Chris Trottier on Nostr: **The Kick Inside – Kate Bush**\ 1978 • Prog • EMI\ Vinyl This was the ...
**The Kick Inside – Kate Bush**\
1978 • Prog • EMI\
Vinyl
This was the highlight of my night.
And I’m going to be hearing it for the rest of the week with my daughter, who LOVES Kate Bush.
Kate Bush is incomparable. People try anyway. Female David Bowie or female Peter Gabriel or female David Byrne. Yeah, I can see what they mean.
But Kate Bush was her own force of nature.
Just look at this: she started recording *The Kick Inside* when she was 16. She wrote the songs, they eventually reached David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, and he was so knocked out that he produced the album himself.
And did she live up to the hype? Hell yeah.
You can make a very good case that Kate Bush is one of the greatest prog musicians ever.
Then there’s “Wuthering Heights.” What a performance. She sounds downright GHOSTLY on that song. It is catchy as hell. It’s also literary. A whole gothic romance shoved into a pop song.
When I bought this album, Kate Bush had mostly slipped out of the cultural spotlight. You can see it in the price. I paid $5 for *The Kick Inside* at my local record shop.
Then 2022 happened, the big career resurgence hit, and suddenly everybody remembered how incredible she was.
And that’s another good lesson about vinyl. You can still find great records for cheap if you buy what you actually like instead of chasing whatever everybody else suddenly wants.
Terrific album. One of the best ever.
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2026-09-20 05:58:44 UTCEvent JSON
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