KATE BUSH The Kick Inside RARE ORIG 1978 JAPAN EX++ LP with SUPERB UNIQUE COVER.

	£		36
	$		48

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Artist or Band: KATE BUSH

Album Title: The Kick Inside

Producer(s): Andrew Powell

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: Moving; The Saxophone Song; Strange Phenomena; Kite; The Man with the Child in His Eyes; Wuthering Heights.

Side 2: James and the Cold Gun; Feel It; Oh to Be in Love; L’Amour Looks Something Like You; Them Heavy People; Room for the Life; The Kick Inside. (This Japanese first issue has the same tracks as all other countries pressings. The song ‘Strange Phenomena’ is incorrectly spelt).

Label/Format: EMI (with Toshiba credits on the rims). These matt, smooth surfaces.

Label Conditions: Both very clean, fresh and attractive with only a few light and faint spindle marks on side two.

Catalogue Number: EMS 81042

Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.

Warps or Lateral Movement: Assume all records I offer have no significant warping or lateral movement to cause sound or tracking issues. All should play fine even on budget turntables.

Weight of this Record: 126 grams.

Country of Manufacture: Japan

Rarity: Scarce, especially outside Japan. Japanese records were not as mass-produced as most other country’s and are known for their quality pressing quality.

Original Year of Release: 1978

Matrix Nos: YAX - 5389 1S2 / YAX - 5390 1S372

Run-Out Groove Etchings: X-6 / X-6

Musicians: Kate Bush – piano, lead vocals, backing vocals; Andrew Powell – arrangements, keyboards, piano, Fender Rhodes, bass guitar, celeste, synthesiser, beer bottles; Duncan Mackay – piano, Fender Rhodes, synthesiser, Hammond organ, clavinet; Ian Bairnson – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals, beer bottles; David Paton – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals; Stuart Elliott – drums, percussion; Alan Skidmore – tenor saxophone; Paul Keogh – electric guitar, acoustic guitar; Alan Parker – acoustic guitar; Bruce Lynch – bass guitar; Barry de Souza – drums; Morris Pert – percussion, boobam; Paddy Bush – mandolin, backing vocals.

Brief Info: The debut Kate Bush album that proved very successful with promotion of the popular No 1 UK single ‘Wuthering Heights’. With the early help by Pink Floyd front man Dave Gilmour, she quickly became a superstar and never looked back. This a lovely Japanese copy – the standout feature being a very alternative front cover graphic not featured elsewhere, also the record appears hardly played and complete. More mass-produced UK copies are much harder to find cleanly pressed and often suffer considerable surface noise and unwanted pressing sound. This has little to fault and was a pleasure to play-grade.

Cover Grade and Format: EXCELLENT(–): only because of a dink on the front bottom left corner tip. A single unlaminated format with semi-shiny surfaces and a paste-on style back. Printed and made in Japan, includes the often elusive obi strip and ‘U’ shape semi-transparent soft inner sleeve and lyric sheet (in Japanese).

Cover Front: Unique and beautiful, certainly one for collectors, this front picture of Kate was not used on other country’s version of this album. The only blemish is a moderate crease to the lower left corner tip.

Cover Back: Little to fault with any corner tip issues tiny and light. The lack of ring wear always a plus on such covers.

Top Edge: Straight with any rub traces tiny and very patchy. All edges are naturally intact with no splits or thins.

Bottom Edge: Similar to above with any rubbing little and light.

Right Edge(s), and Type: Mostly sharp with any thickening little and light. These covers were made with slightly thicker card than European versions. Record enters on this edge.

Spine and Text: Mainly straight and with with minimal compression. Any rubbing mostly light, a dink on the lower end as mentioned already. The text is mostly unworn, the surface possibly light faded, I have never seen another to compare it with.

Corners: Any tip rubs small and light bar the bottom left with the dink. The rest have near excellent shape retained.

Cover Summary: The dink apart, a very strong all-round example of this beautiful Japan 1970’s cover, one that will still prove difficult to find much better. This unique graphic item should please many collectors.

The Inner Sleeve: EXCELLENT(+): Japan albums usually included a very soft U-shaped semi-transparent inner that protected the surfaces better. Apart from natural crinkle, it has little else to fault.

The Lyric Sheet: PRACTICALLY MINT: a black and white Japanese lyric sheet printed both sides. It is virtually as-made with no creasing, tears and sharp edges.

The Obi Strip: EXCELLENT(+): fully intact with any creasing on the lower underside end. Untorn and still strong, fitting neatly over the main cover as it should. Japan used these instead of printing unwanted extra text on the main cover. Many were discarded, torn or badly damaged, often elusive and seldom much better than this.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: EXCELLENT(++): a very fine visual copy that is very clean with equally fine shine and solidly pressed. A copy with minimal plays on all the evidence with any surface traces very few, equally light and faint as seen critically under bright light. No penetrating stylus scratches, viewed in average room light, hardly anything even registers. Visually a super record that should please many, if not most collectors.

Album Played For Grading: Yes. [I play ALL records I offer before submitting to Ebay, also the record is played in its entirety unless clearly stated otherwise. I do NOT play snippets or joining grooves to check for sound quality and quietness – I play from the beginning to end via clinically revealing equipment, all listed further down.]

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This classic debut album plays up to, and most even above it’s high visual grading with little to fault. Offering strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear – sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very detailed sound. Any surface sounds are minimal indeed and this is a very clean pressing with no tracking issues* or inherent pressing noises. Few UK (or other pressings) will match or better this overall I feel sure. Both channels are clean and sharp, I am certain this record has been played very lightly and has been carefully handled. Nothing of note spoilt my pleasure when play-grading this lovely record. It will prove very difficult to find significantly better and can be strongly recommended.

* As played-graded on a high-end Linn LP12 Sondek turntable with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracking at 2 grams. Records are a ‘contact’ format, and few will avoid the odd minor sound blemish.

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Deck: Linn LP12/Hercules/Cirkus with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge (tracks at 2 grams). Amps: Naim Supernait 2 with Project USB phono stage and Tellerium Black interconnects. Speakers: B&W 805 Nautilus (bi-wired with Tellurium Black terminated cable) with REL subwoofer. All records I offer on Ebay are cleaned on a professional Nessie vacuum machine before play-grading for the cleanest and best possible sound and will include a brand new lined inner and protective cover too. Pictures taken with a Nikon D7500 DSLR Camera.

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SOME GENERAL GUIDES TO WEAR AND CONDITIONS TO HELP YOU DECIDE

My Use of Description Terminology: Surface Marks = Superficial, usually light marks, hairlines or light scuffs that rarely sound. Scratch = a needle mark that goes below the record’s surface, some will sound, some will not, my play-grade will inform. Original = a record that has been pressed with the first label design which does NOT necessarily mean a very first pressed record. First Pressing = A record that I believe or know to be a genuine very first pressed record. I do not claim to always know for sure, and that’s why I state the stamper and matrix numbers if at all possible, for those who claim to know what they all mean, the information is there for the collector to decide. I prefer to use terms like ‘Early Copy’ rather than ‘First Pressing’ if I am not totally sure. Surface Sound = Mild, light sound, usually light crackle or similar. Distortion = Break up of the actual sound caused by groove wear or damage from a chipped stylus – the most undesirable form of unwanted sound, vintage mono records were the most prone to this happening but not exclusively so. The symptoms of distortion are high frequency clipping, moderate constant crackle or an echo type sound quality. Violin, piano and vocals are most prone to groove-wear distortion. Feathering = Fraying or softening of the entry edge of a cover. Covers with feathered entrance edges are more likely to have had the actual record inserted and removed more than a non-feathered, sharp-edged cover which are always far more attractive. Set Off, a printer’s term for dark ink leaving mild residue on pale or white ink when rested upon. e.g. when a gatefold cover has black ink closed against white, this can leave some black residue on the pale area – this is mostly unavoidable or course.