The Kick Inside
| Kate Bush
The Kick Inside
The Kick Inside is the debut studio 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 on the UK Albums Chart and has been certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. 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. -Wikipedia
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BBC Music
The Kick Inside was her extraordinary debut. To this day (unless you count the less palatable warblings of Tori Amos) nothing sounds like it.
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What's This Album About?
Her range is broader, and the overall feel is more theatrical. Rather than hitting the beats with mechanical precision, she moves her voice around the beats
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AllMusic
is her most unabashedly romantic, the sound of an impressionable and highly precocious teenager spreading her wings for the first time.
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Stereogum
The Kick Inside . . . made the world a safer place not just for women musicians but also for freaks and outcasts everywhere, and its anniversary is well worth celebrating.
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Louder Sound
A talent who existed apart from the norm, nobody else makes music quite like Kate Bush... even at the very beginning
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Escapist Magazine
Get this record, and get used to Kate's voice.
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sputnik music
Lyrically sophisticated, aurally dyanmic and with flawless production, Kate Bush's mark on the pop would would've been amazing if this was her only release, however and happily, this was just the start of something special.
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Martin Leedham
One of the few albums that can truly be described as essential to any lover of popular music “The Kick Inside’, like Kate Bush herself, is nothing less than a national treasure.
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The Skinny
her auspicious debut album did showcase an artist with enough conviction, confidence and creativity to more than warrant her position as a once-in-a-generation musician.
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Don Ignacio
This is the most unique album of 1978. I say that without hearing everything that year, but I would probably explode if I was proved wrong!
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Fear of Albums
Featuring a fully fledged, developed sound, it starts off extremely strong and throws perfect melody after perfect melody at you. Every lyric is beautifully crafted and heartfelt,
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Albumism
The Kick Inside features songs she had written throughout her teenage years, which collectively exhibit a maturity and self-assuredness in her writing and piano-playing suggestive of someone with far more life experience under her belt.
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Only Solitaire
I dunno, it's just one of those records I could listen to for days on end, discovering something new all the time.
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Backseat Mafia
After four decades The Kick Inside remains a strong opening statement of intent, and one of Kate Bush’s best albums.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
This is an album full of subtle, clever melodies alongside 'James And The Cold Gun', which approaches a rock song and not a very good one.
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Tarkablow Pig Music
The Kick Inside is an album of great beauty and artistry; with deeply complex and melancholic themes running through it.
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The Muse Patrol
Every song is eye-watering, and wrapped in a package that launched a million masturbatory fantasies.
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Aphoristic Album Reviews
The Kick Inside is a stunningly assured debut. It’s homogeneous in texture, with sophisticated pop tunes inflected with theatrical and jazzy touches.
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Rolling Stone
The album intro with whale song may serve the aspirations of young people who want to save the planet. The themes and lyrics of "The Kick Inside" were complex and beautiful.
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What Glenn Thinks
Every song matters, and has something worthwhile to say, demanding our attention. A rare quality in any record, let alone a debut.
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The Solute Record Club
a unique voice that would go on to help influence not just the landscape for female songwriters, but music in general (with fans as varied as Johnny Rotten and Tupac Shakur).
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Uncut
this astonishingly accomplished, powerfully feminine record features musicians from Pilot and Cockney Rebel. Feeling her way in the studio, the songs.
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Let's Face The Music
Overall this is a really strong album and despite being an artists that I would not normally listen to I am happy to have been able to give this album a listen and find out what the fuss is about with Kate Bush.
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Redbrick
It's one hell of an album, exploring so many different themes; we see hints of the artist's personal life and explorations of literature and folk tale.
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The Sound of Summer
With its lyrical sophistication, aural dynamics and flawless production, Kate Bush’s mark on the pop world would’ve been amazing if this was her only release, however this was just the start of something special. In my view one of the greatest albums by a female artist ever released.
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Music Musings and Such
It provides comfort and safety at moments when I need it most. I always learn from the record and, as I unearth fresh revelation.
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