when she references Gurdjieff in "Them Heavy People", while the title song is inspired by the ballad of Lizie Wan. Bush also writes openly about sexuality, particularly on the erotic "Feel It" and "L'Amour Looks Something Like You". "Strange Phenomena" questions unusual coincidences, premonition, and déjà vu.

"Wuthering Heights" went to number one in the UK, marking the first time a female singer-songwriter topped the charts with a self-penned song.[4] EMI originally wanted the more rock-oriented track "James and the Cold Gun" to be her debut single, but Bush insisted that it should be "Wuthering Heights". Even at this early stage of her career, she had gained a reputation for her determination to have a say in decisions affecting her work.[5]

The album's second single, "The Man with the Child in His Eyes", was released and reached number six in the UK charts; three other singles were released over the world during next two years: "Them Heavy People", "Moving" (which reached number one in Japan) and "Strange Phenomena".[2] It also reached number 85 on the American Hot 100 Billboard Charts, Bush's only single to do so until 1985. Bush made an appearance on Saturday Night Live in December 1978, but despite this publicity, The Kick Inside failed to enter the Top 200 on Billboard's album charts.

As part of her preparation for entering the studio, Bush toured pubs with the KT Bush Band, supported by her brother Paddy and close friends. However, for the album she was persuaded to use established session musicians, some of whom she would retain even after she had brought her bandmates back on board.[2]

Paddy Bush was the only member of the KT Bush Band to play on The Kick Inside. Unlike on later albums, where he would play more exotic instruments such as balalaika and didgeridoo, here he played the more standard harmonica and mandolin. Stuart Elliot played some of the drums and would become her main percussionist on subsequent albums,[2] along with session drummer Charlie Morgan, who later went on to be a regular with Elton John. Preston Heyman was credited on drums with some subsequent studio work but mostly performed on the live tour of 1979.

The album was produced by David Gilmour's friend and associate, Andrew Powell.[6] Six different varieties of the album's cover are known; the one shown at the top on the right is the regular UK cover, which is the most widespread. It is Bush's only album to have a different cover in the UK, the U.S., Canada, Yugoslavia, Japan and Uruguay (the Uruguay cover being the rarest and most expensive - an example sold on eBay for over $400).

In the UK, it was released (twice) as a limited edition picture disc. This is housed in a full colour outer sleeve ('Kite' picture by Jay Myrdal). It sports a sticker declaring that it's a picture disc (cat. no: EMCP 3223). Two versions were actually released: The first edition has a circular sticker stating that it is a picture disc (usually in the top left hand corner). The second pressing (apparently aimed at the US market, where the first pressing had proven popular) has an oval sticker (usually top centre). The second disc also states "manufactured in the UK by EMI records Ltd." as part of the copyright notice printed on the disc. The first edition does not have this wording

BBC Review

To this day nothing sounds like it.

Chris Jones  2008 

The tale's been oft-told, but bears repeating: Discovered by a mutual friend of the Bush family as well as Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Bush was signed on Gilmour's advice to EMI at 16. Given a large advance and three years, The Kick Inside was her extraordinary debut. To this day (unless you count the less palatable warblings of Tori Amos) nothing sounds like it.

Using mainly session musicians, The Kick Inside was the result of a record company actually allowing a young talent to blossom. Some of these songs were written when she was 13! Helmed by Gilmour's friend, Andrew Powell, it's a lush blend of piano grandiosity, vaguely uncomfortable reggae and intricate, intelligent, wonderful songs. All delivered in a voice that had no precedents. Even so, EMI wanted the dullest, most conventional track, James And The Cold Gun as the lead single, but Kate was no push over. At 19 she knew that the startling whoops and Bronte-influenced narrative of Wuthering Heights would be her make or break moment. Luckily she was allowed her head. 

Of course not only did Wuthering Heights give her the first self-written number one by a female artist in the UK, (a stereotype-busting fact of huge proportions, sadly undermined by EMI's subsequent decision to market Bush as lycra-clad cheesecake), but it represented a level of articulacy, or at least literacy, that was unknown to the charts up until then. In fact, the whole album reads like a the product of a young, liberally-educated mind, trying to cram as much esoterica in as possible. Them Heavy People, the album's second hit may be a bouncy, reggae-lite confection, but it still manages to mention new age philosopher and teacher G I Gurdjieff. In interviews she was already dropping names like Kafka and Joyce, while she peppered her act with dance moves taught by Linsdsay Kemp. Showaddywaddy, this was not.

And this isn't to mention the sexual content. Ignoring the album's title itself, we have the full on expression of erotic joy in Feel It and L'Amour Looks Something Like You. Only in France had 19-year olds got away with this kind of stuff. A true child of the 60s vanguard in feminism, Strange Phenomena even concerns menstruation: Another first. Of course such density was decidedly English and middle class. Only the mushy, orchestral Man With The Child In His Eyes, was to make a mark in the US, but like all true artists, you always felt that Bush didn't really care about the commercial rewards. She was soon to abandon touring completely and steer her own fabulous course into rock history. .

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